Laziness Summary

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How to Cure Laziness?

The minute one stops going forward, one falls back. It is important to make effort and march forward towards new revelations and realisations. “Become as vast as the world and you will always be at rest. In the thick of action, in the very midst of the battle, the effort, you will know the repose of infinity and eternity.”

One must always refrain from clinging to old habits and old movements and to always put a will into one’s action. “Become more and more conscious. Certainly tamas is not good, but it is only through surrender to the Divine Consciousness that tamas can be changed.”

It is by putting hours and days into power to change oneself consciously and making it a habit of discipline, one is sure to accomplish to take the tamas off oneself. …”you become so irrevocably conscious that everything depends on the individual perception, entirely; and naturally, that individual perception [of divine Love] depends on the inadequacy, the inertia, the incomprehension, the incapacity, the cells' inability to hold and keep the Vibration, anyway all that man calls his "character" and which comes from his animal evolution.”

Transformation of Physical: Why is it the Need of the Hour?

The unwillingness to change has always stayed for a longer period of time for a lazy person. It becomes very difficult for even the strongest mental or vital or even psychic will to overcome this inertia. It was this which had been preventing the elimination of the old movements all along and enabled them to return when they had been pushed out—for it is in the material half-conscious or subconscient that there is the bedrock of the resistance…

In order to set it right,and progress towards the right direction. It needs to improve in multiple areas which have come up for a first or preliminary transformation. To keep the idea of what is necessary—(1) that the silence and peace shall become a wideness which you can realise as the Self, (2) the extension of the silent consciousness upwards as well so that you may feel its source above you, (3) the presence of peace etc. all the time.

Recommended Practices

The best thing to do is to distinguish in oneself the origin of all one's movements—those that come from the light of truth and those that come from the old inertia and falsehood—in order to accept the first and to refuse or reject the others.

It is to keep trying every second, in each movement to express the highest truth one can perceive, and to be progressive to what seems to you the most true now will no longer be so tomorrow, and that a higher truth will have to be expressed more and more through you. To always remember that whatever path we follow, or the subject we may study, we always reach the same result. The most important thing for an individual is to unify himself around his divine center; that way he becomes a real individual, master of himself and of his destiny.

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