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CONTENTS I. Living Enlightenment II. Bhagavad Gita Decoded III. Brahma Sutras IV. Kailasa‘s Contributions to Hinduism V. The Hindu Holocaust VI. Appendix - Bhagavad Gita VersesPart I Living EnlightenmentIntroduction If you are here, it means Existence wants you to be here in this form. You are not an accident; you are ...
Philosophizing The problem is that we have all practically become philosophers. We don’t understand that life is not philosophy. It is spontaneous flowing energy. It is new every moment. Philosophy is all about repeating the same old things in different wa s, that’s all. There’s nothing fresh in it. Life is fresh ever...
on growth becomes simple, easy and spontaneous. Then we are not, only love is. Be a lover every moment Encounter any situation in life with deep love. Soon you will become pure love. Whether it is a person or your work or a passerby or god or anything, just encounter it with deep love for love’s sake. If you are a pai...
can look into the face of any man and recognize your brother in him. When you can look into the face of any woman and recognize your sister in her. If you cannot do this, then no matter what time of the day it is, it is still only night time.’ The master can give a few hints, a little hints here and there. Then we mus...
I mean by a ‘feel good’ feeling? It is a certificate saying, ‘You are good. You are this, you are that’ etc. We love anyone who pays us compliments, is it not? We think twice before arguing with them. We secretly nurture our good name with them in the name of love. If they go back on their approval of us, we might fal...
avasis asked me one day, ‘Everyday you see all of us, all our mistakes and confusions. It is the same thing for you every day. Are you not bored by us?’ It was a very honest question! I told them, ‘For enlightened beings, just because of their very love, they feel everybody is unique. They do not look at people as mere...
memories cloud your judgment and visualize shattering those thoughts. Next, see the situation, or person, or object now with a fresh eye, as though you are seeing it for the first time! Suddenly you see how much you missed, because of your own worry and thoughts. Even when you see your husband, wife, brother, or anyon...
circulates throughout your house. It captures all the thoughts you radiate. It sets the very mood of the house. Your worries rest like cobwebs in the space of your house. That is why when you enter your house, you experience a familiar pattern of worry. The patterns remaining in the space of your house grip you when y...
try telling someone that his or her worries are not worth anything. They will get very offended. You would expect that a person would feel happy if you tell him his worries are not true. But it won’t be so! He will feel offended. The ego feels offended whenever its worries are not acknowledged with due respect. The eg...
human beings become slaves to their minds. They live in bondage. Many centuries before Descartes, a vedic sage declared that man does not begin to exist till he stops thinking. Adi Shankara, at the age of eight, faced his future master across the waters of the holy Tungabhadra river. The master asked him, ‘Who are you...
do or guilt about what you did. Thoughts of the future are about what you wish to do. Please understand, neither the past nor the future is real. The past is dead and gone. Most often we do not even learn from the past. All we try to do is use our past to steer the future. It is like driving a car looking only at the ...
others victims. This is probably why they call these offices ‘concrete jungles’ ! As long as people are driven by fear and greed, they cannot be inspired. They can be controlled and made to perform routine tasks but they cannot be inspired to do the impossible. This is the dilemma today’s corporations face. They need ...
much to decide. He is not taking many risks. All you need to do is this: every time you feel fear, do not disrespect yourself. Do not lose confidence or condemn yourself thinking, ‘What kind of a being am I?’ Actually people who can face their fears do not have so many problems. People who are afraid of their fears cr...
ah’. Silent intonation of this hamsa mantra will suddenly take you into the awareness, the relaxation that never dies. Whatever can die will leave your system, your inner space. This technique can also be practiced at other times when you are not faced by fear - while you are sitting, talking, walking, eating, even whi...
