Awareness and its modes called thoughts are modifications of energy only. Thoughts linked to the divine goal of God are always positive and thoughts linked to world are always negative. The positive energy means satisfaction, courage and happiness. The negative energy means tension, fear and misery. If you concentrate your mind towards to God you will get positive energy. If you concentrate your mind to the world you will get negative energy.
One should not worry about the future since it is uncertain and similarly shall not worry about the past, thinking about which is waste of time. One shall concentrate on the present, which does not mean present day, past does not mean yesterday and future does not mean tomorrow. If electricity bill came yesterday, one shall not forget it thinking it is the past to be forgotten!
Present means certain short range of time, which includes last month and next month. Last month shall not be treated as past and future month shall not be treated as future. If examinations are starting in a week, that matter is also included in the present and one shall prepare seriously on every day including today.
When you do work even in world, concentrate on the work only and never think about the fruit. This means all your energy is spent in work only and not even a trace of energy is spent in thinking or in excitation about fruit. This is based on the law of Thermodynamics (Q=E+W). Q is the energy supplied to the system (energy available in your body for work). E is the rise in internal energy (thinking and excitation about fruit). W is the work done by the system (by your brain and body). When you are detached from fruit E=0 and then Q=W. This means, all your energy is spent for work only and no trace of energy is spent in raising your tension (internal energy) for fruit. In this way, you will succeed in achieving the fruit since you have put all your effort on work only.
I give a good example of this concept, which is the student attending the examination. Due to attachment to fruit of pass, excitation results and all the energy supplied to the student (by the food already taken and digested) is spent in the excitation so that Q (energy supplied) = E (energy spent in tension). Now, there is no energy left over for work (W). Now, the brain can’t work to remember the answers, which were well studied in the previous night only. The answers were stored well in memory (Chittam), but, there is no power to display the information from memory, just like the case of computer with information disk, but, not working due to lack of electric power! If the attachment for fruit is cut, there is no tension regarding pass or failure, E = 0 and Q = W. The answer, which was heard long back in the class, also gets displayed!
How to detach from fruit? If you think that fruit is given by God and not by your work, then you will be detached from tension about fruit. You may doubt that you may get detached from work also due to this discouragement. It need not happen so, because God will not give any fruit to a lazy person without doing work. Hence, you must concentrate on work without tension for fruit (maa phaleshu kadaachana… Gita). In this way, you are sure to achieve all the worldly fruits by concentrating on work and detaching from fruit.
This detachment from fruit should also continue even after achieving the fruit because the fruit of your work should be dedicated to God, the real giver of fruits. This is called as Karmaphala tyaga in which you have to always maintain concentration on work and detachment for fruit. The detachment for fruit is not meant for achieving the fruit successfully as explained above, whereas it is for sacrificing the fruit to God. You are adapting this technique till you achieve the fruit (money) and then forgetting this clue so that you can avoid sacrifice of fruit to God. The reason for this is your fascination for yourself and for your family. As the fascination is diverted to God, the fruit of work also gets diverted to God.
Similarly, the dedication of work is called as Karma Samnyasa. People while translating the Gita say that the meaning of karmaphala tyaga is to detach from liking for fruit and not actually detaching from fruit. Fantastic! You say that you have no liking for your salary (fruit of work) and take the salary for your enjoyment! In fact, if you are detached from liking to salary, certainly, you will work in the job in excellent way. This is a good policy in worldly activities but not in the divine activity for God.
In the case of God, you should be detached from the fruit as well as liking from the fruit, whereas in the case of worldly job, you must be detached only from the liking for the fruit and not from the actual fruit since your selfish employer is not God. In worldly work, you must work by converting all energy into work and not spending even a trace of it in liking for the fruit(salary), but, you shall take the fruit because your employer is not God. You must work for God by detaching yourself from your liking for fruit and from the actual fruit also. The Gita says about your delink from fruit and not about your delink from liking to fruit! (Phalam tyaktvaa…).
The nature of mind is to do samkalpa (thinking in one way like let us say – the mind proposes that there is a bird on the tree) and immediately vikalpa (altering its own proposed way like let us take the same above example:- the mind alters its own proposal and says that the bird seen by you on the tree is not a bird actually, but, it is a fruit of the tree.). Both of these samkalpa and vikalpa are put together and are called as the ‘mind’. To pacify the mind, the intelligence comes into the field doing sharp analysis to achieve the correct conclusion as the final decision, that is, it is a bird only and not a fruit of the tree.
When you are fighting with your mind, only the intelligence is fighting with the mind correcting it by supplying sharp analysis to arrive at the correct decision. When this is done, the mind becomes satisfied to rest with silence. Don’t think that this case is for you only. In fact, in the case of anybody, this clash between intelligence and mind always takes place. Sadguru helps your intelligence by supplying a brighter and sharper analysis, which will strongly satisfy your mind. Generally, the intelligence is capable of satisfying the mind and only when some help is needed by the intelligence, one shall approach Sadguru either in person or on phone. Don’t get worried thinking that this clash is specific in your case only because such false assumption will bring unnecessary tension. If you know that this is a general disease observed in every case, you will not get unnecessary tension.
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-By Shri Datta Swami
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Over thinking and negative thoughts
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