73. Your habits create your body🔗

We saw that the first step of abhyasa is, understanding that your problems are neither permanent nor impermanent as you think. The second step of abhyasa is, coming back to your center again and again and again. For enlightenment, you need only three things: abhyasa, abhyasa and abhyasa! Forget about enlightenment; even for living an integrated life, all you need is abhyasa.

Abhyasa can be understood from in two ways: * By constantly coming back to the center, letting everything else melt. * By constantly melting, not letting samskaras (incompletions) gather around you. Relaxing from wrong abhyasas and resting in the right truths.

Whatever you repeat consciously becomes unconscious. It enters deep into your unconscious layers. Out of that is created your body. One thing, not letting any abhyasa means practice happening inside you. Not allowing any practice. See: all your sufferings are because of your practices. Man is not just a conscious being. His unconscious layer is nine times bigger than his conscious layer, and his body is completely unconscious. Body is created out of involuntary habits which have become part of your unconscious. Whatever you consciously do again and again, that becomes unconscious and becomes your body.

For example, driving: in the beginning you need to put in so much of effort; for each decision, the brain has to give the command and it has to pass through the hand and it should be executed. But after some time, you just sit in your car and reach your office, and only when you park your car and come out you even remember, 'Oh God, for the last one hour I was driving.' You took so many decisions - right turn, left turn, stopping at the signal, so many decisions - but you are not even aware, because it has become an involuntary action; part of your unconscious.

Listen: your abhyasa is directly connected to your muscles. Whatever you do again and again directly impacts your muscles. Anything you consciously do again and again strengthens your muscles. So the more you age, more strong you should become! With more experience in your body, more experience with your mind, naturally you should become more strong and intelligent! Of course, it sounds paradoxical.

But something goes wrong in the whole cycle when you start encouraging negative abhyasas. Negative ideas, unconscious ideas, start getting stronger and stronger in your inner space and weaken your muscles.

If you understand abhyasa in this way, if you don't allow any abhyasa to settle in you, you are liberated, you are enlightened. It means that every moment you will be fresh, alive; your muscles will be so strong and alive.

Whatever I repeat consciously enters deep into my unconscious layers.