Sadhguru: Having just shifted into dakshinayana
or the southern run of the sun,
of the relationship between the planet and the sun
has moved into the southern mode.
In the yogic culture,
this is held as the sadhana pada –
that means
this is the best time to work upon yourself.
And the end of the month is Guru Poornima.
Today,
just about everybody has a day for themselves (Laughs).
There are pet food days,
there are bubble bath days (Laughter),
there’s a Diabetes Day (Laughter),
of course many other days of some significance.
Of course now there’s a Yoga Day
but before all this happened,
there was a day for the guru (Laughs),
which is the Guru Poornima (Laughs).
So, that’s at the end of this month.
It's a… a very powerful pournami
on the full moon night
because the shifting of dakshinayana
and the first, second… the first three pournamis till the equinox
are of certain significance
for those who are doing internal things within themselves.
So this Guru Poornima is a reminder
that for the first time,
a being of immense possibilities and capabilities
took this step of wanting to share –
not by his own will,
he was kind of conned into it, tch.
I don’t want to go into the entire story now,
but he was kind of done (Laughs).
That’s why I said it’s very courageous
but a little, tch (Laughs).
So here we are.
This part of the world has always been referred to as
karma bhoomi –
that means a place to do things for yourself,
where you can take your destiny into your hands.
It's not that in other parts of the world you cannot do it –
you can.
It’s just that
here, because of certain natural forces,
there is an added support,
an advantage,
which people made use of
for millennia
and built structures and instruments through which
it could be enhanced.
And in the same
in the same aspiration,
to create a fantastic tool for people’s evolution
or hastening one’s evolutionary process,
someone dreamt of Dhyanalinga.
But he was very smart,
he didn’t attempt doing it (Laughter).
I think he must have been looking for a fool,
who was willing to attempt such a thing (Laughs),
and he found one
things happened (Laughs).
Liberation is scary because
you’re trying to remove the walls of prison
that you’ve been so used to.
When I say “so used to,”
it is not a question of one lifetime.
There’s a memory of entire evolutionary process in this (Referring to oneself).
Within your brain,
there is something called as a reptilian brain.
It is that dimension of your brain,
which is always thinking,
“How to fix a boundary?
What about my security?”
The other part of the brain,
which makes you a human being,
which is known as cerebral cortex,
is always looking,
“How to expand,
how to enhance,
how to empower myself?”
But the reptilian brain is always thinking of
how to build a wall around myself for my own safety and security.
So in search of security,
you’re downgrading the evolutionary process for yourself.
You need to understand that
the walls of self-preservation
are also the walls of self-imprisonment.
The coming of the Guru Pournami means for the first time,
for the first time,
someone brought this dimension into human life -
that if you are willing,
you can break all the boundaries
that even nature has fixed.
Not just your psychological boundaries,
not your emotional boundaries,
even existential boundaries that nature has fixed –
you can transcend all that.
So, the Guru Pournima
or the day of the guru
can also to be remembered as the day of liberation
because the possibility of liberation for the first time,
was opened up for human race.