“Q: “We all work under project lines, deadlines and time pressure.”

Q: “We all work under project lines, deadlines and time pressure. So, when you say not to have time consciousness, how are we going to manage?” All right. When you have time consciousness, are you able to manage? “We are having trouble.”

So same thing is going to happen see. Two thing, when you are having time consciousness two thing will happen. Either you will be able to manage or you will not be able to manage. Either you will be able to manage, one group who will be able to manage. Can’t you manage the same thing without having time consciousness?

When you can manage with time consciousness, means the stress. You can barely manage without stress. You can do much better way. Because, when you don’t have stress, all your energy is expressed in creativity, as a creativity. You can always have new ways, new methods. I tell you, the person who is stressed will not, cannot create new methods and ways. He will only be working like a, what to say, the train or a program way of working. You will not be even looking this side or that side. Just scan your life and look back. In your own house you will not be using many rooms. From the office you will straight go to the house, sit in the same sofa, sit in the same hall, sit in the same chair, eat, straight away go to the bedroom, next day morning come down and straight away come to the garage and come here. If you scan your life, you will not have used many of the rooms for months together.

You will live just like a programmed way, just a programmed way. You can see your life. Even your vacations are very clearly programmed. If you are sitting in the house and thinking, it is homework. If you are sitting in the office thinking and worrying, you said office work. If you are sitting in the beach and worrying, it’s a vacation that is all. Only the place is changed. Otherwise the worrying is the same, mental set up is the same. If you can manage with the stress, you can barely manage without stress, first thing.

Next group who are not able to manage their talent. When you can’t manage, so naturally are you going to manage with stress? Why are you having stress? Whether you manage or not, this is the only two things but the stress is no way going to help you.

We always have a idea, by stress I may shift from non manageable group to manageable group. Please be very clear, you can’t jump from this group to that group by stress. You can jump from this group to that group only by creativity and unleashing your potential energy. You understand? Are you able to understand what I say?

There are two group. One is who are able to manage with stress. Who are not able to manage with the stress. So if you will be in someone group, if you are in the group that I am able to manage, then why should you have stress? Drop it! And naturally, when you drop you’ll be able to do more. If you are in the group that I am not able to manage, again, why should you have stress? Any of you are not able to manage? Relax and this only one desire, maybe by stress through stress; I may jump from this group to that group. And I tell you very clearly, it can never happen. You can jump from that inefficient group to a efficient group only by creating or expressing your energy, not by stress. Whether the jumping or managing is going to happen only by clarity and creativity.

One more thing, we always think this stress management and all is only theory, Swamiji. I tried a lot, I read lot of books, I tried a lot and I worked a lot. I don’t think it is working. Two days we remember all these concepts, they are so nice. The third day disappears, Third day our life is back, the same day the same routine, same lifestyle. See, you say again and again it is failing, because your understanding is not deep enough.

I’ve seen somebody came and told me, Swamiji in last one year alone, 11 times I stopped smoking. Means what? 11 times he started again. Means, the decision is not strong, the understanding is not deep enough. So actually, if you can understand with a little bit of analysing, if you can penetrate your being and just it is after all your mind, decide consciously let it be very clear to yourself. Hereby, I am decided I am going to live in the way which I want. I am going to express my energy the way which I want.

Simply be very clear. Just by stress, you can never jump from inefficient group to efficient group. By stress you may jump from this group to that group. You may jump from efficient group to inefficient group. That can happen.

And one more thing, again and again you are trained, you are taught to remember about the time, to remember about the pressure and just see your own life. The moment you think about the people who give you pressure, what happens to your energy? Drained! Just see in your experience, the moment you remember their faces. The moment you remember their words, the moment you remember the stress, do you feel energetic? No!

Then how can you think, how can you say you can be successful based on the stress? You can be successful only when you are, when you unleash your potential energy; and I tell you, if you can come down to present moment, reducing the worries, means reducing number of thoughts, reducing the, I can say frequency of your thinking, you can simply unleash the potential energy. You will see a different dimension of your being. Only thing, you need a little bit of courage to experiment what I say.

