Sadhguru: Life is Karma. If you want to become
no karma, there is no such thing. What do you think we have been doing with you.
With Inner Engineering, you suddenly felt a new sense of life and freedom and things - it's
happened to millions of people, I know this. All that happened is, we gave you little tools
with which you stopped creating new karma. And suddenly it felt so wonderful. There are many ways to look at this. How do I perform
activity? Karma means, let us understand this. Karma does not mean just doing something in
the world alone. You sit here, you’re performing karma - karma
of sitting here. Body is functioning, it's breathing, taking
in oxygen, leaving carbon dioxide, the tree is blessing you because you're letting enough
carbon dioxide out. Suppose that also you stored in yourself and
made a diamond so that you could give it to somebody. No, no, carbon no?…so. Then the tree would look
at you and say, "What kind of a lout are you, even carbon dioxide you're not letting it out?"
That's one kind of karma I'm telling you tch. So if you sit here and breathe, as far as
the tree is concerned you're doing a good karma. You don't know. You can be conscious too, tch, tree is
giving me oxygen, I'm giving carbon dioxide. Does it mean you have to breathe hard? Nothing like
that. You just breathe. It's anyway happening. So physical karma is happening. Mental karma is always
going on, for most human beings almost all the time. Emotional karma is going on. Energy karma is going on,
otherwise you wouldn't be alive. So karma is happening. It's not necessarily what you do consciously,
it's just happening. Life is karma. If you want to become Nishkarma that means
people think 'no karma'. If you want to become 'no karma', there's
no such thing. You can become very minimal karma. So is a couch potato Nishkarma? No, no, lethargy,
is a tremendous amount of karma because it takes lot of work to be lethargic. In the sense, you will
have to generate a lot of explanations for everything, and convince yourself that you don't have
to do anything about it. Right now, there is virus going on, somebody
is dying around you. You have to tch, do something within yourself,
not to respond to that. Otherwise it's natural for you to respond to it.
So, being a couch potato is not Nishkarma. Well, a yogi can become almost like a hibernating
state where everything is minimized, but still he is not free for... from karma. He may take
less number of breaths per minute. You may be taking twelve to fifteen (Referring
to breaths per minute) minutes. When somebody simply sits, they may just go
down, maybe three breaths, maybe six or eight. But below that you cannot go, you can even
stop for some time, but it's only some time. If you stay without a breath, not by holding,
just by lowering the metabolism, then slowly a different level of karma will begin to pick
up momentum in the body, when it picks up anyway it'll breathe. Again, it may
go into breathless state, again it’ll come back. So this way you can minimize, but still, you're
not free. Tch, You will have to get up to drink little
water or put something in your mouth. When you put something in, something has to
go out. All these things are karmas. So what is the way to handle this. Well,
what do you think we've been doing with you with Inner Engineering, what do you think it is?
It is simply this. Many of you (Laughs), almost all of you, when
you did even the online Inner Engineering program, you still not yet pract... done any practice, or you
went through the program first two days, no practice yet, we're still talking to you. Suddenly,
after two days, you suddenly felt a new sense of life and freedom and
things; it's happened to millions of people, I know this. Suddenly you light up. Not because your... all your old
karma went away, just those two days you did not create too
much fresh karma. Suddenly it's feeling so light and wonderful because you
are not creating unnecessary burden upon yourself. So what was the trick? The... There are various
aspects, let me not go into all that now. The simplest thing is this, your ability to respond. See,
whether I should do something or not if I think about it... Right now, many people are struggling with
this. Let us say, somebody around, somewhere close,
fortunately it's not come to our Panchayat area yet. We are managing it in a very tight way. No infections
anywhere close by. So in Coimbatore, there are some. So let's say, somebody is infected there. Now, should
I do something or not? "Hmm, why should I do? Other people will do." Who are those other people,
we don't know, he must have a family. Let them do. But if we just put up that man's suffering
in front of you, you will have to do lot of work not to do anything.
But to respond in whichever way you can, not everybody can go and save... save everybody's lives,
but at least, do whatever you can. It's very simple. The amount of karma, you have to do, mental
karma, will come down dramatically within your mind, simply because your response has become
indiscriminate. Indiscriminate, in response, but not indiscriminate in action. Because you cannot
afford to be indiscriminate in action. In action, you are always discerning because
action requires physical capability, energy, intelligence, means to do it, time to do it, many things are involved.
And these are all limited commodities. Nobody can do indiscriminate activity. If they do
indiscriminate activity, they will die very soon. And that is also a bad karma. Yes, it is. Activity is not
indiscriminate, but our response is indiscriminate. Wherever it is, I would like to do something.
If possible, everything that's possible we'll do. For what is not possible, we at least have
a little intention. Just because of that, you came to the programme,
and you felt such a sense of freedom. People have been asking me "Sadhguru, how
will the online program work without the practice?" I want you to know before you came for the
Shambhavi initiation, already you were feeling fantastic. Simply because you stopped creating fresh karma.
