Do you really own anything in order to lose it? It was never yours in the first place. Everything comes to you, including your body.
How long do you think you will have your body? The body belongs to the earth. It belongs to the creation. It is part of it.
However hard you try, you cannot hold on to it for too long. When you have to let go of your own body, then what can be said about other bodies, however near and dear and beautiful they are.
They are all so separate. Understand that everything is separate but one thing is not - the spirit. It is never away from you.
It is part of you and whatever is part of you can never be away from you. Life is such a mystery, you cannot understand it in a linear way. Truth is not linear. It is multi-dimensional.
You cannot question mysteries. You can just wonder about it. Pleasant things do not happen always. Unpleasant things also happen in the world.
It's part of the whole set-up. What you can do is to reduce the unpleasant as much as possible. This can be done by spreading love, knowledge and education.
There is crime in the society because of lack of education or wrong education. One thinks that one is a 'somebody' - a Hindu, a Muslim, a Christian, a Jewish etc.
Whatever I identify myself as,
I eliminate the others from me. If I identify myself as a Muslim, I eliminate the non-Muslims from me.
I don't have a sense of belongingness with them and even if I die it does not matter. I have to identify myself as a Muslim, or a Hindu, or a Christian, etc. This is an ego trip that is happening in the world today.
People say that the Bible is great, not because they feel that it is great, but because they are Christians.
Some may feel that the Koran is great and the last word of God, that it is final because they are Muslims. They want to say that they are great.
Instead they say that the Koran is great, the Bible is great, their religion is great or their country is great. If they are not great, then something that they possess is great.
If you realise that you are great you don't have to hook on to something else to prove your greatness. In the world people are on a trip to prove they are great.
They don't find anything great in themselves. So they hook onto their religion or politics or countries or whatever and die for it. This is because of lack of education.
Identifying yourself with race, religion, culture, nationality, etc, limits your awareness, limits your humanness. First and foremost, you are part of the Divine and then you are a human being.
If you can understand and attend to this truth within you then you can bring lot of peace in the environment. I would say that you should own all the wisdom in the world as yours.
Gurudev Sri Sri Ravi Shankarji
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