Musings on Expansion.....

Dear All

Sadhguru Jaggi Vasudev - My Guru - categorically asserts that there are just two choices for us to grow inwardly....Either keep expanding or keep contracting....!! He says these are the only two manners we can attempt to merge with the ultimate. To put it in simpler and practical (is it really ??) terms, either we have to experientially identify us in every body around us OR we are capable enough to make ourselves too meek and humble that our ego completely dissappears and we can accept every body around us without any hesitation....!!

Though I enjoy his lectures and the clarity with which he speaks, I am still far off from feeling what I (presumably) understand from his lectures. In fact I some times wonder at the gap between how practically I behave some times against the mental state in which I sit in front of him.....!! As he speaks out of his experience, I am quite sane enough these days only to talk some thing that I feel and these postings do not stem out of my imagination....Trust me...

Well, the only thing that seems to be quite plausible and possible for all of us to do is to keep expanding on a continous basis. To be more precise, Expanding Circle of our Influence is some thing that I am enjoying immensely these days. Not sure if this is just one aspect of one of the spiritual experiences about which Sadhguru talks about....but I am sure that this is some thing which every one of us can try out and experience it for ourselves.

In repairing a strained relationship, in dealing a conflict situation with a calm head, in the ability of smiling meeting the eyes of an adversary, in the capacity of holding ourselves and enabling others to do some thing and help them to discover their potential, in the maturity to stay calm when its required and speak with conviction when the occassion demands......you feel that your circle of influence is expanding....!! When our personality expands, a queer thing happens inside us to give a feeling that we as a person is reducing a little bit.....!! The mind becomes calm and enjoys the situations immensely without even an urge to share with others every detail of your success....!!

Not sure if I am inventing a hybrid truth in between the two ways of growth Sadhguru is suggesting from his experience....Not sure if I have confused myself sufficiently to gather the guts to make this posting with lot of audacity....Not sure if I may end up with lot of beatings that life is going to give for me....

Today is exciting....too exciting with these little little successes in expanding my circle of influence.... In the bulls eye, Shambho prevails....!!!

Suren