Sadhguru: Supposed to be the last day of the calender year.
So this end of the year
we need some measure,
otherwise if there was no count of New Years
and some of you counting your birthdays.
I don’t trust you on the birthdays
because you may keep on counting
eighteen, eighteen, eighteen, eighteen (Laughter).
At least you say this is going to be 2015,
I’m sure you’re not going to say 2014, 2014 next year,
no (Laughs).
So we will stick to the New Year.
The idea of counting time is because we need some measure,
we need some kind of milestone just to know
“Are we going forward or backward in our lives.”
I want you to look 2014,
you as a human being
not your business,
not your career,
not other things,
those things matter but you take care of that
but as a human being have you moved… forward or backward?
This is something that you have to evaluate today,
you must evaluate every night
but if you are a lousy accountant of life,
at least once a year you must evaluate.
If you evaluate once a decade it’ll be too late,
believe me,
you can’t fix it.
Once a day,
once a week,
once a month,
if you are evaluating,
you will be able to take corrective measures in one’s life.
At least once a year if you are evaluating
“Have I moved forward as a human being or have I become backward?”
Simple way of checking this is 2013 how I was,
2014 am I a little more joyful human being,
am I little more relaxed,
am I little more compassionate,
am I little more loving,
you just have to check.
Don’t… Don’t go by your family’s judgment
because there may be many local prejudices you know (Laughs),
we don’t know
vested interests.
Family, neighbors, friends, these are all vested interests.
If you don’t do what they think you should do,
they will think you have fallen, (Laughs).
Thirty-three years ago everybody thought I have fallen and lost my mind, okay?
Today the same people clap their hands, that’s different
because… that’s for a different reason
but I’m saying even if you’ve taken up positive steps
somebody else may be saying something.
So I don’t want somebody else’s evaluation of who you are.
Within yourself sincerely you look and see
have you moved forward as a human being?
Because you are one year closer to your grave,
tch,
are you going to at least die as a better human being if not live (Laughs)?
Suppose you and me die tomorrow morning,
are we dying as a little better human beings than what we were a year ago
this is an important question.
If we live, wonderful!
Suppose we die, there’s no regret (Laughs).
Very important or no?
Hmm?
Participants: Yes.
Sadhguru: If we live as better human beings,
wonderful for us,
wonderful for everybody around us.
Suppose we die,
at least there is no regret what a horrible creature I am and I’m dying
and everybody will be glad, that’s different (Laughter),
So if you are going to make people around you joyful
and relieved only when you die tch,
that’s (Laughs)… that’s not a good way to live.
They are joyful because of your presence is good.
They are joyful because you’re absent is not a good thing,
that’s important.
It’s important to check this
and the coming year you must have a plan
how to become a better human being than the way I was in 2014.
I want you to have a clear cut plan,
“How am I going to be a better human being, what is my plan.”
You must have a plan of your own.
We can help you with a GPS (Laughter),
how to negotiate your plan,
but you must have a plan.
Don’t wait for cosmic geometry to come together.
Cosmic geometry is in a wonderful place,
otherwise it would have crashed.
Only because cosmic geometry is perfect, it is going on, isn’t it?
Did you see any extra noises,
loud noises coming up today morning when the sun was coming up?
Friction - kut, kut, kut, kut, kut, kut, kut, (Gestures)
it came up like that like a old machine (Laughter)?
Very smoothly it came up, isn’t it?
Hmm?
Absolutely smooth, you didn’t even notice it (Laughter),
so smoothly it came up.
So the cosmic geometry is going perfect.
You don’t worry about where the stars are,
what is the arrangement, is it okay, not okay,
it’s perfect.
It is you, are you going to ride it or are you going to be crushed by it, that’s a question.
So, you must have a clear cut plan for 2015
“How am I going to be a better human being within myself.”
What happens around you is a consequence
of the way the world is running and the way we conduct things, many things.
Consequences are okay but how we are is very important
because this is what determines the quality of who we are.
What happens – we have little more, little less,
this happens, that happens,
that is not the quality of your life,
that is just the content of your life.
Content should not decide the quality,
it is always the context which decides the quality of one’s life.
So the coming year, the plan tch must be good,
a workable plan.
Hmm?
I want you to be an ambitious plan, not a stupid, silly, tiny little plan,
a very ambitious plan
“by the end of this year I must be in this kind of a state.”
Hmm?
Time to plan,
the coming year we have a clear cut plan and we work through the plan,
a deliverable plan,
an ambitious one,
not a small one.
I want all of you to evolve a plan like that,
if necessary write it down
“This is how I’m going to be in the coming year,”
whatever is your idea of being better human being.
You don’t have to go by my prescriptions
but if you’re better you must be functioning
within yourself at least with less friction,
less struggle,
less turmoil.
Yes?
That’s an indication that you’re better.