How costly is your Smile? Asked my Guru! Is that a question to ask? I am not in the business of selling smiles, why should I even bother putting a tag on it? That is exactly the point! We have knowingly or unknowingly put a tag on our smile, that too a very costly one! And there is nobody to buy that and it is buried deep inside our storage! That is exactly the point of Guruji asking that question. Do you know that while a child smiles almost 400 times in a day, and an adolescent smiles about 17 times in a day, an adult hardly smiles even once in a day! How sad! Yes, it is indeed a very sad state. We think we are in a developed society. What kind of a development is that which robs one off of the smile from the face? Let us think about is seriously! Even while thinking we tend to loose our smile :-)
If we really think about it, we have built around us a society filled with mistrust, insecurity, fear and hatred. It is this constant fear of who is digging a grave for the other that makes one lose the smile. But in reality, who has got any time to even think about you? This is such an unfounded fear! Do I have any time to think about any other person? Same is true with everybody else. We have a bad habit of Generalizing and Eternalizing things. There may have been a few handful of cases where a person might have tried to bring you a bad name. That person might have been stressed out. But generalizing this behaviour and eternalizing this phenomenon is only affecting our own self. We are assuming everybody is bad and we look for good people. There has to be a fundamental shift in this tendency! Only then we can smile without Fear. Fear is kept in us by the nature just to protect us. Otherwise we might jump right down from the terrace. But it has to exist like a salt, not a pinch more, otherwise it can eat us away!
Having said all this, how do we eliminate fear and smile like a child? The key here is the "Breath". It is the grudges based on the past actions and the anxiety of the unknown future that prevents us from smiling. Mind as we know constantly vacillates between the past and future keeping us in the miserable state of guilt/grudge and anxiety. But mind can never be controlled at the realm of the mind. But with the help of breath, mind can be brought to the present moment which is when Smile can be brought in the faces. So Learn some breathing techniques like Sudarshan Kriya and distribute the smile free of cost without any fear whatsoever!!!
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Ramu, you are the right person to talk about this. Because you practised this even before realizing it's worth. You are the True living example of this. Ramu and his Smile are inseparable and blessed are the people who come into contact with you.
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