Anything that you take up, that's when your genius flowers. Now, there's a limitless way of looking at life.
All I know is, this needs to be done, and those who do it
with all that they have, they will find fullfilment.
Questioner: Namaskaram Sadhguru. Sadhguru, I have a south Indian father, and it was a very rocky relationship with him.
When Rally for Rivers happened, I happened to volunteer for it.
My father really got angry, and he was like "This is not what you want to do."
And he wanted me to ask you this, that...
"What is my responsibility as a son for my parents?"
And I wanted to ask you this, that, am I doing the right thing?
(Applause)
Sadhguru: There are no right things to do in life.
If you choose something and put everything that you have into it, it'll become a great thing.
Is it the right thing? Is it the best thing?
When you say, "Is it the right thing?" what you're asking is, "Is it the best thing to do in life?"
There is no best thing to do in life.
Anything that you take up, and if you put your heart and soul into it, it becomes a great thing.
"Is it the best thing?" No. "Then what is the best thing?" There is no such thing.
There's really no such thing.
And now that you have duties towards your parents, tell me...
whether it's to yourself, or to your parents, or to anybody,
don't look at yourself as a...
a Delhite, or an idiot, whatever you want to call yourself.
Sadhguru: you're just a piece of life. Hmm? Hello? Meditators: Yes.
Sadhguru: And today you're here, one day you'll be poop, gone.
What do you think is your duty to this life, and to every life?
Please tell me. Hmm?
Meditator 1: To experience it to the fullest. Meditator 2: To live fully.
Sadhguru: What is living fully mean, huh? (Laughter)
Meditator 2: To enjoy this moment. Sadhguru: Oh...
(Laughter)
You are a brief life. You're a brief life.
I want you to just imagine, you've seen those insects which come when it rains, you know, ants which fly.
Suppose you were that. You just came alive poop, poop, poop, and puff... gone.
That's what you are. Just compared to the span of your life,
the insect's life is looking so meaningless, and poop, poop, poop and gone.
That's what the rivers are thinking about you, poop, poop, poop and gone. (Few laugh) Yes or no?
Compared to their lifespan, you are just like that insect, or less than that insect. Isn't it so?
But, you don't know what the insect is thinking,
but, at least you… I want you to think and see, it's a bloody brief life.
Both for you and your father, and don't you ever take this South India in a negative ground.
(Laughter/Applause)
As if a South Indian father is some terrible phenomena.
(Laughs)
You tell your father, I defended his South Indian origins.
In this culture, people desperately wanted to have a son,
not because they had a kingdom to rule, because they believed if they have a child...
because the girl will get married and go off somewhere. If the son is there, he will be there, and make sure
that before they die, he will take them to Kashi, or he will take them to the right place, and see that they get mukti.
That is the entire process of life here. Because...
we saw the very process of life, and it's exuberant flying around for some time, and poof...
this itself is a trap.
Suppose you remembered one hundred lifetimes of coming up, flying around, falling in love, reproducing,
South Indian or North Indian... (Laughter)
and... Kayantha Sthanam (Isha's Crematorium Services).
Suppose you remembered hundred happenings like this, would it become meaningless?
Sadhguru: Hmm? Meditator: Yes.
Sadhguru: Because of loss of memory, everything is looking fresh.
Yes? So...
your fundamental duty towards yourself and your father is just to remind them of this.
So are you doing the right thing? I don't know, sir.
All I know is this needs to be done, and those who do it
with all that they have, will find fulfillment.
(Applause)
I'm not somebody who ever debated, "Is this the right thing to do in my life?"
What was needed, I jumped into it, because...
if you are a constipated life, you will always be thinking
about what to do, what not to do, what to do, what not to do, what is my passion, what is not my passion?...
Why the hell are you not passionate about everything?
Sadhguru: Hello? Meditators: Yes.
Sadhguru: Why are you not passionate about everything in the existence?
You're only passionate about one thing means what? You're constipated. That's what it means.
So… see,
idiots do things that they don't like to do, suffer for their whole life,
because they think it's needed, or they think it's their duty.
Intelligent people do what they love to do.
They enjoy their life to some extent.
But a genius learns to do what is needed joyfully.
That's when your genius flowers, because it's no more about you.
Now there's a limitless way of looking at life.
So, every aspect of this rally, or many other things we have done...
I don't even have to tell people that this must happen, this must happen, this must happen.
A few things, yes. Rest of it,
I just make it up in my mind, and I know it must happen.
And it will happen. (Applause)
Not because I'm exercising my will over the world,
because I'm just fulfilling the will of the world, that's all.
(Applause)