Story of a so called good heart

The story goes long back. There was this boy who thought he had good heart and to seek validation he used to do things that would make people around like him. Naturally, when he started doing things for others he got validated.

He never knew that being selfless is a true sign of a good heart. Doing things for others and expecting them back is actually having a good heart for validation and it is not in its purest form. He didn’t know that purest form of good heart is not expecting anything in return. If the heart is purely good it won’t mind if a particular thing is not well received or sent back.

Luckily for him, he became part of a space where he could introspect. He then realised that heart is pure when the ego drops to zero. Somehow now he thinks, a lot of times his happy and not so happy emotions are nothing but a game of ego. Ego in being praised, ego in being called intellectual, ego in being called generous, ego in being called helpful, ego in being called not so mindful, ego in being called hyperactive, ego in being called defensive.

He realises that this ego is nothing but an amplifier that actually distorts everything that comes his way, if its a praise, it amplifies and creates a bigger story of how awesome he is. If its a blame, the ego again amplifies and creates a bigger story of uneasiness and sometimes hatred within him. He is now thinking that its actually not the person on the outside who is good or bad but its really the ego that makes the person on the outside look good or bad. How could the boy forget that it was all the while him and not the person on the outside who sometimes praised or sometimes blamed.
It took him more than 20 years to understand that smaller the ego, smaller is the amplification and purer is the message coming through the source.

Now one of the important work that remains in the boy’s life is to make the ego smaller so that the amplification is less and lesser and lesser and even more less with time.

This however is not an easy task. He might have to spend his lifetime to achieve an absolute zero ego level and so the boy needs our prayers. I am praying for him can you please pray for him too? :)