Sadhguru- you are an act, not an actor

sadhguru you mentioned before that you're simply an act and that there is no actor left then who is it that's drunk or feeling the Bliss of Samadhi why do you think people drink people drink alcohol because they have a hope that it will completely dissolve them and they will know an absolute sense of abandon that's why the drink people who cannot even sing in their bathrooms will start singing and dancing on the street with a few drops of alcohol because only the act is left the actor has receded not gone receded one who was a big man has become if not a child at least a small boy they begin to think act speak like little boys once they're drunk even old men so that means the actor is receding I'm using decent language otherwise I should say you're retarding retardation is a bad word only retardation is half done if your retardation is total that means nothing is left growth means going up to means to go backwards if you are half way backward it's a problem if you all the way gone no problem so if the actor is gone if it's all just an act who gets drunk to be drunk also as an act if when you say life there are so many ways to look at it one way is what you call is life is a complex chemical activity without chemistry there's no life so if you can call such a large act chemical act as just an act why can't you call a licky extra chemistry of drink also as an act so being drunk also is an act being blissful is also an act anyway it is your act why don't you do the right act that's all I'm asking you maybe you have already heard me saying this it happened one day a lady who's little over her prime went to bed and in her sleep she had a dream in her dream a real hunk of a man was looking intently at her and started coming towards her closer closer closer he came really close she could even feel his breath she trembled not in fear and asked what will you do to me the man said well lady it's your dream after all it's your act it's your thought it's your emotion you can make it anything you want now behind this is there a substantial actor No because an actor within you the one who acts or one who propels this act is just an accumulated creation it is a massive accumulations which makes you into your person this is what traditionally we are referring to as karma it is a whole karmic accumulation of information which makes you into a certain kind of person with certain kind of tendencies it is this accumulation which you are calling as myself that is the actor if the actor already has certain tendencies certain quality certain limitations certain possibilities the act will also be limited if there is no actor with any particular quality with any kind of accumulation with any kind of compulsive tendencies within himself now the act can be played whichever way you want now is there any one place where we can locate this person will dissection or contemplation will ever locate this person who calls himself myself or me there is no such person anywhere the actor is also an act it just that you get so identified with the act that both the act and the actor seemed to be so real more real than real what you call as myself right now is essentially a psychological process it is not an existential process what is psychological is not a reality it is only a happening it is only a certain resultant activity because of a certain gathering of information certain type of thought and emotional processes happening if you take away wipe out the information there will be no such activity the flower is real the fragrance is also real but it is a resultant activity because there is a flower fragrance is happening if you remove the flower the fragrance lingers only for a certain period of time and then it's gone only if that source is on it is there and flower is also very limited happening so psychological activity is sustained only as long as the necessary information is there and psychological activity becomes a compulsive force only when you're deeply identified with what you have gathered if you are not identified with what you have gathered now still the act goes on but there is no actor behind it because it is only the identity which makes you the actor if there is no identity there is really no actor this is the reason why you cannot even locate yourself because you don't exist I know that I do not exist I know that I do not exist you think you exist now is this all some kind of wonky wonky talk just to confuse the hell out of us how can I confuse you your orderly already thoroughly confused about your existence I wish I could do the job but you done it already there's no chance for me I would like to confuse you but you have not left anything to me you done it very well there is not much to confuse only because one is so confused about his own existence he can be made to believe just about anything just about anything when you're as confused as you are about the very nature of your existence even if you go to a palm reader he may charge only 10% of the fee because anyway you're such a lost case now when I say a lost case not in terms of your life or your business or your family you may make it all all these things you may conduct them pretty well I'm saying you as a being because your very being here is a make-believe happening it is just a gathered existence does it mean to say I have no soul yes you have both of them intact I'm sure is there something inside me no there is nothing inside you when I say there is nothing inside you yes there is nothing inside you maybe you must put a hyphen between know one thing there is a no thing it is not an actor it is not this nor that it is not it it is as small as it can be as anything can be and it is asked bandless as anything can be so it didn't it neither is or isn't it is not the way you understand life it is not the way you perceive existence right now because your perception of existence is purely physical it doesn't fit into that realm at all it is very natural for you to understand if