Sadhguru: There is room of scope for improvement, relentlessly improve.
Let's see where it gets you.
Everybody is calling somebody enlightened compared to themselves.
You may be wonderful, tch, but you are not loyal to your wonderfulness.
Speaker: I'm not pursuing enlightenment with hundred percent sincerity, because at some
level I am not convinced that this is going to happen in this lifetime, given my limitations,
how to overcome this mental setup that I have?
Have you seen people coming close to this possibility and what are my chances (Applause)?
Sadhguru: Don't pursue enlightenment.
You cannot pursue enlightenment.
How can you pursue something that you do not know?
If you pursue something, you will pursue only what you know.
What is the point pursuing something that you already know?
What is the point in running after something that you already know?
So if you have to step into something that you do not know, the only thing is just to
keep walking.
Tch, keep a steady direction and keep walking.
Maybe it's a wrong direction.
It doesn't matter.
Just keep walking, after all planet is round (Laughter).
Inevitably, if you keep walking and keep straight walking, not round and round, if you just
keep straight walking, you will inevitably get somewhere.
Nobody can take it away from you.
Tch, you know, if you have a dog at home, you would know this.
If you just tickle him in the tail, he will go shhhh chasing his own tail.
Okay, a lot of people are doing that (Laughter).
Their own tail they're chasing.
Even enlightenment is their own tail (Laughter).
Nobody told you there is such a thing.
But definitely you can see from one person to another person, one person seems to be
a little better off simply the way they are.
Not because of their money, not because of their wealth, not because of their qualifications,
simply the way they sit and stand somebody seems to be better off than somebody else.
Yes or no?
So there is room and scope for improvement.
Relentlessly improve, let's see where it gets you.
But if you have fancy ideas of what is enlightenment, then you will chase that silly idea, and that
idea is never enlightenment.
Because it's your idea.
You cannot have an idea about something that you have no access to, isn't it?
All your ideas, concerns, things that you already know, may be permutations and combinations
of the same damn thing.
It's like God.
Because you're human, God is a big human being, isn't it?
We are a little more liberal, so we made animals, birds, snakes, everything, elephants, cows,
everything Gods because we understand after all they can have their own Gods.
But if you're very dogmatic and rigid, you think, “No, God is a human being, that too
a man, and that too, he has blond hair” (Laughter).
That's a very rigid dogmatic idea.
People who lived in other parts of the world never could imagine a blond haired God.
They just cannot.
Can you?
I'm sure African Gods have crinky (crinkly?) hair, Indian Gods have jet black hair (Laughs).
Something.
So, it's our idea.
Our ideas no matter what we do, only comes from what we already know.
Cannot be anything else.
So do not think up enlightenment.
You will just make a fool of yourself going round and round.
If you become an absolutely, absolutely, that means unconditionally wonderful human being
tch, you don't worry whether you are enlightened or not.
Other people will, if they want.They will say, “Oh, he's enlightened compared to me.”
Everybody is calling somebody enlightened compared to themselves.
“Look at me how I am, look at him how he is.
He must be enlightened.”
But there is no one benchmark out there – This is enlightenment.
Everybody is wonderful when things around them are properly arranged for them the way
they want, the way you want, huh.
When everybody behaves the way you want, you are also wonderful.
When people don't behave the way you want, when life doesn't work the way you want, then
to be wonderful it takes something else.
So when everything is going dead wrong with your life, with your family, with your profession,
with your life, everything around you, if you're still wonderful, for now, let us say
you're enlightened.
All right?
If you must set a benchmark, but something wonderful happened, something so wonderful
that nothing could affect that wonderfulness – other people say it's enlightenment.
You never say.
I'm pursuing enlightenment means one day you're going to declare yourself I'm enlightened,
then everybody will know you're a nutcase (Laughter).
If others say “Oh, he's enlightened,” good.
You declare “I'm enlightened” (Laughter).
This will be a case, isn't it?
You may be wonderful, tch, but you are not loyal to your wonderfulness.
You are joyful.
You are sometimes blissful.
You're even loving but not loyal to these qualities.
A beautiful flower throws out fragrance.
The flower is very loyal.
Tch, no matter if you pluck it also it's still fragrant.
If the cow eats it also it's fragrant.
If the bee messes around also, it's fragrant.
It never got angry and turned into a skunk ever.
But you're not like that.
You are wonderful like this.
If somebody pokes you, you will become a skunk (Laughter).You're not loyal to your wonderfulness.
This happened.
Shankaran Pillai was running a pet shop and there was a nice dog, a golden retriever,
a wonderful dog.
Somebody came to buy this grown up dog.
They asked, “How much?”
He said, “2,000 dollars.”
He said, “What?
2,000 dollars for a dog, isn't it too much?”
Shankaran Pillai said, “Just look at him.
Isn't he wonderful?”
The man looked at it and said, “Yes, he's a wonderful dog.”
He paid the money, he was taking but he asked, “Is he loyal?”
“Of course, he's loyal.
I sold him seven times and he's back in hours” (Laughter).
So all you loyal to your wonderfulness, this is all you have to do.
Instead of pursuing enlightenment, just do this.
Choose any one thing I will leave it to you, either joy or blissfulness or love or anger
or hatred, you choose whatever you want.
Just be loyal to one thing, every moment of your life.
How's that?
You will become enlightened.
The problem right now is of loyalty.
You keep chasing your own tail.
You keep running, of course, but you think you're going somewhere.
You're not going anywhere.
Especially if you're pursuing enlightenment, you definitely not going anywhere.
Just stay loyal to one quality that you choose.
I won't even tell you be loving, be joyful, be blissful.
No, if you like anger, if you like hatred, if you like jealousy, but every moment you
must be like that.
That's all.
Your job is done.
Really, that's all it takes.
No matter what is happening, whatever may be happening, you just be loyal to one quality.
Nischala thatvam jeevan mukthi.
If you're unwavering, that is all.
Right now the problem is it's going all over the place (Laughs).
Every moment your loyalty is changing, isn't it?
When you sit here, “Yes, Sadhguru” (Laughter).
Just one damn thing, choose any damn thing, just be loyal to that one thing every moment
of your life.
It's a dumb thing.