02 Not Giving Not Taking

Are the healthiest relationships based on ‘give and take’? What if the balance is instead one of ‘offer and receive’? Raja Yogi Yogesh Sharda inspires us to explore and to consider our habits regarding how we interact with others. Through listening to this set of 11 meditation commentaries we can learn how from a personal state of constant fullness, we can always be a provider of caring and supportive friendships.

Transcript

Not giving,

Not taking.

We can enter relationships with others from one of two places.

Either from a place of fullness or a place of emptiness.

When we are spiritually empty,

We have a high level of emotional neediness.

And this can manifest in the need for attention,

For approval,

For appreciation,

For applause.

Then we develop the dynamic of taking from others.

If I want to take and no one wants to give,

Then I would suffer.

And if I want to give and no one wants to take,

Then again I will suffer.

But when we are spiritually full,

The dynamic that we develop is to offer rather than to give,

To receive rather than to take.

And so let me water the seeds of my inner spiritual powers and experience being full and then enter relationships with the offer and receive dynamic.