How to let things happen? || Acharya Prashant (2016)

Acharya Prashant

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00:00 Boredom comes only when you have an idea of what would not bore you.

00:13 I feel that the only exciting things in life are achievement, video games and sex.

00:26 And situations have gotten me where I can have neither achievement nor video games nor

00:33 sex.

00:34 Now what would I feel?

00:36 Bored.

00:37 You feel bored only because you have an image of what would not bore you.

00:44 You decide in advance that if you can have exciting food, then it would not bore you.

00:49 Now you cannot always have exciting food.

00:52 The result is boredom.

00:56 Before you say that you are bored, find out whether you have ideas about what does not

01:06 bore you.

01:09 Anybody here who will keep silent and ask what is it that you find exciting?

01:19 And if you can list what you find exciting, why don't you see you have already listed

01:26 what you find boring?

01:30 Everything that you do not find exciting is something that you find boring.

01:34 But you will never ask, sir, why am I excited?

01:42 You would rather ask, why am I bored?

01:45 You are bored because you are excited.

01:48 If you are excited, then the excitement is going to vanish at some moment and then what

01:53 will be left with?

02:00 By seeing that excitement is not just excitement.

02:03 It is excitement plus boredom.

02:10 Yes that boredom is not just boredom.

02:13 Boredom is preparation for?

02:14 When you get bored, obviously you jump into boredom.

02:21 As long as you feel like playing this game, go ahead, play this game.

02:26 But if you are even semi-intelligent, comes a point when you want to drop out.

02:31 When you say that I cannot allow these to affect me.

02:36 Maybe I can just let them continue in their way.

02:41 Let them do what they want to do.

02:45 But I cannot allow them to affect me deeply.

02:48 I cannot allow them to become statements of my state or my self-worth.

02:55 Yes, of course, the movie is interesting, exciting.

03:02 Let the excitement be there, but I cannot allow myself to become the excited one.

03:07 Even in the middle of excitement, let me just remain alright.

03:13 Because the movie is going to get over and then I will be.

03:19 Why do I want to invite that?

03:20 Why do I want to inflict that upon me?

03:21 Even some boredom is not good.

03:22 It depends on, yes excitement is more exciting.

03:23 But you look at that, let the state do whatever they want to do.

03:24 Yes, there is excitement.

03:25 There is much excitement.

03:26 There is excitement in the movie.

03:27 Yes, there is excitement in the movie.

03:28 Yes, there is excitement in the movie.

03:29 Yes, there is excitement in the movie.

03:30 Yes, there is excitement in the movie.

03:31 Yes, there is excitement in the movie.

03:32 Yes, there is excitement in the movie.

03:33 Yes, there is excitement in the movie.

03:34 Yes, there is excitement in the movie.

03:35 Yes, there is excitement in the movie.

03:36 Yes, there is excitement in the movie.

03:37 Yes, there is excitement in the movie.

03:38 Yes, there is excitement in the movie.

03:39 Yes, there is excitement in the movie.

03:40 Yes, there is excitement in the movie.

03:41 Yes, there is excitement in the movie.

03:42 Yes, there is excitement in the movie.

03:43 Yes, there is excitement in the movie.

03:44 Yes, there is excitement in the movie.

03:45 Yes, there is excitement in the movie.

03:46 Yes, there is excitement in the movie.

03:47 Yes, there is excitement in the movie.

03:48 Yes, there is excitement in the movie.

03:49 Yes, there is excitement in the movie.

03:50 Yes, there is excitement in the movie.

03:51 Yes, there is excitement in the movie.

03:52 Yes, there is excitement in the movie.

03:53 Yes, there is excitement in the movie.

03:54 Yes, there is excitement in the movie.

03:55 Yes, there is excitement in the movie.

03:56 Yes, there is excitement in the movie.

03:58 And in the statement, letting this happen, there are two things.

04:02 The wise man exists parallelly at both these levels.

