Sadhguru: Now if you drive by yourself without a road map, we don't know
what is just next building to get there you may go round the world and get there.
Or in the process of going around the world, you may just get lost or fall dead.
Yes? Not everybody has the endurance to complete the journey of that kind, which is of uncertain
duration, isn't it? Or you go with a road map.
Somebody has told you this is it, this is it, this is it. You do just that and go with the road map.
Still it's your effort, but somebody’s guidance.
Another way is somebody’s going there, you can see that this person is going in the right direction
so you just follow him,
another way.Another way is, you don’t even trust you’re following him because one moment you want
to go to the bathroom, by then he will be gone.
So you just get on to his bus.
Now anyway you go there. No effort from your side, but there are different aspects of you.
You want to go yourself because there is a certain aspect of you which want to do things, isn't it?
All of you, if I ask you why are you working this hard, you say, “What? Shouldn’t we live?
Don’t I need food? Shouldn’t I feed my children, my wife?”
Do one thing, I will give them a roof and I will give you food.
You don’t do anything, you simply sit. Okay?
You, your wife, your children, I will feed them, I will give them a roof over their head,
you don’t do anything, just sit quietly. Possible? You’ll go crazy.
You’ll want to do many things, isn't it? So there is something in you which wants to do things.
’Til that urge is very strong, then you dri... do your own driving.
If you’re sensible, use a roadmap, otherwise get lost for a while here and there, do all kinds of crazy things.
When you see you are not getting anywhere, ask for a roadmap.
With a roadmap also you can get very confused and lost, then you drive behind somebody.
If you are doing well that way, fine.
If you are not doing well that way, even there you are getting lost then you just get onto somebody’s bus.
Now even you if you sleep, you’ll go.
This means that you have to keep yourself aside.
If you have to get on to somebody’s bus, you have to keep yourself completely aside.
Your personality will not pass. You have to just sit.
You don’t decide how fast to drive, what to do, how to swing the bus, no, isn't it? You just sit.
If he stops you stop with him, if he goes you go with him.
This is one way of journeying but you want to drive your own vehicle then it involves risks, isn't it?
It involves various things.
So what is it that you’re ready for, is something that you have to decide.
These four ways I am talking about are just bhakti, gnana, karma, kriya. Do you understand? (Laughs)
You want to do your own thing hundred percent, you don’t want to depend on anybody this is kriya.
You want to take a roadmap and go - gnana.
You want to follow somebody else’s bus - karma; you just want to sit in somebody else’s
bus and go, you don’t mind not being the driver - bhakti.
(Laughs) What are you ready for right now, you must see that.
What I see is before you come to just getting into somebody’s bus, you must go through all those things.
Otherwise you will sit in the bus and want to drive it. (Laughs)
You will sit in the backseat and want to drive it, isn't it, most of the time? That won't be good.
Before you settle down into the seat, you should exhaust the other aspects, then only you can settle down.
So how do you know the bus is going in the right direction? (Laughs) That’s a big question.
How do you know this bus is really going there? You really don't know actually.
You have no way of knowing also.
It is just that if you notice that the driver or the bus seem to be traveling a different kind of terrain than you know,
you must get on to it and try it.
If you look at the driver, you feel very threatened
but still you want to be there, that means you must get on the bus.
If you’re very comfortable, you are very pleased with the driver, you like the driver, very pleasant,
don’t get on to the bus ‘cause he belongs to your realm, that’s why you like him so much.
He is just like you.
If you… if you sit with someone and for no reason you are uncomfortable, you are threatened,
at the same time you still want to be there, that means you have found your Guru, do you understand? (Laughs)
His ways are normal but his energy is abnormal.
Anything that you don’t understand is abnormal, isn't it? That’s physics and that’s God. (Laughs)
So, take your time but when you feel you have done enough, get on to the bus.
When you still think you need to do this and that, if you get on to the bus,
you will sit in the back seat and try to drive, that won't work.