That has happened in this country [India]: trust became inactivity. This country has thought for centuries that if you trust in God, then there is no need to do anything. And it looks logical too: if you trust that he is the doer, then why should you bother? You just sit silently, wait; whenever it is going to happen, it is going to happen; and if it is not going to happen, it is not going to happen. Why interfere? The whole country became lethargic, passive. It has lost all luster.
And the West has taken another extreme: because God's existence became suspicious through scientific evolution, God is no more so certain as he used to be, his existence is uncertain, so to trust in him may be simply stupid. Man has to act on his own. So the West has taken just the opposite route, to be active, constantly active – so much so that even in the night people cannot fall asleep. The activity has become chronic; even in their sleep they toss and turn and they talk and they dream. Their sleep is a disturbed sleep, and many have completely forgotten how to sleep.
Insomnia is becoming almost a universal phenomenon in the West – too much activity. Because “God is not”, so you cannot trust.
In the East, too much inactivity – because “God is”, So you need not act – but both standpoints are utterly foolish.
Trust simply means that you relax into your nature. Whether God is or is not has nothing to do with trust. That too has to be understood.