Otherwise, there is a distinct danger that you will inflict that pain on someone else or hurt yourself more with it. I always tell people, ‘If you have pain, just drop everything and work on it. See that its root is healed. Only then you can be in a safe zone. Otherwise neither you nor the people living around you are...
energy which comes from your being gets converted in the throat region to gnana shakti - power of knowledge and kriya shakti - power of action. If the energy is not processed and channeled properly, the knowledge and action become disconnected from the power of the pure desire energy. The knowledge and action should b...
our lust is deep-rooted violence to possess the other person. Add friendliness to the relationship. Welcome the partner as he or she is; do not just accept him or her. Welcome and accept the mind, body and being as it is. Then you can see lust turns to love and your being is in eternal bliss. Love adds life even to th...
forces himself to stay in, his energy is not being allowed to express. If he goes out, he will feel guilty, he will be afraid that somebody might spot him. And all this for nothing big - just for playing in the sun! As the child grows, this deep engram of guilt will actually settle inside him. Even after he grows up i...
greed.’ Then you will start afresh. When you start working, naturally you will see these things happening. A small story: A monk from a big spiritual organization was sent to a remote tribal area for doing service. Suddenly, the headquarters received a lot of complaint letters about the monk. The president after readi...
children not to do something, they will be most tempted to do it. As long as you don’t mention anything about doing it or not doing it, they may not even be bothered about it. But the moment you tell them not to do something, they will be looking to do it.A small story: One man says, ‟I found three ways to get things ...
the tumor. She came to me complaining, ‟Please help me, heal me. I am suffering with this tumor for so many years. After undergoing surgery, it has reappeared. ‟I started talking to her slowly to trace the origin of the problem. I asked her a few questions at the end of which she finally opened up and started weeping....
based on some comparison. But why does the idea of the other enter into your mind? It is because you have not looked in and realized who you are. You have not experienced the bliss and tremendous potential you have inside you. You feel incomplete because you have not been able to express yourself as you are. So, the e...
a small stick. Once they pick up the stick, the monkey will do whatever they say. If they just gesture to the monkey, it won’t listen. Even though it knows that the man can pick up the stick at any time, unless he picks up the stick, the monkey won’t listen. If he picks up the stick and tells the monkey to walk straig...
about the result, you are actually not allowing yourself to perform at the optimum level. Of course, you need to make plans, and you need to think ahead. But do it with sincerity, not with seriousness. Seriousness is not the same as sincerity. Sincerity is focusing on the task with enthusiasm and youthfulness. Sinceri...
simply use Ego is born from discontentment If you are a strong egoistic person, you don’t need a separate hell because the mind can exist only in conflict and discontentment. With contentment, with satisfaction, you will lose your boundary. That is why you don’t want joy or bliss. Please never think you want bliss. No...
’s path. There are only two to follow: master and the mind. If you follow the master, you cannot follow the mind. If you follow the mind, you cannot follow the master. There is a beautiful word, ‟na maha‟. It means, ‘not mine’, ‘I am not’ - I surrender the ‘I’ and ‘mine’ at the feet of the master or god. Meditation Tec...
friend was awed by the story and asked, ‟So did god answer your prayer?‟ The man replied, ‟Oh, no! Before that an explorer appeared from nowhere and showed me the way.‟ This is how insensitive we are in life! We keep taking everything for granted. If we sensitized ourselves with gratitude, we would never take anything...
auspicious. In the whole world there are only two kinds of people. The first kind feels that whatever is happening in the world is auspicious. The second kind feels everything is happening against their will and things have to be slightly altered all the time. Such people will try to alter, judge, criticize and develo...
we were refused food and a place to stay for three days?‟ The saint replied, ‟You have been fed and given a place to stay for thirty years. What about thanking Him for that?‟ Prayer is gratitude for the continuous showering of Existence upon us. Expectation is the culprit - let go!Try to sit down and make two lists. L...
for that matter, we have to pass through neutral every time. We have to completely depress the clutch, or ‘unclutch’, move through neutral, and only then we can go to the next gear, right? In the same way, we experience a neutral space between any two thoughts in our mind. That neutral space, that silence that exists ...
experiences to predict your future, eliminating many new possibilities.Shaft of Joy The joy that you experienced ten years ago, the joy that you experienced nine years ago, the joy that you experienced three years ago, and the joy that you experienced one year ago are all independent, individual, unconnected thought sh...
bored with cooking the same food. How are you able to eat the same? The master just laughed and said, ‟I am not eating the same food every day. How can I eat the same food every day? I can only eat this food today. Tomorrow’s food is totally different!‟ Life is new every moment. It is the mind that makes it look repet...
it only means that for that moment, the new thought has been renounced! There is a beautiful story by Ramakrishna Paramahamsa‘: A king who was inside a huge fort, was once attacked by an army that was two million strong. The king only had two or three people around him and got very frightened. He told his advisor ‟Two...
