Make your addictions useless
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Establish yourself in the truth that you are atman, the soul, Consciousness. I tell you, the moment you remember you are the pure soul, millions and millions of patterns becomes useless for you. I tell you, if you want to cross any pattern, it should become useless to you. You will never be able to cross by fighting. You can never quit smoking by fighting with that pattern. You can never quit drinking by fighting with that pattern. You may be drinking to escape from something. Maybe drinking makes you forget something about you. You may be smoking to prove yourself as somebody. Only when the utility disappears, addiction can disappear. Without alcohol, if you are able to divert yourself from your suffering just by meditation or some other activity, then alcohol will become useless in your life. Only when it becomes useless, you will be able to come out of that pattern. Only when it becomes useless to you, you come out of that pattern.
When you remember you are atman - there are millions of patterns in your life which become useless, just useless. You do not need them anymore. You don't even need to have this as an experience. Even just remembering that you are Consciousness can make millions of things useless in your life. When more and more things become useless in your life, you become more and more blissful, more and more joyful, more and more free. When life itself becomes useless in your life, you become liberated, enlightened!
