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Gautama, the Buddha, he was just 21, 22 years of age.

He cannot even have the time to get up and convince his wife.

In the middle of the night, a prince leaves like a thief.

Once you realize the limitations in which you're existing, you'll be in

urgency.

The very basis of your bondage is in your likes and dislikes.

Once you get into this trap of like and dislike, your intelligence is forsaken.

If you just become free from this process of liking and disliking, life

beyond is not a problem.

You've gotten stuck with one personality.

It'll be so much fun for you to change that. Your personality, we must maul it

every day because you can experience a whole new person all the time.

Seven days they're in Samyama, you'll just simply forget who you are. The

situation created is so intense.

Don't ever believe that rich people have more ego. Ego is anywhere there.

Whether you handle it sensibly or senselessly, that's the question.

What we need to bring in the world is not egolessness. What we need to bring

the world is just simple sense, life sense.

There is something within you which doesn't want to settle for just joyful

either. There is something that this life is longing for.

It's not a desire.

It's its destination.

Transformation means nothing of the old should remain.

Awareness is not something that you do.

The less you do, the more aware you become.

within yourself.

If you stop doing all your nonsense, you're spiritual.

The essence of life is in its process.

Where you got in the end is not the point really.

First become blissful, then destination will happen by itself.

There is always a manifold way in which

people make use of

the spiritual processes.

For some people, in many places,

spirituality and all the spiritual, what do

you call them?

What are those talks called in Hindi?

Pravachans.

All that pravachan, everything is just the escape from the mother -in -law or

cooking.

For some, it's an intellectual entertainment.

For some, they're seeking to learn something.

They want to know something new.

A few people are wanting to, you know, bring about some changes in their life.

They want to become little more peaceful, little more loving, little

something else.

Some change they want in their life.

Some people are looking for transformation.

You know the difference between change and transformation?

Hmm?

Transformation means nothing of the old should remain.

Change means

Improvement, self -improvement or transformation

or some people just try

really wanting to get lost into it, dissolve into it.

But many ways and people are approaching the same thing.

Which is the best way?

I wouldn't say which is the best way because according to each person's

that's how they seek.

You can't prescribe the best way to anybody.

Right now, generally the human nature is such that

whatever they don't have, that's what they will seek.

They don't have health, they're seeking health as if it's the ultimate thing.

If they don't have money, they're seeking money as if it's the ultimate

If they don't have love, they're seeking love as if it's the ultimate thing.

Whatever they don't have, that's what they're seeking.

That reminds me.

This happened when we were in Trichy.

You know Trichy? Trichy Napoli?

It's a medium -sized town in Tamil Nadu.

In high school, the teacher came and asked the students,

eighth or ninth grade children,

if God appears in front of you and gives you a boon,

what will you ask?

One boy said those days, you know, Maruti car.

I want a Maruti car.

Somebody said, I want a bicycle.

Somebody said, I want, you know, ten lakh rupees.

Like this they went on.

Then the teacher said, you idiots, what will you do with all these things?

Ask for intelligence.

Ask for knowledge, ask for intelligence.

Why are you asking for all these things?

So one boy stood up and said, everybody asks for what they don't have.

So, everybody is seeking what they don't

have.

Now if you go by this, when a human being goes by this process of asking for

what he doesn't have, then it's an endless process.

Because what is it that you have? What you have is so little.

If you go on asking for what you don't have, you need a thousand years and

you will be nowhere.

If you start seeking the next thing that you don't have, it's an endless

process, self -defeating process, isn't it?

It seems to be taking you somewhere, but it doesn't take you anywhere.

So, what is this about?

If you don't seek, if there is no seeking, you don't go anywhere, you

would you go to any place if there's nothing to seek?

Because that's the very basis of your activity, desiring and going after it,

isn't it?

The objects of desire may change and people may think one object is better

the other, but it's not so.

Whether you're seeking money or home or intelligence or knowledge or God or this

or that, desire is a desire, you know.

The object of desire just changes the directions of your destination but

change the process of life as such.

And the essence of life is in its process, isn't it?

Where you got in the end is not the point really.

In many ways, right now, the essence of life is how you're experiencing it right

now.

So, one's quality of life, if we are changing or if you're wanting to

experience life in a little better way or in a much better way, whatever,

changing the objects of desire is not going to make so much of a difference.

It's the way we handle the process which is going to make the Difference.

But even if life becomes very pleasant and beautiful experience, it has to

happen for every human being. But even if it happens, still you will see there

is something within you which doesn't want to settle for just joyful life

either.

You are very happy and after some time even that doesn't seem to be enough.

Because happiness is missing, right now the whole life seems to be pursuit of

happiness.

If you're joyful, then you will see it's not enough.

In fact, if you're very happy, you will do many more things than when you're

unhappy.

Isn't it so?

Because now you're charged and now there's nothing pulling you back.

You have all the enthusiasm to go about and do lots of things.

So there is something that this life is longing for.

It's not a desire.

It's its destination.

It is not something, a desire that you created or I created.

It is just longing to go towards a certain destination.

The only choice that we have is either to move towards this destination

consciously or unconsciously. Any way we are moving, whether to go towards it

consciously or unconsciously.

If we are dragged towards something unconsciously, even if we are dragged

towards heaven, we will suffer the dragging, isn't it?

Yes?

Now we grab you and we'll drag you out.

You don't know where you are being dragged.

You will suffer this.

We will take you and put you on a beautiful beach.

But that's later. But right now, all along from here to there, you are going

suffer it terribly, isn't it?

So if you walk towards anything or if life drags you towards a certain

and you are unconscious about it, you will suffer the process immensely.

So if you look at it consciously, if you go towards it consciously,

then the process becomes beautiful.

That's all the choice we have really.

And once we are conscious, we naturally hasten the process.

Whatever we are unconscious of, on that level we suffer.

You must understand this.

See, right now you are driving on the street.

You are completely unconscious of who is coming behind you, who is coming in

front of you.

Now you are going to get into one kind of physical suffering.

Because you are unaware of the physical reality, physical suffering will come.

Something is going to break, isn't it?

Now, you are unaware of what is happening in your body, another kind of

suffering will come.

You are unaware of what's happening in your mind, another kind of suffering

come. You are unaware of what's happening in your family, another kind

suffering will come.

Similarly, wherever you are unaware, that level of suffering, will come to

Is that so?

You're getting, this is holiday, you're getting dead serious.

Once a pirate, no pirate?

A pirate walked into the bar.

The bartender knew him from long ago.

He's seen him just the previous year and now he's come back after the

expeditions.

He looked at him and said, hey, what happened to you? You look terrible.

The poet said, no, I'm just feeling just about fine.

Then the bartender said, but what happened to your leg?

Why the wooden leg?

