Question: How do I make the mind work for what I know to be important at that moment?
Speaker: Once you know what is important there will be no need to make the mind work for it. Realization is such a potent force! It cannot be surmounted. If you think that even after realization, you require some other prop, some kind of a support or motivation for you to act as per the realization, then the realization actually has not really happened at all!
Realization is extremely powerful. You cannot realize and not act. It is impossible. Do you get this? You cannot realize and not act. Action follows realization. So if you come and say, “I realize, I understand but I cannot act”, then you are mistaken; you actually do not realize at all! The action after realization is not time bound, it does not even have a time lag. It is instantaneous and spontaneous.
Understand these two words. Instantaneous means, then and there! Tatkaal. Instant, at that very instant! Spontaneous means without the need to think. And obviously fresh; spontaneity also carries the connotation of freshness.
Realization strikes *you dead*. After that you are gone. Realization is like an arrow; it hits you and you are dead! And after that realization
