This is WHY You're Suffering! | Going Beyond the Intellect | Sadhguru

for so many human beings this mind has become a misery manufacturing machine once you above the intellectual process suffering is finished in your life because all suffering is manufactured there in your logical mind when you are into your intellect when you are stuck in your intellect you are a Non-Stop suffering human being suffering is not inevitable suffering is self created this moment you can make anything out of yourself you can make joy out of yourself you can make suffering out of [Music] yourself so we need to understand this people are coming to conclusions by looking at certain limitations for example you know the Psychiatry and other things people like frud they have come to many conclusions about Humanity which are utterly nonsensical it is just that because they studied only sick people they never got to study a Buddha isn't it they studied only mentally sick people with that they're making conclusions about whole Humanity it's not so now if you can create suffering you cannot also create something else isn't it do you see who you are whatever you may think you are right now your personality your identifications all these things are fine but fundamentally if you really alert and listening to me you cannot sit here as a man or a woman you can only sit here as a certain Life Energy isn't it yes if you're aware I a man I am a woman that means you're not here totally do you see your big identities just fall off so easily if you don't pay attention to it they fall off if you get focused on something else they fall off so people are trying to experience this in many ways playing a game jumping off a mountain singing a song dancing doing this falling in love with somebody these are all different ways that people are trying to get involved in something to such a point that they can forget all the other nonsense that they have created yes but none of these things can you sustain for 24 hours of the day now we are exploring a technology where you don't have to do anything and still be that way because if a certain state of being is related to a certain activity nobody can maintain that activity 24 hours of the day isn't it any kind of activity whether it is playing or singing or dancing or music or love or meditation you cannot manage it for 24 hours of the day it's not possible not practical isn't it so that means if you can create something for one moment so you're able to create a certain sense of freedom from suffering for one moment if you create one moment can't you create one more moment can't you create one more one more and one more and one more that's the way you create your life fortunately moments don't come at you in bunches they're coming only one at a time isn't it are they coming in bunches only one at a time if you know how to make this moment Blissful you can live blissfully isn't it now suffering please look at it and see people are capable of suffering just about anything is it so people are suffering their well-being people are suffering their illness people are suffering loneliness people are suffering togetherness is it so people are suffering poverty people are suffering affluence is it so people are suffering discomfort people are suffering Comfort is it so so they are capable of suffering anything so obviously they are creating suffering yes if you look at yourself this life energy which you call as myself sometimes has been very Blissful has it been joyful and Blissful at certain times sometimes it's been absolute turmoil sometimes peaceful sometimes Agy sometimes ecstasy has it gone through all this so it is capable of finding all these various Expressions so if it is capable of all this if only if you had little Mastery over your life energies what would you instruct your life energies to be misery or joy joy so people who have no control over their systems they're talking suffering is inevitable no suffering is not inevitable suffering is self created if you are aware if you take your body into control if you just have little Mastery over your body at least 15 to 25 30% of your life and Destiny will be in your hands please see just your body physical Mastery is it so if you take your mind into control if you have Mastery over your mind 40 to 60% of your life will be in your control if you take your life energies into your control 100% of your destiny will be in your control the very way you live and the Very way you die will be decided by you I know the Eastern Minds have also absorbed this in a horribly distorted way but right now if you told your friend or your relative I'm going to the asham for 3 days they would become very kind towards you and ask why what went wrong something must be wrong with your life you're going to the asham to heal a wound to Solace yourself something must be really wrong with your life or you must be too old for Life otherwise why would you go to an Asam so this has crept into this culture also essentially if you are alive only in parts or if you're partially alive to be partially alive to be partially alive is a terrible torture many of you have been through these science classes I'm sure you opened up frogs and cockroaches did you they were nice Lively beings but you open them up because you wanted to find their heart and liver and kidney half alive being half alive is torture have you seen this always being half alive is torture this is the torture that a large segment of humanity is going through right now because they're half alive only one part of them has become alive only