Share the wisdom of Sri Sri Ravishankarji - 34.

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Dear Friends and Devotees

 

Bhakti is Eternal

 

Share the wisdom of His holiness Sri Sri Ravi Shankarji

 

34. GRATITUDE

 

To thank someone implies separation. There are two ways of thanking. If you

are deeply thankful, it means you deeply feel the separation. Deep within there

is no need to thank because there is oneness. But you can thank superficially.

Thanks are like ripples on the surface of water.

 

When you say “Thank you”, you complete something. You are finishing a

transaction, a relationship, a process. “Thank you” is like “goodbye”. You can

complete all transactions at a surface level, but deeper inside there is only

oneness.

 

Thankfulness always exists in relation to something else. You do not thank for

nothing at all, you thank for something. But in this case, something is less

than nothing.

 

At the deepest level, thanking has no meaning. Does one hand thank the other

hand? The deeper you go, you see there is no “other” to be thanked.

 

Today is a gift from God – that is why it is called the present.

 

Are you grateful? If you are grateful, you do not belong to me. When someone

gives you something, you are grateful; that means you feels separate. You are

not grateful to yourself.

 

Gratefulness is inevitable but when you go beyond gratefulness, then union

happens. No. “I,” no “you” remains. You are just one being with a thousand heads

and a thousand arms, but with one heart.

 

You must be grateful on the path, but you have to transcend gratefulness.

Small children do not feel grateful as long as they feel one. They take

everything for granted. You are not grateful to your own hand that feeds you. It

is better to stop being grateful.

 

When you are grateful then you are the center, you are more important. When

you are grateful to God for having received something beautiful, for example,

eyesight, who is important? You or God? You! Your gratitude indicates ego.

 

Contd . . . 35.

 

With love and regards,

 

Sastry

 

 

 

 

 

 

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