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So, then, the root to success in life – personal, familial,
societal, national and international success – is first and
foremost to be in peace. Yet, it seems that each day this
peace slips further and further from our hands.
Once, in Chicago a woman came to see me. She told me
that she was stressed and tense. She said that in order to
sleep at night she took pills called “Compose.” I told her
that she did not need to take Compose. “Just calm your
pose,” I said. “And you will sleep beautifully at night and
be peaceful all day.” If we are peaceful inside, humble
inside, then nothing outside can ruffle us. So, the first
message is, “Calm your pose and you will never need to
take Compose.”
which obscure this treasure from our view.
So, how to remove these? First let’s talk about the I. I is
one of the greatest obstacles to peace. I is our ego. I is our
sense of ownership, doership and pride. This I says, “I want
to be in the center.” Isn’t it true? We always want to be
the ones getting the glory, the appreciation, and the
prestige. Even when we don’t do anything, we still want
to be appreciated. This is our downfall.
We have everything these days. Everything is set. We have
tea sets, TV sets, sofa sets, video sets, but we, ourselves,
are upset. Everything is set and we are upset. Why?
Because of this I that tries to keep us in the center of
everything.
However, instead of calming our pose, we frequently pose
our calm! We want everyone to know how peaceful, serene
So, ideally we remove this I, which is dividing us from our
and spiritual we are. Yet, all too frequently that calm is not
own true selves, dividing families and dividing nations. Yet
real. We are not truly at peace inside. Let us, therefore,
this is very difficult. Living in the world today, it is nearly
really and deeply calm our pose instead of posing our
impossible to completely remove the sense of “me” “mine”
calm!
The mantra of today seems to be “I want peace.” Every
and I. So the next best option is to take this I and to change
it. How?
day people tell me this. They all say, “Swamiji. All I want
When I stands vertically it is an obstacle. It creates borders,
is peace. Tell me how to find it.”
barriers and boundaries between ourselves and others. But
take this I and turn it sideways, make it horizontal, and it
The obstacle and the solution are buried in the statement.
becomes a bridge – between our families, our
Listen: I want peace. What do we have? An “I”, a “want”
communities, and our nations. Let this I become a bridge
and a “peace.” If you remove the “I” and the “want”, what
in the service of the world. If we keep standing so straight
is left? Peace. You do not have to look for peace, find peace
and tall and proud as the vertical I, then we will always
or create peace. All you have to do is remove the I and
stand alone. If, however, we turn this I sideways, we say,
remove the want and peace stands there, in its full glory,
“Okay, let me be a bridge, let me bridge chasms instead of
for all the world to imbibe. It is the “I” and the “want”
creating them, let me stand smaller than others instead of
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