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Video Information: 08.12.2022, Sir J.J. College, Mumbai
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~ How do I stop overthinking?
~ How to deal with anxiety and fear?
~ Why do we keep thinking of little things?
~ How to stay away from trivia in life?
~ What is important to do in life?
~ How to not be bothered by every little thing?
~ What is worth doing?
~ How to not waste my life?
Music Credits: Milind Date
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Video Information: 08.12.2022, Sir J.J. College, Mumbai
Context:
~ How do I stop overthinking?
~ How to deal with anxiety and fear?
~ Why do we keep thinking of little things?
~ How to stay away from trivia in life?
~ What is important to do in life?
~ How to not be bothered by every little thing?
~ What is worth doing?
~ How to not waste my life?
Music Credits: Milind Date
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00:00 Good afternoon sir, I am Tuhina Chatterjee and I am in first year.
00:07 So I usually tend to overthink everyday things like everyday situations.
00:12 Like even if it's just my bus not reaching the destination and things like that.
00:17 So how do I not let this fear take over myself?
00:21 Think of better things, think of more important things.
00:26 I fall into this loop of thoughts where I just think about it instead of actually doing
00:31 it.
00:32 Have something in life that overpowers all the random thoughts.
00:39 I am talking to you, right?
00:41 Yes.
00:42 I happen to be a busy person.
00:47 There are so many things that I can alternately think of at this moment.
00:54 What makes me forget all those things?
00:59 And frankly to me, right now you are a stranger.
01:03 All I know of is your name, to some extent your age, the institutions you are affiliated
01:09 to.
01:10 That's all that I know about you.
01:14 Compared to this, there is so much else that I am involved in.
01:19 There is my mission, there is my work and this is a working day and so many people are
01:24 dependent on me for what they are doing.
01:28 Why am I not thinking of them at this moment?
01:37 Because this is important.
01:38 That's all.
01:39 When you do not have that in your life, which is important.
01:46 When you do not have a sense of the worthy, the result will be that a lot of little things
01:55 will invade the mind.
02:00 There is no way to keep those little things away.
02:05 They are like germs.
02:10 They constantly keep attacking you.
02:15 You cannot keep them away.
02:16 You can only have a strong inner immunity.
02:20 Is there a way to keep germs away?
02:22 Virus or bacteria or other kinds of pathogens?
02:26 Is it possible?
02:27 No, they are everywhere.
02:29 I keep my hand here, they are here.
02:33 This air that I breathe in, they are in the air.
02:38 How do I ensure I am 100% shielded against them?
02:42 Not possible.
02:43 However, there is one thing that is possible, which is my inner immunity and that inner
02:52 immunity is called importance.
02:56 Know what is important and then random things will cease to matter.
03:04 If you find yourself thinking about unimportant matters too much, it just means that there
03:10 is a huge inner vacancy for something important and that vacancy has not been filled.
03:20 The mind cannot tolerate a vacuum, a vacancy.
03:28 The mind needs something to chew.
03:33 You cannot just abruptly bring the mind to a thoughtless state, not possible.
03:41 So what to do?
03:45 As students, as beginners, what to do?
03:52 Determine what is important.
03:54 Honestly, give it due credit.
04:00 And I like to say, fall in love with it, make it your life.
04:05 Then there will be no space to think of random things.
04:09 And is that not beautiful?
04:13 Life is pestering you with all the normal trivia and yet you are not bothered.
04:20 Why?
04:21 Because there is a mighty inner thing you have embraced and you simply don't have the
04:30 time, the space to look towards anything else.
04:41 Is it hot?
04:42 Yes, it is.
04:45 Is it cold?
04:46 Might be.
04:47 Are you hungry?
04:48 Probably yes.
04:49 Do you need a little more money?
04:54 Of course I do.
04:58 Care for better clothes?
04:59 Why not?
05:02 But so sorry, in spite of all these things that I might potentially care for, I am occupied.
05:15 Nobody will ever have enough money.
05:18 Nobody will ever be able to say I do not need more clothes or better clothes.