Oh, that we were just having a battle with another.

rival group, and I saw a cannonball coming straight at me. Before I could

it hit my right leg, and I'm doing quite fine with the wooden leg.

I'm pretty good.

Then the bartender said, what about the hook?

He said, left hand, you have a hook?

What happened to that?

Oh, we were just having a sword fight for fun, and my left hand got chopped

but I'm doing quite fine with this hook.

In fact, it's more useful than a hand.

Then he asked, what about the eye patch?

You lost one eye. What happened?

Oh, that I was just looking up at the sky and a bird poop fell

into my eyes.

Oh, come on.

Whoever heard of anybody losing their eyes for bird poop?

How would you lose your eyes for bird poop?

No, that was the first day I had my hook on.

Whatever you are unaware of, there you suffer.

There, that brings suffering to you.

So, we are talking about awareness, awareness, awareness.

Awareness is not something that you do actually.

In fact, the less you do, the more aware you become within

yourself. The less your activity becomes inside, what you call as me, the less

that becomes, the more your awareness becomes.

The less your personality becomes, the more your presence becomes always.

Personality means you have to do a lot to keep it up, isn't it?

Yes.

Most of the activity that you're doing to keep up your person is unconscious,

but you're doing enormous activity to maintain a certain personality, isn't

If that activity gets lowered, suddenly awareness gets heightened because

awareness is not something that you do.

The very life is awareness, isn't it?

The very basis of life is awareness.

You know that you're alive only because you're aware, isn't it?

If all awareness disappears, at least on this level we can call it death.

So, spirituality is not something that you do.

If you stop doing all your nonsense, you're spiritual, you know.

Unnecessary nonsense if you stop, spirituality is, you know.

It's not something that you have to do and make it happen or create it.

It's not so.

But still, why?

If that is so, why am I doing my pranayama in the morning? Oh!

That's because there is no brakes on your activity.

What you do within yourself, you have no brakes on it.

So, we are creating a certain physical,

mental and energy situation where everything gets diverted from your

activity.

Slowly the practice establishes a situation where the life energies raise

to a certain pitch and intensity that slowly the activity becomes

insignificant, it's still there.

It's still happening. You have seen this in Shunya meditation.

You just said, activity is still happening, but it's insignificant.

The same activity which was so significant has become insignificant.

We have not stopped it.

We have not done anything to hold it down, but somehow it has become not so

important.

You see this happening?

When you just sit and meditate in Shunya, everything is happening, but

more important.

It's lost its significance.

It's lost its impact upon you.

It's lost its influence upon you. It doesn't mould you anymore.

All the activity of the mind stops moulding you. You are no more being

by that activity.

This whole distortion

that we have done to life in the form of creating, Our person.

See, when you create your personality, because it's created mostly

unconsciously, just a small part of it may be conscious, the rest of it is all

unconscious, isn't it?

When you create your personality,

somewhere, in one way it means, somewhere you thought,

Creator has not done a good enough job on you, isn't it?

If it needs improvement, definitely he did not do a good enough job on you,

isn't it?

So why would you feel that such a grand creation is not good enough?

Something that's so enormous and fantastic is not good enough, why?

Because in this simple process of self -preservation, you know, there

is a simple basic process which is built into every cell in our body. Every

worm, insect, animal has this. We also have it.

This simple process of self -preservation, we don't know where to

It has just spread itself into everything.

Because it spread itself into everything, you have to create a small

yourself who will defend himself all the time.

As we've been looking at in the programs, the only thing that needs

is your physical body.

Your personality, we must maul it every day. It should be okay, isn't it?

If every day if we can make mincemeat out of your personality, you could

another one tomorrow morning, isn't it?

Isn't it so?

We've been trying to do that gently because if I go very hard at it, you'll

away.

Gently, step by step, we're trying to make mints meet out of your personality

that it becomes a flexible aspect. You cannot live without a personality.

You need one to exist here, to go about in the world, do all your work, manage

things.

But if it's a flexible thing,

that in different places, as it is necessary for the situation, you can put

the right kind of personality, then it would be fine.

But right now, it is like a rock. It sits on you all the time.

Anything that doesn't fit into its ambit, it makes you suffer, isn't it?

Who drew this caricature that you call as myself?

Definitely yourself, but influenced by so many people around you.

You know, you're 15, 16, you go and watch a Mithabachan movie, you come home

try to walk like him unconsciously.

Yes, isn't it?

Sometimes maybe consciously, but most of the time unconsciously, isn't it?

So,

This caricature came into existence because of all kinds of bits and pieces

are gathered.

It happened when we were in school.

There was a boy who was studying with me who had an excellent hand, you know,

he could just sketch anybody.

with whatever kind of distortion he wanted.

So, there was one very hated geography teacher

and

when he entered the class, this boy had a

horrible caricature of him ready.

on the blackboard.

Badly distorted but everybody can clearly recognize who it is.

With all kinds of very bad distortions on him.

Then he walked in and as usual he walks into the class always with a temper.

Whether he is talking about the grasslands in America

or he talks about the deserts in Africa, he's always in bad temper.

The moment he saw, he just, one thing he was angry,

another thing he was somehow hit by the whole thing, the distortions.

Then he asked, who is responsible for this terrible atrocity?

As usual, you know, everybody is suddenly interested in geography, very

studious.

Then he repeated again,

who is responsible for this atrocity?

He thinks it's an atrocity.

We thought it was an appropriate thing.

Then,

Somebody made up their mind and stood up and said, we really don't know,

but it should be his parents.

For this atrocity that you call as myself, it's not your parents.

This is you.

Only you can commit this atrocity of distorting yourself into such a tiny

possibility when an unbounded possibility was what you were offered.

With life, you were offered an unbounded possibility.

You made such a bad distortion and made yourself into such a tiny, Possibility.

If you stop creating this caricature, because this caricature cannot exist one

day without your support.

You need to support it all the time.

What meditation means, means in one way you're just withdrawing the support

for your personality.

That's all.

Suddenly it collapses.

Only the presence is there. The person is no more there.

If you could walk on the street like this, if you could operate with people

this all the time, that you have no personality, but looking at this person

this moment how she is, accordingly you put up a personality as it is necessary

for this person.

Now you go to that person, you put up a personality that is necessary for that

person, then it would be so much fun drawing new, new caricatures every day.

But once you get stuck to a particular distortion, that becomes a problem.

Every day if you have a new distortion, it's called art.

Isn't it?

If you're stuck with one distortion, then you're called a freak.

Isn't it?

Isn't it so?

Every day if you're able to create a new distortion, that is artwork, isn't it?

If you're stuck with one distortion, you're a cripple.

So that's the big difference.

Namaskaram Sadhguru.

In different situations, I have to put on a different personality.

