Consciousness: The Ultimate Intelligence – Sadhguru [Full Talk]

[Music] [Music] [Music] my daughter murder none good [Music] lever the circle and Karuna summer yard apart kill uncle good evening good evening everyone I said good evening I thought you're not in talking terms with me already good evening everyone welcome to visionary women you probably know and most of you know that Satguru is known as being a mystic and a humanitarian and now you see by the video that is known for his mountain bike this humanitarian doesn't concern with my diet well and he's also known for his incredible sense of humor his warmth like vegetarian non-vegetarian humanitarian I hope people don't misunderstand yeah but most impressive I have to say is my husband and I were at your ashram probably two years ago and we got a first glimpse at what you do in rural areas by uplifting them from poverty from the huge schools that you run and we had visionary visionary women feel that it's a huge honor to have you here tonight so we can discuss a few things that is of importance to us as well so welcome to our community at visionary women and the purpose I'm so sorry I feel that maybe I am looking back at people but the purpose of our salon series is to create experiences of learning meaning and belonging for our members and for those who soon will be our members right yes and as I was talking to just a little bit earlier before the event what we see in the national conversation this past year is that people are trying to refigure how men and women should interact with each other and I thought that it would be very appropriate for tonight to also invite men in our form given that we're a women's organization we're very well aware not only our board but our whole membership that in order to have true understanding we need to be talking about these conversations aloud collectively and most importantly with an open heart and men are our partners our brothers our fathers our husbands and our allies and we wanted to start off first really talking about maybe the whole idea of consciousness what it means for those of you who haven't watched Saku there are hundreds of YouTube videos and others teachings and there was one at MIT that you were talking about consciousness that I thought would be very interesting for our audience to to really get the definition of what it means see what is a man and what is a woman is a small difference that nature has introduced into a species just to address a certain aspect of our life essentially to address the reproductive aspect when I say the proactive aspect we all exist because somebody we produced hello okay if nobody was drawn to anybody if nobody felt a bit horny we wouldn't exist is this a cooler speaking we wouldn't exist isn't it let's come to terms with this we don't exist because out of their love for children they produce no they felt honey and here we are there is no need to make our biology either filthy or raise it to another level we just have to look at it for what it is we have to come to terms with our biology first of all the most rudimentary thing but unfortunately that not happened to most human societies that we have not come to terms with our biology body parts are ruling our minds yes so it's from that context that you see this problem evolving how to work together and saying please if you if you find some gap in what I am saying because in a brief a little bit of time we are trying to say some profound things if you find a gap you must ask a question you must not conclude against me okay I can fill those gaps but I'll create some gaps because to go quickly essentially why should i matter to you whether you right now you're a man or a woman why should it matter to me these things matter only in bathrooms and bedrooms why right now it should matter to me whether you're a man or a woman why can't I just treat you as just one more person hello this is not against anybody because we have made human biology so big in our minds it becomes so big because we have not accepted the fundamental biological difference yes because for thousands of years religions and philosophies have been telling you what's wrong about your biology how the fundamentals of your biology is not okay how the fundamentals of your biology is sin because of this we came to a certain level of resistance about human biology particularly a woman's biology because of this these things have become big because the nature of human mind is such whatever you resist becomes the biggest thing in your mind right now if I tell you as an experiment next ten seconds nobody should think of monkeys try please you will only be thinking of monkeys so this has become a crazy thing in the world we have made human biology into such a big thing a small difference between men and women we made it into such a big thing in our minds we can't keep it down for a moment everywhere wherever you are you have to be conscious about somebody's body parts why I can understand a 14 13 14 15 year old boy when you know when when you were 10 11 everything was fine suddenly a little bit of hormone your hormones hijacked your intelligence and after that you just look like this every little bump on somebody's body look like a world by itself till then you are quite okay I think that happens at a certain point but at least by 20 you must fix yourself again you must become normal you must be able to look at a human body just as it is without giving it all kinds of meanings this is what consciousness means because consciousness is and intelligence beyond your physiological and psychological structure see when we sit here your body is your body my body is my body no way these two things can be one people try hard but it never becomes one only when we are buried we become one in the soil we become one but as long as you and me exist here that's your body this is my body very clear that your mind this is my mind very clear these things will never become one we can agree on a few things but my mind is my mind your mind is your mind isn't it but there is no such thing as my life and your life this is a living cosmos you who captured son I have captured some that's about it if you depending upon how much you capture that will be the scale and scope of your life this got nothing to do with anybody's biology biology is just a small physical difference just to facilitate one aspect continuation of human race isn't it otherwise we could all be made one way if there was no need if some seeds fell out of your ears and children would come out then we wouldn't need this difference so this difference is to accommodate one aspect of life if you and me are not connected in that aspect of life I have no business what you got on your body yes you know business what is me and I have no business what is you the question is if we are doing something together well do you make sense how do I make sense to you that's about it but biology has become a very big thing one reason in the work working spaces and you know work areas I think this is only in America maybe this is the second generation of women or really I can say this really the first generation of men who have really stepped out to work in every