Sadhguru: Namaskaram!
Namaskaram to everyone. Well, the last week has been in many ways whatever
expectations and plans people were having, once again it's been smashed because the world has crossed ten
million mark of tested positives. Total death toll has
crossed half-a-million. 2.6 million cases in the United States
alone with 130,000 deaths or more. India has crossed half-a-million
cases, over 16,000 deaths. Last twenty-four hours
20,000 positives. In the five major cities in India it
is surging up with the relaxation. Once again, states are going
back into severe lockdown mode because the relaxation has
worked against the whole process. Well, as I think earlier
also I have said, the administration's
have done what they could do. The doctors, the medical
staff, the police and other administrative
staff, trying to enforce this. I think in many ways they're reaching
towards exhaustion and frustration because ordinary citizens, though
most of them have behaved responsibly, a certain percentage of them
everywhere in the world are, (Laughs) they're
God's children, what to do!? They are going about their
business in their own way. In many ways, the police and other staff
involved in the management of people, medical staff is
beginning to really tire. Because everybody was geared for
maybe three weeks or six weeks, now its on for
nearly three months! And once again, it's surging up. You can see and feel the effects of this
frustration and exhaustion, all over. It's very important, it's very important as citizens
of this nation and the world that we don't push the medical staff
especially to a point of collapse. Many of them have
shed their lives. If you push the medical fraternity
and the system to a point of collapse, after that
virus will have a free for all. Right now, there is a fifty-eight
or nearly fifty-nine percent of those who go positive
in India are recovering, which is the highest
in the world. But that number, we will lose. That is our only hope, right now people are
recovering because of medical attention. If the medical systems and people who
manage collapse under this pressure then this recovery numbers will go down.
And that's not good. At one point, Coimbatore city
was declared as COVID free. But once again, it's in an emergency
condition that lockdowns are happening, enforcement is
happening forcefully. Sometimes forces unfortunately
getting out of control. So, WHO and other agencies are talking
about a mental illness pandemic. As if the virus pandemic
was not good enough. Now, people are causing mental
illness pandemic, it's growing. People are getting mentally frustrated,
sick and fearful, loss of livelihoods, loss of businesses. If things close
for five-to-six months or more, then a whole lot of people
know what happens to them. All this is causing an
enormous amount of turmoil. As if that was not enough. In India, we have a little bit
of a warlike situation going on. So, every citizen, whichever
country you are, wherever you are, you are lucky, you are not administering
your nation at a time like this. So, whoever is administering it, whatever differences you
have, whatever problems you have with them, till this virus situation passes,
everybody should stand up and do our best. Because this is not an
enviable job to be managing any country for that matter,
particularly a nation like India which is as complex
and diverse as it is. I think largely it is in the
hands of the citizens now; how responsibility behave. Well, I've been in continuous
webinars for almost one or two per day and this question is coming back again and
again, that's what I'm telling them, "See, I'm using all the people who
are here at the yoga center and saying see suppose
I give an instruction to everybody here, fourteen days, just stay in your
room, close your eyes and sit, we'll provide you food.
They will all sit." If we could do to the whole world
certain instruction and they would follow, the entire pandemic
would be over in fortnight. But unfortunately
that's not possible. People can't sit in one place. So essentially it's human compulsiveness,
which is taking the virus places. You tell them don't go
here, they will go there, tell them don't do
this, they will do that. And many people are saying that
whole virus is fake information (Laughter). Don't laugh!
It's a big moment by itself. It is all fake made up by somebody,
somebody whatever for whatever reasons. I wish it was fake. They're also on the social media attacking
me, he's supporting this fake virus, he's creating fear
among people. Well, every society has a right to produce
a certain number of nut cases (Laughter). But all these nuts are super
empowered because of social media. Earlier there would be
people who dismiss them. But now, they're all over you. Because they become super
active in times like this. So this is where we are and there are many, many challenges
for everybody on the planet. For the administration's, for the big businesses, for the
small businesses, for the employees, for the labor,
for institutions. For everybody there is
a massive challenge! Challenges are times
when we should rise. But unfortunately, challenging times
are the times when people sink, a whole lot of them.
