-Sadhguru, what is personality, how does one develop it.?
-If, you look at what you call as a human being, it’s a certain amount of life energy,
manifested within a certain form.
As there is a physical form, there is also an energy form to complement that.
But that also is a structured form.
The more and more one develops his personality..
Personality means- the more and more you identify yourself with the limited qualities in life
you become a strong personality.
You have very strong sense of what is right and wrong, you have very strong sense of what
you like and dislike .all listings establish your personality.
This makes you rigid.
With this rigidity, in the physical spheres of life you can push your way through, because
you have a strong personality.
all the time, today especially, if you are planning to become something in the world,
let's say you want to become an executive, you want to be run a corporate ,whatever,
you want to start your own business, people are telling you: you must believe in yourself,
you must tell yourself ,I'm great, I can do it..Kind of things..
You’re trying to establish your personality, so that you can push your way through in the
world.
Some kind of physical success in the world ,some kind of social success which is socially
relevant could be achieved by having a strong personality.
Now, when we say a spiritual process, we are trying to dissolve this personality, because
the stronger your personality -the more rigid your energies become, the more rigid your
energies are.
Less the possibility of you transcending into higher dimensions of life.
Because you are sort of concretize yourself with your likes and dislikes ,opinions ,ideas,
philosophies ..Whatever .so spiritual process means -we are trying to dissolve all that
you created .first of all to understand why we are trying to dissolve this is- why did
you construct something?
Simply because, somewhere you never tasted the basis of who this is.
You never experienced this one, so you are trying to build a false entity, which will
somehow survive.
Somewhere you felt so inadequate as a being, that you're trying to become some kind of
person, with some strength.
Because you never tasted the strength of this being.
now you're trying to taste the false strength of your personality.
because there is such a deep insecurity of being not worthwhile.
You’re trying to make yourself worthwhile, by building a personality.
and these personalities, what kind of personality you build ,is subject to so many inputs that
you take in your life ,is subject to what you are exposed to: your culture, your religion
,your family ,your education ,all this things are playing a role in building your personality.
As I’ve said its socially relevant, it has no life relevance…
Your personality cannot go anywhere .it can go to the office ,it can go home, it can go
on the street, but it has no place to turn inward.
it cannot touch any other dimension of your life.
it is only a tool, to push your way through in the world.
When you Say: I’m turning spiritual, now you have a longing to taste, experience and
establish yourself in other dimensions of life.
if that has to happen ,you need a presence.
You need connection with life, not with the false structures that you have built.
so all sadhana is towards that .So, as a person becomes a spiritual possibility, that means
he is become more malleable.
He is not rigid.
He is no more a burnt pot.
If we look at you like a pot, he's no more a burnt pot.
He’s just formed himself, because he also has to still live in the society.
But this is a melt pot, which is just clay.
Any time you could melt, and let what is inside burst forth.
He is not burnt his clay, he’s kept it row.
any moment you want, if he just keeps himself in the water- he will be gone .you make a
part out of the earth, if you don't burn it ,if you just deep it into the water, 2 minutes
and try to take it out ,nothing will come with you, it's all gone.
But if you burn it, if you keep it there for 10 years, still it won’t go.
It is right there.
So, what you're doing in terms of building the personality is- the form that is necessary
to survive in this existence, you are concretizing it.
Spirituality means- you are de-concretizing it, so that, it is malleable.
You still maintain a form, you still play around with a personality, but ..it is not
you.
any moment you want ,you can just drop it .now you can enjoy your person also.
But above all, you enjoy your presence.
Less personality you carry, more presence you have.
more personality you carry- very little presence you have.
so all sadhana is towards this- to dissolve the personality, and enhance the presence
of life in you.
-Sadhguru, what is desire.
Buddha says we must give up all desire.
How to do it?
- Do you want to know the answer?
Do you want to know the answer?
Yes?
Do you have a desire for it or no?
Do you have a desire to know this answer or no?
Yes..
So the very basis of everything that you are is desire, isn't it?
If somebody says: give it up!
Just because somebody says ,give it up ,can you give it up?
All you will end up with, is you will have a huge desire to give up all desires.
I don't want to have any desires..
Is that also a desire?
Yes or no?
Is that also a desire?
So, tell me what would you do without a desire?
Your very existence is desire.
Isn’t it?
Yes.
this heart is beating, this breath is happening ,the bodies functioning ,every cell in the
body's pulsating right now, because there is an enormous amount of desire in everything
.otherwise it cannot exist .so what you call as life and what you call as desire -is not
different .if you drop your desire -you drop your life, are you ready?
- No. -you have a desire to live obviously..
So don't take a philosophies, which are against the very basis your life, by misunderstanding
somebody ,who lived here 2500 years ago.
you did not listen to Budda.
you read all those books, that stupid followers wrote about him.
2500 years later, he already ,what was said just a month ago at the class, this just change
color.
2500 years later, if you talk about me, you know how you interpret me?
so many distortions will happen.
Isn’t it?
So, Gautama could not have said something so stupid, as “Drop you desires” . He’s
an intelligent man obviously.
He knew his way to the beyond. he taught the way to the beyond to thousands of people.
So he cannot say such a stupid thing ,as drop your desire .because, wanting to drop my desire
itself ,is desire. isn't it?
He won’t say such things.
Let’s not dig up his grave and make him roll around.
it's not necessary.
Too much misinterpretations have happened to all the Budhas, the Krishnas, The Ramas
, the Jessuses.. too much misinterpretations have happened .that's why I'm saying :don't
bother about those people.
You don't have to bother about them, because they lived wonderfully .you only have to do
karmas to those people who lived badly. isn't it ?Yes?
like your father and grandfather you have to perform karmas, to slowly push them to
heaven, because they must've live badly.
you don't have to do any karma to Gauthama Budda, or Krishna or somebody else, because
they know their way.
they know their way here, they know their way beyond.
You don't have to do anything to them.so, leave them alone.
if they have inspired you to come here- their job is done.
They cannot do anything more now.
if their stories have inspired you to seek a spiritual process ,that is good .nothing
beyond that they can do.
So let us not interpret them or misinterpret them now.
you look at it from your own intelligence.
if you look at it from your intelligence can you see, that no desire -no life.
Yes or no?
yes.so let's proceed from there.
Now ,all the desires that you desire, will they be fulfilled?
Cannot be.
so many of them will naturally be unfulfilled.
so desire is not the source of misery.
Unfulfilled desire is the source of misery.
Desire, when it's fulfilled, It’s a source of joy, isn’t it so?
the only joy that you know is fulfilling desires.
Is it so?
The only joy that you know in your life is fulfilling desires, isn't it?
and only misery that you know is- unfulfilled desires.
so what you call as desire ,seems to be falling both ways.
source of your joy is desire -the source of the misery is desire.
And I’m telling you the source of your very life is desire.
So you cannot destroy the desire and have a wonderful life.