But if I suddenly change it tomorrow, it can lead to a lot of friction.

So how can I make my personality flexible?

You mean the people around you won't let you change it?

No. No, no.

See, right now, let's say you're going to your work, you know.

We'll take the work situation because it's less personal for you.

You are going to work with a certain attitude and a certain… certain person

going to work, which is you right now.

Let's say he goes briskly like that every day, good morning, good morning,

morning. Don't mean a good morning to anybody.

The way people say good morning, it's very clear they intend to give you a bad

morning.

So, suppose you are going like this.

Tomorrow morning, if you go, really say good morning to people and smile at them

and maybe hold their hand and ask a personal question, talk to them and go

maybe you'll waste five, ten minutes going into your office.

But if people around you are happy, you'll have lot of extra time on your

because they'll run around and do things better.

Isn't it?

If you have people who are sitting there with a grouse, then, you know, they

will make your life miserable in so many ways.

Not one way.

You have to live with them. But these people have the grouse against you.

They are going to make your life so bad, isn't it?

Now, can I change my personality every day? Won't it confuse people?

Not at all. They would enjoy you more.

Isn't it so?

And will it bring down your efficiency of work?

Definitely not.

It is not because of the compulsion of the situation you've gotten stuck with

one personality.

It is just that the whole construction of the personality has happened in

unawareness. That's why you're stuck with one personality.

Now you said we have one kind of personality at home, another with

another with, you know, work and outside.

If you look at it, it may not be true.

You may be functioning in different capacities.

The requirement of how you function may be different.

But still the basic personality may be same everywhere.

The underlying personality is still the same.

You can change that also and it will be so much fun for you to change that.

It will be absolute fun for you to change that because you can experience a

whole new person all the time.

After all, it's your creation.

So why should it be limited to just one way?

If God had fixed a personality for you, that's all there is.

But when you have built it, like you change your clothes every day in

ways, isn't it?

But most people cannot even change that, isn't it?

They have gotten used to certain thing and that's all it is, isn't it so?

You are stuck to one personality.

Just the actions are different because the situations are different.

But the person is same, isn't it?

So the person is same because what your personality is has become you. You are

completely identified with it.

There is no distinction between you and your personality, isn't it?

You have become that. The mask has gotten stuck to your face now. You can't

away the mask.

If this mask has to come off, we need something to loosen the glue which has

gotten stuck to this.

It is identity.

So now we are creating various situations where your identity dissolves

certain way.

Meditation or any kind of yoga practice, whatever it is, just to loosen the

identity so that there is a little more flexibility about it. Maybe the whole of

it has not come off, but at least you can adjust it a little bit.

With a mask being totally stuck, at least little bit you are able to take a

breather. That much break it is giving you. But if you work a little more with

this, you can take it and keep it off.

Now people, when they come to advanced programs, three days or seven days

they're in Samyama or Bhav Spandana, the person that you are, you'll just simply

forget who you are. You don't know who you are. It'll become like that because

the situation created is so intense and so different.

Everything that you know as normal is broken.

After some time, you don't know who is here.

After the program is over and you come back, you just wonder, is it me who went

through all that?

Most people can't believe that they actually went through Samyama and came.

simply because it's created like that, the whole situation.

Not only the meditation process, the situation also is created in such a way

that it doesn't assist your personality in any way.

The whole thing is to take off all the support because your personality cannot

exist for a moment without your support.

If you involve yourself in any intense activity, it could loosen up a little

bit.

But that is haphazard.

For example, let's say you go and play a game.

Those moments of total involvement, you may lose your personality.

But that is a haphazard way of attempting it.

Now we are looking at how to approach it scientifically, how to dismantle this,

all the scaffolding that is holding it up.

If you have noticed this, people who are very, very committed and enjoying the

process of working, they always have more flexible personalities.

than people who are working towards a goal.

Is it so? Have you noticed this?

Because just the involvement with the work, total involvement, those moments

personality becomes little loose.

But people who are working towards a goal, that they want this to happen,

people have strong personalities always.

The fundamental basis for your personality, the building blocks, for

personality is likes and dislikes.

I like this, I don't like this. A complex system of likes and dislikes is

your personality is, isn't it?

See, what's the difference between you and the next person?

Your likes and dislikes are different, isn't it?

Now, the basis of yoga is just this, to help you beyond dislikes and dislikes.

Whether we are talking responsibility or inevitability or whatever else we are

talking, fundamentally it is to destroy the process of like and dislike.

See, existing in the world with likes and dislikes is a very foolish way to

exist.

But unfortunately, the logical mind thinks, I'll do what I like, this is my

freedom.

The very basis of your bondage is in your likes and dislikes.

But your mind makes you believe doing what you like is your freedom.

Isn't it? All the time, everywhere in the world people believe doing what I

is freedom.

Please look at it carefully. The very fundamental basis of your bondage is in

like and dislike.

To operate sensibly here, even in the physical realm I'm saying, even to

with your work or family, whatever,

Likes and dislikes make you do stupid things.

I like this person, I don't like this person.

Now, I cannot function from what is needed in this moment, isn't it?

Isn't it so?

Now, I don't like this person. Even if this person is doing something

I cannot see it anymore.

Do you see this happening to yourself?

I like this person. Even if they are doing terrible things, I cannot see it

anymore.

Isn't it so?

Because the moment you get trapped in this like and dislike, you have no

discretion. You lost your discretion.

Your intelligence is forsaken.

Your awareness is simply impossible once you get trapped in likes and dislikes.

The moment you say, I like this, getting identified with it is very normal.

It's a natural process.

You don't have to say, I'm going to identify with this light bulb. If you

say, I like this light bulb, you get identified with it. The process will

happen.

See, life is set up in such a way for you so that life happens automatically.

You just have to sit here and enjoy the bounty of life.

But now the problem is, we are setting this forth in a wrong direction.

So it is creating suffering.

Suppose if it was all in your hands, you have to like it, you have to get

involved with it, it's everything is yours, it would be a terrible effort to

live, isn't it?

Now it's all set up well, you know, the whole software is so well set up.

If you just say, I like this, getting involved in it, get dreaming about it,

this, that, that, everything just happens by itself, isn't it?

Everything that is necessary to take you in that direction just happens, isn't

it so?

So, this is just life assisting you, but it has no discretion.

If you like hell, it will take you to hell.

It happened once.

The HR director in a corporation died and went to heaven.

There, Saint Peter said,

See, because you are the first HR person to come to heaven,

we will give you a choice.

If you want, you can stay in heaven because you got the passport.

But before you go to heaven, if you want, you can have a view of hell.

If you wish to stay there, you can also stay there.

This is a lady head chairperson. She said, no, why would I want to go to

want to go to heaven.

He said, why wouldn't you want to have a look at it?