there is an act there is an actor even yesterday there was a poem the dance there's a dancer that's not how it is that was yesterday that was a first satsang so is this just one big act it is it is so is it all illusion it is but the illusion is real just before the home school closed a few young boys came up to me and asked Satguru his life real or is it a dream their words were his life true or is it a dream I said life is a dream but the dream is true now are we just playing with more and more words not trying to get anywhere going in circles so if everything is just a dream if everything is unreal then enlightenment is also unreal no if so much unreality is there there is also reality and that reality is neither the act nor the actor it doesn't belong to the land of duality it doesn't belong to the dimension of duality so it is neither the actor nor the act it is not of any quality if there was a attribute to it if there was a quality to it you could have called it either the act or the actor because it doesn't describe to any quality it doesn't have any attribute attached to it you cannot call it the actor you cannot call it the act it is the landscape on which everything happens actors and act happens in the landscape or who you are please see your personality and all the act that you perform all happens in a larger consciousness which is just a landscape behind it is just an empty scape it is not even a landscape it is just an empty scape on which you can do anything you want you can run a small act with one actor or you can run a phenomenal act with a million actors you can run whatever you want because it's an empty scape and it's a boundless cape it's up to you what kind of act you want to put on it's up to you what kind of act you want to build because a large part of both the actor and the act happens in such unconsciousness and it is compulsive because of the compulsiveness you think it's real not only real it is happening from somewhere else it is not happening from anywhere else this empty scape of nothingness is capable of accommodating accommodating any kind of actor and any kind of act that's why it's your choice you can become godlike you can become like a demon you can become anything you want because it's an empty scape it is like once it happened in a business meeting the head of that institution came and put up a large white sheet and went there and drew a little dot black dot and he asked everybody what do you see they all looked at it and said it's a dot somebody said it's a spot somebody said it's a full-stop somebody said it's a period this that he went on asking what do you see what do you see they got frustrated okay man it's a black dot what about it you want us to give a million meanings to it and if this is the problem the problem why all of us are operating the way we are operating right now is we missed the whole empty scape behind it our focus is on the little dot right now what you call as creation is just a tiny dot in an immeasurable empty scape whether you look this way or you look that way you see only a large empty scape nothing else what is what you call as creation what you call is happening what you call as act or the actor is just a spot rest is all an empty scape because the nature of existence is such today modern science is proving this to you that time and space can be packed today modern physics proves to you that the whole universe can be packed into something smaller than an atom today modern physics proves that to you that the whole universe exploded from a tiny dot and became a whole universe this is called as the Big Bang this Big Bang is continuously expanding still one day it may so happen the physical theory say a Big Crunch may happen that everything may get crushed into a tiny little dot once again so what you know as space and time what is here and there what is now and then this is the act all the act happens because there is space and time and this space and time doesn't really exist it's the projection of your mind so both the act and the actor is your creation when I say your creation so is there one more actor behind the actor you're not in that sense it is a non acting process it is escape of nothingness a non scape but it is capable of containing every kind of an act that you wish people are doing this out of illness schizophrenic means somebody becomes too inside one there have been cases where a single person is living up to 32 different personalities within himself full-scale personalities with relationships life everything that is the maximum recorded in modern psychology but there have been Yogi's who have lived hundreds of lives within themselves because it's an empty scape you can write as much as you want it's never going to become full you don't have to fear that generally it is happening out of sickness but if you are conscious also it can happen you can draw very complex act or you can draw a simple act it's up to you because anyway it's an empty scape the idea of an inner inner actor is just an illusory idea but right now it seems to be real because we are identified with simple things that we have gathered anything that you touch you get identified with it so it looks all real so to be drawn to be blissful to be miserable to be in ecstasy to be Naga knee you don't need an actor nor do you need an act you can simply go through all these things because that's the act look into whatever you want it's after all yours right whatever you want you want to draw a beautiful picture or an ugly picture it's up to you or you want to have a line drawing or you want to have a detailed painting it's up to you so when I say that I'm just an act I'm just being straight about it you are pretending to be real yes sadhguru when you say everything in existence is just energy from the grass to the subtle it suggests a completely impersonal reality does the realm of the personal all it's love it's poetry it's lunacy its rage its beauty mean nothing at all ultimately does that mean there is no connection