If you feel you do not care and that you are not going to do anything, then alone can you have peace. Even a single thought (called sankalpa), or want can restrict the ability to go deeper and relax.

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        🌺 ASHTAVAKRA GITA🌺

    

                🌿Chapter - 21🌿

          ~ Letting Go Of Worries ~

                  🌱 Day - 121 🌱

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नाहं देहो न मे देहो बोधोऽहमिति निश्चयी ।

कैवल्यमिव संप्राप्तो न स्मरत्यकृतं कृतम् ॥

There are only two things that come into our mind; what we have done or what we want to do. When you are in meditation, you may want to do something simple. Maybe you want to put your meditation aside, and do your laundry, pack your bag, or iron your clothes. Thus, you are not able to meditate. The mind is on 'doing' something. What you want to do is insignificant. You know you can do it later. Now these thoughts are restricting your ability to sink deep, dissolve and meditate. You're sitting with your eyes closed but wanting to do something stops you from meditating. Or the memory of an event stops you from relaxing. This is such a beautiful explanation of the inner phenomenon.

When can you be peaceful, relaxed and restful? Is there any end to work in our lives? The moment you wake up (even if you don't do any work) there will be some work that you will have to do. You will have to go to the toilet. You have to comb your hair and wash yourself. You will have to eat. You have to do something. When you sit quietly, then you feel restless, and you have to walk. The laziest person cannot always lie on the bed. Even if he lies on the bed, he doesn't keep quiet. He goes on doing something : shaking his legs and hands, turning, twisting, and rolling up and down, this way and that way, left to right. He cannot just be lying still. The laziest person in the world cannot lie like a rock or a statue for a long time. It's wonderful if he can do that, because that itself is a job! By your very nature, your body keeps moving this way and that. Some activity is constantly happening. The things we have done bug and bother us. And things which we have to do, bug us, too. These are the two things due to which the memory machinery in you gets jammed like the brakes getting jammed in a car. And that is the cause of worry. If you feel you do not care and that you are not going to do anything, then alone can you have peace. Even a single thought (called sankalpa), or want can restrict the ability to go deeper and relax.

Gurudev Sri Sri Ravi Shankarji

ASHTAVAKRA GITA

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