You think that since you have dropped a lot of material stuff behind, you can live at ease without any worry but that's not how it is. One central belief that does not allow man to live freely and fully – “I will be my own master. My intellect will decide the next step.” If you keep thinking about what you need to do next via the intellectual route, then you still haven’t dropped your misplaced belief, in your power to take care of yourself.
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Questioner: Acharya Ji, conceptually I agree with everything you say. But my situation is that I have left a lot of my material stuff behind, and I seek that life that you speak about, but every step that I take I am always thinking about the next step.
I am here in India, I practise yoga and meditation, and I enjoy the beauty of the mountains, and I am trying to live this awesome spiritual life, without the material things. But now that I am here, I am also constantly thinking about what is next, what I am going to do when I return from India. It seems like a never ending cycle.
How can I stop thinking about the future?
Acharya Prashant: Davin (the questioner), a man felt burdened with Kilograms and grams. The kilos were a few, the grams were numerous. To make it more concrete – the kilos were four, and grams were forty. The fellow dropped forty of them, forty grams, but he missed out dropping the four, the four Kilograms. And now he says, “I have dropped so much, and I still feel heavy.”