area of life that's so almost everywhere in the world in India also it's very new which in the last 25 years that women are really stepping out to work this has happened not because of some liberal revolution that happened this has happened simply because of technology technology has taken out the significance of man's brawn when there was no technology almost everything was done with human muscle when that was so naturally man dominated because of the muscular force domination also was only in the survival aspects of life there were other aspects of life where the woman always played a significant role we would not want two men I was not at least so they always play a significant role but roles were divided because economic aspect of life was largely muscle powered so men dominated now with technology muscle is of no great significance in today's world so naturally women are coming into this space this should happen very as simple evolution no fight is needed no revolution is needed once you see muscle is not significant women will fill those spaces it's anyway happening there is no need to make a big thing about it exploitation if you are talking about exploitation I want you to understand still we are in as a civilization we are still in that level of crudeness of mind is not just women anything weaker than us we exploit so every creature on the planet we're exploiting aren't we hello not just women children a beaten why just because they are small hello why do you think children are beaten by a lot of people simply because they're smaller than you if your children were bigger than you would you go and beat them so exploitative nature of who we are exists in all aspects of life when it comes to women probably that exploitation turns into your sexual takes on a sexual tone but fundamentally what needs to go is this urge to exploit anything and everything with little weaker than me that should go if that doesn't go people will find devious to do the same damn thing you can do as much as you want you can fight as much as you want but people will find devious ways to do the same thing isn't it so this urge if somebody is little less stronger than me I have to mess them in some way this has to go if this has to go the most fundamental thing is just this because today it's about consciousness what consciousness means is see you have a body your body is just a heap of food that you've gathered over a period of time yes what was soul became food what is what was food became flesh and blood here we are most people don't get this delivery them if you get it now you can transform your life either way otherwise one day anyway we'll get it from the maggots but that's late so what you accumulate can be yours cannot be you isn't named hello whatever we accumulate we can say this belongs to me you cannot say it's me isn't it so similarly whatever the content of your mind is also accumulated from the impressions that we have taken in so this is also an accumulation this is also an accumulation these things are two basic faculties we have right now unfortunately we are so badly identified with these two things that we can't use them as we should but they are the source of a lot of mess in the world so when you say consciousness you are talking about a dimension of intelligence which is neither of the body which is needed of your mind but it is the source of both the body and the mind you just need a piece of bread and it becomes human body hello happening right if I if I take a piece of bread in my hands right here and turn it into your human body who do you think I am huh did you see a magician making a baby who would you think I am creator himself isn't it but everyday you are doing this you eat a piece of bread or a carrot or whatever within a few hours you make it into human body the most complex machine on the planet you manufacture with all kinds of trash in Los Angeles aren't you doing it so when this dimension of intelligence exists within you if you touch the dimension naturally your identity will be with that dimension right now the only problem is human experience is limited to their biology and their psychological structure physiological and psychological structures are the only two things you are experienced because of this your identities are there because of this this body part difference between the same species has become such a big deal but do you feel that men and women have different essences do they have there's a you talked about the masculine and the feminine principle could you tell us a little bit about that so we should not misunderstand masculine with male and feminine with female female and male is a manifestation masculine and feminine are two fundamental qualities in nature because physical nature in the universe happens between polarities so one dimension of polarity is masculine and feminine you may be a woman but you may have more masculine in you than a man you may be a man you may have much more feminine in you than most women so the question is not about being male or female being male or female is just a biological manifestation masculine and feminine is the basic polarities which is the basis of physical creation here so if you want to be a complete human being it is very important both masculine and feminine are there within you in equal proportion only then you are a full-fledged human being otherwise your rescue human being in this queue you will misunderstand everything in this queue you will become a very limited possibility of life if you you might have seen these images probably because of the yoga studios and other things in California you will see in India a yogi or he is known as Shiva he's seen as an ultimate man he is the ultimate man not because he's a super macho he is ultimate man because one half of him is a woman have you seen these images one half is a very athletic man another half is a full-fledged woman so his body itself is one half man and one half woman in yoga this called as pingala and either two dimensions of your energy within you only when these two things are in balance you have a proper perspective of life otherwise you have become a very biological entity biology is a basis biology cannot be the peak of who we are so I I do know that you have a quote that says that a whether you're male or female if you're not in touch with the feminine you don't enjoy the finer things in life so is the feminine principle things that are more receptive say when we say masculine this is there are two fundamental forces working within us all the time one is our instinct of survival we want to survive we can take survival to different levels but essentially the instinct of survival is this one wants to this limited entity wants to survive and do well this instinct is there in all of us it's there in every creature in the world another dimension is there is something within you which always wants to expand when you are in a survival mode you want to build walls around yourself boundaries are important if you let your dog loose on the street you will see he goes on peeing all over the place not because he has some urine problem I'm sorry I'm not able to look at you not because he has some