Sadhguru: The worst crime that we have done against humanity is that we planted this idea
of heaven in people's head.
Next five years are crucial for making this nation cross a few thresholds.
Let us all get together and make that happen.
Participant: Yeah, I mean, I’m eighty-three now, I don’t feel I’ve become an old man.
I’ve got tons of energy, work hard, go to the gym, travel hard.
Sadhguru: It’s all right to die but you don't have to get old (Laughter).
Participant: But are you scared of dying?
Sadhguru: Huh?
Participant: Are you scared of dying?
Sadhguru: Not at all.
Why?
Participant: Not at all, huh?
Sadhguru: I have lived a full life (Laughs).
I live every day like this is the last day.
So I have no issue (Both laugh).
Participant: Are you a good sleeper?
Sadhguru: Oh yes.
I…
See for twenty-five years, I have managed with just about two-and-a-half to three hours
of sleep.
Participant: A night?
Sadhguru: Yes.
Participant: A night?
Sadhguru: These days on an average, I'm getting lazy, sleeping four-and-a-half hours.
Participant: Wow (Laughs).
Participant: You know what, my wife and I sleep nine hours.
Participant: We sleep nine hours a day.
Sadhguru: That means half the life you'll sleep off (Laughter).
Participant: If I had two-and-a-half hours sleep, I’d be sitting here like this now
(Gestures).
Sadhguru: No, body does not need sleep, it needs restfulness.
If you know how to keep yourself restful, the sleep quota will just go down.
Participant: That's a good point actually, isn’t it?
Sadhguru: When we perform action, we want it to be successful.
There's no question but today you watch all the successful people, they are spreading
a message, “Success is misery, success is suffering.”
Once you spread this message, next generation will not seek success.
This may not be articulated in their mind but they will not seek success because they're
looking at the successful ‘you’ and they don't want to be like you.
They think they're better off smoking pot and they are!
Participant: That's true.
Sadhguru: So for you to be successful, the most important thing is, your pleasantness
in the body, pleasantness in the mind, pleasantness in the emotion and pleasantness in your life
energies.
Participant: We complicate our lives to ridiculous extent, because that’s just the way of the
world.
Sadhguru: There's no such thing as too much.
Human being is geared to do a lot.
The problem is most human beings, their own mind is against them.
When your intelligence turns against you, then you are finished.
So you may call it stress, you may call it anxiety, you may call it misery, madness,
whatever you like.
Essentially, it's your intelligence turning against you, isn't it?
Participant: Ah…
I love that.
Sadhguru: Is there any other reason?
Sadhguru: Consciousness is not some strange thing happening somewhere.
You are alive and you are… know that you are alive because you're conscious.
If you are unconscious, you don't even know whether you are alive or dead, isn't it?
You don't even know whether you exist or not.
So you are conscious.
The question is only how conscious?
So right now, let us see consciousness as light.
Let's say there is just one light here in this hall.
We dim it, now it shows only these two people, other people are now missing in my vision.
What do I think?
I think only these two people exist in this hall.
You brightened it up, I suddenly see four people, oh suddenly four people are in this
hall.
Now somebody turned it on, oh, ten people are there.
They put it on full brightness, now I see everything and everybody in all detail.
This is all consciousness is.
Everybody is conscious.
The question is only, “How?
How conscious?”
Everybody is awake but question is only, “How awake are you, right now?”
So that is why the word, in India, we always use the word “Awakening.”
_____ (Unclear) Am not I awake?
I am awake but you can get more awake than what you are right now, you can get further
more and more awake, to a point if you become fully awake, the entire creation is in your
perception.
The worst crime that we have done against humanity is that we planted this idea of ‘heaven’
in people's head.
We told them, “There is a better place to live than this.
Here you can live wantonly, do stupid things to each other, somewhere else everything is
going to be fantastic” (Laughter).
This one idea has… have made us so gross and insensitive to everything around us.
This idea, “If you are… if you are not eating well here, no problem, there it will
be fantastic.
You didn't get your drink today, it doesn't matter, there rivers flow with wine.
Whatever little pleasures you want, don't worry, there virgins are waiting in dozens
for you” whatever nonsense.
I'm saying just this idea that, “This is the damn place where you have to do your best
to live at the highest level possible.
There is no higher place to live.”
This has to sink into all of us.
If we want to live in a great way, this is the place, isn't it?
Participant: _____ (Unclear)
Sadhguru: I'm asking you, “Do you have any proof that you are not already in heaven and
messing it up” (Applause)?
Sadhguru: Humility in victory and gracefulness in defeat, is the mark of great men.
It takes great men to make a great nation.
At this time, when the election results are out and people have expressed their will,
all of us, whether the contestants who have won and those who have lost, must remember,
you are only weighing to see, “Who can serve India better?”
This is about serving the nation and the people of this nation.