Just look at the world around, tell me one thing that is worth doing or living for. Think about it practically. For a person who is in touch with reality, what is there to do here? The more money you earn, the more you will tie yourself to the bandhan of maya. The bigger the car you buy, the more troubled you will be that no one should scratch it. Whatever you do, what will you gain out of it? What you will lose, let me tell you, are those precious years which you could have used to reach somewhere, which you are wasting in pursuit of physical and temporary things. I am not foolish that at the age of 50 I am saying, “I have done what I had to do, now no more.” There is a reason for it. Dosh. The body is a dosh. If there was no dosh, there would be no body.

Let me tell you something about Ramakrishna Paramhansa. He was very fond of eating and would ask his wife to prepare different kinds of delicacies for him. One day his wife asked him, “You give lengthy discourses on eating less, eating satvik food, observing fasts and that how these are all bandhans. Then why do you indulge in such foods?” His reply came, “There is so much tej in my soul that it is unable to stay in this dooshit body. By eating all these foods, I have to forcibly live in this body because my time to go has not come as yet, there are still some unfinished tasks that I need to complete.” He also told her that the day he stops eating, three days from then, he would leave his body. And that is exactly how it happened. The day he stopped eating, people knew he was about to go and third day from then, he left the body.

I cannot teach you techniques to drive away negative thoughts. You can learn these things from Gurus who come on television and give upays for everything under the sun – to ward off negativity, to make more money, to cure diseases, to pass an exam, to have a kid. Recently someone narrated an incident to me where a religious person would reveal questions to his friend because of which he cleared his charted accountancy papers. All these are physical things, which are temporary and bound to leave. The person who has become a chartered accountant, his job would leave him one day, the child who is born will also leave one day. I think there is no bigger foolishness than to get something in the physical if you are walking with me. I am talking only of myself – the form of yog that I practice. In that form, to get something in the physical or to show off what you have in the physical is nothing but foolishness. Who are you showing off to? Who are you fooling? Only yourself.

The marg of yog and vairagya has everything in it. It is not the marg of beggars. This marg has vaibhav, aishwarya, health, it has everything. That is why I never ask anyone to leave anything, ‘do not eat this or do not drink that’, have I ever told anyone this? In fact I tell you that if you are doing something, do more of it. But I also tell you to keep walking with me. If you walk with me, then that thing will stop affecting you. But if you are not walking with me then that thing will get a hold of you, choke you and you will leave the path of yog not even realising that you have left, falsely thinking that you are playing out your desires and enjoying life. A yogi never falls ill, he never faces abhav of anything, he does not have any kasht, if he is walking the marg of yog. But if due to any reason he wanders from the path of yog, then there is lot of kasht.