Dissolving your personality

you Sadhguru Jaggi Vasudev is a realized master mystic and yogi he has shown the way for people to attain to their natural joy and to live life with experience from one's own inner nature his presence is filled with grace and compassion sadhguru scientific approach towards spirituality and work towards the upliftment of humanity have received accolades worldwide the words that come from him in intensity and utmost clarity from his deep understanding and wisdom can change the very core of the being belonging to no particular tradition Satguru incorporates what is most valid for the modern person from the spiritual sciences his work an outpouring of his blissfulness finds expression in the form of a ceaseless offering to help all deems available to all who are willing Sat gurus life is an invitation to the divine through individual transformation welcome to the silent revolution of self-realization always a many-fold way in which people make use of the spiritual processes for some people in many places spirituality and all the spiritual what will you call them what are those talks calling in the gravitons all that provision everything is just escaped from the mother-in-law or cooking for some it's an intellectual entertainment for some just seeking to learn something they want to know something new a few people are wanting to you know bring about some changes in their life they want to become little more peaceful little more loving little more something else some change they want in their life some people are looking for transformation you know the difference between changing transformation transformation means nothing of the old should remain change means improvement self-improvement or transformation or some people just really wanting to get last into it dissolve into it so many ways and people are approaching the same thing it's which is the best way i wouldn't say which is the best way because according to each person's needs that's how they seek you can't prescribe the best way to anybody right now generally the human nature is such that whatever they don't have that's what they will seek they don't have health the seeking health as if it's Delta might thing if they don't have money they're seeking money as if it's the ultimate thing they don't have Lao the seeking Lao as if it's the ultimate thing whatever they don't have that's what is seeking that reminds me this happened when we were in Turkey you know Trichy Tiruchirappalli it's so a medium-sized town in Tamil not in a high school the teacher came and asked the students 8th and 9th seven children if God appears in front of you and gives you a boon what will you ask one boy said down those days you know Maruti car I want a Maruti car somebody said I want a bicycle somebody said I want you know 10 lakh rupees like this they went on then the teacher said you idiots what will you do with all these things ask for intelligence ask for knowledge ask for intelligence why are you asking for all these things so one boy stood up and said everybody asks for what they don't have everybody is seeking what they don't have simple now if you go by this when a human being goes by this process of asking for what he doesn't have then it's an endless process because what is it that you have what you have is so little if you go on asking for what you don't have you need a thousand years and still you will be nowhere if you start seeking the next thing that you don't have it's an endless process self-defeating process isn't it it seems to be taking you somewhere but it doesn't take you anywhere so what is this about if you don't seek if there is no seeking you don't go anywhere you know why would you go to any place if there's nothing to seek because that's a very basis of your activity desiring and going after it isn't the objects of desire may change and people may think one object is better than the other but it's not so whether you're seeking money you owe more intelligence or knowledge or God or this or that desire is desire you know the object of desire just changes the directions of your destination but doesn't change the process of life as such and the essence of life is in its process isn't it where you got in the end is not the point really in many ways right now the essence of life is how you're experiencing it right now so once quality of life if we are changing or if you wanting to experience life in a little better way or in a much better way whatever changing the objects of desire is not going to make so much of a difference it's the way we handle the process which is going to make them difference but even if life becomes very pleasant and beautiful experience it has to happen for every human being but even if it happens still you will see there is something within you which doesn't want to settle for just joyful life either you're very happy and after some time even that doesn't seem to be enough because happiness is missing right now the whole life seems to be pursuit of happiness if you joyful then you will see it's not enough in fact if you're very happy you will do many more things than when you're unhappy isn't it so because now you're charged and now there's nothing pulling you back you have all the enthusiasm to go about and do lots of things so there is something that this life is longing for it's not a desire its its destination it is not something a desire that you created or I created it is just longing to go towards a certain destination the only choice that we have is either to move towards this destination consciously or unconsciously anyway we are moving whether to go towards is consciously or unconsciously if we are dragged towards something unconsciously even if we are dragged towards heaven we will suffer the dragging isn't it yes now we grab you and we'll drag you out you don't know where you're being dragged you will suffer this we will take you and put you on a beautiful beach but that's later but right now all along from here to there you are going to suffer it terribly isn't it so if you walk towards anything or if life drags you towards a certain direction and you are unconscious about it you will suffer the process immensely so if you look at it consciously if you go towards it consciously then the process becomes beautiful that's all the choice we have really and we once we are conscious we naturally haste in the process whatever we are unconscious off and that level we suffer you must understand this say right now you're driving on the street you're completely unconscious of who is coming behind you who is coming in front of you now you are going to get into one kind of physical suffering because you are unaware of the physical reality physical suffering will come something is going to