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Hello friends.
Today I have been thinking about our limiting beliefs.
I think I have already told about the story of how a wild elephant is tamed by the trainers to use them in various capacities.
The first and foremost is that freedom is limited.
In the wild they are wild and free.
They can do whatever they want.
They roam around as they like.
And elephants usually live in groups.
They are social beings,
Very intelligent beings.
So when an elephant is caught,
It's tough to discipline them.
So what these trainers do is to tie a very tight rope on their hind legs and leave them like that.
The elephant does its best to break free,
Pulling at the rope all the time.
And it starts leaving injuries because of friction.
The frictional injuries start to grow as the days go by.
The trainers do not try to heal them.
They just leave it like that.
And the pain would be tremendous,
Continuous consistent pain because of injuries of the hind legs.
Then the elephant stops pulling it because it hurts when it pulls.
And the elephant drops it.
It doesn't pull anymore.
It understood that these ropes cannot be broken.
And if he pulls,
It gives pain and suffering.
So the elephant surrenders.
Afterwards the tame elephant is used for various entertainments or utility matters.
But they are tame.
They obey the tiny human,
Much lesser in size and much lesser in strength than itself.
But the initial limiting belief which the trainers were able to give the elephant stays on forever.
Limiting beliefs.
This is the point.
We all have limiting beliefs.
Just like this elephant.
Some traumatic memory from the past,
Its corresponding agony,
The feeling,
The helplessness and associated emotions.
The memories of that we carry and that leads us or binds us with our limiting beliefs.
And it works through the whole life.
Many things of life we shy from or we fail to achieve only because of our limiting beliefs.
This is the truth.
We must understand that all these limiting beliefs apart,
We are as wild,
Free and strong as a normal elephant would be in the forest.
We should be successful in our daily life and we should also be a significant part of our society by delivering as per our capacities positively to the society.
Sometimes these limiting beliefs are so hidden that we don't even recognize them.
It needs introspection.
It needs contemplation.
How many times,
How many situations we could not handle because of our limiting beliefs?
Try to understand.
Sometimes limiting beliefs are given by our parents,
Teachers,
Our society.
Sometimes limiting beliefs are given by religions.
All of them create almost similar effect.
We have seen that over history.
Limiting beliefs have taken away great opportunities for great progress in human existence.
So this is very important to understand.
Limiting beliefs exist and limiting beliefs are really,
Really important to understand and come out of.
We are supremely powerful.
Nothing can stop us to do our good work in the world.
I always tell my people,
The people who believe in me,
We are powerful as a team and our intention is always pure.
We do not want to harm anybody.
We have no violence in us.
We do not have anger,
Hatred,
Jealousy,
Revenge in us because they contaminate our inner space.
We only have love.
We have compassion.
We have kindness.
And this is very strong and these are very powerful.
Compassion is powerful.
Kindness is powerful.
To have strength and to have discipline,
Power without discipline can create havocs.
Power without discipline creates atomic bombs which destroys an entire race.
We saw the devastation that happened in Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
But today we have much larger,
Much more destructive atomic capacities with us to wipe out an entire mankind.
We must observe restraint.
We must accept love and we must be compassionate and kind.
Just imagine having great strength,
Great power and exercising great kindness.
How it will be?
It can be very transformative for the entire human race.
Having great power and having great strength and capacities but using it for dividing or harming or destroying that literally shakes the root of our species.
Nature has given us all the options.
Nature has given us everything and nature continues to provide us to experience and execute it.
We have to be realistic.
We have to be responsible and we have to lead a life of purity and harmony.
Like one of those great Lamas who was arrested and imprisoned and tortured by the Chinese authorities after they invaded Tibet told when he was released about his time in the prison.
Apparently it was very torturous.
It was very disturbing for him,
His equilibrium because they tried their best to break him down.
As always,
As prisoners of war,
He was tortured almost every day for 25 years.
When he was asked,
Did you have fears?
He said yes because a true spiritual person will have no fears.
There are no rooms for fears.
If you are really walking the path of purity,
You should be fearless.
God can be loud because God sits in you as your sole factor.
God is to be loud.
God is love.
So Lama said,
I had fears.
Three times it appeared in the canvas of my mind.
Each time it was the fear that I may end up hating the oppressors,
The guys who are torturing him and that can cause inner contamination.
I didn't want anything to do with inner contamination.
That fear happened thrice.
To maintain purity,
You need constant vigil.
You got to make sure every day,
Every moment that anger,
Hatred,
Jealousy,
Revenge or any emotions which are draining and negative by nature should not enter your mind.
You should be free from all that.
This is important.
This is vital.
And fear binds you.
So we must practice fearlessness.
Anything which gives you fear of anything should be avoided because one fear leads to another fear and fear binds and fear distorts our vision.
It's important to know,
To understand that we are born free and we have every right to exercise our highest potential and possibility of existence while we are living on earth.
Life has got to be lived.
Life has got to be experienced and life has given us an opportunity to attain the highest possibility of a human existence.
We must make use of that.
Not like existing as bricks on the wall.
It's living a full life.
We have the capacity and we have the ability.
I leave these thoughts in your plate today.
Contemplate on it.
And discuss about it.
Lots of love.
This is Mohanji for you.
