Questioner: Next question is from Mira. I'm a Devi devotee but I cannot visit ashram now,
ever since the lockdown. I feel very anxious and fearful all the time.
Is there a way I can invoke Devi's grace on a daily basis?
Sadhguru: (Laughs) Well, what is consecrated as Devi is a physical form here; the Moolasthanam
or the root form is here. But if her influence was just limited to the temple,
she's not worth wasting our time and energy on. Her influence is not determined by the physical space.
Wherever you are, if your doors are open, it's available.
Any... genuinely... you must understand, there are two different kinds
of images or two different kinds of consecrations. One is just a reverberation;
you can... you can even make this vessel reverberate but you cannot access this vessel from elsewhere,
because it's simply reverberating without specificity of what it intends to do; it has no intention or intelligence.
But consecrations which are as complex as the Devi or much more with the Dhyanalinga is;
they are not limited by physical space! Many, many people... the first time it happened in United States.
I think this was just the second program, Inner Engineering program we were doing.
There was a lady who was involved in all kinds of, you know, whatever, certain type of work
from Caribbean Islands. She went on doing something with her pencil in the book.
You know we have a problem with people taking down notes.
I said, "No, you cannot take notes. Just be with me."
She will be looking at me, not even looking at the book, just looking at me and just
doing this (Gestures scribbling) with her pencil. Then, at the end of the three hour session,
she said, "I don't know why this came... something came out of this and this is the thing that,
you know, the form that came out of me. I didn't know what happened.
As I was looking at you, I was trying to sketch you. But this is what I got."
It's a clear proportion of the Dhyanalinga, that... that must be still in our archive somewhere.
She just got the image of Dhyanalinga, like she completely… the whole page
she scratched with her pencil. What was left unscratched was just the form of Dhyanalinga, exactly.
The same exact proportion! (Laughs) But she was trying to make a picture of me.
So I'm telling you, consecrated forms are not limited to its physical space.
And you being anxious; well, you have this choice, every one of you have this choice,
you can use this mind, either to create well-being or misery for yourself.
This is one thing you have to come to terms with. You must understand,
if you're feeling wonderful right now, it must be because of you.
If you're feeling terrible right now, it is because of you.
Other things may stimulate, but essentially all human experience is caused by you, you and you alone.
How much are you enslaved to external situations is simply determined by
how compulsively reactive you are. If you're very reactive,
what is around you will determine how you are right now.
If you are a conscious response to the world in which you live, your well-being will be very much in your hands.
Devi's grace, can be used for something much higher than just beating your anxiety.