The value of paying attention

The world is asking for your attention. It is very important to be attentive to what one is doing or faced with. What one is doing is a response to a certain demand. This response is demanded by the universe from you  alone specifically. The entire universe has chosen at this moment not to elicit this response from any other individual, but you. There may be many who are capable of presenting this response, but still you have been chosen. Because you have been chosen, you become duty bound to respond. In order to respond appropriately, you must first pay attention. Your response may be anything. At present let us not go into the right or wrong of the response itself. It is possible your response is guided by narrow points of view or anything. That is not our topic of discussion.
But let us realize that we first have to pay attention. To be attentive to what is. This is the first step, as a participant in creation. To be attentive. Let us be attentive. This is the first step in a life of dharma.  Otherwise we do not have a shot at dharma.

Harih om, shri gurubhyo namaha.