Mechanics of Health - Dr. Devi Prasad Shetty with Sadhguru

as a doctor as a surgeon we are involved with major surgical interventions unfortunately in our business this is the only business in the world where a customer can die no taxi drivers [Laughter] [Applause] [Laughter] it's however much you try Satguru to dissociate ourselves when you are operating you need to concentrate and do the job but what comes to your mind is the young wife young children waiting outside the margin of error is very small few millimeters here and there then you think what are the consequences on them then you start thinking about when you are a kid if something happens to your father where you would have been we are after all human beings we are always torn between what we do to somebody and what happened to our own life it's a constant tension how do we overcome it I've been in this profession for more than thirty years still I haven't yet mastered the art of dissociating myself from the patient's life yes when you are given a certain responsibility which could determine the shape and scope of people's lives it's a big thing to carry her once shoulders but the important thing is that somebody has chosen to place it a responsibility in our hands it's a tremendous privilege if we execute it can we do the best we can never do the best but we can do the best that we can do always with life is it the best now we are doing our best if we lack in that then we have a serious problem but if we're doing our best in everything that we do we know it is not the best but it's our best we have not spared anything that's good and above all when you refer to yourself as a human being after all we're human beings this is a big problem this will reduce our best that is people are always using the word human being as a limitation as a compulsiveness as a small thing we are not referring to the word or term human being as a possibility instead of saying we are just human beings why don't we say we are human beings great we're doing so many things we can replace the damn heart now replacing a part of a machine is not a big thing it's like this shall I tell you a joke it just came to me nice are you so a cardiac surgeon took his Aston Martin which is giving him a little bit of trouble engine trouble to the mechanic so he said by evening in habit ready after this hospital job he went there to pick up his car it was not really the mechanic was swaggering around a little bit and I said hey Doc why is it I do the cars engines you do people's engines after all a pumping thing you know how is it that you earn in millions I just make a few bucks come tomorrow doc will fix it so the doctor looked at him and said try to fix the engine when it's running that's the important thing you gotta keep it running and the but the great work done by all the senior cardiac surgeons cardiologists and all the good doctors of this country heart care has attained a lot of it has got a lot of confidence from the people it's very interesting Sadhguru when I started my career 25 years ago I left England 25 years ago I started in Calcutta if I told the patient then lot of heartbreak there if I told the patient then that he needed an operation it required more than an hour of convincing him for an operation but today I face a different problem standing in a line today Satguru when I tell a patient after seeing all the reports that you do not need an operation I have to spend one hour to convince him why he doesn't need operation everyone wants hot operation circle is it for romantic reasons or how do we how do we convince people that fixing the heart is not like you know something wrong with your house you get a plumber he will fix it or you know you something wrong with the car you change the parts it is something different there are the we are not the magicians or we are not the gods and the nature is the best healer and cardiac surgery is only a 50 year old phenomena people have lived for they have also realized it's a dumb pot [Laughter] it's a big dilemma for all of us satoru today people want something be done on their body all the time if not heart many other parts yes as I said probably another 50 years 50% of the population will be going through these surgeries which is not health which is medical industry but not helped if health has to happen a culture of help has to come in not health care systems not hospitals not more doctor is not more surgeries but a culture of help has to evolve right now world is in a way of imitating everything that America does they eat badly they live badly and they have a three trillion dollar bill of health care it's sinking the country okay it's sinking the whole nation health care we want to follow the same things we want to dress like them we want to eat like them we want to live like them and we want to get unhealthy like them but our country cannot spend three million three trillion dollars on you for sure will to die yes we're not going to reach out to everybody and do surgery for 1.25 billion people that's not going to happen in near future and if it doesn't happen it's a disaster if it happens it's a bigger disaster that people do not know how to live well he's a disastrous way that I would say 70 percent of the elements on this planet can be just handled with better sense of living eating atmosphere if you manage 70 percent will be gone you can achieve this in 12 to 15 years of time on the planet if a determined effort is made by the people by the policy and by everybody concerned particularly the hospitals they can do a lot because when they're sick they'll listen you know otherwise they don't when they're well they don't listen when they are sick they will listen they're they have years more use than to when they're sick that's the time to talk to them as to how to live better these things are not new to us these are very strongly rooted in our