break isn't it now you are unaware of what is happening in your body another kind of suffering will come you are unaware of what's happening in your mind another kind of suffering will come you are unaware of what's happening in your family another kind of suffering will come similarly wherever you are unaware that level of suffering will come to you is it so you are getting this is holiday you're getting death series once a pirate no pirate a pilot walked into the bar the bartender knew him from long ago he's seen him just the previous year and now he has come back after the expeditions he looked at him and said hey what happened to you you look terrible the pilot said no I'm just feeling just about fine then the bartender said but what happened you leg why the wooden leg oh that we were just having a battle with another rival group and I saw cannon ball coming straight at me before I could move it hit my right leg and I'm doing fight fine with a wooden leg I'm pretty good then the bartender said what about the hook he's of left hand you have a hook what happened to that oh we were just having this worldwide for fun and my left hand got chopped off but I'm doing quite fine with this hawk in fact it's more useful in the hand then here's what about the eye patch you lost one eye what happened oh that I was just looking up at the sky and a bird poop fell into my eyes oh come on who ever heard of anybody losing their eyes for bird poop how would you lose your eyes for bird poop no that was the first day I had my hawk on whatever you are neither unaware of their you suffer so to see there that brings suffering to you so we're talking about awareness awareness awareness awareness is not something that you do actually in fact the less you do the more aware you become within yourself the less your activity becomes inside what you call as me the less that becomes the more your awareness becomes the less your personality becomes the more your presence becomes always personality means you have to do a lot to keep it up isn't it yes most of the activity that you're doing to keep up your person is unconscious but you're doing enormous activity to maintain a certain personality isn't it if that activity gets lowered suddenly awareness gets heightened because awareness is not something that you do the very life is awareness isn't the very basis of life is awareness you know that you are alive only because you are aware isn't it if all awareness disappears at least on this level we can call it death so spirituality is not something that you do if you stop doing all your nonsense your spiritual no unnecessarily nonsense if you stop spirituality is you know it's not something that you have to do and make it happen or create it it's not so but still why if that is so why am i doing my pranayama in the morning Oh even when I thought they made us do it I'm sorry the result that's because there is no breaks and your activity what you do within yourself you have no brakes on it so we are creating a certain physical mental and energy situation where everything gets diverted from your activity slowly the practice establishes a situation where the life energies raise to a certain pitch and intensity that slowly the activity becomes insignificant it's still there it's still happening you've seen this in shown you're meditation you just sit activity is still happening but it's insignificant the same activity which was so significant has become insignificant we have not stopped it we have not done anything to hold it down but somehow it has become not so important you see this happening when you just sit and meditate in showing you everything is happening but it's no more important it's lost its significance it's lost its impact upon you it's lost its influence upon you it doesn't mouth do anymore all the activity of the mind stops molding you you are no more being molded by that activity this this whole distortion that we have done to life in the form of creating our person see when you create your personality because it's created mostly unconsciously just a small part of it maybe conscious the rest of it is all unconscious isn't when you create you run your personality somewhere in one way it means somewhere you thought creator has not done a good enough job on you do something if it needs improvement definitely he did not do a good enough job on you isn't it so so why would you feel that such a grand creation is not good enough something that so enormous and fantastic is not good enough why because in this simple process of self-preservation you know there is a simple basic process which is built into every cell in our body every one insect animal has this we also have it this simple process of self-preservation we don't know where to contain it it has just spread itself into everything because it spread itself into everything you have to create a small person of yourself will defend himself all the time as we have been looking at in the programs the only thing that needs preservation is your physical body your personality we must mall it every day it should be okay isn't it if every day if you can make mincemeat out of your personality you could create another one tomorrow morning isn't it isn't it so we've been trying to do that gently because if I go very hard at it you run away gently step-by-step we're trying to make mincemeat out of your personality so that it becomes a flexible aspect you cannot live without a personality you need one to exist here to go about in the world do all your work manage things but if it's a flexible thing that in different places as it is necessary for the situation you can put on the right kind of personality then it would be fine but right now it is like a rock it sits on you all the time anything that doesn't fit into its ambit it makes you suffer isn't it who drew this caricature that you call as myself definitely yourself but influenced by so many people around you you know you're 1516 you go and watch Amitabh Bachan movie you come home and try to walk like him unconsciously yes isn't it sometimes maybe consciously but most of the time unconsciously isn't it so this caricature came into existence because of all kinds of bits and pieces but I gathered it happened when we were in school there was a boy who was studying with me who had an excellent hand you know he could just sketch anybody with whatever kind of distortion he wanted so there was one very hated geography teacher and when he entered the class this boy had a horrible caricature of him ready on the blackboard badly distorted but everybody can clearly recognize who it is with all kinds of very bad distortions on him then he walked in and as usually walks into the class always with a temper whether he's talking about the