Forget worrying about what will happen tomorrow.
Forget worrying about what will happen four years later, pay attention to yourself.
Do you know yourself?
Do you understand the meaning of ‘career’?
Do you understand the meaning of word ‘work’ and ‘livelihood’?
Do you understand the relation between ‘work’ and ‘money’?
You have heard somewhere that there is a lot of competition and to survive in it one needs to do a lot of planning, without understanding what is ‘career’, without understanding that the mind which is always competing becomes diseased.
Without understanding all this, you have jumped into it because you are afraid.
Even this fear is not yours.
This fear has been implanted in your mind, by your family, by the society, by the media, by your education. You have imbibed this fear. This fear cannot help you.
Go deep into what is available to you.
Go deep into your mind.
Understand the mind, understand the world. And then you will yourself come to know what is worth doing.
You will yourself know what kind of career will give happiness. You will not be lost. Then, you will not study engineering because somebody else suggested. Then whatever you will do, that will come from your own understanding.
So, do not be in a hurry to take any decisions. Wait, understand!
Observe the mind, understand the mind. Observe the world, understand the world.
Ask yourself these questions:
That’s what an intelligent mind does. It asks itself what is happening.
Ask these questions to the mind. These questions are not from the outside, these questions are from your daily life.
If you are not totally sleeping, if you are not an escapist, a coward who wants to run from himself, you confront yourself.
You ask yourself, ‘Is this what I am doing from morning till evening; in our classroom in the institute, on the road?
Why do I always want entertainment? Why am I so keen to get entertainment?’
As an intelligent mind does, it would come to see that to ask for entertainment, that it keeps feeling bored all the time, that it is never present in the moment, it is missing life.
Life is here and now.
Your own daily life is what you must observe, not my life, not somebody else’s life.
If it is your life that you are observing, not a dictated life, then the questions that would come to you would be really authentic.
The moment I see my dependencies being taken away, why do I get scared?
Why do I always want to belong to a community?’
These are the questions that I must ask.
‘Why do I study only when the examinations approach? That means I have no love for what I am doing.’
You have taken this as a regular routine of your life. You have understood that life is like this only. Can we look at it honestly, intelligently?
My own life, my one single precious life, observe it. Observe it just like you observe in science, without interfering, unbiased, unmotivated.
Just observe what is happening, what is this whole drama about. You deserve to understand. It is your obligation towards yourself to understand.
You have a life to live. You deserve to understand. Only then there is good fun in life. Real joy!
All that you know right now is a little bit of pleasure, which amounts to nothing. That joy of freedom, that vitality, you can know only with that intelligence. You deserve that.
It’s your birth right in some sense. Don’t deny yourself of that.
Forget worrying about what will happen four years later, pay attention to yourself.
Do you know yourself?
Do you understand the meaning of ‘career’?
Do you understand the meaning of word ‘work’ and ‘livelihood’?
Do you understand the relation between ‘work’ and ‘money’?
You have heard somewhere that there is a lot of competition and to survive in it one needs to do a lot of planning, without understanding what is ‘career’, without understanding that the mind which is always competing becomes diseased.
Without understanding all this, you have jumped into it because you are afraid.
Even this fear is not yours.
This fear has been implanted in your mind, by your family, by the society, by the media, by your education. You have imbibed this fear. This fear cannot help you.
Go deep into what is available to you.
Go deep into your mind.
Understand the mind, understand the world. And then you will yourself come to know what is worth doing.
You will yourself know what kind of career will give happiness. You will not be lost. Then, you will not study engineering because somebody else suggested. Then whatever you will do, that will come from your own understanding.
So, do not be in a hurry to take any decisions. Wait, understand!
Observe the mind, understand the mind. Observe the world, understand the world.
Ask yourself these questions:
- ‘What are you doing?
- Why are you so noisy?
- Why are you always so bored?
- Why are you confused and frustrated?
- When you enter in particular class, why are you more eager to hold the back benches?
- What is the quality of your decisions? What is quality of your relationships? Why are you so often afraid?
- Why are you so insecure?
- Why are you always looking for the company?
- Why you can’t be alone with yourself?’
That’s what an intelligent mind does. It asks itself what is happening.
- ‘Why are you so keen on gossiping? Why does silence scare you?
- Why can’t you listen?
- When you look at the future, why do you either see fear or hope?
- Can’t you stay in this moment?
- Have you ever loved?
- Do you understand living?’
Ask these questions to the mind. These questions are not from the outside, these questions are from your daily life.
If you are not totally sleeping, if you are not an escapist, a coward who wants to run from himself, you confront yourself.
You ask yourself, ‘Is this what I am doing from morning till evening; in our classroom in the institute, on the road?
Why do I always want entertainment? Why am I so keen to get entertainment?’
As an intelligent mind does, it would come to see that to ask for entertainment, that it keeps feeling bored all the time, that it is never present in the moment, it is missing life.
Life is here and now.
Your own daily life is what you must observe, not my life, not somebody else’s life.
If it is your life that you are observing, not a dictated life, then the questions that would come to you would be really authentic.
- ‘How do I feel ?
- What is core thing about all this?
- Why I am often lost?
The moment I see my dependencies being taken away, why do I get scared?
Why do I always want to belong to a community?’
These are the questions that I must ask.
‘Why do I study only when the examinations approach? That means I have no love for what I am doing.’
You have taken this as a regular routine of your life. You have understood that life is like this only. Can we look at it honestly, intelligently?
My own life, my one single precious life, observe it. Observe it just like you observe in science, without interfering, unbiased, unmotivated.
Just observe what is happening, what is this whole drama about. You deserve to understand. It is your obligation towards yourself to understand.
You have a life to live. You deserve to understand. Only then there is good fun in life. Real joy!
All that you know right now is a little bit of pleasure, which amounts to nothing. That joy of freedom, that vitality, you can know only with that intelligence. You deserve that.
It’s your birth right in some sense. Don’t deny yourself of that.
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