urinary problem he's building his pee Kingdom he's setting his boundaries it's a natural instinct he is trying to set his own boundary all the time this is survival instinct in all of us that we want to build a wall protection self-preservation but there's another dimension which wants to expand if you don't empower that if you just empower only your instinct of survival then you will build a wall of self-preservation and after some time you realize walls of self-preservation are also of self imprisonment after some time yes if you build a wall today today you see an enemy outside and you build a wall tomorrow you're in your own prison somebody else put you into prison that's bad but you yourself put you into your prison that's horror yes so the instinct of self-preservation has to be consciously balanced otherwise we'll build it we'll end up building walls and walls oh I'm in California now I was not making a political statement so inevitably when we feel unsafe we'll build a wall so the instinct of self-preservation cannot be ignored it is there obviously isn't it obviously it is there in all of us walls are not always of brick and mortar their variety of walks we set up but the longing to expand is also there how much expansion do you want if you sincerely look at this today if you're here you want to be a little bigger if you are there you want to be a little bigger but suppose I make you the queen of this planet hello don't look at me hopefully well I like I made such a blunder suppose I make you the queen of this planet will you be fulfilled now you will look at the moment why not that if I give you the moon will you keep quiet you will look at the next galaxy if I give you one galaxy will you keep quiet you will look at the other galaxies so there is something within you which wants to expand how much expansion do you believe will settle you if you really look at it you want to expand boundlessly there is something within you which does not like boundaries please look at this if I imprison you right now in a fire by five cubical you will feel horrible so tomorrow we'll announce your liberation and liberate you into your ten by ten cubical now you will feel wonderful for a day and then you will feel horrible in the ten by ten cubical we will liberate you into your one hundred by hundred cubical you will feel really great for three days again you will feel the same thing it doesn't matter where I set the boundary the moment you can feel the boundary you want to break it isn't it so there is something within you which does not like boundaries so if there is something with the new which does not like boundaries it simply means it is longing to become boundless you cannot become boundless through physical means isn't it physicality means the fundamentals of physicality is a defined boundary without a defined boundary there is no physical body suppose there were no boundaries to my body where would I be here or there where only because this is has a boundary it is here your body has a boundary so it's death but there is something within us which longs to be boundless if we do not empower this there will be no balance between masculine and feminine that is why ultimate liberation both for men and women it's not see one cannot be liberated from the other both have to be liberated from what from this bondage of being stuck in our own bodies and identified with looking bodily changes that we have between us and go on endlessly about the same debate no unless we become free from the identification of our own physical form there is really no freedom this is what consciousness means and intelligence which creates this body today there is a whole lot of interest in the Western world about the brain in the yogic sciences we do not attach much significance to the brain because we think through the entire body this is the way of women for a long time they thought with their body they did not have all those complicated thoughts that men were struggling with but they simply knew what to do what not to do because they thought with their entire body because their body was doing things which no brain can do even now if I ask you what you call as intelligence in modern terms in today's educated world what people think is mind is a combination of memory and intelligence isn't it so memory and your ability to concoct something out of what you remember the data that you have and what you make out of it and use it now you're considered smart isn't it let's start with Mehmedi see if I asked you 10 generations ago how your grandmother's look like do you remember now do you remember no but your great-great-great grandmother's nose is sitting on your face right now your body remembers or no your body remembers or know how your skin tone was a million years ago for your forefathers your body still remembers yes or no so in terms of memory what your body carries is trillions of times more than what your brain can ever carry yes or no the complexity of activity that are happening in a single molecule of DNA with all your brains you can't figure it yes or no more complicated activity is happening here than here yes so this is a body of intelligence the question is can you employed or do you just run on one thing in the yogic sciences we look at human intelligence at sixteen parts so this is like a sixteen wheeled truck but you choose to drive it on one wheel very strange so you will see educated people are the most stressful people on the planet because they're driving a 16 will truck on one way very difficult their intellect their thought is the only damn thing they are trying to use and it's very difficult you don't have to think through everything you know my ass can I tell a small story yes please my great-grandmother lived to be one one three that's not only achievements she had she got married when she was 14 and those days in India an unmarried girl cannot use tobacco but once she is married she is free to use tobacco so on the first day she exercised her right to use tobacco and she lived in a certain way people started saying she's a devil of a woman not because she did any harm to anybody simply because if she laughed the whole street shook like that she laughed those days in those societies women were not supposed to laugh loudly they supposed to laugh in a controlled way only Street woman laughed loudly family woman laughed very at least when men were there they did not love to laugh about but she laughed in such a way that the whole street would shake if she laughed so people said she laughed like a devil always unfortunately this is the whole thing the devil is a laughing one God is a dead serious one and it's your choice so she lived with wild wild means at the age of 67 or 68 she lost her husband and then she decided this is a very large land owning family so she moved out from the family and built a small temple with her own hands in somebody else's land somebody else means another family's land not without permission with their permission but they were Shiva's family's disgrace because this family owns hundreds and hundreds of acres of land and she sets up her to pretend in somebody else's land the whole family oh my god she's a