Playing your part

Sri Sri:

Be thankful if you have been bestowed with the qualities that you have, because it is not your own making. In the same way it depends on the part, which you have been given to play. Say, suppose in a drama, if you are given the part of a villain, and you play that role perfectly. A villain always knows that when I am playing the role of a villain, it’s just a role I am playing. I’m very sincere to my role.


There is a saying in Sanskrit, Durjanam Prathamam Vande Sajjanam Tadarantaram. First, worship the bad person, and then the good man. Because the bad man is falling and giving you an example, ‘‘don’t do what I did’’. Don’t hate a criminal in the jail, because he’s a criminal. In the prison, if there is a criminal, he is an embodiment of God. He has done you a greater service. Don’t ever hate a drug addict, because he has given you such a beautiful lesson, and he has been given that role. He is just performing his role that way.


When you understand these basic laws of truth, then your inner perfection becomes so stable that nothing on this planet can shake your inner perfection. Nothing can shake you