at all between the psychological and the existential so someone is really very dearly attached to all the things around them I don't want to destroy it if you love your life so much why should I take it away I don't want to take it away but unfortunately that well I am not dead I am just a reminder I am NOT the Angel of Death I'm just reminding you anyway it's going to happen it's better to be aware that it's going to happen all these things that you're talking about what are those things your love your it's love it's poetry it's lunacy particularly lunacy love if I talk about it I'll become unpopular poetry maybe that's okay because not many people read poetry lunacy I cannot touch that because that is a universal phenomenon so what is there left for me is there anything on its rage its beauty okay maybe there's some things we can talk about rage not everybody has rage because it takes lot of energy to be in rage someone said this probably take whoever you heard of check you might not have heard of him but most probably you've seen his picture because lots of young people have his picture on their t-shirts almost everywhere on the planet these days people don't know who he is they think he's a rock star or something it wasn't he was a revolutionary who became a phenomenon at a certain time in the 70s and 80s he became a great phenomena around the world but somehow those t-shirts are still selling even today everywhere cherri everest t-shirts are continuing to selling all over the planet so che said if you are outraged you're with us so someone who is a fan of Che went on repeating this to me then I said though or that's what Jay said but please listen what I have to say if you're out of rage you are with me now you even get attached to all the things you suffer that's the problem your lunacy is not something that you enjoy if it's on a mild scale you think it is giving you an extra dimension of character when your lunacy is on a mild scale you think it's giving your little freakish character it enhances you because otherwise nobody would notice you now because of your lunacy people are noticing you taking note of you the lot of people that's the only way they can get attention lunacy has its benefits when you play it on a mild scale if it picks up momentum then you had it once it picks up momentum then you really had it because that becomes the ultimate suffering on the planet is mental mental illness if you do not know this if you become genetic if you lose this this is the ultimate suffering we always thought that if one becomes mad there is no suffering it is not true the deepest form of suffering happens to you when you become mentally ill all forms of suffering are actually different levels of mental illness really it's happening on mild scale if it goes beyond a certain point then it is called illness it is just that small scale yoona see you enjoy every day you go into it for five minutes and come back you think it's giving you an added character one day you went there and you could not come back then people say you're mad no more an interesting character you're mad so all these things that you're talking about you love your poetry your lunacy your rage all these things are just different manifestations of your mind which you understand that's why the question is the psychological completely divorced from the existential you please tell me yourself look at your own psychological activity and see where is it coming from the information that you have gathered may be partly exist gential but everything that happens within you is purely psychological and the information that you're gathering through the five senses today is scientifically proved it is not the way it really is nothing that you see hear smell taste and touch is actually the way it is modern physics is out to do this already it has done it in a big way modern neuroscience s is completely demolishing your ideas of life not dwelling upon the scientific part of it experience if you look at it in your mind every day you can create a new process if you're willing you're actually doing this today you're in ashram it is a spiritual act you go somewhere it is another kind of act you can do whatever you want with this but the existential is just the way it is nothing has changed about it Shankaran Pillai joined the Medical College it is a five year course but because he was so thorough about everything it was already 10 years and still they had not released him then one day he went to the library and looked at the anatomy book the same anatomy book that people were studying 40 50 years ago the Grey's Anatomy he's still in OGG so he had read this to three Anatomy books that were there because he's been there for ten years he went to the librarian and said I'm fed up with this isn't there somebody writing something new the librarian said well in the last ten years you've been here not a single bone has been added to the human system so they haven't written anything new your mind the psychological dimension of who you are is constantly looking for variety and creating new new things on a daily basis it obviously has nothing to do with existential because the existential has always been the same that is why the psychological decided something that is same all the time must be naturally boring and that is why life has completely bypassed you right now the question is coming because the only thing that is valuable in your life is your psychological process you would not like to see that it is all rubbish definitely you would not like to see that it's all rubbish so now the question arises if you rubbish my lunacy you miss rubbish my love also if you rubbish my rage you must rubbish my devotion also yes it is all rubbish but right now that's all you have so at least create some wonderful kind of rubbish because you have to employ this if you want to go beyond does the psychological have anything to do with the existential if it had anything to do if it had anything at all to do then it wouldn't be something