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Are you committed?
-- Sri Sri Ravishankar

When you are happy, there is so much of life energy in you but when this life energy doesn't know where to go, how to go, it gets stuck and rots!

A river needs two banks to flow. The difference between flood and a flowing river is that in the latter the water flows in a particular direction whereas in floods the water is muddled and has no direction. Similarly, in our life if the energy is not given a direction, it is all confusion. The life energy needs some direction to flow.

When you are happy, there is so much of life energy in you but when this life energy doesn't know where to go, how to go, it gets stuck and rots! Just as water has to keep flowing, life has to keep moving.

For life energy to move in a direction, commitment is essential. Life runs on commitment. A student takes admission in a school or college with a commitment. You go to a doctor with a commitment saying that you are going to take the medication or listen to whatever the doctor prescribes. Banks work on commitment. Government works on commitment. Needless to say, a family runs on commitment: Whether it is love or business or friendship or any area of life, there is commitment.

What really irritates you is non-commitment. You expect some commitment from someone and when they don't do it, you get upset. Or when someone doesn't keep up his or her commitment, you get upset. But see how much commitment have you taken in your life?

Our capacity or capability is also proportionate to our commitment. If you are committed to taking care of your family, that much capacity or power you gain. If your commitment is to the community, you will get that much energy, joy, that much power.

So look at yourself today and ask about anything you are doing? Are you committed?