the speaking tree - Make Your Destiny

SADHGURU JAGGI VASUDEV





All along, you've been shaping your destiny unconsciously .But you can also work on it consciously . If you make the effort to access your core and realise that everything is your responsibility , and shift your focus inside you, then you can rewrite your destiny . All the time, your focus is scattered, because what you consider is `you' and `yours' is your house, car, wife, child, pet, education, position and power.If you are stripped of all these things, you will feel like a nobody . So, what you call yourself is what is spread around you.`You' means it is you, not this carpet, wall, child or anything else. `You' is just you. Right now, you're not an established being; you are a scattered being. You are not you; you are a crowd. The crowd's fate is always predestined.
Once you act as an individual, the indivisible Self can no longer be divided; it is this. It can't be here and there. Once you become a true individual, your destiny is within your grasp; it is yours. Those who are in a hurry to grow spiritually avoid getting into marriage, children and relationships because the moment you have a spouse, you get identified with `this one'. Once you have children, you get identified with them.Now, `you' includes them also.
However, searching for the real `you' does not mean denial of family or social situations. The root of all identification is in the two fundamental accumulations: body and mind. Once removed from them, `you' become free from all identifications. In this freedom, you become the master of your destiny .