cultural value but we are throwing it away for something which will bring a lot of trouble for immediate attention for immediate intervention of course medical intervention is primary and it's most vital there's no question about that but long-term health will not happen because of medical sciences as we know it long-term health of a society or nation or the planet will not happen that way we have to bring a culture of health what is the way to live what is the way to eat how to keep our body how to keep our mind how to keep our breath how to keep that MOSFET around us if this culture is not brought in to us from our childhood I would say it must be brought into the school curriculum itself it must be brought in healthful ways of living because if you do not build healthy people you're going to have educated and sick people and you're going to build a nation or a world out of it with sick people you're not going to build a great nation you can only build a signature and that is happening across the world the major nations are suffering an enormous amount of illnesses the most affluent countries who have no nutritional problems okay India is half the problem of nutritional problems right from their childhood they have not even properly affluent nations who have a choice of nourishment look at the level of health issues they have that should not exist at all when they have choice of nourishment they should not have I would say 80% of the people should not have any health issues till they die when 20% 25% will get something infections will come because of close proximity those are different but these are all on self-help people are on self-help to create elements for themselves this can be 100% taken away if we establish a culture of health for which I think not just medical professionals people from various other areas have to work together to make this happen I don't see any major synergy like that right now small efforts are happening here and there but that's not enough it's good but it's not enough majority of the people who fall sick it's primarily because they let their life which would definitely land them in trouble but thousands of children are born in this country like any other part of the world with cardiac problem with cancer all kinds of problems they it is not their fault why it happens it should have happened you know six million Toyota cars will be drawn last year for defective whatever and about nine million general motors if we drawn for ignition problems it's a manufacturing defect only problem is you can't withdraw them actually nature is trying to withdraw them we are not allowing it there was a time we would allow the nature to withdraw yes all the manufacturing defects that came 100 200 years ago we would allow the nature to withdraw by the time children are for only the fittest would survive rest would go now we don't allow them to withdraw so we need a whole lot of things to run the defective cars I know I'm putting it so blatantly but you need to understand physical the physical existence is mechanical whether you like it or you don't like it probably all kinds of sensitivities and emotions are there about this my physical body but when they come to you you strip them down and treat them like a machine isn't complex sophisticated but still mechanical isn't it yes there are other aspects to it but fundamentally mechanical anything mechanical anything physical there is never something called as perfection to it it is a constant work in progress you can improve it and improve it and improve it what we call as evolutionary thing is just that now the parents the two machines which produce the small machine okay what condition are they in this is also an issue which we have not taken care of there are there is a lot to be said which is controversial about this but essentially this idea that everybody must have children has to go yeah I know I'm getting into trouble but we are not seeing humanity as a future possibility we are just seeing it as a regressive way of something that we can extend into future of our own a footprint right now that's a problem our identification with the body is so strong the physical body is so strong we are unable to think beyond our biological identity once you are not able to think beyond your biological identity the very nature of being human the city of being human is constrained and constipated into a very small process in this process there are problems in the ancient path the handle is in many different ways which are absolutely utterly controversial today and can never be brought back into this society but they did handle things in a completely different way they're bred carefully which is very important we're thinking about when it comes to animal husbandry we're thinking of breeding right as human beings why are we not thinking of breeding right because we're too identified with our own bodies mine is more important than what's right and the level of suffering that you bring into this fresh life you know you see it every day yes satoru Scriptures tell us that everything happening in this world including what happens in our life is preordained which scripture said that at least that's what I thought that we are destined to do something irrespective what happens if that is the case we are destined to die someday then what's the role of people like us in this world oh we're definitely this time to die people can have people come and tell me Sadhguru this man my enemy I come and bear him I want to do something I said just wait he will die to do anything just wait just be patient so this time to die yes but I don't think ever any scripture has mentioned that your life is predetermined predetermined or preordained this is an import from outside you must understand the fundamental nature of what this culture is is it rooted in this this is a godless culture you must understand