Never ask for a vacation
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07 December, 2013
What is ‘vacation’?
See, all of you learn this idea about this “vacation” or “holiday”, from school. Fortunately, I never went to school, even though I studied up to diploma, legally. Only once in a while I would go and bless the school, when I don't have any other engagement! So I don't even have the idea of “vacation”. The idea of vacation never made sense to me. Never the idea of vacation or holiday got into my system. I tell you, only because of that I am able to work twenty-four hours, throughout the year, without even having the idea of vacation. My next year's calendar is already full! Till next December, my calendar is full! It has been already released to the public. Twelve Inner Awakenings℠ next year. I was telling these guys, ‘The Inner Awakenings℠ program is for 21 days every month. So every month one week is getting wasted. In twelve months, twelve weeks are getting wasted... in those twelve weeks, four more Inner Awakenings℠ can be done!'
But the Enriching Temple team has decided, 'No, no, no, twelve is the maximum we can handle..!' So I said, 'Alright.'
This idea of vacation itself is incompletion! That is one of the biggest incompletions you carry. If you carry the idea of vacation, you will feel as if your whole life has been exploited by somebody. The feeling of being exploited and the idea of vacation are interconnected. If you feel that whatever you are doing is continuously enriching yourself and others, you will not even have the idea of vacation.
It is because Hindus forgot enriching
that all the sufferings Hindus are going
through have come up on them. We
forgot to enrich the sannyas tradition,
which is the main backbone of enriching
the society with the knowledge. Every
village should have a sannayasi. India has six-and-a-half lakh villages. Every village should have a sannyasis who educates people in the science of completion, who lives the science of completion, who teaches the science of completion, who lives the science of jeevanmukti, who teaches the science of jeevan mukti. Because we forgot to enrich the world, all the sufferings are landing upon us. Any disorganized group in the world has to suffer. Hindus are the strong example of this statement. Most disorganized; that is why, most suffering. Even the disciple doesn't listen to the guru. That is why Hinduism has become so disorganized, unorganized, and destroyed itself. Even if you have so much knowledge, if you have not applied it in your life, please be very clear, knowledge can't save you. Knowledge should be applied in life. The science of completion should be practiced in life! Unless the science is practiced, unless completion is lived, unless enriching is done, life has no meaning.