*उद्यमो भैरव:*...
*“Udyamao Bhairavah”*
When you put in full effort the you experience completeness.
“Udyamao” means effort. Give your 100 percent in action, speech and thought, and the energy that is generated by the union of these three will raise you up to a higher level. Udyamo is what supports us. In life, we do so little. We do not give our full effort anywhere and even worry half-heartedly, here and there. If you want to worry, then sit down and worry 100 percent. Are you worried that you may drown or fall sick? You may die, and that is all. If you die, then there will be nothing to worry about. Anyway, everyone has to die. What is worry ? Worry means not applying your efforts 100 percent. You may be worrying about today, tomorrow or even the coming decade. If you are going to worry, then worry big. Worry about how the world will be after 100 or 5000 years. There is so much pollution already in the world today. What will happen after another 15 or 20 years? If you are going to worry, then do it in a big way. Drown yourself in worry. Otherwise, we live as though we are dead or dying at every moment. In Hindi, it is said “A dying person dies only once, whereas a person afraid of death dies every moment.” When will “svatmananda prakasa vapuse” dawn in life? When will life be full of joy? We bargain for a little of this and a little of that, wanting that such and such should happen. These are our main worries. To free our consciousness, which is bogged down in petty worries, the sutra says, “Udyamao Bhairavah.” When we put in our best efforts, we do not worry whether or not our work will be successful. What does worry mean? It means that we have not worked to the best of our ability. Imagine that you are playing football or running a race. If you put in your full energy, you will have no regrets. If you do not put in your 100 percent, then you may think, “Oh! I could have done better.” A person who gives his full efforts knows, “How could I have done better? I did my best and am prepared to accept the results. If I get the fruits I will be fine, and if not, then too I will be happy.” When you completely apply your energy, fully using actions, speech and mind, you become Bhairava, full. Bhairava means fullness. Dissatisfaction, unhappiness and discontent enter the mind when there is no fullness. Until people find fullness, they cannot have peace, comfort or sleep. At every stage of life, if something is missing, then boredom, uneasiness and discontentment set in. Just to rid themselves of discontentment, people visit temples and other places of worship. Why do we listen to discourses ? Why do people pray? Why do we break a coconut at temples? It is not to get rid of discontentment and to find contentment, to move from imperfection to perfection? A thirsty person looks for water and a hungry person for food. A person with a full stomach does not look around on either side of the road for a restaurant, only a hungry person does that. Only a person who is building a house will look for a hardware store. Before that, though he walked up and down the road so many times he did not notice the hardware store. An exception is clothing and jewelry stores, which always get noticed except by people whose minds are happy and content. They do not think of them, even for a moment.
Do you think your mind is fickle or weak. It is not fickle, it merely desires completeness and is roaming here and there looking for completeness. When one is content, then the mind automatically becomes serene and quiet. The whole of life is a struggle to find contentment. You will never find contentment in any object or any situation. Your very nature is contentment. In order to realize that, you should exert your full effort. Do you know what happens to your body when rajas, or restlessness, increases ? It does not allow you to sit quietly, at ease. Instead, you fidget, rustle about, squirm, move your legs and tap the table. Sitting in the lawn you pluck the grass and pull the leaves from bushes - playing like a monkey. This happens because of rajas, unsatisfied physical and mental powers. So to satisfy them we must do some activity.
Some people think that just by sitting quietly, meditation will happen, but it is not the case. Only the person who works well can sit to meditate. There is a misconception that it is the idle people who meditate, pray and sing to God. An idle person can never meditate. In fact, the person who works hard can meditate better. This does not apply to those who over-work themselves. Some people work all day and night like mad-men. They end up over sleeping or falling asleep even when they sit to meditate. A person who works well, in moderation, can meditate well. If you have lots of ambition and dynamism, but do not utilize it correctly or in the right direction, then that energy becomes rajasic. If we are tired or disturbed, then that rajas becomes worry, unless we utilize it in some activity. Good sleep and work increase our sattvic nature, and when the sattva increases we can meditate better. Sattva rises when tamas, laziness and boredom, vanish. So to make the mind cheerful and peaceful, we need to balance tamas and rajas. Rajas gets subdued when you use 100 percent of your energy in effort. Rajas drives you to the activity, and once that activity is finished, the mind changes to its sattvic nature. Tamas also gets subdued by this use of energy.
Say that on a day off, you decide to work less and to sleep a couple of hours extra or that after a delicious lunch you take a nap. Later, when you wake up, your body feels heavy. The more you sleep, the more you gain weight and feel lazy and the more rajas increases. That is the reason one should sleep moderately. Sometimes when you wake up, the mind is pure. At that time, sattva is dominant and one easily meditates. To raise the level of sattva, put in 100 percent efforts.
