but with certain habits that we have,
our consciousness becomes dumber and dumber –
it is almost stone like – losing discrimination altogether.
Habits means, only that where one has lost his discrimination.
It is a difficult one. There is no easy solution to this. A person who wants to fly high cannot have his feet on the earth.
You want to take your flight by air A380; you want to go in rockets to moon, to Jupiter, to Brighter World.
But you don’t uproot yourself from where we are, how is it going to happen?
So one has to make a choice: whether you want to evolve, you want to stay back?
Stay back in the sense, with your consciousness – wherever you are; but with certain habits that we have,
our consciousness becomes dumber and dumber –
it is almost stone like – losing discrimination altogether.
Habits means, only that where one has lost his discrimination.
Habit does not let you think this from that.
Once it becomes a habit, it becomes difficult to clean that person.
Only he has to cry out so loud, 'My Lord, please help me;'
then it is possible.
No amount of lecturing, no amount of Cleaning from your side, will help.
He must go down on his knees and say, 'My Lord, please help'; then help will come.
That is the only easy way.
And then these techniques that we are applying, they will work like magic.
Drug does not have a gun with it.
‘Take me in’ the drug does not claim that.
It is you who is provoking it. But, anyway... we have to understand why a person chooses to take drugs, first of all.
What makes them do it?
You want a shift in your consciousness, you want to forget your pain,
you want to forget your guilt, you say, ‘okay, let me get rid of this pain’
by taking opiates and I want to be pain-free.
It is a natural inclination but through a wrong substance.
They want to shift their consciousness and forget about their guilt,
bad things they must have done somewhere –
but again depending upon a substance that is going to spoil your consciousness once and for all.
But deep down they are all good-hearted people, very good hearted people, they want to forget pain,
they want to forget that inflicted guilt upon themselves,
something they have done and they have a remorse for it and
they say ‘okay, to let me go off this pain, maybe this drug will help me.’
That’s how they start in the first place and they get hooked on it.
How to get out of it? It is again a tricky business.
Alcohol – similar problem.
As far as it is possible, you provide the environment so that they don’t attempt it at the first place.
It is like vaccination.
Vaccination is considered to be a great field where you prevent disease before it can come to you.
I recommend you one technique – for example, if you are hooked on some substance –
let’s say a cigarette or alcohol or chilli powder or you may be hooked on to some chocolate,
so, ‘I must have this chocolate after every lunch or dinner.’
So what do you do? There are easier methods also.
Try, if it works, it is fine; if it does not, you are not losing anything.
Okay, take example of alcohol or a drug you can consume by mouth or a drug.
Keep it on, mentally, I don’t say physically, actual substance need not be kept on the tip of the tongue,
but imagine that that chilli powder that you want to get rid of, or the alcohol,
those habits which you want to get rid of, just imagine that it is on your tongue.
And saturate the entire mouth with the taste of it and that’s all.
Do it for few days and you should be able to get rid of it.
There are many things this Heartfulness Institute has to offer.
Besides all these things we offer anger detox, anxiety detox, lust detox, fear detox and how to manage sleep.
These are modern day diseases.
We are not only looking into the problems associated with physical health,
today major problem is mental health arising out of moral crisis and how to tackle this moral crisis at the root level.
We are talking only of physical health at this level while we are alive.
Yoga is all about going beyond life itself. It is all about existence.
It is not just about this life it is about existence not only of mine but everyone else.
That is why we have in our shastras, vishwa shanti prayer.
The prayer not for myself alone but for everything that exists in this universe and that is the purpose of yog.