Clarity Leads To Dropping Laziness

Please understand, if by remembering this truth you think you can just lie down, try it. You will not be able to lie down for more than a few days. Try it! How many days can you sleep?

We always have a fear, 'If I understand these great spiritual truths, I may become a dropout from society. I may not not go to work. I may not take care of my family. Who will pay my bills? Who will take care of my car and apartment?

People have this big problem, this big fear. Understand, if you think that this will make you lazy, just simply try to lie down and relax with these ideas. How many days can you just be lying down? How many days do you think you will sleep? Not for more than a few days! Your innate energy will not let you lie down as lazy.

These truths can only remove unnecessary restlessness from you. They can never make you lazy. When you assimilate these great truths, only the unnecessary restlessness which is now a part of you will be removed. The necessary energy or activeness will never be removed. You will be active and alive. You will continue to take care of your car, your house, your family, your relationships, your bank balance, everything. Only thing, your depression and irritation will be missing!

But sometimes you miss the depression! It was there for a long time with you. So you feel lonely without it! Actually, after some time, you feel very connected and settled with the depression and irritation! If at all by mistake, you attend a satsang (spiritual gathering) or meditation program and the depression and irritation are not there for a few days, you feel something is lacking in your life!

You think, 'What happened? Things are so silent and smooth since today morning. How is this possible? Oh, I went to the satsang yesterday! That's why things are so peaceful. Alright, this effect will last for two or three days. Afterwards I will become normal. I will become alright.' And you wait for depression and irritation to reappear. You calculate and decide that it will come back in a few days' time. You don't trust this effect to last long or to become a part of your being.

Understand this one truth that whatever is, is just changing; whatever you think as reality is just changing. This clarity will save you from many sufferings. Tremendous inner healing will happen this moment in you. For example, assume that in your dream a tiger is chasing you, or a snake is chasing you, or you are being imprisoned, or you have lost your near and dear ones. You suddenly wake up from your sleep. Imagine what kind of relief you will feel! You will say, 'Oh God! It is all

a dream!' How relieved you will feel! That feeling of intense relief or relaxation or inner healing can happen in you this very moment. Understand, in whatever you are going through now, if somebody suddenly tells you, or you realize that it is just a dream, what will happen? You will feel, 'Oh God! What tremendous relief, what tremendous inner healing!'

Understand, you don't need somebody even to tell you that it is a dream. You yourself can remember; you yourself can recollect; you yourself can raise yourself with the understanding, with the clarity that whatever is happening around you is just one more dream. Whatever you think as reality is just one more dream.

So the third technique is yukti - clarity or understanding. You can constantly remember that the whole thing is a dream. For example, let us say you are dreaming that you made money and are buying a huge house. After completion of the house, you are continuously wiping and cleaning it. It is already clean, but even then you are cleaning and wiping it with such a passion. Suddenly at that time you wake up from your dream. What will happen?

It is the same thing that you are doing now. When you wake up suddenly, nothing remains! Remembering this truth again and again is what I call the third technique, yukti - understanding.