Questions and answers🔗

Q: Master, where do thoughts come from, what is their origin?

A: I can say how to get rid of the thoughts, but I do not know, I cannot say what the origination is. What causes the origination itself is the question still unanswered. Whoever tried to answer that question created philosophies, not solutions. Whoever answered the question how to get rid of thoughts, created techniques for enlightenment. I do not want to create or contribute to some more philosophy. There is enough of chaos.

See, to create philosophy, all you need to know is three instructions: Just talk whatever you cannot practice. Second, never speak in a simple way and third, never give a solution - you can create philosophy. And if I answered the question, ‘What is the origin of thought?’ I will be creating one more philosophy. Actually, this question does not have an answer.

Q: How can we leave everything and survive here in this world? We need to make an effort. We need to have our living and everything. How can one do that?

A: Nice question. When you drive, do you plan every step, do you raise the word drive…

Q: There is the practice of driving - you drive, drive and drive. A: In the same way you are trained to be alive.

Q: No. Alive is one thing, but you need to earn a living, you need efforts. A: Do you know how to breathe? You are programmed for breathing. Let me tell you clearly from my experience and even Vedic rishis have said again and again repeatedly, that if your body is programmed to breathe, your body is programmed to make your living also.

Q: Can I just sit here and earn my bread and butter?

A: First thing, you will not be able to sit here like that. Try to be un-clutched. You will have an intelligence, which is simply making your body move and work. Be very clear, always the moment I say un-clutch, you associate it with laziness. No, you have a deep hatred towards working. So you go towards the opposite direction of resting or laziness.

See, the moment I say un-clutch, you think of just lying down on the bed. But you will not be able to just lie down on your bed. Try to un-clutch and suddenly you will see, so much of creativity will be expressed through you. So much intelligence will happen through you. You will not become lazy. Be very clear, you will not become lazy.

I talked about the bird earlier. Understand if that bird has little intelligence and flies, relaxes and balances, the bird will know how to escape from this clutch, the trap. Then the same trap will become a hammock for the bird. It can just come and swing; it can come and sit on the same rope and use it like a hammock. The same trap will be a hammock for the bird.

In the same way, when you un-clutch from your identity and fly, you will know how to handle your identity. Now your identity will not be a prison anymore. It will become a hammock for you.

Do not think if you un-clutch, you will not practice your profession or you will not do your job. If you are a doctor, do not think if you un-clutch, you will not do your doctor's profession. If you un-clutched, there will be only one difference. You will not have the constant irritation, which you carry in your life from morning till night. Whatever profession you are in, the deep irritation, vengeance and arrogance that you carry will be expressed in your body language, in your words, in your step. That is what you are expressing in your body language, in your words, in your questions, in your steps.

If you have little intelligence, I can tell you, just try this simple experiment. Try to be un-clutched just for ten days. Surely in ten days I do not think you will lose your job. Will you lose all your wealth in just ten days? Surely you must have savings enough for ten days. Try to be un-clutched just for ten days. Suddenly you will see that you are not able to be lazy. The tremendous energy you are wasting in worrying, the psychological worrying, and the irritation will become creative energy. You will not work hard, but you will work smart. Understand, clutched person works hard, un-clutched person works smart. Even your idea of doing hard work is pure myth because of clutching.

What is hard work? Before doing simple work, if you plan psychologically ten times, worry if it will happen or not ten more times, and after doing it if you talk and brag about it ten more times, it will become hard work, that's all. Hard work is nothing but doing a small, simple work, talking about it ten times, planning about it ten times, worrying about whether it will happen or not ten times and after doing it, bragging about it. Otherwise whatever you call hard work is pure myth out of arrogance.

Be very clear I am not sitting quietly. I am not a lazy Swami or a lazy monk in Himalayas. I travel hundred thousand miles per year and I run eight hundred centers in twenty-four countries. Let me tell you honestly just because of un-clutching, so much of creativity and power is being expressed. As of now you waste 90% of your energy in psychological worrying. When I say 90% I mean 90%.

When your ego is hurt, you try to defend your philosophy. Please be very clear about what I say; your ego is hurt. Have little intelligence and look in and be a new being. Just take ten days, not more than that. Drop your idea, hard work myth. You feel important only if you feel you are doing hard work.

In the initial level you have to convince your boss that you are doing hard work. By and by you yourself get convinced that you are doing hard work. Hard work is the ultimate myth.

Let me be very clear, you are not doing hard work at all. That is the first thing you need to understand. You keep on telling your kids, 'I did this for you, I did that for you’ so that you can create guilt in them and make them do what you want them to. Actually one father and son came to me. Father said, ‘I did this for him. I did that for him. He is not obeying me Master, please tell him.’ Son asked me, ‘Master, who asked him to give birth to me? He did something and as a by-product I happened. After giving birth he goes on saying, ‘I did this and I did that for you.’

Be very clear, we do not do anything for anybody. Not only for others, but also even for ourselves. Hard work is pure myth. Let us understand this simple fact and try just for ten days. Ten days just try to be un-clutched. You will see the amount of energy and creativity that comes out of you and expresses through you. You will not able to keep quiet. Just un-clutch; you will not work hard but you will work smart. Thank You.

Q: My question is why do we have questions in the first place if we are un-clutched?

A: Nice question. First thing let us analyze two things. If you understand that you are un-clutched, you will not have questions. If you have questions, at that moment you are not un-clutched. You are trying to clutch on to something.

If you look in and understand that you are un-clutched, naturally you

will not have any questions. Where is the question of having questions?

You will not have any thoughts. Just look and see that you are un-

clutched by your very nature.