this there has never been an idea of God in this country it's an important value let me put this into perspective because it upsets a lots of people we have many divine entities many we count some 33 million something like that how did all these gods come up so the idea the monotheistic idea is there's a God sitting out there and doing things to you so they believe in dictatorship that there is somebody who determines everything not so in this culture here there is no idea of God but there are many divine entities what are these entities generally if you look back the language that was used for all the deities that you have is your Devi is a Yantra always a younger the word Yantra literally means a machine or a device or a tool when I refer to our own yogic temples as tools people get offended Sadhguru don't say that it means more than our life I said if you are offended by this you come to the arson I'm giving going to give you a plumbing job to do in darshan without tools you must use your nails and your teeth and do plumbing in our shop three days after three days I'll give you a chained winch or a spanner will you worship or no will you worship the tool or know after having lost all your teachers so the power of the tool the power of the tool is something that we always understood we are at V as human beings we are who we are in the on this planet only because the tools that we have created if you did not have any tools a dog would dominate us isn't it yes or no it's only because of the tools human beings have become who they are so there are a screwdriver is a tool too but there are subtler tools energy tools subjective tools which can open up different dimensions of life so for this for every dimension we create a different tool a different possibility because we clearly know without this tool we would never access this possibility we bow down to it and we worship it because without being worshipful it will not ill to you this is we clearly know gods are our making it is just that others have forgotten so here we told you your life is your karma this means your life is your making where is the question of preordained such a thing never arises in this culture thank you but it's dangerous for a drug doctor to think it's preordained [Laughter] today the medical science has reached a level Satguru we really do not have to touch the patient when I see a patient in my office he would have undergone all kinds of tests yes everything is done all the images are displayed history is written everything is planned technically I can see the reports and tell the patient okay you need a bypass or you need valve replacement but I always make it a point to take my stethoscope put on the chest listen to the heart look at the patient eyes put my hand around on his shoulders touch the patient and then explain to them what is going on and talk to the family I personally feel that touch is the has the most healing power than anything else what we have invented do you believe in that Swamiji so what is not understood is yes one part of us is mechanical but there are other dimensions most of the time the mechanical part has gone wrong because we have not tended to the other dimensions so what is lacking in their life is their life is not touched not necessarily a physical touch is just a manifestation essentially their life is not touched by anything when I say touch by anything it need not necessarily be a relationship you can be touched by so many things I don't know how many of you when are the last how many decades are going to do what a sunrise or a sunset or a moonrise I'm saying not touched by anything when was it the last time you waited for a flower to bloom no such thing when is the last time you paid an attention to a butterfly or a leaf or a flower or another human being your of course you don't like faces you like the Facebook I'm saying contact with life whether it's human animal plant life or just elements around you just that how many people even take a moment to even look at the food that they're going to consume with a little bit of involvement or are they touched by it no so I lost either a doctor has to touch it or in the end under K Undertaker will touch you somebody is that you things gone bad somebody has to touch you so does touch have a relevance tremendous elements that need not always be physical it can be in so many different ways if you are not touched by life you are a dying life you're not a living life it may happen to you after some time but it's happening you're in progression because what you call as life even in the physical level it's it's medical knowledge for everybody now the number of cells you have is more than the number of stars in the Milky Way okay every day over 600 million billion cells are dying and new cells are being born that means every second 10 million cells are dying and 10 million new cells are born in your body if you just take two leave the old one all guys if you just take charge of this new 10 million cells every every second that's coming up in your body if you structure them properly create them properly if you have some say in how they will happen if you have some influence as to how these fresh cells are born your heart should be fixed your brain should be fix everything should be fixed because that is the level of opportunity you have to rejuvenate your life second to second but because you're totally oblivious to life when I say oblivious to life I want you to look at this right now you cannot even call yourself as a living being because most of the time what is happening with you is just thought and emotion thought and emotion is just psychological drama it is know exist Henschel relevance here a thousand people can sit here and live in thousand different worlds right now that means nobody's in reality nobody is living everybody is thinking about life psychological space