shame and she built the temple not for any God she sat there she's the main piece no gods she just sat there and people started visiting her and slowly you know this following grew for her and she'll just live that when we went there for vacation she would come to see us she was an incredible woman she just captured me in a certain way simply because one thing she loved another thing when I met her she was over 100 years of age and her hair full hair below her knees you know she would leave her hair loose and dance like that so I just like she was freaking with her you could do anything nothing was wrong with everybody else is constantly trying to tell you what's right what's wrong what's right what's wrong with this one woman you could do work you want and she was fine and sometimes you know she would she would be crying and laughing at the same time what's happening with you are you crazy everybody says you're crazy why are you crying and laughing at the same time she would just burst into a hoot of laughter and said someday you will know and she would laugh and I would see her like this if they give a breakfast she first goes and feeds the hands then the sparrows then the squirrels most of her breakfast is over in this and people self-appointed advisors they come and say you old woman you just don't eat anything you will die like this all these advances died but she lived and lived she buried her husband her children her grandchildren some of her great-grandchildren but she lived on and many times I've seen her after having fed the ants and everything she would simply sit there not even eating this little breakfast she has tears flowing down her cheeks and I would ask her what's wrong with you because you know I thought she's very emotional about the ends because I was five six years of age I was going stamping their hands and she was so emotional she never stopped me from even killing the ends though she was feeding them and then I asked what's wrong with you why she said that she would say I'm full I don't know what the hell she was talking it took me another 20 years to realize what she was talking about so for me she became the symbol of feminism from me she was the ultimate woman because she fulfilled everything that she's expected to fulfill but she was never a part of that nonsense she was always beyond that and this is this is because not you have great thoughts thoughts are very rudimentary stuff in human life this must be understood I'm sorry because I'm being introduced as a thought leader I am getting scared of that see thought is happening only from the limited data that you have gathered in your head isn't it so but there is something more phenomenal happening all across isn't it hello the intelligence of the creation is functioning right now here is it or not if you can transform a piece of bread into your human being that means the very intelligence of the source of creation is throbbing within you right now instead of identifying with that we are unfortunately getting identified with what we accumulate with the car we have with the house we have with the relationships we have with the body we have with the accumulated knowledge that we have we have gotten identified with things that we have acquired rather than being identified with the source of who we are so this is what consciousness means but this will not come by thinking differently you must touch that dimension beyond physiological and psychological process this is something that must happen when that happens there will be no problem about who is a man who is a woman could you please tell us how we can touch that dimension we can start with a very simple process which today tens of millions of people are practicing across the world I brought this out because you know when I was just about maybe two and a half or yeah round two and a half years of age my mother her health was not good so they sent me to my aunt's place who lived in my grandfather's house my aunt was just married and she was only ten years of age she was that bubbly joyful loving human being that you can't stop her for a moment and she took me in as her own and we became great friends I was there for nearly two years maybe but after that I came back to my parents but I always developed that close relationship with her not of an aunt but we became buddies right through our lives then a time came and her life went on like normal you know marriage good children cute and the boy got educated and went somewhere and the girl got married as she wished and grandchildren came everything wonderful then she got some ailment then she knew in the next two years she's going to die next two years then I saw this wonderful human being deteriorating into nothing total mess she became this such a loving joyful exuberant human being that nobody could stop suddenly became a wreck I just looked at her I was into too much travels here and there I try to catch up with her but nothing much could be done with her because she just shattered I just looked at her and saw the only problem with her is senior two things her physiological structure and her psychological structure she managed it well and kept her kept herself loving joyful wonderful everything the moment she realized these two things are going to end she's finished she's just finished you can't believe such a wonderful human being became so nasty and miserable and broken at that time I thought this is something that needs to happen so we started what is called as in Tamil Nadu we started this we were short on become this means one drop spirituality everybody must have at least a drop a drop of something which is beyond your body which is beyond your mind something within you which is not a concoction of your mind a place to stand beyond physiological and psychological process must be there in every life as a part of this we launched what is called today being practiced by many people is anybody practicing Isha Kriya yes this is a simple process initially it looks like a psychological process because people can't keep their mind aside they have to use it in some way so we are going through the psychological process but if you go deep enough into it if you sit here your body will be here your mind will be there what is you is little away from that once there is a little distance between you and your body between you and your mind this is the end of suffering because human suffering happens only in two different levels physiological suffering psychological suffering do you know any other kind of suffering hello physical suffering mental suffering this is all once there is a distance between you and your body between you and your mind this is the end of suffering this must happen to you not at the end of your life at the very beginning of your life because the fear of suffering is what has crippled humanity a human being has not explored the full depth and dimension of who they are simply because of the fear of suffering what will happen to me what will happen to me is always the concern isn't it suppose you came to this kind of ease that you sit here whatever the hell happens to me this is how I will be if this assurance and ease came into your life