Dear,
You need to know about "What is the secret of excellence?"
Excellence comes from enjoyment.
Can you excel in something you do not enjoy? Can you really excel in something that you do not enjoy? Since childhood you are fed on a diet of statements like, “Hard work is the key to success.” Now that is such a stupid thing to say, but it has been rolling on and on and on for generations. We were kids, we could not understand, so we accepted it. The kids are not to be faulted. But are we kids even today? Should we keep living on such flawed basis, on such flawed fundamentals?
Essentially you see, what is it that you are afraid to accept? You know, you are afraid to accept that life can be joyful, that freedom is possible. That is what you are really afraid to accept, nothing else. Were I to tell you that you know life is deprivation, and you must keep working and working, you would be too keen to accept it. You will say, ‘Yes this is the truth.’ But it is so hard for you to accept when I say, ‘No, life is bliss, life is freedom, life is love and life is not a torture.’ You will say, ‘No, this is not true. Life is a torture.’ You have been conditioned into believing this. This rubbish has been drilled down deep into your mind that life is a torture. You won’t accept this easily that life is not a torture.
That tragic event is, that the family, the society and the education, start conditioning us. The child is given a course on moral science, moral values. The parents become adamant in teaching him that this is right, this is wrong, this is the way life should be lived. Education keeps on telling him, ‘half yearly exams are coming, study… study…’ So the message that goes to him is that education is important; because half yearly exams are approaching. Education is not important in itself. And there is this whole system around him- TV, media, religion, ideologies- that fill up his mind with rubbish. Those IITians did not do anything extra. The guys that I am talking of, they didn’t do anything extra. They just escaped being made a victim.
See, till the age of 8, 10 or 12, you are anyway highly dependent, because your neurological system, the basic grey matter, is not yet ripe. So, you are dependent and you cannot do anything about it, it is inevitable. And that is the time, when the society and the other forces, exploit you fully. What do they do? Before the age of 12, you are given a religion, without your consent. Now, your mind is filled with a lot of notions regarding religion. Nobody chooses his religion. You are just handed it over. Before the age of 12, notions regarding gender, regarding life, they are all drilled into you. And the body, the brain, is not yet ripe. It is dependent. It is dependent, so it can’t resist. Mind of the immature being, in terms of chronological age, is like a sponge. It just keeps absorbing whatever comes to it. Just as a sponge absorbs whatsoever comes at it, it just keeps absorbing. It does not yet have the discerning ability, the intelligence to discriminate. So before the age of puberty, at 12, 14 years, a lot of corruption has already happened, and you cannot do much about it. It is inevitable. A lot of beliefs have been drilled down. The entire world view has been created, and it is not your world view, somebody else has implanted it within you. But that can happen only till a particular age, and if it happens till around 12 or 14 years of age, it is alright. You cannot prevent it. But none of you right now is 12 or 14 years old. You are fully grown adult human beings- 18, 20, 21 years of age. If the process is still continuing, if the things that happen to us as kids are still continuing with you, then it is obviously tragic.
The result is we remain dependent; we remain full of beliefs given by others. We remain fully conditioned. Are you getting it?
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