Sadhguru: Good morning… good morning everyone. Participants: Good morning… Sadhguru: Today we are supposed to look at life sense. When we say life sense I’m particularly
speaking to all the iPhone lovers (Few laugh). You are on Samsung (Laughter)? There is a gadget far more interesting than your phone,
that’s called a human mechanism – this is the gadget, every other gadget is a small drop off of this.
So, when we say human being, I think for a long time people have been looking at this human being
with too much emotion and too much confusion. But the yogic sciences have always looked at the human being
as the ultimate mechanism on this planet. When we say a mechanism we are talking about something
that can work systematically, something that can do things, something that can consistently produce something wonderful. If it is not a mechanism that means it’s one chaotic nonsense.
So, there are both type of human beings. Some are just one chaotic nonsense,
some have become wonderful mechanism. Not because somebody has come with a great
mechanism and somebody has not. All of us fundamentally have come with the same thing. Maybe on the level of our physical form and maybe
on intellectual levels there may be some differences. But essentially all of us carry the same human mechanism. But why is it that one seems to be in a phenomenal state
and another seems to be a total mess? There are many ways to look at it. One simple thing is, we can look at it this way,
every human experience that human beings have… Here there are little children, you have to do something to make them
unhappy right now, you have to do something to make them unhappy. But there are a whole lot of adults you have to do something
to make them happy (Laughs). They have reversed the equation completely. At the age of five if you were this joyful, by the time you are thirty
you should have been ecstatic, isn’t it? – if things happenedin the right order (Laughs).
But for some reason it’s gotten reversed to most people. As I said, every human experience has a chemical basis to it. We can call it peace, we can call it joy,
we can call it love, we can call it blissfulness, we can call it ecstasy, we can call it agony, anxiety,
misery, stress, tension, whatever we want to call it. Every human experience has a chemical basis to it. Or in other words, what you call as “myself” right now, is a chemical soup. The question is only, is it a great soup or a lousy soup? If I give all of you the same soup making ingredients,
do you believe that all of you will come up with the same kind of soup? No, five-hundred varieties of soups will happen, that’s all that’s happened. All of us have come here fundamentally with the same
ingredients, just see in how many ways we have become. The reason is we have been given such a complex mechanism, and…
do you agree with… do you agree with me all the gadget lovers, I am asking you, this is the most sophisticated machine on the planet.
Do you agree with me? Participants: Yes. Sadhguru: So, I am asking you, someone gave you such a complex
and sophisticated machine, have you read the user’s manual? Participants: No (Laughter). Sadhguru: No (Laughs)? So, without the user’s manual if you operate something,
how would you do it? By accident something will happen, once in a way it works.
Once in a way something is working. And to make this human being happy (Laughs),
in pursuit of human well-being, we have ripped the planet apart, all right? I want you to understand there is no ecological disaster on the planet. Ecological disaster is just a consequence of human beings not knowing
how to be joyful by their own nature by their own nature, because we are seeking it everywhere else except here (Referring to oneself). But all human experience happens from within, what happens here
(Referring to oneself) if you try to cause it from outside, then you have to burn the planet definitely,
and that’s what we are doing. So, ecological disasters have not happened because of something else,
only in pursuit of human well-being, isn’t it so? Hello? Participants: Yes. So, in pursuit of human well-being, last hundred,
hundred-and-fifty years we have done too many things – using the power of science and the prowess of technology
we have done too many things. So many things that if you happen to be here two-hundred years ago
and you are here again today, you wouldn’t recognize the place for anything. Everything has been changed.
Because of this change much comfort and conveniences come. When it comes to comfort and convenience we are definitely
the most comfortable generation ever, do you agree with me? I’m asking even those who are standing (Laughter). We are definitely the most comfortable generation ever,
isn’t it? But we cannot claim we are the most joyful, we cannot claim
we are the most loving, we cannot even claim we are the most peaceful. To be peaceful and happy, today I’m sure many people are propagating this,
and even the so-called spiritual leaders are going about saying “Peace is the ultimate goal of life.” Such people will only rest in peace (Laughter). Because… tell me, today, if you want to enjoy your lunch today,
if you are not ecstatic, at least you must be peaceful, isn’t it? Hello? If you are not in some state of ecstasy, at least
you must be peaceful to enjoy the food that you eat, isn’t it? Participants: Yes. Sadhguru: So, I am asking you, to be peaceful, to be happy,
is it the ultimate goal of your life or is it a fundamental requirement of your life? Participants: Requirement. Sadhguru: It is a most fundamental requirement. If you are not even peaceful I don’t know
how many have died under your care (Laughter). Because when you are not even peaceful and happy,
you tend to do things which are neither good for you nor for anybody, isn’t it? This is the nature of the human being –
when we are not peaceful and happy don’t we tend to do things which were not good for us and not good for anybody? Now, this peace has been taken to heaven, people say…
if you say “peace” people say “divine peace,” if you say “joy” they will say “divine joy,”
if you say “love” they will say “divine love.” These are all human things, human beings are
capable of being peaceful, joyful, loving but all these things have been exported to heaven (Laughter),
by those who are crippled (Laughs). Crippled lives have exported these things to heaven –
if you say peace, they say it happens only there, if you say joy, it happens only there, if you say love,
it happens only there – even your dog is capable of being loving, isn’t it so? You don’t have to reach as far as god to know love,
a dog will do it – yes? Consistently, yes or no? If you get yourself a dog, twelve years guaranteed
love affair or no (Laughter)? Yes? I wouldn’t say the same thing about everybody else,
but… (Laughs) there is no guarantee about others
but a dog is a guaranteed love affair, isn’t it? Now, these things have been raised like this… you know, I…
I was to speak at Tel Aviv, I was flying out of Atlanta. I was to land there in the morning and speak at 6:30 in the evening,
but then I land up there at six o’clock in the evening because of some flight delays. And I’m quickly changing in the airport to rush to the venue,
because in these thirty-four years I have not been late to a single appointment in my life, so I don’t want to break this.
