SELF-MASTERY

There are people who set their goals so low, that they are aiming for the very failure they are fearing. These are people who “know themselves” so well that they expect failure. They never risk, because their life experience has told them that they will fail before they even try. The world somehow is against them. These people do not know themselves. If they knew their true selves, they would know a genius, someone born to succeed. So what these people know instead, is a lie that they have come to believe as truth.

The path of self mastery is the path of exposing these lies, and at the same time, discovering the Truth about ourselves. The Truth is that we are perfect and only believe that we are not. The Truth is that there are no failures, only opportunities. The Truth is that we WILL accomplish anything we believe we can. If we believe we will accomplish failure, we do. If we believe that we will accomplish success, we will.

                                             “Self-mastery is the path of choices.”

We choose what to believe. We choose to persist at a worthy goal. We choose to set the worthy goal. There is no more worthy goal than Self-Mastery. This goal is made up of three parts:

• 1. Understanding and taking joy in believing that each of us has a unique gift to offer the world and that we are able to present that gift when we are our truly authentic selves.
• 2. Discovering (which is really remembering) what that truly authentic self is.
• 3. Sharing who we are with the world.

When we live believing the lies that tell us that we are not good enough, smart enough, or any other message that tells us we are undeserving, then our lives are spent trying to attain something from outside ourselves, that only we have the power to give to ourselves. We are born worthy. Being unworthy is a self-defeating belief, but not the Truth. Shedding those limiting and self-defeating beliefs is part of the journey to self-mastery, because until we do, we are not our truly authentic selves.

What would happen to your practice if you shed the lies that blind you and embraced the path to self-mastery…?

-Woody Haiken under "Growing from the Inside Out"

ALLOW IT TO HAPPEN...

No matter what is the situation, it is ok or not. Because that’s the way it is, what you can do about it. Do you understand?  So see, whatever the situation is, that is the situation; what you are going to do?  Is it ok or not? That is what God has created, you see.  So, by being with whatever there is, what will happen to you?  Yes, you are released. You are released, then, you are released. Not that, other things are not ok, but what happens when you get involved in the game, and then you start making this thing more important than the other things; you start getting upset, because things are not going the way you wanted.  So for 15 minutes, we release this knot, say everything is ok; come back to everything is ok.

You release the knot every time.  So you go on doing this, releasing the knot, you will always remain without getting caught; later on, you will never get caught in anything or you can enjoy everything that is going on.  Anything means anything.  You will start being able to see that even the worst thing that is happening is a necessity; that is why it happened. You understand or not, that it is not necessary; because it is necessary, it happened.  You will begin to have a much different perspective of life. Rather than making the thing right or wrong, you will just see that everything that is going on is because that’s the way it is supposed to go on, that’s all.

-Rishi Prabhakar

...in Everything is yours, Guruji Rishi Prabhakar brings to light the essence of living in freedom and plentifulness. When nothing is yours: everything is yours. 

(an extract From Guruji's talk on "EVERYTHING IS YOURS")
-By Guruji Rishi Prabhakar