Nothing in the outside world is certain, that’s a fact.
It’s uncertain and that’s what makes it not only challenging, but more challenging. Uncertainty means things
are changing; in other words there is no limbo. If you are walking fast, every
step is new terrain. This new terrain is what you are calling “uncertainty”
right now.
Uncertainty Means
Possibilities in Life
For those seeking opportunity, uncertainty is the best time. Those
who have a vision will
make it a possibility; those who don’t have any vision, will look at it as a problem. But,
because you are in a constant state of compulsive reactions in your mind, you
are seeking certainty, and that is the real problem.
Certainty is a state of limbo. If there is certainty
there is status quo, isn’t it? Status quo in a business, political or social
situation means nothing changes; nothing evolves. By seeking certainty,
ultimately, you are pitching for stagnation. If things are stagnant, you will
get bored and you will not gain any thing. If things are happening rapidly, then you don’t have the balance to
handle it. So, the problem is not with uncertainty; the problem is your
interiority has become uncertain. What we have to do instead is fix our interiority.
What do we mean by that? It means, if your interiority is not compulsive, you
will handle every situation to the best of your ability. May be you can’t handle
it like someone else, but you will handle it to the best of your ability,
that’s about it. You won’t suffer every situation you come across simply
because you are in a compulsive state of reaction.
Freedom From Certainty
& Uncertainty
Interiority is a dimension by itself. It cannot be crafted
according to external situations – “there is certainty in life right now, so I
will have one kind of interiority.” “Now there is uncertainty, so I will have
another kind of interiority.” “When people around me are sweet, I’ll have one
kind of interiority. When people are nasty, I will have another kind of
interiority.” It doesn’t work that way. It is not something you determine; it
is something that it is and you have to accept it . So, how to keep it? Well, there is no way to keep it. If
it is conscious, it won’t be compulsive.
You came without any investment. And you will leave without
any capital in your hand. Whatever happens in-between, you are anyway on the
profit side, because all that you have is the experience of life. The important
thing is how you experience your life. So, if your interiority is in a non-compulsive, conscious state, then you
determine your experience. With situations, you determine only part
of them, the world determines a part of them. But how you experience
life is one hundred percent in your hands.
The Formula for Blissful
Chemistry Within
If you think your work is important, the first thing you should do
is work upon yourself, so that internally you are a stable being, no matter
what the situation is externally. When you are running a large business or
enterprise, it’s not just about you. Often, there are another thousand people
involved with you. So how you handle a situation not only impacts your life,
but another thousand lives. Once you grow, the challenges will naturally grow;
there’s no question about it. But if you want to get into a jockey’s place
where you want to handle the horse, if you want to handle a situation, no
matter how large, the first thing you have to do is equip yourself. You should learn a way with which you can create a stable and blissful chemistry within yourself,
your ability to deal with all the variety of ups and downs in life can be
greatly, greatly enhanced. How? It is with yoga.
Yoga gives you this possibility that if you simply sit, there
is a little space between you and your body, there is a little space between
you and your mind, and there is a little space between you and the world. Once
you create this space within you, once you know what is you and what isn’t,
that is the end of suffering. When there is no fear of suffering, you will be
able to look at everything with utmost clarity and address every issue to the
best of your intelligence and capability. Situations will never overwhelm you.
Different Ways of Ultimate Wellbeing
Yoga has to be approached in a comprehensive way. Yoga offers
a systematic way of working upon your interiority by showing you various ways in
which you can address your immediate and ultimate wellbeing. It is an entire
science and technology. If you spend 30-40 minutes a day, in terms of vitality in your body and mind, you will be at least 10 years
younger in the next six months. And your ability to create and manage things
will be such that what you can do right now in 8 hours, you will very easily do
it in 4-5 hours. If you are sleeping 8 hours a day, very easily you can bring
it down to 5-6 hours a day without stressing the body. So, 40 minutes of
investment will give you extra time, extra clarity, extra possibility, and
definitely extra money!
In other words, yoga is the technology that lets you read the
user’s manual of the most sophisticated gadget – the human mechanism. If you
know how to handle the human mechanism, then what about external situations?
Well, some you can handle, some you can’t. But as long as you know how to
handle yourself, it is not really a problem. It may be a challenge, but it’s
not a problem. There are only situations and situations and situations in life.
Only those who don’t know how to handle them label them as a “problem.”
You Need Clarity not
Certainty in Life
Don’t think in terms of how to turn everything into something
else. Learn how to see everything for what it is. For this you need clarity. If
you need clarity, you need an unclouded and unprejudiced mind, a mind which is
not in a state of confusion, but in the lap of consciousness.
That mind will see everything as it is. Once it is like this, if you want to
turn everything into an opportunity it’s up to you, or you can enjoy it as it
is. The greatest possibilities in life are its uncertainties.
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