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00:00Good afternoon sir. I am Thuhina Chatterjee and I am in first year.
00:06So I usually tend to overthink everyday things like everyday situations.
00:11Like even if it's just my bus not reaching the destination and things like that.
00:16So how do I not let this fear take over myself?
00:20Think of better things. Think of more important things.
00:25I fall into this loop of thoughts where I just think about it instead of actually doing it.
00:31Have something in life that overpowers all the random thoughts.
00:38I am talking to you right?
00:41Yes sir.
00:42I happen to be a busy person.
00:45There are so many things that I can alternately think of at this moment.
00:52What makes me forget all those things?
00:57And frankly to me right now you are a stranger.
01:03All I know of is your name, to some extent your age, the institutions you are affiliated to.
01:09That's all that I know about you.
01:12Compared to this there is so much else that I am involved in.
01:18There is my mission, there is my work and this is a working day and so many people are dependent on me for what they are doing.
01:27Why am I not thinking of them at this moment?
01:31Because this is important, that's all.
01:40When you do not have that in your life which is important, when you do not have a sense of the worthy, the result will be that a lot of little things will invade the mind.
01:56There is no way to keep those little things away.
02:03They are like germs.
02:09They constantly keep attacking you.
02:14You cannot keep them away.
02:15You can only have a strong inner immunity.
02:19Is there a way to keep germs away?
02:22Virus or bacteria or other kinds of pathogens?
02:26Is it possible?
02:27No, they are everywhere.
02:29I keep my hand here.
02:31They are here.
02:32This air that I breathe in, they are in the air.
02:36How do I ensure I am 100% shielded against them?
02:41Not possible.
02:43However, there is one thing that is possible which is my inner immunity and that inner immunity is called importance.
02:55Know what is important and then random things will cease to matter.
03:02If you find yourself thinking about unimportant matters too much, it just means that there is a huge inner vacancy for something important and that vacancy has not been filled.
03:20The mind cannot tolerate a vacuum, a vacancy.
03:27The mind needs something to chew.
03:33You cannot just abruptly bring the mind to a thoughtless state.
03:38Not possible.
03:41So what to do?
03:42As students, as beginners, what to do?
03:51Determine what is important.
03:54Honestly, give it due credit.
04:00And I like to say, fall in love with it.
04:02Make it your life.
04:04Then there will be no space to think of random things.
04:09And is that not beautiful?
04:12Life is pestering you with all the normal trivia.
04:18And yet you are not bothered.
04:19Why?
04:20Because there is a mighty inner thing you have embraced.
04:27And you simply don't have the time, the space to look towards anything else.
04:39Is it hot?
04:41Yes, it is.
04:43Is it cold?
04:44Might be.
04:46Are you hungry?
04:47Probably yes.
04:48Do you need a little more money?
04:53Of course I do.
04:56Care for better clothes?
04:58Why not?
04:59But so sorry.
05:02In spite of all these things that I might potentially care for, I am occupied.
05:14Nobody will ever have enough money.
05:17Nobody will ever be able to say I do not need more clothes or better clothes.
05:23Nobody will ever say all my desires are not satisfied.
05:28That's not going to happen.
05:31Nobody will ever say the situations are all perfect.
05:38No.
05:41Those things will continuously remain, just like the pathogens we talked of.
05:51But along with them, taking precedence over them,
06:00an inner sense of importance can remain.
06:05And that has to be developed.
06:07It won't just come.
06:10As a young person, you need to figure out very clearly what is worth doing.
06:17What is important in life.
06:20Else, you are travelling to the college and you are looking out of the bus window.
06:30And you see something happening.
06:33Something by chance.
06:35The usual trivia.
06:37And it will capture you.
06:40And you will find yourself thinking about it 30 minutes.
06:4530 minutes of life gone.
06:47On.
06:48On.
06:49Nothing.
06:50Nothing.
