The only way to clean yourself is to immerse in the ocean of the Self || Acharya Prashant (2015)

Speaker: Is there any freshness possible to somebody who is beyond corruption and fatigue? If you cannot get stale, how will you get fresh?

Who gets stale? The mind.

And who gets fresh? The mind.

The very usefulness of going to one extreme of duality is that it makes the other extreme possible. When you sleep in deep fatigue, you’re deeply tired and you go to sleep, you have guaranteed that you will wake up fresh. Is that not so? If you are feeling restless and you are having insomnia, it is great if you go and run for five kilometers. You come back, you fall asleep and you will wake up very fresh. Whereas if you push yourself to sleep, then you will keep waking up intermittently, and finally when you do get off the bed, you will keep feeling tired.

Deep tiredness ensures good freshness. So, freshness is nothing great. Freshness is nothing of the beyond. The freshness that you are taking of is just the opposite of tiredness. Real freshness you do not know. Your freshness is just a consequence of being fatigued. ***Real freshness is something transcendental. Real freshness is creativity. Real freshness is when you look at the world with fresh eyes. Real freshness is when you look at yourself freshly. Real freshness is to be reborn. That is Real freshness.***

Real freshness is not about not feeling tired in the limbs. Real freshness is not about not yawning or not feeling energetic or not feeling sleepy. What is all this? Even chemicals can bring you to this stage. Why are you calling it freshness? Or have you fallen in the trap of the advertisers who say that, “Use our toothpaste to get a fresh beginning to the morning”. That is their definition of freshness. Have you fallen for that definition, that fresh means nice odour from the mouth?