She said, okay.

She got in the elevator, went down.

Then the elevator doors opened and it opened into a beautiful garden

on the poolside.

Very beautiful people are swimming, you know, sand bathing and there's a

wonderful golf course and then a nice clubhouse, the works.

She said, this is great hell.

She had a view of that and then Saint Peter said, okay, you have a view of

heaven, then you choose.

Then she got in the elevator, it went up.

Supposed to be down and up, okay?

That's a direction, at least you better know.

Now we are down.

So, there they opened the doors and then we saw lots of clouds, people just

floating in the clouds, playing harp and, you know.

She said, okay, this is also fine, but I think I'll go to hell.

All my friends are there.

This golf, I'll go.

So, they put her in the elevator.

She just went down and again the doors opened.

It was a harsh desert.

Everybody all dried up without food, in terrible condition, everything.

She said, what is this?

Last time when I came, there was a garden, there was a pool, there was a

course. What happened?

So they said, that was just the first day, you know.

Now you are staffed.

That was the interview.

Now you're staff.

All your life you did this to people.

So, this is your choice.

Your personality.

I don't know, if you're working in places, at least

If you're HR, is there anybody HR?

Especially if you're HR, maybe, you also?

You're supposed to size up a person, you know.

Somebody new walks into your office, you're supposed to size them up, where

will fit into this whole machine of an organization.

So,

If you're willing to look, people's personalities are always hanging out,

know.

They need not say anything, they need not do anything. If you just look at

properly, the very way they stand, sit, you don't need any great yogic

intuition.

Simply, simple observation of a person, the very way they stand, the way they

hold their hands, the way they smile, the way they do things, their

is just hanging out of them.

So, it's so obvious to everybody except to yourself, you know.

That's the whole thing.

So many small aspects of your personality, you yourself do not know

somebody comments about it, isn't it?

Isn't it so?

how can we help them stay focused on the targets without a sense of ahankara?

About ahankara, I know what's ahankara.

Every day I face it.

So about ahankara, it's not only people

who are, you know, making big money or big achievements in the world who have

ahankar.

Even the beggar on the street has the same level of ahankar.

But right now he cannot afford to flaunt it.

You just see in the traffic, somebody is driving one little moped,

somebody else is driving a Mercedes.

Just see who is more egoistic.

Just watch the traffic.

Have you noticed this? Who is more egoistic?

The little guy in the moped is more egoistic than anybody. He goes with

disregard for everybody else around him.

Isn't it so?

Isn't it so?

The man who is driving a broken down Fiat as a taxi driver is much more, it's

not even his car, he is much more egoistic than the man who is driving a

Mercedes out there, isn't it?

So,

Ego has nothing to do with one's success.

It is just that when they are successful, it finds easy expression.

afford to, you know, throw it around a little bit.

People who are not hold it back and boil inside and make themselves sick.

But the level of ego is not different.

Don't ever believe that rich people have more ego, poor people have less ego.

Not at all.

You go to the remotest villages in the country and see for even a little bit

egoistic people are and how they fight and how they quarrel and how much

nonsense they create in the village. Do you know?

The tiniest of the bit, they won't give in.

You know this in the villages?

They will kill for a little thing, but they won't step back.

But a big businessman is willing to step back when he knows it's not it, isn't

it?

Isn't it so?

He's got that much sense.

He'll wait for the next day. At least today he's willing to bow down and step

back, isn't it?

But that guy is willing to die.

He won't step back.

So ego is not in any way connected with one's success or well -being.

It is just that ego is anyway there.

Whether you handle it sensibly or senselessly, that's the question.

Isn't it? Don't you have ego?

It is there.

Whether you're handling it sensibly or senselessly is the only question, isn't

it?

The same goes for wealth.

Wealth people have in different levels, okay? You have ten rupees, somebody has

hundred crores.

But this is also wealth, isn't it?

So the question is just how sensibly you… Handle it, what you have.

So what we need to bring in the world is not egolessness. What we need to bring

in the world is just simple sense, life sense.

Right now people have only ego sense, no life sense.

They need life sense, isn't it?

Right now people are ego sensitive.

They are not life sensitive.

Instead of being ego -sensitive, if you become life -sensitive, then ego is not

a problem.

So all the yoga that you do is fundamentally to bring that sensitivity

life rather than being ego -sensitive.

If you're sensitive to life, if you're life -sensitive, you would recognize

every life as life, isn't it?

When you're ego -sensitive, only your life, nobody else's life.

Isn't it?

You can trample upon anything and anybody because only you are life.

Nobody else is life when you're ego -sensitive.

If you're life -sensitive, in your experience everything is life.

Naturally you would behave very sensibly with every other life around you, isn't

it?

I know there's too much talk that's gone on in the world about

destroying the ego, you know.

From the scriptures they picked it up.

Too much unnecessary talk about the ego.

Nobody knows where it is.

Does anybody know where ego is?

Somebody is behaving in a crude way.

You say he is egoistic.

No, that's the way he is in his experience, isn't it?

Does he have a clear distinction between what is he and what is his ego?

Nothing, isn't it?

Whenever a personality turns ugly, you're calling it ego.

Now, this is one more way of passing the buck.

You just see, when your personality turns ugly, you just see it's you

that's your experience. Don't say it's my ego.

It's a way of escaping.

If you see I am ugly, you will want to do something about it. If you think, oh,

that's my ego.

It's just like saying, that's my jeans, that's my stars, that's my something

else.

Don't pass it to anything. Just say, I'm ugly right now.

If you say, I'm ugly, you know you don't want to be that way, isn't it?

See, we are evolving so many strategies just to avoid the possibility.

Now, in your experience, what is you is you.

Whether at a certain moment you're beautiful or another moment you're ugly,

are you, isn't it?

Keep it that way.

Don't create things which are not there. Your ego, your atman, your this one,

your that one, don't create those things.

The moment you create that, then you yourself will not go through any

transformation. If you see whatever nonsense I am, that which is beautiful

is me, that which is ugly in me is still me.

If you see this, what is ugly will naturally start changing.

If you think this is my ego, that will continue as it is.

What is beautiful is my atman, what is ugly is my ego.

No transformation possible, isn't it?

If you see whatever it is, it's me.

The whole thing about responsibility we are going on is just that, to just

understand everything that is me is me.

Good happens or bad happens, beautiful happens or horrible happens, it's me.

Once you see this, you have to transform. You can't help it.

Namaskaram Sadhguru.

How can I rise beyond likes and dislikes? Should I just do the opposite

I like or dislike?

That's it.

That's it. This is done. Okay.

In the morning, we start our day with a neem ball, not with coffee.

Morning, your body wants to sleep, but we'll wake it up.

Four o 'clock in the morning, morning your body would like a warm bath, cold

water shower.

