Sadhguru: The mango season is just getting
over. In India, it’s a big thing. If you looked at the mango tree in the month
of October, November, December, you didn’t see any sweetness dripping out of it. Suddenly in January, February, flowers came. They were not as attractive as jasmine or
rose flowers or something. Some tiny little flowers came. Suppose you do not know this is a mango tree
and you tasted it, you take a leaf and bite it it was quite bitter. But suddenly in the month of April, May, huge
drops of sweetness (Laughs) hanging there in the tree. Tch… So, if you did not have prior… prior knowledge
that this is a mango tree, did you think, this tree is actually manufacturing this sweetness? But you think suddenly in April, sweetness
came? It has been slowly manufacturing this sweetness
and it put it out at a certain season. But it’s been on, right through the year,
isn't it? Mangoes happen only in one season. You notice the sweetness only at a certain
time. This does not mean the mango tree was not
striving and working to produce that sweetness. You cut any part of the mango tree and taste
it – tch, you will not find (Laughs) a slightest tinge of sweetness, believe me. But when the mango comes, how much sweetness! Where is it coming from? It’s been working on it. You couldn’t see it. Similarly, is it a process? For sure, it’s a process. But can everybody see the process, identify
the process? No. When somebody is evolving on the spiritual
path, others thought, he is a nutcase. Somebody thought he’s vagrant, somebody
thought he is a vagabond, somebody thought he is something else. But when the sweetness came, everybody who
tasted, realized that this is a fantastic thing (Applause). So, nothing in the universe happens bang,
bang, bang. Everything is a process. Can you identify the process, can you recognize
the process, is the question. Generally, anybody who carries… Generally among human beings, when they are
children, any child which carries a certain level of genius within him, which is irrepressible… Everybody has genius within them but they
are repressible. Systems in the society, their own fears, their
own anxieties, their own need for security represses their genius. Every human being has some kind of genius
but over ninety percent of the human beings never find expression to it because they give
in to other things. Things become… Other things become more important. When you were twelve, fifteen you thought,
“I’ll do this, I’ll do that, I willgo to the moon.” But you saw the neighborhood girl (Laughter)
and started calling her the moon (Laughter/Applause), moon disappeared (Laughter). So, like this, in everybody the possibility
is wide open. The thing is, can you sustain the process
and allow it to become that possibility. Between possibility and reality, there is
a distance. Most people neither have the courage nor the
conviction to walk that distance. Largely, spiritual process is a kind of an
entertainment. Go to discourse after discourse,
Time 04:56 discourse after discourse, read more and more
books and debate how your atman, parmatman, your soul is floating here, there and about
heaven and hell and everything but do nothing about this (Referring to oneself). It’s largely like entertainment. So, there is a process for sure. The process can be approached consciously
or it may be an unconscious process but you’re doing the right things. This is the beauty of this universe – whether
you know or you do not know, knowingly or unknowingly, with discipline or with indiscipline,
with love or with hate, if you do the right things, right things will happen to you. That is the beauty of this universe (Applause). So Shankara… Adi Shankara said, “Yogarathova bhogarathova.” Somehow, either through yoga or bhoga, somehow
do it, somehow find the truth of your inner nature because, what we are considering as
truth is simply this – whatever works on all levels of life must be the truth, isn't
it? Hmm? Whatever really works on all levels of life
must be the truth. Whatever you know in your life, test it right
now, because you have a mind which can project. Right now, you are striving for a certain
level of income or a certain kind of house or a car or something else or something else. Put yourself in different stages of life and
see if it still means a lot to you. See… Suppose… Not tomorrow, let’s say hundred years later,
you are on your deathbed, just see if your jewelry, your make up, your car will mean
something to you on that day. This does not mean, you must give it up today. It is just that you must keep it in its place,
you must not carry it in your heart (Laughs) (Applause). There is a difference between using something
and being used by something. Most people… Most people do not know how to use the things
that they buy. The things that they buy are using them up. They are enslaving the human being. Whatever things you want to use, you can use,
that’s not an issue. But the problem is you let those things use
you. This is not okay. So if you just take care that you are not
used by anything, you understand the limited role that everything has in your life – the
limited role of your education, the limited role of your career, the limited role of your
marriage, the limited role of your relationships, the limited role of your wealth, the limited
role of everything that you are doing – if you understand where one thing begins and
where it ends, then you don’t have to do anything spiritual process is on (Applause). When the season is right, the flowers will
boom… bloom and mangoes will come (Laughs)