So, I am quickly changing and rushing. And I am famished. Because I am traveling by an American airline, there is nothing edible to…
on the plane, hmm (Laughter)… there’s nothing edible on the plane. So I’m really famished and when I go to the venue,
to my joy I find the venue is a very fine restaurant. Life can't get better! When you are so hungry,
they’ve taken you to a restaurant straight. So, people are coming in and greeting me, one man come up
and says “Shalom” I ask him “What does it mean?” He says “This is the highest way of greeting”
I said “Well, that’s your opinion, what does it mean?” He said “No, no, this is really the highest way of greeting!” I said, “All right, but what does the word mean?” He said “It means peace!” I said “Why would peace be the highest way of greeting,
unless you are born in Middle East” (Laughter/Applause)? In South India, somebody comes up to me in the morning and says “Peace!”
I’ll say “What’s wrong with you?” So, I am saying anything that you are deprived of will slowly rise to heaven. Everything that human beings are talking about,
everything that human beings have attributed to their gods, everything that human beings have exported to heaven,
these are all human qualities. Yes? Those who made themselves incapable,
they are talking it will happen somewhere else. But today human intellect is sparking like never before,
never before these many human beings could think for themselves. Yes?
Never before in the history of humanity! Because otherwise a priest, a pundit, a scripture, something else thought for you,
now human beings are beginning to think for themselves. Whether they are thinking straight or not is another issue (Few laugh),
but at least they are thinking something (Laughs), it’s a good beginning, you know, something they are thinking. Once they start thinking, the problem with thought is
it has to be logically correct, otherwise it doesn’t go by. Even the most idiotic argument if you witness, people are talking
the way they are talking because they believe it’s logically correct. Yes or no? Participants: Yes. Sadhguru: Nobody thinks he’s logically wrong
and continues to argue, he won't do that. He somehow finds a way to make it logically correct. So, once this happens, that human intellects begins to fire like this,
even if god comes and stands here and speaks, unless he makes sense people will reject him.
Yes or no? Maybe you don’t have the courage to say yes,
your children, they are going to reject it. Unless it makes sense to them they are going to reject it.
Yes or no? Participants: Yes. Sadhguru: So, once they reject it may so happen
heavens will crumble, heavens will fall down. You know what is in heaven?
You don’t know. Let me tell you so that you can make your choices (Laughter). Hindu heaven, food is great (Laughter), because Nalla himself cooks for you there,
Nalla himself cooks, he is the best chef in the universe. So food is very good, if you are a foodie
you must go to Hindu heaven. In another heaven, in the clouds white gowned ladies are floating,
if you like that kind of ambiance you can go there (Laughter). In another heaven you will have virgin problems,
if you want to encounter that you can go there. Only problem is, what is the qualification for you to get there? This happened in a Sunday school in Alabama
– anybody from Alabama? Participant: Yes! Sadhguru: Oh (Laughter)! I would have chosen another state if
you had told me you are here (Laughter). The Sunday school teacher in his enthusiasm asked the tiny tots,
“What do you have to do to go to heaven?” Little Mary stood up and said,
“If I scrub the church floor every Sunday morning I will go to heaven.” “Absolutely!” Another little girl stood up and said, “If I share fifty percent of
my pocket money with my less privileged friend, I will go to heaven.” “Absolutely!” Another boy said, “If those who are in need
of help, if I reach out and help them I will go to heaven.” “Correct!” Little Tommy in the back bench stood up and
said, “You’ve got to die first” (Laughter)! So you got to die first, that is the basic
qualification – all right? So, when you die, depending on your culture
we will either bury you or burn you or feed you to the birds – one of these things we will do to you – yes? Participants: Yes. Sadhguru: It is the… or in other words,
anyway your body we put it back into this earth because this body is something that
you borrowed from this planet, isn’t it so? You are on loan, if you are planning to take it to heaven you are a willful defaulter,
you know (Laughs)? Yes?
It’s good to pay this back,isn’t it? What we have taken we can use it well,
when it’s time we must pay back the loan or no? Put it back into the earth,
whether you like it or not, they will. So, once you left your body here, what will you do with
good food and virgins and all this stuff (Laughter)? These are all problems that people have
when they have a body, isn’t it? Once you put the body here,
what will you do with all these things? So, I am saying, once intellect fires big time, we have kept it down
because if you ask questions we would have you dead, for a long time. Please understand (Laughs).
With this we had kept it down, but we can't keep it down anymore. Now people will ask all kinds of things,
when they ask two, three questions, heavens will crumble. Heavens may crumble but human longing to
experience something more will not go. The human longing to experience something will always be there. If you take away the hope that somewhere else
it’s going to happen to you, people will start seeking solutions here. When they start seeking solutions here, if you don’t show them a way,
if you don’t show them a way which is logically correct and scientifically ascertainable way, where you can take charge of
your inner experience and cause the kind of experience that you want to be in… If you don’t teach them the ways,
if you don’t give them the technologies for inner well-being, then I would say in another sixty to eighty years’ time ninety percent of
the humanity will seek chemical solutions, they will be either on drink or drug. Tell me, most of you, whatever your age right now,
when you were twenty years of age, how many people were drinking and drugging on this planet?
Today how many people are doing? Has it gone up by a thousand percent at least? Participants: Yes. Sadhguru: Ten times over or more?
It has. This is because people are seeking solutions here. Because slowly all
these people are losing faith that somewhere else it will be better. They are trying to make it better right here.
