you want to create pleasantness in your happiness in your home we don't know
three four people are there whether they want to cooperate or not if you want to
create pleasantness in your city there are too many people we don't know
whether they'll cooperate or not if you want to create pleasantness in the world
you know nobody in this world happens 100% the way you want them did you
parents happen 100% the way you want them did they the children can say it's
okay did your friends happen 100% the way you want them did your spouse your
partners happen 100 pushing the way you want them not even your dog these days
to do their own things
nobody happens 100% the way you want them but that is not the problem the
problem is this one this one is not happening the way you want him to be
that is the problem isn't it if this one happened 100% the way you want him life
around you whichever way it happens it's either a breeze in an adventure yes it
is either listen you know gently I mean the fragrance of the jasmine on a gentle
breeze or it's an adventure there is no unpleasantness
unpleasantness unpleasantness is happening from within you never from
outside of you know you don't know how unpleasant my boss is no no he only
causes at the most if he is he's causing uncleanliness around here he cannot
clock cause unpleasantness within you isn't it this is your work this is
completely your work isn't it why would anybody cause unpleasantness to himself
simply because we have chosen to live unconsciously just as a compulsive
reaction to every that's happening around us for solutions
we are looking into books we are looking into all kinds of things we are always
looking elsewhere never inward this happened you know we're from Tennessee
in Tennessee every family with some kind of tradition has their own leather-bound
large sized Bible of their own they're very proud of this it's so large you can
barely open it at least children cannot one day a school boy 12 years of age who
is studying in a boarding school elsewhere came home and he found this
huge book sitting there and he opened it a few pages he opened a leaf which had
been there in the book for a long time it was dry it flew out and fell down
then he called out loudly mama come and see what I found she said what is it
that you have found mama come and see please come and see what you have what I
found she said come tell me what have you
found he said I think I found Adams underwear
what is written there and how you perceive it is you even now even now how
you experience every situation is you what is happening around you and how you
experience is essentially you what is written there and what you make out of
it is essentially you just see in the name of caste creed religion race
nationalities how much form s we have created on the planet I'm sure every one
of these things initially started with the greatest intention of human
well-being definitely but just see what a mess we are simply because you can
find on other atoms underwear in a book you don't know what you will pick up so
there is a way where there is no room for misinterpretation that way is to
turn inward not to seek solutions outward for outward things you can seek
outward solutions for inner things you seek inner inner inner solutions turning
inward what does it mean right now as I earlier mentioned the only way you can
perceive is through five sense organs seeing hearing smelling tasting touching
all these things are essentially outward bound so you can see what's around you
you cannot roll your eyeballs inward and scan yourself you can hear this but so
much activity in this body you cannot hear that if an ant crawls upon this
hand you can feel it so much blood flowing you cannot feel it in the very
nature of things sense organs are outward bound but everything that you
experience is happening from within this is the fundamental human predicament
only if you turn inward then you are into what you are referring to as India
studies
India is a glorious chaos lot of Indians miss it too much order in America once
in a way they have to go out and get lost and have a diarrhea at least yes or
no if not enlightenment at least a diarrhea
you must eat the street food and something must happen no no it need not
be like that it is just that it's very organic it is always depending upon
touching the inner genius within every human being it is not depending upon the
organization of the outside which can be very chaotic for a person who has been
born and brought up in Western societies India could be bewildering and scary but
you will see Indian people are so much at home with the chaos because it's so
organic everything is happening because of the human being
if one human being stops being human for a moment everything collapses so you
can't afford to be mechanical about your life you have to be conscious otherwise
you cannot manage even simple things in home initially this was created
consciously over a period of time other things have happened unfortunately now
this whole process of looking inward what does it mean can I can I tell you
my own story it's okay with you you becoming very serious it scares me
Shankaran Pillai came to United States he had an international driving licence
so he decided to take his car his son-in-law score out for a spin he's a
good driver if you have driven in India you better be a good driver otherwise
you're a dead driver so very confidently he was driving then his wife called up
on the phone and said are you a nine seventy five he said yeah just watch out
the traffic news is saying there is a man driving at full speed in the
opposite direction
he said what the hell one man hundreds of people are driving in the opposite
direction but he's very comfortable so what is turning inward mean this
happened to me when I was just three four years of age suddenly one day I
realized I don't know anything I don't know anything means I don't know
anything at all if they give me a glass of water I do
not know what is water when I say I do not know what is water I know how to use
it I know if I drink it it'll quench my thirst and so many other ways of using
it but I do not know what is water do you know what is water even today with
all this scientific exploration you must understand we have not understood a
single atom in its entirety we know how to use them but we do not know what it
is even today it is the only thing available in all the three states on the
planet two-thirds of the world the planet
itself is water two-thirds of your body is water if you want to look for life
you look for water a drop of water means you think life is possible so very basis
of your existence on this planet but you do not know what it is so they give me a
glass of water I keep staring at this for 3-4 hours at the stretch
if I find a leaf I will stare at it five six hours I sit up in my bed staring at
