Sadhguru - Just pay an attention to a leaf

some tartar solder would again the heart tada something [Music] I saw about I think it was 15 years ago the film was made which was a series of conversations with quantum physicists and some mystics to use that word and the whole premise of the film was that the mystic and the quantum physicist is seeking an answer to the three basic questions which are Who am I where ever I come from and where am I going I did not understand the film then I am hoping that you would be able to throw some light on the three questions and you know what the physicists and the Mystics are seeking so you are asking me who you are kind of see it's alright to walk on the street point that's one of you and say who are you it's okay you go to somebody and say Who am I this happened in the Cincinnati Airport people had lined up the chicken at the chicken counter one man came briskly jump the line went straight to the counter and thrust his ticket the lady at the counter said sir it is a line please she said no no I'm in a hurry when she said everybody's in a hurry you're all getting on the same plane so please stand in the knife then he raised his voice Do You Know Who I am she looked at him promptly picked up the microphone and said there is a man here who does not know who he is can somebody help so you should never address this question to someone else all this so-called whatever I don't know I don't want to make comments they all picked it up because that ramanamma has his book I think became famous in California everywhere you go everybody is talking Who am I Who I owe you Who am I is a question that should be addressed within you digging every time you ask it digging it deeper and deeper and deeper into yourself you never go and ask somebody Who am I that smacks of something else I I was teaching a program in Los Angeles and this is a like maybe hundred fifty two hundred people half of them are all Hollywood types and a whole lot of them look alike many especially women not because they're sisters because they have the same doctor and I am teaching them an extremely simple process that they need to do every day which is just 21 minutes extremely simple just that guru you're teaching on all these things but Ramana Maharshi said you don't have to do anything Oh Ramana came all this way from Tiruvannamalai I said yes he is absolutely correct you don't have to do anything and he did nothing he simply see the sat in one place like this 14 years the rats came and bit into his - festering wounds worms came out of it but he did nothing simply Santa said you people are made like this if a mosquito bites you you call 9-1-1 you don't talk about doing nothing Ramana talks about doing that they believe that that's not your business you are made like this you don't talk about doing nothing Ramana talked about Who am I Who am I you never utter this to anybody don't ever go on please all of you don't go somewhere and ask them some one Who am I you can ask him who are you so Who am I is not even a question that you need to articulate when I just said the more you know about it the better you can exist here not necessarily don't always think about a human being like he's some kind of a machine how much he has to produce there is no such thing but how he exists is important when you sit here how are you within yourself is important what you wear may be socially important what you drive may be important somewhere else what you what kind of home you live in may be important for some other reason but exist actually there's only one thing important how are you within yourself are you Pleasant or unpleasant every moment of your life in 24 hours how many moments of pleasantness how many moments of unpleasant and how much support does it need to keep you pleasant that's a question right now in pursuit of human well-being we've ripped the planet apart and still well-being is not happening Comfort has happened convenience has happened well-being for sure has not happened isn't it as a generation of people we are the most comfortable generation ever never before anybody could even imagine these things but we cannot say we are the most joyful or blissful are ecstatic generation nor are we worse than others I don't believe so every generation same nonsense some people lived fantastic within themselves others went through all the nonsense they had to go through this is not because of what's happening to them see there are two kinds of suffering physical pain can happen to you because somebody may cause something to you somebody is no food they are in a war zone or somebody is poking you I'm asking all of you in the last 25 years how many times it happened to you somebody took a knife and poked you but most of you didn't happen maybe when you're in your school somebody poked you with the pin at the most or you are not even worth that nobody poked you I simply poked fun huh some people Twitter physically how many times suffering entered you from outside very very minimal rest is all self help you know in tamil nadu government has a scheme namaka nom-a-nom again now it means that means people are on self-help busy causing suffering to themselves daily sit stand whatever happens say you will see people most of them are driving their dream machines and bangalore streets alright how many are driving joyfully if we the traffic light takes ten more seconds they're freaking in their dream machine is it not a blessing that you bought this dream machine after working for whatever number of years why don't you the traffic is making sure you stay in your dream machine for a little longer what's your problem I am saying just about anything people are suffering so suffering is not happening because of something else it's simply because people do not know how to manage the body their mind their energies their emotion nothing because no attention has been paid no attention to the nature of who you are has not been paid so who you are who I am I question is internally entirely internalized question never to be uttered never to be written down and fortunately somebody printed it and the whole world is talking where my homei you oh this is okay if you are impatient if you are an impatient in your hands you ask Who am I that's allowed that's allowed if you are out on the street you are not allowed to ask Who am I you get me you've also talked to my other two questions in that yes yes