People want fulfilment.
Well, it takes a lifetime of effort for most human beings
that things that they pursue will not and cannot
bring fulfilment.
Moving to a place where you can handle any kind of challenge simply means
it’s giving you the freedom to do what you want.
Because there is no "The God", there is no incarnation.
"Avatar"
means...
a repeat performance.
Superscript: How to Become a God? Sadhguru Spot
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Sadhguru: Aspiration of human fulfillment,
there are so many efforts,
so many different types of activity in the world.
Whether one is going to the temple or to the bar seeking God or drink or drug,
one is seeking peace or war,
one is seeking trinkets of life, another wants to go to heaven,
essentially the pursuit is same.
People want fulfilment.
Well, it takes a lifetime of effort for most human beings
that things that they pursue will not and cannot bring fulfilment.
Samyama is not an effort to fulfil yourself
but to remove the ingredients which cause unfulfilled conditions within you.
There is a process in your hands right now.
Where you will take this process is in your hands,
but it is such a potent and alive process,
a very live and potent process that if you give yourself to it,
it does things that you have not imagined possible ever
Superscript: Do I have to stay in the ashram for my sadhana to flourish?
Sadhguru: About spriritual process being fragile,
if you ask me,
your spiritual process is more often challenged here in the ashram than in some other city.
It is challenged and it’s also supported- that’s important.
You simply challenge, people may feel defeated.
It must be constantly challenged and it must be also supported and nursed.
Both are needed.
As I said,
some nursing is also needed, some challenge is also needed.
Both are needed.
There’s no challenge just nursing, you will grow up very weak.
Only challenge no nursing, you may break.
It’s a balance.
Is there a perfect balance?
There’s no perfect balance — everybody balances somehow.
So where you feel most uncomfortable you stay there.
That’ll be good for you.
That is if you want to grow quickly.
If you want to grow slowly, be where it’s most comfortable.
It’s taken a lot of effort to constantly design every situation like that,
that there is nourishment and there is challenge, there is nourishment and challenge.
From being a Isha’s anga to become Isha,
that means wherever you go it’s the same thing.
Doesn’t matter, you are in the middle of a marketplace,
you are like this only.
You can participate in everything, but untouched by anything.
So, this is a simple test for yourself:
If you miss anything, not just people, anything…
Right now,..
anything that we are used to, food, comfort, this or that,
we thoroughly enjoy it
but when it’s not there we don’t miss it.
When you don’t have it,
if you’re in the same condition as when you have it,
this is a good indication.
That means you are moving from a nursery to face any kind of challenge.
Moving to a place where you can handle any kind of challenge simply means
it’s giving you the freedom to do what you want.
Whatever we want we can take it up and do it.
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Sadhguru: Who told you. they are incarnations of God?
No, you must understand this.
See, the idea of "The God"
only comes from three Abrahamic religions
that there is "The God" somewhere, "One authority".
Nowhere else does it exist.
Not at all in this culture.
We call any being who's evolved beyond what we thought was a normal human being,
as a "Deva" that means he's like God-like.
Because, I think I have spoken about this you know people call Tendulkar a Criketing-God,
everybody wants to come and fall at your feet and things,
because when they see somebody
that is evolved beyond what they think is normal,
what "they" think is normal
then that person they're saying he is divinely endowed.
Something more than what we have.
There is no "The God"
because there is no "The God" there is no incarnation.
"Avatar" means a repeat performance.
Yes. Avatar means its come once again in a certain form.
But does not mean "The God" has come.
If somebody is of a certain kind they say "oh! he is Shiva's incarnation".
You must understand this,
in this culture
for example, they were talking about Ramana Maharishi.
People used to refer to him as Bhagwan.
Bhagwan generally literally translates to like almost like God.
Hey this Samskrit, somebody.
Tell me what's bhagwan, how does it break in two words.
Participant: A fortunate being.
Sadhguru: That's what they're trying to say.. Ok.
But generally these are the words that are there to describe God.
Tamil'la enna? (What is it in Tamil?)
Participant: Kada-vul means, thats going inward Swami.
Sadhguru: Oh! That's nice!
I didn't realize that. I thought "kadavul kadavul solikirom"
If that is the meaning then that is fantastic that they call him
using a word for God as something that is within.
Participant: In the dictionary it has been said like that -
one who had overcome the self or existence.
Sadhguru: If that is the dictionary meaning
then, it's a wonderful absolutely fantastic meaning.
Always they are referring to God as one who transcended his own self.
Fantastic!
So these are the kind of words that are there.
There is no "The God" anywhere in these languages or in this culture.
So, in the question when you say,
how did the incarnations of God come here.
They didn't come here, they were here
and they transcended their self and they became "kada-vul"