what happens has unfortunately overtaken the existential process of life you do not experience life you're only thinking and reacting to situations around you thought and emotion is dominating everything so right now today morning Sun came upon time you don't think much about that okay so what now you need to understand if Sun does not come up tomorrow morning within 18 hours all life on this planet will largely cease as we not so I am Telling You Sun came up on time today morning I won't hear appropriate noises yeah [Applause] none of the planets in this solar system collided today in the whole universe no accidents in this endless cosmos no accidents everything going right but you have one nasty little thought crawling in your hand and it's a bad day I'm saying you completely lost perspective with life you lost perspective as to who you are it's a kind of madness so once you lose perspective as to who you are and what is you what is your space and status in this existence existence you are a sickness by nature it's not the doctor has to diagnose you it's already on one day it will manifest to a point where his instruments or his touch will tell him but it's already on the process is on when it goes beyond a point he'll you a prescription or a surgery but the process is on you working hard towards it there are large number of Indian or Western techniques of healing which may not have scientific data but they work and I have a personal experience many years ago my wife developed lower back ache it was intense pain excruciating pain as usual like to cut to a neurologist they did MRI and everything is fine there is no problem but poor thing she was reread you were not a spinal surgeon then my brother-in-law suggested that I should take her to see a acupuncture specialist as a doctor you know it was a bit embarrassing for me to go to somebody and he didn't have a fancy clinic I went to his house and he talked to my wife for a few minutes and he made a sleep flat on the floor and sadguru he took you know from the the the heel he started pressing on a lower back for ten minutes as I was watching I'm not exaggerating she never had the lower back pain ever since I'll show you thousands and thousands like that not really not even with any needles simply I was so fascinated because he cured my wife and he did something which I couldn't do it for thirty two years she was fine there are many ways of treating people and as professionals we have to respect all the ways of treating definitely I would say allopathic system is at its best when there's an emergency when there is time definitely other systems are way better if you ask me in many ways particularly this is something hardly known to people in southernmost part of India largely in Tamil Nadu we have what is called a Siddha Siddha Vaidya it's a most incredible medical system so comprehensive there are over 300,000 formulations I don't think even modern pharmacopoeia has that what 300,000 formulations elaborately written down and the fundamental difference between Ayurveda and Siddha is ayurvedic herb based seed does elemental the only thing is the skin level that it demands from the doctor is a challenge in modern world this is something that you have to live then only it works the person who administers it is as important that what is administered who administers it you're talking about tax so who administers it is important not just what is administered but the nature of modern medicine is you write a prescription some chemist who knows nothing about it gives it and they take it it's only purely chemical and works but when there are chronic ailments if there is infection killing it with whatever you know chemical bombing it is the way to do it but when you're generating an illness from within correcting it from within is most important if there's an emergency you have to intervene more aggressively that's different but these systems have such a comprehensive knowledge about health and well-being but the problem means it needs a lifelong involvement and dedication to become something good with this kind of system it is not something that you can acquire as a profession and do it always it was seen as a sacred duty that you can actually see I want everybody to think about it and I'm sure many times you're facing this within yourself it's not it is not a prescription it is not a surgery did not something it's a person's life whether he lives or dies I mean your existence it's it's not a it is not a case it is not a statistic for that person it is the only life that he has this needs far more deeper attention than just being handled as a profession I think that sense of dedication and involvement individual doctors might have grown into it but still that's not there is a culture that is not there it should not be seen as a profession that's what I am saying yes of course monetary requirements are there that will happen that's a different thing but first of all it must be seen as a certain commitment and a certain privilege that you are able to either end or extend somebody's life is not a small privilege Satguru many years ago when my son was a little kid he gave me a book written by Swami Vivekananda he was describing how ancient gurus could communicate with each other thousands of miles away just by thought it's essentially it's like a modern Internet how one computer can communicate with another computer in US or Europe anywhere do you believe that human mind can be trained to influence another human mind of people's mind who are far away just by tuning our mind to the right frequency can it be trained can we can we learn that art you're trying to beat the cellphone companies it's not just about the mind see when we say mind the English word mind is only generally referring to only the thought process thought process is the most surface element of your mind I think because of