95. Unclutch and Conquer🔗

What is the practice which you need to do without the desire for change, without the desire for it to come to an end?

I can say unclutching is the essence of all practices. Whatever spiritual practice you may be doing, it is a direct or indirect technique for unclutching.

'Committed and intense practice of unclutching establishes one firmly in a higher state of awareness.'

Decide today - whether I am walking or talking or sitting, or whatever I may be doing, I am going to unclutch from whatever is happening inside me.

The five modifications of the mind - right knowledge, wrong knowledge, and imagination, sleep, memory - are constantly happening in you. So decide, 'Whatever modification may happen inside me, I am going to unclutch.' If you bring in that clarity, that understanding, suddenly you will see all your negativity loses its power over you.

Listen: your depression can make you powerless only as long as you believe it can happen again and again to you. If you strongly decide, 'No matter how many times it happens, I am going to unclutch from it!' - then suddenly it loses its grip over you. It loses its grip over you.

Only when the depression knows it can really put you in depression, it repeats again and again. If it knows you are going to unclutch again and again, no matter how many times it tries, it will simply stop trying. Nobody wants to fight a losing war, including your depression!

Your whole life is nothing but a war between you and your mind. The moment you are aware, you are awakened to this truth. Deergha kala nairantarya – committed and intense practice of unclutching. This very decision will unclutch you.

The moment you take this decision, you mind will start moving, saying, 'No, if that that depression comes, you can’t unclutch from it! If this fear comes, you can’t unclutch from it! If this desire comes, you won’t be able to unclutch from it!’ Your mind will tease you. Then it will create the fear of death, ‘What will happen if you die, do you think you will unclutch? Who will pay your bills? Who will pay your insurance? Who will pay this, who will pay that?” If you bring in the firm understanding, ‘No, whatever it may be, I am going to unclutch!’ – with that one strong will, one strong decision, suddenly the mind unclutches.

I’ll read it out for you. I don’t want to miss a word. An accountant goes into a pet store to buy a parrot. The store owner shows him three identical parrots on a perch. ‘The parrot on the left costs five hundred dollar,’ says the owner. ‘Why does it cost so much?’ asks the accountant. ‘It knows how to do complex audits,’ says the store owner. The accountant is surprised. ‘Really? And how much does that middle parrot cost?” he asks. ‘That one costs thousand dollars,’ the owner replies. ‘It can do everything the first one can, plus it knows how to prepare financial forecasts.’ The accountant is overjoyed. Then he asks about the third parrot. ‘It costs four thousand dollars,’ says the store owner. The accountant asks, ‘So what else can that one do?’ The store owner says, ‘To be honest, I have never seen him do anything, but the other two parrots call him a senior partner.’

Today, let you be filled with this one understanding. Decide that only the committed and intense practice of unclutching makes one firmly established in a higher state of consciousness. Only that establishes you in a higher state of consciousness.

Maybe, in the outer world, if you are a senior you don’t need to do anything, but in the inner world, you need to continue to practice, practice, practice. The ‘senior’ status works only in the outer world, not in the inner world. So, whoever you may be, practice has to become eternal. Actually, when you decide the practice is eternal, suddenly the whole thing gets unclutched and the practice ends there.

Many people think they are professional seekers; they don’t need to practice. They say, ‘I have practiced all kinds of techniques for ten years, twenty years. Nowadays I don’t practice anything. I just read and go around and listen to some talks, that’s all.’ Understand, just because you are a senior, don’t think that anything can happen without practice. Maybe in the outer world it is possible. If you are a senior lawyer, you don’t have to do anything - just have a few juniors, they will do everything! If you are a senior accountant, you don’t have to do anything; your juniors will do everything. It may work in the outer world, not in the inner world.

Listen: when the practice ends, there will be nobody to practice. As long as there is somebody inside you to practice – practice. As long as there is somebody inside, something going inside, unclutch. Only if there is nothing, then there is no unclutching. When the unclutcher disappears into the unlclutching, unclutching ends. So, continue your unclutching till the unclutcher disappears into the unclutching.

I have a story for you.

Only when the depression knows it can really put me in depression, it repeats again and again.