Sadhguru: I didn’t know questions were so popular (Few Laugh).
See, with all due respect to all the religious people…
See, religion essentially means belief in something.
Whenever somebody says, “I’m a religious person,” they refer to themselves as “believers.”
Yes? “Believers.”
“Believe” means what?
Means you do not know something, but you’re not willing to admit, “I do not know”,
so you believe it.
I am saying, if you do not know something, why don’t you just say, “I do not know”?
Hello? Is it okay?
Participants: Yes!
Sadhguru: I do not know something, I say, “I do not know”,
because “I do not know” is a tremendous possibility.
Only when you say “I do not know”, the longing to know, the seeking to know
and the possibility of knowing becomes a living reality in your life.
Everything “I do not know”, I believe.
This has led to a whole lot of things.
One thing it does is, it brings you confidence.
“I believe!” means it brings you confidence.
But confidence without clarity is a disaster.
This is a disaster that is unfolding in the world in many different levels.
People who don’t know a damn thing, who can’t see what’s in front of them, they are super confident.
It’s dangerous.
If you cannot see, at least you must be hesitant, isn’t it? Hello?
If you cannot see, you must at least be hesitant.
But you cannot see, but you’re confident.
This is what belief gives you – confidence without clarity.
How do you arrive at your belief? There’re many ways.
Can I tell you a joke? Is it okay, it’s a serious question?
Participants: Yes.
Sadhguru: Is… are you okay?
Participants: Yes.
Sadhguru: You’re looking so serious, I’m scared of you (Laughter).
This happened in New York City.
A eight year old boy came home from school in the afternoon.
At home, he had a very progressive mother. Obviously, she was single.
He came home and asked, “Momma, is God man or a woman?”
See this is a big debate in America.
Is God a man or a woman is a very big debate in America.
You know in the last election, they tried to settle it and you know what happened (Few laugh).
The mother thought, being a progressive woman,
she thought through this, all this gender politics that are going on in the country
and after much thinking, she said, “Both!”
Then the boy went into deep thought.
After sometime, he came back and asked, “Momma, is God black or white?”
You know in the previous election, they tried to settle this issue (Few laugh),
because racial politics is a very big thing.
She thought through all the racial politics that are going on in the country.
After much, much thinking, she said, “Both!”
Then the boy went into profound thought.
After much thinking, he came back and asked, “Momma, is God straight or gay?”
She thought through all the politics concerned with that aspect of life, and she said, “Both!”
Then the boy jumped in joy, “I got it! I got it!
It’s Michael Jackson (Laughter/Applause)!”
I don’t know how you arrived at yours (Few laugh).
You must understand, this is a Godless culture.
In this culture, we always told you, “Your life is your karma.”
Yes or no?
Participants: Yes.
Sadhguru: You’ve forgotten.
In this culture, we always told you, “Your life is your karma,”
this means your life is your making.
There’s nobody managing you from there (Gestures).
Your life is entirely your karma.
You are tall, you are short, you are capable, you are incapable, you can do something,
you cannot do something, we say, “Ayyo karma (Laughter).”
We are… we’ve been telling you forever, “Your life is entirely your making.”
But this we have turned it into somethingelse and now we are also start looking up, Upar Waala!
You are all engineering students.
You tell me, is this planet round or flat?
Participants: Round.
Sadhguru: Really?
It’s round?
Participants: Yes.
Sadhguru: Some of you saying no.
This girl (Laughter).
Is it a round planet, I’m asking you.
Participants: Yes.
Sadhguru: Yes.
Is it spinning?
Participants: Yes.
Sadhguru: So you are not even on the North Pole, you are at this Chennai.
Here, if you look up and the planet is spinning, you are inevitably looking up in the wrong direction.
Hello?
Participants: Yes.
Sadhguru: You don’t even know which is up.
In this cosmos, do you know which is up and which is down?
Hello?
Is it somewhere marked “This side up”?
Can you ever figure out which side is up in this cosmos?
Participants: No.
Sadhguru: No.
Then you’re looking up at what?
When you do not even know what is up, how do you know who is up (Applause)?
Does it mean to say, I created the universe?
No.
Obviously before you and me came, everything was here, isn’t it?
So now you must at least say, “I really don’t know.”
The problem is, somebody is a theist, somebody is an atheist.
They are not different people, just different clothing, same nonsense (Few laugh).
One person believes what he does not know in a positive way, another person believes
what he does not know in a negative way.
Both of them are believers of something that they do not know, isn’t it (Applause)?
what is the problem with the human being that you cannot admit “I do not know?”
It’s so wonderful of you, so human of you to say “I do not know”, isn’t it?
If you do not know,
if you realize that you truly do not know, your intelligence will be always alert, it never sleeps.
Always, every moment of your life.
Even in your sleep, it’ll stay awake, if you realize “I truly do not know.”
This believing has made you just eat pongal and (Gestures) (Few laugh) you know, just become lethargic.
The world has become lethargic.
When I say lethargic, not physically, intelligence has become lethargic, because they believe something.
Everybody believes some nonsense.
Can we be straight enough, the youth of this nation, I am asking you.
The youth of this nation, are we straight enough to say, “What I know, I know, what I do not know, I do not know.”
Is this okay with you?
Participants: Yes.
Sadhguru: The youth of India, I’m asking you.
Participants: Yes!