European thought we have given too much significance to the thought in the yogic science we do not attach any importance to what you're thinking about or feeling right now because what can you think only the data that you have collected you're recycling it it's of no great consequence whatever is in the surface of your mind keeps rolling that is not of any consequence what you're thinking and feeling right now is very surface of mind there are deeper dimensions of the mind in some good language there are many many words to describe the different states of mind but now there is one aspect of the mind for lack of time and stuff are I'll leave those things there is one aspect of the mind which we refer to as Cheeta Cheeta is the innermost core of the mind which is your connection with what we are referring to as consciousness if your chitta becomes conscious if you titta acquires a certain level of conscious control if you acquire now you have access to your consciousness what we are referring to is consciousness is that dimension which is neither physical nor is it electrical nor is it electromagnetic it is a quantum leap from physical to non-physical dimension a non-physical dimension being the lap of the existence it is the non-physical in whose lap the physical is happening physically the small happening in this course must not even 2% or not even 1% is physical rest is non-physical this non-physical dimension in the yogic terminology we use a specific sound which is connected with that dimension today it's all very highly distorted we call this sheet what that means that which is not we when we said Shiva we are not referring to some man sitting up there we are talking about a dimension which is not but it is in the lap of this dimension everything that is happens so if your chitta becomes even mildly conscious your ability to not only communicate an idea or a thought even to deliver something is possible physically deliver something is possible so is it a possibility definitely it is right now can we teach it to all these people in theory yes but are they willing to work towards it that's a question mark one big problem is our education systems are such we have glorified our thought to such a place first to bring that down itself will take time to make them understand the stupidity of their thought it will take a whole lot of time because everybody thinks theirs but actually the smartest thing about most people is their phone because your thought process is just an outcome of the limited data that you have gathered it doesn't matter if I've read the libraries of the world still it is too limited compared to what it is what the creation is with all the scientific development we still do not know how a leaf really works we do not know how a single atom in its entirety we do not know with all the scientific exploration so that that should be humbling enough for everybody to know that we hardly we know how to use things but we do not know what it is it will take lifetime of attention to even grasp the fundamentals of what it is so if people are willing to first of all understand like the whims of their heart you just dismissed as dumb okay if they also understand the the so-called smartness of their thought process and emotion is quite dumb now it becomes easy it becomes easy to train people that communication need it's not like now I want to generate this thought and give it to you not like that things will happen to you before you think what what is best for you will simply happen to you even before you articulate in your mind you don't have to ever think what you want to become how you want to be life is just arrange itself and intelligence beyond what you can contain in this bone box starts working for you and it'll work you heard of Ramanujan and others just to open the window with their Devi and he becomes that kind of a mathematician which is you know even today they're after one century they're still trying to figure out what he said and the mathematical calculations that he gave is the backbone for describing the black holes in the universe when he was there there was no word called black hole nobody knew there is such a thing when we say black hole what we are talking about is the curve of time and gravity which is something modern science is battling with he made mathematical background for that as the curve increases it what is in existence physical existence becomes non-existence so this is what it is when we say yoga you reduce the curve in such a way that what is largely physical becomes non-physical once it's non-physical time and space is not an issue once time and spigots is not an issue communication is simply there about 20 years ago subgroup I received a check for one lakh rupees from a retired major from Indian Army he just gave his name he refused to he didn't give his address and he wrote a small note stating that the money I am giving you he is too small for the path you have chosen but God has his own mysterious ways of giving you the rest it had a tremendous impact in what I thought what I wanted to do is it because there is something called cosmic forces which are constantly trying to help society I am doing or it's something else which is influencing people to do something which is beyond their means so yeah the ideas of something wants to help something reaches out to you I was I happen to been in about four weeks ago I was in Los Angeles and I was staying with some people there and the bedroom was full of books so I just picked up one of these books and so on the author is saying the core of the universe is loved and why would the core of the universe be love because this thing has been always told to people from heaven God loves you these people see if you are having a roaring love affair right now with somebody next to you here will you look up and ask for a raise of loud to come towards you I'm