How to get rid of all the addictive things mainly focus on smoking

Addiction is the biggest mistake of human beings which leads to repent. Nothing is bad to take, but the excessive use of that particular thing must be harmful. Now, we will see how to control to get the addict to a particular thing. You must look for those things which will heighten your faculties not lower your faculties, look at my eyes, I'm always stoned. There is a high when you can see better, hear better, think better, visualize better, there is a tremendous high with life. How to come off the addiction? Addiction like smoking, like drinking, something like that. No, because we know that’s a bad thing but we are addicted to doing that. But sometimes we smoke regularly in three hours once or two hours once or something like that but I know it's a bad thing, I have to come out of that.  I didn’t say it's a bad thing. I don’t think it's good or bad. It’s just quite stupid to be smoking. It's not good or bad, it's just stupid because this machine was not made to smoke. It is an eco-friendly machine, but now you are making it into a smoking machine, which means it's stupid.

Addiction for Smoking

A well, very efficient machine you make inefficient machine, is it not stupid, is it good or bad? There’s no such thing. Yeah, we know it's bad but…  See, that’s the whole thing. The thing is when you thought that this is true itself then you can't leave it. Why are you giving it titles that it is not? It’s just stupid, that's all. If you see something stupid you can't be doing it every day. Somewhere you feel smarter than other people, because of the taste. Now in the world slowly people have gotten against you. Just ten years ago if you blow it into somebody's face you felt great, they felt stupid. Now, the equation has reversed in the last ten years’ time. So, you thought it's a smart thing to do, somewhere you think of it. When you were just a 10-year-old kid you wanted to suck in and blow it out into somebody’s face. It felt like a smart thing to do.

A machine that doesn’t smoke to make it smoke, right now you are working so hard to make our cars smokeless, isn't it? An enormous amount of research into fuels and engines and everything is going on to make our car smokeless. A non-smoking machine if you make it smoke, isn't it a stupid thing? If you see that slowly it will drop off. Now, there is a certain chemical factor for this. Your chemistry has become dependent on nicotine or caffeine and whatever. That we will change, you just see you do Shambavi Mahamudra suddenly your whole system is so fired up, the need to smoke, the need to drink coffee, tea, everything just evaporates. Now, if you do it ‘only for the pleasure of it, that will give you only one-time relaxation and whole life as a repent.

One day you feel that drinking coffee then you just drink it. And also, for smoking that one day you feel like smoking you smoke, that’s up to you, but the obsession will be taken away. Physiological dependence will be taken away. We’ll do that with the practice but first, you see that it’s stupid to do it. How do we counterbalance the power of social structures put on by popular culture? It feels like it sometimes called youth in ignorance and has them carry out a suede perception of self-worth, and can also lead people to destructive behaviors like drugs and alcohol because it's so cool. It is impossible to escape.

See, instead of looking at these things as moral stuff, whether it's right or wrong because never have we been able to really decide what is right and what is wrong. One generation thinks this is it, next-generation thinks that’s trash. So, let's look at it this way, to enhance your life, is it the goal, is it the reason why you're in the university in some way you want to enhance your life. Well, somebody wants money, somebody wants wealth, somebody wants knowledge, somebody wants relationships, somebody wants to love, why? Because you believe it'll enhance your life in some way. 

We are not looking for money, power, love, anything. We are actually looking at how this can be little more than what it is right now. So, if you want to be a little more, is it important that all your faculties are a little more heightened than what it is right now? I'm just saying for simple ways of looking at things. Suppose you could see better than the way you're seeing right now, would your life be enhanced somewhat? If you could think better, see things better mentally, would your life be enhanced? So essentially an enhancement of your faculty’s enhancement of life in many ways. This question is everywhere. Youth in India have a question all the time, have influence in the government. Why don't do make marijuana legal for us?” “Why marijuana? We’ll make cocaine also legal. You want myth, we’ll make that also legal. What's the problem?” The problem is just this I asked them, “See, let me take you, you know, I'm a licensed pilot. So not me, but we'll get another pilot for you. On a small plane will take you on a nice ride but the pilot comes smoked up. You want to fly?” No, they don’t say, no. They say, “Ahh…” because they think by smoking, they are flying. Then I say, “Okay, you’re not getting it. You need major surgery. And the surgeon comes really smoked up. You want this surgery?” So, you understand it lowers your faculties. If you think by lowering your faculty, you will become better, then all the best; all the best because you will need a lot of luck and a lot of blessings because you will not live out of your own competence for sure. This is why I think everybody is talking about empathy, compassion because they don't want to live out of their own competence. They need other people's boost all the time. Now, if you lower your faculties, your life gets lowered or high? Lowered, so never use the word high again. You say I smoke when I'm low. This is not a moral issue for me. I have no morality in me, but life should work?

Suppose my eyes become dim, do I look better? If my mind becomes dim, do I live better? Why do people think by lowering the faculty's life, will get high? No, it doesn't. It’s just giving you an illusion like that for which you will pay a price. At this stage in your life, you must look for those things which will heighten your faculties, not lower your faculties. If you're interested, you come, I'll show you. Look at my eyes, I'm always stoned, yes look at me. Never touched the substance. The question is only whether you are ecstatic anxious is determined by, are you a good manager of this one or are you a lousy manager. That's all that is determining this. If you're a lousy manager, you are importing chemicals from outside. If you're a good manager, you are conducting this the way you want and blissed out all the time. There is a high when you can see better, hear better, think better, visualize better, there is a tremendous high with life. All should have to know that high, not foggy high.