their physicality and mentality has become alive the rest of it is yet to become alive half aive people will suffer everything they will suffer ignorance they will suffer education they will suffer poverty they will suffer affluence they will suffer being alone they will suffer being in a relationship if they're not married they suffer if they're married they they if they don't have children they suffer that as if children if they are there they can come and bite you they do no children what are you suffering but that also they suffer just show me one thing that human beings are not suffering right now just show me one aspect of life that human beings are not suffering right now they're suffering just about anything not just life they're even suffering death before it happens that which is and that which is not everything they suffer you are not suffering loneliness you are not suffering company you are not suffering money you are not suffering poverty what you're suffering is you're half alive you desper L trying to make yourself fully Alive through money through drink through sex through going on a track coming to the asham in so many ways you're somehow trying to make yourself fully Alive which is yet to happen fully here and there you feel a burst of aliveness but again it ABS down so when people are constantly half alive pleasure becomes an imp important part of your life very important part of your life without it you cannot exist pleasure becomes Paramount in your life when you're only half alive when physicality is all that you know pleasure Becomes of immense importance in your life if you become fully Alive you will become so Blissful joyful ecstatic without reason bursts of ecstasy without Within You Without any reason it's almost embarrassing now the thought of pleasure just evaporates looking for a drink looking for some kind of pleasurable thing just evaporates out of your mind because you're fully alive when you're fully Alive pleasure disappears when you're half dead pleasure is an important important thing you know Charles doin you heard of Charles doin 200 years ago born but about 150 years ago he said you were all monkeys not me I'm not saying that he said that you were all monkeys your tail fell away you became human you know the story when you were a monkey you did not aspire to be human nature just pushed you on you did not choose but once you become human if you want to evolve from here on you have to consciously evolve otherwise there is no other way when I say you have to consciously evolve what you call as human is not an established state it's a flux this moment you can be Godlike next moment you can be a brute you have seen with yourself This Moment you're wonderful next moment you're nasty next moment you're beautiful next moment you're ugly is this not happening to you so a human is not a being he's a becoming he's an ongoing process nothing is fixed you can be whichever way you want to be this Freedom that you have that you're not fixed like every other creature on this planet if you're aware this is the greatest benediction because you can make yourself whatever you want if you're unaware this is the greatest curse humanity is right now suffering this Freedom humanity is not suffering bondage as people are saying humanity is suffering its freedom if your life was also fixed like every other creature you would have gone about without any stress you didn't have to do your isn't it isn't it so if your life was fixed like every other creature on this planet you wouldn't be stressed only because it is not fixed you can be anything you want anything just about anything can happen in your mind this is why the stress isn't it see suppose a tiger is born a tiger is not sitting and worrying how to become a good tiger just get enough food he will become a good tiger he's not worried will I become a good tiger will I end up as a house cat no such problems you born as a human being but still how many things you have to do to be a good human being and still you don't know where you belong isn't it only in comparison with somebody you can say compared to this person I'm little better by yourself you don't know where you belong isn't it so isn't it so because what is human is not an established state it is a possibility it is not a fixed state if this possibility has to be made use of there is a whole system of understanding that needs to happen understanding the mechanics of how this life functions and what we can do with it this mechanics this technology this science we are referring to as yoga you have heard of a word called Buddha if I say budha probably you always think of GA the budha ga is not the only Buddha that's not his name he became a Buddha there have been thousands of Buddhas and they still are what Buddha means is BU means buddhi or the intellect the means d one who is above one who is above his intellect is a Buddha once you're above the intellectual process suffering is finished in your life because all suffering is manufactured there in your logical mind when you're are into your intellect when you are stuck in your intellect you are a Non-Stop suffering human being wherever you put you have a way of creating some kind of suffering your fears your anxieties your tensions your stress just see people are capable of suffering just about anything yes isn't it so people are capable of suffering just about anything in the world please see this is the nature of the intellect once you into the intellect this is how life is if you are below the intellect you won't suffer so much animals