Laziness, Goals & Action

 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1zyjQrJlvug

uh hi hello

yeah hello

so uh

i don't know like if i should start with

an intro or something but i just want to

ask a couple of things yes please go

ahead

so uh

when you like consciously looking at the

loops that your life um are getting into

and i mean the cycles that are repeating

and then you try to get out of it and

then you are observing you are noticing

what things you've done uh i mean things

that you could have done better or in

terms of something that

may give you a better result later

so even though you understand the cycles

even though you do the right things even

though you know that is right for you in

the longer term you are going to have

a better feel out of it

but being in that movement if there's a

bit of um you know the feel

where you know that this

is troubling you is is something that

your body that your mind is not

accepting

and

there could be a more comfortable way to

do it um so yeah so uh we don't do i

mean we usually we tend to do was more

comfortable and not was more

uh

of a conscious selection so being aware

of both the possibilities no matter what

you do

the right thing or the less lesser right

thing you you all i mean you always feel

stuck there so what is that kind of what

is that process why it happens

yes very good question right we often

tend to be lazy instead of doing that

which is most required we do that which

is uh minimal we just uh instead of kill

instead of cleaning the house we simply

move the

garbage under the carpet most of the

time in our lives

so why is that

there are natural processes in the mind

that are designed to conserve energy

this is the

human um or animal tendency that

we are not built to work

too much more than needed this is how it

is

mother nature favors

efficiency not hard work so you will

always find this tendency in everybody

that and they do not do

the whole

job at one time they do not do that

which is needed for complete

to complete

that work or to take the

whole step

they do the minimal and that is because

every layer in the mind is trying to

conserve energy it does not want to do

something which is absolutely not

urgent

so it is this is the

cause for

not doing your best

just doing the patchwork

everybody everybody suffers from this

thing

so what is the solution the solution is

to become aware that this is happening

and to take take baby steps towards

doing that which is most needed to solve

that situation solve that problem to

complete to achieve to reach the

achievement

of your goal whatever it is

so

it may not happen in one day it may not

happen in two days or three days but

you can take one step at a time fully

knowing that there is a resistance there

to work hard fully knowing this

we simply start somewhere then take the

next step and the next step

slowly you will build up the momentum to

do the whole thing properly

and it must be done beautifully all the

actions must be done beautifully it can

take some time but

that is most satisfactory

so hopefully that was your question and

hopefully my answer was useful

yeah yeah i mean

part of it but one more thing

so if i try to resonate with nature so

nature takes

since you said

nature mother nature taught us to do

things

with the minimal actions but like the

nature itself built over millions of

years and its progress seems to be

unmeasurable if we talk into smaller

time duration time frame

so if the nature is teaching us if the

nature is trying to synchronize with us

i mean or we are or the other way we are

trying to synchronize the nature and

adapt its uh habitat or characteristics

into our life

so

instead of you know choosing the smaller

smallest part to make it done quickly

should our body and mind is already

you know aligned in such a way to

perform things that takes longer and

shouldn't

we already be having this ability to um

to bear with the times taken and not get

and not get uh you know stressed about

not seeing the results

yes

you're talking about the long term

planning which very few people do it

they keep thinking about it but they do

not plan it there is a difference

between thinking and planning

the planning must be broken down into

manageable

steps and

you can observe mother nature

and nature does everything incrementally

it does not do everything suddenly so

incremental evolution is the way

and it tries many many

things at once

the mother nature is doing it like this

that it tries many possibilities at the

same time and whatever

is successful that is given more

attention

so if you prefer that kind of

uh

planning then break down your goal into

small steps

and try many things

to reach that

uh

stepping stones a step complete the

first step

try a few things see what works

so that that is the natural way and

there is an artificial way that you

imagine the whole process exactly

and precisely and then you hope to

achieve it uh very in a very mechanical

way that i'll do this and only this

nothing else

and that usually fails and that is why

people don't uh

do it

so

in such a mechanical way they simply

if there is something to be done they

simply go out of their house first

they say let's let's try let's just

reach there

reach that place and then we'll see what

happens and the next step

so that is

more like mother nature and we are built

to do like that

we don't plan our whole life in one day

and then we take steps to

walk on that plan we never do this

it is we take things as they come that

is the most natural way to

keep your goal in your mind whether

you're proceeding to your goal

or not

and then

