00:00Sir, my name is Vibhor and from past year I am working as a software engineer in Bangalore
00:10and my question is what we have been taught to run after something in this past phase
00:15life and what I feel is full of FOMO and distraction due to which I find myself lost and distracted.
00:23So, I wanted to ask how can I align my career and ambition with inner satisfaction and contentment?
00:35You said FOMO?
00:36Yes sir.
00:39Thank you, please.
00:46We are all indeed missing out but do we realise what we are missing out on?
00:53It's like one's house is on fire, that's the reason there is nothing on the TV because
01:10the entire house is ablaze and he feels that he is missing out on the cricket match, a huge
01:23FOMO.
01:28The phone is luckier, it happens to have an internal battery.
01:35So, he says you know everybody is right there, some of them are there in the stadium itself,
01:41others are enjoying the live stream. I am the only unfortunate one missing out,
01:46missing out on the cricket match and the house is on fire. Do we realise what we are missing out on?
02:01The fellow is not lying, he is actually missing out on the cricket match but there is something called
02:06perspective. Perspective, no? No?
02:17So, there is a railway platform.
02:23You have paid for the tea
02:25tea and you are waiting for him to deliver. He says five minutes more sir, the tea and the other
02:35stuff you ordered is getting ready. And from the corner of one eye, you can see the train
02:45beginning to crawl away. And you insist you are missing out on the meals. Yes, you are missing out, but on what?
03:02But on what? And not that,
03:04not that one is lying, yes, if one rushes to board the train, one would, yes, miss out on the meal,
03:15the tea and the stuff.
03:21When I know who I am, then I know what is important for me. Knowing oneself does not mean knowing anything
03:29beyond one's misery. Please know this. Because when you say, when you know yourself, you will realise that
03:35you are Shuddha Buddha Atma. No. You look within, there is nothing great you are going to observe.
03:45And that's not bad news. But if you can observe all the rubbish within, the observation itself cleans things up.
03:59Greatness does not have to be imported or cultivated. If the inner rubbish can be cleaned up,
04:11you realise that's all. You don't need an additional thing called greatness. All you need is liberation
04:18from falseness. The process is of negation, reduction.
04:29Rejection. Reject what is not needed, reject what is and what you need is there.
04:42Behind all FOMO, is the fear of missing out on what life has the potential to deliver to each of us.
04:54So, since we don't know ourselves fully enough, so we don't read the message. We don't read our insides.
05:07So, there is a general kind of anxiety, with no specific object whatsoever. A general kind of objectless anxiety.
05:16I am missing out on something. What exactly is that thing? I don't know of. And I'll never admit that I don't know what I'm missing out on.
05:28So, I start pretending that I'm missing out on that particular specific thing.
05:33That the assertion is hollow. It's proven to us every day, every night. Because what you claim to be the object of your desire, is not something that always remains unachievable.
05:55Today, as we stand here, this century, economically, technologically, we are more empowered than human beings ever have been.
06:07So, so many objects of our desire that we very easily obtained today, were things that were unavailable even to kings, just a few centuries back.
06:16Don't we succeed in getting the thing that we desire? Many times, don't we? And that proportion is only increasing.
06:28But does the hollowness go away? What does that prove? That that which you thought of as the thing that you are missing, was not the thing that you were missing.
06:41You are missing something else. You are missing something else.
06:50Hmm? But we don't want to admit what we are really missing.
06:54So, we say, you know, I'm missing new curtains in the house.
06:57The car is missing a new pair of wheels.
07:00I'm desperately missing a salary hike.
07:14And if there is nobody else to paste the missing status on,
07:21then you pick up your phone and some random number from
07:25the contacts list and say, you know, I'm missing you.
07:30Sometimes, you don't even clearly remember the name of the person you dialed.
07:34But you are missing something.
07:40The fellow might happen to be the cop who arrested you, once.
07:50Yes, we are missing something. Let's identify what we are really missing.
07:54And the process is of negation.
07:57You will never come to know the real thing that needs to be and yet is not.
08:03That in some way actually is and yet is not.
08:07You will never come to know of that thing.
08:09If you keep convincing yourself of false objects of desire.
08:15I want this, I want this, I want this, I want this and your time is limited, your energy is limited.
08:23If you rush after all these objects, 70, 80, 90 years,
08:27I want this, you will never come to know of the others.
08:29You will never come to know of the others.
08:31In the blink of an eye.
08:42Thankfully, the thing that we are really missing is not a thing at all.
08:46It is just to relieve yourself of the things that you are not missing.
09:00You see, I stand here.
09:01I stand here.
09:06And somehow,
09:10that's called Jaat Maya.
09:12Maya that occupies you just by the fact, the incident of your birth.
09:20You don't have to do anything to be in its grip.
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