then you would explore life in many more ways than you're doing it right now isn't it so this needs to happen if we want to unleash human genius on this planet the fear of suffering has to go for that to go you must know something beyond your physiological and psychological structures do you feel that first of all I wanted to ask you can you define what is the difference between meditation and prayer you're trying to get me into trouble no because some people say my prayer is like meditation could be it could be but probably meditation is more of a form of listening I would imagine see there is something called as organized prayer and there is something that all of us may experience at some point you don't have to be religious for this sometimes you become prayerful you saw glorious sunset you just sat there without knowing why you're not saying anything to the Sun after all he's gone simply just the beauty and the magnificent nature of what it is maybe your hands came together like this like there is something you did it happens right so your prayer for to be prayerful is a fantastic place to be now somebody created systems to make you prayerful but unfortunately that just became prayer for a lot of people prayer means you're talking to somebody a long distance talk and unfortunately if you look at the prayers on the planet I would say 95% of the prayers on the planet whatever kind of religion they belong to it's just about dear God give me this give me that save me protect me is that so so give me this give me that save me protect me does it seem like a divine process to you or does it seem like survival process out sourced so outsourcing your survival is not an efficient way to survive to survive on this planet you don't need any divine help you just need four limbs and a few brain cells that work that's all you need to survive you don't need any other forces to come and cooperate with you for survival only when your life is beyond survival you're looking for other dimensions of existence then you may need the cooperation of other forces for survival when a worm can survive an insect in survive a bird can survive an animal can survive with such a big brain you cannot survive what is this the only problem maybe you want to survive like somebody else that is a problem that's not going to be ever achieved because somebody else will always be doing something different or better or whatever you think it is so prayer as a process unfortunately has become talking process if you are prayerful it's fantastic so being in meditation see the English word meditation is not specific to anything it's a general term if somebody sits here with us closed we say they are meditating but with eyes closed you can do many things you can do japa tapa dharana dhyana samadhi Sonia samyama and many many things you can do or you might have just mastered the art of sleeping in vertical postures that is also not so the word English word meditation is not describing anything specific but as you said one word listening listening is a dangerous thing because if you start listening people will think listen to what listen to God all those people I'm saying with this all due respect so those who are devout those who are prayerful that's a different matter but people who claimed they heard God speaking they did the most terrible things on this planet yes or no because they said God told me this God told me that it gave them license to do all kinds of horrors on this planet and especially as women you should not subscribe to this because millions of women have been burnt alive because God told something okay so listening is a dangerous word the moment you say listen people will start listening to all kinds of conversations that are happening but to become listening is a wonderful thing if you take this words literally prayer listening all these things can become ugly because people always have this thing about what is my experience of life I translate everything according to that isn't it whatever is told to me I will translate it within to within the limitations of my experience of life with this if you say listen they must listen to somebody whom should I listen to God or devil please listen to God then he starts talking so listening is a quality in in yoga we call this being a sati you know that's very wonderful because sati also means a woman sati also means a wife so we call this satipatthana have you heard this word anapanasati yoga this means just to wait upon something because they saw in ancient societies women had a certain quality of waiting which made them very special because it's not like today if a man goes out every 7 minutes you can keep track of him you can put a GPS tag on him where is it going what is it doing every 7 minutes he has to message back where he is those days either on business or war or expedition they went out you never know where they're going to come back or not come back you're holding children and sitting here with all kinds of forces around you and everybody knows your man may not come back it's always possible he won't come back but they waited that waiting had a very special quality because in waiting there is an eternal quality in doing all doing has a beginning and an end isn't it waiting has an eternal quality so this quality in the yoga we refer to as sati sati means wife and a woman the feminine is called sati and this is the quality of waiting in a way it's listening you're just willing to be with life not you understand it's not all about messing with it there are some things we do undress me wait it's like pregnancy something you did rest you wait life happens I'm gonna ask one last question and I'll turn it over to our audience for questions but you were talking about willingness and the visionary women is a volunteer run organization and I know that every single person who is here is giving their time to one organization or another and the fact that you have nine million volunteers and you were talking about the relationship between volunteerism and willingness and that is through willingness that you uplift your consciousness if I'm reporting you correctly or I'm understanding it in some ways talking about how it could be a doorway to becoming a bigger person than you are see before we come to women first thing is visionary what a vision and vision means is say everybody has desires desire is an incremental way of enhancing our life today you desire I must have a home tomorrow your desire I must have this money tomorrow you desire something else these are incremental ways of arranging and rearranging our lives which are needed to do a few things when you say I'm a visionary what you're saying is I have a larger desire which is not about just incremental improvement of my life desire is about me always vision is an all-in all inclusive process so this itself is a phenomenal thing if people instead of having desires if they have a vision vision is always all-inclusive desire is personal desire leads to incremental changes and improve vision can transform the whole situation I like music so about willingness because you said you're a volunteer is to be a volunteer a volunteer means somebody who is doing something