You would want to be lazy, yogasana.

Yes.

So, whatever your physical nature says, just saying the

opposite of that is asceticism, you know.

The physical dimension of you, whatever it says, you say the opposite. That's

what hatha means.

You know hatha yoga?

Hatha means one level, it is sun and moon. And another level hatha means, you

know what's hatha?

Is there a word like that in Hindi?

Hatha.

Stubborn or… Okay.

Being adamant.

So,

Just being absolutely adamant with the physical nature of you.

Whatever your body says I want, just do the opposite.

So, if this is done with the right sense of awareness, yes, it is a good method.

But not necessarily so.

It is not necessary everybody has to go this way.

There are gentler ways of doing it.

If you are a hard nut, that's the best way to do it.

If you are sensible, there are gentler ways of doing it.

Now, dislike and dislike.

See, the reason why you have developed dislikes and dislikes is,

you think that is the best way to handle the world, isn't it?

Otherwise, how would I know?

See, this is a bad person.

If I don't dislike her, maybe I will go and end up in her hands.

This is the understanding inside, isn't it?

This is a good person.

So if I like her, naturally I am drawn to what I like.

If I like good things in the world, I am drawn towards good things. If I dislike

bad things, I am repelled from bad things. It is this fundamental defense

mechanism or

fundamentally you are operating from your instinct of self -preservation.

As I am repeatedly saying, self -preservation is only for the physical

Other aspects of you need not be preserved.

Every day it should be demolished. When you go to bed in the morning, you should

sit up and think, okay, today what kind of person shall I be?

What's the act today?

Morning first thing, cat act. Then what?

Okay.

But once you establish like and dislike, you have no choice tomorrow morning.

Isn't it?

You have no choice tomorrow morning. You're all well protected.

See, people who develop strong sense of like and dislike seem to be more

confident about life.

Simply because strong sense of like and dislike.

Strong sense of like and dislike gives you a super confident air about you.

And everybody else thinks you're good because you can walk into anything, you

know. With this, success may come sometimes.

But at the same time, terrible things may happen, isn't it?

When you're blindly confident, success may happen accidentally.

It can also cause disasters.

And definitely, internally it will not do any good thing to you because it

you absolutely sure of everything.

Anybody who is absolutely sure of everything means he has kept his

in cold storage.

An intelligent person is constantly looking about everything, every step you

looking. But people want to be confident.

I want people to be confused, but not afraid of their confusions.

Not distorted with confusion, but every moment you don't know what it is and

you're looking.

Now if you're looking like this, everything, the world has to open to you

because your intelligence is constantly at work, not your prejudice. Like and

dislike is a prejudice, isn't it?

Isn't it so?

The moment you like something or dislike something, you can't see it the way it

is.

What you like looks pleasant, what you dislike looks unpleasant.

Every day just seeing how many distortions people are doing to their

simply because they like somebody and dislike somebody.

Such ugly distortions, isn't it?

But they are not aware of it.

They are so terribly prejudiced, but they are not aware of it. They think

are okay, isn't it?

Because once you get into this trap of like and dislike, your intelligence will

not function.

So one aspect of the work that I am doing right now is to leave people

thoroughly confused and happily confused.

If you are very joyful and absolutely confused about everything, it's a good

state to be because now you are constantly looking, all the time

know anything.

but all the time looking. When you look, you see.

When you don't look, you don't see. You just imagine, isn't it?

See, right now, whatever we are talking here, whatever I am speaking, there is

nothing that you yourself could not have seen.

Do you see this?

But you don't see, simply because you are prejudiced by likes and dislikes.

You're not looking at people and things and life just the way it is.

If you do not know what is what, you look at everything fresh, isn't it?

If you think this is good, this is bad, now you no more look at it.

It's a conclusion.

Conclusion means death.

Confusion means possibility.

Now this is very bad, isn't it?

All your life they told you, you must be confident, you must know what you're

doing.

People who think that they know what they're doing, they don't know the

fundamentals of life.

People who are aware that they don't know what they're doing have a

Any aspect of your life, you take it, sincerely look at it. Do you know what

hell you're doing?

Whether it's your work or family or any damn thing, do you really know what

you're doing?

You're terribly identified with something and you think you know.

But if you sincerely look at it, you don't know why you're doing what you're

doing, isn't it?

Isn't it so?

And what's wrong in facing it?

I'm always insisting, one thing, one absolute thing that everybody must do to

themselves is being hundred percent straight with themselves.

If this, if you're not willing to be straight with yourself,

Don't even think in terms of ultimate reality.

Because if you want to deceive this one, you're finished.

You want to deceive the whole world, that's up to you.

I won't say anything about it because I don't want to teach you moralities and

ethics and things like that.

That's up to you.

If you try to deceive everybody around you, you'll have a consequence.

You're willing to face it, it's up to you.

But if you want to deceive this one constantly,

That means you're lost for good, isn't it?

So with this one thing you must be straight.

Look at it and see.

Your rights and wrongs, do you really know what's right and wrong?

Do you really know what's good and bad?

Do you really know what's the right thing to do with your life?

At a certain moment we decide something because of so many factors, okay, this

is the thing to do, isn't it?

This clarity will come to you not because you have concluded.

With conclusion, no clarity will come. With conclusion, you only get

Clarity will come simply because you are unwilling to conclude about anything.

You're just looking at everything the way it is.

So the moment you establish likes and dislikes, you are clouded.

You have no clarity to your vision. What is right in front of you, you will not

see all your life.

So you want to start with the name ball, it's good.

You should.

For you, Hatha Yoga is good because all your life you focused on just pampering

yourself.

So you must do Hatha Yoga for some time.

Do you feel like doing this? Just do the river.

You like to do this? Just do the river.

You will see, it will beat your personality down. It will not completely

away.

But at least, It will beat down the existing personality and make it feel

humiliated.

If somebody else humiliates you, it's a problem.

If you are willing to humiliate yourself, it's good, you know.

It will bring humility.

If somebody else humiliates you, it brings disgrace.

But if you humiliate yourself, it will bring humility, isn't it?

That's good for you.

Now, is this Hatha Yoga like creating a problem and then solving it? No, not

really. This is not like how the religions are going on, creating guilt

about something and then trying to fix it with forgiveness and this and that.

This is not that kind of thing.

This is coming from a certain awareness.

Understanding that likes are a bigger bondage than dislikes, always.

Have you noticed this?

What you like is always a much bigger bondage than what you dislike.

What you dislike, you can set it very easily, isn't it?

What you like… See, people go to Kashi or Varanasi, they're supposed to give up

what they like. But usually they give up bitter gourd and come back.

Because they don't like it anyway.

They want to give up something that they don't like.

Giving up something that you don't like is always easy, isn't it?