asking it now you made yourself in such a way nobody can love you now only God can love you if you say God loves me you must know you are such a pathetic despicable case if you made yourself in such a way nobody can help loving you you are a wonderful human being isn't it so when it we need to understand there is something called human thought and emotion human needs of emotional needs of love care touch this the cosmos or what you are referring to as the source of creation or divine or if you want to use the word God because God personifies thing we will refuse to use that word let us say whatever is the source of creation which we are referring to as God generally by religious this thing essentially it is just an intelligence which is simply exploding into everything possible if you are in rhythm with it you will rise if you are not in rhythm with it it'll crush you it has no love it has no compassion it has no intention of helping you it is no intent of harming you it has no nothing if you understand the forces and write it you have a fantastic life if you do not understand it'll crush you you've seen people doing surfboarding on the waves in the ocean it is such a magical thing just riding the waves but if you don't do it right if you go into the waves it's like being in a concrete mixer it'll just do that and it'll kill you so one rides the wave another gets crushed by the wave that is all that's happening the rest is all human interpretations this is the first thing we have to stop that we do not extend our thought and emotion to the existence this is relevant between you me this is relevant between you and your family members you love them I love you you love me all this fine don't look up at the sky and say I love you it will not say I love you back because it has no such need it's pure existence this is what you have to become if you sit here you are a complete existence by yourself this is a full-fledged life it does not need anything from anybody it has everything it is connected with everything in the universe it does not need anything but we want to play our games okay we can do all this stuff but you need to understand right now we are trying to extend our compulsions to the whole creation it doesn't work like that existence is not trying to help you you may be in tune with it bingo you are whether you got in tune with it consciously or unconsciously somehow you got into him that's why Sankara said yoga at of iboga ottawa that means somehow you do it i don't care yours shankardada sync our event to the extent of some how you do it you get it man that's important how you get it who cares I am constantly torn between my senior colleagues who are extremely skilled surgeons Sadhguru D on the heart there are some procedures which are done by very few people on this planet I'll give an example I do an operation called pulmonary and that rectum II that's the the blood clots from the leg goes to the langar trees and it clogs up all the arteries so 20-25 years ago there was no cure for this and once you're diagnosed you're there's time to die within a year today people who are on home oxygen for 2 years 3 years you do the operation they can go back to skydiving or they can go to scuba diving that's the transformative effect but there are only 50 surgeons less than 50 surgeons in this world who can operate and like this we have some of my colleagues who are extremely gifted surgeons they are in their 50s now and some of them are constantly talking about retirement especially one surgeon who is a extremely gifted surgeon who can fix any damaged while he is single he has no other commitments every other day he talks about going to Banaras or like somewhere and retire and I keep telling him that God didn't create him to retire and meditate he has to be fixing all this progress so he gives me extension every six months guru ji so at the end of six months the usual rigmarole starts he talks about retirement and everybody is depressed in the hospital so how do you deal with this kind of people you must you must give him a one-year sabbatical with me yes because the the need or the idea of retirement enters anybody's mind because of the monotony of what they're doing whatever it may be somebody else may think it's a great thing but in your experience somewhere it's becoming monotonous or stagnant stagnation is one thing that human intelligence and human system cannot take and most of the elements are because of stagnation stagnation of life they may be they may be getting there you know once in three years promotion they may be making little more money all these things may be happening but somewhere experientially there is a test AG nation which could be a major cause for many of the complex elements that people manufacture within their systems the more complex they get you try to create more talented surgeons I am saying we are manufacturing the problems we are trying to manufacture a solution I think as we offer solutions people who have early already gotten into problems they need solution but it's very important that we teach people how not to create these problems so that in so fifty you have to produce 5000 expert surgeons to attend to all these people who are on self-help to illness so I would say a surgeon who's where who has a certain competence and who has worked through life if he wants to explore something of his own nature that would be the greatest thing to do because he's not a man without commitment not competence when competence and commitment is there you should not run him through the regram role and destroy the possibility it's important that he explores something of his own nature which will make him we don't know what he'll come up with you cannot even estimate what he may come up with I think a sabbatical is good he may come up with something that you've not thought possible I will I will convey your message