Sadhguru: So these eighty-four asanas, which are the fundamental yoga asanas are
84 ways
to make the body into your passage.
It is not necessary actually
for everybody to do eighty-four asanas.
If they do one, it is enough.
Usually hatha yogi's...
Serious hatha yogi's, who are taking hatha yoga as their path to liberation,
practice only one Asana.
Just one Asana.
It is difficult for a thinking mind to understand,
why would somebody spend his whole life trying to sit in a particular way.
But if you learn to sit right, if you just learn to hold your body right,
everything that you need to know in this universe, you can know
because this is known as Asana siddhi.
If you can sit in a posture,
stable and comfortable for
two-and-a-half hours,
then we say - you have attained to Asana siddhi, that you are in absolute comfort and at ease
in a particular posture..
That is Asana siddhi.
If you achieve this,
everything, that you need to know, one can of internally.
How is this possible?
How can by sitting everybody..you can know everything that you can know?
If you have a television at home,
television is just a box with a little bit of electronics in it,
but it becomes a world by itself.
The whole world can stream into this place, that
we call as a television, or this box that we call as a television,
simply because there is a receiving mode.
If you set the antenna right,
if it is properly adjusted, then the whole world flows into yours... into your place
or into this box.
If it is not set right..
same instrument - it has everything, but can't do anything.
This is how human being is.
A human being is...
An individual human being is...
Who he is?
Only because of what he perceives,
only because of what he or she perceives an individual human being becomes
whoever they are.
Right now you are who you are, only because of whatever you have perceived in your life
till now.
And you will be, who you will be, only because of what you will perceive in future.
Whatever you perceive
is what makes you whatever you are today.
So the whole system of yoga is only
interested in enhancing perception.
So if you hold the posture right, if your alignment is right, and if it matches
with the cosmic alignment in some way..
84 alignments, if one gets into these 84 postures or even masters a single posture and
approaches the remaining 83 through that,
then
everything, that has happened in the creation till this moment one can know, because the
memory of that is right here within your system.
In a.. let us say the codified way.
It can be
activated and ignited if it touches another dimension outside of yourself.
So Asanas are powerful means.
Yogasanas are powerful means to connect.
I...
I do not want you to forget, what
yoga means.
Yoga means union, union means- two have become one.
Two is just this.
There are only two in the existence, you and the rest of the existence.
In the rest of the existence you may identify this one, that one, that one,
but essentially there are only two: you and the rest of the existence, because there are
only two
dimensions of experience within you.
You do not know what is up and down in this cosmos.
You do not know what is forward and backward
in this cosmos.
You do not know anything.
These are all things that we have made up for convenience.
The only
experiencial reality is - there is something called outward and there is something called
inward.
So these are the two dimensions of experience: inner and outer.
So yoga means to bring a union between these
inner and outer, you and the rest,
you and other.
When there is no you and other, there is just you and you.
That is yoga.
So Asanas are a physical manifestation of
approaching this, a physical form of approaching this ultimate union, because
physical body is the easiest thing to work with.
If you try to do something with your mind
It will pay two... it will play too many tricks at least with the body.
You know whether it's doing it right or not doing it right,
whether it's cooperating or not cooperating.
A mind, if you push it too hard, it will play all kinds of tricks with you,
it will make you believe all kinds of things and dump you the next day, but body is not
like that.
It is a reliable factor.
If you work with it sensibly, the yoga
Asanas will definitely lead...
Yoga Asanas will definitely lead to the possibility of ultimate union.
In the meantime
by getting into the postures
before all this alignment with ultimate happens, inner alignment happens
which will naturally achieve a chemistry of healthfulness,
joyfulness and blissfulness and above all balance.
Balance is something, that modern societies have ignored and they're paying a huge price
for today.
Whatever may be your intelligence,
whatever may be your competence and education and qualifications, If you do not have the
necessary
balance, you will not succeed, you will not go very far in your life.
So, the most important thing for people who are seeking to be successful,
people whether they're working in corporate sector or their political, or their military,
or whatever field, the most important thing is balance, only if you have a balance which
is not
disturbed by external situations- will you be capable of making use of
the competence and intelligence, that you carry within you.
Otherwise the most wonderful qualities, that one may have - will all go waste.
Simply because of lack of balance.
And Hata Yoga means balance.
Sadhguru: Siddhi means a certain accomplishment.
There is somebody...
If you go to the circus,
there is somebody, who can juggle ten balls.
It's a kind of accomplishment.
Can you do it?
You can't do two.
One also probably you can't hold properly.
Ten balls...
magic it is, but it's not magic.
It's a certain accomplishment of the body.
Isn't it?
Similarly there can be certain accomplishments of the mind,
certain accomplishments of...
certain other aspects of the mind.
Now somebody can predict, you know ..foresee somebody's future or somebody can say something
else.
It has no consequence.
Somebody can heal somebody's disease.
It doesn't mean anything.
In terms of existential life- it doesn't mean anything.
These are all immature things that you're doing, because you haven't found the depth.
See for example in the yoga center where we are: people have put an enormous amount of
Sadhana.
If I allow some of these people to heal people,
they will do miraculous healings.
if I allow them to predict
people's future, they will do a good job.
Or if I sit down in Chicago and start predicting people's future,
there'll be a huge crowd, because I will tell you exactly what will happen.
And it will happen.
But what consequence is it in terms of life?
It's of no consequence.
If they do anything like that in the ashram,
we not only check them out of the ashram.
I will ensure, that for his lifetime he will never know any spirituality - he will be fixed.
So before we put them into the sadhana, we make it clear.
If they ever use these things on anybody - they had it.
Because it's a very juvenile and immature act to do such things.
These are on sideshows.
Now...
People keep coming and asking me, but if I go there, that Swami.. he does so much miracle.
He'll pull out a lingam from his mouth,
He will...
I don't know from where else.
You know
all these things.
You don't do any miracles.
I told him, I tell them: "Look at the miracle around here.
I can show you people, who are here".
Who did not get angry for the last one year?
Very busy people,
intensely active, handling hundreds of people, but they didn't get angry for one whole year.
This is a miracle.
This is a miracle that's needed in the world right now.!
Without a single feeling of hatred, without a single feeling of what about me.
They're just doing something.
This is a miracle we want to see.
You produce this, you produce that.
What's the point?
We have technology to do all that nonsense.
Isn't it?
Yes.
Which is doing it more effectively?
Somebody produces a watch, somebody produces a lingam, somebody produces something else.
What are you going to do with these things?
The true miracle that is necessary is
human being, who is capable of living like an animal,
If he's in awareness,
if he becomes gentle and beautiful
If he can go through life untouched, if he can go through life,
spreading around him a pleasantness,
you put him in any kind of unpleasant situation.
He doesn't become unpleasant, he goes through it pleasantly.
This is a miracle we want to see in a human being right now.
That's what is needed for the world.
Isn't it?
This is transformation.
So..
somebody does this/that it's of no consequence to me.
I do not value that in any way.
I would.. if you want to do this/that I would rather depend on science and technology, Which
is much more effective..
There are such dimensions.
It is not that they don't exist.
There are such dimensions, through which you can do certain things.
But what is the point spending a lifetime getting there?
It's not worthwhile.
So don't expect them to be wise.
Only because they are not wise, they went after it.