ed body parts. It is you who joined the parts and gave it life. Your fighting with depression is the root cause of your depression. In Ramayana‟ there is a beautiful story. Whoever stands in front of the monkey king Vali‟ and fights with him, loses half of his power to him. In the same way, whoever stands in front of t...
deep sleep, laziness. Right now the first fear that happens in you is if you unclutch, you may become tamasic, a lazy person. Unclutch. That 33% of your laziness will quickly be exhausted. It will disappear from your system within a few days. Then you will automatically start working from your innate intelligence. You...
terrified with his driving. Finally, the cab driver, seeing the terrified passenger, said, ‟Why don’t you do what I do when I take turns? Just shut your eyes!‟ When you are not completely aware and involved in the action you are engaged in, your being remains unfulfilled in that experience. The unfulfilled experience ...
because the gap between two thoughts is less. If a person is calm and collected like a meditator is, he gets fewer thoughts in a given span of time. His kshana is longer because the gap between two thoughts is more. Karma — totality of conscious choices Your life is nothing but the totality of the conscious choices tha...
start watching others and collecting karma based on their desires. These are desires that you have borrowed from others around you. Because of these borrowed desires, you create certain thoughts, words and actions. For example, if you see someone more beautiful than you, your thoughts multiply due to comparison and je...
entionSee, whatever you are doing in the presence of the master, you are doing for the master. You know it is in no way going to build your name or fame. So, the action happens without intention. There is no intention. The intention is the master’s. The action is yours. Intention is in the being of the person who has n...
outside will burn with the same intensity inside you also. No matter whether it burns the other person or not, the fire of anger will surely burn you. The sword used to cut someone outside will cut you inside with the same intensity. Remember, it is a double edged sword. A beautiful story from Buddha’s life: A man onc...
as human being in the next birth? This is a very good question. Let me boldly declare this truth and clear all the myths that have been surrounding this one question on the wheel of karma! When a human being takes birth as human once, he will continue taking the life of a human unless he has acted against his consciou...
day. Nithyam — Dhyanam — Anandam What is needed so as not to collect gathered agamya karma, is life solutions, what I call nithyam (eternal) because you practice them daily. To dissolve the karma of this birth, you need meditation or dhyanam. That is why you see that most of our meditations are based on breathing. Alt...
incident of death that happens at the end of our lives, and psychological death. Real death happens only once, but psychological death, the fear of death, permeates our life. The idea and fear of death decides our entire life structure. Every part of your body is connected to someone or the other. Your being is not an...
more - about eighty percent. The more subtle the pain, the more you will be affected. I saw not only the physical, mental or emotional pains of the dying man, but I also saw the being level pain. It was almost like I was going through the pain myself. I wanted to just run away from there but the elderly monk got afrai...
into the nirvanic' body. Then you don’t come back to assume another body. When you travel through these various bodies and experience your unfulfilled desires, deep guilt and intense pain, you decide strongly, ‘Let me take another body, another birth. When I do, I will not forget the purpose of my life and get caught ...
, pleasure, everything bowed down. Straightaway, the individual soul’s frequency increased. Understand, when the seer is strong, the seen has no power over you. This is the science of death. In the case of the first death, the seen was stronger than the seer. In the second death, the seer was stronger than the seen. I ...
this. The breath that goes inside the body doesn’t come out, that’s all. Nothing much can be done about it. Neither can you rewind it nor fast-forward it. As I was watching this scene continuously, initially the little fear that I had about death also disappeared and slowly it actually became interesting to watch. I w...
is desire, and the way in which we wanted to live but didnt, is guilt. Guilt is nothing but reviewing our past decisions with updated intelligence. Like this, step by step, you move through different body layers.The less the unfulfilled desires, the lighter is the pranic body and the easier it is to leave this body. S...
for a few hours so that we can prepare for the last rites?‟ The master agreed and told the disciples that he would pass away around 12 o‟clock. Exactly at 12 noon, he greeted them all and left the body Auspicious death A true story: The great master from India, Paramahamsa Yogananda„, had moved to USA in 1920 and sett...
into the dream state, when your consciousness is slowly fading away, when you are falling asleep, you will be able to change the dream itself. If you are able to you be very clear, the first thing you will do is you will stop dreaming. You will stop dreaming because you know the uselessness of dreams. You know you are...
