Should I Change Or Should I Accept?
People ask me, 'What should I do, Swamiji? Should I start changing things or should I start accepting things?'
Understand, I have an important secret clue. It is a very beautiful technique to find out whether you need to change more things in your life or you need to start accepting more things in your life. There is an important clue; this is from Tantra.
In Tantra, they have dived deep so deep into the mind and consciousness. They have developed so many wonderful techniques. I can say, in Tantra they dived deep into the consciousness and did research and development for 10000 years*.* A big lineage of enlightened scientists, I can say 'saint-ists', did research and development and created techniques.
Understand this technique. Early morning, when you are out of your sleep, suppose you feel fresh, alive, and the waking state is so beautiful, but you felt your sleep was suffocating. Suppose you get up and feel, 'O God, I woke up! The sleep and dream was nightmarish! It was suffocating! I am so happy I am awake.' In this case, you need to express more shakti. It means so much of potential is there inside you which you have not expressed. Please understand, you are living a lazy life.
If you feel the other way, the moment you wake up, say the blood pressure goes up. You say, 'One more day! O God, I don't know why I wake up! Sleeping was such a wonderful space.' The Monday morning blues! I read that in USA, 33% of heart attacks happen on Monday mornings. The very pressure they have to go to their job blows them up!
If your pressure goes up the moment you wake up, and you feel the sleep was peaceful and wonderful, and in the waking state you feel pressured, disturbed, suffocated, suffering, then you need to practice acceptance. Understand, you are changing too many things in your life.
Please understand, if your waking state is more alive and fresh, if the dream state was suffocating, tensed, nightmarish, you need to change things. Your potential energy is not expressed; you are too lazy.
If your waking state is pressured, tensed; and the sleeping state was more peaceful, calm, relaxed, you need to practice acceptance. You are changing too many things. Now you need to relax, rest a bit. You need to accept.