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Becoming a Mahatma
On the occasion of Gandhi Jayanti, Sadhguru looks at how each one of us can be a Mahatma.

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On the occasion of Gandhi Jayanti, Sadhguru looks at how each one of us can be
a Mahatma.

Questioner: I have read the books of great people like Mahatma Gandhi
and many others. I am inspired and I want to be like them. What should I
do so that I am different from others and do not go nameless in society?

Sadhguru: The very aspiration for greatness comes from a

very petty mind. It is always a very ordinary mind which
aspires to be special. It is not necessary to aspire to greatness
or to be special. If you make the focus and the ambit of your
life well beyond the concerns of who you are, if you take away this one
calculation, What about me? from your life, you will anyway be a great
human being. How great and how recognized you will be in society
depends on your capabilities. You may be a great man in your street or at
home, or you may become a great man in your nation or the world. That
depends on a variety of situations. One thing is the situation you are
placed in. Maybe if a Mahatma Gandhi came today, he would not be as
known as he was back then because there was a certain situation
happening at that time. At the right time, the right kind of spirit came
and things happened. Greatness happened to him not because he was
seeking to be great, but because his way of looking at life is way beyond
What about me?

Just drop this one calculation from your head, What about me? and
function to the best of your ability. In some way you will be great. You
Im here to serve life. I
will be a wonderful human being because once you take away, What
about me? you are naturally looking at, What can I do about all the life dont have a mission of

around me? Once you are looking at this, you will naturally enhance my own.

your capabilities because there is so much to do! I cannot understand

how people in India claim to be unemployed when there is still so much
to do in this country. You are too concerned about, What about me?
You are only willing to do a certain kind of job and are only working to Sadhguru
fulfill certain kind of needs, so you think you are unemployed. Otherwise Todays Mystic Quote

there is too much to do in this country. How can you be unemployed?

Take out this one calculation and

function to the fullest of your ability.
What has to happen will happen. People
may or may not call you Mahatma, it
It is always a very does not matter. You will live like a
ordinary mind Mahatma, you are a Mahatma. Mahatma
which aspires to be means you are a great piece of life. You
special. are a great piece of life the moment you
take away this one calculation from your
mind. Then, wherever you are, you will
shine.

Editors Note: This article is an excerpt from the book Ambition to Vision,
which offers tangible first steps towards the ultimate plan of action to
understand every aspect of our creation and existence, and make ourselves the
way we want.

Download Ambition to Vision

Images courtesy: Making Mahatma by swblogs

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