Being accidentally fortunate is not the way to exist,
This destiny business is a good insurance to handle your failure.
What comes our way is not in our hands
but what we make out of it is one-hundred percent in our hands
Question: Is Everything in My Life Already Destined?
Veda Vyasa: Sadhguru, I have worked very much hard
to secure the first rank in common entrance examination and place me here.
But my brother says me that it’s my destiny that has put me up here.
Is it really my destiny or my hard work that place me here?
Sadhguru: Where is your brother placed (Laughter)?
See, what people are generally calling as destiny is essentially what they end up creating unconsciously.
When I say unconsciously, as you sit here right now, as everybody sits here right now
there is physical activity going on within this system.
There is mental process, there is emotional activity and of course the life energies are active.
Every moment they are taking in hundreds on inputs whether you’re conscious or not conscious.
So, if I ask you a question, since this morning from the time you woke up till now
Of these four dimensions of activity, how much have you conducted consciously?
What percentage do you think?
Veda Vyasa: Few things.
Sadhguru: How much percentage do you think?
Veda Vyasa: Twenty-five percent.
Sadhguru: You are very generous man (Laughter).
It’s well below one percent.
If you walk from there to there, there’ll be twenty-five different kind of smells that you are not conscious of
but the body registers and records.
There are hundred different kinds of sounds that the body registers that you are not conscious of.
Like this throughout the day and night in wakefulness and sleep, this is happening.
When you are only conscious of less than one percent of your activity,
definitely life will look like an accident.
Hello? (Laughs) When ninety-nine percent of the things that you are doing, you are doing unconsciously
definitely will look accidental.
If the accident… see it is so happened, somebody fell off on the street and had a brain injury,
after that suddenly they started working their mathematics in a wonderful way.
But that was only one.
A thousand other people who cracked their skull never recovered from that or they died
or those who lived on, lived on much diminished.
So, being accidentally fortunate is not the way to exist.
So, whenever a pleasant accident happens, we say it’s destiny.
Some of you even say God doing things to me.
When did you make a partnership with him, I don’t know.
So…
Shall I tell you a story, are you okay?
This happened, Sherlock Holmes, you know Sherlock Holmes?
And Watson, went out camping.
And early morning 03:30 AM, Sherlock Holmes nudged Watson.
He opened his eyes, “What?!
“What do you see” he asked?
Well, I see a clear sky and stars.
“What does that mean to you?”
He said, ‘Well, that means tomorrow is going to be a wonderful sunny day.’
Then he asked, ‘What does it mean to you?’
He said, ‘It means someone has stolen our tent (Laughter).’
So, we don’t know what went missing and something may fall here and there by chance.
But that’s not the way life works.
If a human being doesn’t take it upon himself or herself to make their own destiny,
they are still having an evolutionary problem that is, they are still not yet fully there because
being human means this, that we can conduct our life consciously.
Being human means this, that we can craft our life the way we want.
But this destiny business is a good insurance to handle your failure.
Whenever you fail, tch, destiny, it’s god’s will (Few laugh).
So, this has been going on for a long time.
This is not the fundamental nature of this culture.
In this culture, we taught you, right from ancient times, your life is your karma.
Did we tell you or no?
Nobody told you there is a god up there who will do things to you.
We always told you, your life is your karma.
This means, your life is your making.
No interstellar influence on you, it’s you!
Whatever, there are a million impacts on us but what we make out of it is still us, isn't it?
What is thrown at us is not in our hands, what comes our way is not in our hands
but what we make out of it is one-hundred percent in our hands (Applause).
I must tell you this, when I first went to Coimbatore and we started setting up the yoga center,
this is a country like this, this is very strange.
Now they are all clapping their hands but at that time,
simply rumors, oh! they are doing drugs, they are doing something else,
they are here to kill the wildlife,
they are killing tigers, they are killing elephants, all kinds of things!
Rumors going around, even media reporting these kind of things.
Then hundred prominent people in the town meet and then they say, this yoga is spreading like a disease!
(Laughs) These are the words.
"We have to do something"
There some young hothead says, “Let’s take a truck load of people and pull down the whole thing,”
because the whole yoga center at that time was just thatched roof sheds.
So they decided they want to come there and pull down the whole thing and be finished.
Today, it is among the most prominent places in the country, okay (Laughs) (Applause)?
So, when they said this, there was a old man who is no more, a wise man
he said, ‘See, you don’t know who you’re dealing with.
I know this man, if you throw stones at him, he will build something out of those stones (Few laugh),
don’t throw stones at this man (Laughs).’
So, what comes at you, you cannot decide but what you make out of it is your thing, isn't it?
This is where your dint is.
This is where you are to prove who you are because you can't decide what comes at you
but you can definitely decide what you make out of whatever comes at you (Applause)!