Don't get caught in tiredness and boredom
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October 20, 2012
Understand an important truth: you are pure Consciousness. You cannot be touched by tiredness or boredom, by fear or greed. But you see your life only through your desires and your fears. Whenever you handle your life with fear and greed, you experience yourself as matter and not Consciousness. Every time your body handles fear and greed, you feel that you are matter. Whenever you feel that you are matter, naturally you feel more and more bored and tired in your life.
Understand: life is time and space. This moment is time. The thought which you have at this moment, which is mixed with this moment, is space. If the thought is based on fear and greed, then in the next
moment you will be more tired than at this moment, and then the next moment, you will be a little more tired than at that moment.
Please understand how tiredness is added to you moment by moment by your mind. If you feel you are matter, naturally the fear and greed will be there in your inner space. So in this moment of time, fear and greed is the mixture of your life. When the next moment is given birth from this moment, naturally that will also carry the fear and greed; just one step more, one unit more. From that next moment, one more unit of fear and greed takes birth.
Every moment is given birth by the present moment. The next moment takes birth from the present moment. And the next moment takes birth from that moment. If only one of your DNA strands has awakened in you, you are more matter, material. Constantly, you will associate yourself with matter.
What is matter? Matter is based on fear and greed. So naturally, in this moment, if you feel yourself more as a body, and the thought which is mixed with this moment is based on fear and greed, then in the next moment, you will be more tired than in this moment. Again, in the next moment, you will be a little more tired than in this moment.
Scientists are saying that when more fear and greed gets added every moment, it shrinks your very DNA. Let me give you the exact scientific research. Telomere is that portion of the DNA that governs the ageing process. Each time a cell divides through a course of evolution, a small portion of this telomere is not copied to other cells, thus making them shorter and shorter over time. This means that from one cell to subsequent cells, the whole thing is not copied. Naturally, when matter interferes, the pure space or pure Consciousness gets reduced.
The more the pure space gets reduced, the more you feel the fear and greed, because only the fear and greed get transmitted. The quantity of matter becomes more, and the quantity of consciousness becomes less in the transmission. So, in every successive moment, you feel more and more bored and tired. It is a vicious circle!