You are not needed to run your life!
Unclutching is a natural process that is going on in your inner space every moment.
But the moment you hear the word, a powerful fear comes up!
Because deep inside, you realize that living in an unclutched manner means living without the mind.
And you are afraid to live in such an undefined way!
Without your mind, you are terrified that you will lose your identity. So you ask,
If I constantly live in an unclutched manner, how will I run my life? How will I handle my job? Who will maintain my family? Who will pay my bills?
But your actual question is,
If I live without mind, what will happen to my identity?
You are not even so worried about losing your life, as you are about losing your identity.
You don't realize that your identity is nothing more than a bunch of ideas you have about yourself!
Don't think that the mind only filters and distorts the external reality that we perceive.
Your very identity is nothing but a few ideas about yourself that you have chosen to pick up and nurture.
And all your life, you have struggled to protect your identity - both your outer-world identity and your inner-world identity.
Understand, you are not carrying a single integrated sense of identity, as you imagine!
Each of us carries two distinct identities.
One is called ahankar - the identity that you project to the outer world. The other is mamakar - the identity which you believe in your heart to be the real you.
Ahankar, how you project yourself, will always be much more than what you actually are. Mamakar, what you believe as yourself, will always be much less than what you actually are.
Your so-called identity is nothing but a struggle between your ahankar and your mamakar.
In the world, we carry a superiority complex, but in our hearts, we all carry a deep inferiority complex.
Both these identities are constantly in conflict with each other.
That is why we have to be so careful when we talk to anyone – because we never really talk what we think.
The enlightened master Sri Ramakrishna says, if the way from your heart to your mouth is a straight line, you are living a spiritual life. He means that when we can directly express what we feel in our heart, that is true spirituality.
Understand, this is not simple morality.
You will have the courage to speak exactly what you feel only when there is no conflict between your ahankara and your mamakara, only when you go beyond these two identities.
As of now, your thoughts are governed by your inner-world identity, while your words are governed by your outer-world identity. Your whole life is nothing but the fight between these two identities.
What you don't understand is, neither of these identities is the real you!
The reality, the real you, is much more than these two identities. You are beyond these two identities.
As long as you are swinging between these two identities, you are caught in samsara. When you go beyond these identities, you enter the space of enlightenment.
But you are afraid to live without identity!
I tell you, don't bother about these hypothetical fears.
Mind exists only on these hypothetical fears!
Have the courage to live in an unclutched way.
Just opening up to the truth, though it feels like suffering in the initial level, will always lead you to greater awareness and joy, because sat, by its very nature, leads to chit and ananda. By its very nature, the truth (sat) leads to awareness (chit), and awareness (chit) leads to bliss (ananda).
Understand, your being does not need your mind to run your body. When you trust your being instead of your mind, you will see an unchanging, authentic Self arise in you. Your life will unfold in a more spontaneous, joyful, intelligent way.
This is what I call 'living enlightenment'.
Please be very clear, your life does not happen because of you. Your life happens in spite of you!
Only if you have suffered enough in your life with your mind, you will understand what I am saying.
Only if you come to the verge of suspecting your own identity, can you understand.
What you think of as your identity is not needed to run your life!
Your innate intelligence, your prarabdha (bio-memory), is powerful enough to handle your life using your body and your mind.
Your bio-memory is intelligent enough to maintain your body, expand your wealth and take care of your life.
Trusting this truth in every moment is what I call bhakti, devotion.