But Swamiji, we don’t intentionally worry. How do you then say that we bring worries upon ourselves?
Worry has become the unconscious state of your mind. You don’t have to put any intention into it. It simply IS, that’s all! You don’t have to make a conscious effort, it is there in you all the time.
A small story:
A woman called up the reception desk of a hotel and screamed for help.(Loud laughter!)
The receptionist came to her room.
The lady screamed to her, “I can see a man naked, across the window in the other room.”
The receptionist saw through the window and saw a man standing with his upper body bare.
She said, “Ma’am, only his upper body is bare. How can you conclude that he is naked?”
The lady screamed, “Get on top of the wardrobe and see!”
Even if everything is alright, we search with a torchlight for worries! We don’t do this intentionally at all. We do it in the most natural fashion ever - that is the problem! Our state of mind has to undergo a 180 degree change.
Another small story:
A policeman was going on his night rounds when he saw a cow dead in the middle of a lane.
He started dragging the animal towards the adjacent street.
A passerby asked him why he was dragging the dead animal all the way.
The policeman replied, “When I report this tomorrow, it will be easier because I know the name of that street.”
(Laughter!)
Because we don’t know how to be spontaneous, we are worried all the time. We complicate things in our lives in order to fit it into our framework. We don’t live in a fluid way. When you live in a fluid way, you don’t have to work unnecessarily. You can simply enjoy and move on.
For example, if I now tell you that you should be blissful always, you will start worrying about how to be blissful! You know to start anything only with worry; that is the problem. That is why most of the time when you ask me something, I never tell you anything directly or in many words. I simply tell you a few abstract statements so that your mind cannot be put into any track of worrying but at the same time I give you the energy to penetrate it with understanding.
Yes...
Swamiji, then how do we start following what you are saying if we don’t start worrying about it?
Just absorb the energy and inspiration behind my words without applying your mind to it and start living in the present, that’s all. When you apply your mind to it, logic will come in and once logic comes in, the trouble starts.
Just feel the energy behind my words, what I call the silence - the silence with which I am trying to penetrate you all the time. This silence will ultimately take you where it has to take you. Never try to get into the meaning of my words.
Never collect words. Only intellectual nuts collect words and more words. They collect words and get more and more confused. They collect words thinking that they will get clarity at some point in time, but it is never going to happen.
You see, whatever I talk, even if it seems contradictory when connected and analysed, it is the complete truth for the moment that it is spoken. Whatever I talk is the complete truth for that moment that I am speaking it. But you cannot infer from my words alone. So for that moment, simply take them in without a question. It will give you the energy and intelligence to follow through.
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This excerpt has been taken from the book: Guaranteed Solutions.
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