[Sadhguru] Do you see this body -- as we have
been going through this again and again to the same point
when it was born it was so small, now it became this much. Definitely you didn't need any external stretching
help to get it to this size, isn't it? That which is the source of creation, what
you refer to as the creator seem to be functioning from within you. Isn't it so? Yes? The creator is functioning, that is... that
means the manufacturer of this body and this existence seems to functioning from
within you. If the manufacturer is inside if you allow
him to function, fixing small flaws in the body you think it'll
be a problem? So, Shambhavi Maha Mudra is just creating
a passage so that your innermost core functions. If you allow it to function the nature of
this - in yoga we refer to the your innermost core as the bliss body. People have always talked for ages that if
you come in contact with God you will become blissful, you know, Brahmanand? You know, they have been talking about this? See, it's different ways of presenting it. Your innermost core is referred to as bliss
body. Now, all we are trying to do is the physical
body, the mental body, the pranic body and the
etheric body we are aligning it in such a way so that
the innermost core within you, the bliss body finds expression. The Shambhavi is not creating ecstasy. The Shambavi is just aligning these four so
that this one, the source of creation finds expression. If the source of creation within you, the
creator finds expression, fixing your heart, liver or kidney you think
it's a big problem? Manufacturer, when he comes out and begins
to function everything is fixed. You will see miraculously health will become
okay. I can show you thousands and thousands
of people who come out of their ailments just like that, like a miracle. Is it a miracle? Anything that you don't understand you will
call it a miracle, isn't it? Suppose you don't know what is electricity
and I tell you 'you just watch this, I am going to press that wall and this hall
will be flooded with light' would you believe me? You won't believe me. You will say 'No, such things are not possible.' Now, if I press it and suddenly there is light
everywhere, now you think either I am son of God,
messenger of God or God Himself depending upon which culture you come from, isn't it? Anything that you don't understand is a miracle
in your understanding. Either there is no miracle in life, everything
happens between cause and effect or everything is a miracle. Isn't this life a miracle? You and me sitting here on this round planet
which is going at a tremendous speed, is it not a miracle? We sitting here and talking all this nonsense? Is it not a miracle? [Audience] Yes. [Sadhguru] So, if you look at it, if you have
eyes to see, everything is a miracle or nothing is a miracle. These are two ways to approach life; these
are two forms of yoga. One is to see everything as sacred; another
is to see everything as utter nonsense but now your problem is what you like is sacred,
what you don't like is nonsense, that's a problem, that's a trap. Everything is sacred; this is the beautiful
way to live. Everything is nonsense; that is also a very
beautiful way to live. What... these people are sacred, these people
are nonsense - this will destroy you. (Sadhguru): If we want to live well,
both externally and internally – how well we live here
simply depends on how well we manage our surroundings and how well we manage ourselves. Fundamentally, life is management. (Laughs)
If you don’t know how to maintain your body, your mind, your emotion, your situations,
your life in general – your home, your communities, nations and the
world The quality of our life is just
how well we manage things with ourselves, but generally we are thinking of management,
we a’re applying ourselvesto management only in terms of business management or industry
management or… generally we are talking management
only with economic situations, not life as a whole. Anywhere you go today, people are talking,
‘Stress Management.’ Especially a few years ago when I first went
to United States, wherever I go people were talking, ‘Stress
Management’. I could not understand
why anybody wants to manage his stress. I can understand you want to manage your business,
your finance, your family, your property, whatever,
but why would you want to manage stress? It took me a while to understand these people
have come to the conclusion that there is no other way to live. Somehow people have come to the conclusion
that if you do things in the world you’re bound to be stressful. One is not stressful because of what they
are doing; one is stressful because he is a bad manager
of himself. He doesn’t know how to manage his own systems,
that is why he is stressful. It is not the nature of the job which makes
one stressful, you ask a peon,
he is also stressful, you ask the top executive, he is also stressful. Everybody believes their job is stressful. No job is stressful. If you have no control over your own systems,
you will be stressful. Whether you do something or you don’t do
anything. Isn’t it so? See, management means
fundamentally management means we want to decide the course of our destiny. That’s management, isn’t it? We don’t want to live here by accident,
