Sadhguru: If you can be here being aware of life and death at the same time,
because both are here at the same time, they are not two separate things (Gestures)(Laughter).
That’s how it is, that fragile but same time so sturdy.
These are one inside the other. Life is all packed like this - creation and the creator,
life and death everything packed one inside the other. It takes attention.
It takes lot of attention if one has to see what it is. Otherwise, one just lives in the surface, half a life.
If you do not know life and death at the same time you know only one half of life.
Being half alive is torture always.
So, when we say Shiva, we are uttering this so that this dimension of life and death
being together at the same time happens to you that the polarities are gone.
There is no life and death, there is just this.
For this there is no name yet because if you give it a name somebody will invent the opposite.
It's just this but there is that. There is no that, there is just this.
There is no this and that, there is just this and this.
There is no yes and no, there is just yes and yes (Few laughs).
If you want to…See, every aspect of life has this - if you want to fall in love…
if you are in love, love does not need polarities, love does not need an opposite.
Because for most people love starts in their heart and sinks into their genital (Few laughs),
an opposite is needed.
For sexuality you need the opposite, for love you don’t need the opposite.
What you thought is you and something, has become just this.
For examples, on many levels, starting…In the yogic terminology if you want to look at it,
starting from the Muladhara, where it is about food and sleep, there is that and this.
If you eat it everything becomes this. Now you are mentally alert.
You are looking at things. There is you and the other.
If you fall asleep there is just this. There is no this and that. So this is on all levels.
If it happens in the lowest chakra, low is not the word - when I say low we are not talking
high and low, we are talking geographically, southern chakra (Laughter).
When it happens at the muladhara it happens as food and sleep but the same unity.
If it happens at swadhishthana it happens as sexuality but the same unity.
If it happens at manipuraka it finds expression as ambition, greed, conquest but the same thing.
If it happens at anahata it happens as love but the same thing.
But now from mooladhara to anahata you have natural access.
You are naturally capable of these things. Even a child is capable of this, even a dog is capable of this.
He can ingest, digest and assimilate, he has his sexuality.
We have already look at this… looked at this - dogs are loving for sure - we don't know about god,
we are not so sure about the human beings but dogs we are dead certain. Yes? Yes or no?
Participants: Yes.
Sadhguru: Hmm?
Participants: Mhmm (Indicating agreement)
Sadhguru: There is no question about dog’s love. God’s love - we don't know.
Man’s love, woman’s love - we are not sure - sometimes it looks real. Sometimes we don't know (Laughs).
Dog’s love - dead certain we are.
So, from muladhara to anahata it’s open to every creature, actually.
This comes naturally, this is a gift from nature but if you want to go beyond this, if you want to know the union
that the vishuddhi brings about, the union that the agna brings about,
the highest possible union that can happen at sahasrar - this will not happen unless you strive for it.
If you want to live here as just another creature on this planet
nothing wrong, there is absolutely nothing wrong.
When I say a cow, a dog, an elephant, a snake, I’m not speaking in any derogatory terms.
I know it's a very derogatory thing to say you are a dog. I don't know why.
They are more steady, more people trust dogs than human beings
and the numbers are increasing by the day but still a dog is a derogatory term for some reason.
So, I am not speaking of these creatures as, in any derogatory sense but limited, for sure, isn't it?
The possibilities of life are limited in these forms. We are just talking about boundaries
because the basic concern of a human being is to go beyond his boundaries, always.
So, if you want to go beyond these four levels of union that one can know, then it needs
a little more awareness, a little more devotion, a little more push. If your energies rise,
if you become aware or if you experience the union in your vishuddhi you will become stupidly devotional.
I am saying stupidly devotional not because devotion is stupid but generally devotees are perceived
as idiots by the well-educated world (Laughs) because they don’t stand to their reason.
Anything that does not agree with your way of reasoning seems stupid to you.
But it doesn’t matter how stupid you think they are,
they are experiencing lot more pleasantness than you do (Laughs). Maybe they are not so stupid at all.
It is just that they have moved their life from simple one plus one equals two
to a different kind of arithmetic within themselves, where there is no plus or minus. It's just one - always one.
You must understand without “one,” there is no number system. Just always one.
If you know union on the level of your vishuddhi this is what happens, tremendous sense of power because
this union is a different kind.
If the union is in the level of agna, then this brings absolute awareness and knowing.
Now once someone has attained union on the level of agna,
suddenly the intellectual types look stupid in front of him (Laughs).
You’ve heard of Aadi Shankara - this is the most argumentative Indian ever.
He went about walking across the land, looking for arguments - such unbeatable logic.
People were defeated and defeated and defeated in hordes. All kinds of people came to argue with him.
Whoever argued with him they’re bound to lose because there is nobody else with that kind of logic
because a certain union that you have experienced in the agna gives you a completely different kind of logic.
If your energies…If you find union at your sahasrar you are ecstatic beyond anything that you know.
Shankara used to be like this - he was so argumentative and defeating people all the time in his arguments.
Everyday picking up arguments with all kinds of people but suddenly he would go
into a temple and weep and dance like a madman. People would be shocked.
“We thought you are a man of reason, what are you crying like this?
Like those buffoons who call themselves devotees, like them you are crying.
We thought you are a man of true intellect.”
He would say, “That’s for the world…My logic is for the world, this is for me (Laughs/Applause).”
So, this is a simple step one needs to take. In your awareness if life and death are at the same time,
if they are not two separate things, then you have set the fundamentals for the highest union possible.
you got the right foundation. You want to live, you don’t want to die - you are on a very wrong foundation.
You are on an extremely wrong foundation - the more you build on this wrong foundation
the more you are asking for a disaster.
Suppose we made a mistake with the foundation, the best is to build a minimum possible building, isn't it?
Hmm? Suppose we have done a mistake with the foundation work, even in a construction site
the best thing is to build a minimum possible building.
The more you build, the more you are putting yourself to risk.
That is why they talked so much about renunciation because… they said, “You got a wrong foundation,
don’t build too much. The more you build, further away from truth you will go.
Keep it minimum because the foundation is wrong. Till you fix that don’t build too much.”