that you gathered it would have been a part of you but right now the whole psychological process is the gathered process does it mean to say that the psychological has no meaning it has it is just like we wear these clothes one thing it covers our body another thing it can decorate us another thing it can be a statement of who you are a million other things you can do with these clothes but also if you don't wish you can discard this right now so I'm not I'm not saying only the psychological even the physiological has nothing to do with the reality so the psychological does it have any value at all it's just like does your clothes have any value at all as long as you're alive as long as you live in a society it has a value and a meaning the meaning is contextual it all depends in what context you are here what kind of clothing I'm wearing is meaningful if I'm in the middle of nowhere somewhere in a desert now whether I wear my clothes or do not wear my clothes has no meaning so the psychological is just like this it has contextual meaning if you want to be in a certain place you need to maintain your psychology in a certain way because it has no meaning if you let it flow all over the place then they send you to a certain place if you do not create a meaningful psychological process somebody else will decide where you should be so in that context it is important I am NOT saying it has no value in your life it is extremely valuable what kind of psychological process you carry within yourself right now in that context your love your poetry I like both them but you lunacy I think we could do without it I could do without it I see a lot of it every day so the psychological process is created by you it is your creation the existential is not your making it is the creator's creation you enjoy the psychological there is no problem but if you get lost in the psychological then you will completely miss miss the existential if you get too enamored by your own creation you will totally miss the creator's creation are they connected you cannot exist here without the psychological the existential is not your doing there's nothing to do about it it's dead the psychological is your creation so you can make it happen the way you want it it can be a hundred percent conscious process you can have it or pull it back you can throw it out or you can pull it back aren't you doing this all the time today you love this person tomorrow it's all wrapped up and kept inside isn't this happening so your psychological you can throw it out if you wish or roll it back if you want and you can either have it going within yourself or you can just put it off if you have the choice if you really have kept the choice with yourself as to what happens in the sphere of the psychological is your conscious choice psychological is also a beautiful garden if you have lost control over it then you may call it love you may call it poetry you may call it rage but it is just that one word which you said it's just lunacy once it is no more a conscious process it has just become a lunacy so if your psychological process is in that state then we call you a tic a lunatic it's connection with existential is more as a stepping stone it has nothing to do but you can use the psychological either to go into lunacy or into freedom you can use it to become absolutely compulsive or to become conscious it is a device and it's you're making especially because it's you're making you must make it the way you want otherwise what's the point Sadhguru I have tasted many times something of the beyond but still I get stuck in many small petty issues how do I overcome this and always maintain equilibrium so you have tasted the beyond let now petty things still entangle you so if you have tasted it for a moment just for one moment if you know that there is something beyond what you think and feel if that has become a real thing for you even for a moment then you must invest your life to put that yes I'm trying to but petty things carry me away that is essentially because this happened George Bernard Shaw had a friend who was an actor he was a pretty inflated person so one day Bernhard Shah went into the backstage to meet him so this friend was very tenderly touching his own clothes and adjusting his tie patting himself down looking in front of the mirror standing in a full-length in front of the full-length mirror so burnish I looked at him and said you are truly in love with yourself aren't you the best part of this piece in the whole planet you don't have a single rival so your little falling in love with yourself that is why either even though the taste of the beyond is somewhere on your tongue you still can get entangled because your little becoming inflated personality your little in love with yourself is it wrong nothing wrong it's just called madness because love is an effort love is a longing to include something as a part of yourself love is a process love is a possibility where you you could become larger than who you are you could become more than what you are by inclusion now if you wear low in your own self love now this is going against all the popular teaching people have been telling you first you must love yourself before you love anybody if you cannot love yourself how can you love anybody if you say I want to love myself now you are heading towards kids of ethnic condition now you're creating two-in-one if you want to ensure that you never go insane the first and foremost step that you need to take is you take away all divisions and you see this is an individual an individual means he cannot be further divided he is indivisible you cannot divide him anymore this is one entity you can't make it into two if you make it into two I love myself now you are heading towards madness first step has been taken if life situations cooperate you will get there quick if life situations don't create that situation for you you may manage within socially accepted Lauer's of that madness so the reason why even if divine