How can we explore every aspect of the life without being untouched
and getting attached to all the compulsive activities?
We say, “I don’t want to drink,” but somewhere we are afraid that we will be addicted to it.
My question is how can we explore every aspect of life without being untouched?
Sadhguru: See, nobody says, “I want to drink,” some people drink, some people don’t.
Some people who drink, may drink for the pleasure of it.
Some people who drink, may drink because they want to drown something within themselves.
Some people drink because everybody is drinking – it’s an evolutionary (Laughter)…
it’s an evolutionary issue,
you know?
When we were monkeys, if one did this, everybody did this (Laughter).
And some people don’t drink because they think it’s morally wrong.
Some people don’t drink because they’re afraid their parents and society, what they will say.
Some people don’t drink because they’ve found something better within themselves.
They found something far better than a drink, so it never arose in their mind that they have to drink
because they are doing wonderfully by themselves,
they don’t need any chemical help from outside.
So, these are different ways.
If you want to explore life,
because you can only explore life,
you cannot explore art, you cannot explore spirituality,
you cannot explore something
you can only explore life, yes?
Well, you may look at it from a certain perspective,
somebody may look at it in an artistic way,
in an aesthetic way, in a musical way,
in a spiritual way, but essentially we’re exploring life.
Even if you’re looking at inanimate things,
you are only exploring life because
nothing happens outside of you.
Everything that happens, happens only within you, isn’t it?
So, the only thing that you are experiencing is life.
You may think this is color,
you may think this is sound,
you may think this is something else, no.
In your experience, you’re only experiencing the way different things imprint upon your life.
That’s the only way you can experience it, there is no other means of experience for you.
So, essentially you are only exploring life because nothing else you have access to.
Yes?
Right now I may think I’m looking at this person,
but no, I am only looking at the image that happens in my mind, isn’t it so?
Right now if you touch somebody next to you,
you think you are experiencing that person’s hand
no,
you only experience the sensations in your hand,
isn’t it so?
So, your entire experience of life is absolutely within you.
That means –
you are capable of experiencing only this one life.
So is it a trap that you can only experience this?
No.
If you experience this,
then everything becomes a possibility because…
see, when it comes to body,
we clearly know this is my body, that’s your body – hundred percent.
This is my mind, that’s your mind – one hundred percent, isn’t it?
But when it comes to life,
there is no such thing as your life and my life.
This is a living cosmos,
you just captured a little bit of it.
How much you captured,
how much life have you gathered within you,
will determine what is the scope and scale of your life.
So, whether you call it art,
whether you call it music,
whether you call it spiritual process
or whatever the nature of activity
activity is a means to open up your borders of individuality,
so that something larger than yourself happens to you.
Something larger than what you think as myself happens to you in your life.
This is the purpose of love,
this is purpose of art,
this is the purpose of sexuality,
this is the purpose of spiritual process
essentially that something larger than myself must happen to me.
Because
only if this happens, I feel trapped inside this,
yes or no?
You interpret this in many different ways
but essentially what you are looking for is,
you want to somehow go beyond the limitations of your own boundaries.
The word yoga, you’ve heard of the word yoga?
Tch, hello?
Participants: Yes.
Sadhguru: The word yoga means… people think (Gestures) (Few Laughs)...
twisting and turning is not yoga.
The word yoga means union,
union means if you sit here,
there is you and the universe.
If you sit here tightly, fixed with your boundaries
it is you versus the universe.
You versus universe is a stupid competition (Few Laughs).
Hello?
Those of you who are (Gestures)
like this all the time,
it’s an absolutely idiotic competition between you and the universe.
If you have any sense,
you don’t compete with the universe
because you are a small speck in this universe,
how do you compete?
This is what individuality means
individuality means you are head on with the universe.
Yoga means you obliterated the boundaries of your individuality,
the distinction between what is you and what is the universe, has gone down considerably.
If you sit here, what is you and what is everything else is about the same in your experience.
If this happens to you,
then you will see
there is no such thing as my life and your life,
there is just one big life happening.
This experience is needed
a tremendous experience is needed within you if you want to create something fantastic.
If you want to create something brilliant,
something unique, something truly of some significance,
you need an experience.
it’s important that there is an experience of exuberance, joy, profoundness
but right now in the world,
a whole lot of people think only in misery you can be profound.
Because it is true that for most people,
their pain is the most profound experience of their life.
if we just stick a pin into you,
just a pin not a sword
just a pin,
the pain goes to the core, isn’t it?
Hello?
Just a little pin, one inch pin if I stick it
ahhh (Few Laugh),
so deep (Laughs).
So pain becomes profound much more easily.
So, a lot of people think
pain is the source of profoundness,
this has to change.
To know profoundness of joy,
to know profoundness of love,
to know profoundness of exuberance
and intensity of life,
it takes something more