05:24 Nobody will ever say all my desires are now satisfied.
05:28 That's not going to happen.
05:32 Nobody will ever say the situations are all perfect.
05:40 No.
05:42 Those things will continuously remain just like the pathogens we talked of.
05:51 But along with them, taking precedence over them, an inner sense of importance can remain
06:05 and that has to be developed.
06:08 It won't just come.
06:11 As a young person, you need to figure out very clearly what is worth doing.
06:18 What is important in life?
06:21 Else you are travelling to the college and you are looking out of the bus window and
06:31 you see something happening, something by chance, the usual trivia and it will capture
06:39 you and you will find yourself thinking about it 30 minutes.
06:44 30 minutes of life gone on nothing.
06:52 And that's how most of us simply waste away our entire life on nothing in particular.
07:04 So what did you do your entire life?
07:07 Nothing in particular, though I was always occupied.
07:11 I was always occupied.
07:13 But what did you do?
07:16 Nothing.
07:17 Okay, let's say you get a one week break, Diwali break, 10 days break.
07:27 And somebody asks you what did you do actually?
07:30 Is that not an honest answer?
07:36 Nothing in particular.
07:39 And that's what happens when you have nothing really important to do.
07:42 You do nothing.
07:45 At least nothing in particular.
07:50 And it's unimaginable the lengths of time that you can simply squander doing nothing
07:59 in particular.
08:00 Two months summer holidays spent doing nothing in particular.
08:08 Nothing in particular.
08:11 My driver, I make it a point, he drives slowly so that sitting on the rear seat I do not
08:24 get disturbed.
08:26 Why?
08:27 Because commutes take long, one hour, two hours and I want to read.
08:36 That's a dedicated time I get to complete my reading list.
08:43 Else it's very possible to simply say I was travelling so I was doing nothing in particular.
08:52 And it's not that you are doing nothing at all when you are travelling.
08:55 You are doing something.
08:56 What are you doing?
08:57 Staring out of the window, looking at something random.
09:03 In between you just scroll through the feed, Facebook or something.
09:11 Type something random on Instagram.
09:14 Ogle at some nice faces passing by.
09:21 You don't know their name.
09:24 The fellow will be in visual range for 2.2 seconds and yet the fellow becomes so important.
09:34 Two seconds you stare and then for two minutes you think.
09:45 By the time the next pretty face comes, you have already forgotten the previous one.
09:52 And the world can be an unending succession of pretty faces.
10:03 Two hours will fly away.
10:10 You did your entire journey doing nothing in particular.
10:18 The name of the journey is life.
10:24 Now death has arrived.
10:29 And death asks, so tell me, how was it?
10:37 What did you do?
10:40 Nothing in particular.
10:49 Though I was always busy.
10:51 Always busy.
10:56 You will never find anyone saying, I have so much time, kindly assign me some task.
11:04 I have found somebody begging for work.
11:10 Everybody is running behind on schedule, right?
11:14 If you happen to have a to-do list at all of any kind, you are always behind the list.
11:24 Are you not?
11:27 So everybody is occupied doing nothing in particular.
11:33 Have one thing worth living for.
11:38 You will forget when you board the bus.
11:42 You will forget when the destination has arrived.
11:46 Somebody will have to prod you to get down.
11:55 You will be so immersed.
11:56 That's a beautiful word, no?
12:00 Immersion.
12:01 How do you like it?
12:02 Immersion.
12:04 How about that?
12:07 Does that appeal to you?
12:09 Immersion?
12:10 Have you experienced that sometimes?
12:16 Immersion?
12:19 That alone is the way to live.
12:21 If you are not immersed, you are scattered.
12:29 How does it feel to be scattered?
12:30 Have you experienced that, a state of being scattered inwardly?
12:36 Have you?
12:37 Have you?
12:38 Isn't immersion beautiful?
12:42 Have you seen how time stops when you are immersed?
12:49 And if you can have immersion in your everyday life, that alone is the best meditation.
13:02 Are you getting it?
13:06 And if you can have that immersion, that is an antidote to all kinds of mental troubles.