When you put in full effort the you experience completeness.
“Udyamao” means effort. Give your 100 percent in action, speech and thought, and the energy that is generated by the union of these three will raise you up to a higher level. Udyamo is what supports us. In life, we do so little. We do not give our full effort anywhere and even worry half-heartedly, here and there. If you want to worry, then sit down and worry 100 percent. Are you worried that you may drown or fall sick? You may die, and that is all. If you die, then there will be nothing to worry about. Anyway, everyone has to die. What is worry ? Worry means not applying your efforts 100 percent. You may be worrying about today, tomorrow or even the coming decade. If you are going to worry, then worry big. Worry about how the world will be after 100 or 5000 years. There is so much pollution already in the world today. What will happen after another 15 or 20 years? If you are going to worry, then do it in a big way. Drown yourself in worry. Otherwise, we live as though we are dead or dying at every moment. In Hindi, it is said “A dying person dies only once, whereas a person afraid of death dies every moment.” When will “svatmananda prakasa vapuse” dawn in life? When will life be full of joy? We bargain for a little of this and a little of that, wanting that such and such should happen. These are our main worries. To free our consciousness, which is bogged down in petty worries, the sutra says, “Udyamao Bhairavah.” When we put in our best efforts, we do not worry whether or not our work will be successful. What does worry mean? It means that we have not worked to the best of our ability. Imagine that you are playing football or running a race. If you put in your full energy, you will have no regrets. If you do not put in your 100 percent, then you may think, “Oh! I could have done better.” A person who gives his full efforts knows, “How could I have done better? I did my best and am prepared to accept the results. If I get the fruits I will be fine, and if not, then too I will be happy.” When you completely apply your energy, fully using actions, speech and mind, you become Bhairava, full. Bhairava means fullness. Dissatisfaction, unhappiness and discontent enter the mind when there is no fullness. Until people find fullness, they cannot have peace, comfort or sleep. At every stage of life, if something is missing, then boredom, uneasiness and discontentment set in. Just to rid themselves of discontentment, people visit temples and other places of worship. Why do we listen to discourses ? Why do people pray? Why do we break a coconut at temples? It is not to get rid of discontentment and to find contentment, to move from imperfection to perfection? A thirsty person looks for water and a hungry person for food. A person with a full stomach does not look around on either side of the road for a restaurant, only a hungry person does that. Only a person who is building a house will look for a hardware store. Before that, though he walked up and down the road so many times he did not notice the hardware store. An exception is clothing and jewelry stores, which always get noticed except by people whose minds are happy and content. They do not think of them, even for a moment.
Do you think your mind is fickle or weak. It is not fickle, it merely desires completeness and is roaming here and there looking for completeness. When one is content, then the mind automatically becomes serene and quiet. The whole of life is a struggle to find contentment. You will never find contentment in any object or any situation. Your very nature is contentment. In order to realize that, you should exert your full effort. Do you know what happens to your body when rajas, or restlessness, increases ? It does not allow you to sit quietly, at ease. Instead, you fidget, rustle about, squirm, move your legs and tap the table. Sitting in the lawn you pluck the grass and pull the leaves from bushes - playing like a monkey. This happens because of rajas, unsatisfied physical and mental powers. So to satisfy them we must do some activity.
Some people think that just by sitting quietly, meditation will happen, but it is not the case. Only the person who works well can sit to meditate. There is a misconception that it is the idle people who meditate, pray and sing to God. An idle person can never meditate. In fact, the person who works hard can meditate better. This does not apply to those who over-work themselves. Some people work all day and night like mad-men. They end up over sleeping or falling asleep even when they sit to meditate. A person who works well, in moderation, can meditate well. If you have lots of ambition and dynamism, but do not utilize it correctly or in the right direction, then that energy becomes rajasic. If we are tired or disturbed, then that rajas becomes worry, unless we utilize it in some activity. Good sleep and work increase our sattvic nature, and when the sattva increases we can meditate better. Sattva rises when tamas, laziness and boredom, vanish. So to make the mind cheerful and peaceful, we need to balance tamas and rajas. Rajas gets subdued when you use 100 percent of your energy in effort. Rajas drives you to the activity, and once that activity is finished, the mind changes to its sattvic nature. Tamas also gets subdued by this use of energy.
Say that on a day off, you decide to work less and to sleep a couple of hours extra or that after a delicious lunch you take a nap. Later, when you wake up, your body feels heavy. The more you sleep, the more you gain weight and feel lazy and the more rajas increases. That is the reason one should sleep moderately. Sometimes when you wake up, the mind is pure. At that time, sattva is dominant and one easily meditates. To raise the level of sattva, put in 100 percent efforts.
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