Are your concepts creating bondage?

The lesser concepts we have, the lesser bondage exists.

I want to share with you an incident that happened.

A person was requested by a family member, saying, “We need your help at home.” But the person left home saying, “No, I have to go and do seva somewhere else, so I can’t be here.”

It is very amusing that people still don’t understand that seva is your very nature. It is not an act.

When your realise seva as your very nature, you are simply being useful wherever you are. You don't have to go somewhere specifically to do seva. If someone needs you at home, being there for them is seva. If someone needs you at your workplace, being useful there is seva.

Gurudev Sri Sri Ravi Shankar Ji says the ABC of life is very important.

A is for Awareness - being aware of your own actions, of what is happening around you, what is happening inside you and outside you.

B is for Belongingness.

We need to feel a sense of belongingness towards each other.

“I belong to you.”

This is a very huge statement in itself.

You are a part of me. I am a part of you. This is what “I belong to you” means.

And C is for Commitment.

Commitment towards yourself, your family, your society, your workplace, the nation, your surroundings - everything.

Spirituality makes one very sensitive.

If that sensitivity has not dawned in you, perhaps you are still far from spirituality. Spirituality makes you sensitive towards others. You start feeling what others are going through.

I'll reveal a secret to you today.

A spiritual person is very happy, always.

The reason is that he experiences and lives through the happiness and sadness of others. When he experiences the pain of others, he doesn't necessarily have to go through the same pain in his own life, because the experience has already been lived through.

But being sensitive doesn't mean being miserable.

Being sensitive means feeling the pain, yet not drowning in it.

You feel it deeply.

And yet, you remain happy.