This is not new in the world. There have been terrible wars,
there have been natural calamities. There have been pandemics also. But when these things happened,
a few people rose to their heights, to the best possible way
a human being can be! A few people slithered down to the
lowest possible level they could be. This is always the case. But it's my wish that
in this generation when our ability to communicate
with the world is like never before, it'll be great if majority of the
population rises to the occasion, and does their best. What is the worst
that can happen to us? Worst case scenario,
I'm telling you. This will not happen. Other things will
happen before that. The worst case scenario is, we may end up living how we were living
here about twenty-five years ago. When I say twenty-five
years ago, for example, if you take
the yoga center as an example. How were we living
here twenty-five years ago. Let me take it two years further
back, twenty-seven years ago. In the same month of
June, we moved in here. And it was... that was one of the
heaviest monsoons we have seen. At this time of the year,
see how calm it is now. Winds were blowing like sixty, seventy
kilometers per hour here on the ground. In the mountain, it was blowing at hundred-and-ten,
hundred-and-twenty kilometers per hour. As I told you earlier I think about
twelve people were blown off the mountain! They went to the peak and they were just
blown off by the wind and they died. So, all we had was just one hut,
which we called Kaivalya Kutir. Real Kutir it was. And about twelve bathrooms,
only for the ladies to use. Men were going into the forest. Well, still we very blissfully
did our sadhana and everything. One night... I had a small
room outside of this hut. About six... sixty-eight participants
and maybe about eight-to-ten volunteers, all sleeping in
this one single hut. I have a room. And the wind is howling in
the night around 1:30am. I just woke up and I saw wind was howling.
I looked out of the window, all the trees were looking this
(Gestures) way (Laughter). Then I looked out at the hut, I could
not see. I took my torch and flashed it. Then I saw the entire Kaivalya
Kutir was at this (Gestures) angle. Then I got up and ran. I ran into the hut, where all these people, over seventy-two
or seventy-four people were sleeping or more than that, about seventy-five,
seventy-six people were sleeping. And all of them are sleeping
peacefully (Laughter)! Outside the wind is howling
and blowing at a great speed. And then I tried to shout ar
them, nobody hears (Laughter). Then I turn on the lights
(Gestures Sleeping). Because the sadhana was like
that during the day (Laughter); they could sleep
through a cyclone. So then I have to shake everybody and
wake them up and scream at them and... "Come outside let's fix this thing" because
this may just collapse on the people. So there were a guy wires which would
like uprooted because of the wind force. So in the night around 2am, we worked for
about three hours to straighten up the hut. Using the only jeep we had at the
time to pull the hut back into place. Because it was going at that speed,
the wind, none of us could actually, if all of us got together we could still not
pull it, so we used the jeep in that rain; slipping
all over the place. And all this was happening,
one tree collapsed. It's okay,
I have audience coming (Laughter) (Referring to the
monkeys on the roof). (Talks Aside - on the rooftop). Look at the interest in
the Darshan (Laughter). Those of you who are not here,
the monkeys are on the roof. So, a tree fell where we were working. And fortunately, nobody was badly
injured, only one person was hit that too, not very badly. He was okay,
in a couple of days he recovered. Then we knew, next day we
couldn't stay there in that hut, because it was
precariously balanced. So we had to do some structural changes,
but we didn't want to stop the Sadhana. So we went up the mountain where there
is, there are a few small caves, which could barely accommodate
about eight-to-ten people. It was pouring
rain, day and night! Three days we stayed there. Every day morning 5:30 Guru
Pooja, Sadhana, entire day class. Well, you couldn't speak much because
it was howling, the winds and raining. But the sadhana was kept up! No one, flat place everybody
sitting in all kinds of places. Only thing we had to eat was, we were just frying green gram
and eating for these three days. But everything went on. So that's how it was
twenty-seven years ago. So, suppose we have to
live like that again, on green gram, fried green gram.
Are you on I'm asking? Participants: Yes!
Sadhguru: Everything should go on. Not sit and cry, green
gram, green gram (Laughter). So I'm saying, everybody, wherever you
are, fifteen years ago or twenty years ago, nothing was wrong
with your life. Well since then everybody in the world has
much more than what they had at that time, everybody!