Old karma did not go away in those three, four days. Just that new load is not happening. For the
old karma, actually just living is enough. Sitting here breathing, living, heart beating
is good enough to start dissolving the old karma. A few things need a little more nudge, but most of the
things will just go away, if you simply sit here, breathe, live, heart will beat by itself. You don't have
to do anything, or are you doing... (Gestures) some of you think you're doing everything (Laughs).
There is a whole issue with people when it comes to their health and whatever,
because everybody's an internet doctor now, you know, they've done lot of research.
Doctors are having hell, because every patient who comes, knows more about
the damn thing, than the doctor is supposed to know. Doctor knows something more profound because
he spent nine, ten years studying and experience of treating people,
but these people looked it up, after they came to know they have this particular
ailment, last three days they looked up everything that's on the internet.
And now, all kinds of questions, they go with their own prescription "Please give me
this drug, other... other drugs I will not take." Whole lot of them coming to doctors and saying,
"I will not take this drug, I will take only this." This is supposed to be a very educated patient.
A highly educated patient means, you are going to be a lifelong patient you need
to understand. Yes. If you become a lifelong doctor, it's a good thing.
You become a lifelong patient, very qualified patient, what is the point of that? This is
simply because, you think you're doing this, tuk, tuk, tuk, (Referring to the heart) you have to do,
you have to check how many beats are happening, everybody's wearing a band. Well, people ask me
"Sadhguru, you must go through one master check-up. You must have this..." I say, "What?!" Every year
I'm going to… I'm trekking in the Himalayas, I'm in Tibet, I'm going to Kailash. It's my stress test.
If I don't make it, you bury me in Himalayas, that's all (Laughs). Otherwise, you live. Because you pay little
attention to yourself, you know what's happening. Well, if you notice something is wrong, then you go
to the doctor and maybe, get a little more qualified advice on that. That's different.
But all the time being worried, "What is happening? What is happening?" This itself is sickness. Too much
concern about health itself is sickness and it's a terrible karma. This karma will
have an enduring effect on you. So, this is all that happened in the first
three days of Inner Engineering, online or otherwise. All that happened is, we gave you little tools
with which you stopped creating new karma, and suddenly it felt so wonderful. You did that
little homework. Okay? Little homework, what happened today, five
things to write down. Just because of that homework, you paid attention
to what you're doing and what you're not doing, suddenly, tremendous sense of liberation, tch.
If a two-and-a-half hour program can have such an impact on you, if you pay a little
more attention in this lockdown time, you can just learn how not to create karma.
Simply this, that your response is unbridled. You don't decide what is worth responding,
what is not worth responding, it's not your business. A bird, a grasshopper an ant, a human being,
man, woman, child; doesn't matter, you respond. Do you have to act? No. Action is always a
discerning action, because there are quantities involved in action
which are not unlimited. Our energy is not unlimited, our intelligence
is not unlimited, our actions, in no way, can be unlimited. They're always limited. But our ability to respond
is limitless. This one thing, just this one thing, if you do, you will not create
any karma today. You will not add up load. Just not adding up new load, you will see,
it feel like liberation. That's a kind of damage you're doing to yourself,
why do you think when you were a child, you are like this (Gestures) still you had loads of warehouse of
karma on you, but still you were grinning. Now (Gestures) you became like this, "But
virus Sadhguru, virus." (Laughter) Even befo… before the damn virus came, most people
were looking so grave, it looked like they walked out of it (Few Laugh), yes. This is because, every day building
up this rubbish endlessly. Every day, whatever happens, you build it
up, build it up, build it up, build it up. Something happens, something doesn't happen,
for everything you create a mess, within yourself and the load of that mess, just garbage.
You're like a garbage truck I'm telling you. Yes. But now it's a lockdown. You don't have to pick up
any garbage. That's a good thing, about lockdown. You just simply... You don't be selective.
Who are you? Who are you to decide what is worth your attention,
what is not? Whatever created all this, whoever created all this, d
you see a blade of grass is created with as much care, as this big tree, or yourself, or a, an elephant,
or a tiger? A little creature, a tiny little insect that is going there is better decorated than you. Hello?
You have to put on all kinds of dyes (Laughs), they're all very well painted by
themselves. So whoever created, has creation paid any less attention to these
tiny little creatures than yourself? No. So then, who are you to decide what to respond
to, what not to respond to? Your ability to respond, always has to be
unbridled, if you're not getting what I'm saying tch, well we can't come and teach you
now, there is Inner Engineering online. Just go through this, three days, just first
three days, what is being said there, let it sink into you, soak into... soak this in, completely.
You will see, in three four days’ time, you feel like you're floating, simply because no new
garbage. That's how it feels. So please make it happen. There is no need to go on adding up trash
load upon your head.
