Sadhguru: We can do that, if we just have you shot.
(Laughter/Applause)
After that, you will be cold and unexciting. (Laughter)
Why do you want to control excitement?
I want you to be in a state of excitement all the time.
Participant: Like, for example... Sadhguru: Your problem is...
because, see... people have been telling you this,
'if you're too happy, sadness will follow.' Hmm?
Do you understand? They have been saying this, traditionally?
So, you're laughing too much, so tomorrow you will cry. (Laughter)
This observation has come because
you are not functioning from your awareness, you're cyclical in your nature.
If you become… too much laughing today, tomorrow you will cry,
because it keeps happening for people.
For many people it’s true; for a lot of people it is true.
It is from that context you are saying
don’t want excitement, because excitement leads to trouble, isn’t it?
If you can be blissful, and always in a state of excitement, is it not nice?
I am always excited about everything. (Laughs)
There is nothing that doesn’t excite me.
Participant: That’s why I'm asking question to you, Swamiji. (Laughs)
Sadhguru: That’s why I am saying, why do you want to kill the excitement?
No, you must bring the necessary balance,
that excitement doesn’t lead to disaster, isn’t it?
Excitement means, life is happening more intensely, isn’t it?
Always, it must be happening at maximum intensity.
But now you should create the necessary balance,
so that your excitement doesn’t lead to disastrous situations within you.
So, ask for the right thing:
you need the necessary balance - not to kill life.
Because if you live life, something may happen.
If you live life, something may happen, so the best thing is to fall dead.
That’s the logic you're going with right now.
Is that the answer? Participant: No.
Sadhguru: No. If you live life, injury may happen, tragedy may happen,
so, best thing is, fall dead right now, so that nothing happens to you.
That’s definitely 100% insurance.
But that’s not the way, isn’t it? You want to be alive,
exuberantly alive, and still maintain the balance.
You're half alive, and you're peaceful; it doesn’t mean anything!
You're exuberantly alive, and still you're peaceful; this is beautiful, this is fantastic.
Or, you're exuberant, and once in a way, you lose your balance;
that’s still okay with me.
But you're dead, and peaceful; it doesn’t mean anything to me.
Nor does it mean anything to life, isn’t it?
The idea of coming here is to live, isn’t it?
Is that so?
The idea that we're existing here is to experience life
as intensely and as deeply as it’s possible.
Everything that you're doing is only for that.
But, because of your fear of disaster,
you're killing yourself, and keeping yourself half alive.
That’s not the answer, that’s not a solution at all.
So, how not to be excited is not the question.
How not to make excitement into a disaster:
you must earn the necessary balance within you.
Everything that we're doing is only in that direction.
Are you a little more balanced than what you were 5 days ago?
Such a short period; 5, 6 days is not a big amount of time.
But are you a little more balanced?
You just stick to the practice. I’m telling you, in 6 months’ time,
look at the kind of balance you have within you.
You will stand apart in any group of people.
That kind of inner balance will be there, definitely.