How to overcome laziness in performing certain worldly activities?

[Reply to a question by Shri Anil] Swāmi replied: Laziness too has a good side in that it helps in postponing bad activities that a person might do in worldly life as well as in spiritual life. The habit of doing things immediately, without laziness, also has a bad side in that it makes the soul do bad activities hastily, without analysis. Both habits of laziness and doing things immediately should be maintained simultaneously so that each can be used in their appropriate contexts. Eliminating any quality is not wisdom. Using it in the proper context is wisdom. God has created all these qualities and given them to you so that they can be used in their proper contexts. Eliminating any quality is impossible. Each quality has accumulated in you over millions of past births and now has solidified to form a huge hill. So, instead of trying to eliminate the qualities, you can only use it for the appropriate purpose. You have purchased a sharp knife. Use it only to cut vegetables in your kitchen and not to kill some animal (zoological living being).

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