Physical Layer and Chronic Fatigue
Chronic fatigue which is a deep feeling to be in inaction, to be in rest or non-moving state, is stored in the physical body.
I always tell people, 'karma phala tyaaga' not 'karma tyaaga'. The results of the actions should be surrendered, not the action itself. Karma tyaaga is very easy. That is why the whole spirituality has suffered so much. The worst thing that happened to Bharat was we not following our tradition, not following what Krishna has said.
But constantly, I am seeing, these superficial analytical reports going on abusing the Hindu tradition. The other day I was reading an article, there was a technical term they started using, 'Hindu rate of growth'. I was surprised!
He means the suffering of Bharat is because of our traditions. Itis not. The suffering of Bharat is because we did not follow our tradition, we did not imbibe our tradition. Instead of doing karma phala thyaaga, we started doing karma thyaaga. That is why we are stuck in the first layer, the physical layer itself.
I have seen this in many places, especially villages. There are some great things that are practiced in villages. But there are also the wrong understandings of the Truths like karma thyaaga instead of karma phala thyaaga.
For instance, in the morning until ten o' clock, you will see tea shops filled with people who will just be sitting and talking. If you want to listen to the great Vedantic truths, go to the village tea shops in the morning! You will see, the people will be sitting and just sipping the tea and philosophizing, 'Oh! Without god's grace nothing can be done! Only by god's grace anything can happen.' These are all great truths, but just to justify what they are doing, not to internalize! Karma pala thyaaga is the truth but karma thyaaga starts happening if you are stuck in the physical layer.
The chronic fatigue is deeply related to the intense craving for rest.
Please understand, this intense craving for rest brings diseases which will put you in the bed.
Actually if you see any advertisement for resorts, especially beach resorts, it will have a beautiful beach, an easy resting chair and a picture of somebody resting and looking so relaxed. The moment you see that, immediately something starts happening in you. You feel you should also be lying like that, completely resting, totally in peacefulness, in the deep peace. At that moment you see that something in you is awakened. That is what I call intense craving for tamas.
Understand: If you really find that same beach, that same chair and lie down, you will not have that same peace which you visualized. Till you exhaust the tamas engrams, the lethargy engrams that you carry in the physical layer, you cannot rest. Your desire for rest will not let you rest because the desire is from engrams, from samskaras.
Even if you find the same beach, same chair, same bench, same place, try to lie down. The moment you start resting, in a few minutes, this samskara will settle down and the next layer samskara will start. Even the decision to rest, if it is based on a samskara, you cannot rest.
There is a very beautiful story in the Upanishad:
A disciple goes to the master and asks, 'Master, please give me the method for enlightenment.' Master says, 'Just take
these 400 cows and when they become 1000 cows, come back.' The modern day disciple would have said, 'What! You are making 600 cows out of my enlightenment! You are trying to make more cows out of my seeking.' But the disciple is really a sincere disciple. He did not bother, he just took the cows. And the story says, when the cows had become one thousand, when he came back, master says, 'Now we have a thousand and one cows'.
In Vedic tradition, cows are highly respected as sacred. So, master says the disciple is also now raised to that level of sanctity.
Continuously when you work with cows, they cannot let you rest. They don't know you are working 24 hours. They don't know there is nobody else to replace you! They don't know any particular day as a holiday. They don't know one person can work only an eight-hour shift! They do not have all these problems. They will constantly demand your attention. In the disciple, the deep desire for rest had disappeared because of his working continuously with the cows.
I can say that the deep desire for vacation or the deep desire for rest, the chronic fatigue, if it leaves your system, 90 per cent of your spiritual journey is over. This first layer samskara is the worst problem.