don't suffer as much as you suffer physical things if they're taken care of they're quite okay they don't have the kind of suffering that human beings know isn't it so if you below the intellect you don't suffer so much if you're above the intellect you are a Buddha if you're below the intellect maybe we can call you buddu if you're in the intellect non-stop suffering So to avoid suffering people are inventing many ways to go below the intellect excessive [Music] eating alcohol indul you know excessive Indulgence in physical Pleasures these are all the ways you trying to avoid the torment of the intellect for some time you get drunk and you feel good for a few hours but then life will catch up with you with more intensity it won't let you go now this being which was below the intellect somehow evolved into the intellect the only way out for this is to evolve beyond the intellect so the fundamentals of yoga the technology is how to go beyond this so how to do it now subjective Technologies cannot be exploded in uncommitted atmospheres you need a very committed focused atmosphere otherwise it will not be in your grasp it's not a teaching it's a method to implement a method you need to be in a certain way in a certain level of commitment in a certain level of receptivity otherwise it doesn't work because see now if you go into your Chemistry laboratory you take this chemical this chemical if you put it into it something happens but if you're not willing to put it into it if you sit here and think and think and think what will what will this do what will that do you will come come to all kinds of wrong conclusions till you put it there you won't know maybe it'll explode in your face but till you put it there you will not know what it is about but now you are the chemical you are the chemist and you are the experimental process everything is you now you need a different kind of laboratory otherwise it doesn't work if it was objective we could have just written a book and given it to you but because it's subjective you have have to be taken step by step because it's a completely different dimension of perception and experience Al together but is it possible for me it is possible for every human being internally all of us are equally capable we are not capable in different ways all of us are capable of Joy isn't it yes if you have been joyful for one moment that means you're capable of Joy isn't it it is just that you're unable to stay there that's all whole thing there is no human being on the planet who's never been joyful every human being has been joyful at some point that means he's capable of Joy it is just that he's unable to stay there so he needs a technology as to how to maintain the atmosphere within himself it's possible does anything worry you do you have bad days this question is from my first of all I don't have days because the days are only in your memory in your reality there only Now isn't it yes or no the problem right now is human intellect see of all the gadgets that you have I know he's looking into the his favorite Gadget what are you apple or Samsung your okay no because it's a religion so I'm asking it's almost like asking are you Hindu Muslim Christian what are you are you apples handsome or Blackberry we're almost getting there isn't it so uh human intellect of all the gadgets that you have even including the Apple human mind is the most sophisticated gadget on this planet do you agree with me every other Gadget has come out of this but we are busy looking into the iPhone completely missing the eye right now for most human beings let me not use the word most for too many human beings this mind is not a miracle that it actually is for so many human beings this mind has become a misery manufacturing machine all the misery human misery on this planet where is it manufactured metas no in your mind isn't it what should have been the greatest miracle unfortunately has become a source of misery for human beings why is this so there are two Dimensions to your intelligence one is perception one is the penetration of your intelligence another is the memory aspect of it because of the kind of education systems that you're suffering right now which is 100% memory based all you have to do is memorize something one it somewhere your idea of being intelligent right now has become purely memory based tonight today evening at the Tea Party you don't have to know anything you just have to surf the Internet pick up some facts about that 64 you know t64 Galaxy that nobody knows about you get some information and throw it around people think you're smart because our whole idea of intelligence has become memory unfortunately once you're dipping your hand into memory your intelligence becomes very cyclical because it's recycling the past in so many different ways it look smart for somebody who doesn't know that otherwise it's just nonsense today we know a godamn chip can record more than your brain can record it is not intelligence memory is just a resource it is not an intelligence the nature of the intelligence and the purpose of human intellect is that it should be able to penetrate but it has got such a huge backlog it identified with the memory in such a bad way it has lost its penetration it is like you have a knife intellect is Like a Knife it can cut through anything but now you have a knife where the apple is sticking now whatever you try to cut it's not going to cut anything because there a Big Apple sticking here this is what has happened a huge Bank of memory is sticking to it and it's lost its