You must look for those things which will heighten your faculties not lower your faculties,
Look at my eyes, I'm always stoned. There is a high when you can see better, hear better, think better,
visualize better, there is a tremendous high with life.
Because the greatest chemical factory on the planet is here .
Participant: Swamiji how to come off the addiction?
Sadhguru: I'm sorry?
Participant: Addiction like smoking, like drinking, something like that. No, because we know
that’s bad thing but we are addicted to do that. I don’t know…because I do go for tennis, I go for…
Sadhguru: I'm sorry?
Participant: I go for sports also but sometimes we smoke regularly in three hours once or
two hours once or something like that but I know it's a bad thing, I have to come out of that.
Sadhguru: I didn’t say it's a bad thing. I don’t think it's good or bad. It’s just quite stupid to be smoking.
It's not good or bad, it's just stupid because this machine was not made to smoke.
This is an eco-friendly machine but now you are making it into a smoking machine, that means it's stupid, isn't it?
A well, very efficient machine you make it inefficient machine, is it not stupid,
is it good or bad? There’s no such thing.
Participant: Yeah we know it's bad but…
Sadhguru: See, that’s the whole thing. The moment you call it bad you can't leave it.
Participant: ___
Sadhguru: See Vel knows what’s bad (Laugh). Why are you giving it titles that it is not?
It’s just stupid, that's all. If you see something as stupid you can't be doing it everyday.
Somewhere you feel smarter than other people. Yes?
Participant: No, because of the taste.
Sadhguru: See, now slowly in the world people have gotten against you.
Just ten years ago if you blow it into somebody’s face you felt great, they felt stupid.
Now, the equation has reversed in last ten years’ time, isn't it? Isn't it so?
So, somewhere you thought it's a smart thing to do.
When you were just 10-year-old kid you wanted to suck in and blow it out into somebody’s face.
It felt like a smart thing to do. You tell me smoking, a machine that doesn’t smoke to make it smoke,
right now you are working so hard to make our cars smoke less, isn't it?
Enormous amount of research into fuels and engines and everything is going on
to make our car smoke less, isn't it? A non-smoking machine if you make it smoke is it stupid or intelligent?
Participant: Stupid.
Sadhguru: Say it loudly. That's all. If you see that slowly it will drop off.
Now, there is a certain chemical factor to this. Your chemistry has become dependent
on nicotine or caffeine and whatever. That we will change, you just see you do Shambavi Mahamudra
suddenly your whole system is so fired up, the need to smoke, the need to drink coffee, tea,
everything just evaporates. Now, if you do it it's only for the pleasure of it.
One day you feel like drinking coffee you drink it. One day you feel like smoking you smoke,
that’s up to you, but the compulsion will be taken away. The physiological dependence will be taken away.
We’ll do that with the practice but first you see that it’s stupid to do it.
Participant: How do we counter balance the power of social structures put on by popular culture?
It feels like it sometimes called youth in ignorance and has them carry out a suede perception of self-worth,
and can also lead people to destructive behaviors like drugs and alcohol because it's so cool.
It is impossible to escape. What do we do? (Applauds).
Sadhguru: I see it's a popular question (Laugh). See, instead of looking at these things as moral stuff,
whether it's right or wrong, because never have we been able to really decide what is right and what is wrong,
isn’t it? For thousands of years we have debated the same things without being able to arrive at what is
truly right and what is truly wrong. One generation thinks this is it, next generation thinks that’s trash.
Yes, or no? All the time. So let's look at it this way, to enhance your life, is it the goal,
is it the reason why you're in the university in some way you want to enhance your life, isn't it? Hello?
Well, somebody wants money, somebody wants wealth, somebody wants knowledge,
somebody wants relationships, somebody wants love. Why?
Because you believe it'll enhance your life in some way. Yes, or no?
Participants: Yes.
Sadhguru: Enhancement of life. We are not looking for money, power, love, anything.
We are actually looking how this can be little more than what it is right now, isn't it?
So if you want to be little more, is it important that all your faculties are little more heightened
than what it is right now? I'm just saying for simple ways of looking at things.
Suppose you could see better than the way you're seeing right now, would your life be enhanced somewhat?
Yes, or no? If you could think better, see things better mentally, would your life be enhanced?
So essentially enhancement of your faculties is enhancement of life in many ways.
This question is everywhere. Youth in India are asking me all the time,
“Sadhguru, you have influence in the government. Why don't do make marijuana legal for us?”
I said, “Why marijuana? I'll make cocaine also legal. You want meth, we’ll make that also legal.
What's the problem?” The problem is just this so I asked them,
“See, let me take you, you know, I'm a licensed pilot. So not me, but we'll get another pilot for you.
On a small plane will take you on a nice ride but the pilot comes smoked up.
You want to fly?” No, they don’t say, no. They say, “Ahh…” because they think by smoking they are flying.
Then I say, “Okay, you’re not getting it. You need a major surgery.
And the surgeon comes really smoked up. You want this surgery?” “Ohh, no.”
So you understand it lowers your faculties. If you think by lowering your faculty,
you will become better, then all the best; all the best because
you will need lot of luck and a lot of blessings
because you will not live out of your own competence for sure. Yes, or no?
This is why I think everybody is talking empathy, compassion because they don't want to live
out of their own competence. They need other people's boost all the time.
Now, if you lower your faculties, your life gets lowered or high?
Lowered, so never use the word high again. You say I smoke when I'm low (Laughter & Applauds).
This is not a moral issue for me. I have no morality in me. But life should work, isn't it?
Suppose my eyes become dim, do I look better? I’m asking. Hello?
If my mind becomes dim, do I live better? Why do people think by lowering faculties life gets high?
No, it doesn't. It’s just giving you an illusion like that for which you will pay a price.
At this stage in your life you must look for those things which will heighten your faculties,
not lower your faculties, isn't it? If you're interested, you come, I'll show you.
Look at my eyes, I'm always stoned, yes look at me. Never touched the substance.
Because the greatest chemical factory on the planet is here . Hello?
The question is only whether you are ecstatic or anxious is determined by,
are you a good manager of this one or are you a lousy manager.
That's all that is determining this. If you're a lousy manager, you are importing chemicals from outside.
If you're a good manager, you are conducting this the way you want and blissed out all the time.
There is a high when you can see better, hear better, think better, visualize better,
there is a tremendous high with life. I want you to know that high, not foggy high. Thank you very much.