Sadhguru: You’re just a piece of life. Aren’t you? Are you?
Meditators: Yes, yes.
Sadhguru: No, no, no, no that’s not true. You’re a bundle of thoughts, emotions, ideas,
opinions and prejudices right now, not a piece of life.
If you sat here just as a piece of life, not as a man, not as a woman, not as this, not as that,
not as a thought, not as an emotion, just a piece of life,
this would naturally reverberate with the rest of the existence.
Right now you invested too much on little things, like earning a living, and having this and having that,
and missing everything. Oh, should I not have this? Should I not have that? Having is not the problem.
Clinging is the problem. Isn’t it? Having is not the problem.
What you have, you become that after sometime. See, suppose this was your vessel, it is not… (Laughter)
suppose if this was your vessel and let us say this you inherited from your great grandfather
and it’s made of gold, none of this is true right now, but suppose it is so.
If I have to hurt you, I don’t have to come and beat you; all I have to do is this. (Gestures) (Laughter) Ahhhh...
Life will go.
And it’s happening to you, maybe you have not inherited a golden vessel from your great grandfather
but every little thing that you acquire is taking your life in some way. Isn’t it? Hmm?
All these things we acquired thinking that these things will make our life.
See, we got these gadgets because we thought it’ll make our life, right now this gadget
(Refers to cell phone) has become a nuisance. We can’t keep our hands off it.
We’re doing sathsang, messaging somebody. (Few laugh) Communication of course, but not a communion.
So, once you’ve come here, you should not leave this place without knowing the full depth and dimension
of what this life is about, isn’t it? Hmm?
Nobody should leave without knowing this because other things are subject to various realities,
we do not know whether you will get to run hundred meters in - eight seconds? What do you…?
You can’t do that. We do not know whether you’ll climb Mount Everest or not.
We do not know whether you’ll earn billion dollars or not, but this much is possible,
you can explore the full depth and dimension of what this is (Referring to oneself),
because you don’t need anybody’s permission, you don’t need any kind of anything.
If you are willing it’s there. Isn’t it?
You may be willing to climb Mount Everest, but your lungs may not be ready, your legs may not be ready.
With this (Gestures) it’s not like that.
It is not demanding any particular capability, it is not demanding any particular situation,
only your willingness, but you see, your willingness comes in installments. Nothing wrong.
If you had a ten-thousand-year lifespan, nothing wrong.
Fortunately you don’t have that, because if you hung around for ten thousand years,
oh, what a miserable world this will be. Isn’t it? (Laughs) You may think whatever you want,
but it’s good you have come with an expiry date. Is it not good?
Have you noticed, on a particular day when you’re... when you’re very joyful, twenty four hours... poof...
(Gestures) just went off like a moment. You’re miserable and depressed, one day goes like a eon.
So, only miserable people have a long life. Joyful people even if they live to be hundred, it’s too brief.
Before you know what’s happening it’ll be gone. Really! (Laughs) It gets over too fast.
But if you’re miserable, you will live long. So it’s a very brief life.
And whatever is of paramount importance to this life must happen at the earliest,
not day after tomorrow. Isn’t it? It must be today. So, the life process doesn’t wait.
You need to understand, your life is just a certain combination of time and energy.
Energy, we can manage. Time, you cannot manage. (Gestures) It’s going away. Hmm?
It doesn’t matter, you’re awake, you’re asleep, you’re okay, you’re not okay, you’re happy,
you’re miserable (Snaps his fingers), going, going, going...
As I am talking you’re two minutes closer to the grave. (Laughter) Yes or no?
Time you cannot manage, it’s just going. You can only manage your energy. You can manage your activity.
How you make use of the time, you can manage, but you cannot manage time, its slipping away. Isn’t it?
So if you recognize that your life is just a certain amount of time and energy,
you would definitely invest your energy in a way it is most meaningful to this life. Isn’t it?
But if you do not understand this, if you... intentionally forgetful
about the briefness of life and you go about as if you’re eternal...Yes? You are eternal, aren’t you?
On a daily basis you are not aware that ‘Life will end for me’ and it could be today. Not to be terrified.
Just to be in tune with the fundamental facts of life, that it is possible that our lives could end today.
Isn’t it? Possible? We’re not intending, we’re not seeking that, but it’s possible. Isn’t it?
If you miss this, then you’ll miss your whole life.
If you do not understand that you have an expiry date and it is not even fixed like
a pharmaceutical product that you have another two years to live, it could be just about any time.
If you miss this one fundamental fact you’re sure to miss your whole life, because
everything that’s vital will be tomorrow. And tomorrow never happens.
There is a... a certain superstition in South India, maybe it is here also,
particularly in Karnataka, where on all the village homes, in red paint it will be written ‘Naale Ba’.
‘Naale Ba’ means, ‘Come tomorrow.’
They write it in red paint because devils will come, wanting to enter your house and they can see only red.
You didn’t know this? Because they are looking for your blood, they can see only red color, so it’s painted
in red paint ‘Naale Ba.’ Devil comes to your house and says
‘Okay, this house is tomorrow’ (Few laugh) and goes away.
But the fact is most human beings have done this not to the devil, but to the divine (Few laugh), ‘Naale Ba.’
(Laughs)If you had done it to the devil it’s okay, but you’ve done it to the divine. Isn’t it?
(Laughs) Tomorrow... We’ll meditate, tomorrow? Yeah?
So, knowing life is not some super human effort, if you stop being some other rubbish and just become life,
which is what you are, knowing life is not far away. It’s right here.