Sadhguru: As the word Guru suggests – ‘gu’ means darkness, ‘ru’ means dispeller - dispelling darkness.
How to dispel darkness? You cannot kick the darkness out of a place
because darkness is not an existence by itself. Darkness is just absence of light.
When we say light, we value light because it brings clarity to us.
If there was no light, you cannot see clearly. Where there is light, you can see clearly.
So what you actually value is not light, it is the clarity that it brings.
If you were an owl - I said only if you were (Laughter)- if you were an owl
then darkness would bring clarity to you, light would be very disturbing and blinds you,
which is true for many creatures in the wild. For them, darkness brings clarity.
So essentially it doesn’t matter in what stage of life you are, what aspect of life you are addressing,
the most important thing is that you want clarity about it. You want to be able to see it the way it is.
Whatever it may be, whether it’s a simple physical thing like a tumbler, which somebody is not able to see
or mystical dimensions of life, you can deal with them properly… you can deal with them sensibly
only if you have ability to see it the way it is. Seeing things the way they are,
seeing everything the way it is, is clarity. If you very clearly see, what is the nature of your existence…
Right now, somebody is telling you – you are not the body, you are not the mind, you gathered this body.
Your mind is agreeing with it, but still, this is me, that’s you. Experientially it’s not true.
So if clarity comes into this experientially, if clarity is brought into you, when pain comes,
when disease comes, when physical suffering comes, you definitely wish you were not that.
It is not about what you wish, it is not about your reactions to situations that you face or suffer,
it is not at moments of compulsion what you see, it is in moments of utter clarity,
what you see is what really matters with life; if one wants to move ahead.
If you look at your experience of life, suppose you're in a dark room, you're not able to see anything.
Suddenly you're alone. If it lights up, you feel the world is with you. Nothing has changed.
Everything is the same way as it is. Just because you can see clearly,
the world has changed in your experience. So this is my work.