If these two things touch, many aspects are cleared out in you, for that period of time.
Many aspects means, your thoughts are clear, your emotions are out,
and there is a very clear perception of what’s happening around you.
Yoga is not about fitness. Fitness is just one consequence.
The important thing is, to get the right geometry of life.
Because physical universe is all geometry.
Moderator: Why is that wherever you go, to, you know, kind of preach or talk about stuff,
you sit in a particular position?
You know, with sandals removed from your left leg, left leg up and right leg on the ground intact.
Is it your style or is it a way that one person should sit?
Sadhguru: What is called as Hatha Yoga, the physical postures is,
it is about manipulating the body in such a way that you get to a certain geometric perfection,
that your geometry is aligned with the larger geometry of creation,
so that you are always in sync. You are never off.
And how balanced you are, how clearly you see things, and how well you do things,
simply depends on how much you are in sync with everything else around you.
Whether it’s people or trees or life or just space, are you in sync with it or not,
will decide how smoothly, how friction-free is your function in the world.
Now, I don’t sit like this all the time - only when I speak.
How I am sitting, if I have to explain…
There are many aspects to it.
One simple aspect is, the left heel, the left heel is..
there is a point on the left heel, that today the medical sciences are calling it as the “Achilles”,
you’ve heard of that? You’ve heard of the man? Achilles?
You heard of the man, you saw the movie? You didn’t see the movie? Troy? You didn’t see?
Tch, a innocent boy.
So, you put your Achilles to what is called as Mooladhara or the perineum in your body.
If these two things touch, many aspects are cleared out in you, for that period of time.
Many aspects means,
your thoughts are clear, your emotions are out,
and there is a very clear perception of what’s happening around you.
You’ve heard that Achilles was killed because an arrow was shot to his heel.
You don’t believe if somebody hurts your heel, you will die, isn't it so?
But Achilles died that way.
And there is another person who died that way in India, way before him.
Participant: Krishna
Sadhguru: Yesterday was his birthday – Krishna Janmastami - he also died this way.
What this is trying to tell you is, they were killed in an expert way.
Not just slitting your throat or breaking your head,
but just putting a point at the Achilles, so they had to die.
So, there is a certain system, energy system in the body.
If that point of Achilles is in touch with your Mooladhara, when you sit like this,
there is a certain balance, that you don’t take any sides.
See, all of us have our own opinions, ideas, ideologies, stuff.
Our own experiences of life.
Your own experiences of life and imprints that you have taken in your mind,
influences everything that you see.
You like this person, you don’t like this person, you love that person, you hate this person –
all this is because you are constantly taking positions of your own.
But if you really want to know life, the most important thing is, you don’t take any position.
You’re willing to look at everything fresh every moment of your life.
Absolutely fresh, every moment of your life.
This is very difficult for people to understand.
People who have been with me for thirty, thirty-five years,
every day, they are with me, working with me,
doing so many things, I still don’t have a single opinion about them.
Only when I need to do some work, I may look at their competence and stuff.
But I don’t have a single opinion about anybody who is around me for such a long time.
By now you should have formed your opinions, but I don’t, because
that is the essence of spiritual process, that we’re constantly looking at every life as a possibility.
There is of course a distance between possibility and reality.
Some will have the courage and commitment to travel that distance.
Some will not have the courage and commitment to travel that distance.
But, every life is a possibility.
If you want to keep that possibility open, you never ever form an opinion about anybody of any sort.
Good, bad, ugly – you don’t form these opinions, you simply look at them right now.
How are they right now, this moment, that’s all that matters to me.
How you were yesterday is not my business. How you may be tomorrow, let’s see.
Tomorrow must be created, not concretized right now, isn't it? (Applause)
It’s a certain geometry of the body, if you manage the geometry of the body well,
you must… I’m telling you,
right now the western cultures are going about propagating, “Yoga is another stretching exercise,
instead of that, you can do Pilates, instead of that you can do boxing,
instead of that you can play tennis.”
See, if you want to be just fit, go run somewhere, climb a mountain,
play tennis, do something.
Yoga is not about fitness. Fitness is just one consequence.
The important thing is, to get the right geometry of life.
Because physical universe is all geometry.
Now, this building is standing here.
How long it will stand, whether it will fall on our head today
or will it stand for a long time,
essentially depends on how geometrically perfect it is.
The same goes for the body,
the same goes for the planetary system, the same goes for the universe,
the same goes for everything.
Planet earth is going around the sun, not with a steel cable attached to it.
Just perfection of geometry, isn't it?
If little off-geometry if it happens, it’s gone forever, and that’s true with you also.
If you go off your fundamental geometry, you are gone.
It’s very important at an early age,
you do the right things to bring a right sense of geometry,
now, you become competent to go through life.
Those people who are thinking only good things should happen to them,
obviously they are unfit for life.
Because, if you do not know how to go through harsh situations well, joyfully,
then you will avoid all possibilities, isn't it?
You will avoid all great possibilities of life,
simply because you want to avoid little bit of difficulty.
Only when you are geometrically in a certain state of congruence,
then you are willing to go through any situation no matter what it is.