grasslands in America or he talks about the deserts in Africa he is always in bad temper he the moment he saw me just one thing he was angry another thing he was somehow hit by the whole thing the distortions then he asked who is responsible for this terrible atrocity as usually know everybody will suddenly interested in geography but his to DSM then he repeated again who is responsible for this atrocity he thinks it's an atrocity we thought it was an appropriate then somebody made up their mind and stood up and said we really don't know but it should be his parents so for this atrocity that you call as myself it's not your parents this is you only you can commit this atrocity of distorting yourself into such a tiny possibility when an unbounded possibility was what you were offered with life you were offered an unbounded possibility you made a such a bad distortion and made yourself into such a tiny possibility if you stopped creating this caricature because this caricature cannot exist one day without your support you need to support it all the time what meditation means means in one way you just withdrawing the support for your personality that's how suddenly it collapses only the presence is there the person is no more death if you could walk on the street like this if you could operate with people like this all the time that you have no personality but looking at this person at this moment how she is accordingly you put up a personality as it is necessary with this person now you go to that person you put up a personality that is necessary for the person then it would be so much fun drawing you new caricatures every day but once you get stuck to a particular distortion that becomes a problem every day if you have a new distortion it's called art simple if you're stuck with one distortion then it's called your collar freak isn't it isn't it so every day if you are able to create a new distortion that is artwork isn't it if you are stuck with one distortion you are a so that's the big difference Satguru when you're talking about personality we have to have different personalities as a parent as a husband and a work in normal living it becomes very difficult to change the personality you mean to say people around you won't let you change it not wrong see right now let's say you are going to your work Ennis will take the work situation because it's a less personal favor you're going to work with a certain attitude and a certain certain person is going to work which is you right now let's say you goes briskly like this everything good morning good morning don't mean it good morning to anybody the way people say good morning is very clear they intend to give you a bad morning so suppose you are going like this tomorrow morning if you go really say good morning to people and smile at them and maybe of all their hand and ask a personal question talk to them and going maybe you would waste five ten minutes going into your office but if people around you are happy you will have a lot of extra time on your hands because they run around and do things better isn't it if you have people who are sitting there with a grouse then you know they will make your life miserable in so many ways not one way you have to live with them but these people have the grouse against you they are going to make your life so bad isn't it now can I change my personality every day won't it confuse people not at all they would enjoy you most isn't it so and will it bring down your deficiency of work definitely not it is not because of the compulsion of the situation you've gotten stuck with my personality it is just that the whole construction of the personality has happened in unawareness that's why you're stuck with one personality now you said we have one kind of personality at home another the children another with you no work and outside if you look at it it may not be true you may be functioning in different capacities the requirement of how you function may be different but still the basic personality may be same everywhere the underlying personality is still the same you can change that also and it will be so much fun for you to change that it will be absolute fun for you to change that because you can experience a whole new person all the time after all it's your creation so why should it be limited to just one way if God had fixed a personality for you that's all there is but when you have built it like you change your clothes every day in different ways isn't it but most people cannot even change that isn't it they're gotten used to certain thing and that's all it is isn't it so I think we should have done something today everybody should dress in a completely different way income not your usual kind of clothes you're wearing pants all the time today you wear a sari income just loosen yourself up a little bit you know it's important the reason why what is the very essence of life is missing in people's life is because it becomes stiff and spiritual people are stiffer than anybody else isn't them yep so stiff still doesn't answer your question hmm there can be changes in the behavior but your personality remains the same it remains the same that's what I'm saying you are stuck to one personality just the actions are different because the situations are different but the person is same isn't it so the person is same because what your personality is has become you you are completely identified with it there is no distinction between you and your personality isn't it you have become that the mask has gotten stuck to your face now you can't take away the mask if this mask has to come off we need something to loosen the glue which has gotten stuck to this it is identity so now we are creating various situations where your identity dissolves in a certain way meditation or any kind of yoga practice whatever it is just to loosen the identities so that there's a little more flexibility about it maybe the whole of it has not come off but at least you can adjust it a little bit it's a mask being totally stuck at least Lippe you are able to take a breather that much break it is giving you but if you work a little more with this you can take it and keep it off now people when they come to advanced programs three days or seven days there in samyama our boss banana the person that you are you just simply forget who you are you don't know who you are it will become like that because the situation created is so intense and so different everything that you know as normal is broken after sometime you don't know who is here after the program is yoga over and you come back you just wonder is it me who went through all that most people cannot believe that they actually went through samyama and came simply because it's created like that