Try, for next 11 days decide I will not bother about the past and the future. I will not let my mind, again and again, to think of the past. And I tell you one more thing, when you remember your past, you remember only about your failures. All you will remember, all the print which is there in you, is nothing but your failures. It’s like you measure the strength of your life, based on the weak link of the chain.

If you think your whole life is a long chain, you measure the strength of your life only based on the weak link, but you are not a weak link. you are not just a weak link. You generalise your capacity, your efficiency, your ability based on the weakest incident of the weak link of your life. You can’t generalise based on that! At least you should be little courteous, you should be little loving towards yourself. You can do it, do the average, but never do the averaging, you always measure yourself based on the weakest link.

See, anybody will have valley and peak. It should, if you have to measure yourself, you should go for average, not for the valley. But your mental setup is such, our mental setup is such, we always measure ourself, we always remember our past only the valley incidences. We only with the valley we measure ourselves, not with the average. You don’t even have to go to the peak. At least you can measure yourself with the average, come to the average, but we never do that.

The remembrance of the past itself only will make you, again and again, dull. And it will only drain your energy. So, neither the remembrance of the past, nor worrying of the future is going to transform you. Come down to present and insist on concentrating your energy.

That is why the Gita says beautifully: “You have authority to work, don't bother about results.” Krishna does not mean don't take your salary, have your salary. But he says continuously don’t visualise about it. If you are continuously visualising about the fruit, about the result, you will not be even able to walk. If you are continuously bothering about the goal, you will be paralyzed. You will not be able to walk in the path. Continuous bothering about the goal will not give you enough energy to walk in the path. Simply walk in the path, you will reach the goal. When you choose the right road and when you are, if you are driving, naturally you are going to reach the goal.

A nice story, one guy sat in a ferryboat, wanted to cross the river and once the boatman started rowing, the guy started walking up and down in the, inside the boat. The boatman said: “Why don’t you be seated, please be seated otherwise I can’t row the boat.” He said: “no! I have no time to sit, I have to go urgently, that’s why I am walking to and fro.”

All your walking, all your stress is walking inside the boat which can never help you, at the most can disturb you. At the most can hinder the growth. However walking, look into it very clearly, just be little more intelligent. Everything I can say, when I say everything I mean capital letter. You always think “no, no, not everything Swamiji.” You say what you say is truth. I can say what you say is truth 60%, but 40% it’s reality.

I tell you, all our perceptions, be very clear, all our perceptions as long as we work based on the datas from past and the worries about the future about ourself, it is totally wrong because your idea about yourself based on the past itself is wrong. You always measure yourself based on the weakest link; the valley. But you are not valley, you have peaks also and at least come to the average. You never measure yourself, you never respect yourself even based on the average. All your idea about past is only about your valleys. So when the data is wrong, when the processing is wrong how can the result be right? Naturally it has to be wrong.

Q: “So how do you unlearn the past?”

Just for 11 days make a conscious decision. A simple conscious decision can change your intelligence enough you don’t need a separate technique. See, only for the kids we may have to give techniques, you are intelligent enough. Just decide very clearly, for next 11 days I’ll try to live in the present moment, and surely in 11 days you will not lose your life.

Our mind will say “no, no, no in 11 days I will do this project, that project. I think after this project I will take up this technique. After that I will do this.” Just decide, for next 11 days, again and again, whenever I remember, I'll drop bothering about the past, drop bothering about the future; I'll drop the faces which creates stress in me. I'll drop the words which creates stress in me.

I am accepting myself completely as I am. I am going to work, whatever comes out let me face. Just for 11 days I can be sure the only side effect will be your efficiency and you will achieve a goal and the bliss, nothing else. And when I say these words, I take the responsibility of these words because I worked with thousands of people. I worked, not even thousands, I can say lakhs because in last 2 years I have met 2 and half lakh people individually, 2 and half lakh individually and we have 2000 trained healers who are doing meditation.

Through 400 centres in 20 counties and everyday our healers are touching 10.000 people. With the experience of all these people, this is indirectly. Directly I have touched at least 2 and half lakh people, from all walks of life, all kinds of people. Educated, students, corporates all circle. I say from my experience, simply the conscious decision to live in the present moment can transform your understanding and life.