by greed. Or he has to study so he is not left behind in his future professional life - this is being driven by fear. The motivation for the child is greed or fear, never inner fulfillment. Naturally, the child gets into the rat race and just keeps running - with no time to even look whether he is running for what he ...
much? ‟ The man asked very seriously, ‟When you say ‟so much “are you referring to the depth, quality, quantity or mode of expression? When you are too caught in the head, you start thinking that your logic, your head, can understand the whole of life. You try to frame everything in this universe with your head. Anoth...
important thing to understand which may shock you: You have an independent intelligence in your system which runs your life without your interference. Right now, you think you need to interfere with your intelligence in order to run your life happily. But the truth is the intelligence with which you came down to plane...
higher than the intellect. The intelligent person lives moment to moment, not through logic. He does not believe in borrowed answers. He sees the challenge of the situation and directly responds to it. The intellectual person is like a photograph; he has the imprint of the past on him. The intelligent person is like a...
play, you will not take up responsibility. Trust and patience I always tell people, ‘Do not think you have a certain amount of energy and you will work according to that energy. No. Whatever work and responsibility you take up, the energy starts expressing accordingly. You will have energy according to the responsibil...
of ten thousand years of research and development from the Eastern system of inner science. What do I mean by this? Firstly, understand that every civilization has focused its energies in certain fields. In the West, they focused their efforts on the outer world science, innovation, discovery and creation of products ...
will be clear and straight! But this process does not always happen in a straightforward way. Sometimes things start happening in an unconscious way. For example, if you were hurt or disturbed by something that was said in a similar book you read before, the moment you see this book, unconsciously that memory will be ...
Now after fifteen minutes put the pen aside and read what you have just written. If you have honestly recorded whatever came to your mind, you will realize the kind of stray, unconnected, illogical thoughts that go through the mind. These thoughts are like friction in a machine. They make the machine very inefficient ...
according to the data that you have collected, you know that smoking is injurious to health, it is not good for your body or mind. But when the mind takes an unconscious leap to the ego, you simply take the decision to smoke! The conscious process says, ‘No, it is not good for health.’ But the unconscious process says...
that you have become simply a listener to it! The humming is a powerful means of bringing your awareness to the present moment. If you hum intensely, you cannot have any thought at that time. So your Thoughts Per Second (TPS) automatically comes down. The energy generated by the humming cleanses the energy blocks in t...
ask, ‘Then what are we supposed to do?’ You are not asked to do anything, just be. Modern mystic, J. Krishnamurthi, says beautifully, whenever an emotion overtakes you, if even once you can just be without moving your body, without co-operating with your emotion, you will be liberated from that emotion. If you stay wi...
are without ‘I’ Consciousness and not having any thoughts, you are in the deep sleep state. Normally, we are aware of only these three states — waking, dream and deep sleep. The fourth state is where you have I consciousness but no thoughts – TuriyaIntense seeking - awareness in the three states Intensity means being ...
and available to the surroundings. The other is the intense energy field. Sometimes even if you are open, if you are not in the intense energy field, the first cracking of the coconut of your ego does not happen. The first spiritual experience is just like breaking open a coconut. Once the first opening happens, it is...
also be like that.’ The inner space was so inspired and impressed by these great masters, that before every step I took in my life I would think, ‘How will he behave? Let me also do that.’ The inner space was so pure also at the young age and I had no heroes other than the masters. At every step I used to think, ‘How ...
intensity with which you work towards wealth, relations etc., if you just turn a little towards enlightenment, you will awaken. Intensely decide, ‘I will wake up from this life that I call life.’ Create an intense will or prayer. When you create a will and direct it towards you, it is called a will. When you create a ...
, with a beautiful feeling of ecstasy. Finally, a cow comes to him and says, ‟Sir we have become one thousand now. We can go back to master. ‟ He replies, ‟Is that so? Alright. ‟ Satyakama is in ecstasy. He has forgotten the way back. The cows lead the way. On the way back, animals, birds and even the fire that he kind...
are like a child, innocent and fresh. A young girl was writing something on a piece of paper. Her father asked her what it was. She said, ‟I am writing a letter. ‟ He asked, ‟To whom? ‟ ‟To me, “she replied. ‟What does the letter say? ‟ He asked. She replied, ‟How do I know? I have not mailed it and I have not receive...