I'm sure he's watching this program Sadhguru I believe that talent is something which is grossly exaggerated in success it's when I was in medical school I used to teach martial art that is my passion and every time a Bruce Lee's movie was released all these school kids would come and join in hordes to martial our schools we used to call as Bruce Lee and I used to see some kids whose physic is meant for martial art who have the natural flair and I should think oh this kid is going to get a black belt and interestingly Swamiji after six months they're never there the guys who go up to the black belt and you know do something very good in martial art are the ones who joined the school without any skills without any talent who worked very very hard for everything they had to sweat it out but in the end they're the ones who succeed how do you explain this phenomenon say yeah a variety of reasons let me not go beyond this a variety of reasons a certain individual could be born with a certain Flair physical flair mental flair emotional flare style you know five-year-old child one has tile other is clumsy okay so the one with this tile is not going to become necessarily a fashion thing somebody else who seems to be clumsy may grow into something else like you don't know when a woman is pregnant the child within that home whether it's a sage or a sorcerer not a woman no now the mother does not know whether she is producing a sage eresource aware of what this is because i used the word coherence because of modern science is using that word who you are here right now as you sit here this is physics every subatomic particle is in constant contact with everything what you call as cosmos is living life and it's a live mind you have captured only one small part of it if you work with only that one smart small part of what you have captured both as life and as intelligence you will function at a certain level if you apply yourself to break the barriers of your limitations that you've set for yourself then there is an intelligence beyond anybody's understanding beyond anybody's estimate which is available to you once this is available to you people think you're superhuman now this is not about being superhuman this is about realizing that being human is super the immensity of being human has not been realized so we are always making a kind of a mathematical calculation okay if this person has this much IQ maybe this is what he will become this is what Newton's law that everything that moves on this planet works to a mathematical precision or a geometric precision that is you take a pendulum the length of the pendulum will decide how it will swing if you take a projectile depending upon its mass velocity and the trajectory it will go to a certain place that is not how the cosmos is working because what you think is physical and not physical is all mixed up within this within this human being the physical self the psychological self the emotional self and who you call as myself the life within you the fundamental life process these are all different dimensions and the innermost core of who you are which because all the other words are corrupted I'll use the word life or just you what you call as me this if you allow it if you do not identify it with any form with your physical form or with other different identities would it take on it has a way of being cohesive or collaborative with everything around when we say somebody work hard all he is trying to do is stretch his boundary of identity isn't it he's trying to stretch his boundary if he succeeds to set stretch his boundary something that was he never thought possible or imagined that is within his competence and capability becomes his miraculously I can show you hundreds of people who come to me will prepare them for a certain period and then we initiate them in 24 hours you will see the shape of their face will change genetics are altered in 24 hours time you can see the photographic images they have actually changed dramatically overnight simply because of a certain extension of their identity so in the indian spiritual man you see when you say spiritual we must understand this this is not about looking up or looking down when we say spiritual we are talking about transcending the limitations of physical so right now the physical is here as if it's a solid entity in people's experience but modern physics is telling you and medical science is beginning to tell you tell you or if people don't to understand if they just hold their nose for two minutes they understand that they are not an independent existence it is in transaction not just in terms of breath even in the level of subatomic particles it's in constant transaction if this transaction becomes even minutely conscious suddenly you have immense capabilities that you never thought were possible biological identity is the most limiting identity that you have because it limits to the area of your body now when you strive you break this it doesn't matter within what way you strive most people strive in unconscious unscientific simply out of striving they do things but there are ways to strive scientifically in a proper way there are tools to strive with specific direction to break the limitations of who we are if you break this boundary the subatomic particles are transacting the intelligence is transacting only you're missing the whole game if you don't miss the game if you are in the game of life not in the game of thoughts and emotions you are in the game of life suddenly just about anything you want you can do not this or that I'm saying anything can a human being can do simply if he breaks his barriers and these barriers are many levels but the most fundamental thing is the identity [Music] you

Channel: Sadhguru

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Length: 56min 11sec (3371 seconds)

Published: Tue May 29 2018