yes I'm waiting for those where are you going there's only one way to find out you must go and see as I was saying just now some things are best known only by experience people want to know after my death what will happen I tell them you must know by experience I already know then don't worry wait where did I come from see essentially what you're asking is all three three questions put together you're asking what is the nature of my existence am i this body am i this am i dad what am i what is the nature because whichever way you look at it you can prove am that because for everything there is some substance you can prove yourself to a woman you can you say I'm not this I'm a human being you can say I'm just a piece of life you can say I'm God somebody may think you're something else this in pressure but for everything there is some substance so you can argue for it but that's not the point really what is the nature of your existence don't take this as some kind of a great philosophical or spiritual question please see it is a practical thing if you want to know how to use this camera well the more you know about it the better it is you agree with me hello similarly if you want to use this if you want to use this human being properly the more you know about it the better it is so self really really realization is a very practical thing not only satiric thing what you think is esoteric is all the things that you don't have an understanding of you want to make it easy so tarik or you want to make it mystical let's understand this word mysticism or mystical anything that you don't understand will look mystical to you isn't it suppose you don't know what's electricity you have no concept of that now I press something here boom lights come on very mystical for you isn't it see if I just had a light bulb a thousand years ago I could have claimed and God and it would have worked came too late you know so the more you know about it the better you will live this is not something that you seek at the end of your life this should be the first step of your life if you value your life yes yeah knowing this should be the first step of your life very beginning of your life this question should be asked can I tell your story please there was a bishop in the Greek Catholic order the Greek Orthodox Church believes they are the only real Christians others are not really Christians they think they are the only pure Christians others are not really that they have their own Pope in Istanbul so it became a very small group or a period of time for whatever reasons so being on the Silk Route many fantastic stories from India are wafting across the Bosphorus and these stories are going on about the mystics and the Yogi's and the magic of India which the Indians have scene and everybody else has seen so he always wanted to go to India but being a man of cloth he could not really choose where to go after 60 years of age when I when he semi-retired he got an opportunity and he came to southern India and he found the right kind of guides somebody told him you go up this mountain and they gave him the landmarks and here there's one yogi he is the right one to meet for you so he climbed up the mountain the man is not made for mountains you know mountains demand certain things from you so he went up and as they had said there was a yogi sitting in front of a cave let's doubt he went and he had heard that if you see a Indian yogi you have to prostrate but for that also you need something fitness this is a part of the Indian thing because that's the only exercise most Indians do so whatever you see you just bow down but now they've learnt a shortcut the idea is to touch the floor every time every time you keep doing it through the day it's a good exercise you don't have to spend extra time for exercise so he struggled and scraping himself and sat up all this commotion the yogi opened his eyes and smile so the bishop asked can I ask you a question yogi said by all means the bishop asked what is life this is after 60 the damn question you should have asked when you were six at least 16 you must have asked now 60 all right better late than never sometime you asked so when he asked this question what is life the yogi went into raptures and then he said life life is like the fragrance of jasmine upon gentle spring breeze the bishop looked like this what fragrance of jasmine on gentle spring breeze but our teacher told us life is like a thorn once it gets into you if you sit it hurts if you lie down it hurts if you stand up it hurts and you are saying it is fragrance of jasmine spring breeze and all this stuff the Yogi's smiled and said well that's his life so we have never paid attention to the most important dimension of who you are and you do not know life any other way than the way it happens within you right yes you are the only doorway to the existence for yourself you can only experience through this mechanism and no other way if you don't know this what the hell I do here and just because you know this people label you as a mistake as this is that and many people mispronounce it as a mistake you know what are the other things that you've talked about is you know the mind what and these are my words or what I've understood of what you've said you know what the mind believes the heart follows you know what is in the mind is in the heart in a sense if I've got it right unless I've got it wrong and you know because when you say that there is no difference between you know my I'm saying this but my heart is saying I'm talking about a metaphoric heart you a heart heart I am talking about metaphoric I'm not talking about okay no but I'm talking about metaphoric heart not the heart that is you know simply pumping there is something else you know which I've read some time back which says that you know you've got to search in your heart with your intellect so there are all these things which is about the mind and the heart and you know how you apply intelligence and perception to create awareness and I think you've talked about that a little bit would you elaborate for us you know the concept of intellect intelligence perception and you know how we can use that in our everyday lives this is a whole lot of enterprise going on in the world by complicating very simple aspects of life really if you complicate something with incomprehensible words and if you have a lot of words to do it then you will