Laziness is to be conditioned against a particular activity || Acharya Prashant, with youth (2015)

Questioner: What is laziness?

Shri Prashant: When you are conditioned against something, then you do not want to do it. This is laziness. Nothing else is laziness.

The Clarity Sessions at Advait Sthal start at 9:00 a.m. One day, in one such session, some of the visitors reached late. So I asked them, “*Why were you late?*” They said, “I*t was so cold and foggy early morning. Laziness took over us. And the distance between our place and the Sthal was quite a bit.*“

I said, “*The distance will be same even while going back. If you felt lazy while coming and travelling this distance, you should feel equally lazy while going back. So today, you will not go back! Because you are so lazy. Now that you are here, just sleep, relax, and eat. Let your folks from home come and pick you up.*“

When you don’t want to do something, you feel lazy. It’s as simple as that. And why do you not want to do anything? Because all your wants emanate from your conditioning.

Conditioning will never want to do something which goes against it. And, conditioning will be dead against something which threatens to dissolve the conditioning.