If you don’t show them the right way, they will somehow try to do it. Now, I am not tal… looking at this as amoral issue. Ninety percent of the people being on drink
and drug is not a moral issue for me. One responsibility we have as a generation of people is that when we leave,
we have left a generation which is at least one step better than us. This is a fundamental responsibility we have as a generation. But when we leave, if we are all on… ninety percent of us are on drink and drug…
when we leave, we will leave a worse generation than us. Because we will become incapable of even producing a better generation. And this will be a complete failure of who
we are, everything that we have worked for, the development of civilizations, all this will go waste
if ninety percent of the population goes on this. In New York city what do you think is the percentage, hmm? I’ll leave it to you. People from New York tell me, what do you
think is the percentage who are seeking some kind of chemical solution for their experience? To make themselves peaceful they have to drink
something or pop something, what do you think is the percentage? Participants: Ninety-five. Seventy. Eighty. Ninety. Sadhguru: (Laughs) I wouldn’t be that cruel,
there are lots of Yoga freaks (Laughter). But it’s a big percentage, not a percentage
to ignore anymore, isn’t it? It’s like, you know, those of you who come
from India anyway you know…all of you are, largely. You know when you were growing up as children
you… there were a few drunkards in the town, yes? One, maybe two percent. “They are drunkards, you know, they are
not normal people.” But they are the normal ones now, there are
a few who don’t drink, who are freakish (Laughter). Two freaks… There are two percent freaks who don’t drink
anymore. So, this is not a moral thing, this is just
that you have become incapable of dealing with yourself. That is the fundamental thing. See, what amazes me is people live here fifty,
sixty, seventy years. They are sixty, seventy years of age, still
they do not know how to deal with their own thought and their own emotion. This is…Th…This you may think is normal
– it’s not normal I’m telling you. If you do not… See, these are the basic faculties that you
have, a human being can think about anything he or she wants, can emote in many strong
ways. If these thoughts and emotions don’t work
for you, they are working against you, that means you have not figured the fundamentals
of being human, isn’t it? You would have been peaceful if you were born
as a earthworm or something. The problem… The problem is right now, human beings are
not suffering something that they don’t have, their suffering is because of their
own intelligence. If I take away half your brain most of you
would be peaceful (Laughter). Yes! It’s being done in the… you know, in some
institutions it’s being done, lobotomy is being conducted, right? When it’s… when somebody cannot control
themselves at all, pull off a part of the brain, they are quite peaceful. I think it’s… people are even suggesting
it’s time we do it when the children are born, if you take off certain things criminal
attitudes will go, this will go, that will go. People are suggesting such things, responsible
medical institutions are suggesting such things. If you cripple everybody there may be no crime
in New York city. If you cut off everybody’s legs or you take
off everybody’s head, there will be no crime at all (Laughter). But it will also take off the possibility. It may take off some small problem, but it
will take off the possibility of being human, isn’t it? To be a full-fledged human being is important. If you want to be a full-fledged human being
there are two fundamental things. One thing is, a human being has a vivid sense
of memory. Another thing is a human being also has a
vivid sense of imagination. Whatever suffering you go through, you may
call it stress, anxiety, tension, misery, grief, whatever you want to call it, essentially
it is just this, you have still not figured how to handle your memory, how to handle your
imagination, that is all you are suffering. What happened ten years ago you can still
suffer, isn’t it so? What may happen day after tomorrow you already
suffer. That means you are capable of suffering the
non-existential, you are capable of suffering something that does not exist. I’m sure there are psychiatrists in the
group, are there? Participant: Doctor Seema Jain (Laughter). Sadhguru: Okay. This even by medical definition, if somebody
is suffering that does not exist, do they qualify? Do they qualify or no? Participants: No. Sadhguru: They do qualify as patients, right? Participants: Yes. Sadhguru: That’s all I’m saying (Laughs). I’m saying (Laughs) if you start suffering
something that does not exist, that means even medically you qualify as a case. Case number whatever (Laughter). Now, this is not a joke, because without…
we are leaving human beings with education systems which will teach you everything about
the world, not a thing about yourself. Trying to control this with fear, trying to
control this with possibilities of punishment somewhere else, it’s not worked, anyway
people are doing what the hell they are doing, aren’t they? Yes (Laughs)? It is time that we bring sense to the world. We are always thinking in terms of good and
bad. This has happened because of certain types
of religious beliefs, certain types of things where everything is controlled by fear and
guilt and whatever. First thing is you divided the world into
god and devil, good and evil, this and that! No. I’ll ask you a simple question, is there
anybody here who’s twenty-four hours good or twenty-four hours bad? Hello? Participants: No. Sadhguru: Yes or no? Participants: No. Sadhguru: You oscillate right, a little bit. Here and there, one moment you are wonderful,
another moment you are nasty, another moment you are beautiful, another enom… moment
you are ugly, is this not happening? Participants: Yes. Sadhguru: So, if we have to divide you between
good and evil, probably we have to cut off a part of you. That is what they are saying, if we take off
certain parts of your brain, all evil will go and you will become pure… and useless
(Laughter). The biggest problem is we have been trying
to produce good people. The world never strived to produce sensible
and joyful people, we always been striving to produce good people. And it’s good people who are constantly
at each other. It is always a good Hindu fighting a good
Muslim, a good Indian fighting a good Pakistani, more good more fighting, and a good American
fighting good… just about anybody (Laughter/Applause). Because the more good you think you are, more
confrontational you have become – please see this. The more good you think you are, you naturally
become more confrontational with just about anybody around you. If you think you are very good the… how
this has come to you in your mind is, you look at these people, “She’s not okay,
she’s not okay, she’s not okay, he’s not okay, he’s not okay, compared to all
these people I am good.” I am very good means nobody is good (Laughter). Nobody is okay. Nobody is okay is not a question of goodness,
it’s a question of madness. The madness has settled in. This has to go means human consciousness has
to rise. You have to look at this tremendous possibility
