Questioner (Sky): Hey, what’s happening, Sadhguru.
Namaskar (Sadhguru laughs)…
Ryan is my brother…
I wanna know about the transformation people go through when they come to your center
because I saw a huge change in him when he came back.
Sadhguru: What is this all about?
Is it a fact that in the evolutionary process of life upon this planet - you okay with evolution?
Okay?
Because I come from Tennessee so I'm asking you (Laughter).
In the evolutionary process, is it true that we as human beings, we are on top of the pile?
Hmm?
Of all the creatures we are supposed to be the peak.
Maybe there’s something more to be done, but right now we are on the top.
But is it also true that whenever human beings utter the word human,
they are always talking in terms of, “Oh, I'm only human.”
The word human is always related to the limitations of being human.
Very few people ever have used this word, “I'm human” referring to the immensity of being human.
Always the limitations of being human.
So, somewhere we missed the fundamental point.
The point is this -
is it true that every other creature on this planet, a worm, an insect, a bird an animal with a millionth of our brain,
they’re conducting their life process quite well?
Hello (Few laugh)?
Participant: Yes.
Sadhguru: Are they?
When I say life process - we are born, they are born just like that.
We grow up, they grow up.
We make a living, they make a living.
We may reproduce, they reproduce.
We do all this with enormous fuss.
They’ll simply do it.
Yes or no?
Participants: Yes.
Sadhguru: Every simple thing we are doing with enormous fuss,
they are simply doing it.
Different…
Various processes of life and death they are doing it without fuss.
We are doing everything with great fuss.
Is this is a sign of highest level of intelligence, I'm asking?
We are supposed to be the most intelligent
and there is no question that we have the most evolved neurological process on the planet.
Yes?
We have the most evolved neurological system that we must be able to sense and feel and
experience and perceive, understand and express things in the highest possible way.
But no other creature on the planet is struggling like the human creature right now.
This is simply because you have been given a super, super computer.
Do you agree with me that this (Referring to Oneself) is the most sophisticated gadget on the planet?
Participants: Yes.
Sadhguru: Not the iPhone, the “I” (Laughter)?
But now the question is have you read the user’s manual?
Hmm?
That’s all.
People have not read the user’s manual for the most complex machine on the planet
and somehow blundering through, somehow trying to use it.
Everything is a problem.
Tell me one thing that human beings are not suffering?
If they are poor, they suffer their poverty.
You make them rich, they suffer the taxes.
If they are not educated they suffer that.
Put them to school, lot of suffering.
Not married, they suffer that.
Get them married (Laughter) -
I didn’t say anything.
I didn’t say a thing okay (Few laugh)?
No children - some people suffer that; children – daily suffering.
So, you seem to be suffering every aspect of life.
So, if we offer death, will you go joyfully? No, you will suffer that.
So, tell me one thing that we are not suffering?
Now people weave philosophies, “Life is suffering.”
No, no, life is not suffering, nor is it a joy.
It’s simply there.
It’s a phenomenon.
If you ride it, it feels fantastic.
If you are crushed by it, it feels terrible.
So, are you riding the wave of life
or are you being crushed by it?
That’s all the question is.
So, for this to happen what is it that human beings are suffering?
I’m sorry what’s your name?
Questioner (Sky): Sky.
Sadhguru: Hmm? Sky?
Oh!
You're a big guy (Laughs).
You are a big guy (Laughs).
Sky.
When was the last time somebody poked you with a dagger,
even though you are living in Los Angeles?
Participant: My sister (Laughter).
Sadhguru: That was a long time ago (Laughter).
So, I'm saying…
I am asking you, how much suffering for any individual is actually coming from outside?
Miniscule, isn’t it?
Rest is all on self-help.
If they sit they will suffer, if they stand they’ll suffer.
If something happens, they suffer.
If nothing happens, they suffer.
So what they are suffering is their own psychological process.
One’s own thought and emotion has become such a huge suffering -
how you think and feel.
How you think and feel - should it not be determined by you?
Hmm?
Hello?
Participants: Yes.
Sadhguru: What happens within you, should it happen… not happen the way you want it?
Can you see me, Sky?
Questioner (Sky): I can see you.
Sadhguru: Where am I, tell me?
Use one hand and point out where I am?
Ah, you got it wrong.
You know I'm a mystic, hmm (Laughter)?
Now, these lights are falli… this light is falling upon me, reflecting, going through
your lenses, inverted image in the retina, you know the whole story, right?
Where do you see me right now?
Within yourself.