06:51And that's how most of us simply waste away our entire life.
06:57On.
06:58On.
06:59Nothing in particular.
07:02So what did you do your entire life?
07:05Nothing in particular.
07:07Though I was always occupied.
07:09I was always occupied.
07:12But what did you do?
07:14Nothing in particular.
07:16Okay.
07:17Let's say you get a one week break.
07:21Hmm?
07:22A Diwali break.
07:24It's a 10 days break.
07:26And somebody asks you, what did you do actually?
07:30Is that not an honest answer?
07:35Nothing in particular.
07:38And that's what happens when you have nothing really important to do.
07:42You do nothing.
07:44At least nothing in particular.
07:47And it's unimaginable the lengths of time that you can simply squander doing.
07:58Nothing in particular.
08:00Two months summer holidays spent doing.
08:04Nothing in particular.
08:06Nothing in particular.
08:08My driver, I make it a point.
08:15He drives slowly.
08:18So that sitting on the rear seat, I do not get disturbed.
08:25Why?
08:26Because commutes take long.
08:29One hour, two hours.
08:31And I want to read.
08:32That's a dedicated time I get to complete my reading list.
08:42Else, it's very possible to simply say, I was traveling, so I was doing nothing in particular.
08:51And it's not that you are doing nothing at all when you are traveling.
08:54You are doing something.
08:55What are you doing?
08:57Staring out of the window.
09:00Looking at something random.
09:02In between, you just scroll through the feed, Facebook or something.
09:11Type something random on Instagram.
09:16Ogle at some nice faces passing by.
09:21You don't know their name.
09:24The fellow will be in visual range for 2.2 seconds.
09:29And yet the fellow becomes so important.
09:33Two seconds you stare.
09:38And then for two minutes you think.
09:43You know, by the time the next pretty face comes, you have already forgotten the previous one.
09:55And the world can be an unending succession of pretty faces.
10:02Two hours will fly away.
10:09You did your entire journey doing nothing in particular.
10:17The name of the journey is life.
10:23Now death has arrived.
10:28And death asks.
10:31So tell me.
10:33How was it?
10:36What did you do?
10:39Nothing in particular.
10:48Though I was always busy.
10:50Always busy.
10:52You will never find anyone saying,
10:57I have so much time.
10:59Kindly assign me some task.
11:03I have found somebody begging for work.
11:09Everybody is running behind on schedule.
11:12Right?
11:13If you happen to have a to-do list at all.
11:16Of any kind.
11:17You are always behind the list.
11:22Are you not?
11:24So everybody is occupied doing nothing in particular.
11:28Have one thing worth living for.
11:34You will forget when you board the bus.
11:41You will forget when the destination has arrived.
11:45Somebody will have to prod you to get down.
11:49You will be so immersed.
11:58That's a beautiful word, no?
11:59Immersion.
12:00How do you like it?
12:01Immersion.
12:02How about that?
12:04Does that not appeal to you?
12:07Immersion.
12:08Have you experienced that?
12:13Sometimes.
12:14Immersion.
12:15Huh?
12:16That alone is the way to live.
12:20If you are not immersed, you are scattered.
12:22How does it feel to be scattered?
12:29How does it feel to be scattered?
12:30Have you experienced that?
12:31A state of being scattered inwardly?
12:35Have you?
12:36Have you?
12:41Isn't immersion beautiful?
12:43Have you seen how time stops when you are immersed?
12:47And if you can have immersion in your everyday life, that alone is the best meditation.
13:04Are you getting it?
13:06And if you can have that immersion, that is an antidote to all kinds of mental troubles.
13:16Otherwise, there is the menace of depression, anxiety and all kinds of mental things, especially
13:23among the young.
13:33The one who has something to live for, will never be mentally sick.
13:46And mental illness is a pointer that life is devoid of essence.
14:00I have no time to be anxious.
14:03How about that?
14:06Are you suffering from anxiety?