that we have come with. And is it true… can you see me at least? Hello, everybody? Participants: Yes. Sadhguru: Even if you are not listening, can
you see me (Laughter)? Use one hand, point out where am I, please. Try. Ahh no, you know, I’m a mystic from South
India, you’ve got it all wrong (Laughs). Now, this light is falling upon me, reflecting,
going through your lenses, inverted image in the retina, you know the whole story? So where do you see me right now? Within yourself? Where do you hear me right now? Within yourself? Where have you seen the whole world? Within yourself? Have you ever experienced anything outside of yourself? Have you? Right now someone sitting next to you if they
touch your hand, you think you are experiencing their hand – no. You are only experiencing the sensations in
your hand, isn’t it? Even without the help of the other person
you can with little imagination cause the sensations you want, isn’t it? So your entire experience with life, light
and darkness is happening within you, agony and ecstasy happens within you, joy and misery
happens within you, peace and turmoil happens within you. If every human experience is generated from
within, at least…at least what happens within you must happen your way, isn’t it? World will not happen your way and I’m glad
it is not happening your way because if the entire world happened your way where do I
go (Laughter)? I’m glad it is not happening your way. Little bit my way, little bit your way, little
bit somebody else’s way, it’s alright. But the important thing is, this (Referring
to oneself) one is not happening your way. This is a big problem, isn’t it? If this one person – yourself – if this
one person happened your way would you keep this person blissful or miserable – you
must make a choice, I am going to bless you right now (Laughter). What is your choice? Participants: Blissful. Sadhguru: For yourself, what is your choice? Participants: Blissful! Sadhguru: Highest level of pleasantness, isn’t
it? What you want for your neighbor may be debatable
(Laughter), but what you want for yourself is very, very clear, isn’t it so? But why such a simple thing is not happening? Simply because… you know… you know Charles
Darwin? Participants: Yeah… Sadhguru: Some hundred… hundred-and-fifty
years ago… 2012 was two-hundredth birth anniversary of
Darwin. Some hundred-and-fifty years ago he propounded
a theory and he said “What was a deer could have become a giraffe, so many million years. What was a pig could have become an elephant,
so many more million years. What was a monkey became a human, but it happened
rather quickly” (Laughter). Yes? So quickly that anthropologists think there
is a missing link (Laughter). They are still looking out I am saying (Laughs). Did anybody meet? Did you meet a missing link I am asking? No (Laughs). Now, they are saying the DNA difference between
you and a chimpanzee is only 1.23 percent – 1.23 percent is not much of a difference
(Gestures - Scratches like a monkey), isn’t it (Laughter)? Not much of a percentage. Not a percentage to boast about, isn’t it? The thing is just this, physiologically you
are only 1.23 percent away from a chimpanzee, but in terms of your intellect and awareness,
we are worlds apart from a Chimpanzee. So this is the problem, you have an intelligence
for which you don’t have a stable enough base. Now, this same intelligence, the sharper it
is, the more it pokes you. So people are thinking dulling it, either
with wine or divine is the solution (Laughter). Somehow dull it for some time and you feel
peaceful. Dulling is not the solution, sharpening it
to a point where it will work for you is the solution, isn’t it? If you dull it, you are somehow crippling
yourself, isn’t it? In some way you dull the system, maybe you
think it’s temporary, but if you dull the system, in some way you are crippling yourself. If crippling yourself is a solution, death
is a better solution, isn’t it? Yes or no? If taking a little bit of the brain is a solution,
blowing your brains out is definitely a better solution, more efficient. This happened, I (Laughs)… I was teaching a program in India and somebody
stands up and she introduces herself, she says “I have come from Singapore. In the last two years I committed suicide
five times…” I said “Stop! At this level of inefficiency you are not
getting anywhere” (Laughter). If you in some way think by dulling the system
you will be better off, which the world is practicing large scale. Now you are saying in New York city it’s
ninety percent, I don’t think so but it’s getting there, rapidly getting there, in that
direction. Drink will lose its tch draw after some time,
more efficient things will come. Slowly all things will get legalized when
they can't control it anymore, please know this. Everything will get legalized, the moment
they can't control it they feel it’s better to tax it and run the nation, rather than
(Laughs) investing too much on policing these things. So, when these things happen it is a question
of crippling the human being in some way. Yes it gives pleasure. If you take off the brain maybe you can just
float around in total, utter peace, but all possibilities are also gone, isn’t it? So, this is happening to us because we have
not understood the fundamentals of how to exercise our own intelligence. We have learned how to make a living, we have
learned how to do things, we have learned how to go to the moon or even beyond, but
we have still not figured how to manage our own system, isn’t it? Even if you have a space craft, this (Referring
to oneself) is more complex than that. Yes or no? Participants: Yeah… Sadhguru: This is far more complex than that. And this does not mean… when I say this
I am not just… I mean all of you are doctors, maybe you are
thinking of exploring me pathologically. We are not talking about just lungs, liver,
kidney, heart, spleen, whatever, all this came from within. See, you eat a piece of bread in the morning,
in over two hours this bread becomes human body. You know as doctors how complex each one…
each part of the body is, that you know it is so complex that is why today if we have
to go to a medical check-up, we have to go to fifty different doctors because for fifty
different parts of the body (Laughs). Slowly as you look at it closer and closer
you are realizing it’s too complex for one person to grasp the entire thing, isn’t
it? Yes or no? Just thirty-two teeth, people are taking nine
years to understand what’s happening in the mouth, and they still don’t know (Laughter). Yes or no? Yes? Just to… teeth? Only thirty-two! Nine years of study and still we know we don’t
know all of it. We know… We know pretty well but not all of it, isn’t
it? So you are realizing it’s so complex, but
this complex mechanism with what are you manufacturing? You eat a piece of bread, you eat a banana,
you eat an apple, you eat whatever you want, within few hours it becomes this. So there is an intelligence here, there is
an intelligence here which can make a banana into a human being. Yes or no? Suppose I took a banana in my hand and transformed
this into a human being, who do you think I am? Participants: God. Magician. Sadhguru: Who is this hmm (Laughter)? Where did you see a magician who made a banana
into a human being (Laughter)? What is this? Only creator could do this, isn’t it? But every one of you are doing this every
day. Only thing is you are doing it unconsciously. If only a drop of this intelligence entered
