Questioner: My question is, are we alone in this universe?
Sadhguru: It’s extremely obnoxious for human beings to think that the cosmos is human-centric.
It is from this obnoxious nature that… this one mistake that they made about telling you
‘God made you in his own image’ has made human beings so stupid and wanton about everything.
Why can’t God look like a grasshopper? I’m asking. Why not? No, ‘He. looks like me.’ See
No, maybe he looks like a bug, maybe he looks like a buffalo, maybe he looks like a tiger, maybe he
looks like an elephant.Or maybe he does not look like any life on this planet, he looks some other way.
Or maybe he doesn’t look like anything. That’s not something that human beings are willing to face.
They have to believe God is a big man or a big woman. More hands, more legs but like us.
So this idea that certain religions have put into people’s minds made people believe that the whole cosmos
is human-centric, that everything is here for us. This wanton idea has destroyed the planet.
Every creature - our modern science has cooperated with this – our idea of science today is research and
research. What is it all about? It’s all about how can we use everything in the universe for our well-being.
If we see a tree we want to know how to use it. If we see a bird we want to know how to use it.
If we see a flower we want to know how to use it. A bug, a beetle, an atom – it doesn’t matter what,
everything we should know how to use it for our well-being. We’ve learned to use most of the things
but still wellbeing has not come, isn't it? We’ve learned to use everything, including human beings
but wellbeing has not come. If you just have the patience to sit down and observe either groups of ants or bees
or birds or any other animals, they have a full-fledged life and their own social interactions
of their own, one hundred percent. Far more active and vigorous lives than humanbeings, actually.
It is just that we think all these things are there. If somebody finds out tomorrow how to extract
protein from ants finished, all the ants are gone. We think this is science. This is madness, hello?
this is sheer madness. Everything has its place. If we don’t see that then we’ve lost it.
So about, ‘Is this cosmos human-centric, are we the only life?’ Just now I was priding myself that
I’m very logical, if I talk about my experiences you will think I’ve gone crazy. So I will leave it at this.
But it can’t be human-centric, it’s too big. It can’t be just human-centric. It is not.
For me it’s a living experience that it is not. It is just that I don’t want to
lose my reputation as being very logical. Because of that I refuse to talk about a few things.