72. Stop respecting your problems
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One more important secret you should know: whenever you go through the basic survival-related fears, huge energy gets released from your Swadhishthana chakra. There is an automatic mechanism inside you to bring you out of the fear.
There is an automatic anesthetic to protect you from pain – beyond a certain limit, it just puts you into the unconscious layer and you won’t feel the pain. Same way, if the fear is too much, there will be a huge energy rush inside you. That energy rush is intelligent enough to push out all other pains, all other suffering, all other thoughts all other problems. This understanding will completely liberate you; your respect for mind will be lost. Your respect for your problems will disappear.
Someone asked me, ‘Swamiji, you mean to say my problems are not big?’ I told him, ‘Sorry to tell the truth, but first of all you are not big!’ Forget about your problems; even you are not big!’ But it really hurts; somebody saying you are not big! It is too much, but what to do? When your problems are big, you feel you are big.
Many times I have seen – if I ask people to spend some time in the ashram, they will start creating all problems in their mind - ‘No, no, no! I have to go to work. I cannot meditate. I am too lazy.’ They have all kinds of reasons. So I started creating reverse problems. I tell them, ‘No, no. You can’t stay here. There is no place here. Go back.’ Then suddenly they will have the opposite problems - ‘No no no! We want to be around you. You are not letting us stay. You are not giving us enough attention. You are too busy with too many things!'
See: mind, either this way or this way, constantly create waves; it constantly create waves. Mind is wavering; it is an action; mind is a verb. That is why Patanjali says very beautifully, 'Mind is an action. Just remember it is an action and stop it; nothing else needs to be done.'
> When your
> problems are big,
> you feel you are big.
think they are impermanent, they are not impermanent as you think. If you think they are permanent, they are not permanent as you think.
Sometimes, even a very simple problem can occupy your whole inner space. You will forget about the important problems. You will be settling small things without bothering about the big things happening in your life.
Abhyasa means, understanding that your understanding about your problems is not right!
Your problems are neither permanent nor impermanent as you think. If you
Note down 5 situations in your life where you created problems for yourself. Bring awareness to these situations and complete with them.