So sometimes people say, “Oh, people who are meditating,
they are boring”.
To the outside world, they look boring because they don’t discuss things.
The need to discuss and waste time simply drops off.
So meditation, to people who are not meditating,
they will always say, “Oh, they are funny people, they are weirds”
You know, there is a difference between a monkey mind and a matured mind.
Monkey mind will keep jumping from one project to another project.
One whose mind is not settled,
will have many ideas floating in and out, in and out, in and out.
And they will be wasting so much time, thinking over all kinds of projects.
But when you meditate and you are calm and with yourself,
you will see, first of all, what not to do.
You know, again giving examples from my pharmacy days,
there used to be very critical moments like which products to stock in the pharmacy and which should not be stocked.
It is a big debate everywhere because it takes away space,
it takes away a lot of investment, and a lot of finance.
So now, once you make up your mind with total clarity, this comes when you meditate.
Often before I go to the pharmacy, to work,
I would spend at least thirty to forty minutes meditating.
In those
meditating hours, do you think I think of God all the time? No.
Though the idea begins with
the presence of God in our heart, sometimes
these thoughts would go in a different tangent.
This tangent
or the direction, could be the products associated with your pharmacy,
then it will go through, “Oh, I should stop this, I should not stop that.”
Automatically the answer keeps coming to your heart.
So what happens now?
Something that you have gone through in your mind in a minute or two,
now you will not stock those items, you will not waste your time in arranging them on the shelf,
you will not be making transactions on that, you save so much of time.
Similarly, when you are hiring employees,
what happens there? You have half a dozen people,
even before you call people, you go through this paper or application and
you know whom to call.
You don’t have to go through half a dozen of them and waste your time.
This inner guidance,
the total clarity that comes because of meditation is amazing.
Even most mothers, I would say, in Indian
society especially,
most families have this typical problem: “what to cook, what to eat this evening?”
Ladies have this constant problem.
But a meditative mind will just even if you say at the last-minute,
“let’s eat” and then she is always ready with something or the other.
There will not be a big debate. It is the debate that consumes our time and complicates life.
But when the mind is clear, “Okay, I am going to make this, this evening”,
end of the story. You don’t waste time in discussions, lengthy discussions.
So sometimes people say, “Oh, people who are meditating, they are boring”.
To the outside world, they look boring because they don’t discuss things.
The need to discuss and waste time simply drops off.
So meditation, to people who are not meditating, they will always say,
“Oh, they are funny people, they are weird,
and they don’t mix with us,
” things of that nature. But there is no need for so-called ‘gossips’
to be engaged with. Some people, I have seen at least in some families when you visit,
the lady of the house will call some other friend, “what are you cooking today?”
I mean why do you make a phone call to find out what other person is cooking?
That is a non-meditative mind, wasting time on useless things.