we want to take our lives where we want it to go, that’s management. Isn’t it so? If you are managing by accident, you’re
not a manager, without you things would run better. So once you say, ‘I’m a manager,’
that means somewhere you have decided that you want to go in a particular way,
you want to have a certain kind of situation - both inward and outward. So everybody is a manager in his own capacity,
but in different levels and different types. Whether you manage a kitchen where you cook
for four people or you manage a large industry where 10,000
people work, fundamentally if you want to have a good kitchen
or a good industry, you must be a good manager of that situation,
isn’t it? So whether you’re managing a little kitchen
or a large industry, if you want to manage outside situations,
generally you will have to manage material and people around you. If you have to manage 10 people or 10,000
people around you, you have to manage 10 minds or 10,000 minds
around you, but if you have no management over your own
mind, you managing 10,000 minds is going to be a
disaster. In the process of doing something,
if we are destroying human beings – which is happening right now;
in the process of managing a situation the man is broken,
then this kind of management is no good, because after all every management that we
do is only for human well-being. If we are doing management for human well-being,
in the process of doing something, in the process of managing situations,
it is not only about producing something or making profit,
human beings should rise to their full potential. If we manage a situation properly,
in simple process of working, you and the people who are working with you
should be able to raise to their full potential. When I say ‘rising to full potential’,
not just work potential, but as human beings they must be able to rise
to their full potential. If people work together, then people should
be able to rise to the peak of their love, peace, compassion
within themselves. If this doesn’t happen,
then it’s bad management because all management – the basic intent
is human well-being. If that is not happening,
you are just producing something, you are making little profit,
but human beings are getting broken in the process,
it doesn’t mean anything. So if this kind of management has to happen,
that just in managing a business you find people around you raise to their peak,
then you have to spend a certain amount of time
in focusing on your inner management. If this doesn’t happen, you will only manage
situations by accident. Lot of people have understood management
as a way of throwing their weight around. Can I tell you a joke? Are you okay? On a certain day, a lion was really feeling
great within himself. He just was walking and a little rabbit was
going, he caught him and roared at him,
‘Who is the king of the jungle?’ The little rabbit, terrified, said,
‘You, you, of course you!’ He let him go, swaggered around a little bit,
then he found a fox, caught him, ‘Who is the king of the jungle?’ ‘Oh my Lord, it’s you of course, nobody
else but you!’ Then he swaggered around a little bit,
caught a few more animals, everybody screamed out of fear,
‘You are the king of the jungle!’ Then he was in full swagger, like a manager,
king of the jungle, (Laughs) walked into a clearing in the jungle,
there there was a huge tusker standing. He went, stood in front of him and asked,
‘Who is the king of the jungle?’ The tusker took his trunk, rolled him up,
picked him up, twirled him around, smashed him to the ground. His back broke. Then the lion said, ‘You could have just
told me.’ (Laughter & applause)
But the tusker said, '‘You see, I had to make my point.’' So lot of people generally are thinking
management means just throwing their weight around. Throwing your weight around is not management,
any fool can do that. Now as there is a science,
as there is a management science for external well-being,
there is a management science for inner well-being. It is just that most of the time we have not
approached it scientifically, we a’re just believing by doing something
somehow everything will be okay. Right now people are thinking
by educating themselves they will live happily ever after,
which you will discover after some time, it’s not so. By getting a job, they think they’re going
to be happy ever after, which you will discover it is not so. By making money you think you’re going to
be happy ever after, you will discover it is not so. Somebody thinks by getting married they’re
going to be ever after and they know it is not so. So you a’re trying to somehow fool yourself
into believing that by doing something, everything will be okay. Though repeatedly it has let you down, still
you believe that something else,
some other miracle will make everything okay. It’ will not be okay. I would like you to understand there is a
whole science of inner management. If you don’t learn that,
you may manage businesses, you may manage industry,
but still you will not live a life of fulfillment and well-being. If you want to live a life of fulfillment
and well-being and offer the same to people around you,
it’s extremely important you know what it means to manage your interiority