Very easy little drop -off.

But what you like has a huge bondage. It doesn't matter where you go, it draws

you, isn't it?

So Hatha Yoga helps in that way. But this is not a treatment like the

are giving you, whatever you do, you make… make you feel guilty and then they

will absolve you with forgiveness or confession or this or that or whatever

different methods every religion has.

That is more like

On a certain day, one man was walking

on the seafront and a salesperson approached

him and said, Sir, toothbrush, one thousand rupees.

He said, What?

Toothbrush, one thousand rupees?

That's robbery.

Are you not ashamed?

The salesperson looked genuinely hurt and then he put his hand into his bag

and pulled out a packet and said, Sir, chocolate cookie,

just five rupees.

Ah, that's more like it.

He paid five rupees, bought the chocolate cookie, opened it, put it in

and said, Yuck, that tastes like shit.

The salesperson said, it is, sir.

How about a toothbrush, sir? No.

So, you know, it's being run like this.

Give you something, make you feel bad about it and then give you a solution.

Hatha Yoga is not like that.

It's understanding that likes are a much bigger bondage than dislikes.

If you do prayer, you will always pray for what you like, isn't it?

That is going to lead you into huge bondage.

That's a terrible bondage.

You will see these people who are praying and praying and asking for this

that and that, you will see they will get deeper and deeper entangled over a

period of time.

all the time crying to God. They have somebody to listen to them all the time,

so it's okay.

Nobody else has to bear with it, you know.

That's his problem.

So, it goes on and on, it gives them some relief and they carry on. But you

see, once you start investing life in terms of strong likes and

start using every kind of method, especially prayer is a powerful method,

start using this, you will see the bondage becomes deeper and deeper and

Maybe some of those things will come true in your life because you're

so much attention on it.

They may happen. What you like and you ask for may happen.

But the more they happen, the more you're getting into the trap.

So, should I not have the pleasant things around me?

See, having things around you and even acquiring things, The things that you

want can happen without any strong sense of like and dislike.

Something is beautiful.

It's beautiful.

You want a beautiful thing around you, so you have it.

But it need not become a kind of compulsive liking, you know.

You enjoy it.

Now there is a thorn bush on the way.

You don't have to dislike it.

But you step away from it naturally, isn't it?

Do you dislike the thorn bush?

See, even if you don't dislike it, just the necessary action will anyway happen,

isn't it?

Similarly, even with liking, even if you don't like it, if something is

beautiful, the necessary action will happen.

So, we brought the flowers inside, not the thorns.

You don't have to develop a huge liking for them and bring them. They're

beautiful, they're fragrant, so you bring them, that's all.

You bring them here for their quality, not because you like them.

Do you understand the difference?

You brought these flowers inside because of their essential quality, because

they are like that.

Not because I like them or you like them, isn't it?

So once you handle your life like this, you still have everything that you would

like to have around you.

But you are not trapped in this like and dislike business.

You can have the whole world around you today, all the riches in the world

around you, enjoy it thoroughly, but tomorrow morning if it is gone also, it

makes no difference because you have no bondage of liking with it.

You just enjoyed it when it was there, that's all.

And that will extend itself to every aspect of your life, including your own

body.

You like your body very much actually.

You know, there's a very deep sense of liking towards your own body, isn't it?

However it may be, nobody in the world may like it, but you like it, okay?

Because there is a very deep sense of like and identification with the body.

cannot identify yourself with something if you don't like it.

Isn't it so?

So, if you just become free from this process of liking and disliking, you

see, you take your body for a walk every day, but you're not it.

That will become the reality with you.

Once it's like this, life is not a problem, you know.

Life here and beyond is not a problem.

Once you walk your body up and down, but you don't, you're not stuck to it, then

your life here and beyond.

is not a problem anymore. It gets handled by itself.

Namaskaram Sadhguru.

How did you learn so many moral values?

Nobody could.

put any morality into me.

I never learnt any morals in my life.

I operate out of my humanity, not out of my morality.

Now only because you have forgotten your humanity, somebody has to teach you

morality, isn't it?

Isn't it so?

Only because your humanity is not active and alive, somebody has to teach you

morality so that you can pretend like a human being, otherwise you will behave

like an animal.

Isn't it? Why morality has been taught? Because lot of human beings forgot that

they are humans.

They went about like animals.

Then we taught morality with this.

They did not get any humanity. At least they learned to pretend like humans.

But still they are animals.

Isn't it so?

So I never had such problems.

I operate out of my humanity.

So I am absolutely immoral.

Really.

I have no sense of right and wrong in me.

It's just out of my humanity what's needed I do.

On a certain day,

A little boy, a six, seven -year -old boy

was sitting in the garden

next to the, you know, the garden wall to the neighbor, just sitting there and

patting a mound of earth.

It's a very lively boy and the neighbor is always

you know, conscious that what this boy may do, you know, he may come into the

garden, pluck this or do that, that all this, it's on his mind. Like right now

in the class, everybody, the moment you raise your hand, what may happen, what

may happen, you know, they're all anxious, but little deliciously anxious,

so it's okay.

So he came and looked at him and say,

Looked at the cheeky young fellow and asked, Hey Tommy, what are you doing?

So little Tommy looked up tearfully and he said, My goldfish died.

I'm just burying him.

Then the neighbor looked at it and said, That's a very big mound of earth for a

goldfish. Very big hole for a goldfish.

Why such a big hole?

He said, my goldfish is inside your cat.

Right now, some of them are having such intention.

I'm becoming aware of the rigidity within and I've also realized that I am

biggest enemy.

You have an enemy, you must kill him.

Only then you can live in peace, isn't it?

Either he must become your friend.

If there's no way to become a friend, you must kill him.

Isn't it so?

If you have a very active enemy, is there any other choice?

Is there any other choice or you don't like it?

It's very immoral.

But in life, is there any other choice? Either you must make friends with him or

you must kill him.

This is the only way to solve the problem, isn't it?

If he's an active enemy, isn't it so?

Whether it's outside or inside, that's the way you handle it, isn't it?

Either you must make friends with him or you must kill him. Which are you ready

for?

Now India, Pakistan.

Either we have to make friends with them or we must destroy them.

There is really no other way, isn't it so?

Yes? Whether you mentally approve it or not, that's all that's going to happen

anyway, isn't it?

Then how do we do that?

How do we do that?

You'll never kill what's dear to you, isn't it?

So your enemy somewhere inside is very dear to you, isn't it?

You remember, you know, five thousand years ago, that very

popular playboy said, no, you don't remember?

You don't know who?

I thought you knew.

That very popular and hopeless playboy said,

if you must kill, you must start with the dearest ones.

If you go beyond killing, that's wonderful.

But if it's your nature that you must kill,

You start with what is dearest to you, five.

