I want to experience this life within me to
the maximum.
So in addition to my kriyas,
which I do every day without fail,
what else should I do
to take this experience to the maximum?
I want to experience that magic of life you talk about.
Thank you.
Sadhguru: You must live!
So, what does it need to live?
Not live it out,
live it in.
(Laughs)
People think if they want to live,
they want to live it out.
Party every day.
Party every day philosophy works for some time, you know.
If you are eighteen
You’re not, okay.
I’m not…
I’m not trying to
If you are eighteen, (Turns his face to the other side, covering his face with one hand)
(Laughter)
then you may last five days, sixth day you’ll be down.
If you’re thirty, you’ll last for three days,
fourth day you’ll be down.
If you are fifty - two days you’ll be down.
If you’re sixty, in the party you’ll go down (Laughter).
So nothing
I have nothing against the party,
it’s not very practical, that’s all.
And it’ll become the most
monotonous horror after some time
party every day.
Hmm?
So what should I do?
The kriya is only an impetus.
It is not an end in itself.
The kriya is trying to enhance your energies.
Daily, every day without fail, I heard that
and I’ll remember that and I’ll…
(Laughter) Hmm?
Okay.
Now the kriya can function in different dimensions,
when we teach it in the program
we will teach it in such a way it is safe for a beginner.
There’s a safety issue always.
If you’re going to make somebody climb up this tree,
if it is a five-year-old kid
you will make him go that much,
if it’s a ten-year-old kid that much, you know.
There’s a safety issue.
So, it is taught in a certain way.
When you exhaust that dimension,
which will take a certain period of time for people
depends,
some people exhaust that quickly,
some people exhaust that over a lifetime,
the possibility that it offers just in that dimension.
And it is also an inbuilt mechanism
that if you hit the full depth and dimension of the kriya
in a certain a period of time
and stay there steadily,
it’ll open up a new possibility by itself.
It’s…
It’s designed like that,
the software is designed like that,
that step-by-step it’ll hold you at a certain place for a certain time,
when it feels your physiology and psychology is stable enough,
it’ll move you to next level of intensity.
If you’re not willing to wait
for this process to unfold by itself naturally,
then I would say
once a year
or twice a year
or thrice a year
or the whole year, that’s your choice,
you can make it your choice,
you fix a time for sadhana
full time sadhana,
maybe a week,
maybe fifteen days whatever you can afford in your life.
You come, stay here,
one week sadhana,
fifteen days sadhana, whatever
that suits and fits into your life,
you do that.
For you I would say twice a year –
full-time sadhana.
A few days in a year is only for sadhana,
not for anything else.
Not morning sadhana, evening sadhana,
just twenty-four hours sadhana for a short span of time.
If you invest this kind of time,
you can do that unfolding much, much faster,
rather than allowing it to mature at its own natural pace,
you can push it.
You should do that.
And, of course,
being in a state of devotion is very conducive.
You can every day sit like this
and do it like an exercise.
Don’t take such vows,
‘Till the last day of my life, I will do it.’
Do it today,
you’re committed only for one day.
And see this day that this could be your last day.
Possible?
Possible or no?
Possible.
We’re not wishing it,
but possible.
So this could be your last day.
Do your kriya like this could be your last day.
Hmm?
You’ll unfold much faster
’cause now you’re thinking next eighty-two years
I’m going to do it,
so the inner mechanism is thinking
okay, she’s got a lot of time (Laughs).
You do it like today is the last day,
then it’ll hurry up a little bit.
Or if we find you’re stable enough,
suitable enough,
we will step in and tweak it up
in a completely different way.
There are many things to do,
but the most important thing is to
do the kriya with a certain sense of devotion and offering
rather than like an exercise.
If you do it like an exercise you’ll get health benefits,
but if you want to explode,
then you must take away your inner structures,
then it’ll burst very easily.
(Questioner): Pranam Guruji.
I heard this many times from people,
that there is just ‘no pleasing everybody.’
So from now on I live for myself and please myself.
Is this a selfish path to go on.
Can it be justified in some way?
And another question, being a Hindu and having grown up with it,
I'm often asked, ‘What is Hinduism?’ and I get all mixed up
so many gods and goddesses such vastness, how do I put it into words,
so if you can, please give us all the best definition of Hinduism
that will be really grateful.
Thank you.
(Sadhguru): Ok.
Now ‘hell with the world, let me please myself.’
So the very fact that you are trying to please yourself means
that you are not joyful by your own nature, isn't it?
You don’t have to please anybody in this world.
If you are truly joyful everybody is pleased by you.
Yes?
You see a beautiful flower on the plant, it is not interested in pleasing you,
but by looking at it you feel very wonderful, isn’t it?
Sun is setting and there is a wonderful color in the sky,
you think the sky is trying to please you?
It is just the way it is,
and you are pleased by looking at it.
If something has become beautiful,
it is not trying to make you happy, but you anyway become happy, isn't it?
You have to make yourself like that.
You don’t have to please any body.
This is not for somebody else’s sake.
Tell me how do you want your life to be - pleasant or unpleasant?
You become pleasant not for somebody else’s sake.
In body, if you become pleasant we call this health and pleasure.
In mind if you become pleasant, we call this peace and joyfulness.
In emotion if you become pleasant, we call this love and compassion.
In your energies if you become pleasant, you, we call this blissfulness and ecstasy.
Is this what you want?
No?
What is this?
You don’t want pleasantness?
(Questioner): pleasantness but I felt that in trying to gain all these
(Sadhguru): No, don’t try to gain this, is this what you want?
Yes.
As much pleasantness as possible within you and around you,
is this what you want?
Yes.
That’s Fine.
I am just giving names that usually are used,
but fundamentally, whether you call it peace or joy or ecstasy whatever,
this is just pleasantness, isn’t it?
Different levels of pleasantness.
So whatever is the maximum level of pleasantness possible
in your body, mind, emotions and energies, do you want it?
Yes.
So we just have to just look at that.
How to make this one utterly pleasant?
If you make this one utterly pleasant,
you will deal with the world to the best of your ability, and that’s all we can do.
That’s all we can do, isn’t it?
Whether you stand on your feet or on your head,
you can only deal with it only to the extent that you are capable, isn't it?
But if you are pleasant and very pleasant, there is not much dealing involved,
very little.
Because when you are very pleasant, people around
you will make everything happen for you.
Really
If you are truly pleasant, everybody will take care of you.
See I travel around the world without a rupee, or a pound or a dollar in my pocket.
Wherever I land, I am well taken care of.
Why are these people doing this?
Because I have not done anything to them,
I am not going to give them a million because they give me a pound today.
It is just that when you are in the company of utter pleasantness,
you also become pleasant.
And that’s what everybody is seeking, isn’t it?
To be pleasant within themselves, to be pleasant around them.
So you don’t have to please anybody.
The flowers are not trying to please you.
That’s the way they are, so we have them here, because they are so pleasant, isn’t
it?
If they were not pleasant, we wouldn’t keep them here, would we?
Don’t ever imagine the flowers are trying to please you or anybody.
They are, they don’t care a hoot for you.
Really!
They just don’t care a hoot for you, but their, it’s their nature to be pleasant,
so they are pleasant.
Because they are pleasant we want them around.
If you are pleasant, everybody would want you around, that’s all.
You don’t have to deal with them, you don’t have to be pleasant to people,
you don’t have to try to be sweet to anybody.
If you are just pleasant,
whichever way you are its fine.