Almost without exception, maybe a few unfortunate
societies have gone back because of war and tragedies
that have happened. Otherwise generally almost
everybody is having much more than they had twenty years ago. But twenty years
ago we were all fine. And suppose it goes to that point,
this is the worst, worst case scenario. Suppose it happens,
why can't we still live joyfully? It's almost like our life
was wound back twenty years, now we have a new opportunity
to once again create these twenty years in a more sensible
and ecologically sensitive and in every other way humanly
sensitive ways that we can do things. Because the way we have
been going in the world, fundamentally today everything
is driven by the economic engine. Everybody is only talking economy,
because that's all that seems to matter. The way we've been driving this economic
engine if you really look at it, the engine
is on roaring, full on! Providing more and more and
more things to everybody. But if you look at it carefully,
nobody has the steering wheel. You have a vehicle which
is roaring at full speed but nobody has the
steering wheel. This has been the case of
human development for... for a long time. Particularly in
the last twenty-five-to-fifty years, we don't know where we're going,
but we're going, that's all we know. In many ways if you look at it, we are driving this vehicle like there
is no next generation on this planet. We are the last. So in a way,
I know people will hate me for this, I am not saying there are no troubles, not
just for you, for everybody there is trouble. For everybody there
are serious challenges. Everybody will have to adjust their
lives in so many different ways. My only concern is that
nobody should starve. If people are well
nourished rest is okay. Instead of having twenty pieces
of clothing, you have two. What's the big problem?
Actually you need only one to wear.. All right when things
were doing well we did many things; if it is not so we'll roll back. This doesn't mean to say, we have to become miserable
or lose our mental balance and suffer the rest of our
lives, no such thing. This means we have surrendered
to a micro organism, that's the most horrible thing
you can do to human nature. So, wherever you are, whatever you are;
this is the time for you to rise and show what are you made of. With what little that may be
there at the end of this pandemic; openly now... until now there was hide
and seek; now openly they are saying it is hallucinatory to think that there
will be a vaccine at the end of this year, openly they are saying this.
It is very, you know, dreamy dreamy to have a
vaccine by the end of this year. If it comes, it may come
sometime around this time next year. And first, it will be given
to all the medical personnel and then, like this whoever is more exposed
to them it will be given; slowly it'll come. By the time it comes to the
whole population on the planet it may take anywhere between
twenty-four to thirty-six months. Even if you go at full
production of vaccine and try to vaccinate
everybody on the planet, it'll take that much time if
it happens super efficiently. So, twenty-four to thirty-six
months, or even if it is twelve months. Twelve months means a lot of things
will naturally shrink and shrivel in terms of our activity. Only thing is we as human beings
should not shrink and shrivel. It is very important every nation,
India is doing the right thing, focusing on agriculture. Every nation
should do this; focus on agriculture, ensure there's a substantial
amount of food everywhere. Somebody may not have
the money to buy it; it doesn't matter we can
just give them the food to eat. There must be enough food on the
planet, this is the most vital thing because if food shortages come,
then it will go into another mode. Once food shortages come, it's simply
impossible to maintain law and order, it'll be impossible to maintain
civic balance in any nation, it will go out of control. So it's most important that
every nation should focus on it, everybody who has a piece of
land should see at least a tch nothing else at least there's a papaya
tree or murungai tree or something else. Everybody should see how there
is enough food on the planet, particularly governments in
their policy and in their focus, because now going to the Mars is not
the most important thing (Laughter). Yes! We need to understand because
wanting to be ahead of somebody satellites are being shot off. You know, it's very very important that
everybody conserve, step back a little bit, ensure people who don't die of starvation
on this planet in our generation. This much we must take care of. Rest of it if it rolls
back, it's all right. Instead of driving a car we'll
cycle; bonus is health (Laughter). (Laughs) If you cycle bonus is health
and you will look slim and trim. Yes, what you always wanted which did
not happen by driving the car can happen. Or you walk to your office
or you walk wherever. You take your garden and plant
something it... things will work! I'm saying when things do not
go as we expected them to go it does not mean a
disaster has happened. There is no disaster
if you ask me, unfortunately nearly over half-a-million
people have lost their life and many people have lost their
loved ones; that is a disaster but the virus itself
is not a disaster. If human beings are
conscious we can handle this. If we address this
responsibly and consciously, human societies are
capable of handling this, it's (yet?) still so many people
are not getting the point, that's the whole problem and
nations are not getting the point, trying to
take advantage of each other. If we get this point, we can easily handle.