willingly right there's no other compulsion there are no financial compulsions there are no social compulsions there is no something else you want to do something willingly so when you're a willing participant right now you're a volunteer I'm asking all of you right now or you compelled to be here or are you here voluntarily no thank you because I have spoken to conscripted people also I have spoken in the prisons have spoken in many places so you are here willingly you are doing something willingly is the fundamental of you choice isn't it so hello however simple or stupid or Yodok activity it is I am doing something willingly makes a world of difference isn't it so hello the difference between heaven and hell is just this you are doing something willingly that's your heaven you are doing something unwillingly that's your help we have already taken on attitudes what we like and what we don't like I like this person I don't like this person now with this person I will do things willingly with this person I will do things honey unwillingly this may be two people two aspects of life to communities to nations to many things this I will do willingly this I do unwillingly this means I've decided in my mind this is good this is bad when I hear even on national news channels good guys and bad guys it just once you have this kind of thing you are going to be disastrous to the planet it's just a question of time the moment you decide this is a good person this is a bad person this is gone deep into American society no there are no good people and bad people everybody is oscillating between the two if you create a very pleasant wonderful atmosphere everybody behaves wonderfully if you create an unpleasant atmosphere a whole lot of people at nasty yes or no there are joyful people and miserable people but there are no good people and bad people the the moment we think we are good we are entitled to destroy the bad isn't it oh we've been destroying a lot of people for a long time time to stop happy because human beings are in different levels of experience and understanding variety of people anybody who's not like you is obviously bad isn't it isn't it so those who are not like me must be bad people because the basis of goodness and what you think is goodness is decided by you now you have no business to do that willing means this I'm just willing I'm 100% yes to life I am NOT yes to this one no to this one no I am just yes and yes to life if you are a hundred percent yes to life you are a volunteer you have become a willing life you have become so willing that you have no will of your own people ask me Satguru how do you operate with all these people all kinds of horrible questions they're asking they're doing this they're doing that I said my life is not about them it's about me it's about how I am this about me it doesn't matter how they are that's their choice but how I am is my choice this is my way no matter what they do I'm like this because I have not given that freedom to anybody that somebody can freak me somebody can make me angry somebody can make me happy somebody can make me unhappy these privileges I kept to myself it's time you do the two because if somebody else can decide what can happen within you right now isn't this the ultimate slavery isn't this someone else can decide what should happen within you what happens around you of course him so many people decide what happens around us is not 100% ours but what happens within me must be my making isn't it right now just about anybody can freak anybody because they are not volunteers they are unwilling volunteering means you have no will of your own you can do whatever is needed you know we are a volunteer organization this means all kinds of people most of them are not qualified for the jobs that they're doing and I cannot fire them because they're volunteers daily basis the Satguru I can't work with this person she is so horrible I can't do it I tell them see in this world this is the sort of people who exist like this like this like this like this is the kind of people there are but if you want to work with ideal people you must go to heaven and today but if you think what you're doing is very significant you must learn to work with all these horrible people these are the worldís if you think what you're doing is very significant you learn to work with all kinds of people you will see horrible people will do wonderful things yes but if you want to work with ideal people you won't find any I haven't found one yet all kinds of mixed bags but if you are willing that you are not yes and no yes to one no to another you simply one big ass you will find a way thank you so much that I always say since the early 20th century physicists have been like Max Planck and Einstein and any number of physicists have been positing that consciousness is causative of physical reality that consciousness comes first before physical reality has been manifested I'd like to hear if you have any comment about that mm-hmm I'll need a few minutes I'm sure at least when you were in school you blew some soap bubbles did you so bubbles somebody got this big bubble somebody got that big bubble somebody more days big bubble same soap if you give it to two people one person goes that big bubble another person gets only this big bubble hasn't it happened yes because something so simple as blowing a bubble needs a certain dimension of attention those who have the necessary attention can blow that big bubble those who don't have they get these tiny bubbles going something's that simple same soap so when my bubble is floating and your bubble is floating that's my bubble this is your Babu clearly there then of course after some time it goes pop when it goes pop there is no such thing as my air and your air but when it was encased in the bubble 100% my bubble and your bubble just like that this purple and that bubble now whether you got to blow a big bubble or a small bubble determines many things the scale scope and profoundest of your life simply depends on how much life you captured you can call it life or you can call it consciousness consciousness is a highly corrupted word particularly in California because people are using that for just about everything but they will continue to use that word because I am trying to reclaim it we can call it life also because the only reason right now are you alive hallo hallo sure some of you are not saying anything I'm asking you or your life how do you know you're alive stop your breath for a minute are you still alive so how do you know you're alive you're conscious isn't it suppose you became unconscious would you know you're alive no so the only reason that you know you're alive and you're alive is because you're conscious so what you call is consciousness or what you call as life or not two separate things so I did not know about physics talking about consciousness I knew instant said something vaguely because I am you know as you see I am unschooled so I did not go as far as instance to study physics but I paid attention to this piece of life I paid attention in such a way as I paid more and more attention I realized that the problem is in the nature of our