(Sadhguru) I think it was Hemingway who said this.
He visited certain parts of India,
he visited the wrong places
and he saw certain people and went back
and then he said,
“If you don’t eat well,
if you are not dressed well,
if you don’t live well
you must be spiritual.” (Laughter)
How is that!
But at the same time
another very prominent American
who is still seen as one of the keenest minds
that America ever produced,
Mark Twain
you read some Mark Twain here?
Hmm?
Mark Twain came visiting India
because he was so fascinated with Indian mysticism.
He found the right kind of guide
who took him around and he met many people
and when he was leaving,
he said, “Anything that can ever be done either by man or God
has been done in this land.”
So, both have happened;
the peaks have happened
and the most horrible depths have happened.
It… the question is just this
are you going to be the peak
or are you going to be the bottom?
That’s an individual choice
but now making the choice,
“What do I do,
where do I go?” -
they are making this more and more complex
and more and more deceptive.
Now, if someone is going to tell you
that your dead father is in the highest heaven
it's very satisfying.
Hmm?
Isn’t it so?
And if someone is willing to tell you
your mother-in-law is in hell… (Laughter)
See....
If somebody is going to tell you,
you yourself are going straight to heaven
it is even more reassuring
but is that
are you in such a childish state of mind
that this is all you are seeking?
Some idiot who does not know where he is going
is going to tell you where you are going. (Laughter)
Is that all you are looking for?
So, this is a decision you have to make,
“Am I looking for solace
or am I looking for a solution?”
If you are looking for solution
then it's a different game.
If you are looking for solace it's a different game.
Solace is just cheap psychiatry,
you know.
“Don’t worry, everything will be okay;
don’t worry, everything will be okay.
God is just keeping his lap open just for you.
If you die you are going to land straight in his lap.” (Laughter)
See if you are going to land in God’s lap
I don’t think you should postpone it for tomorrow. (Laughter)
No?
Isn’t it?
If you are going to land in such a blessed place
you should not postpone it for a moment.
This is okay for somebody else,
not for you, isn't it?
It’s all right to tell this to somebody,
not for yourself;
it doesn’t work.
Isn't it so?
Yes,
but something that doesn’t work
we have peddled for too long.
So what really works has been lost in this confusion.
The only thing that you have to work with right now is
your body and your mind.
These are the only two things you have.
“No, my soul.”
You can't work with it,
nobody ever worked with the soul.
You can only use your body;
you can only use your mind, isn't it?
These two things,
if you bring it
and make them into conducive vehicles
then something beyond becomes a living possibility,
not because you believe in it,
not because it's written in your great scripture,
not because somebody that you think is a great Guru said that,
simply because you have found a way
to go beyond the limitations of your body and your mind,
that's all.
Otherwise no way… no other way it's going to happen.
I did everything for the wrong reasons
but I did the right things, so it works.
So, I want you to know it is not the intention,
it is the nature of action which yields the result, isn't it?
Yes or no?
Even for the wrong reasons if you do the right things,
right things will happen to you.
That is how the damn existence is structured, what to do?
That is why good people are always suffering. (Laughter)
People who believe they are good
they are always suffering because
they have great intentions but stupid actions,
so they suffer. (Laughter)
So, this is
this whole idea of right and wrong,
good and bad is all human nonsense.
Existence is not human centric.
They have always told you
many religions of the world have been going about telling people
“You are made in God’s own image”
and
once you are in God’s own image
naturally the place that you live
this planet is the very center of the universe
they believe this for a long time isn't it?
Even now they are insisting
You’ve heard of this guy Copernicus?
Copernicus was one of the first guys
who came and said,
“Earth is not the center of the universe;
not only not the center of the universe,
it is not even the center of the solar system.”
And he promptly died.
That’s not bad thing; it's a good thing
because the next man after him,
when he uttered the same thing
they wanted to peal his skin off
and the skin would not cooperate.
So, they decided to burn him alive.
The next significant man who has uttered the same thing was Galileo;
he said the same thing.
Then they got ready with the skin peelers.
Then he said, “No, no, no, no;
earth is the center of the universe and the cosmos.
What is my problem? (Laughter)
As you say earth is not only the center of the solar system
and not only the center of the universe;
it is the very center of the cosmos.
Anyway I do not know what is the center of the cosmos,
you want to assume.
I want to save my skin. That much I know.” (Laughs)
So, today science has proved to you
that definitely earth is not the center of the solar system,
in the universe you are just a miniscule.
Tomorrow morning if you and your planet disappears,
if it evaporates
nobody is going to miss it.
Hmm?
The whole solar system evaporates tomorrow morning
it will be just a small vacant place
that nobody is going to miss in the existence,
nothing is going to happen.
Yes?
God won't come rescuing you.
It’ll just pooff it will go.
This is a good thing.
This whole idea that I am made in the image of God
has left man so crude
and he has been walking upon this planet so wantonly
without any concern for any other life on this planet,
simply because he believes he is in the image of God.
If you knew that your life is as significant
or as insignificant as that of an ant
it is actually.
All these grand ideas that human beings have about themselves
that we are made in the image of God
and God loves us and
These are dangerous ideas
which has made human beings so uncaring,
unresponsive to life around him.
He thinks this planet and universe is all made for him,
no other life has any right to live here except him.
He just lost… all his marbles in his head are gone
simply because of these kind of ideas.
Now, modern science sort of has been very bad for your ego.
Now it says you are just a blob of nothing,
pulsating like this right now tomorrow pooff
really.
See, whatever you think about yourself
are you breathing everyone? (Laughter)
Is everybody breathing? Meditators: Yes
Sadhguru: No yogis.
Nobody is able to hold their breath and sit.
Inhalation,
exhalation,
inhalation,
exhalation,
inhalation,
exhalation… (Says in a stretching tone) (Laughter)
The next inhalation didn’t happen… (Gestures)
wherever we search you don’t exist.
Yes or no? Tch
See, how fragile it is.
Just breathe carefully, it may go away. (Laughter)
It's like a balloon - in and out,
in and out,
out and it didn’t go in again
pooff
gone!
That fragile;
at the same time how sturdy!
Hmm?
Isn’t it so?
How many things a man can do
but at the same time how fragile!
It doesn’t take an elephant to kill you,
a damn virus… (Laughter)
so
without knowing the essential nature of life
we are trying to somehow blunder through,
that’s the whole problem.
Now how to exist here?
Today how to live?
How to make this life in such a way
that it is conducive to know,
experience and manifest
deeper dimensions of life
as a way of living?
if you want to receive the deeper dimensions of life,
if you have to become conducive,
if your mind and your body and your energies have to become conducive
to receive something beyond what you are right now,
first and foremost thing is
they must listen to you.
They must take instructions from you.
If your body,
if your mind,
if your energies took instructions from you,
would you naturally keep it in utmost pleasantness?
Yes or no?
You would.
So, if you keep this continuously pleasant,
if you keep this constantly pleasant
then your intelligence will flower to a
completely different dimension of perception.
When you are no more a issue
when you are no more a issue by yourself,
there are million issues on the outside
but you are not the issue,
you are just fine -
if you become like this you become receptive.
So, always the yogic systems have been talking about blissfulness,
ecstasy,
ananda,
you know all this stuff
not because blissfulness is a goal by itself.
It is only in a state of pleasantness
this will be at the highest level of receptivity,
otherwise when this is a… in turmoil,
when this is an issue by itself
it cannot receive;
it cannot understand the core of life the way it is.
It can only fight for survival.