As humanity, we can handle it; as individual people, as communities, as nations.
If one against other, well, it will become a real
disaster in terms of fatalities but as a humanity if we come together,
this is not much of a challenge, we can easily contain it. The economy will roll back a little bit but
as long as there is food on the planet... suff... sufficient food for
all the people on this planet, we shouldn't really break
our heads on economy. Economy is a problem when, "This guy
is getting rich and I'm getting poor." Now all of us came down a little
bit; it's not a big deal I'm saying, it's not a big deal. Maybe nations will pass laws and regulations to balance it a little
bit in the near future, it may happen, it's going to be difficult but
difficulty is not necessarily a disaster. You can make it into a disaster. If you become fearful,
if you become frustrated, if you drive yourself
into mental instability, or unfortunately many people are on the verge of suicide or
some have committed suicide. If you drive in that
direction it'll become a disaster. Otherwise, from two meals
suppose we come down to one meal. Can we still go on joyfully? See I'm one meal and I'm fine! Well it'll be a little
hard initially... aah we will eat fried gram. We'll do something but I'm saying
difficulty is not necessarily a disaster. Only if you're completely bereft
of any joy and love in your heart, then it becomes a disaster.
Otherwise, difficult times come, actually if you look at a
whole lot of people's lives who work from very
simple backgrounds to, you know,
a very successful stage. Any number of people that I've spoken
to, they always say, "When we started this enterprise,
when we were working so hard; that was the best time of our life. Right now we are living so luxuriously
everything that you want we have, but it's not the same."
This is a common story everywhere. That is because those
who address difficulties, seeing the challenge as a
challenge and take it on; for them, challenging times
are the best times. I make sure it's always a challenging
time out here (Laughter/Applause). Yes! It's very important.
Otherwise, when awake people will sleep. We are looking at how to produce a
generation of people who will be awake, even when they're
asleep; that's my goal. But now most people are asleep when they're
awake, suddenly little difficulty comes and they now awake and
they find it shocking. Nothing, difficulties are okay. Let us not transform
difficulties into disasters. Disaster can only happen because of
human attitude towards the difficulty. Difficulty by itself
is not a disaster. Every year, you know,
we were trekking this year, they've canceled
the Kailash trek because of whatever is
happening between two nations. Is it difficult? My legs, my thigh muscles and my
calf muscles have cursed me to death. "Why are you taking us through
this treacherous terrain every year, year after year?" Yes! But that difficulty; because of the difficulty I am living
without ever going to a hospital. Nor a medical checkup! I've always been saying
when I go to Kailash, normally, we're touching close to 18,000
feet about sea level, and climbing. If I fail the test,
you can bury me there; that's it! I've been passing until now.
This year, no test. So one year I'm going without
a medical test (Laughs). I'm saying difficulties; every human being, who's enthusiastic about
life is choosing difficulties by choice, isn't it so? Somebody treks a mountain,
somebody wants to fly, somebody wants to go through very difficult
enterprises, ventures and adventures. Because if you are full of life, you naturally choose something
difficult and dangerous. If you have no life,
then you will only choose comfort. Now this has become the thing
everybody talking about their comfort zone. It's a death zone (Laughter). Because (Laughs) the most comfortable
place on the planet is the grave; Nothing hurts, believe me. Otherwise if you pushing yourself,
always something hurts tch (Laughs). In my body always there
is an injury somewhere. I have an endless
number of fractures. These days, fortunately last
twenty, twenty-five years I've avoided fractures but
muscular injuries, this, that. Because you do something! If you simply preserve yourself like
a mummy (Laughter) then nothing hurts, everything is fine;
no difficulty. So difficulty,
or what you think is difficult, is actually just a situation
that is challenging. Don't call a situation
by any negative name. "Oh, big problem, big difficulty,
big disaster" No such thing has happened. It's different. It's different from this...
in the last four months, life has become very different
from the way you have known it. People are going through all kinds of
things; so many people that I know, their parents are dying
somewhere, they cannot go. They're not even able to attend
the last rites of their parents, they're not able to go support them
because they're in a COVID hospital, travel ban, you cannot travel. They're dead; you don't even see the
body, you cannot conduct the last rituals, just done by the government we
don't know what they're doing. So I'm saying it's difficult.
