Sadhguru: Always we’ve never referred to as enlightenment
as an accomplishment,
we’ve never referred to enlightenment
as some kind of an achievement.
It is only a realization.
Realization means what?
Something that’s already there,
you only saw it today.
You were just dumb.
You’re…
Right here,
you didn’t see it all your life,
suddenly one day you saw it -
this is realization.
This is not a discovery,
this is not an invention,
this is not an achievement,
this is not any kind of attainment -
this is just a realization.
So realization doesn’t need any knowledge -
just takes eyes to see, that’s all.
You don’t have to have knowledge about this tree to see it
and know that it’s there.
You just see it.
If you see it, absolutely see it
without any interruption of thought,
emotion, ideologies, belief systems -
simply you saw it the way it is in its entirety,
this is realization.
Now we are not even talking about a tree,
we’re just talking about ourselves,
we just realized something about ourselves -
it’s the dumbest thing (Laughs).
But even that dumb thing doesn’t happen to everybody
they’re dumber than that (Laughs).
They are striving hard to see that it doesn’t happen
because they have enshrined their thoughts,
they have enshrined their emotions,
they have enshrined their ideologies,
they have enshrined their belief systems,
they have enshrined everything that is not true.
So, truth won’t happen to them, that’s all.
When you say a thought,
it is something that you concocted in your mind.
Yes?
When you say emotion,
it is something that you concocted within you.
An ideology -
maybe ten of you together did it.
A belief system -
maybe you have a million people with you
but you made it up.
When you are giving such significance to things that you made up,
things that are,
things that which is the making of the Creator
not available to you because
you are too busy with your own creation.
Your petty creation has become larger
than this grand creation
which you can’t figure anything about.
Somewhere your own thoughts,
your own emotions,
your own ideas, please see they’ve become far more important
than any other cosmic phenomena that’s happening right now.
Moon is coming up -
who cares?
What you’re thinking,
what you’re feeling is more important.
It doesn’t matter
the galaxy is a blossoming right now -
who cares?
What I think and feel is more important.
My thought and my emotion is more important than all this.
So when you have such a skewed attention span
towards life
realization itself looks like a tremendous achievement.
So if realization happens without the necessary fundamentals,
then naturally holding on to the body will not happen.
The body and the being are bound to come apart
because the realization is just that –
that you’ve realized
that what you thought as you is not really you,
it’s a piece of earth
and what is you is something else
and it has no business with this actually.
So if you want to be realized and still be… walk around -
you can be around but you can’t walk around -
if you want to walk around,
then you must know all the nuts and bolts of life
and the life making material.
You must know the mechanics of this system,
then you can know how to anchor yourself to it,
otherwise realization normally spells
that you don’t stay with the body,
doesn’t matter really to yourself
but it matters to others.
If a realized being can walk around
there’re many, many things that can be done.
If ten thousand realized beings walked around on this planet,
everything would be done –
everything -
the right way, the way it’s best for life on this planet.
We’re striving (Laughs),
we’re working.
So how do you acquire this knowledge?
That takes time and striving.
Knowledge will not happen in a moment,
realization can happen in a moment.
Knowledge will not happen in a moment,
any knowledge will not happen in a moment.
One has to strive,
one has to invest their lives into it,
otherwise it’ll not happen.
Conditional investment is what I mostly get.
Very few people are unconditional investment,
others are all conditional investors –
“Yes Sadhguru I want to do it but…”
By the time we kick the but out (Laughter),
you know life gets over (Laughs).
There’re very few people no “buts”,
they’re just here and that’s it.
With them we’ll build knowledge (Laughs).
So if enlightenment happens, how do we know it has happened?
Suppose we are hallucinating to be enlightened.
If such a thing happens, it
will be clearer than daylight.
It's not something that you can miss.
It is not
that kind of an event that you could miss it.
You will not miss it.
But when I
say this there is a problem attached to this because these days, it is going on
in many places.
For a certain fee, within it a weekend's time you can get
enlightened.
You'll be declared enlightened by somebody.
Really..
It's happening
everywhere if you just pay a certain amount of money, one weekend you can get
enlightened.
I remember, in the 60s, in the 1960s, in California people set up
certain businesses - enlightenment services.
The advertisement I remember
very well.
If you go to India, it will take 12 years of hardship.
$50 30 minutes
you can get enlightened.
They were just using psychedelic machines, you put up
certain visuals and certain sounds it will just
just blow your mind apart.
Because of the
sounds and the visuals, when you come out you come in a daze.
You feel like you have really gotten somewhere.
This used to be the
advertisement, fifty dollars thirty minutes.
If you go to India
twelve years of hardship.
Here its California, quick, new technology.
This
1960 machines, this whole technology has now infiltrated into India.
Some people
have installed these machines and they're claiming within a weekend
they can enlighten you.
You cannot hallucinate about it.
If you are sincere, you would know that it is not so.
But, if it's a part of the
race, that you want to get enlightened before somebody, of course you can
declare I am enlightened.
It is just that
these kind of deceptions are not new on the planet.
They have been happening for a long time.
But now modern technology has come to
aid them better.
To give them an expanded sense of many things.
Much
experimentation was done during the sixties and seventies about these things.
One is, with these psychedelic machines another is with psychedelic drugs.
You take an LSD and people claim they are enlightened because they had an expanded
sense just for a while and then they came back.
If they overdid it then they
lost everything, they cracked up in so many ways or even died.
Many many people
mentally cracked up because of excessive use of psychedelic drugs.
But for those
few moments, they really felt enlightened or at least they thought so.
This is not
something that you do.
This is not something that you can do.
It is just
that, if you cultivate the system, your body, mind, emotion and energy
to its peak possibility, then an absolutely wonderful flower blossoms
within you.
Not something that you did.
You just waited with the right kind of
conditions and it happened