Read Summary of '''[[Laziness Summary|Laziness]]'''
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=How is it Different from Fatigue, Tiredness and Tamas?=
'''Tiredness''' shows lack of will for progress. When you feel tired or fatigued that is lack of will for progress.
'''Fatigue''' comes from doing without interest the things you do.
Whatever you do you can find interest in it, provided you take it as the means of progressing; you must try to do better and better what you are doing, the will for progress must always be there and then you take interest in what you do, whatever it is. The most insignificant occupation can prove interesting if you take it that way.
But even the most attractive and important activity will soon lose all its interest for you if the will for progress towards an ideal perfection is not there while you act.
'''Getting rid of fatigue:'''
Take no notice of it and go on with your programme as usual. It is the quickest way of getting rid of it.
It is because you are receptive to the force when you work and that sustains you. But when you are not under the strain of the work you are less receptive. You must learn to be receptive in all circumstances and always―especially when you take rest―it must not be the “rest” of inertia but a true rest of receptivity.<ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/14/laziness-tiredness-fatigue-tamas#p11 </ref>
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''Q. What are the defects in me that are coming in my way of spiritual as well as material progress?
''A:'' Tamas and sluggishness.
''Q. What am I to do to get rid of these defects of my nature?''
''A:'' Become more and more conscious. <ref>https://incarnateword.in/cwm/14/laziness-tiredness-fatigue-tamas#p13,p14,p15,p16 </ref>
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''Q. What is “physical tamas”?
''A:'' You don’t know that, you don’t? Then, congratulations! For instance, does it never happen to you that being seated you don’t want to get up, that having something to do you say, “Oh! I have to do all that….”
''Q. Is it the same thing as laziness?''
''A:'' Not quite. Of course, laziness is a kind of tamas, but in laziness there is an ill-will, a refusal to make an effort—while tamas is inertia: one wants to do something, but one can’t. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/04/28-april-1951#p5</ref>
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Indolence and inaction result in tamas which is a fall into inconscience and the very opposite of progress and light. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/13/aims-and-principles#p301</ref>
=How to Cure Laziness?=