Sadhguru: See, if you… if you take something as a value, or a philosophy or an ideology,
this will work when you and me sit on separate chairs like this (Gestures).
Suppose there is little space, five of us have to sit
on the same chair, that’s when the trouble begins. Okay?
You got your big chair, I got my big chair - no problem.
But if three, four of us have to sit on that chair -
now trouble begins.
Well, you can have philosophies, “love everybody”.
Can you, I'm asking you genuinely? Please tell me.
You’ll love selectively, isn't it?
“Love thy neighbor” - can you love your nasty neighbor (Laughter)?
You would not, okay?
It is nice to say these things because it helps to cool you a little bit.
But when life puts you to test, it won’t last.
You've seen it again and again.
You said it is not the nature of our education - one hundred percent that's where the problem
is.
The real problem is in the way we are educating our generations of people.
The question is not about what, it is the way we're doing it.
Right now our education system is one hundred percent dependent upon human intellect.
We are treating intellect as the only dimension of intelligence existing in this human being.
If I ask you a simple question -
you must answer this question because I'm going to bless you (Laughter) -
do you want your intellect sharp or blunt?
Participants: Sharp.
Sadhguru: Okay.
Those of you who didn't say anything - blessed (Laughter).
So I'll give you one more chance (Few applaud) -
sharp or blunt?
Participants: Sharp.
Sadhguru: Sharp for sure.
Intellect should be sharp. Why?
Because it's a cutting instrument.
It's like a knife, it’s like a scalpel.
The sharper it is, the better it is.
A knife is a good cutting instrument.
If you want to dissect something, you need a razor-sharp knife.
It’s good to have it.
But now you want to sew your clothes,
but you do it with your knife -
you will be in tatters.
That's all that's happening to the world.
Tell me who is messing up the world - educated people or uneducated people (Laughter)?
Hello?
Participants: Educated.
Sadhguru: Educated people.
Because this is the nature of their education.
They think they can fix everything with their intellect.
They are not even acknowledging other dimensions of intelligence which exist in your system.
When I say other dimensions of intelligence, there are…
in yoga, we look at human mind as sixteen dimensions.
Let's not go there, it will… it's a long thing.
Simply… To come very simply to this,
if you eat a tch - it’s mango season, though I am in Geneva I can talk mangoes, right (FewLaugh),
okay suppose you eat a mango,
whether you're a man, woman or a cow or a goat,
it goes into you and becomes who you are, isn’t it?
Hello?
Participants: Yes.
Sadhguru: Mango doesn't look like you, taste like you, feel like you
but it goes into you and becomes like you in you.
If you are a woman, it becomes a woman; if you are a man, it becomes a man;
if you're a cow, it becomes a cow; if you're a goat, it becomes a goat.
Very smart mango you think (Laughter)? Hello?
No.There is an intelligence here (Gestures) in this (Referring to oneself) one,
whatever comes here (Gestures), it knows it has to be made into this (Gestures).
If I take a mango… If I take a mango in my hand and make it into a human being, who
would you think I am?
Tch, very Creator, isn't it?
So, the very source of creation is functioning within you.
The problem with us is, we've been taught all kinds of things.
Somebody said those who are deprived of love in their life, that they could not love anybody
around them,
or nobody around them loved them, they said God is love.
Somebody who's fallen on the desperate conditions, they said God is compassion.
But if you don't assume anything,
if you are looking at creation - because you're…
you can only see the creation, you’ve never seen the Creator, all right
-
if you look at the creation, if you look at a flower, if you look at a leaf, if you look
at a blade of grass -
intelligence, intelligence, intelligence, isn't it?
Phenomenal intelligence, yes or no?
But nobody said God is intelligence. Tch…
If you had said this one thing we would have much smarter world today (Laughs).
Because creation is the highest level of intelligence you have seen.
You're just one little product of that, isn't it so?
Hello?
Participants: Yes.
Sadhguru: With all your brains, you still not figured out one atom in it's full… in
its entirety.
We know how to use it, we know how to break it,
we know how to fuse it, but we don't know what it is.
Because, the basis of creation is a phenomenal intelligence beyond anything that you can
imagine.
So, if creation is such intelligence, the source of creation must be a fantastic dimension
of intelligence.
But we said all kinds of things to manage social situations.
But if you really pay attention to your own system,
the way it is working, is it working because of you?
Hello?
Can you operate your kidneys, I'm asking?
Can you make your liver go better?
No.
Be…
It is not happening because of you, it’s happening in spite of you.
Yes or no?
There’s a tremendous intelligence here (Referring to within), how come you think you can never
access that?
How come you think you can only function from the little bit of memory that you’ve gathered
in the name of education, and you can only use that little bit of memory?
Let's understand this.
Because in the next five - ten years, artificial intelligence is going to come big
time.
People who read ten books became scholars, people who read one book became religious,
people who read a thousand books suddenly became so many things - by memory, isn't it?
We are misunderstanding memory to be intelligence.
This is the biggest mistake humanity has made.
Memory is like this - my memory is my memory, your memory is your memory, isn't it?
Isn't this the boundary?
Hello?
Isn't this the boundary that my memory is like this,
your memory is like that?
This is the boundary.
We have misunderstood memory as intelligence.
So, we are all become small islands of our own.
We are identified with our knowledge.
Whatever knowledge you have, if you’ve read the libraries on this planet,
still compared to this cosmos, you are a miniscule knowledge.
Yes or no?
Hello?
Participants: Yes.
Sadhguru: Because many of you are “Doctor, Doctor, Doctor”(Referring to PhDs) I am
asking (Laughter).
I'm not trying to insult you, but
is it not miniscule compared to the nature of this cosmos of what's happening here?
If you identify with your knowledge, you become that miniscule.
Now you have your own world, I have my own world,
but our ignorance is boundless.
If you identify with your ignorance, we are all together.
This is what yoga means.
We are always identified with our ignorance,
because our ignorance is limitless, and our ignorance is seamless.
Our ignorance does not separate you and me.
Because “what I do not know”, if you see “I do not know” - your intelligence is
constantly alert.
The moment you think “I know”, your intelligence sleeps.
If you want to do an experiment, if I ask you to walk
from there (Gestures) to there (Gestures),
you will walk maybe being self-conscious everybody is watching you.
But if I turn off all the lights and make this pitch dark,
if I ask you to walk from here (Gestures) to there (Gestures), you become super alert,
isn't it?
Hello?
Participants: Yes.
Sadhguru: Because the power of ignorance, you don't know where the next step is.
Suddenly, everything in you is alert.
This is the way you're supposed to live.
But the moment you gather a certain amount of memory,
and identify with that, you sleep through your life.
In India, the word that is used for enlightenment is always “awakening”.
When you're already awake, how to awaken you?
Because everybody is not awake to the same extent.
You can become awake in various levels and dimensions.
So the idea is to be fully awake, because your wakefulness is your life.
Hello?
If you're asleep, would you know that you're alive?
Your wakefulness is your life.
How awake is how rich and inclusive your life is.
Right now, the problem is just this, we're identified with our own little memory
pools.
So, every one of us, is a world by ourselves (Applause).