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Exaggerating\nis a default condition of the human mind. Exaggeration based on ego\nkeeps us in delusion and suffering. Shifting the exaggeration to God\nand Guru enables one to expand and be established in bliss. This\narticle deals with how a shift in what we exaggerate on is required\nto experience our real nature of Oneness.<\/p>\n\n\n
What\ntakes away Oneness from you is not being able to cope up with the\nreality as it is. You always feel more colourfulness is needed than\nthe reality you experience, because, you feel hope makes life\nfunction in you. So, constantly you feel that much more than what\nyou perceive is required to keep you alive; so, that need for the\nhope, the idea you need something more to move on. That is why, even\nas a child, you need fairy tales. From the beginning you feel,\n\u2018Something more is required. Only then I can move on.\u2019 So, life\nmoves only with the idea \u2013 \u201csomething more is required\u201d. So,\nyou go on projecting that \u201csomething more\u201d which you feel is\nrequired, either as quality requirement or quantity requirement.\nEither you feel you need more money; only then life will be great.\nMore cars, more houses. Then you become \u201cMaterialistic\u201d. Or, if\nyou think \u2018better quality, better way of loving, giving,\nrespecting, serving\u2019 is required you become a \u201cSpiritualist\u201d.\nWhether it is a quantity requirement or quality requirement, the\nmoment you have the idea that something more is required for you to\nexperience completion and fulfilment, that is the first delusion.<\/p>\n\n\n
Just\nrecord your conversation with any person in your life. When you\nstudy it, see in how many places you exaggerated either that person\nor you, or about any subject you are talking about. You will see\nthat exaggeration has become a part of you.<\/p>\n\n\n
The\npattern of exaggeration can never be directly transcended. There is\none being about whom you can never exaggerate; anything said can\nnever be exaggeration. That is Mahadeva, the Cosmic Consciousness.\nSo, divert your whole exaggeration pattern towards Him. Then, even\nyour exaggeration, hope, everything settles on the reality which can\nnever be exaggerated. So, naturally, your hopes, your exaggeration,\neverything, does not lead you to delusion; it leads you to reality.<\/p>\n\n\n
When\nthat hope, more quantity and quality is on something which is beyond\nyou, your whole bio-memory for more settles down on Him. That is\nwhat is known as feeling connection, love, devotion, or bhakthi.\nWhen it settles down on Him, your life becomes so alive, rich; and,\nbecause it is away from you, you break the delusion, illusion.<\/p>\n\n\n
If\nyou don\u2019t have anything other than you to exaggerate, hope for,\nfeel more about, you are the poorest person. This is spiritual\npoverty, conscious poverty and depression. If all your exaggeration\nis moving around either your God or Guru, you are one of the richest\nbeings on planet Earth.<\/p>\n\n\n
\nExaggeration\nis inevitable. Even in a negative way \u2013 if you hate somebody, you\nwill exaggerate negatively about that person. Exaggeration is the\nway your mind functions. So, till it dies, let your exaggerations be\ncentred on your God or Guru, your Ishta.<\/p>\n\n\n
Based on satsangs delivered by rare Living Incarnation Bhagavan Sri Nithyananda Paramashivam<\/p>\n\n\n