When you don’t want to do something, you feel lazy. All your wants emanate from your conditioning. Have a sharp look at what you call your ‘wants’. Our ‘wants’ are just an expression of how we have been programmed; they are not our ‘wants’ at all. Wanting and realizing are very, very different dimensions. Act on the basis of your intelligence, on the basis of your realization. Laziness is just a symptom of the effects of conditioning.
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Questioner: What is laziness?
Acharya Prashant: When you are conditioned against something, you do not want to do it. It is laziness, nothing else is laziness. You know, in one of the Sunday sessions, very recently in fact, a couple of your friends from this gathering were also there. We start in our office at nine, and certain people arrived a little late. So I asked, “Why were you late?” They said, “You know, it is so cold and so foggy; laziness takes over, and the distance is large, laziness takes over.”
I said, “The distance is the same even while going back. You feel lazy in coming over, and if distance is the reason for laziness, you should feel equally lazy in going back. So today you will not go back, because you are so lazy now that you are here. Just sleep, relax, eat; let your folks from home come pick you up, take you back.”
When I don’t want to do something, I feel lazy. It’s as simple as that. And why do I not want to do anything? Because all my wants emanate from my conditioning.
