How to retain knowledge for application at the correct time

I tell you do not doubt yourself. 

This is self-doubt, ‘I heard, but will this become practical? Will this happen in life or not?' This doubt you should not have.

Like you learned in nursery school, 2 + 2 = 4, once you learn it, then it stays with you. When you have to count, you say, ‘2 + 2 = 4’, it has already come to application. You don’t need to try to apply it in life. Application is spontaneous. 

So when you know, ‘Accept people as they are’, or ‘Present moment is inevitable’, whenever you are disturbed, automatically this knowledge comes up.

‘Oh, present moment is inevitable. Anyway, what can we do? It’s past. It’s gone.’ This knowledge comes to you automatically, as if you are programmed. Listening to knowledge means getting programmed. Once you are programmed, it comes whenever and wherever it is needed spontaneously.

‘I need to apply this knowledge in life’; this thinking is a big struggle. It is a big strain on your mind. You think it is not there. ‘I want to feed this information in the computer’. When you say, ‘I want to feed this information’, that means it is not there.

I tell you, the moment you listen to the knowledge once; it is already feeding in the computer, in the mind which is the super computer. You have already fed it. So, it comes to your help spontaneously, automatically. Don’t worry about applying the knowledge and leaving the knowledge. 

As long as you spend a little time refreshing it, turning the pages of the knowledge books or everyday listening to ten minutes of knowledge, then the application is spontaneous. 

But if you have not listened to knowledge for a long time, you are completely out of touch then you will forget. Only thing is, if you remember, application is spontaneous, automatic, and immediate. And if you have forgotten it then somebody has to remind you and for that you have to come to satsang, or to the Art of Living course and again refurbish the knowledge, refresh your memory.