Would you sit down for a cappuccino?

If your hair was on fire…

If your hair was on fire and you were running to the river to put it out, would you sit down for a cappuccino with your friends? Surely, you wouldn’t. You need to have this kind of a desire for freedom. – said Papaji. What a powerful metaphor!

If you want to wake up, or if you have already had your awakening experience the world and especially your relationships will try to seduce you and distract you. This is when you will really need to have vigilance. If you look at it closer: you do not even need to be triggered by the outside so to speak, because you can already do that inwardly with yourself. You do this by believing your thoughts which convince you that you have to do what others say and expect, and you have to suffer.

Happiness is your birthright here and now. Whoever says it and whatever they say, or you say to yourself that you do not have the right to be happy, just STOP and ask yourself: Really? Who says so? There can be huge terror: “I am not allowed to shine happily when everyone else is suffering. It is dangerous, I will be condemned!” Whereas you also know that real joy and happiness embrace the suffering too and from that comes compassion naturally which is much better than feeling sorry for others. It is only your mind saying: “If I allow joy to be here I will be indifferent.” In reality it is the opposite: If you are happy you can be more present and support others.

If you stop right now you can feel happiness flowing through you which is your natural self. There is only a veil in front of it which is made up. The veil is constructed by our beliefs created by the mind.

A friend of mine struggling with her health wrote to me: “Today I am celebrating life. I can look at everything with such joy.” It moved me. Yes, let us celebrate life! Especially at the time of this pandemic we can see how fragile we are.

Papaji said that for waking up it is enough to be in a human body. Stop! What is here? You do not have to do anything. Truth is here closer than your own breath. You are that! How big is this life pulsing in you? Does it have a boundary?

May alls beings be happy and wake up to their true self!

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