13:16 Otherwise there is the menace of depression, anxiety and all kinds of mental things, especially
13:24 among the young.
13:34 The one who has something to live for will never be mentally sick.
13:46 And mental illness is a pointer that life is devoid of essence.
14:02 I have no time to be anxious.
14:03 How about that?
14:04 Are you suffering from anxiety?
14:05 What's the answer?
14:06 I have no time to be anxious.
14:14 Even anxiety requires time.
14:17 I don't have time.
14:18 How can I be anxious?
14:19 Are you afraid?
14:20 I have no space for fear.
14:25 When fear comes, I say, sorry, no vacancy.
14:29 Not that you aren't great, obviously you are great and powerful.
14:34 The entire world kneels to you.
14:36 You're wonderful.
14:38 But as far as I'm concerned, no vacancy.
14:44 Give all your inner space to something that is beautiful for you.
14:53 Let there be no vacancy.
14:59 Get a headband, no vacancy.
15:01 Or have a t-shirt, straight on your heart here, no vacancy.
15:17 Occupied, engaged.
15:27 The knowers in the spiritual domain, they have said, we are wedded already.
15:39 And not only in the spiritual domain, obviously you know of Bhagat Singh.
15:48 So he was just 22 or 23 when he laid down his life.
15:55 His mother had approached him once, you'll have to marry.
16:01 You'll have to marry.
16:05 He said, but I already am.
16:09 And she was shocked.
16:11 How can my son do that?
16:12 What's her name?
16:14 And what did he say?
16:16 What did he say?
16:17 Azadi.
16:18 So, no vacancy.
16:19 The girls are all beautiful, but sorry, no vacancy.
16:28 No vacancy.
16:40 Already married, no vacancy.
16:43 And that's why you remember him today.
16:47 And that's why all others have become the dust of time.
16:53 And Bhagat Singh is immortal.
16:55 Even though he left his body at 23, yet he is immortal.
17:01 And there were those who lived long lives for 90, 100 years and yet as we say are just
17:09 the dust of time.
17:10 Who cares for them?
17:16 That's the difference.
17:23 Have an early wedding, as early as possible.
17:32 Not the kind of wedding that requires social, religious and legal sanction and ceremonies.
17:41 An internal wedding.
17:45 Let nobody know of it.
17:53 But still, Azadi.
17:58 What do you think?
17:59 Bhagat Singh had time to think of miscellaneous things?
18:07 How occupied he was, you know of it.
18:11 Even on the eve of his hanging, he was still reading the Bhagavad Gita.
18:26 A copy of that, in fact that particular copy is still preserved.
18:35 Was he thinking tomorrow I'll die, what will happen then?
18:38 Was he thinking?
18:40 No.
18:41 But I still have a few hours, let me spend these hours with the beloved.
18:49 I have something very important to do.
18:53 Was he doing nothing in particular?
19:00 Was he doing nothing in particular even in his last hours?
19:03 No.
19:04 He said, let me spend this time in reading and he was a voracious reader.
19:12 At your age, he was so well read.
19:21 Never had any time to waste.
19:30 I don't know if this one is from Bhagat Singh or one of the other great revolutionaries.
19:38 But they actually marked the last page they read in their favourite book.
19:46 And somebody out of curiosity asked them, "Tomorrow you are going to be hanged, you
19:50 will be no more.
19:51 Why are you marking this page?"
19:57 And very mystically he said, "Because I have to continue from there."
20:06 No time for self-pity, inner misery, sad thoughts.
20:17 No time.
20:19 I am busy with the right thing, even in my last moment.
20:27 How about such a life?
20:39 Does it not excite you?
20:44 It does not it seems.
20:49 It does be extremely occupied.
20:58 Don't be like these wanton flies or insects.
21:10 Imagine how a mosquito behaves sitting here, sitting there or a fly hopping from here to
21:15 there.
21:16 Doing?
21:17 Don't be like that, please.
21:21 Yes, sir.
21:24 Sit.
21:25 Thank you, sir.
21:29 Thank you, sir.
21:44 Thank you.