Passion makes you weak. Dispassion is strength.
For your passion to be fulfilled, you have to depend upon so many things. Passion and self-reliance do not appear to go together. If you are passionate, you have to forget about being self-reliant. If you want to be self-reliant, you have to drop your passion. This is generally so
That which brings together these two completely different aspects in you, is your spirit. The same spirit that wants to be self-reliant is also passionate. It is only in spirituality that passion and dispassion can happen together. This is the rarest combination.
When you are dispassionate, you have strength, and strength is self-reliance. True self-reliance is realizing that nothing is excluded from the Self. And when you realize everything is part of the Self, then you can be passionate about everything! Even to fulfill your passion, you can only rely on the Self, for Self alone is non-changing.
In Truth, there is neither reliance nor passion. In one state, you can either be passionate or you can be self-reliant. But in an elevated state of consciousness, you can be neither, or both!
NEWS FLASH
Shivratri - From every corner of India, and from all over the world, devotees came for Shiva's blessings!
Despite the Ashram overflowing with thousands, there was absolutely no chaos as the volunteers of the YTP (Youth Training Program) did wonderful seva and won everyone's hearts. It was celebration all round; even the ice-creams sold like hot cakes. During the morning Rudra-puja, even the windows of the meditation hall were filled to capacity. Huge screens were layed out in the amphitheatre for the evening Puja, which was followed by a spellbinding satsang with Guruji truly Bholenath Ö Lord of the Innocent! The celebrations continued until early morning as devotees queued for darshan.
Jai Guru Dev
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