One day, they decided to travel to other lands to exhibit their learning to men and earn money. The fourth friend had nothing to boast of, but expressed his wish to accompany them. The first friend said, ‟You don‟t know much. If you accompany us, we will have to unnecessarily share our money with you.‟ The second frien...
Existence. Man should understand modernization in the right light and not take it as a replacement to the ancient foundation of growing. Be vulnerable When you are innocent, you are vulnerable to everything that Existence wants to teach you! If you are closed, you create a wall around you. The wall neither allows fresh...
itative and miraculous. It was Hanuman* who crossed the ocean from India to Sri Lanka with just one leap by chanting the name of Rama‘. Rama himself had to build a bridge to cross over with his army! Such is the power of innocent surrender to Existence and all its forms.One more thing: when you are trusting and surrend...
When trust happens with the utmost understanding, nothing can be lost. In the quality of trust is its true essence. I always tell my disciples about the monks I have seen in the Himalayas during my spiritual wandering days. The monks come to the Himalayas to meditate leaving everything behind. But there they fight for ...
. Totality is functioning out of immense innocence and giving your whole to the moment. There is no opinion, no judgment, no fragments within you. There is only intense enthusiasm for the moment. The openness to the moment is the innocence. To become mature, you need to go in first, because maturity is all about fallin...
being with children as their friend, as their playmate, it is possible to get back in touch with the innocence. When you are with them don’t pretend to be like a child. Take it really seriously and become a child! It is the greatest favor you can do to yourself. There are umpteen ways to rediscover the child hiding in...
being can perceive Reality exactly as it is happening. He cannot explain it in words because words cannot describe what is beyond space and time. He can only tell you to wait for it to become your own experience! That is why Shiva answers not with philosophy but with techniques. He directly gives techniques for Devi ‘t...
moves in a direction not contained in it, it will trace a solid, a three- dimensional object. So, a line is an infinite number of points. A surface is an infinite number of lines. A solid is infinite number of surfaces. Similarly, we can imagine a four dimensional space as an infinite number of three dimensional space...
planets are moving. There are no traffic signs or cops or sign-boards! Yet, the planets are moving so beautifully in order. In the same way, in quantum physics, the smallest elements are not even particles; they are both particles and waves, and a multitude of probabilities! But there is an order in that chaos. If the...
levels, we are connected more closely at the mental level. When I say mental level, I mean the level of thoughts. Our thoughts affect not only us but also everyone around us and beyond. Your thoughts are more infectious than your cold. In fact, people may escape from your cold, but they cannot escape from your thought...
depression, these healing thoughts will automatically come up in our inner space and pull us out of the low mood. Individual peace by its nature touches the world A beautiful story from the life of Buddha: Devadatta, a cousin of Buddha, joined Buddha‟s order of monks. He was hungry for power and status. He wanted to b...
a strange and beautiful scene happened in front of him. Two frogs were sitting on a rock. It became very hot, so the frogs were about to jump into the water. Just then a cobra raised its hood and spread it over the two frogs giving them shade. The frogs enjoyed the cool shade and sat back for sometime. After sometime,...
The river flows blissfully, whatever be the things thrown into it on its way. So many things are thrown into the river — flowers, twigs, food, animals, birds, dead bodies, etc. But the river flows, not bothering about anything. Similarly, a sannyasi moves blissfully, untouched by anything that comes his way. The curre...
exhausting karma.Karma is nothing but the unfulfilled actions of your past that pull you again and again to take birth to fulfill them. It is the very cause of the cycle of birth and death. It makes you take birth again and again in this world until it is exhausted. There are three types of karma sanchita', prarabdha ...
it is difficult to bring about a permanent transformation in the consciousness. Sannyas is a conscious decision to transform the consciousness. Sannyas is a conscious decision. That is why sannyas needs to be taken. With a conscious decision, there is continued awareness. Continued awareness decreases the chance of sl...
, is difficult. It is very rare. Sannyas is the courage to live what we think is the Truth. We give importance to speaking the Truth. But living the Truth is most important. If you start living your Truth, your respect for yourself will increase. That is the beauty of it. When you integrate and live the Truth, you drop...
other is name and fame. Name and fame mean nothing but to have more relationships. Whatever experience you feel you are going to get through money or relationships, you will only get through enlightenment! That is why the soul never rests until enlightenment happens. No amount of money satisfies the soul. No relations...
so hopeless, that I thought I should stop all this nonsense. And sudden 1y I would remember the thief who would say every night, ‟God willing, tomorrow it is going to happen‟ My second master was a dog. One day, I was going to the river to quench my thirst. A dog came and he was also thirsty. He looked into the river ...
