51. Don't Pause your Life🔗

As I said earlier, absentmindedness in the outer world is responsible for your planning not becoming reality. Absentmindedness is the inner world is responsible for all addictions. But both are connected!

Many times, you decide something, but you don't execute it. It means that the vow, the sankalpa, which has happened in your system, is disconnected before even it spreads through your whole body!

For example, you decide, 'Let me stop smoking.' That sankalpa, that strong resolution, travels through your nervous system. But even before even it occupies your whole body and brings it under your control and becomes an action, it is broken! Nidra has happened. The pause has happened. Your system has gone into power-saver mode. Even before it penetrates your whole system, you have gone into 'pause' mode.

This is responsible for addiction, indecision and the inability to keep the intensity alive in your life.

How to come out of this nidra?

Whenever the pause is happening, remember and try to be more aware - that's enough! Just be little more intelligent! This is the essence of what I am saying, nothing else.

Patanjali is also saying the same thing in deeper and deeper ways.

First he expressed about right knowledge. With right knowledge, nothing much needs to be changed. You don't have to work so much on right knowledge. It is practically not a problem at all. Then, wrong knowledge. You need to work on it a little, correct it, correct the direction.

Then comes vikalpa, imagination. Here, not only do you need to correct the direction, the very CONTENT has to be changed. With wrong knowledge, it is only the direction that is wrong. With imagination, the very vehicle in which you are sitting is wrong! With wrong knowledge, you only need right navigation. With imagination, the very vehicle is wrong.

I have a story about imagination: A guy brings his brother to the hospital and says, 'Sir, he has a problem. He thinks he is a lawnmower.' The doctor asks, 'How long has he had this problem?' The guy says, 'For the last eight months.' The doctor is shocked. He says, 'Then what were you doing all this time? Why didn't you bring him here earlier?' The guys says, 'I would have, but my neighbor had borrowed him and returned him only yesterday!'

With imagination, the very content needs to be changed, not just the direction. Subtler than imagination is the next level – sleep. Here, the very road needs to be changed! That is nidra. These are the subtler and subtler modifications of the mind on which you need to work.

When you take a resolution, be aware. Don't let the nidra happen in your system!