penetration this is a tremendous loss that's happened to humanity because of the nature of Education systems that we have crafted so the fundamental process of spiritual process is to sharpen this intellect in such a way that if you sit here your memory does not influence you your intelligence is simply here it's sees everything just the way it is if this doesn't happen to you your intellect will become the source of your suffering you will see educated people are definitely suffering more than the uneducated on this planet isn't it so they're also causing much more suffering the planet is suffering mainly because of educated people not because of uneducated people yes or no the very life of the planet is being threatened by the educated not by the UN educated because it is a completely memory based education it is not intelligence-based education we need to shift this if the education systems are not going to shift it as individual people you must shift s Guru if the creation is perfect and the creator has done such a good job on us as you say why is there so much suffering in the world [Laughter] why do we need to depend on somebody's compassion to exist here [Music] so if Creator had done a good good job on us why why there is so much suffering in the world why we need to depend on other other people's compassion and understanding to exist here this is like it happened once a little boy came home with a $10 bill in [Music] Ohio a little boy little boy came home with a $10 bill his mother asked he said I found it his mother asked Luke did you really find it are you sure he said sure ma'am I even saw the man looking for it why there so much misery if this is a perfect job it's such a perfect job that it gives you the opportunity to be whichever way you wish to be if creation had not given you the necessary opportunity to be what you wish to be then there would be no possibilities isn't it then there would be no such thing as Liberation so why create a bondage and then Liberation why couldn't you be liberated then there would be no creation only because there is creation Now the possibility of going beyond that now in animal nature and in other forms of life that you see around you every kind there is not much possibility the possibility is just to survive procreate carry on with life and die one day because there is not much possibility there is not much misery either you don't see other creatures of the planet suffering like human beings their suffering is purely physical if they're physically harmed they're in pain even in pain they do not know the kind of suffering that a human being knows human being knows this suffering not because creation gave this suffering to you creation just gave you the freedom to make whatever you wish to out of yourself you're making suffering out of yourself or a large population of the world has decided to make S suffering out of themselves that is their choice physical realities sometimes are comfortable sometimes are not comfortable that is so we have G been given the necessary intelligence to create necessary comfort for ourselves that's not a issue really if we have no problems with each other creating comfort for all the population in the world is not a problem it's not at all a big problem really simply because we have inner problems [Music] simply because this Freedom which should have been a benediction has become a curse upon Humanity right now what human beings are suffering is not their bondage they're suffering their freedom if you suffer your bondage it's all right but if you suffer your freedom that's tragedy right now human beings are unfortunate ly suffering their freedom this moment you can make anything out of yourself you can make joy out of yourself you can make suffering out of yourself what to do if 50% of the people or 90% of the people are choosing to make misery out of themselves that's not creation's fault just gave you the freedom so that you could go beyond once you have come as human you are not trapped anymore other creatures are trapped in their own instincts beyond that they cannot think you have instincts for survival but still you have the possibility of going Beyond this instincts if you don't choose to go beyond that means still enough suffering has not touched you because it's unfortunate in the world that very few people transcend out of their intelligence most people have to be thrashed by life only then they will transcend only then they will think of going Beyond otherwise no I don't know if you're aware of this Luke you came early but in India if you if you tell somebody that I'm living in an ashram they will ask you why what what went wrong what happened to your life so they believe only after something really goes wrong you'll go to the asham okay because most people's intelligence is such because they kept their brains in C Storage they think they're going to use it in future so they can only seek anything beyond when something really goes wrong with their life till then even if something really goes wrong they will only pray for a better life next time now you don't have to depend on anybody's Compassion or understanding the whole world can live under the umbrella of your compassion and your understanding I would like to say that you stand up that way that the world lives under your compassion understanding you don't live in other people's compassion and understanding if you have any dignity that's not that's how you should live isn't it isn't it so [Music]

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Published: Thu May 30 2024