the darkness for the whole night My dear father being a physician started
thinking I need psychiatric evaluation
this boy is just tearing at something or the other unblinking for hours on end
he's lost it my problem is I look at this I do not know what is this how to
shift my attention to something else I'm just stuck to it paying attention to it
in this condition they sent me to school I went to school and my mother told me
you must pay attention to the teacher I went and paid attention the kind of
attention they would have never received in their life initially I understood the
words that they were speaking after some time I realized they're only making
sounds I am the one who is making up the meanings in my head even now see I am
only making sounds because you presume you know English language you are making
up the meanings and language is a conspiracy between two people yes
suppose I start talking in a language that you do not understand it would be
just sounds even now I am only making sounds you are making up the meanings
and there is a codebook for this conspiracy called a dictionary so I
realize I'm making up all the meanings in my head and I stopped making up the
meanings just the sounds these teachers come and keep on making sounds the
problem with most people is the moment they cannot understand they will not pay
any attention please pare especially things that you do not understand you
must pay attention is it fit a suit no what you do not understand definitely
needs your attention but generally the thing is the moment you cannot
understand you don't pay attention turn on the Chinese Channel just listen
carefully with full attention you will see things
will happen to you so I just paid attention not attaching
any meanings to the sounds they were making after some time it became so
amusing these people going on making noises
a big smile spread on my face they were not amused at all
I was very consistent with my education every monthly test consistently I got
six zeroes because I gave it empty because I was made like this I come home
in the evening evening study hours or two hours in the evening you must study
in the house if I open the book I stay like this without reading a single word
for the next two hours I will be just like this all I need is just a dot on
the paper just a tiny speck on the paper if I put my attention to it the damn
speck will take me somewhere I won't read a single word nor will I look
around nor will let me do anything simply after two hours I'll be in the
same spec I'm moving to drop that so my attention is like this I'm paying
attention to the teachers so you know I clearly remember this when they every
month they give this report card I don't know if you still have it you still have
that method of report cards when the report card comes some children will be
strutting around they are first second whatever some will be crying they're
terrified to go home because they got something in my whole school days all
those 12 years I never opened my report card the teachers gave it to me I took
it and gave it to my dad I thought this is a transaction between the two of them
I never wanted to you know deep into that and I never was retained in any
class I always went on about four years ago this school where I studied over
four decades ago they came to invite me for their one hundred and twenty-fifth
anniversary of the school they were inviting all the prominent eleven I they
came to invite me I said say please why me I was not just a not good student I
was not even a student don't don't take me to back to the school they said no no
our school has produced federal ministers our school has produced film
stars our school is produce cricketing stars you are the only mystic you have
to come I said ok and I went I stood up to speak in this quadrangle the same
oppressive buildings I just look like this I suddenly saw this classroom and
this whole situation came back to me I was about 12 years of age
as usual I am paying absolute attention to the teachers I know the teachers past
present and future but I don't hear a word of what they're talking so that
particular afternoon this teacher is trying to get some response from me but
I am these are times when four three four five days I would not turn a single
word because when you don't know anything what do you say what is there
to say you know nothing if you look at a leaf you don't understand that in
entirety if you look at anything you don't understand in its fullness so
there's nothing to say he tried 3540 minutes trying to get some response
nothing came out of me and I was paying full attention to him
he came help me by the shoulder shook me violently and said you must either be
the divine or the devil I think you are the later till now till that moment my
problem was what is this what is that what is that what is that
but there was one clarity that this is me suddenly this man confused me about
this also I looked Am I devil am i doing what the hell am i this
was very clear that this was me but this man brought this confusion about this
also I try to stare at myself it didn't work so I closed my eyes and sat
initially hours then it went into days once I close my eyes and sat I thought
in my experience I felt it's about 25 30 minutes when I open my eyes a whole
crowd of people around me Garland's around my neck people are trying to pull
my feet you know pulling legs is a part of Indian tradition and somebody wants
to know about his business somebody wants to know when his daughters will
get married I said how the hell did these people manifest here where did
they come from big crowd they said you have been
sitting here for 13 days in my experience I just sat there for 25-30
minutes I closed my eyes and I opened my eyes a big crowd why I'm telling you
this is life is in many more ways than the way you understand an experience
life through the five senses the five sense organs or enough for your survival
if you want to just survive these five things are fine
but if you want to know life these five sense organs are not good enough because
this gives you only a comparative perspective of everything what you know
by comparison say you know light only because you're not
isn't it the nature of sense organs is such if you see this part of my hand you
cannot see the other part of my hand even if you take a grain of sand if you
see one part you can't see that the part if you're experiencing light you cannot
experience the darkness this is the nature of sense organs and everything is
in comparison for example let's say you're 6 feet tall now you stand like a
tall man you walk like a stall man you think like a tall man you feel like a
tall man and you are a tall man suppose you antenna he went to another
society where everybody is 8 feet tall now you stand like a short man walk like
