Piyush Pandey: If somebody feels that he’ is putting in a lot of efforts
and his efforts are not being recognized,
how does that person motivate himself or herself to say,
‘“I don’t really give a damn as to what other people think.
I have to keep on doing what I’m doing.
I have to excel myself every day”?.’
What is the message that you would like to give people,
who feel that sometimes
their efforts do not get recognized
to the level that they think they have put in?.
Sadhguru: See these are two extremes.
“I don’t give a damn” is not going to work,
especially if you’re in the retail (Laughs). -
If you say, “I don’t give a damn”, you’ are out of business.
At the same time, thinking “my efforts are not giving the necessary result,” -
I think a whole lot of people feel this way.
I’m saying, in your assessment, you may be doing great,
but the world has to recognize too.
Somebody else has to see value to what you’re doing,
only then it’ will find recognition.
If you feel it's valuable, you’re doing it,
then don’t bother about other people’s’ recognition.
But if what you’re doing is useful to them
Let's understand this
Not because what you’re doing is great,
because what you’re doing is useful to them,
they will say, “Oh, this is wonderful.”
So, “‘I don’t give a damn,’” definitely doesn’t work.
But whether other people recognize you or not,
depending upon how useful it is at a given time to people.
That depends what is the type of job we’ve have taken up.
Now… I must say this (Laughs).
Shall I (Laughs)?
See, today, wherever I go, people are saying things,
“Oh, he is a yogi, he is a mystic.”
They don’t know a damn thing about me being a yogi or a mystic, okay (Both laugh)?.
They don’t know what is a yogi,
what is a mystic.
Now, because it's it is internationally recognized,
everybody is clapping their hands (Piyush Pandey laughs).
I’ve been saying the same things for last thirty- five years.
Nobody thought anything about it.
Now, somewhere else in America, people are clapping their hands,
here also they started clapping their hands, okay (Laughs).
It means nothing to me, all the recognition.
Some day if people truly recognize what is being a yogi
and they’ are inspired to become that, that’s wonderful.
Of course, there are many people, who are inspired by that (Applause).
But I’m telling you, even people, who are near around me, including my family,
if I were sitting under a tree, same yogi, -
no recognition in the world,
they wouldn’t think nothing of my being a yogi,
do you understand (Laughs)?.
Today, because it's internationally recognized,
everybody is saying, “This is
‘He is a great yogi.’”
They don’t know what a damn… what is damn yogi is about.
They don’t know a damn thing about it.
It is just that many people see it's useful to them.,
So there is recognition.
Let's understand this.
People are not recognizing the quality of who I am,.
They are recognizing the usefulness that I am to them.
Only that part gets recognition.
The quality of what I am,
only a handful of people would recognize that.
Rest will not even know what the hell it is (Laughs)
and it's okay (Laughs).
Piyush Pandey: I think that’s beautifully said and I think
if I was to translate that into our language out here in this room
Sadhguru: Hey, don’t use your language, hmm huh! (Laughter).
Piyush Pandey: My language of the kind that I can use in front of you (Laughter).
I would say that, keep at it as to what you’re doing.
One day, people will see the use of that in their lives.
And your time will come,
like his time came when people started clapping.
So all you retail professionals, don’t worry about what the world thinks,
keep on doing what you’re doing.
Am I right in saying that?
Sadhguru: Oh, that’s a deduction (Laughster) (Applause).
I would say that if your
if your work is an expression of your joyfulness,
whether recognition or no recognition,
what does it matter?.
You’re finding an opportunity to express your joy.
And if you look at your own lives and see –
the moments where… where you’re in pursuit of your happiness,
what is the quality of those moments,
the moments when you’re expressing your joy,
what is the quality of those moments, if you see,
you will see whenever you’re expressing your happiness or joy,
they are the best moments in your life.
If your work is an expression of your joy,
your working moments will be the best moments of your life.