Sadhguru: So what is the role I’m going to play?
As the word Guru suggests,
gu means darkness, ru means dispeller
dispelling darkness.
How to dispel darkness?
You cannot kick the darkness out of a place
because
darkness is not an existence by itself.
Darkness is just absence of light.
When we say light,
we value light
because it brings clarity to us.
If there was no light, you cannot see clearly.
Where there is light, you can see clearly.
So what you actually value is not light, it is the clarity that it brings.
So essentially, it doesn’t matter
in what stage of life you are,
what aspect of life you are addressing,
the most important thing is
that you want clarity about it.
You want to be able to see it the way it is.
Seeing things the way they are,
seeing everything the way it is, is clarity.
The work of a Guru is essentially,
not to bring morality to you but to bring spirituality to you.
The difference is just this –
one is an imposition,
another is a natural blossoming
to see that this human nature reaches its ultimate possibility.
So as a Guru, what role will I play?
I’m ..
I have very strong sense of aesthetics.
Because of that,
only if you strive to keep yourself open,
depending upon how much openness you create,
that much of an active role I will play.
If you allow me,
I will even decide what you should eat for your breakfast.
Not as an imposition, but as a natural choice.
I’m saying, in the most mundane things also it can find expression .
‘So you're going to come
and between idli and dosa you will choose for me?’
Not like that.
You're walking on the street,
whether you step into a pit or on the road or on the pavement
is determined not by you but by the sunlight, isn’t it?
In that sense yes, every aspect -
if you are willing.
If you want to have your own life, it’s up to you.
You want me only to influence your spiritual life only, I’m fine.
Some people see sunlight only when they go on a vacation,
once a year.
Some people, every day in the morning,
they wake up early in the morning just to welcome the sun.
That’s your choice;
I’ll leave that to you.