your life in a conscious form, you would live magically not miserably. Life wouldn’t be a struggle, it would be
an ecstatic breeze. This happened, in 1924 there was a bishop
in Istanbul who is from the orthodox Greek community. You know the orthodox Greek community have
their own Pope in Istanbul. They believe they are the only real Christians,
the rest are no good (Laughs). So they have their own Pope and they have
their own stuff going. Being on the silk route, exotic stories from
India keep wafting across the Bosporus too often, so he heard so many magical stories. And he always wanted to go to India, but being
a man of cloth he couldn’t decide where he goes. So, when he was over sixty years of age, when
he is semi-retired he got the opportunity to come to Southern India. So his longing was to meet a yogi, he wants
to meet a mystic, a genuine one, not the tourists who came to Istanbul and claimed, he wants
to meet a real one. So, somebody told him “You go up this mountain.” And they gave him some landmarks, “There
in front of a cave there will be a yogi sitting, that’s the man you are looking for.” So he found his way up, he was not built for
mountains, so he huffed and puffed and went up. Mountain is one place where you cannot deceive
yourself of your age (Laughter). So went there, then he saw this yogi was sitting
here eyes closed, blissed out. So he went and they had told him if you see
a Indian yogi you must prostrate, so he went down. He was not built for that either. With great difficulty he went down and huffing
and puffing, you… sat up again. Hearing all this commotion the yogi opened
his eyes and smiled. Immediately the bishop asked, “Can I ask
you a question?” The yogi laughed and said “By all means,
why not.” So the bishop asked, “What is life?” This is after sixty, you know (Laughter)? You should have asked this question when you
were eight (Laughter). If you missed it out, at least by sixteen. What…? What is life, you must ask now, isn’t it? But what to do, better late than never.So
he asked, “What is life?” When he asked this question the yogi went
into raptures and then he said “Life… life is like the fragrance of jasmine upon
the gentle spring breeze” Well Bishop (Gestures)(Laughter), “Fragrance of jasmine upon gentle prs…
spring breeze? No, our teacher told us “Life is like a
thorn, once it gets into you if you stand it hurts, if you sit it hurts, if you lie
down it hurts” (Laughter). You are saying it is like fragrance of a jasmine
upon gentle spring breeze? What is this?” He asked. The yogi laughed and said, “Well, that’s
his life” (Laughter). The experience of your life is entirely generated
from within, is that so? Participants: Yes. Sadhguru: What is being generated from within
must be happening your way. Must happen your way, isn’t it? But right now just about anybody can make
you happy, make you unhappy, make you miserable, make you frustrated, make you angry, make
you so many things. This means you are in a very deep state of
slavery, somebody decides what should happen within you, not even around you, what should
happen within you somebody decides. This is a terrible state to be in, isn’t
it? Because we have not taken charge of this (Referring
to oneself) fundamental thing. Something so tremendous has been given to
us, but we are busy tch. We read one piece here, one piece there, we
read a… one tidbit from this scripture, another tidbit from that scripture, and self-help
book, this book, that book, all tidbits, but it’s not working here and there in small
way. On a certain day a bull – you know a bull? A bull was grazing, chomp, chomp, chomp, chomp,
chomp slowly green grass led him into… deep into the jungle, he went deep inside. There, there was a lion who was past his prime
and he was having difficulty hunting in the jungle, because the animals are fast and he’s
getting slow. Then he saw, after many weeks of grazing this
bull had become nice and fat. He saw this nice, fat bull, his mouth watered. He stalked him, found the right moment, pounced
upon him, killed him and ate him up. Stomach became full, with great satisfaction
he roared. There were a few hunters passing by, they
heard this roar, they tracked the lion down and shot him dead (Few Laugh). The moral of the story is when you are so
full of bull you should not open your mouth (Laughter/Applause). So, the fundamental thing is, at least…at
least we must come to this, what I know I know, what I do not know I do not know – is
this okay? Participants: Yes. Sadhguru: Can we come to this much sincerity
– what I know I know, what I do not know I do not know, is it okay? Participants: Yes. Sadhguru: No, no, right now the thing is,
whatever I don’t know I believe (Laughter). Whatever I do not know I believe. Once you believe you get enormous confidence,
without clarity. Confidence without clarity is the biggest
disaster on this planet. Human beings who don’t have clarity must
at least have humility and hesitation in them. No clarity but they have confidence, because…
see, the nature of human intelligence is like this, if you do something stupid right now,
tonight your intelligence will bother you – “Why did I do this?” This is the nature of human intelligence. But if your stupidity is scripture endorsed
or god endorsed, then you can do the same idiotic things with utter confidence (Laughter),
you don’t have to turn back and look. It doesn’t matter what is the result of
your actions, how horrendous it is, but you can go on doing it because god has endorsed
your stupidity. Can we come to this much – at least all
of you are doctors, you must come to this – what I know I know, what I do not know
I do not know, is it okay? Because ‘I do not know’ is a tremendous
possibility. When you see truly, when you genuinely see
I do not know, the longing to know and seeking to know and the possibility of knowing becomes
real in your life. Otherwise everything I do not know, I believe. You can believe anything. If we work hard enough on you, we can make
you believe just about anything. Yes or no? Participants: Yes. Sadhguru: From your childhood if we work on
you, we can make you believe anything. Right from your childhood if I go on telling
you my little finger is god, if I raise this little finger divine emotions will genuinely
overflow within you. Yes or no? Participants: Yes. Sadhguru: If you feel this is too bad I can
dress it up (Laughter). We can do some things. This happened, I was speaking to a group of
people in Nashville, in Tennessee. Tennessee people? Participants: Hey! Sadhguru: Hey! Okay (Laughs). And I was just telling them a joke. In the joke I referred to god as him, immediately
these few ladies stood up and said “Do you believe god is a man?” I said “Whoa, whoa, whoa (Laughter)! I was only telling you a joke” (Laughter). They said “It doesn’t matter, you said
“him.” Do you believe god is a man?” Now this is a big issue in some of the southern
churches in America, is god a man or woman, they are trying to settle in this election
of course, but… (Laughter). Is god a man or a woman, is going to become
a serious issue in America in the coming years, once the president is on (Laughter). But in India we have no such problems, we
have a man god, we have a woman god, we have a elephant god, we have a cow god, we have
a snake god, we have a crawling one, we have a creeping one, we have a flying one. Every kind, because we are a very wise culture
