Chapter 19: Unclutching -🔗

Your Very Nature

I tell you, it is neither difficult nor easy; even if I say 'easy', there is a little difficulty. It is not even easy. It is constantly happening in you! Every moment, a new thought is replacing the old thought.

Why are you afraid that you will bring your old thought back? It is like trashing your e-mails and bringing them back from a trash can. You just deleted it and it is gone; now you are again going to the trash can and trying to bring that e-mail back! Relax.

Constantly your thoughts are getting replaced. This itself shows, nothing can possess your inner space. Nothing can overpower you, nothing can overrule you.

Understand, it is a very simple truth.

Understand an important Truth. Do not try to create one more shaft. Just realize that the shaft which you believe exists, does not exist. That's all you need to do. That's all you need to understand, and then rest in that unclutched awareness, nirvikalpa satya.

Let me explain exactly what unclutching is. When you sit for meditation, when you sit silently, you will see so many thoughts coming up. Do not connect all of them, and give a meaning to it. The moment you give meaning to the words, either you will try to suppress or you will try to execute. Either you will try to go beyond them, or you will try to suppress them.

Understand, creating a thought is Brahma’s work, maintaining a thought by going behind it is Vishnu’s work, destroying a thought is Rudra’s work. If you stop doing all these three, you will become Parabrahma, that’s all.

Relax from all the three

Let me give you one more detail, a very strong truth.

When a thought arises, if you start giving meaning to it, what will you do? Either you will try to do what the thought says, or you will try to suppress it, ‘Don’t come, wait. I am going to meditate’. Don’t do either; instead of paying attention to the meaning of the sound, just see the source of the sound, that’s all.

Then your mind will say, ‘No, I am feeling bored.’ ‘I am feeling bored’ is one more thought. Why are you clutching? You see, why will you have the idea that you are feeling bored? The boredom which you experienced 10 years ago, the boredom which you experienced 9 years ago, and the boredom which you experienced yesterday are independent experiences. Why are you connecting all of them and giving the idea of boredom? Only when you connect all of them and give the idea, ‘This is what is boredom’, you will think, ‘Yes, I am having the same experience, I am having boredom.’ Do not connect. Unclutch and see.

Just see, if your mind says, ‘I am feeling bored,’ just say, ‘What is boredom? Let me not give some meaning out of my past clutching. Let me see what you mean by the word ‘boredom,’ let me see what it feels like.’

Attack your enemy one thought at a time. If you think all thoughts put together is your enemy, you empower your enemy. Always understand, when you work with your enemy, divide and rule! If you think all your enemies are gathered together, you will start having all unnecessary fears.

Your enemies are not as intelligent as you always think. This is one of the important sutras. Understand, even in your life, your enemies are not that intelligent, cooperative and understanding as you might think. Just like you, they will also have problems among themselves.

If you think your mind is your enemy, do not empower it by saying, it is one single huge organism. No! Handle it one thought at a time, because in your hand, you have only one weapon, you have only one thought. One thought is one weapon. With one weapon, one thought, how will you handle ten thousand thoughts? No, you can't. So, break your mind also. Tell your mind, 'Come one thought at a time. We will see face-to-face...' Face every single thought. Unclutch from every single thought.

Your mind will say, 'No, no, no, half an hour I have unclutched. Now again thoughts are coming.' The unclutching that happened 30 minutes ago, the unclutching that happened twenty minutes ago, the unclutching that happened 10 minutes ago are totally different individual experiences. Why are you connecting all those unclutching experiences and feeling that this unclutching and that unclutching are the same? No!

This moment, what is happening in you is an independent experience.

Please understand, you need to put your whole attention, your whole energy, your whole awareness, only then the click will happen. If that click happens, you are blessed. Because this single click can be used as a key for so many difficulties and problems in your life. It will revolutionize the way in which your mind functions, the way in which you make decisions, the way in which your fears strengthen you, the way in which your desires drive you crazy. The whole thing will be reorganized. The whole thing will be revolutionized.