touches your tongue even if the taste of the divine is there on your tongue you can still get entangled is simply self love it is a sure step first step towards madness whether you're going to get there to the asylum status or you will get only to the ashram status is subject to many things but this happened to a man he wanted to enroll himself in a college so he saw a big building and walked in there they had registration forms he filled up everything he signed and when he went to the official to give it to be enrolled in the college the official said but this is not a college this is an asylum then the man said but no I wanted to join a college but the official said no this is an asylum then a man thought but I've already filled my registration form so what difference I will join up not much difference I will join the asylum what's the big difference the official agreed yes not much difference but there is one difference what is it here unless you show improvement we won't let you get out so arsalan is just a Sanskrit word an English word will be too insulting so Ashwin because with the taste of the divine on your tongue you're trying or you have the necessary foolishness in you to fall in love with something so limited which you call as myself that is a sure sign of madness that is definitely a sure sign of madness if you had never tasted it then this is all you know that's okay because you don't know anything better and the taste of the divine is still lingering and you're getting entangled with something so limited as your personality that is definitely a sign of madness there is no question about it you are in such a state of madness you're doomed even an astrologer will charge you half price because when your destiny is so doomed there's nothing much to protect you know it's easy really it's very easy don't but all this talk don't get depressed should I be an optimist or a pessimist on the spiritual path an optimist a pessimist and a realist were at the breakfast table an optimist there was a closed picture I mean a dish a container and the optimist tears looked at it and said please pass me the cream our pessimist looked at him and said please pass me the milk a realist said please pass me the pizza so if you're an optimist you will be misled if you're a pessimist you'll be misled so when you're down I up you when you're up i down you because I want you to be realized only one who is in contact with reality will grow others Optimus will hallucinate please' mist will get depressed both will not get anywhere you have to be a realist you're willing to see everything the way it is no hype no depression you just where it is most important extremely important so when I see you in a high I put cold water on you when you see you're low I set fire to you don't think I'm playing with you I'm just trying to bring you down to reality you go off this way you're going away if you go out this way you're going away we need you in reality only in reality you grow growth is possible only in reality it's the exist tension which can transcend the psychological whatever it does transcendence is also empty transgender is also transcendence is also false in the psychological there is no such thing as transcendence in the psychic psychological sphere of your life transcendence has to be exist tential because it is in the existential that your process of essential process of life is rooted in what is happening in your mind your thought on your emotion or psychological they are just a small of offshoot of life it's not life right now it may be keeping you fully engaged your thought and your emotion may be keeping you fully engaged right now but it is just a small offshoot of life it is not life you can think what you want even if you're fast asleep you still life in fact you're more life when there is no psychological activity if you have known a few moments of what you call as beyond those were few moments where you were free from the psychological those few moments of freedom from the psychological you are more present than ever years of living a few moments where you are free from the psychological process were the most significant moments of presence in your life so that little taste that you have known you must invest your life in that direction not what you thought say not what your emotions say your emotions and thoughts can say whatever they want they will say one thing today tomorrow morning they'll change their opinion they're just like the local gossip it keeps shifting it keeps shifting what people are talking about today and what they're talking about tomorrow similarly in your mind whatever your thought process is whatever your emotional process is is just local gossip very localized to you enjoy it if it's nice but don't believe it if you like the gossip you enjoyed gossip is for entertainment you don't start your spiritual process and gossip you don't start anything that really matters and gossip gossip is just for entertainment and if the taste is divine if the taste of the divine has come to you then you will see entertainment doesn't mean anything suddenly entertainment doesn't mean anything at all to you because all entertainment looks too stale and ridiculous or one was tasted the real thing I'm not talking about coca-cola across this are you becoming too pessimistic the talk is rendering you too pessimistic oh you always have been that's not a problem so there was a French artist who did not have a single franc in his pocket but one day he decided to go to or Swank restaurant and ordered oysters one plate two plates three plates very expensive food because he was an optimist he was just hoping in one of the oysters he'll find a pearl that's dangerous fennel being a pessimist you will become depressed being an optimist you will become a fool to be balanced to be realized to be able to recognize the real and it comes to you is very important

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Length: 59min 50sec (3590 seconds)

Published: Sat Nov 21 2015