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present life, there will be no need to daydream..? Exactly. That is the truth. But how do we put it into practice?
Today, it is very difficult to be content - because we are fed on dreams from a very young age.
In ancient times, it was very easy to be moral, because there were so few temptations. Sita remained loyal to Rama all her life, because she was not constantly fed information about any other man right from her childhood. She had not seen Shah Rukh Khan on TV!! Today, any five-year-old will talk to you about their favourite film heroes or heroines.
I am not condemning the character of Sita. But this is true. That's why, what we call a moral life was very easy to lead in those times. I think, if modern civilization has to be psychologically classified, it should be divided into the pre-
TV age and the post-TV age!
No, this is true, American researchers have come up with these results.
In Patanjali's time, when people were asked to prepare for meditation by sitting in a straight position, keeping their eyes closed and calming the mind, they were able to do it immediately. Because the mind was completely sensitive. It was not aggravated, complicated like people's minds today. Today, an entirely new layer has been formed in our consciousness. We do everything cerebrally. Which only means, we are enjoying without enjoying! Suppose you want to dance. Will society allow you? No! It says, Watch the duets on TV and be satisfied! That is the reason, everywhere you find the TV constantly on, duets constantly being played everywhere.
So just by watching, we learn to fulfil ourselves. This is called cerebral enjoyment. With the awakening of cerebral intelligence, our body intelligence has been destroyed, our minds have become complicated. In ancient times, controlling the body was not such a difficult thing – because this layer was not there.
So people had only two options: either they would enjoy, they would go and dance with whoever they wanted to dance with. Or they wouldn't enjoy, that's all.
Now, there is a third option. You don't enjoy physically, but mentally you enjoy the same thing continuously! At least with physical indulgence, there will be an end to it somewhere. With cerebral enjoyment, the process is continuous. Through the media, advertisements, internet, movies, TV – we can make a whole list.
You have no idea how deep advertisements penetrate into your being! Without your even being conscious of it, hundreds of messages are being recorded in your system every day. It's a subtle kind of mass hypnosis! In just a flash, just when your car passes a hoarding, you absorb a message – without even realizing that you have seen it. But a week later, when you go to the supermarket, you will find yourself