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REALIZE WHAT YOU ARE:
friends will notice the change in you and ask you about the cause. You will be a new person, and they will try to be like you, instead of you being like them. It should not be an obsession to make others like you, but it is your happiness to share what you have received, like perfume, with others. You share this new experience of poise and people will like it.
When you have broken the pattern of tension, you are in tune with your breath and you have insight. A new philosophy of life has come to you. You recognize that you are not this or that byproduct of the society in which you are living. Your real self is that which is happy, flowing, natural and communicating. The tension, the hurry, the resentment is not you, but old conditioning that is eroding. You feel sohum- that you are the real self, and you enjoy that instinctive inner happiness that is your true nature.
Now you see through the facade you have become accustomed to wearing. You say, “Inside I am beautiful.” That philosophy will make you a different person. You will have some inner sight, inner light, inner awareness and inner strength. You still live in the world, but with a different awareness. When any tension or pressure from society comes near you, you know how to duck and let the pressure go overhead. When you are swimming in the ocean, you know how to flow with the water so the waves do not drown you. If you become stiff the wave will overturn you. The rush of water pressure will somersault you. If you become flexible, pliable, then you are moving with the flow. Meditation is much the same. You become flexible and start flowing. The inside stiffness is gone. You should meditate on this process. You are experiencing how