14:09What is the answer?
14:11I have no time to be anxious.
14:14Even anxiety requires time.
14:17I don't have time.
14:18How can I be anxious?
14:19Are you afraid?
14:21I have no space for fear.
14:24When fear comes, I say, sorry, no vacancy.
14:28Not that you aren't great.
14:31Obviously, you are great and powerful.
14:33The entire world kneels to you.
14:36You are wonderful.
14:37But as far as I am concerned, no vacancy.
14:42Give all your inner space to something that is beautiful for you.
14:52Let there be no vacancy.
14:57Get a headband, no vacancy.
15:04Or have a t-shirt.
15:08Straight on your heart here, no vacancy.
15:16Occupied.
15:17Engaged.
15:18The knowers in the spiritual domain, they have said, we are wedded already.
15:37And not only in the spiritual domain.
15:40Obviously, you know of Bhagat Singh.
15:47So he was just 22 or 23.
15:51When he laid down his life.
15:54His mother had approached him once.
15:58You'll have to marry.
16:02You'll have to marry.
16:04He said, but I already am.
16:08And she was shocked.
16:10How can my son do that?
16:12What's her name?
16:13And what did he say?
16:15What did he say?
16:17Azadi.
16:19So no vacancy.
16:21The girls are all beautiful.
16:23But sorry.
16:26No vacancy.
16:29What did he say?
16:30What did he say?
16:32Azadi.
16:35Already married.
16:40No vacancy.
16:41And that's why you remember him today.
16:46And that's why all others have become the dust of time.
16:52And Bhagat Singh is immortal.
16:55Even though he left his body at 23, yet he is immortal.
17:00And there were those who lived long lives for 90, 100 years.
17:06And yet, as we say, are just the dust of time.
17:09Who cares for them?
17:11That's the difference.
17:23Have an early wedding.
17:24As early as possible.
17:30Hmm?
17:31Not the kind of wedding that requires social, religious and legal sanction and ceremonies.
17:41An internal wedding.
17:44Let nobody know of it.
17:51Hmm?
17:52Freedom.
17:53Azadi.
17:54What do you think?
17:58Bhagat Singh had time to think of miscellaneous things?
18:07How occupied he was.
18:08You know of it.
18:09Even, even, on the eve of his hanging, he was still reading the Bhagavad Gita.
18:21A copy of that, in fact, that particular copy, is still preserved.
18:34Or was he thinking, tomorrow I'll die, what will happen then?
18:38Was he thinking?
18:39No.
18:40He said, but I still have a few.
18:44I still have a few hours.
18:45Let me spend these hours with the beloved.
18:49I have something very important to do.
18:54Or was he doing nothing in particular?
18:59Was he doing nothing in particular even in his last hours?
19:03No.
19:04He said, let me spend this time in reading.
19:06And he was a voracious reader.
19:10At your age, you were so well-read.
19:13Never had any time to waste.
19:17I don't know, this one is from Bhagat Singh or one of the other great revolutionaries.
19:35But they actually marked the last page they read in their favorite book.
19:45And somebody, out of curiosity, asked them.
19:47It said, tomorrow you are going to be hanged.
19:49You will be no more.
19:50Why are you marking this page?
19:52And very mystically he said, because I have to continue from there.
20:05No time for self-pity, inner misery, sad thoughts.
20:16No time.
20:18I am busy with the right thing.
20:22Even in my last moment.
20:27Huh?
20:32How about such a life?
20:38Does it not excite you?
20:43It does not, it seems.
20:45Or does it?
20:48It does be extremely occupied.
21:03Don't be like these vantan flies or insects.
21:08Have you seen how a mosquito behaves?
21:11Sitting here, sitting there, or a fly.
21:14Hopping from here to there.
21:16Doing?
21:19Don't be like that, please.
21:22Yes, sir.
21:35Sit.
21:36Thank you, sir.
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