Sadhguru: Human experience upon this planet is essentially the way
our sense organs perceive something.
Whatever we perceive, if it is pleasant upon our senses, we experience it one way.
And what we perceive, if it is unpleasant upon our senses then that is what in our experience
becomes filth.
So if our surroundings are not clean, or in other words, if our surroundings are not pleasant
upon our senses, the images that we create in our mind, the projections that happen
upon our experiencing mechanism or the seat of our experience is unpleasant.
When you create unpleasantness like this, then to go into blissful states of experience
or to take charge of the seat of experience so that you can consciously generate the nature
of your experience or you can consciously dictate the nature of your experience will become difficult.
Spiritual process essentially means just this that everything that you are, will happen consciously.
That is, your experience of life is determined by you.
Because your experience of life is determined by you, whether you’re peaceful or disturbed
is not determined by the atmosphere, whether you are happy or unhappy is not determined
by the nature of what’s happening around us.
Whether you are miserable or joyful is also dest… determined essentially by what you’re
doing with yourself within yourself.
If this has to happen, it is important that our sense organs are not perceiving something as unpleasant.
So creating a clean atmosphere is a natural consequence of people turning spiritual.
As a part of this, we have done a lot of work.
In the yogic culture, shoucha (Referring to Sanskrit word – purity) is an important
aspect of one’s spiritual development.
Both physiological and the surrounding spaces being in a state of shoucha is very important
because our cleanliness is not just within the body.
Everything that we perceive through sense organs can either create filth or well-being within ourselves.
Based on this, much has happened.
We at Isha have created an exemplary sense of cleanliness in people around us.
In all the fifty three thousand villages in Tamil Nadu, we’ve brought this
sense of cleanliness in what is happening there.
You can see very distinctly that what it may be in other places, if you enter the places
or villages where a certain amount of spiritual movements have happened, there is a certain
sense of cleanliness - both of the way people are about personal hygiene and public spaces,
there is a difference.
Still there is a lot to be done but I feel the biggest lapse is there is no system to
deal with the garbage that is generated in any living society.
And of course we have the problem of multiplying population.
But this can be dealt with only if there are very strong non-religious spiritual movements
in the country so that people understand life is about keeping yourself clean.
When this idea sinks deep into you, wanting to kl… keep the surroundings clean is a natural consequence of this.