04:07 Pay attention.

04:08 Letting things happen.

04:09 Now, there is the happening contained in this and there is the letting contained in this.

04:16 The one who lets is the self, the atman.

04:20 Where all the happening is, that is the body, mind, prakriti apparatus.

04:26 Both of these must be there parallelly, together, concurrently.

04:32 The central and the periphery both.

04:35 The witness and the world both.

04:39 So there is the game of excitement and boredom going on.

04:43 And then there is the letting also happening.

04:46 Pay attention.

04:48 Letting things happen.

04:52 Things happen in the world, in the mind, that is where all the movement is.

04:56 And letting is a thing of non-movement.

05:00 Both these beat together.

05:03 Are you getting me?

05:08 Is letting an action, is letting an activity?

05:10 What does letting mean?

05:11 Does letting mean that you are doing something?

05:12 And when things happen, then there are things happening, moving and letting is?

05:30 Not even opening the doors.

05:31 Let the doors open if they have to.

05:32 So I am letting myself dance.

05:45 Now there is beauty in this dance.

05:50 Dancing is hardly a thing of beauty.

05:51 But letting yourself dance is so beautiful.

05:53 Do you understand the difference between making yourself dance and letting yourself dance?

06:00 Making is mental and letting is natural.

06:15 There is nothing good or bad about dancing.

06:18 What matters is whether you are letting yourself dance or making yourself dance.

06:25 When you make yourself dance, then dance is nothing but heart.

06:31 We are in utmost excitement, mental state.

06:36 Then how to let that natural thing happen?

06:42 There is no method of letting things happen.

06:45 Letting things happen means not doing anything.

06:48 And method means doing something.

06:51 So there is no method involved in letting.

06:54 Letting simply means cessation of all control.

06:59 You are free and I am free.

07:00 You are free to happen, I am free to let.

07:06 You are free to happen and I am free to let you happen.

07:11 I am not obsessed with interfering, blocking, doing.

07:18 And you don't have to worry about somebody policing you, suppressing you or energizing

07:24 you.

07:25 You want to dance, Mr. legs, Mr. hands.

07:26 You want to dance, you dance.

07:32 You need not worry about anybody sitting on top of you.

07:35 You are free to dance.

07:37 Both of legs are free to dance.

07:41 Are our legs free to dance?

07:43 No, they are supervised by the mind.

07:47 Are the steps falling rightly?

07:50 Are the hands moving rhythmically?

07:53 Oh, is he not watching me?

07:57 And what is she thinking of me?

07:59 Am I synchronized with this music?

08:05 Now you are making yourself dance.

08:11 How can I quit?

08:15 Everybody else is still dancing.

08:17 Not the time to leave the floor.

08:22 Now you are making yourself dance.

08:28 Let the body dance.

08:29 When you let the body dance, this letting is total freedom for the body and for the

08:38 mind.

08:44 This letting is both movement and non-movement together.

08:50 You just explained letting and duality.

08:57 Let's leave this and talk about excitement.

09:04 If we look at the object of excitement, it is boredom.

09:11 You are explaining letting there.

09:14 Let yourself be bored.

09:16 When you are excited, then maybe it is not thought, but then it will be a tendency deeper

09:30 than thought.

09:35 In boredom, there might be thought.

09:38 There are times, yes, there are times when you do not know why you are bored.

09:43 You also do not know why you are excited.

09:47 You cannot place your finger on the exact cause.

09:51 That however does not mean that cause is not there.

09:56 Maybe you cannot think of the cause.

09:58 You cannot think of the cause because the cause is deeper than thought.

10:02 Then the cause is a tendency.

10:05 A young man looks at a young woman and feels excited.

10:10 Is there thought involved in this?

10:14 It is just the deep tendency.

10:18 So even if thought is not there, it is still the same mental thing, maybe deeper than thought.

10:25 Similarly, if you are bored, it is not necessarily because of thought.

