Hard work is
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ignorance
05 June, 2014
A few days back, one of my Swamis was telling me, 'Swamiji, I complete and get out of many problems, but again I fall back. Again I complete and get out, but again I fall back.'
Understand: you want to enjoy this personality! You are enjoying this space. You want to empower this idea of 'I rise and fall, rise and fall', because you must be enjoying the effort, the hard effort you are putting in, understand?
Hard work is nothing but ignorance; you don’t have intelligence to do smart work! If you are stupid enough not to do the smart work, what you do is called ‘hard work’. And if you enjoy hard work, nobody is going to say ‘No’ - but you are stupid!
Why will you complete and come out, and again fall into the same ditch, and complete again and come out? Because you choose to empower the cognition, ‘I am a struggling, sincere seeker! Because you set a standard for yourself long, long ago, ‘Who knows whether I can ever achieve anything? So let me be a good seeker at least! I don’t think I can achieve. That is not possible for me. But I will be a good seeker!’ ’ And maybe that is the way you try to get others’ attention. ‘See, I am struggling and coming out.’ Stupid thing! Nobody is ready to listen to your struggle, understand? How much ever you try to decorate your struggle, nobody is ready to listen to your struggle unless you win the game. Only when you win the game, your struggles are garlanded, respected, worshipped! Your struggles by themselves have no respect, no worth. So, decide to win the game now.