(Laughter), we foresaw all the future problems that may occur. Who knows who will claim tomorrow what? I was… I was just two weeks ago I was in Uganda. You know there was… in Uganda there was
this…Some of you come from there? Participant: Yes. Sadhguru: Oh, yeah. I was in Uganda two weeks ago, and Idi Amin
declared “God is black.” I agree with him, because if a white man can
have a white god, why can't a black man have a black god (Laughter)? What’s the problem? But these people don’t know, because they
have never seen god, you know? They saw only the messenger, sons, and stuff. In India we know god is brown (Laughter). Yes. Because god himself landed in India, nine
times. You know this? Participants: Yes. Sadhguru: Nine avatars, nine times god himself
landed in India – himself! Not his son, not his messenger – himself
(Laughter)! Indians (Laughs)… Indians are always very proud of this. “God came himself to India, to other places
he sent messengers and…” (Laughter/Applause/Cheers). So, I… (Applause) wait, wait, wait. So, I keep… I keep reminding them, that is because god
wouldn’t trust anybody with Indians (Laughter/Applause). He wanted to… he wanted to do the job hands-on
(Laughter), so he himself came nine times, and failed (Laughter). Nine or ten times, debatable, but failure
is not debatable (Laughter), isn’t it? So, we can believe what we want. Our beliefs may have something to do with
our cultural milieu. We can wear our culture, we can… cu… culture
is the color of our life. We can wear our culture, we can be proud of
it, we can enjoy it. But culture is not a tool for seeking truth. Culture is not an efficient tool, because
what you do today, whatever nonsense you do today is tomorrow’s culture. Yes or no? Whatever nonsense they did yesterday is today’s
culture. Culture is never a conscious process, to some
extent maybe, rest is all hotchpotch of all kinds of things that many people did, isn’t
it so? Or… Do you believe that all of you consciously
creating tomorrow’s culture? Are you? Not at all. Whatever nonsense you do your children will
pick it up and they’ll do it a little differently, isn’t it (Laughs)? So, culture is not a conscious tool, cuncha…
culture doesn’t have sharp edges, it is just like that, simply evolving like an amoeba. In various forms, in various… everybody
in this room full of people, each person will have their own understanding of what is Indian
culture right now. Yes or no? And you are free to have that, because it
is you who making the culture, you are the producers of culture. This is not an instrument of truth, but if
you do not know the truth about your own nature, how can you conduct this well? Only by accident. When you conduct something so sophisticated
by accident, anxiety is natural, isn’t it? Everybody is a client, you can put that up
in your practice. Psychiatrist – everybody is a client (Laughs)! I was just joking. We started many crema… crematoriums because
the conditions were very bad in Southern India, Isha started many crematoriums. People asked “Sadhguru, what should the…
what should be the byline?” So we called it kayantha-sthanam, that means
“Where the body ends.” Byline I said put it, “Everybody is a customer”
(Laughter). Don’t do any market development, just wait! Everybody will come one day. You don’t have to do any marketing, anyway
they will come, isn’t it? So madness is also going to become like this,
that almost everybody is a client. If you get angry you say “I’m mad at you!” Isn’t it? You are admitting it, but without doctor’s
help you are able to come back to reasonable states, but you are flying off. One day when you cross the line, if you cannot
come back then you are clinically ill. Yes? But otherwise also you are ill. If you do not know how to manage your own
thought, if you do not know how to manage your emotion, if your intelligence does not
function for you, it functions against you, would you term this kind of madness? Maybe there are not enough couches for all
of you, so we left you loose on the street (Laughs). But it’s happening, isn’t it? So, especially all of you being in medical
profession, I would plead with you, you must invest some time upon yourself. If you believe… If you believe that the work that you are
doing is important, the most important thing is you work upon yourself. Because nobody can produce anything beyond
themselves. You only… Your work is only an expression of what you
are, nothing more than you can ever happen, unless you enhance this (Referring to oneself). What you do can never be enhanced. Enhancing this means, there are many ways
to look at it, I’ll put it very simply considering that I have to catch a plane (Laughs). See, when we say intelligence, today because
of English language and the so-called modern education, the kind of education that most
of us have gone through, is just education which was designed to produce obedient people,
not intelligent people. It was not designed to cultivate geniuses,
it was designed to curb your genius and make you into an obedient person, so that you can
take orders from “Her Majesty’s service.” Yes, essentially it was created for that purpose. Maybe you are useful in some job, but it will
not allow you as a human being to really blossom to create something. It is created for mass production of something,
whatever that it. There are some interests, goals set up by
other people, “How to produce nuts and bolts for that large machine we have created,”
is how the education is structured. This is not cultured for individual enhancement,
this is not cultured for… see, if you are looking at… anyways children’s schools
are called nurseries, isn’t in… isn’t it (Laughs)? A nursery means what? You must provide conducive soil for this (Referring
to oneself) plant to grow its fullest possibility. This is the aspiration for every life, whether
it’s an earthworm or a grasshopper or a tree or a bird or an animal, all of them are
aspiring to become full-fledged life, isn’t it? But the problem is we know what is a full-fledged
grasshopper, we know what is a full-fledged earthworm, we know what is a full-fledged
bird, we don’t know what is a full-fledged human being. Because for the human being… for every other
creature there are two lines which nature has drawn, within that they live and die. For the human being there is only bottom line,
there is no top line. Because there is no top line, people are suffering. Or in other words, what you are suffering
is not your bondage, as people are telling you. What you are suffering is your freedom. Because nature has left you free, you can
be any way you want right now. See, if you… if you were born as a tiger,
you wouldn’t have this confusion, you know? You wouldn’t sit and worry “Will I become
a good tiger or not” (Laughter)? If you eat enough food you will become a good
tiger. There is no confusion, “Will I end up as
a pussy cat? Will I become a great tiger?” There is no such problems for a tiger. There is no such problem for any other creature
because for all of them two lines are fixed – you eat well, you will become that. But you eat well, this (Referring to oneself)
will not become that. This one has come without a top line, so e…
it is left to you to determine what this (Referring to oneself) should become. When such a freedom life has offered to us,
this is the greatest possibility. Upon this planet at least of the life that
