[Sadhguru] If anybody expresses any interest in
practicing some form of yoga including yourself if you get interested in doing
more dimensions of yoga never take instruction from anybody who's
just a practitioner or even a certified teacher
especially never take instruction from a book or a video
it's..it's totally irresponsible to do that when I say irresponsible, is it going to kill
you?
yes that also can happen but if that happens I don't think it's a big
problem I don't think it's a big problem if somebody
dies but if somebody lives
and misses the possibility of knowing his life
in a much deeper way that pains me
see when I say, harm will happen to you it is not necessary that
something should break in you or you should fall ill or something
you missed the possibility of knowing isn't that harm enough?
isn't that a terrible harm?
see somebody caused harm to you does not mean you're young, you're growing
up somebody caused harm to you does not mean
necessarily they have to shoot at you somebody made sure
that you did not get your education is that bad enough?...yes?
isn't it bad enough so this is just like that on a much deeper
level but the same thing, somebody denied you a
possibility that's bad enough isn't it
it is not that something has to go wrong in terms of your physical health or something
else, but that also can happen without a very commited atmosphere
there should be no transmission of yoga most people in the world will do
better without yoga than with yoga
now you know I am
my whole activity in India mostly is in
southern most part of India and now we have come to Bombay and other places
but where I come from my native place I don't teach there
all my friends and family whatever I know I never taught them yoga
unless they come here where ever I am
so when I go sometimes visiting so the first question, these days they've
given up otherwise the question is always what you're
teaching yoga all over the world why don't you
teach me yoga, my back is hurting no yoga in uncommitted atmospheres
to tell you how, to what extent I hope you understand this in the right perspective
my mother was ill a few years ago, eight, nine years ago, I'm sorry, losing track of
time, thirteen, fourteen years ago seriously ill
we know that she's going to die my father being a physician
my family is much more aware that she has a short span of time
and that's the time a lot of somehow people are coming home
and telling my mother oh you should see the yoga program
you must attempt she's spiritually inclined, she's been initiated
in a very early age at something but that's all
as her death came closer she said I want to
experience this I want to experience meditation
I said okay and I'll organize a class in the town, you come
she's in a bad condition but she could come as for me she could come, I could take her
and do it but my father being a physician says no way
is she going to leave the house for three and a half hours
and sit there somewhere and anything may happen
you know, if you want at home you do whatever
no going and sitting in the class, I will not allow such a thing because she's not in
that kind of condition I said it's okay, she can come
but you know he is the senior man
and you know how it is but my mother repeatedly expressing I want
to experience meditation I said you convince him and come somehow any
way you're going to die what is there if you fall dead in my class
you just have three four months left so suppose you die two months early
what is going to happen you do what you want to do, isn't it?
but that's not how a doctor sees it.
he wants to stretch it to the last minute she wouldn't have fallen dead I would have
made sure that she experienced something truly worthwhile but
this didn't happen.
this went on twice I fixed programs so that it's convenient
for her to come and attend but..no I refuse to teach it in an uncommited way,
as a mother if you sit with me I'm not interested in teaching any yoga to
any mother or sister or whatever nonsense if you sit with me, you have to sit right,
properly, otherwise there's no question
no point because it will not be what it should be
so she died without yoga why I'm telling you this is
that's how it is held, not because of some extreme attitude
because we know the implications of what it is
out of over eagerness or plain ignorance
or because of commercial interests today, yoga is being taught everywhere
without any sense once you do this, you will see you will kill
the whole science modern science
when it was evolving in the early twenties in the early part of the twentieth century
all kinds of fake scientists came up and started claiming all kinds of fantastic inventions
those days inventing something was fashionable
because so many new things are happening everybody's claiming, okay all kinds of fantastic
inventions then the responsible scientific community
took time off from their work
and established safeguards so that misuse of science does
not happen science has reached this point today
as quickly as it has only because of those safeguards
similarly in the spiritual processes
in India there were very rigid safeguards
so that misuse and misinterpretation and damage does not happen
but in the last hundred, two hundred years as I said either of...either
because some people are over eager or they're just plain ignorant
or they're unscrupulous
people have just taken away all safeguards you can teach yoga on the beach, you can teach
yoga in the theatre, you can teach yoga in the aerobic class
you can't just do it anywhere, isn't it? this will not bring well being
there's no question about that oh my back ache went away you're saying this
I went to yoga my back ache went away you're happy your back ache went away
but you don't know what you missed you went to yoga
and you did not touch the other dimensions of life
you did not create the possibility of slowly moving into other dimensions
that's a terrible damage that's happened to your life
you did not go, you do not know the possibility is still open
you went and you missed it then the possibility is
sort of closed, isn't it? so don't attempt
teaching yoga, or reading books and trying to learn yoga
please do not do such things if you want to learn asanas, those kind of
things I think there are some people who are teaching it properly
you could learn from them this dimension of yoga must be
taught in a very committed atmosphere otherwise you should not
transmit this kind of thing you'll bring more harm than well being