Chapter 20: Live Enlightenment🔗

If you know any big idea or goal which drives you crazy can be replaced, just by a thought of having a cup of coffee, will you have respect for that goal? Will you have respect for that ideal? Suddenly you will see, whatever you thought as a goal does not have any more power over your inner space. Suddenly, you will see a non-moving, immovable, authentic Self arise in you. That is what I call 'living enlightenment'.

Your being does not need your mind to run your body. If your mind is constantly staying inside you, it is just because of your fear, ‘What will happen to me? How will my body run if my mind leaves me?’ You don’t understand, if your mind leaves you, life will happen in a much better way, in a much more intelligent way.

Your mind is the culprit.

Your thinking is the problem.

Your dilemma is the suffering.

Your movement is the depression.

When you sit, if thoughts are arising, just remember, ‘Let me unclutch.’ Just unclutch. Tell yourself, ‘I am not going to empower this thought by following it, or by fighting it. Let me unclutch.’ Again, in two seconds, one more thought will come. Again say, ‘Let me unclutch.’ After few minutes, you will see you are continuously repeating the thought ‘unclutching’: ‘I am unclutching,’ ‘I am unclutching’… Then unclutch from that too. The moment you remember, you immediately unclutch. Unclutch from the very idea about you...

Understand, you have two identities. One is the identity which you carry and show to the outer world as to who you are. This is called ahankara. Another identity which you carry in you, which you believe as you inside your heart, is called mamakara.

Your whole life is nothing but a fight between these two identities.

Ahankara, how you project yourself, will always be much more than what you are, it is the superiority complex.

Mamakara, what you believe as you, will always be much less than what you are; it is the inferiority complex.

Your whole life is nothing but a suffering between this inferiority complex and superiority complex. Whether the

thoughts are related to inferiority or superiority, neither give life to them nor suppress them. Just unclutch.

Now, an important fear comes, ‘If I constantly unclutch, who will run my life?’ Understand, your prarabdha, with which you created your body, your bio-memory, is intelligent enough to run your body and maintain your infrastructure and expand your wealth. Trusting this truth is what I call bhakti.

Krishna says, ‘Ananyaas chintayanto mamyejanaa paryupaasate teshaam nithya bhiyuktaanaam yogakshemam vahaamyaham,’- ‘Whoever resides in Me, constantly remembering Me, their needs and comforts I Myself bring and see that those things stay with that person.’

Understand, this assurance He gives, even for the people who have the fear of unclutching and relaxing. I tell you, just try it for ten days. I am not saying try for your whole life, just try for ten days. Try unclutching for ten days; if you are not benefited, forget about me and my technique. You will see, it straightaway adds to your life. Nothing will be reduced, nothing will be taken away. Your clarity, your profession, your relationship, your health, everything will only be added to.

For ten days, try this unclutching. Constantly unclutch, whether you are eating, sleeping, driving or whatever you do. Of course, when you drive, don't close your eyes!

Don't have these hypothetical fears. Mind exists based on hypothetical fears. If you look into the hypothetical fears, the mind will disappear. Do not entertain the hypothetical fears of your mind. Just try for ten days.

When I say this, I am responsible for these words. Understand, I know it is getting recorded; I am responsible for what I am talking. Just try for ten days this unclutching. I assure you, I have seen, it only adds to your health, adds to your wealth, adds to your well-being and adds to your relationships.

Only your fear creates an idea, 'No, no, no, if I unclutch, who will pay my bills, and who will run my life?' You will run your life in a much better way. When you unclutch, you pick up a few thoughts here and there and create a shaft, just like you pick up whatever you need from a conveyer belt.

In the same way, either you pick up all the sufferings and create a pain shaft, or you pick up all the joyful memories and incidents, and create a joy shaft. If you try to elongate the joy shaft or break the pain shaft, both are impossible, because neither shaft exists.

Another important thing, fortunately, every new thought proves that the old thought has lost its influence over your inner space. This proves that no suffering can overtake you.

There is a beautiful one liner: You can't step into the same river twice, because by the time you put the second step, the river moves. I tell you, you can't step into the same river even once, because by the time you put a foot and it reaches the ground, the water has moved!

Constantly, the very replacement of thoughts, the new thoughts appearing, shows you have the inner space which gets replaced, rejuvenated and refreshed, which is untouchable and pure. Because the inner space is pure, you are able to have new thoughts. The new thoughts happening prove that the old thoughts have lost their influence over you. So, do not be afraid of depression, suffering, fear, desire or any of the internal enemies.

Let you be liberated from the eternal enemies.