Clarity Cannot Lead to Laziness
People ask me, 'If I think everything is a dream, will I not drop all efforts to develop my life? Will I not become lazy? Will I not become dull? Will I not become immoral? I may not not go to work; I may not take care of my family. Who will pay my bills? Who will take care of my car and apartment?' No. Nothing will happen. Relax. Actually when you understand the whole thing is a dream, you will become tremendously energetic, intelligent to handle the dream in the way in which you want, to play the whole game in the way in which you want.
People have this big problem, this big fear. Understand, if you think that this will make you lazy, just simply try to lie down and relax with these ideas. How many days can you just be lying down? How many days do you think you will be sleeping? Not more than few days. Your innate energy will not let you lie down as lazy.
These truths can only remove unnecessary restlessness, they can never make you lazy. When you assimilate these great truths, only the unnecessary restlessness which is now a part of you will be removed. The necessary energy or activeness will never be removed. You will be active and alive. You will continue to take care of your car, your house, your family, your relationships, your bank balance and everything. Only thing, your depression and irritation will be missing.
Understand this one truth that whatever is, is just changing; whatever you think as reality is just changing. This clarity will save you from many sufferings. Tremendous inner healing will happen this moment in you.
For example, say you have some nightmare like a tiger chasing you, snake chasing you, or you being imprisoned, or you losing your near and dear ones. You suddenly wake up and what kind of relief you feel, 'Oh God! It is all a dream!' How relieved you feel! That feeling of intense relief or relaxation or inner healing can happen in you this very moment, from this life.
Understand, in whatever you are going through now, suddenly if somebody tells you, or you realize it is just a dream, what will happen? You will feel, 'Oh God! What tremendous relaxation, what tremendous inner healing!'
You will never become lazy. The idea or truth that everything is an illusion is told to you to show you that you have the power to change anything. It is not so that you can just lie down in your bed!
Lazy people are not that intelligent to understand this whole thing is a dream. They may be using this argument whenever they want to justify their laziness. In Bharat, I have seen in the villages, till 10 o'clock in the morning, people will be sitting in the teashop. They don't have the concept of weekend because the whole life is weekend! Till 10 o'clock they will be sitting. If you ask, 'What are you doing?' they will say, 'Everything is illusion. Everything is maya.' They may use these ideas to justify their laziness. That does not mean they understood.
Actually if you understand everything is one more dream, suddenly you will see so much of energy is awakened inside you. You are out of your negativity. You are living in a different zone, you are raised to a different consciousness. You will know how to handle, manipulate what you call as life.