"Be Yourself" - Sri Bhagavan

SRI BHAGAVAN:
"I have only one message. That is 'Be yourself'. So do not have ideas, do not try to become those.You can never become.You can only be yourself.

If you would not try to move away from what ever you are or who ever you are, you would certainly achieve the greatness. Greatness is to be yourself, what ever you are.

What ever you are is not important.The question is how much you are with yourself, how much you love yourself. If you love yourself I think everything is fine with you, all things would go well with you.

All problems start because you do not truly love yourself, you do not accept yourself. You have read so many books, so many idols/ideals you have, you want to become like them and in the course of trying to become like them, you are destroyed.

Each one of you is unique.You have not been made to be like somebody else. You are special. You are unique. You have to be yourself; then you would go with the scheme of things.

By trying to be somebody else, you are not co-operating with nature at all.
So I want you to give importance to yourself, not arrogance, but to accept you have been made that way because of a special divine plan. You are destined to be that. Be true to it. That is what enlightenment is all about.
When you become enlightened, what you realize is you are not going to discover something.

The Effort to become enlightened is going to cease. That's when you are enlightened.

That's why I often tell you repeatedly, I have been repeating that trying to become enlightened is like a blind man searching for a black cat in a dark room which is not there. When you realize that, the search ends.

When the search ends what is there is, you are yourself. When you are yourself, you are enlightened. Right now you are not yourself ..