It's not easy, it's difficult. But I want you to know most people
who've been committed to doing something significant in their life have
always chosen these kinds of difficulties. Yes. When, you know,
there're any number of examples. You think a Madama Gandhi or Martin
Luther King or anybody else in the past, who've done anything significant,
they went back to bury their loved ones? You think so? Did not happen, because in those days
there was no way to fly back anywhere. If you go somewhere,
you got the news after three months. Three months ago, your mother died, your
father died; this is how you got the news, and well you dealt with
it, because, because you know that you're doing
something significant enough in your life. If you're not doing anything
significant in your life, then your own emotions and your own
attitudes become super significant; in that you will suffer, in that there
is a whole lot of mental turmoil, in that you may
become mentally sick. Right now pandemic,
the virus pandemic is bad enough, we do not definitely need a mental ailment
pandemic, we definitely don't need it. Well, there are a whole
lot of people who argue, "How can we avoid it, it just happens?" I
want you to know it doesn't just happen. You take a wrong direction,
you keep going in that way; one day you will hit something. Until you hit,
you think you're alright but it's very easy to know that if you
go here like this towards the wall, it's just a question of time
before you knock your head on it. There is a doorway,
you need to go that way. So because these directions
have not been set, let me give you a simple
GPS, tch so that you don't hit walls
and rocks with your head. The simple thing is just this; first
and foremost thing to understand is human experience is caused from
within; never from outside. The moment I attribute my
experience of life right now, "I am angry, I am unhappy, I am miserable,"
or "I am joyful," or "I am blissful." The moment I ascribe it
to something or somebody, well, you're going
towards mental disruption, when it's going
something to happen, how resilient you are, how resilient
are you, or how fragile are you will determine how quickly this
disaster will happen to you, but you're heading
for a disaster. Then, how many people are
vulnerable for a disaster? Unfortunately too many. It is just that they have
not yet faced situations which will push them in
that direction very rapidly. Now if this pandemic lasts for
long enough, disrupting our lives, our economic structures, our family
structures, we may lose people who, that we love in our lives;
when these things happen, they will be rapidly
pushed to the wall. But, if this one thing you
understand, always, always, it doesn't matter, somebody is born,somebody died;
this happened, that happened. You lost your limb or about to lose your
life, even if that happens, if you know, human experience, no matter what; joy or
misery, agony or ecstasy, pain or pleasure is all caused from within, you have a handle on what is
the experience of your life. Once you have this
handle in your hands then you determine
the nature of your experience. Once you are determining the
nature of your experience you will make sure it
will (be?) pleasant... it is pleasant. Especially if the outside
has become very unpleasant because of the challenges
that life is throwing at us, it's all the more important
that I keep my interiority very pleasant. This much responsibility
everybody must take. We have (a?) substantial problem
in the country and in the world, you don't stand up and create
your own freaky problems. Please take care of this every citizen of
this country and wherever else you are, this much you must take care. At a time like this when
humanity is being challenged, this is not the time for you to...