Sannyas, as such, doesn’t change anything. Everything remains the same. But it changes the way you see things. Sannyas happens in you. Sannyas has nothing to do with the outer world. Sannyas is awakening the charioteer. Man’s body is like a chariot and his consciousness is the charioteer. The charioteer is fast asleep...
, and it looked like he was going to win. Then suddenly he made a mistake. The man took the opportunity and took over the game. Soon, he was clearly on the way to winning. Suddenly, he looked at the young monk and thought with what dedication and devotion the monk lived his life with the master at that young age. Then ...
your mind, the time has come to look inwards. Sannyas happens when you decide to look in and introspect. Sannyas is the alchemy of transforming your entire lifestyle, directing your whole energy towards enlightenment. When the first thought to look in comes, when the first thought to embrace spirituality happens, the i...
on water. Secondly, you have a tremendous urge: ‘If he can do it, why not me? Why can’t I? I can too.’ The third thing is, ‘Let me jump in!’ You get inspiration and courage! In the same way, when you see an enlightened being walking on planet earth, when you live around him, you also understand three things. The first...
it is happening every moment. It is not final. When a being becomes enlightened, not only does he experience his potentiality, but he also starts creating more enlightened beings. He starts creating the possibility of more enlightened beings. 8. No verbalization, visualization When you are enlightened, there will not ...
be cleared by teachings, removing the wrong ideas and taking in the clear, correct ideas. The unconscious mind can be cleared by meditation techniques. But ultimately, for the software change to be permanent, the hardware also has to change. Your very brain grooves have to change to hold the experience of and radiate ...
more than the enlightenment experience on planet earth. No philosophy, no system, no theory, no ideology, stands, survives, or thrives for more than one generation if it does not have an enlightened base or the base or inspiration from an enlightened being. In ancient India, there were at least 3000 kings ruling at di...
growing out of the soil. The three monkeys called for an urgent meeting to discuss the issue. The first monkey declared, ‟As promised, I have been watering the seed every single day.” The second monkey cried, ‟As promised, I have been adding fertilizer and making the soil rich.” The third monkey said, ‟As promised, I ...
, you will work optimally and use your energy efficiently. So at the end of the day you are just as fresh as in the morning. You see, it is not the work that exhausts you; it is your mind, your attitude. The whole game of meditation is to get out of the work-oriented mind and look at every moment of life as a beautiful...
state for perhaps twenty minutes, and then once again, you come back to the dream state. In this way you keep moving from the dream state to the deep sleep state and back.Understand: in one night, you dream that you have lived twenty years of your life. In the first episode of your dream, you are in college. In the se...
emotional wellbeing. The researchers found that the blood vessels become wider, the support structures also increase in number and they have more branches and connections. Meditation Vs Sleep There was another research done at the University of Kentucky where they studied the effects of sleepiness on a person’s awarene...
tā is part of the great Bhārata’s (India’s) history narrated by Śrī Veda Vyāsa or Śrī Kṛṣṇa Dvāipāyana Vyāsa, one of the great Enlightened Sages and the compiler of all scriptures and hymns. Gītā is scribed by Śrī Ganeṣa, the elephant God who embodies pure wisdom and joyful spontaneity. It is narrated as the direct exp...
’s message is internalized and lived. Tattvas, your Keys to four Inner Powers Listen! You actually have the power to simply manifest the reality of your choice! Whether you know it or not, whether you believe it not, in each one of you is an enormous potential energy that expresses as four great powers. To be able to u...
in yoga and drop all attachments—‘Act without attachment. Do not worry about the success and failure in results of your actions. Surrender yourself to the wisdom of completion.’ I am going to share an important concept here. Listen! You don’t have just a single identity, as you imagine. You have four identities! Pleas...
support you. The whole Universe supports you, because the Universe experiences its fulfillment through the cognition of those who feel responsible. Take responsibility in every situation. When you don’t feel responsible, you are a drop in the ocean. When you feel responsible, you are the ocean in a drop! When you take...