Dear,
I am posting some excerpts from a samvaad session held on the same topic- laziness. It will help you.
Question: What is laziness?
Speaker: When you are conditioned against something, then you do not want to do it. This is laziness. Nothing else is laziness.
The Clarity Sessions at Advait Sthal start at 9:00 a.m. One day, in one such session, some of the visitors reached late. So I asked them, “Why are you late?” They said, “It was so cold and foggy early morning. Laziness took over us. And the distance between our place and the Sthal was quite a bit.” I said, “The distance will be same even while going back. If you felt lazy while coming and travelling this distance, you should feel equally lazy while going back. So today, you will not go back! Because you are so lazy.” Now that you are here, just sleep, relax, and eat. Let your folks from home come and pick you up.
(Laughter)
When you don’t want to do something, you feel lazy. It’s as simple as that. And why do you not want to do anything? Because all your wants emanate from yourconditioning.
Conditioning never wants to do something which goes against it. And, conditioning is always against something which threatens to dissolve it.
Now observe your laziness. You will not feel lazy when it comes to do all those things that are called ‘fun’, ‘entertainment’. It is midnight, and you are studying. You have started feeling sleepy, and you have almost closed your books and decided to retire and sleep. And then suddenly, two of your wonderful friends arrive. All the sleep is now gone! You start talking to them for another two hours! Where has the laziness gone? Where has the sleep gone?
It was not laziness at all. It was just that you did not ‘want’ to read. You did not want to read, so the body gave you a reason. The body helped the mind. When you do not want to do something the body gives you a reason.
Have a sharp look at what you call as your ‘wants’. We often say, “I don’t want this!” and we take this as an expression of our individuality. “My wish!” Or, “I do not want this.” Our ‘wants’ are just an expression of how we have been programmed. They are not at all ‘our’ wants. If you are conditioned differently, then your wants will change. Do not take your wants, your desires, too seriously.
When the mind says, “Oh! I am feeling lazy. I do not want to study,” do not give importance to this statement of the mind, because the mind is the machine that will only say what it has been programmed to say. Do not take the mind seriously. Never! It may say, “I do not want to do something,” or it may say, “I want to do something.” Neither its wants or likes, nor its dislikes, are of any consequence.
Wanting and realising are very-very different dimensions. Do not act on the basis of your want. Act on the basis of your intelligence, on the basis of your realisation. Laziness will come, just do not give energy to it. Just do not give importance to it.
For more clarity- you can visit my blog-http://prashantadvait.com/
Q&A:
http://www.querynanswer.com/question/how-can-i-overcome-my-laziness/
I am posting some excerpts from a samvaad session held on the same topic- laziness. It will help you.
Question: What is laziness?
Speaker: When you are conditioned against something, then you do not want to do it. This is laziness. Nothing else is laziness.
The Clarity Sessions at Advait Sthal start at 9:00 a.m. One day, in one such session, some of the visitors reached late. So I asked them, “Why are you late?” They said, “It was so cold and foggy early morning. Laziness took over us. And the distance between our place and the Sthal was quite a bit.” I said, “The distance will be same even while going back. If you felt lazy while coming and travelling this distance, you should feel equally lazy while going back. So today, you will not go back! Because you are so lazy.” Now that you are here, just sleep, relax, and eat. Let your folks from home come and pick you up.
(Laughter)
When you don’t want to do something, you feel lazy. It’s as simple as that. And why do you not want to do anything? Because all your wants emanate from yourconditioning.
Conditioning never wants to do something which goes against it. And, conditioning is always against something which threatens to dissolve it.
It was not laziness at all. It was just that you did not ‘want’ to read. You did not want to read, so the body gave you a reason. The body helped the mind. When you do not want to do something the body gives you a reason.
Have a sharp look at what you call as your ‘wants’. We often say, “I don’t want this!” and we take this as an expression of our individuality. “My wish!” Or, “I do not want this.” Our ‘wants’ are just an expression of how we have been programmed. They are not at all ‘our’ wants. If you are conditioned differently, then your wants will change. Do not take your wants, your desires, too seriously.
When the mind says, “Oh! I am feeling lazy. I do not want to study,” do not give importance to this statement of the mind, because the mind is the machine that will only say what it has been programmed to say. Do not take the mind seriously. Never! It may say, “I do not want to do something,” or it may say, “I want to do something.” Neither its wants or likes, nor its dislikes, are of any consequence.
Wanting and realising are very-very different dimensions. Do not act on the basis of your want. Act on the basis of your intelligence, on the basis of your realisation. Laziness will come, just do not give energy to it. Just do not give importance to it.
For more clarity- you can visit my blog-http://prashantadvait.com/
Q&A:
http://www.querynanswer.com/question/how-can-i-overcome-my-laziness/
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