Enriching

Enriching and the Power of Living

Living is a power

Everyday, you are walking, talking, thinking, feeling and so on. All this put together is living. Living itself is a power. You can harness the power of living in you when you adopt the lifestyle of enriching.

What is enriching

Enriching is you taking responsibility with integrity and authenticity, committing to continuously enriching, which is expanding yourself and life in and around you.

When you are committed to enriching yourself and all around you, Life showers you with the best of everything. You not only experience Life within you, but also outside of you with others. When you enrich, the Power of Living is awakened in you.

Everything is part of you

All your struggles in life begins the moment you start thinking that others are separate from you. Understand, there is no one called “other” in your life. The “other” is only the forgotten and disowned parts of you. Your struggles with others are nothing but your struggle with the forgotten side of you. When you enrich others, you are naturally enriching the neglected side of your own being. So, the more you enrich others, the more you enrich yourself. Above all, you wake up to the truth that everyone and everything is part of you.

Enriching gives rise to all the powers

With integrity, you experience the space of positivity; with authenticity, you experience the space of possibility, and with responsibility, you experience the space of leadership. With enriching, you experience the space of enlightenment itself. Enlightened living is nothing but harnessing all your inner powers and using them to enrich yourself and others. So the Power of Living includes all the other powers in itself.

So, if you have integrated listening(shravana), authentic thinking(manana), and make a responsible declaration(nidhidhyasana), you are living an enriching lifestyle. Enriching alone can burn any lack of integrity, inauthenticity, or irresponsibility in you. It is taking responsibility for everyone and everything, including others inauthenticity and lack of integrity – because they are a part of you.

Why should I enrich others

You do not live in a desolate cave or forest. You live with people. So, naturally when your life is involved with so many people. For any transformation that you want in your life, you have to work and transform other lives as well. Otherwise, you may raise yourself to a very high level of joy and bliss, but the moment you come back to your house, your spouse can bring you down in less than ten minutes. Only when you enrich others, can your life go through any transformation.

Taking responsibility for others does not mean that you will accept everyone’s non-integrity or inauthenticity, and take the blame for it. NO! It means that you will commit to inspire and empower everyone to experience the four inner powers of life.

Empowering others

Having makes you naturally responsible for sharing. A person with power is responsible for making powerless people become powerful. If you are wealthy, you become responsible for making the poor wealthy. I am not saying distribute your wealth. NO!. If you pick up ten poor people and distribute your wealth, we will have eleven poor people. I am asking you to take responsibility for educating them and making them wealthy. You become responsible for sharing anything you own and making it grow.

Some truths about enriching

· Enriching is your very nature. Whatever you do is enriching others. Even your very breath is enriching the plants on planet Earth.

· Enriching others enriches you as everyone is part of you.

· The moment you convince your heart that life is for others, all the suffering in your heart leaves you.

· Enriching others to live at their peak possibility is the ultimate way you can enrich them.

Don’t give up on you and people

Do not give up on yourself and people. If we turn your back on people, we are not living dharma because when we give up on others, we have also given up on ourselves. When you are frustrated with others’ failure, understand that it is nothing but your own frustration towards your own failures. If we turn our back on people,we are not living dharma because we have also given up on ourselves.

Exercise to unlock your Power of Living

· Write down the first time you felt that you were exploited by life and only you had to take care of yourself.

· Complete powerfully with that root thought pattern which is making you feel separate from others.

· For the next 48 hours, see everything and everybody you meet as extensions of yourself and serve them joyfully out of a space of completion