you becoming a volcano of problems! We'll give you another
time for that (Laughter). If you must freak I'm
saying, please. Speaker: This
question is from Decent Diwang. Sadhguru: Woah! (Laughter) Speaker:
"Respected guru ji. I'm a Buddhist and a
vipassana practitioner. I have a question which I've asked many
vipassana teachers and other gurus, but everybody said that no one
can answer this (Laughter). In one of your video you mentioned,
and also it is said in Buddhism, that rebirth is due to an
unfulfilled desire or karma. I accept this but then
the question arises. Let us suppose I took birth for millions
of times, because of my karma and desire but before my very first birth,
there was no body, no mind, karma, desire or nothing of me existed, then why and how that very first
birth came to existence (Applause)?" Sadhguru: Now, even I'm wondering
about that about you (Laughter)! Well (Laughs) no you're a decent guy, I'm
like this what to do (Laughter/Applause). Let's take that
question further back. It's not just about your birth. Well in the yogi cultur,
there are theories which are explained in the form of
dialectical stories how Shiva was like Shava. Shava means a corpse. He was inert,
phenomenal energy but inert. Then energy or Shakti came and
danced around him, upon him. Then he got kind of woke up. Well, we are, you know,
picturising it as a man and a woman, but that's not what
we're talking about, inert means nothing
happening, no reverberation. No reverberation means no creation; energy
got introduced, reverberation started. From a simple basic reverberation
it got more and more complex. As reverberations became more
complex it became matter, matter became smaller
molecules, they became planets, planets became many things,
life happened, variety of things; you know the evolutionary
theory from there on. Evolutionary theory only starts after life
has started or at the beginning, probably, but if you go back; creation itself, we may not know
the exact trajectory of how it happened, but we approximately know how it
happened even as per modern science. So in the modern
scientific parlance, the same thing is said – today
that if you apply energy, not even into
it, just around it. Suppose you create vacuum in
a container and apply energy, not into the vacuum,
just around it, virtual protons and virtual
neutrons will erupt. That means creation
begins to happen. Proton, neutron just have to get
together for an atom to happen. Once an atom has happened,
creation has started. So similar things are
said in modern science. I don't want to go into any theories,
but obviously creation began somewhere. Somewhere means it may not be within the
projections of human mind in terms of time, because it's not one. But in the yogic system, there have been estimates that there
have been eighty-four creations till now. Eighty-three creations till now,
this is the eighty-fourth one. And up to one-hundred-and-twelve
cycles of creation can happen. Beyond that, creation will be
material-free, just pure energy creation. But we're talking in terms of maybe
billions of years or trillions of years, I don't know.
But those projections are made. Well, obviously
it's just a theory. Nobody can prove or
disprove anything about it. But it looks like a (Sounds
like - possible?) theory, because the markings of eighty-three
creations are there in our system, in various aspects
of life around us, the markings of eighty-three, and this being eighty-four are there
for those who look very closely at it. So how did you such a decent
guy happen (Laughter)? Well, so this question doesn't go
that far as I took it just now. (Sounds like - Just?) talking about
if I did not have karmic substance, how did I happen?
That's the question. Well, you don't need a spiritual answer,
Charles Darwin himself has explained this. You were a single-celled creature
and then you became two-cell. Then you became three-cell,
then you became multi-cell. Now you become little more. Little more only,
decently better. A decent development from a single
cell has happened (Laughter). So in the process from the single-celled
animal, from an atom to a molecule, right now this is a wo...
wonderful time to ask this question, because there is a virus.
A virus is not a full-fledged life. It has proteins and enzymes to make
it a life, but it's not yet life. Only when it enters your
cell, it has a life. But in...
by itself, it has no life. Just a certain combo of protein. So decent...
(Talks aside: What Dushyanth, hmm? "Diwan" Oh.) So you were also
pre-life, became life, became more and more complex life.
