UNCLUTCH AND BE FREE
The moment you hear this new word, 'unclutching', your mind will leap to the conclusion: Oh, this looks like a new technique. Swamiji is asking us to do something new!
Understand, I am not asking you to do anything.
I am only asking you to do stop doing whatever you are doing right now! I am only asking you to stop connecting your thoughts and creating suffering for yourself.
Actually, you don't have to do anything to be unclutched.
Unclutching is your very nature!
By your very nature, you are a free, unclutched, blissful being.
Just the simple understanding of how your mind is playing tricks on you is enough!
Just the awareness of how you are continuously connecting your thoughts is enough to liberate you from both the pain shaft and joy shaft.
It is not a technique for you to sit down and do for a particular period of time. It is a continuous, 24-hour process.
If you are unable to keep this awareness continuously alive, you have to keep returning to it again and again.
That is when you call it a practice!
What exactly do I mean by this word 'unclutching'?
Just sit silently and watch your mind.
You will see so many thoughts coming up.
Your first instinct will be to connect all these thoughts together. Unconsciously, you struggle to make some logical connection between your thoughts.
Understand: your thoughts are not holding on to you, as you imagine. It is you who are clutching onto them and connecting them!
When the thoughts come up, do not try to connect them, to give meaning to them.
The moment you give meaning to the words that your mind is throwing up, either you will try to suppress them or you will try to execute them. Or else, you will try to go beyond them – which is just one more thought! Instead, just remember, 'Let me disconnect from this thought. I am not going to empower this thought by following it, or by fighting it. Let me unclutch from it.'
Again, in two seconds, another thought will come up.
Again say, 'Let me unclutch.'
After few minutes, you will see you are continuously repeating the thought 'unclutching': 'I am unclutching,' 'I am unclutching'…
Now, unclutch from that thought too!
When a thought arises in you, instead of giving meaning to it, just unclutch from it, just relax into its source.
Relax into the silent space inside from which the thought arises. Whenever you remember, unclutch from yourself. Unclutch from the very idea you are carrying about yourself.
For ten days, try this continuously, whether you are eating, driving, whatever you are doing. Whenever the thoughts arise, unclutch again and again, come back and rest.
If it does not change your life in ten days, you can forget about it. But I tell you, it will work! I have seen how it can just transform your life.
When you continuously turn your awareness to your inner space, you will realize a great truth: no thought, however strong, can have total power over your inner space!
We always think that our mind is too powerful to control.
We live in terror of our desires and our fears! We feel we can never escape from our suffering.
Be very clear: even if you want to, even if you try consciously, you cannot possess or hold onto your suffering!
Understand, this is a subtle truth. Even if you try to hold onto your suffering, you cannot - because continuously, your suffering is also replaced by other thoughts. Even the worst suffering, the worst depression, the worst fear, is continuously being replaced with new thoughts.
Fortunately, you can have only one thought at a time.
So if you feel your mind is too powerful to conquer, just face it one thought at a time!
The moment a new thought enters inner space, it means that the earlier thought has already lost its influence over you.
They say you can't step into the same river twice.
I tell you, you can't step into the same river even once! By the time you put your foot into the water and it touches the bed, the water has already flowed on!
This understanding is what I call a click, an initiation. This single understanding can totally transform the way you handle your mind.
It is the key to go beyond all your fears, all your worries, all your phobias! You have already seen that each and every thought is being constantly replaced by others in your inner space.
Now, all you need to do is repeat this process consciously!