All language subtitles for The Biggest Barrier to Your Growth _ Sadhguru

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.