Sadhguru: After all, moon is a satellite for this planet
and helplessly strung to this planet and making its rounds.
So, what is the significance?
Why these full moons and no moons are held significant?
Probably many of you know that
you may not know - I hope you do not know this by experience.
You should know that
if someone is mentally disturbed
on a full moon day, on a new moon day
they get little more disturbed than usual.
You’re aware of this? Hmm?
Happens to you? (Laughter)
Sir, yourself, you just be with me, don’t worry about the camera. (Laughs)
So, it doesn’t happen to you but it does happen to somebody.
So, it is not that moon instigates madness,
it is just that when the moon takes certain positions
it heightens whatever you are.
If you are loving you become more loving.
if you are joyful you become more joyful.
If you are blissful you become much more blissful.
If you are little insane you become much more insane.
If you are meditative you become far more meditative.
It just enhances everything that you are.
So, we considered these days important
so that you consciously create the right kind of quality in you so that it gets enhanced.
Today is Poornami, in the morning you get up and you be in a certain way,
you create a certain quality in you so that by evening that quality is enhanced.
So, whatever the qualities that you are,
so that you start engineering it more consciously
than being a victim of unconscious eruptions within yourself.
So, the moon is not …does not make you mad or meditative,
it just enhances whatever you are.
You know, even the ocean goes mad?
If you...
if you are a swimmer on the beach it's madness for you
but if you are a skipper of a large vessel it is a boon for you (Laughs)
but something is happening.
The very ocean is trying to rise.
When the very ocean is trying to rise,
the situation may be conducive for you also to rise probably, if you are willing to make use of it.
And moon’s influence on human life is far more than that.
To do anything with yourself,
to be aware where the moon is could be useful
because it creates different types of qualities and energies in the system.
If one is aware he could make use of it.
In English language
moon is lunar.
If you take a step further you become a lunatic. (Laughs)
So, generally the influence of the moon is considered illogical.
Anything illogical generally in the West got labeled as madness
or insanity,
but here we always saw the limitations of logic.
Logic is very useful to conduct the material aspect of your life.
If you want to do your business, you want to build a house,
you want to do all the things in the world
you have to be logical; there is no other way to conduct it.
This is the problem with us
to conduct the outside we call the divine,
to conduct the inward we try to go at it logically; both won't work for us.
So, when it comes to subjective dimensions of life,
if you are not willing to step beyond the limitations of your logic
then nothing ever will happen.
If I ask you to close your eyes and do something very simple,
you sit here and calculate “Okay, if I do this what will I get?
What will happen? This, this, this…” -
nothing will ever happen to you!
If anything beautiful has to touch you in your life,
if meditation has to touch you,
if love has to touch you, if bliss has to touch you, you must be illogical.
Everything is logically correct but you have a long face
because everything is correct with you. (Laughs)
You are correct
but life doesn’t work like that.
If you wake up in the morning tomorrow morning when you wake up,
lying down in your bed, think 100% logically.
Do not think of all those beautiful moments in your life,
do not go back to any experience which matters to you,
do not think of the birds in the sky, the sunrise, the flowers in your garden,
your child’s face or a loving moment in your life, don’t look at any of that, just think logically.
Now, you actually have to get out of bed,
that’s not a small feat.
Hmm?
Is it a small feat?
It's not a small feat.
And then you have to go to the toilet,
then you have to eat, work, eat, work, eat, go to sleep.
Again tomorrow morning same thing.
Cut out the experiential aspect,
think of your life 100% logically and see
you have to do the same damn things for the next 30, 40, 50 years,
and if you do yoga, it gets elongated. (Laughter)
It gets stretched further, you know.
The same nonsense everyday, everyday, everyday
just think logically, is it worth it?
Is it worthwhile?
No.
Moments of extreme logic are moments of suicide
and all of you have been committing suicide like this
but you don’t do anything these days in one shot,
you do everything in installments.
You are committing suicide also in installments.
I want you to just look back if you are unable to look back,
when you go home today I want you to rummage into your old pictures and see
when you were 5, 6-six years of age how your face was, it was like this… (Gestures - Laughter)
Now, (Gestures) (Laughs) it's getting longer and longer.
So,
if you have to step out of your logic,
unless you do it in a certain way,
it sounds senseless
because right now your idea of sense is only logical, isn't it?
But please see, the most beautiful moments in your life have happened to you
only when you kept your logic aside a little bit.
Yes?
Logically examine your love affair and see, it’ll be the most stupid thing you can do,
really.
Yes or no?
Maybe it's the most beautiful thing in your life
but logically dissect your love affair and look at it, it is the most idiotic thing you can do
but it might have become the most beautiful experience in your life.
So, the logical dimension of life
and the experiential possibility of who you are are diametrically opposite.
So, in yoga we look at you as two aspects - the sun and the moon.
You have seen the symbolism?
You have heard of the word Hata Hata yoga?
Hata means… ha means sun, ta means moon.
So, these are the two dimensions. There are various symbolisms for this.
You have seen Shiva being represented as half man, half woman,
all these things to suggest
there is a logical dimension to you and there’s a dimension beyond that.
If you do not explore both
you will be an incomplete human being
or you will be only half alive.
So, when we say a spiritual process or yoga or whatever,
what we are looking at is
how to become a full-fledged life process,
not a half life process.
Just the body is alive, that’s not good enough.
Everything in you should be aflame, only then you will see…,
whether something is happening or nothing is happening, it's worth being here.
If you sit here, it's worth being here.
If you open your eyes it's worth being here, if you close your eyes it's worth being here
otherwise whatever is happening it’s not worth being here
simply because only a part of you is alive, the other part has… is yet to come alive.
So, the moon
today being a full moon,
the clouds are hiding it but don’t worry,
whether you can see it or not the influence of the moon is very much there.
Because, on a no moon day or a new moon day
the influence of the moon is far more than on the full moon day.
So, whether you perceive something or do not perceive something
is not the issue; the influence is anyway there.
There is a logical element to you which helps you to handle the material well.
There is a dimension beyond logic,
without it the subjective dimensions can never be accessed.
The moon is a symbolic representation of that dimension.