BEING AND DOING
All the great masters were who they were- the enlightened beings and from this place of being who they were, they spoke.
But their followers focused more on their preachings and emphasized on the dos and donts and missed the significance of being who you are.
So the list was something like do charity, keep a fast, say the prayers.
But their followers focused more on their preachings and emphasized on the dos and donts and missed the significance of being who you are.
So the list was something like do charity, keep a fast, say the prayers.
But, if the heart is not generous, the charity can be manipulative. For instance it can be just hype to create a brand name or for any other ulterior motive.
If the fasting is done by a toiling labourer who can hardly afford two square meals a day, then the hours of his fasting are filled with desire for food.
If the prayer is from a heart full of greed or bitterness, the prayer will be for fulfilling more greedy demands or for wishing the downfall of a perceived enemy. This is no prayer. If the being is grateful and aware, then his life becomes a prayer, all that he does is prayerful.
So, first be who you are and let the doing follow. It can never be that you do to be. Normally we wish that we had something, then with that we do something and with that doing we be something. But it is the reverse. First we be, then out of this being we do and as a byproduct we attain.
If we are loving then all that we do becomes love.
If we are responsible, then we do responsible deeds.
So doing follows being and not the other way round.
If the fasting is done by a toiling labourer who can hardly afford two square meals a day, then the hours of his fasting are filled with desire for food.
If the prayer is from a heart full of greed or bitterness, the prayer will be for fulfilling more greedy demands or for wishing the downfall of a perceived enemy. This is no prayer. If the being is grateful and aware, then his life becomes a prayer, all that he does is prayerful.
So, first be who you are and let the doing follow. It can never be that you do to be. Normally we wish that we had something, then with that we do something and with that doing we be something. But it is the reverse. First we be, then out of this being we do and as a byproduct we attain.
If we are loving then all that we do becomes love.
If we are responsible, then we do responsible deeds.
So doing follows being and not the other way round.
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