Q. 220: Gurudev, you told that God can be experienced in a state of effortlessness. What does it mean to be effortless?

Gurudev Sri Sri Ravi Shankar:

Being effortless does not mean stop eating, drinking or doing other work. This has a deeper meaning. Keep on doing all your work, and while doing your work, know inside you that you are doing nothing. In the beginning, you sit for some time and experience that you are doing nothing. Then you will start experiencing that even though you are doing but there is a field in you which is not doing anything.

Ancient sages had beautifully explained this. There are two birds sitting on the same tree. One is eating and the other is only witnessing this. In the above context, it is the free bird which is being discussed, the bird which is effortlessly witnessing. Pay attention to that also. The two birds are friends. They live together. One is always witnessing and the other is involved in all the work. Effortlessness does not mean sitting idle.

Lord Sri Krishna said in Gita that you cannot be without doing any action even for a second. Keep on doing your karma and at the same time be the witness of your karma. This is very deep knowledge.

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