Many people have the habit of keeping unwanted things and stuffing up their spaces with such things. They neither use it nor throw it away. This is clutter.

Example:

(a) It may be the old clothes that you store, hoping for them to come back to fashion, or which have been given as gifts - expensive ones, but you don’t like them, because they are of synthetic material. You don’t wear them because of one reason or the other, but you do not throw them away either.

(b) Old magazines, paper, clippings from newspapers, old books which you hope may be useful some day but actually more than five years have passed without you having read/used them, even once.

(c) Chipped or broken show pieces, etc.

(d) Old video cassettes and old audio cassettes.

(e) Old appliances which don’t work anymore.

(f) Watches and clocks, that are not working.

(g) Junk and old newspapers.

(h) Very old account and record books, more than 15 years old.

(i) Mental clutter - old emotional and traumatic memories.

Remove all the clutter from your life, if you want to progress. Clutter holds people back, each piece of junk attaches an invisible string to you, and all this hampers progress, because each of these hoarded things occupies a space (like megabyte of computer memory) of your mind. We have only limited space in the mind and we should not clutter it up. Get rid of all physical and mental clutter, and see how free, comfortable and happy you feel! Just as the same way a Yogi, gets rid of social ties for spiritual progress, you should get rid of your extra physical possessions, for materialistic progress !

Another thing you can do after clutter clearing is to light up incense sticks daily in the house, for space clearing. You may even ring a bell after pooja, all over the house - if you like.