seem profound because anyway nobody can understand what the hell it is so searching your heart with your intellect the thing that you are referring to as your heart is generally the emotional side of you so you are separating what is thought and what is emotion let me ask you a simple question if you look at yourself carefully in your day-to-day activity you will notice this the way you think is the way you emote right now if I think you are such a wonderful person I will have sweet emotions towards you which I hope you're thinking this is not a confession if I have if I think she's horrible I'll have nasty emotions towards you right I cannot think you're wonderful and have nasty emotions towards you I cannot think you're horrible and have sweet emotions towards you it is impractical and it's not possible people act those things that it never works people I hate her but I'll be nice to her they will go like this and do like this have you seen this happening nice things have done in a horrible way it is happening in families among friends whatever nice things have done in such a horrible way if you want to do something horrible just do something horrible at least don't spoil the nice things in a horrible way so now the question is just this thought and emotion are the same or are the two different realms they are not thought is agile see today I can think right now I think you're wonderful too just next moment you did something I don't like I think you're horrible my thought immediately changes because he's agile but my emotion is happy it'll take three days it'll struggle and slowly turn around it has a larger turning ork but after three days it'll come my way for some people it's three days some people three months but they will turn around isn't it yes or no the way you think is the way you feel there is no other way it is also true the way you feel is the way you think also it depends which is more dominant in you in a person if emotion is forefront the way they feel is the way they think if thought is forefront the way they think is the way they feel you can't think one way and feel another way that only happens temporarily for some time but the emotion will catch up so Sadhguru what is a creative mind Oh how big an answer you want as big as you want it so the English word mind doesn't say anything because it's just one generic word which does not describe different dimensions of what the mind is mind is not just one something sitting here and doing something okay there is really no such thing as mind in the yogic culture there is no mind there is a physical body there is a mental body because what you're calling is mind right now is a certain combination of memory and intelligence there is memory in your body more memory in your body then you can imagine if I have to get it to again it's okay I'm picking on you you definitely don't remember how your great-great-great great-great grandmother looked like but her nose is sitting on your face right now yes you don't remember a thing consciously but your body remembers 100% how 10 generations ago your grandmother was your body still remembers a million years ago how your forefathers were you are still your body remembers isn't it it's not forgotten and it's not going to forget your mind is not capable of this kind of memory your body has a trillion times more memory than your so-called brain this whole shift towards the brain and intellectual process is a new is a European Meli's they gave too much significance to thought this has happened because they lived under a subjugated society religiously subjugated society where you're not supposed to think anything except what's written in some book otherwise you're dead they lived like this for a long time because of this when they got little freedom to think and manage to live they started celebrating their thought too much let's understand the context of thought you can only think from the data that you already have gathered that means you can never think anything new you can recycle it you can rehash it you can produce permutations and combinations of it but you cannot think something absolutely new it is not in the nature of the thought to come up with something new it can only recycle the past that means if you dedicate yourself to your thought process if you enshrine your thought process you are ensuring nothing new ever happens in your life so thought need not be celebrated like this that's why in this culture thought has never been given so much significant psychological drama we don't think much about that because it's your drama your drama is important for you somebody else's drama it's important for them everybody thinks their drama is the most important drama in the universe this is everybody's experience because they're so identified with their own psychological drama this cycle of psychological drama should not determine the nature of your life because this is just a small happening compared to the life process life is a much deeper intelligence than intellect we can look at the yogic system looks at the mind as sixteen parts those sixteen parts are further broken and they're taken up to 84,000 parts but now if I talk about 84,000 already this segment which says no so I will make it four I'm taking away 80 ok I'm being fair to you only for four fundamental parts one is the intellect which we have in modern world in today's world we are unnecessarily giving too much significance to intellect and we will pay an enormous price for this you will come to your place where you will know everything but you know nothing of life significance really today you will see this happening to children for the first time this generation you see 10 11 year old or 12 year old children they look bored when you were 10 11 you did not know what is boredom it was not possible just too exciting to be alive and looking around you will see 10 12 year-old children who are looking bored because they've seen the cosmos through their phone screen they know it all and especially in the Western countries you will see this happening at 8:10 they're really bored you will see in the school buses there are bored because by the time you are 12 you already had one love affair you know what is a break you know how to always recover from that you tasted alcohol you see in this probably you've gone into all kinds of physical things and you know the cosmos what more by the time you 15 