Words from the Master

When you are serious, you are being egoistic, because you fail to see that the whole thing is only a Cosmic drama. You feel too much as a separate entity, too much of ‘I’ and so you are serious. If you understand that the whole thing is only a drama, you can never be serious. When this understanding happens at a deep level, you will simply do things with the sheer joy of moving in tune with the Cosmic drama or Existence. And when you do it this way, you are not serious, you are just sincere in playing your part, that’s all.

You see, there are two things: chronological planning and psychological planning.

Chronological planning is planning on a timescale. You decide: You will get up at such and such a time, finish your morning routine by a particular time, reach office at a particular time, and get certain tasks done that day at the office. This is alright. It is a practical way to organize your work in a way that can give the best results. This kind of planning with sincere action will take you from happiness to more happiness!

Psychological planning on the other hand, is planning in your head with no relevance to time or space. It is just a constant serious planning going on in your head, over and above the chronological planning. It keeps you thinking that you are serious and dutiful. It is actually nothing but complex negativity being applied to the chronological planning that has already been done. You keep analyzing your plan, and getting into a dull state because all your energy is going in analyzing the plan again and again.

Psychological planning boosts your ego. It makes you feel great and worthy. It helps you to stay serious. It makes you feel that you are handling things of a great magnitude. It makes you feel that it is wholly in your hands to worry about it and make it happen. You keep hankering after every small thing that needs to get done and feel that your happiness lies in getting that done. This is psychological planning.

I tell you: This is actually a way of postponing happiness, postponing life, waiting for something particular to happen to start enjoying life.

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This excerpt has been taken from the book: Guaranteed Solutions.