*Chapter 2 - Opening Yourself To The Unknown*
*Day 6*
Opening yourself to the unknown
Upanishad says when we start on this path, let there be no rejection. Acceptance is the path. Let there be no rejection at all, of any sort, because everything, every moment in life, pleasant and unpleasant is making you grow.
Let all this righteousness, this knowledge and this wisdom that is contained in the Upanishads and that is present in my Soul, my Being, blossom. It is not some virtue that you are going to cultivate from outside.
It says that all the virtues are in you. They only have to blossom. If you think you don't have virtues or if you think you don't have faith.
If you think you don't have it, you don't have it. That is it. If you think you are no good that is how it will be. You will be no good at all forever. The virtues are in you.
It says "the virtues which are in my soul in my spirit let them blossom". May it find its own blossoming. Bless me with this. It's in me let it come out.
I know I am a good musician let my fingers start playing. I know I have intelligence." If you keep telling a child, "you are stupid", he will become stupid.
You should say "you are so intelligent. Why are you not using it?" Always tell your children," Oh you have such capabilities but you are not using them.
You are so intelligent why are you not using them. Come on, use it. I tell many volunteers. You are so brilliant, but why don't you use it? Don't be stingy”.
There are two ways to teach. One is saying," oh you are stupid, you are an idiot,and you are foolish" and blah blah (I don't know any other words and I don't use any other words) people use all these words to put someone down.
This is tamsic way, a very gross way of dealing with them. The sattvic way, a more refined way of development is: " Oh you are beautiful. You are nice. Come on wake up."
The way of Upanisads is this - “You are beautiful. Come on wake up”. Even to the most stingy person you say," you are so generous.
“Come on wake up, let the generosity in you blossom, you are so righteous. Come on wake up. Wake up to this reality." This is sattvic way of uplifting someone.
One way is hitting you with hammer and saying you are hopeless or bad and trying to find someone come out of it.
For some people it works. Like buffaloes you really have to whip them, but the good horse just runs with the shadow of the whip.
You don't have to whip them.
So the Upanishads are not for that type of people who are gross and all the time thinking," what about me?"
"Am I good or am I bad? Do you love me? I am not good? or I doubt this and doubt that". Its not for such people. They can take a different train.
This is an express train, fast moving. And the path the way is just to say," it is all present. All this dharma, righteousness and the wisdom is spent in my being.
Let it get established in me. Let it get established in me. All the virtue that is present as a seed in me, let it get established. Let it grow once you have sown a seed only then can you water it.
There is no point watering if you have not even sown a seed, if there is no seed and you keep watering the ground, nothing is going to come out.
First you should have the seed, which is already there in the being, then you can water. Then the Upanishads make it grow like a tree, a huge tree. The virtues are there.