10:32 It may be a tendency deeper than thought.

10:40 Of course, when the tendency is totally free, then the tendency gets suffocated due to absence

11:05 of resistance.

11:10 You need to come close to this.

11:15 All tendencies are sicknesses.

11:20 They exist and continue as victims.

11:25 You give them a touch of health, they go away.

11:29 You allow freedom to the tendency.

11:34 You give the tendency the freedom to exist, the tendency will die of suffocation.

11:39 Because the tendency exists only as the unfree one.

11:45 Having touched it with freedom, having given it total freedom to exist, the tendency will have nothing to complain about.

11:52 It cannot now continue as a victim.

11:54 She has come to assault me saying that I have come to kill you because you never let me do what I want to do.

12:08 And what do I say? Come, kill me.

12:11 She will not kill me.

12:13 Why?

12:15 Because I have let her do what she wants to do.

12:18 Now her complaint cannot survive.

12:20 She is gone.

12:22 But what do we normally do?

12:24 We say no, no, no, you cannot kill me.

12:27 And by saying you cannot kill me, you have only validated her stand.

12:31 What has she been saying?

12:33 You never allow me to do what I want to do.

12:35 At this moment, what did she want to do?

12:37 Kill me.

12:38 And you have not allowed her to kill you.

12:40 She says, see, this is exactly what I had been saying.

12:43 You never allow me to do what I want to do.

12:45 When she comes to kill you, just say, here I am, all yours, kill me.

12:49 It's only a hokey thing that you can say, that there is a tendency.

12:53 I allowed that tendency to get fulfilled.

12:55 Tendency is a desire, an unfulfilled desire.

12:59 You don't allow it.

13:00 No, no, no, you don't allow it.

13:02 You don't allow it.

13:03 Allowing is not the same as letting.

13:06 Allowing means, I stand as the gatekeeper, show me your admit card, now you are allowed in.

13:14 That isn't quite nice, is it?

13:18 I stand as the policeman, show me the money, now you are allowed to walk past.

13:25 Is that nice?

13:27 Allowing.

13:28 Letting is something totally different.

13:29 Letting means I do not exist.

13:31 I am out of your way.

13:33 Let things happen.

13:39 Is it like how you get used to letting things happen?

13:46 Blocking is something that one acquires.

13:50 Letting is not something that you can get used to or learn progressively.

13:55 Letting is your nature.

13:57 You don't cultivate it.

14:03 I let myself to do something which is antisocial.

14:15 Not in thought.

14:17 Give yourself total freedom to indulge in whatever you want to do and then see.

14:22 Without resisting it, without even allowing it.

14:26 Just see whether the energy to still do it.

14:32 Remains.

14:34 All tendencies exist to get freedom.

14:42 Having gotten freedom, they disappear.

14:45 Ego exists because it loves the truth.

14:48 Having been touched by truth, it disappears.

14:51 Tendencies that are there, they are all nothing, they are nothing but unfulfillments.

14:59 All the incompletenesses that are there.

15:02 Freedom is total completion.

15:04 When you let the tendency be free to do its thing,

15:10 then the tendency loses its justification to exist.

15:15 Its very rationale for existing was that I don't have freedom.

15:23 I don't have freedom so I exist.

15:26 You said now you are free to do whatever you want to do.

15:29 It disappears.

15:35 Let go or is it not free?

15:48 [Student asking question]

16:07 The answer always is love.

16:13 Remember that whatever troubles you,

16:18 essentially is in need of love.

16:23 And between lovers, force and methods do not work.

16:33 You just have to trust that you won't be harmed by the other.

16:39 When the lover is angry, you do not respond by defending yourself.

16:45 And if you do that, that makes the other one even more angry.

16:48 That's why I said when she comes to kill you, allow yourself to be killed.

16:54 That is the only way of surviving.

16:57 If you do not know that, then you won't have any relationships.

17:04 Thank you very much.

17:06 (music)

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