Immersion is not in itself a virtue. You have to find out what you are immersing yourself in. The wrong kind of immersion is like anaesthesia: you will feel no worries because you are rendered unconscious. The wrong kind of business or immersion operates by lowering your consciousness. And when consciousness is lowered, then pain reduces. The right kind of immersion operates by elevating your consciousness. When consciousness is elevated, then there is a distance from pain.
If you are busy with the right thing, nothing like it. But if you are busy with the wrong thing, then you are damned.
This article has been created by volunteers of the PrashantAdvait Foundation from transcriptions of sessions by Acharya Prashant
