With all due respect - to reverence and adoration

 

Whatever you revere becomes bigger than you. When you have reverence in all your relationships, then your own consciousness expands. Then to you even small things become big and significant. Every little creature becomes dignified. It is the reverence in a relationship that will save it. 

When you have reverence for the whole universe, you are in harmony with the whole universe. And then you do not need to reject or renounce anything. 

You often do not have reverence for what you own and losing that reverence happens unconsciously. Reverence in ownership frees you from greed, jealousy and lust. Cultivate the skill of having reverence every moment of your life. 

Adoration demonstrates the magnanimity of the one who adores, rather than the one who is adored. Adoration is a sign that the ego has become transparent; the best antidote for ego is adoration. 

Adoration works in three ways:

• For an egoistic person, adulation for someone else is not palatable. If the adoration is for you, it boosts your ego. But if you adore someone else, it dissolves your ego and makes you magnanimous. 
• Desiring adoration is a sign of immaturity. Aversion to adoration is small-mindedness. A lack of adoration in life is dryness and boredom. 
• A healthy mind always likes to adore others, elevate them. An unhealthy mind likes to pull everything down.

Adoration indicates the trust, enthusiasm and richness of a culture. Lack of adoration indicates a society that is self-centered, small-minded, fearful and culturally impoverished. 

Adoration does not sway the one who is great. The test of a person’s greatness is that he is not shaken by any amount of adoration. Being indifferent to adoration when it comes to you and being magnanimous in giving it is the way of the wise.

To be enthusiastic or difficult, is your choice and your problem

 

How would you like to see yourself – happy and bubbling with enthusiasm or dull and difficult to please? 

Sometimes you like to be pleased, appeased and cajoled, so you put on a tough, troubled face and act difficult to please. It is so tiring for a person to appease and please ten people all the time. People who keep long faces and expect others to cajole and appease them, drive others away. Lovers often do this. They expend a lot of energy cajoling, reducing the joy and celebration of the moment. 

It is all right to occasionally show how upset you are, but doing it repeatedly is taxing for you and the people you love. If you feel down, appease and please yourself – do not expect others to do it. Your need to be appeased by someone else is a sign of grossness. This is the root of ignorance. If you want attention, all you get is tension. 

It is not possible to attain divine love with a complaining face. The complaining face is a sign of an unaware mind. If you want to complain – complain to God or your guru because both have their ears covered! 

Become one whose enthusiasm never dies, come what may.