there's really no purpose for you to exist for many of them you should not be surprised if this culture continues I am NOT saying this is a prediction it is something that I see beginning to happen in another 50 or 100 years time if 25 to 50 percent of the people commit suicide you should not be surprised because laugh needs some exuberance if too much information happens to you without experience that exuberance will be gone and a sense of false sense of knowing becomes so strong in you this is the danger of intellect because intellect once through intellect wants to dissect everything intellect is like a scalpel the sharper it is the better it is it wants to dissect and no dissection works with some things not with all aspects of life if you want to know the poor frog you know you remember the poor frog that you crucified and cut and great knowledge you acquired from all the torture is unbelievable how much knowledge you know for the torture that that frog went through how much knowledge you have acquired is quite unbelievable all that you got to know now you got interests you got interested the mother that you are ignored you want to know your mother today please get yourself a sharp knife start the dissection you may know everything about her liver kidney heart but you won't have a mother left that's all so life cannot be known by breaking it up you can know physical things by breaking it up you cannot know life by breaking it into pieces but this is the nature of the intellect the whole modern science has evolved from human intellect because it's produced technological benefits you can't argue against it because people you know yeah they pick the scientists they know nothing about science they just say enjoying their iPhone they think they're scientists because they can do this no technology is fine it's brought much comfort and convenience but it will not bring life to us so intellect is like this intellect will be useful only depending upon what it is identified with and what is held what holds this how steadily so the next dimension of the mind the first one is called as Budi which is the intellect the second and is called is ahankara ahankara does not mean ego this that it means the identity whatever you are identified with you intellect functions only around that simple if you just identify with the nation if you say I'm an Indian everything Indian looks beautiful if you cross the border and you say you're something else all that looks beautiful so whatever you are identified with it's only with that the intellect functions so ahankara is the identity how consciously and how steadily your ahankara has been created will determine the effectiveness of your intellect just because it's sharp it does not mean it will be effective because sharp intellect or a sharp knife can cause any amount of damage to you if you have a sharp knife and you don't have a steady hand you will cut yourself all over the place that's all that's happening human suffering is just this you don't know how to hold this intellect in your hand early everyday Oh cutting yourself sir all suffering isn't self-help because your own mind causing this to you all the time no matter what happens people suffer whichever way they suffer because they don't know how to hold this intellect if you had the mind of an earthworm you would be quite peaceful yes you're trying to do it in so many ways to reduce the sharpness of the intellect by drink by drug by overeating by doing all kinds of things somehow to take away the sharpness because the damn thing hurts it hurts not because that's its nature it hurts because you do not know how to hold it the next dimension of the mind is called as Manas which is a huge volume of memory it is not here or there entire body carries memory so manomaya kosha this is called a huge sack of memory this memories in various stacks will not go into all these details considering some people have clearly said it clear no they don't want to have a mind I'm sorry they don't want to know anything about the mind [Laughter] so the fourth dimension of the mind is called as Cheeta Cheeta means it's pure intelligence it is unsullied by memory it has no trace of any kind of memory it's just pure intelligence if you touch this then you have access to what you are referring to as the source of creation because all kinds of things might have been fed to you God is this God is love God is compassion God is kind whatever whatever somebody come stand on the edge of this stage say all the prayer you want to say and fall let me see whether compassion happens to you or a cracked bone happens to you I would like to check all right all these things have been made up because whatever somebody is deprived of they will attribute that quality to their idea of God your ideas of God have come only because you do not know what how this whole creation happened because you don't have an answer you made it up because your human being you said a big human being is sitting up there or how can you do all this if somebody asks he has ten hands so he does a lot of things not like you whatever it's all right for children but essentially because you do not know how creation happened you are coming up with explanations so that which is the source of creation don't believe what I say what anybody says pay attention to one piece of creation just take a flower pay attention to this pay attention to leave for an atom or an ant all you will see is phenomenal intelligence beyond anything you can imagine yes but nobody told you God is intelligence but this culture has said this to you in many ways they told you chewed Akasha chidambara and so many things to tell you if you touch your teeth the whole existence becomes yours everything that's worth knowing is right here because you have access to the source of creation so these are the four types of your four dimensions of your mind unfortunately the modern education things by just feel feeding information and keeping the intellect reasonably sharp everything is going to happen no you will rip this planet apart looking for wellbeing you may lose the planet or you may manage to go to another planet and start your work again there but well-being will not happen the well-being has to happen you have to dig a little deeper into this one otherwise [Music]

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Length: 33min 46sec (2026 seconds)

Published: Sat Mar 10 2018