we have seen, this is the greatest possibility, isn’t it? Instead of exploring it we are trying to fix
it all the time. This is this, this is that. We are trying to fix a top line. But tell me, whatever you are right now, would
you like to be something more? You must tell me right now, otherwise I’ll
bless you. Participants: Yes (Laughter)! Sadhguru: If that something more happens,
what? Participant: More. Sadhguru: You want something more. If that happens, what? Participants: More. Sadhguru: So, you seem to be wanting to expand
in installments, slowly. So let’s say I will make you the king or
queen of this planet. Don’t look at me hopefully (Laughter), does
it look like I am going to commit such a blunder today (Laughter)? No! Suppose you become the king or queen of this
planet, will you be fulfilled, I am asking you? Participants: No. Sadhguru: You will look at the stars, isn’t
it? Yes or no? Participants: Yes. Sadhguru: This is the nature of the human
being. Because you are not looking for more, you
are looking for all. And all cannot happen physically. If you are looking for all, this means you
are looking for a boundless goal, an infinite goal. You are looking at infinity, and going in
installments – this is a terrible, crippling process. Yes? You are looking at the infinite, your goal
is infinite nature but your approach is installments. Can you count one, two, three, four, five
quickly and arrive at infinity one day? You will only become endless counting, isn’t
it? So if you are longing for something infinite,
this means you are longing for something without boundaries. You are longing for without… something without
boundaries means, you cannot approach it with a dimension with boundaries. When I say a dimension with boundaries, see,
everything physical… physical is possible only if there is a defined boundary, isn’t
it? Now, this we call a physical body because
it has a defined boundary. If we pull out all the boundaries, then this
is no more physical, isn’t it? Physicality is a consequence of boundaries,
but there is something within you longing to become boundless. If this longing to become boundless, if you
give it an unconscious expression, if it finds a very basic physical expression, we call
this sexuality. All you are trying to do is, something that
is not you, you are trying to make it a part of yourself. It seems to work for a moment and after that
it doesn’t. If you find an emotional expression for this,
we call this love. This again the same thing, something that
is not you, you are trying to make it a part of yourself. If it finds a mental expression, it gets labeled
as greed, ambition, conquest, or simply shopping (Laughter). If it finds a conscious expression, generally
we used to call it Yoga but in New York city… I’m a little afraid to use that word because
immediately all of you may start (Gestures) (Laughter). What people are doing in the Times Square
you may start… start doing it right here, we are just next door. No, Yoga does not mean twisting and turning
your body. Yoga means you learnt how to obliterate the
boundaries of your individuality, you learned how to erase. “Why should I erase?” Not that you should erase, because there is
no boundary, it is only your psychological structure which is giving you a boundary. Right now when you sit here you are absolute,
isn’t it? This is me, that is you, hundred percent. But try this and see, close your mouth, hold
your nose like this (Gestures) for a minute, you will know that this is not absolute, this
has to transact continuously, isn’t it? What you exhale the trees are inhaling, what
the trees exhale you are inhaling. If you stop this transaction… or in other
words, for those of you who are pulmonologist, one-half of your lungs is actually hanging
out there on the tree, isn’t it (Laughter)? Yes or no? One-half of your lungs is out there, because
this cannot function without that. Now, this is not just on the respiratory level,
every sub-atomic particle in this body is in constant transaction with everything in
this cosmos, otherwise this cannot exist for a moment. See, here we are sitting on a round planet
and the damn thing is spinning on top of it, and in the middle of nowhere, you don’t
know where it begins, where it ends, here we are sitting and doing all this talking. Obviously a million forces that you don’t
even understand are keeping you in place, isn’t it? Yes or no? If you don’t know, you go up a mountain
or dive into the water, you will understand what I am saying. If you go up a mountain, your brains will
fill up with water; if you go down, your blood and brain will become full of air. All that’s happened is little change in
pressure. So, the whole lot of forces, even managing
and keeping you in place, in one piece, isn’t it? If all the pressure is taken out, we may become
bits and pieces, too much pressure we may become something else. Not just pressure, on a million different
ways, this is right now being supported by too many things. You are on life support I am saying (Laughs),
constantly, otherwise this cannot last by itself. So, anyway there is no boundary for this life
to exist. The life within knows this, even the body
knows this, only your mind doesn’t know this. Your mind thinks you are an absolute creature
by yourself. So, when you consciously erase this boundary
in your mind, this means you can sit here and experience everything as yourself. If everything in the universe you begin to
experience as myself, then we say you are in Yoga, or we say you are a yogi. This means a union has happened. You have successfully erased… what is the
use of this? This means, there are different dimensions
of intelligence within us. Unfortunately, our education systems are using
only one aspect of it which is called the intellect. In yoga we identify sixteen dimensions to
human mind. These sixteen dimensions are seen as four
parts, we will look at these four parts. This is called as buddhi, ahankara, manas,
and chitta. Buddhi means intellect. Intellect must be sharp, otherwise it won't
work, but it is the sharpness of the intellect which is cutting you up every day (Laughs). Not because intellect is a bad thing. If you don’t have a steady hand, a sharp
knife is a problem, isn’t it? Why we don’t give a knife to a child’s
hand is not because the knife is dangerous, because the child doesn’t have a steady
hand. In the last twenty-four hours what do you
think, have knives saved more lives or taken more lives? Surgeons please tell me. Participants: Saved (Laughter). Sadhguru: So, she is saying because we are
all here, they are all saved (Laughter). It has saved many lives. In a few irresponsible hands it might have
taken some lives, but knife is not dangerous. Sharper it is the better it is? Hello? Participants: Yes. Sadhguru: Yes. So, intellect is not the problem, sharper
it is the better it is. An unsteady platform, then it starts cutting
you up. It either cuts other people or cuts you up. The next dimension of the intelligence is
called Ahankara. Ahankara does not mean ego as most people
think, it is the identity. Because the nature of the identity, the subtlety
of the identity determines how your intellect functions. Right now I say “I am a man!” (Gestures – chest banging).The stronger
