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Grow with Acceptance | Art of Self Realization

Name: Grow with Acceptance | Art of Self Realization
Uploaded: 2022-07-20T07:15:03+00:00
Duration: 2 min 49 s
Channel: Aarti Samani
Description: In this guided talk, the speaker emphasizes that complete acceptance and surrender are the essential foundations of sadhana (spiritual practice). Using…

20 Jul 2022 · 3 min

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In this guided talk, the speaker emphasizes that complete acceptance and surrender are the essential foundations of sadhana (spiritual practice). Using the metaphor of planting a seed, she explains that when acceptance is cultivated it grows into a tree that can receive the blessings of God and the Guru without bitterness. She describes self‑realization as the continual expansion of an inner palace—each new level eventually incorporates the previous, leaving only a faint memory of the ‘little’ past. The speaker concludes by urging listeners to retain a touch of that past memory so gratitude remains alive in the heart, ending with a brief phrase in a South Asian language.

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It's the easiest place to accept all the good things, all the miracles, or anything that's happening in the life. When you are doing the sadhana, you will be having complete acceptance. When you will be doing The sadhana, complete surrender. Can we try? Yes, because if this seed you plant, then this seed will become a tree. Till one day, only the seed is there, only acceptance is there. And if there is going to be acceptance, then even when the God and the Guru will come, we won't be bitter. We will receive, we will embrace, and we will make it grow. And that is the real power of self-realization. Self-realization is that you start building a bigger, grander palace next to whatever little you had made before, knowingly, unknowingly. You focus so much on that palace Till one day that palace acquires that little, and only then the palace remains. There is no little, just a faint memory of it. And that is what I hope, I wish, I pray, that even when you grow You remember little bit of the past, just so every once in a while you can be thankful. Ki kahas se kahaposh ke, aaji naaji. I hope and I pray even when you grow, little bit you remember. So that the gratitude in your heart always remains.