Complexity itself is karma. Karma is not necessarily –
even now as you sit here – karma is not necessarily only
what you do like this. The thoughts that pass
in your mind are karma, emotions that pass in your
mind right now are karma, simply a thought just
passed in your mind. You looked at the person
next to you, "What? Why is he here, he should be on the
roof with the monkeys" (Laughter). Just like that, you know,
sometimes thought like this come. Hello? So this karma just happened in
evidently, not caused by you, caused by the monkeys dancing on the roof
(Some sound in the background) (Laughter). So because monkeys came
there, you looked at this guy; at a certain angle, he looked
a certain way to you (Laughter). Maybe it's the lighting, maybe it's
the way he sat, maybe something, and a thought came and went. Now you performed a
karma, tch that somewhere, you look at another human being
and you think he's a monkey. Now, this won't stop
here, do you understand? Now you looked at him and
thought you're a monkey. Tomorrow we changed your department and
you're in the monkey department (Laughter). "Oh my god, I have to work with this
monkey today." It will continue. And if suppose the situations are placed
like that he is incharge of the department, you have to work under him, "Do I have
to be instructed by a monkey like this" (Laughter). It will grow. And this is how you
became a racist (Laughs). All right? Because initially
it's just a tch passing thought. Then depending on situations,
how they corner you, here, there, there - slowly it multiplies. This is even
happening to every other creature. So gradually karmic substance builds up,
builds up, becomes more and more complex. Well, clearly evolutionary
sciences are telling us, the initial human beings
were a...very simple, half-bent human beings,
very small brain. They could take much, they just
survived like any other creature. Everybody knows that, right? So from there,
you build your karma. I don't know why nobody could answer this
question for you, everybody knows this. Maybe they thought you're not
worth answering (Laughter). Because I am such a fool, I don't
think anybody is not worth answering, because I don't think any
question is not worth answering. I'm taking all kinds of idiotic questions
from all over the world (Laughter). So, this is also because maybe you
have some conclusion of your own, it's not really a question. You're
testing everybody with your question, so they might have
said tch (Gestures). This happened (Laughter). A committed... You know, marijuana is
legal in many states in United States. So as a man who is
committed to this, because lot of people are
approaching it like a philosophy. It is not just a compulsion that they
have, it's a philosophy, "We smoke. So we're
superior to you" (Laughter). Yes. There is something
called as endocannabinoids that you can generate within your own body.
That means whatever the cannabis does, you can do it in your
brain and your body. That is why cannabis
receptors are there. Because you are a tch
malfunctioning system, you're not able to generate your
own thing. See right now, suppose you are not able to
secrete enough thyroid juices, then they will put
thyroid into your system. You are not able to produce
enough hormones in your system, they will put hormone
into your system. You are not able to produce
enough insulin in your system, they put insulin in your system. Similarly, because for some reason
you are a malfunctioning machine that you are not able to
produce your endocannabinoids and be blissed out tch, you're putting from outside. But the difference between endocannabinoids
that you generate and you're blissed, and outside one also
may cause some bliss, but it also causes a certain
dislocation of your intelligence. Never before has
it happened that someone who is blissed out
because of his meditative nature ever leapt off a mountain and
thought he is going to fly. But many smokers and LSD takers
and drug takers have done this. So, this committed... In US, these days they're
calling themselves stoners, back to stone age (Laughter). I'm also stoned, but not
a stoner – just stoned (Laughs). So he called the fire brigade and said,
"My house is on fire, just come quickly." "How do I get there?"
the fireman asked." "Come on, get into the big rig
truck and get here" (Laughter). What to do?
What to do? So right now you're wasting your
time very indecently (Laughter), because these are all
questions of the brain, because mainly your questioning
is towards whoever those, I don't know who are those
people that you ask questions, in some way want to make
a fool out of them. That's all you're interested in. You're not interested in
knowing anything about yourself, you are not interested in having tools
for your transformation or growth. You said you went for the
Vipasana, tch. Vipasana means no
questions (Laughter). Simple instruction, just do
it, do it, do it and do it, because that is a process which demands
perseverance as the greatest quality. Gautama taught Vipasana
to large groups of people, because there was no
time to prepare them. He was everyday moving from
village to village, town to town. No time to bring understanding
into those people. So no teaching, no question. Just simple instruction.
Get the instruction right, just do it, do it, do it,
slowly it will transform you. Tch it's a very... a bit of... a bit
laborious process but a fantastic process that even if you have no clue what
you're doing, if you just do it, slowly it will
transform who you are. When I say transform you, every aspect
of you including your chemistry. Gradually, it will transform.
It's a laborious process, because in those times, you must
understand he was teaching 2500 years ago. 2500 years ago, the common wavelength of the society
was not intellectual understanding, the common wavelength of the society
which lived hard lives was perseverance. People could persevere.
