Questioner:Sadhguru, on one level you are talking about effortlessness and on another about giving ourselves totally to our work? Please explain.
Why we are talking about effortless living is just this - to bring relaxation to every activity that you perform. Right now if I ask people to relax they will become lax. If I ask people to be intense they become tense. Do you see the difference ? You have to learn to be intense and relaxed. If you can maintain your intensity and relaxation together, all the potential you have will always be used to its fullest.
See, effort and effortlessness are not in what you are doing. It is the way you experience it. For e.g you love to climb mountains, lets say. Climbing a mountain involves tremendous amount of physical effort. But if you love to climb mountains, every step you take, every painful step that you take, you become more and more joyous. The legs are paining, the whole body is paining, but it is so beautiful. There is no effort in it - in your experience there is no effort. Body there is effort, yes. If you don't apply your mind and body don't think that it is effortlessness. It is laziness. Not applying yourself is laziness. Effort comes mainly because somewhere we stop enjoying what we are doing. So effortlessness is in terms of your experience, not in terms of applying yourself. But if you don't apply yourself, it is laziness. It is not effortlessness.
Sadhguru:
Why we are talking about effortless living is just this - to bring relaxation to every activity that you perform. Right now if I ask people to relax they will become lax. If I ask people to be intense they become tense. Do you see the difference ? You have to learn to be intense and relaxed. If you can maintain your intensity and relaxation together, all the potential you have will always be used to its fullest.See, effort and effortlessness are not in what you are doing. It is the way you experience it. For e.g you love to climb mountains, lets say. Climbing a mountain involves tremendous amount of physical effort. But if you love to climb mountains, every step you take, every painful step that you take, you become more and more joyous. The legs are paining, the whole body is paining, but it is so beautiful. There is no effort in it - in your experience there is no effort. Body there is effort, yes. If you don't apply your mind and body don't think that it is effortlessness. It is laziness. Not applying yourself is laziness. Effort comes mainly because somewhere we stop enjoying what we are doing. So effortlessness is in terms of your experience, not in terms of applying yourself. But if you don't apply yourself, it is laziness. It is not effortlessness.
