Sadhguru: Well, just out of Shambhavi initiation, one of the largest events of this sort in
United States, over 2,500 people for Shambhavi Mahamudra initiation in Long Beach, California,
a very exuberant lot of people.
The important thing is, more and more people, particularly young people are definitely becoming
very intense seekers.
You should see these events to believe how intense and powerful these situations become.
Shambhavi Mahamudra has become a champion of transformation.
After coming from Singapore to San Francisco, over (Laughs) seventeen-hour flight, and I
got there and then very next day we had this event, at Stanford Business School.
This was a conversation with Jonathan Coslet, who is heading the Texas Pacific group, one
of the largest investment companies.
And this was a conversation with both students and faculty attending the meeting.
What is wonderful about Stanford University right now is that sustainability and the significance
of human consciousness being an important vehicle for sustainability is becoming very
apparent and slowly that culture is gaining ground in Stanford University, particularly,
and I'm sure it is so in many other universities.
So it was a joy to be there and I think generally there has been a very positive response because
what was vaguely forming as a movement in this region, when I articulated very clearly
how consciousness is the basis of sustainability.
Without human consciousness, there is no way to craft businesses, there is no way to craft
an economy, which is inclusive and sustainable.
So this movement is growing, particularly in the west coast in California, to be specific,
the university students and the young people and the entrepreneurs are very much moving
in this direction, which is very positive.
And I'm sure it's not far that the entire world will be thinking and looking towards
these solutions.
And as a part of that, tomorrow evening, we also have another event, a conversation with
Ed Begley, who is a Hollywood personality, very committed to environmental causes and
here also the conversation, the title for the conversation, that consciousness is the
key for sustainability.
So this idea this movement, this awareness, is definitely gaining currency.
I think everybody who's concerned, must put necessary force behind this, because without
the raising of human consciousness, without an inclusive consciousness, there will be
no sustainability.
When we say consciousness, today morning, I was doing an interview for a local media
magazine, a fashion magazine, can you beat that, called Flaunt.
So they were talking about, the… this young journalist was asking me, “How to expand
our consciousness?”
So, the essential thing that everybody needs to understand is there is no such thing as
expanding our consciousness, we are talking this language because we are always identified
with limited aspects of life.
We are identified with our body, which is definitely a limited boundary.
We are identified with our mind and thoughts and emotions, which is again a limited process,
we're essentially identified… the modern education systems have made us identify with
our knowledge, which means a bank of memory that we carry within ourselves.
Memory is a limitation, it is a possibility on one level, on another level it is also
our boundary, “what I know and what I do not know” is a kind of boundary.
“What I know” is the boundaries in which I live.
The yogic system, always the first and foremost thing that you do is – you get identified
with what you do not know, the intelligence of ignorance, because our knowledge is always
very limited.
It doesn't matter how much we think we know, it's very, very miniscule, compared to the
size of creation or cosmos.
Our ignorance is boundless.
In being identified with our ignorance, we also become conscious, more and more conscious.
So what we are referring to as consciousness is essentially that which is beyond the boundaries
of our physical form and of our psychological structures.
So what is beyond physicality has no boundaries, it is boundless.
What is boundless cannot be expanded.
Clarity has to arise that we don't have to do anything to expand our consciousness, there
is no such thing.
It is anyway in the lap of consciousness that the existence itself is.
We just have to dis-identify with the limited identities that we have taken on, of body,
mind, society, family, education, and variety of other things in terms of race, religion,
nationality, gender.
Our identification rises beyond the limitations with which we are identified.
Consciousness is anyway all out.
There is no need to expand this.
Last three weeks as you know, most of you are aware has been a superfast roller coaster
(Laughs), to say the least.
So day after tomorrow getting back to III or our center in Tennessee and the space and
the silence of the Tennessee center is very healing and very good for recovering for a
battered and bruised body.
So looking forward to a couple of days being in that space and then of course, we are active,
we are in Philadelphia and various other things happening.
So, on this day I want all of you to at least think if you're not yet there experientially,
it's all right.
Today spend a little bit of time and everyday spend a little bit of time to, at least think,
thought can never be boundless, but at least try to think beyond the limitations which
you are normally identified with, in terms of body, your likes and dislikes, your family,
your race, your religion, your nation.
Beyond that, beyond even the human species, just try to think, how you are related to
everything.
What is your relationship with the sun, the moon, the universe, just at least in thought.
If you're willing, I can bring this experience to you, as a living experience.
But if you're not yet there, at least in thought, think beyond your limitations.
It will be a wonderful beginning for you (Laughs).
Here in California, Los Angeles, to be specific right now, weather is fantastic, I wish I
had a little more time.