do that which is necessary today at this

time this is the formula for success

so i think uh

i mean i'm just talking about myself

personally here so i don't want to be

successful or i don't have a thought

about being successful i don't have a

goal what all i have is i take 200

actions a day so my

thing is to just take actions about

things

and not having a goal actually because

every time i take uh set a goal it's

like

it turns out to be a stupid decision to

setting up a goal for myself personally

so

and since i stopped setting up goals and

just doing things it's turning up it

turned out to be more self-development

but

the results are not there

which i'm not actually much uh

concerned about what i'm concerned about

is if i'm taking actions where are these

actions going i mean where is it being

consumed if i'm doing something better

for

the sustainability for anything that any

kind of

betterment i'm doing towards nature so

where is it going and if it can be

measured

yes two or three points there i have i

have no goal

but it seems that i am going somewhere

but where am i going and how to measure

my progress

so i'll tell you your goal

is the same goal for every creature

in this universe

and the goal is happiness and freedom

now the ways to achieve

yeah so i feel like i have worked and

i feel like started earlier i used to be

so fragile i mean i used to be here and

there doing things and finding out that

it's more into the uh the outside

vibration that i feel doing anything the

the thrill of it i used to think that is

what's building me but then i suddenly

got more static where i don't have to

move around and i feel more

fulfilled without doing anything and if

i keep

being on the same way

there would be

a time where i'm doing nothing so for

example earlier i was taking actions but

now i feel like without taking actions i

am

there

satisfied fulfilled i don't have to do

anything so but

that's a contradicting of

me taking actions i mean actions are

important for us

i mean that's what i felt earlier but

these are totally opposite things so

this is what's happening i'm being like

uh complete without doing anything but i

think it's it's important to take action

this way if i want a betterment in

nature or

support it in

any possible way

okay so first let me go back to

my previous answer that the goal is

decided for you it is happiness and

freedom and how to check your progress

first how to achieve this goal do that

which you love most and do that which is

most necessary that is how we achieve

this goal

and how do we measure the progress on

this towards the goal

the more you progress the more peaceful

you will be

the less agitated and anxious you will

be

the more blissful you will be probably

you will not be dancing and jumping with

joy there is no such thing it is a

simply egoic action

the real progress is measured by the

amount of peace and bliss

carelessness that you develop as you

progress

and about this thing that i'm not doing

anything but i keep thinking that i must

do something that is just

some mental activity

if you are happy not doing anything

just rest be peaceful if something comes

up which must be done

which is necessary the action will

happen and it must happen in total

awareness only intelligent actions

minimal actions must be done nothing

more needs to be done if you are on your

path

you will see that your joy and your

bliss is increasing if you are not on

the correct path you will see that your

anxiety

and your

unhappiness will increase you will go in

depression so

choosing a path is a must and this is

how we decide which is my path the path

of my heart

is

where i get most happiness and most

freedom so think about it for some days

and then

come back in satsang and let me know

so yeah one more thing just like who

decides the necessity uh

it could be i mean your necessity could

be something else and my necessity could

be something else it's

i mean i might have no necessity for

something

which

other person may feel as it's necessary

for this person to do

so

is it necessary to define them

it is very easy

that which is necessary cannot be

avoided

simple formula and it will be different

for different people yes but we are not

concerned with people we are concerned

with my own life mostly

so that which cannot be avoided is

necessary it will happen no matter what

we cannot make a list of necessary

things and then we start doing it it's

that is not possible

whatever comes and if it cannot be

avoided that is necessary yeah but is it

manipulated also i mean can we

manipulate i mean if then what happens

when we manipulate it what if we

manipulated for example something that

is necessary for let's say for me to eat

to

be able to function properly but i

suddenly stopped eating and i just go on

no water diet

and i'm just consuming water for three

days straight so i manipulated the

necessity of it

so

what's actually happening when i'm doing

it it is very easy to see that

if you do not do that which is necessary

suffering happens

and that which is necessary can be

postponed a little bit

but cannot be avoided

if you could postpone it for a long time

for your whole of your life then it is

not necessary and if you cannot postpone

it for for more than a specific time

then

it is

a necessity for this life so for example

eating you said breathing

you can hold your breath for one minute

cannot be postponed even going to

bathroom cannot be you cannot postpone

it too much

so life has already decided what is

necessary now recognize it and do it

it's very simple yeah that's it i guess

okay very good think about it let me

know in the next thing