Today, to make them persevere you have to talk
to them for hours and hours and hours, because they think they
understand everything. Those days people had no such problems,
they knew that they don't understand. So you had to just (Laughter)... you had to just instruct them and
say, "Do it." And... Tch those were good times
for the gurus (Laughter), because if you're given a instruction and
say, "You must do it," you just do it. You know my mother,
some yogi in Nandi hills... She... She... Once we went to Nandi hills and she
showed me the cave where she was initiated. She gave a... That yogi gave her some
mantra, I don't know who he is anyway. And she never had a picture or she
wouldn't talk you know, utter his name. But every day, she did
something with eyes closed. Right through our li...
life, we've been her life. You know, four children, husband is her
life, she married at the age of seventeen and that's her life. But before that,
she was initiated and this yogi told her, "Whatever happens
with your life, you must do it every day." Every day she is doing something with her
eyes closed. We say, "What are you doing?" Say, "Well, this yogi gave me a
mantra, I just do it." We want to know what's
the mantra (Laughter). So we played all kinds of tricks on
her – tried to compel her, emotionally, what, blackmail her,
"You tell us this mantra." Such a gentle and easy
person to deal with always she was,
but not once no matter what, either to her husband or to her
children she ever told the mantra, because the yogi said,
"You don't share this with anybody." I mean to say it
was so easy to instruct them. If I tell you, "Keep this to yourself,
you will put it on the social media" (Laughter/Applause). So because giving instruction
was very effective and simple in the previous generations,
especially 2500 years ago, Gautama chose this path – no understanding,
no teaching, obviously no questioning, just do it. Only to those who gathered around him,
who traveled with him, who were in close association with him, to them he taught
shoonya, because that needs understanding. Without bringing substantial
understanding, that won't happen. So you went to Vipasana. That means you must just shut up and do
it, not ask this question, that question, because that question will... that question or the answer will
not in any way add to your practice. The practice has been
designed in such a way, irrespective of who you are,
if you do it, it will work. It's just that it's
a bit laborious. You have to do it for hours every
day for a long period of time, but it will work.
It's a fantastic device for those times. Even now it is for a
whole lot of people. So don't waste your time. The decent thing for you
to do is (Laughter)... If you're here,
I don't know where you are. If you're here,
take instructions and just do it. Otherwise stick to the
Vipasana and do it. One way or the other,
take one forward step, rather than standing in the same
place and looking all over the place. It won't add to your
life in any way. It's just that in foolishness
you will think you're smart by gathering these things. Maybe now I've said
what I've said, you will go and
tell somebody else, "You know what Sadhguru said, this is
what it is, eve... even he doesn't know," (Laughter), or you will make it your answer
and put it on the social media. Whatever you do, it's of no use. Existentially, if you want to move on, you
must do something existential within you. You do psychological things and you
think you will move on, you will not. You know what is
my handicap tch? You want to know? Simply being straight and honest
is my big handicap (Laughs). Yes. No deviousness, this is my
handicap, what do you think? Tell me, "Sadhguru it's not a
handicap, hey" (Laughter). Some of my advisors think
this is a handicap – I'm too straight and blunt about too many
things, but that's the way I will be. If you don't like
it (Applause)... Speaker: Next question is from Sneha.
Namaskaram Sadhguru. I understand the logical
explanation of being conscious. But there are moments when
I'm really compulsive. For example for certain kind of
food, I know I'm being compulsive and I need to be conscious,
but I'm still not able to do it. Is there a mantra which can make me
conscious _____ (Unclear) me those moments (Laughter/Applause). Sadhguru: Oh,
we don't need a mantra. We... There are simple devices
which could do this. After is... meal is over every day, just
about six inches of duct tape (Laughter). At least with the mask on these
days, you might shut up a little bit. Hello? Boo boo boo boo bah bah bah
bah bah bah, what is that (Laughter)? You have a mask on,
you better talk little, because you're sounding
ridiculous with the mask on. Hmm (Laughs)? So for compulsions,
mantras won't do tch. We need some devices. Either we can put duct tape or
we can lock you up in a room, so simple you know, it won't...
it'll work. Or you do it to yourself. When you say, "I will not open my mouth,"
do not open your mouth (Laughter). Namaskaram. Sadhguru chants Yoga Yoga Yogeshwaraya
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