The predominant force in human life could be said to be inertia. Energy easily dissipates, spreading out. Days wind down in desuetude.

You go to sit down and fall into a rabbit hole called “YouTube.” You listen to a parent over the phone and feel drained afterward. You make a resolution or set an intention to wake up early and slowly or quickly it fizzles out. In fact, most of your efforts are stymied by custom, habit, and disposition.

This is why the nondual teaching often stresses how, early on, one needs to have and maintain a vigorous sadhana. This sadhana requires considerable, deliberate, ongoing efforts to be made. You must sacrifice. You must notice whenever inertia starts creeping in. You must, for a time, renounce

If you keep your sadhana relatively constant over a long enough period of time, then effort will naturally give way to effortlessness and the force called “inertia” will untense itself. But this is not to be hoped for or expected. The sadhana, instead, is to be diligently, almost naively carried forth until grace is everywhere felt.