Drop the Excess Baggage

“By adding things you can bring convenience, but you cannot bring enhancement of life.”

—Sadhguru

What is it that you call as “myself?” You are not a real thing. You are a collage of experiences, memories, relationships, qualifications, and of course your Facebook account! You are piecemeal. If you just keep everything aside and learn to walk as a piece of life, there is something within you which you did not get from your parents, your friends, your family, your college or your qualification. It is only to decorate that one thing that we gathered a body and everything else in our lives. But now these decorations have become so big that we have forgotten what we are decorating.

It does not matter what someone is doing in their life–someone is getting drunk in the evening, somebody else is drugged out, somebody is sitting in the temple and singing bhajans, somebody is meditating, somebody is wanting to go to Kailash, somebody is busy wanting to make money–every human being is only trying to enhance their lives and they believe this is what is going to accomplish that.

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