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not true because the whole human society is
created on the basis that children are looked
upon as some kind of a capital through which
people can live their future lives - when they
are alive and after they are dead. It is because
of this that the juggling seems to be so much
of a hassle; not otherwise. Family is not the
problem; your own insecurity and your own
‘want’ to cling to things around you is the real
problem.
The whole idea of doing everything
that a human being is doing is to make his
experience beautiful on this planet. Trying
to make your experience beautiful by
complicating the survival process is a foolish
thing because it’s never going to happen.
Human life does not end with survival;
human life begins only when survival is
taken care of. If we had come like any other
creature on this planet, eating, sleeping,
reproducing and dying one day would have
been a complete process by itself. But once
you have come as a human being, you need to
do all these things but somehow life doesn’t
seem to be fulfi lled with them. Whatever
action you may have performed, life has not
attained any fulfi llment. In every stage of
your life you thought, “If this happens, my
life will become complete.”
When you were a child you thought, “If
I get this toy, my life will be complete.” You
got it but after three days, you took it and
threw it into the dustbin. Life did not attain
fulfi llment. Then you thought that if you
complete your education, your life would be
complete. That too happened but there was
no fulfi llment. After three months you began
to think, what is the use of working like a
donkey? If you could get married to that man
or woman who was in your heart, your life
would be made. That happened and then you
know what happened.
Fulfi llment will not come because of
some action that you perform. Only if your
inner nature is complete, your life will attain
fulfi llment. Right now, the human condition is
such that without knowing anything about the
nature of his existence, he is trying to make a
living and somehow pass through the world.
Your body, mind, emotion and energies are
the vehicles through which you travel through
your life. Without any understanding, control
or subjective experience about them, you are
trying to live your life. This is an accidental
existence. When you exist accidentally, if
you manage to get somewhere in life, it will
only be by accident. So, when a person is
going through his whole life in an accidental
manner, being in a great sense of anxiety, fear
and struggle is very natural. Then we go about
saying, ‘Life is struggle.’ Life is not struggle.
You are getting stressed out simply
because you don’t know how to function
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smoothly within yourself. You have no
control over your own system. If your mind,
body and energies were taking instructions
from you and behaving the way you wanted
them, you wouldn’t make yourself stressful
no matter what was happening around you.
So you need to do something about this; you
need to get a grasp of these four. If this does
not happen, you will live life by accident.
You will always be hoping that situations will
work out well.
If you are seeking to expand the scope
and play of your life, if you are seeking
challenging situations, then you have to
do something about the way you function.
Challenging situations mean that you will
face situations that you have no clue about. If
you are the kind who gets stressed, naturally
you will avoid those situations. When you
avoid those situations, you will naturally
avoid all possible growth for yourself. Today
so many people are getting into challenging
jobs, multitasking and things like that but a
large number of them may not be naturally
equipped to handle that kind of situation.
This is why we see so many people losing
their effectiveness and just breaking up in the
process of pursuing their careers - burn outs
are happening.
So especially those people who want
to take up challenging jobs and who are
constantly looking for challenges in their
life, if they do not equip themselves with
an inner stability and an inner sense of joy
within themselves by their own nature, they
are bound to become disasters over a period
of time. They may be successful in their
career but as human beings they would have
failed because they cannot enjoy the process
of their life. They are no longer joyful or
peaceful; they have become stressful. If you
are stressful, that means in some way you
have failed yourself, isn’t it?
When you fi ne-tune yourself to such a
point that the fundamental faculties function
so beautifully within you, then naturally the
best of your abilities will just fl ow out of
you. If you really want to bring quality into
your life and to perpetuate that quality into
life around you, the fi rst and foremost thing
that you need to do is that you establish
your inner realities in a certain way with a
certain stability. What is within you - your
mind, your emotion and your system should
not go through upheavals when facing the
challenges of life. Only when there are no
inner upheavals and issues can you handle
the outside issues well.
A step towards Effortless Living
So is there a way to create an inner situation?
Yes. As there is a science and technology
to create external situations the way we
want them, we have a whole science and
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technology to create inner situations the
way we want it. As we have engineered the
world, we can also engineer our interiority.
If this doesn’t happen, we can only function
by accident.
The fi rst and foremost step that every
human being should take is: you are capable
of making yourself the way you want yourself
to be. If this happens, creating the outside
will become effortless. You tell me, can you
use your mind and body well when you are
happy or unhappy? When you are happy you
can effortlessly handle things but when you
are stressed or unhappy the same little things
freak you out. If you are joyful, going up a
mountain is also effortless, isn’t it? It may
take a lot of physical effort but you feel it’s
effortless because you are doing it joyfully.
When you are doing it joylessly, everything is
burdensome. When you are doing it joyfully,
everything is effortless.
Effortless does not mean lying on a
couch - that takes a lot of effort. When I
say effortless, I am saying, once you get
into a certain state of pleasantness within
yourself, once you are joyful by your own
nature, everything is effortless. When you are
happy, you are willing to run around and do
everything because you don’t feel the effort
of it. Effortlessness does not mean lethargy;
effortlessness means that in your experience,
it’s not burdensome. Once a person is at ease
within himself, naturally he functions at his
best. Bringing this sense of ease, bringing
this sense of effortlessness within you is most
essential. So if you truly want to enhance the
quality of your life, you have to take this step
and be willing to invest a little bit of time for
your inner well-being.
If this is done, you will see a remarkable
change in the way you function. The
necessary technology is there – I call it Inner
Engineering, the peak of well-being. Inner
Engineering is just this, that you engineer
your interiority so that you function
effortlessly - effortless living within yourself.
This does not mean you avoid challenging
situations. When you are effortless within
you, you seek them. Inner Engineering means
you learn how to conduct this piece of life. If
you know how to conduct this, then according
to your ability you can also conduct the
outside effortlessly.
If this one’s well-being is constantly
under threat, you will not handle the outside
well. If you want to handle everything well
on the outside, if you want to be successful in
your life, you must simply learn how to use
these four limbs and a few brain cells; that’s
all that’s needed. How vibrant and focused
your mind is, how vibrant and healthy your
body is, that’s what decides how successful
you are.