faculties see right now if I show you my hand if you see this part of my hand you cannot see this part of my hand isn't it so if you're hearing sound you cannot sense the silence if you're in silence you cannot feel the sound if you're in light you cannot feel the darkness if you in darkness you cannot feel the light the human Faculty of sense perception of seeing hearing smelling tasting and touching this is how you know life all these things are always happening in comparison with something else comparison means what you know by comparison is good enough for survival but not good enough for knowing the nature of what it is this is the problem that modern science is struggling with and will continue to struggle with unless I am very glad to hear that early 20th century they said consciousness is the basis but still very an early 21st century but still we have not moved towards consciousness we are still studying physical things forever people are studying the brain I was with that European project called blue brain and Eva's they were still there building a huge massive computer brain which is like about three times this hall full of computers and they had built some eighteen percent of the human brain I said see I got all packed here you can ice such a big thing no way studying that is fine you are very excited about the intelligence and the million functions that are happening in your brain but even the brain was created from within from the bread that you eat isn't it so hello even the brain why are you not interested in that which creates the body and the brain definitely it's more intelligent than the brain isn't it so if you want to put a label on that we can call it consciousness I generally just call it life or if you want to call it God you can call it you want to call it the Creator you can call it because today there are gender issues we will stick to life so life is not as I already we went through this there's when it comes to body and mind there is you and me when it comes to life there is you and me this is a living space we just captured a little bit so this is going on if we lose this ability to hold it even if everything all the organs in your body are functioning still you will not live isn't it people do die of old age even if they don't have any disease or ailment because life chooses to leave or whatever reason so what you are referring to is consciousness is definitely the basis of all physical existence well modern physicists have gone on to say that over 99.999 whatever number of nines in an atom is empty the empty space only a miniscule is physical this is the same proportion approximately even in the cosmos that over 99% plus is empty only physical manifestation is very small if you look up in the sky in the night because your visual apparatus are in a certain way which are very deceptive it makes you think oh my god millions of stars but actually the largest thing out there is empty space isn't it most people will never see that because our visual apparatus are tuned to see physical matter you can only see that which stops light please look at this carefully you can see my hand right now only because it stops light isn't it if my hand allowed light to pass through you wouldn't see right now there is something here very vital for your life that you're not seeing which is the air that you breathe you cannot see but isn't that more important than my hand hello so there is a living cosmos which is the basis of everything it's just thrown out a little bit of physical matter including your little body but we have gotten so identified with this physicality its form and its shape and now the gender of it has become a big deal because of that we are seeing life in a very small way the 99.9% is that life or the point 1 percent is life please tell me the bigger thing isn't it this is just a small manifestation but we are still very juvenile as a species in the sense we are still when I say juvenile when we are what adolescent body parts are important yes or no we are still as a humanity we are still in that condition body parts are super important this is why spiritual process is important when I say spiritual once again this is another most corrupted word on the planet if I say spiritual people are thinking looking up looking down looking at heaven whatever no spiritual means your experience of life has transcended the limitations of physiological and psychological process which is what you are saying the physics also said that's very wise of them that without experience with inference they are saying that we acknowledge their intelligence but after one century we are still not there as a as a race as a human species but one thing I must share with you here is I was just telling Nicholas which came back to me because you asked some questions see when I started doing this work 36 37 years ago what I found was when I conducted events and programs over 82 to 85 percent of the people came because of physical ailments because they knew this will give relief only 12 to 15 percent of the people came there want to know something experience something but today over 87 88 percent of the people come because they want to know something experience something only 10 to 12 percent of the people come for ailments which is a phenomenal shift in the human society we have one question from that side of the room good evening welcome to Los Angeles thank you for your time the question I had was you mentioned to be free you have to be stepping outside of the body and the consciousness how do you achieve that to have that freedom that was my question how do you achieve that separation when you step out after basically physical body and the consciousness if you want to make a small attempt there is Isha Kriya you can just download this app free is a free app you can download this with headphones you can daily practice this for some time if you do it for 30 40 days then you can do it without any headphones just by yourself initially you take support after that you do it by yourself this is a simple way to do it if you are willing to commit 30 to 32 hours about 32 hours of focus time then we have a more powerful and effective process which is called as inner engineering which is offered in daily classes or also preparatory part of it as online and the final part of finishing part of it which is direct it is a transmission of a certain dimension of practice we must understand this because with all due respect they have done what they have done but the way yoga is happening generally not everybody generally the way it's happening it's a bit scary to me because when you when you make a very profound process into just an exercise mechanism or just a breathing exercise you want to exercise your body exercise your breathing exercise everything that's not the way it works even the physical dimension of yoga see of over 200 sutras that Patanjali gave only one Sutra talks about the physicality of yoga theorem sukham asanam this means a posture which is comfortable and stable is your asana to get to these people do many twists and turns that's okay but only one nobody bothers what is the remaining 200 and odd things that he's spoken so