(Sadhguru): What being on the path of the Divine means is that
you don’t have your own nonsense anymore.
Where does your nonsense come from?
A bit from your parents,
a bit from the society in which you live,
rest you cook it up.
Yes?
Yes or no?
Bit from your genetics,
a bit from the external impressions;
using these two things you cook up the rest.
What comes from external situations is all too much fragmented
bits and pieces.
Maybe this information is useful for your survival- it is!
What comes from your genes
You know Charles Darwin told you were a monkey.
So if you say,
‘My genetics decide who I am,’
the monkey business
the monkey business will not end ever, ’
cause even now,
your DNA is only 1.23 percent different from that of a chimpanzee.
Your evolution is only that much.
So, the more you depend on your genetics,
the more of a monkey you become.
I say a monkey
because if you go by your genetics you become cyclical.
If you travel like this,
one moment if you’re not alert you will go off at a tangent.
If you go like this you may slow down,
you may hasten,
you don’t go anywhere.
So being on the path of Divine means,
first thing to become free from your genetics.
It is in this context,
we say Shiva is swayambhu
that means he has no parentage.
He dropped it.
He cleaned his mother and father out of him.
No father, no mother,
just him,
because genetics means repetition.
Repetition means cyclical nature,
cyclical nature means you’re going in circles,
you’re not going anywhere.
So this ‘I’ business and all
you’re reading bits and pieces of Vedanta.
Please stop that.
Don’t read all this stuff
me and my consciousness and my witness and
where is the witness witnessing the witness?
witness… witness… witness… witness… witness
you can go on endlessly.
Witness witnesses the witness, and witness witnesses witness witness,
witness, witnesses witness witness witness.
This is just a mental game.
Ignorant people acting like they know,
this is what happens.
Philosophies will flourish.
Philosophies
The more philosophical a society is
or the more philosophical a human being is,
the more he is clearly declaring to the world
that he is a pretender-
what he does not know, he acts like he knows.
Simple practical people they know they don’t know,
and they’re proud that they don’t know.
That’s the problem,
but at least they know that they do not know.
So do not get into this trap of intellectualizing the Existence.
Very confidently you use this word ‘Existence’,
but do you know what is Existence?
Does anybody know what is Existence?
Does anybody know?
Nobody knows