a short man think like a short man feel like a short man and you are a short man
so what you know in comparison is only useful says survival in a particular
situation it is not a way of knowing life there are the dimensions of
perception which a human being has to activate you need to understand what is
needed for survival became active the moment you came out of your mother's
womb all these things became active you need to understand they were not active
when you were in your mother's soul otherwise you would know the whole human
physiology you didn't have to go to your medical school you know your eyes were
not open your perception was not open only after you came out it opened up
because without it you cannot survive if survival is all your seeking this is
fine but once you come as human somehow survival is not good enough isn't it
when survival is in question it's a big issue once it's taken care of it doesn't
mean anything isn't it so there is something within
you always longing for something more whoever you may be right now whatever
you may be right now you want to be something more than who you are right
now yes or no if that something more happens what what
you want something more if that's something more happens what's something
more it looks like you're looking for expansion okay we will make you the king
or queen of this planet now don't look at me hopefully you think I'll make such
a blunder suppose you become the king or queen of this planet
will you be fulfilled I am asking you you will look at the Stars
isn't it so there is something within you which wants to expand I'm asking how
much expansion would set you for good how much expansion would certainly feel
good hello unlimited you're looking for infinite
expansion a fantastic desire but hopeless method you're longing to become
boundless is wonderful see there is something within you which does not like
boundaries suppose I imprison you in a five by five cubicle right now you will
feel horribly imprisoned tomorrow we will liberate you in your ten by ten
cubicle you will feel wonderful for a day and again the same thing then we
will liberate you into 100 by 100 cubicle you will feel wonderful for
three days and again the same thing it doesn't matter where I set the boundary
the moment you can feel the boundary you want to break it yes there is something
within you which does not like boundaries there is something within you
constantly longing to become boundless you may be trying to settle this either
unconsciously or consciously if you are trying to settle it
unconsciously you think going out shopping will settle it it does for the
for a moment again tomorrow the same thing or reading a book will settle it
or conquering and something will settle it all this thing settles you for some
time and again the same thing the moment you can feel the boundary again it's a
problem isn't it there is something within you
longing to become boundless you need to understand this boundaries are
essentially the nature of the physical the physical exists in this universe the
physical exists in creation only because of defined boundaries I can call this a
physical body only because there is a defined boundary if I take away the
boundaries of this body could you call this physical if it is all over the
place would it be physical only because it stays within within a defined
boundary it's physical boundary is the nature of physical existence there is
something within you longing to go beyond all boundaries so if you touch a
dimension within you which is not physical in nature only then this will
settle is there such a thing well let's understand this when you were
born your body was only this much now it's become this much how did it happen
how did it happen the food that you've eaten isn't the
food that you've eaten so what you call as my body is a heap of food actually or
it's a piece of this planet physical is something that you've gathered over a
period of time yes physical is an accumulation what you accumulate at the
most you can claim it is mine it cannot be you isn't it it can be yours it can
never ever be you it can be mine it can never ever be me isn't it what you
gather can belong to you cannot become you but right now you are so identified
with things that you have gathered not only in the body in the mind your mind
is a heap of impressions that you've gathered your mind is a gathering your
body is a gathering both are accumulations between these two
things where are you a dimension beyond the physical which is the basis of all
this if you eat a piece of bread it transforms it into such a fantastic
machine that we call as human mechanism this human body is the most
sophisticated technology on the planet do you agree with me the iPhone users I
am asking you
because I see you so deeply engrossed in it you seem to think it's more than the
I now this is the highest level of Technology found on the planet
everything else is a small imitation of this isn't it and with what are you
manufacturing this with a piece of bread with the carrot with an apple with
whatever you eat just about anything that you eat even if you eat the so
called junk food even that is becoming wonderful technology so there is an
intelligence here there is a competence here which is capable of transforming a
piece of bread into such a highly sophisticated machine if only if you had
access to this intelligence consciously you would live your life magically not
miserably for sure so how often do you touch this every human being touches it
at some moment in his life if you can consciously touch it definitely you
would stay in touch with it isn't it if you accidentally touch it then it
happens accidentally most beautiful moments in people's lives unfortunately
are generally accidental people come and tell me Sadhguru I met such a wonderful
person I say stuff why are you not that wonderful person why is it that you
meeting such wonderful people if you are feeling absolutely wonderful anything
that you look at looks wonderful isn't it yes or no have you noticed this when
you are happy you appreciate everything when you're miserable everything is the
whole creation is a rubbish yes or no so this possibility is not in the Himalayan
cave this possibility is not geographically located in India this
possibility is here with every one of us whether we turn inward or we grind our
squandered our life outward that's all the choice you have because the
experience of life quality of your life is right now
determined not by what kind of clothes you wear what kind of car you parked
outside what kind of home you live in this moment what is the nature of your
experience is it immensely pleasant or unpleasant or see-sawing between the two
that determines the quality of your life
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