the physical aspect has come to the west and that's become big it's good it creates health well-being but I want you to understand there are more people on this planet who are healthy and miserable then unhealthy and miserable those who have ill health at least they have a good reason they have a good excuse healthy and miserable you have no reason no excuse to fall back on so it is important that you understand yogic practices are not practices their life forms that it is made into your seed form and given to you you're supposed to hold it that way so that the seed sprouts and grows and become something phenomenal within you it just takes away your back ache your headache your something else this is not of great significance by understand if your backing is aching right now that is the biggest thing in the universe yes or no right now you are a headache if God appeared what would you ask headache must go that looks like the biggest thing isn't it so I understand when body is in trouble keeping the bodies well is important because even if your little finger is hurting right now this little finger will become the center of the universe yes or no when it is fine you can just ignore this body and simply sit here and talk about other things little finger is feeling like hell little finger will become the center of the universe so keeping the body well is important for that reason so that you can keep it aside if it's very well and no issue you can just keep it aside and look at other dimensions of life if this is trouble our our entire focus will remain on this isn't it so in engineering is that kind of a process there is a powerful system called shambhavi where it is given in a seed form it is a planting that you do and slowly evolves within you millions of people this is something this is one thing I am proud of in my life is today there are millions of people men and women in the morning if they close their eyes tears of ecstasy are flowing I think this is fantastic people ask me so what's the greatest thing you've done I said tears tears of love and ecstasy of blowing that's a great work I think our time is up but Satguru we want to thank you for this evening on behalf of visionary women we also want to donate to the girl child project of Asia Foundation and if you have two minutes to talk about what you're doing to help the status of girls young girls in India we would very much appreciate it and Shelley I'm going to put my shoes on and please join us I think a small a little bit of video was there in the introductory video about the rural India the programs that are happening I don't know if you saw that like a 70 year old woman is playing a game yes you saw that she's throwing a ball at something so this is a moment we started about 17 18 years ago and today the next event is coming on 9th of December and therefore that event and over 10,000 636 men and women are participating in the event that is as players over 150 to 200 thousand people will be there as spectators the people who are playing are just ordinary men and women especially women in rural India have never played a game in their life after they're probably seven eight years of age they never played a game but now they're coming out in participating in a public tournament in front of everybody it's on the television and ministers and celebrities are coming there to give prizes for them it's an exhilarating experience for them one thing it did was it leveled out many differences of lines of religion caste creed kind of we leveled it out with these simple games and in our schools in rural India in very remote places we have schools where at least 43 44 percent of the students are first-generation going to school in this right now the average school going children about 61% or girls because in our schools we have made sure the girls are safe there are proper bathrooms for them and there is a culture where they are respected and not made fun off and you know there are small things about biology which are which is the basis of our birth but unfortunately we think it's some kind of funny thing these things we have levelled out we've created different culture in the schools so people feel the parents feel very comfortable they're grown-up girls going to school in this kind of school where that mascara is healthy so this we are trying to bring and we've created 12 schools where we incubate teachers and we have adopted over 4,600 schools garment schools and we are operating in them this is making a big difference for the girl child because one first thing I do is we make our people committed volunteers to go on visit the bathrooms how are the bathrooms kept because bathroom decides whether the girl goes to school and particular days of the month or not you know that the quality of the bathroom decides whether she goes to school or not and if she doesn't go to school on those few days next day when she goes it's a kind of a joke all over the place it's like it's very unfortunate but this happens so first thing is when we adopt the school first thing is I send most important people in the organization to go visit the bedroom I don't care how the classroom is how is the bathroom it is important so as simple as it seems when you don't have it it becomes so important you know these are simple things but when they when they don't exist how significant they become whether that particular girl goes far in her life or just gets trapped in some limited situation is determined by the quality of the bathroom we provide the so this is the kind of change there's a lot more to be done but with whatever resources we have I'm keeping the volunteers I'm I'm not just a guru I am a slave-driver with us this evening and we want everyone in the audience to know that the proceeds from tonight's event are going to the girl-child program we must understand this what we call as human life is just a certain amount of time and energy as we sit here since the time you came in all of us are two hours closer to our graves yes time is it's not time ticking away it's our life ticking away yes we are mortal life limited amount of time this is our time on this planet we are a generation of people who are empowered like never before no generation ever in the history of humanity was empowered the way we are empowered our ability to communicate our ability to do things in the world so we have the possibility that we could become the greatest generation ever or we just sit by and let it flow because if you sit also time goes if you sleep also time goes if you create something wonderful time goes if you don't do anything time goes yes time is not stopping nor can we roll it back nor can we slow it down nothing our life is just going away this is our time on the planet we must make this the best generation ever for this we need consciousness we need to identify with something bigger than our body and our brains only then we will do something fantastic because we have the necessary tools of technology in our hands today if we speak here we can speak to the entire world which was never before possible please let's make it happen [Music] [Laughter] you [Music]

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