the whole situation not only the meditation process the situation also is created in such a way that it doesn't assist your personality in any way the whole thing is to take off all the supports because your personality cannot exist for a moment without your support if you involve yourself in any intense activity it could loosen up a little bit but that is happy xored for example let's say you go and play a game those moments of total involvement you may lose your personality but that is a habit our way of attempting it now we are looking at how to approach it scientifically how to dismantle the all the scaffolding that is holding it up if you have noticed this people who are very very committed and enjoying the process of working they always have more flexible personalities then people who are working towards a goal is it so have you noticed this hmm because just the involvement with the work total involvement those moments the personality becomes little loose but people who are working towards a goal that they want this to happen those people have strong personality is always the fundamental basis for your personality the building blocks for your personalities likes and dislikes I like this I don't like this a complex system of likes and dislikes is what your personality is isn't it so what's the difference between you on the next person your likes and dislikes are different isn't it now the basis of yoga is just this to help you beyond these likes and dislikes whether we're talking responsibility or inevitability or whatever else we are talking fundamentally it is to destroy the process of like and dislike see existing in the world with likes and dislikes is a very foolish way to exist but unfortunately the logical mind thinks I'll do what I like this is my freedom the very basis of your bondage is in your likes and dislikes but your mind makes you believe doing what you like is your freedom isn't it all the time everywhere in the world people believe doing what I like is freedom please look at it carefully the very fundamental basis of your bondage ease in like and dislike to operate sensibly here even in the physical realm I'm saying even to operate with your work or family whatever likes and dislikes make you do stupid things I like this person I don't like this person now I cannot function from what is needed in this moment isn't it isn't it something now I don't like this person even if this person is doing something wonderful I cannot see it anymore do you see this happening to yourself I like this person even if they are doing terrible things I cannot see it anymore isn't it so because the moment you get trapped in this like and dislike you have no disk you lost your discretion your intelligence is forsaken you our awareness is simply impossible once you get trapped in likes and dislikes the moment you say I like this getting identified with it is very normal it's a natural process you don't have to say I am going to identify with this lightbulb if you just say I like this lightbulb you get identified with it the process will just happen say life is set up in such a way for you so that life happens automatically you just have to sit here and enjoy the bounty of life but now the problem is we are setting this forth in a wrong direction so it is creating suffering suppose if it will all in your hands you have to like it you have to get involved with it it's everything is yours it would be a terrible effort to live isn't it now it's all set up well you know the whole software is so well set up if you just say I like this getting involved in it get dreaming about it this that that everything just happens by itself isn't it everything that is necessary to take you in that direction just happens isn't it so so this is just life assisting you but it has no discretion if you like hell it will take you to help it happened once hmm what do you call a person who hires people in a corporation or whatever a charm okay the HR director in a corporation died and went to heaven there st. Peter said see because you're the first HR person to come to heaven we will give you a choice if you want you can stay in heaven because you got the passport but before you go to heaven if you want you can have a view of Hell if you wish to stay there you can also stay there this is a lady Hitler person she says no why would I want to go to hell I want to go to heaven he said why wouldn't you want to have a look at it said okay she got in the elevator when dream down then the elevator doors opened and it opened your beautiful garden on the poolside very beautiful people are swimming you know sunbathing and it's a wonderful golf course and then a nice clubhouse the works you know this is great hell she had a view of that and then st. Peter said okay you have a view of heaven then you choose then she got in the elevator it went up supposed to be down and up okay that's the direction unless you better know now we are down so there they open the doors and then she saw lots of clouds people just floating in the clouds playing harp and you know she said okay this is also fine but I think I'll go to hell all my friends are there this golf I'll go so they put her in the elevator she just went down and again the doors open the harsh desert everybody all dried up without food in terrible condition everything she said what is this last time when I came there was a garden there was a pool there was a golf course what happened so they said that was just the first day you know now your staff that was the interview now your staff all your life you did this to people so this is your choice your personality I don't know if you're working in places at least if your head chart is that nobody a charm especially if you hit John maybe you also you're supposed to size up a person you know somebody new walks into your office you're supposed to size them up where they will fit into this whole machine of an organization so if you're willing to look people's personalities are always hanging out you know they need not say anything they need not do anything if you just look at them properly the very way they stand sit you don't need any great yoga contusion simply a simple observation of a person the very way this time the way they hold their hands this the way they smile the way they do things their personality is just hanging out of them so it's so obvious to everybody except yourself you know that's the whole thing you show me in the end this pig what once was me lair love me the pain it is my princess thank you showing me what I'm loved showing me what I could be Thank You Leslie you I could boy just me you go to me so be winning on to see you Oh Oh Oh yeah Oh

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Published: Mon Aug 25 2014