So, right now, what is dearest to you right now?

Yes.

So, how to kill this myself?

When you say myself, it is just a person, isn't it?

It's just a person.

On the surface you say, oh, I want to improve myself, I want to do this, I

to transform myself.

But somewhere inside, you like this person too much.

Anything that you like, can you change?

Can you change?

You cannot.

If you dislike, you can change.

If you like, you cannot change.

So, we have set forth these kind of things.

Now, who is robbing whom?

Is your personality robbing you of your possibilities?

Or the world is robbing you of possibilities?

or people around you and your so -called duties are robbing the possibilities,

you must look at it clearly.

If you look at it, you will see nobody is robbing the possibility of you

becoming spiritual.

People always complain, I want to be, but my husband doesn't allow me to

meditate, my wife says this, this, this, he won't allow me to do yoga.

It's not true.

Nobody is stopping you from the possibility.

It is only you who is robbing yourself of that possibility.

One day, what beach is this?

Hmm? Aksar.

An affluent looking man was walking on the Aksar beach.

Suddenly one man appeared, pulled a knife out, pointed it at him and said,

me all your money.

The affluent man took it as an affront and said, you can't do this to me. You

know who I am?

I am a cabinet minister.

Then that guy brought the knife closer to his throat and said, okay, give me my

money.

So who is robbing whom must be clear to you.

So when you see

This one is a real problem.

Genuinely. On the surface, everybody will say, Oh, I am a real problem.

I am the greatest problem. Even in a problem, you want to be the greatest

problem. You know?

See, somebody, have you seen these people saying, I am the greatest fool in

world.

Yes?

Even if you are a fool, you want to be the greatest fool, you know.

You don't want to be a simple, ordinary idiot.

You want to be a great idiot in that.

Once greatness is attached to anything, you can't drop that, isn't it?

Isn't it so?

Once greatness is attached to anything, can you drop it?

If you think I am a great idiot, can you drop your idiotic nature?

You cannot, you know.

You just see you are a common idiot because

every other idiot is doing the same thing.

Isn't it so?

When you see you are just a mediocre idiot, now you don't want to be that.

I am my greatest enemy.

No.

You are just a stupid enemy like anybody.

Very easily you could be brushed aside.

But because you make yourself into a great enemy, You cannot brush this

So, you need to just see that

who you are right now or what you call as myself right now is propped up by

many things which are around you.

Maybe your home, Maybe your husband, maybe your child, maybe your wealth,

your jewels, maybe your clothes, maybe your career, maybe something.

Are all of them put together?

It's all these things which you're calling as myself actually, isn't it?

You have not found any other substance as myself truly.

It is just these things which you're calling as myself.

So, maybe that's where the key is.

You don't have to start disliking your family or your work or this or that.

At the same time, you don't glorify it.

You just don't learn not to glorify it.

You look at your children and you think, oh, they're so beautiful.

They are not. They're just like any other kids.

You know, isn't it so?

Isn't that the reality?

Okay, you tell them, you tell your wife you are the most beautiful woman, but

you don't believe it.

That's part of the management.

I'm not against managing life.

You have to manage, isn't it?

Every aspect of your life has to be managed or no?

If you don't manage it properly, it will make you suffer.

Whether it's children or wife or husband or work or whatever, if you don't

manage it properly, they'll make you suffer, isn't it?

So you have to manage them, that's different.

But you don't believe all that nonsense.

The moment you believe, then you become your own enemy.

So, just one half a day you sit down by yourself.

And see, all the things that mean so much to you, why is it that they mean so

much to you?

Now, I'm not talking personally to you.

Now, why your husband means so much to you? He's not the greatest man in the

world.

He means so much to you because somewhere he belongs to you, isn't it?

Yes?

He's mine. That is why he's such a wonderful man.

If he suddenly belongs to somebody else tomorrow, he'll be the most horrible

man.

Yes or no?

So his greatness is not in his quality.

His greatness is in just a hype that you're creating because if your husband

a horrible creature, obviously, you know, you are the one who made that

It lowers you, isn't it?

See, now we brought in these flowers here because the flowers are beautiful.

Not because we like it, because they are beautiful.

But you brought a husband, wife, child, this, that, whatever to the state that

they are, not necessarily because they are ugly or beautiful.

They may be ugly, they may be beautiful, they may be anything, you don't know

what they are.

But you are holding them the way you are holding them, simply because they are

yours, isn't it?

Isn't it so?

You are not looking at life as life.

You are looking at some part of life as yours, some part of life as not yours.

Now you are looking at it this way because that is the only way you can

what you call as myself right now.

Unless you make all these people beautiful, my husband, my child, my

this thing, everything is beautiful, you can't feel good.

So, in a certain way, you are using them like A prop for

yourself to feel good, isn't it?

Just see if you pull any of those props today, you will feel terrible, isn't it

so? Yes?

Not because a certain life has gone away or not because something has happened

to certain life.

It is not your concern for life which does this. It is just your self -concern

that if you pull these props, you will be destroyed. Everything that you

consider myself as myself will be falling apart, isn't it?

So, you don't have to physically remove those supports.

But within yourself, slowly you must pull off those supports.

So, all these devices that they taught you, nothing is important, just say

Shiva, Shiva, Shiva all the time. Or if you can't say Shiva, you just, you know,

focus on something else, you know, your own favorite god or goddess.

All these kinds of things they taught you or they told you in the spiritual

path, the general thing is, You have only one relationship in your life,

your guru, because you can't get entangled with him anyway, because he's

willing to be entangled with you.

So, every other relationship, if you give out one finger, they'll give out

fingers and catch you.

Isn't it?

Isn't it?

If you just nibble them with one finger, they'll catch you with all their

fingers.

So here, this one relationship, you can grab him as much as you want.

He's not going to grab you anyway.

So, just using it in certain way so that you pull out the props without damaging

yourself.

Right now, if you simply pull out the props, you may break apart.

So, take off all the props and just keep one prop.

They will come back and pull out that prop.

This does not mean you have to leave your family and go. This does not mean

cannot care for them.

This does not mean you do not appreciate them. No. In fact, you can truly

appreciate everybody the way they are when they are neither yours or not

You just see everybody for who they are and just appreciate them for what they

are, isn't it?

Isn't it so? You can experience another human being truly the way they are when

they are neither yours nor not.

When you neither like them nor dislike them, you simply see them and enjoy them

the way they are.

You will see every human being will become like a wonderful flower around

You live in a garden. If you have no likes and dislikes, if you have

with likes and dislikes, then you have no garden.

You have just made up plastic flowers with you all the time holding on to it.

The final destination for a seeker?

So, one thing

is, why we are always thinking of a final destination is because we are not

blissful.

If we are very blissful, we are not so much bothered what is the final

destination, isn't it?

