By Giving you may DESTROY un-evolved person's LIFE - Sadhguru about Misplaced compassion

[Music] foreign in every culture anything beyond the normal perception of life anything beyond the normal day-to-day happenings means it's an opportunity to ask and receive things which are not normally available to people the santa claus of the west who is bank full of gifts or the traditional three boons of india whenever god appears he offers you three bones you can ask him what you want this interpretation or this direction of lore and stories that have why this lord has taken in this direction is always in the world a large population of the world is always deprived always it's been so a large population in the world is always deprived of many things that they would aspire to have or i would say almost everybody is deprived of what they want to have if they have this they don't have that if they have that they don't have this so almost everyone is deprived of something or the other so if a new possibility arises the first thing is to ask and if anybody is of any worth he's supposed to give i know there are various people there are various prayers and lamentations of the so-called devotees where they are swearing by the god and saying if you cannot even give this what kind of a god are you if you cannot even do this what kind of a guru are you where is your compassion in the shaiva lord shiva narrates many stories and incidents to highlight the limitation to highlight the trouble that one can get into just by giving indiscriminately the trouble that both the giver and the receiver can get into by simply giving somebody something that for which they are not there if they had evolved their life to a point to that which they are desiring it would anyway happen but before they reach there they want to have it before you evolve yourself to a point where you ready to receive something if you receive something the great gift may become a great curse there are any number of people on the planet who manage to somehow manipulate situations to get something that they want and suffer immensely because of what they received they would be better off with the desire but by fulfilling the desire they get into deep trouble so both the giver and the receiver can be in lot of trouble simply by giving something or by receiving something for which they are not ready many times human beings once they attain to a certain level of attainment they have an urge to be overly compassionate misplaced compassion always comes from your ego you want to be the most compassionate person on the planet wherever anybody needs anything reach out this is not coming from any kind of understanding or wisdom or awareness this is coming from wanting to be the best or the most you know whatever you do you want to be the most wherever you go even if people say i am stupid people want to say i am the most stupid person in the world even there they want to start stand first somehow they want to be the best one way or the other i want to be the most intelligent or i want to be the most stupid i don't want to be lost in between i don't want to be ordinary i want to be somehow special so you want to be the most compassionate this problem is there among people they want to be the most compassionate true compassion is not about giving or taking true compassion is just doing what's needed you have no preferences of your own simply doing what's needed is compassion you revving yourself up into a huge amount of emotion and reaching out to somebody is not compassion this is just self-satisfaction devious ways to fulfill yourself compassion is possible genuine compassion is possible when there is nothing to fulfill in you you're just doing what's needed but always if you get into your deep emotion and do something you think that was a very compassionate moment no you are seeking self-fulfillment i am not saying anything right or wrong it is still coming from a certain inadequacy so an overly compassionate sage who was indiscriminately disposing of people's needs because of his austerities he had attained to a certain capability and he was giving it away so one day shiva called him and try to advise him see this is not good the way you are dispensing gifts and boons to other people this will not bring well-being to you or to the people whom you give it may bring you much trouble it may bring him much trouble or both of you much trouble so stop giving these boons people come and ask it's okay you don't have to give parvati shiva's wife who was sitting there she said oh my lord how is this possible as it is there are very few givers in the world as it is there are very few people who are willing to give anything in the world and the few men who are giving you are trying to restrain them also what is the point at least a few men who are willing to let them give you must explain this to me this is not fair there are very few givers that also you want to discount and make it much smaller then shiva said say this is not about depriving people of something this is or not about depriving the world of receiving something nor is it an effort to deprive the person to have the pleasure of giving something it is just that instead of helping people to evolve where they will naturally receive the bounty of life an unevolved person if you give something you will only overburden him you will only destroy his life you if you're concerned about somebody's ultimate well-being you must put him through the painstaking process of evolving him to a higher possibility where he will receive higher dimensions of life where receiving just happens to him because he deserves it if you gift a ton of gold to an ant it will only crush the end it will not make the ant rich it will only crush the ant so what you give how you give is very important you don't just give because somebody is asking let me tell you a story once there was a very sweet sage sweet one not like me and he sat in his cave in the mountain and was in into very stringent austerities eating simple food always focused on his southerner one day a king came hunting in the forest then he found this cave came inside and saw the sage totally absorbed in his meditation he bowed down to him and he was thirsty he wanted to drink water he looked around there he found a real mean looking vehicle vessel all you know real mean looking vessel we don't have such a thing in the ashram we dispose of the mean looking ones whether they're vessels or people or whatever the king thought such a wonderful human being so deep in his meditation so dedicated why should he use such a mean looking vessel so he wrote back then he sent some of his men and said leave two most wonderful golden urns for him to use two golden vessels so the his kings people came took away this mean looking vehicle vessel and put up this golden vessels and after a few days the sage opened his eyes and to perform his morning ablutions and also for other purposes he looked for his vessel it was not there because he could not find it anywhere