Where do you hear me right now?
Within yourself.
Where have you seen the whole world?
Within yourself.
Everything that ever happened to you…
Pain and pleasure happened within you.
Joy and misery happened within you.
Agony and ecstasy happened within you.
Even light and darkness is actually happening within you.
What happens in the world may not happen the way you want it
but at least what happens within you must happen your way, isn’t it?
Participants: Yes.
Sadhguru: So, if what happens within you is not happening your way,
fundamentally we’ve not figured what is the nature of our life.
Without understanding,
without understanding even the fundamental of our existence, we are trying to live.
Is it true, I'm asking you once again, is it true
both pain and pleasure originates from within you?
There may be a stimulus from outside, but
all human experience comes from within you, isn’t it?
What’s coming from within you, must happen your way
otherwise, you're just an out of control situation.
So, my entire work and the fundamental nature of what’s offered is called Inner Engineering.
That is, we have engineered the world in so many ways;
this has brought us enormous levels of comfort and convenience.
Do you agree with me that we are the most comfortable generation enjoying most incredible conveniences
that no generation could every dream of?
Yes or no?
Participants: Yes.
Sadhguru: What even royalty did not have a hundred years ago, today ordinary citizens are enjoying it, isn’t it?
What is the chariot that you drive?
How many horses, hmm?
Participant: Horsepower?
Sadhguru: Yeah (Laughs).
I’m saying, even emperors could not do four hundred horses, all right (Laughter)?
So, all this is going waste on humanity simply because their experience of life is not enhanced
because your well-being will never come from outside.
From outside you can create comfort, you can create convenience, but you cannot create well-being.
Well-being can only happen from within you because human experience is created from within,
doesn’t matter what is the nature of your experience.
Whatever it is, unpleasant or pleasant, both are being made from within you.
But if you were in charge of yourself,
would you create pleasantness for yourself or unpleasantness for yourself?
Participants: Pleasantness.
Sadhguru: Highest level of pleasant...
If there was a choice between misery and blissfulness, what would you choose for yourself?
Participants: Blissfulness.
Sadhguru: Please you must make a choice.
I'm going to bless you right now (Few laugh).
Misery or blissfulness?
Participants: Blissfulness.
Sadhguru: Yeah. At least for yourself it’s definitely highest level of pleasantness.
What you want for your neighbor may be debatable, depending upon what they did today (Laughter).
But, what you want for yourself is hundred percent clear, isn’t it?
Why such a simple thing is not happening?
Simply because this cerebral activity in the process of evolution, it is new.
It is a new happening, this… this big brain.
When I say new, just a few million years, but in the evolutionary scale it is new.
So, we have an intelligence for which we don’t have a stable enough platform.
You don’t need anybody to torture you, isn’t it?
Hello?
Participants: Yes.
Sadhguru: You're on self-help (Laughter).
You don’t need any outside help.
You can sit in one place by yourself and make a hell out of it (Few laugh).
Because your own intelligence has turned against you.
You can call it by many exotic names.
You can call it misery, you can call it depression, you can call it by variety of diagnosis
but essentially, your intelligence has turned against you.
Once your intelligence turns against you,
nobody, no power in the universe is going to save you
because wherever we take you, you will be miserable.
Some people are thinking one day they will go to heaven and they will be all right.
I'm asking you, do you have any proof that you are not already in heaven and messing it up (Laughter)?
Do you have any proof?
Participants: No.
Sadhguru: No.
Maybe you’re already in heaven and making a mess out of it (Laughs).
Because if you have an out of control mind,
no matter where you’re taken, you will make a mess out of it, isn’t it?
Just imagine, hundred years ago how people lived in this same place
and how you are living,
is there any damn thing to complain about in comparison?
Participants: No.
Sadhguru: Hello?
Participants: No.
Sadhguru: Oh, but we are whining like crazy, hmm (Few laugh).
We are whining like nobody else on the planet (Laughs).
So, the problem is not of the outside.
Outside situations are there, some situations will go the way we want, some will not go.
That’s how it is.
Even if you are just two people in the family, does everything happen just the way you want it?
No.
That can never happen.
Outside will never happen a hundred percent the way you want it.
We can manage it to some extent.
But at least what happens within you must happen the way you want it.
If right now, what happened within you was happening the way you want it,
would you keep yourself at th highest level of pleasantness or no?
Participants: Yes.
Sadhguru: That’s all that happened to him.
Even though death confronted,
it didn’t matter because what’s happening within you is happening the way you want it.
No magic, just engineering (Laughs).