Isn't it so?

You're riding the bus from Bombay to this place.

You are so happy riding the bus.

Do you care where the hell it goes?

Now you don't enjoy the bus ride, you're puking your guts out.

Now you're just waiting, when will we get there, when will we get there, where

is the destination?

You are so blissful riding the bus, who cares where it goes?

Whether it goes up a mountain or a beach, do you care?

No.

So, first become blissful, then destination will happen by itself.

If you create a destination, it's an imaginary destination, isn't it?

Yes? See, right now, if you talk about a destination which you don't know,

it is very imaginative.

Once you get, you know, go for an imaginary destination, you are starting

whole process of unreality, isn't it?

Yes?

You are starting a whole process of creating that which is not true.

Now, we were just, when she asked a question, I was saying about using God

as a tool to, you know, become free from many things around you.

But at the same time, the danger of that is just this, After some time, you

really start believing this is it and just see how ugly people become once

start believing this is it.

You've seen it any number of times, isn't it, on this planet?

People who believe this is it about God, they became the ugliest human beings on

the planet.

So, shifting from one vehicle to another when it's needed is important.

Namaskaram Sadhguru.

Can the fear of creating new karma itself be new karma?

Yes, yes, definitely.

Fear of creating karma is the worst of the karma.

So, you must understand, karma is not your enemy.

This must be understood. You are alive here only because of your karma.

Do you understand this?

I think we have dealt with this in great detail in the Mystics, you know,

things. How many of you read the only bondage chapter?

Okay.

Karma is not your enemy.

The basis of your existence right now in the physical body is your karma.

If all your karma is right now, if I just grab your karma and take it away, I

can.

If I take it away, this moment you will shed your body.

It's like pulling the plug on you.

Just dismantle your karma this moment, you will see this moment you will shed

your body. You can't hold on to your body anymore.

So karma is the glue.

Karma is that which has cemented you to the body.

Do you want to lose it?

So, now what is it that we are trying to do with all spiritual processes, not

just to wipe out all karma immediately.

We want to bring a certain awareness to the process of what we are doing.

See, right now, if you sit in the car, you seatbelt yourself.

The seatbelt is a good thing, it could save your life, isn't it?

But now suppose,

You seatbelt yourself in such a way that you can't open it when you want to.

Now you know, this is your prison, isn't it?

Now you get into the car, you close the door.

It's a good thing, isn't it so?

But you got into the car and you can't open the door. Now this is terrible,

isn't it?

So you just want to know where the handle is.

If you know where the handle is, you collect a mountain of karma. What's the

problem?

As long as your hand is on the handle, you have a mountain of karma, what is

your problem?

There's no problem, isn't it?

The problem has come not because of karma.

Problem has come because you get entangled in it, you get enmeshed in it.

Without karma, your life is not rich, isn't it?

See, how much activity I have performed in my life is how rich I am right now,

isn't it so?

Isn't it so? You did nothing.

Is your life rich?

So karma is not your enemy.

Your unawareness of what is what is your enemy.

So where is the need to fear new karma or old karma?

There is no need to fear new karma or old karma.

What you need to do is, Find the handle.

Wear it.

Namaskaram, Sadhguru.

Since I stepped onto the spiritual path, there is a sense of urgency which is

very disturbing.

Why?

See, there is a whole eternity ahead of you.

There need not be any urgency.

But once you begin to understand and realize the limitations in which you

are living, naturally there is an urgency.

People who have glorified their limitations, for them there is no

If you don't glorify your life, you just look at it bare, the way it is, then

there will be huge urgency.

So, in many ways, I am talking the way I am talking, not to make your life

ugly.

But just look at it bare, simply the way it is.

If you look at yourself, you just say, okay, this is just a piece of flesh.

Seeing it as it is.

There is another dimension to it that's different.

But looking at everything just the way it is, not glorifying it, not making it

dirty, simply seeing everything the way it is.

If you simply see everything the way it is, you understand.

in what kind of terrible limitations you are living.

The moment you realize this, there is an urgency.

You can't help it.

Otherwise, what's the urgency? There's a whole eternity ahead of us.

Anyway, the natural process of evolution, in a couple of million years,

get there.

You know?

You don't have to do anything because life will slowly evolve and, you know,

something will happen, isn't it?

But once you realize the limitations in which you're existing, you don't have

that kind of time. The existence has, but you don't have that kind of time.

Urgency is good.

You know Gautama, the Buddha.

He was just 21, 22 years of age.

Prince, everything that anybody would want in the world, he has because he's a

prince.

He's married, he has a loving wife, a year and a half year old child, a little

infant.

That is very dear to him. See, you should understand, a man like Gautama,

so sensitive, definitely would have immense love for his child and his wife.

All this. He's not somebody who's callous.

Definitely he's not.

An immense amount of feeling and emotion and love he has.

But the moment he realizes the limitations in which he's living, such

that he cannot even have the time to get up and convince his wife.

In the middle of the night, a prince leaves like a thief.

Eight long years later, after his enlightenment, when he came back, still

Yashodhara, his wife, was angry.

He didn't cool off.

She was still angry.

And the moment he came, she started, you fool, you walked away like a thief.

What kind of a man are you?

I thought you were something.

He said, see, I am not that person.

Everything has changed about me.

He said, I don't want all this bullshit.

What kind of man are you?

Why did you walk away like a thief?

At least you should have told me.

It started.

Even he had to face it.

It's not that he had a easy ride.

He had to face it like anything, you know.

He is beyond it, but still he has to face it. And that is so for everybody.

But the moment you begin to see the limitations in which you're existing,

now wanting to go beyond that is a natural urge because there is something

inside of you which cannot exist in limitations and that's your biggest

That's your biggest fortune. People are tranquilizing that fortune all the time

by glorifying their life.

After all, people are driven, you know.

People are driven by their hormones, their chemistry, their this and that.

they have to glorify it in so many ways, isn't it?

They don't glorify it, it'll all feel dirty.

Now I'm not talking about making it dirty.

It's neither dirty nor is it beautiful.

It's just life, it's bare.

And there is beauty in bareness if you are willing to see.

or you want frills, you can add frills. If you add too many frills, then you

don't know whether you're wearing a skirt or not.

That's what has happened to people.

They got so much frill, they're always afraid, they don't know whether they're

really wearing a skirt or not.

All the time they're self -conscious now because of these frills, isn't it?

Isn't it so?

Terribly self -conscious people are simply because so much frill, you don't

whether you're wearing clothes or not.

You cut down all the frills, either your basic raiment or your nakedness will be

clear to you, isn't it?

It better be clear to you.

Once it becomes clear, how can you not be in urgency?

You've been great urgency.

You're not in urgency simply because you're wearing lot of frills.