then he found these two golden vessels it was not very convenient they were too elaborate ornate and heavy but he decided to use it because there was nothing else life went on for a few days one day a very mean looking person with a mean very mean mind with mean intentions came in the direction he walked into the cave and the first thing his eyes fell on the golden vessels then the sage welcomed this man served him a small meal that he had the man ate but his eyes were fixed on the golden west the moment the sage closed his eyes to meditate the man picked up the golden vessel and ran when he ran the sage saw in his meditation this man running away just with the one golden vessel then the sage ran behind him both of them ran the man saw the sage coming and ran faster and faster but because of all this yoga you know the sage could run faster by the time the thief reached the town the sage caught up with him then that man he was too tired to do anything else he placed the golden vessel at the sage feet and said forgive me people gathered around them and they said said no no no i had one more you just forgot to take the other one i just came here to give you the other one and the man didn't know what to do and the people who looked at this whole scene but really humiliated the man because he stole from such a man who is running behind him to give him the other vessel that he missed out the sage went back he went back and he started looking for his old vessel he searched the whole cave everywhere here there in the process of turning everything around he pulled out a few baby mice who were there and also the mother mice when he pulled turned everything around these baby mice fell out the mother mouse terrified ran away abandoning the children so the sage ended up with five little mice the mother was terrified never came back so he started feeding these baby mice with little grain that he had and they were slowly putting on weight one day a cat walked in and mopped up four of them the fifth one the willy one went and hid in a corner and escaped but four of them the cat mopped it up then this one mice he was feeding it and making it grow then one day the cat came he chased away the cat the mouse was so terrified so the sage out of his compassion thought how long can i protect this mouse every time the cat comes i'll have to open my eyes i have to come out of my meditation this won't work out of his siddhi out of his capabilities out of his sadhana that he has done he decided to turn this mouse into your fierce cat so the mouse became a cat so the other star cat stopped coming because here there is a fierce cat after some time a wild dog came looking for the cat then he chased away the wild dog but the wild dog hung around waiting for an opportunity to get the cat then he thought this doesn't work and again he used his powers turned the cat into your dog then the dog was fine for some time and the dog likes to roam around one day he came running into the cave with a tail in between his legs when the sage saw a panther was chasing the dog he stopped the panther chased away the panther then he sat there and thought this is getting too troublesome every time i close my eyes either i have to protect a mouse or a cat or a dog or something so he's decided the best thing is to turn this into a lion he'll be the king of the jungle then i can turn him loose in the forest he will be safe i will have no problems so he turned this dog into a big lion now the lion roamed about the forest when he walked every other animal ran away seeing the lion but though this was the body of a lion it still had the heart of a mouse he was feeling very difficult if they come to know that i am just a mouse what will they do to me he was always going through the struggle you know many people are going through this they are in the society in the world they are like lions but inside they are like mice they are constantly struggling within themselves always whenever a person is placed in a situation which is beyond his writ or want then that person will suffer so much insecurity and fear because of this fear in his mind so many evil thoughts will arise this happens every other day in the world if you give somebody which is beyond their want if you give somebody which is beyond their capabilities if you give somebody beyond what they deserve suddenly they become so mean-minded because somewhere inside they are small they have to put on the big act now they will start thinking all kinds of nonsense so this lion was feeling very insecure he's a lion as far as the world is concerned everybody is afraid of him but within himself he's a mouse then he thought the only other person who knows that i am a mouse is the sage if i finish him off nobody will know that i am a mouse i will be a real lion with this intention he walked into the cave the sage was sitting and meditating the lion slowly approached him because if she the lion finishes off the sage nobody in the world will know that this is a mouse as he came closer the sage realized then he looked at the line and said this was not right of me to turn a mouse to your line and he turned the lion back into your mouth and said get out of here fend for your own life it is nature for a cat to eat a mouse for a dog to eat a cat for a bigger animal to eat the dog it is natural unless they evolve to that position if you give them that position they will only suffer and they will bring suffering upon everybody so shiva went on with the story and you went further i will stop here now this traditional what to say temptation that they have created in people if you ever see a holy person if you ever see a sage or a saint first thing is ask for what you want it will happen i am telling you never ask because if he is wise he will not give but sometimes he's just in a state where he says okay if he says okay you're in trouble because you will get something that you're not ready for if you get things that you're not ready for life doesn't become better life only becomes turmoil in so many ways so when you sit in a certain space when you sit in a certain energy if you notice a certain person or a place is creating a certain level of energy it seems to be a little bigger possibility than what you are that is a time when you don't think of anything when you don't ask for anything you simply sit if you simply sit you will get it get the necessary nutrient to evolve very fast to mutate from one dimension to another once you grow into a certain possibility everything that is possible in that dimension will anyway happen to you if you do not grow into that possibility but just aspire for that then you are just bringing heaps of trouble upon yourself so meditation temple jana linga or sitting with a guru is not a time to ask it is a time to imbibe and allow this one to evolve into a higher possibility so that if it evolves what has to happen to it will anyway 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Length: 23min 40sec (1420 seconds)

Published: Mon Dec 07 2020