I say it, the more my intellect will try to protect my masculine nature. If you say “I am a woman!” It will start protecting that. If I say “I am an Indian!” It will start protecting that. If I say “I’m an American!” It protects that. To what extent? Even to the extent… even if it costs my
life, it’s okay but my Indianess or my Americaness or my manliness must be protected, at any
cost. This is what Ahankara does to you, because
the identity… how you take the identity. There is an entire system of education in
India which is about training a child how he should groom his Ahankara, his identification. How he should groom it in such a way that
it is beneficial for him and beneficial for everybody around him. How to groom one’s identification, there
is a whole process. Unfortunately we have given up everything,
we get stuck to something or the other. So, identity is the hand which holds the knife
of the intellect. How steady it is, how subtle it is will determine
what the knife will do. Now, this is rooted in what is referred to
as manas. Manas means it’s a huge silo of memory. Memory, we recognize memory as eight different
dimensions of memory, starting from evolutionary memory, genetic memory, unconscious memory,
conscious memory, and many other aspects of it – eight different dimensions of memory. When I say all these different types of memory… I’m sure you don’t remember how your great-great-great-great
grandfather or grandmother looked like. Yes? You don’t remember that, but their noses
are sitting on your face right now (Laughter). Yes or no? Your body remembers, one-hundred percent. Yes or no? It even remembers the skin tone of your great-grandmother. You may have not seen her, you may not remember
but it remembers everything. So, the amount of memory that every cell in
the body carries is a trillion times more than what your mind can ever carry. We are thinking intellect is everything, and
thought process has become everything because this is… this is a European mess-up that
happened to the entire world. Somebody said “I think, so I am.” Tch. No, because you are, you may think. Yes or no? Which is first I am asking you? Because you are, you may think. Because you’ve become a such a mental diarrhea
that all the time thought is flowing, you think thought is even before you. Not because you think you are, because you
are you may think. Like if I want I move my hand where I want. I should be able to move mind… mind where
I want, where I don’t want, I must be able to hold it here, isn’t it? Right now the problem is it’s become like
this (Moves his hand around frantically), all the time. If this happened to your body, you would look
ridiculous, isn’t it (Laughter)? Even with the mind it is the same thing, your
only comfort is others cannot see it (Laughs). Yes? It’s equally ridiculous. You are comfortable because you think the
person next to you cannot see it, but if they pay enough attention they can – they can,
believe me (Laughs). Now, the manas is a silo of memory. If you cut off the connection between the
memory and the intellect, your intellect feels suddenly useless if it is not empowered by
memory. See, people lose their memory, their intellect
is still intact but it is no use, because there is no memory. So, these are what… three dimensions, and
the fourth dimension is called as chitta. Chitta is a dimension of intelligence within
you, unsullied by memory, there is no iota of memory in this. What memory means is, memory is the way you
are setting up your boundaries. With memory you recognize, “This is my friend. Oh, I don’t know who this is. That is my relative. I don’t know who that is.” You are establishing the boundaries of your
life with your memory. Everything that you remember sets a boundary
for you, isn’t it? You remember this is my country, now it sets
a boundary for you. You remember this is my father, it sets a
boundary for you. You remember this is my husband, sets a boundary
for you. This is my child, sets a boundary for you. There is a dimension of intelligence within
you which is unsullied by memory. If you touch your chitta… in the yogic lore,
in a very mischievous way it is said, if you touch your chitta, god becomes your slave. Because the dimension of intelligence which
is capable of making a banana into a human being, if it became a conscious process you
would definitely live magically, isn’t it? Other people will think you are super human,
but I am telling you this is what it means to be human. To eat, sleep, reproduce and die you don’t
have to come with such a complex mechanism. An earthworm… if peace is the highest goal,
you must come as an earthworm and it’s very eco-friendly (Laughter). All its aspirations are hundred-percent ecologically
sensitive, isn’t it? Yes or no? If you… If you have a question, please. Yes, please. Questioner: Namaskaram Sadhguru. I have a question about medicine and law. In my opinion, a lot of physicians make medical
decisions with fear of the legal system and malpractice suits. This fear affects the physician-patient relationship
and increases healthcare cost. For example, I know I’ve ordered some tests
for patients based on this fear, and I’ve seen other physicians do this same. So, can you please speak on physicians’
legal responsibility in taking care of someone else’s health, and what can physicians as
individuals and as a social collective do to overcome this fear? Sadhguru: In ancient India it was always said
there are three things which should never be commercialized – education, health, and
spiritual process. The moment you commercialize these three things,
they will take the society in a completely different direction. When I say completely in a different direction… People are telling me, I’ve… I have no way to check these statistics… They are telling me, the food industry on
the planet is 7.6 trillion dollars. The pharmaceutical industry is 7.2 trillion
dollars. By the end of 2017 they are saying the pharmaceutical
industry will be well above the food industry. This doesn’t look like we are creating health
on the planet, right? We are eating more medicine than food, doesn’t
mean that we are doing great, obviously. So, somewhere we’ve gone little off the
rails. And I’m sure, I know what I say is not going
to be very popular here. All of you have taken up a certain oath, isn’t
it? So, your commitment is to health, your commitment
is not to legal systems, you commitment is to health and life of the person who sits
in front of you at the moment or usually they lie in front of you probably. Your commitment is to that life and the well-being
of that life. If legal systems are such, right now people
are exploiting it in many different ways for their own advantages, let it be so. One or two may suffer I know. But suppose all of you practice medicine as
it should be for the well-being of the patient, I’m sure most of the time that’s your
concern but sometimes legal systems, other things take over. If you ignore those things and do it, suppose
half of you have liability quea… cases against you, then they have to change the law. Right now only one or two percent are under
the liability, so they won't change the law. I am saying you must become a majority, then
the law will change, obviously. But medical systems, healthcare, your education,
and the capability to meddle with somebody’s life, all this was given to you with a trust
that you will always keep the well-being of that person above everything else. Let’s keep it that way, please (Applause).
