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a worm, insect, bird,

0:49

plant, tree, everybody. All

0:53

of them are trying to be full -fledged

0:55

lives. If

0:58

one sees what's happening

1:00

beneath the earth in terms of

1:02

the root systems, it is

1:04

an enormous effort

1:06

for a plant or a tree to

1:08

become a full -fledged tree. Well,

1:12

an apple tree is not trying to be an

1:14

oak tree, but an apple

1:16

tree wants to be a full -fledged apple tree.

1:19

That effort is on in every

1:21

life. So is it

1:23

in human beings. But

1:25

the problem with humanity is just

1:27

this, that for every

1:30

other creature, nature has

1:32

drawn two lines. Within

1:34

these two lines, they live and die. So,

1:37

their idea of full -fledged is hitting

1:39

the ceiling of their life. But

1:43

if a human being hits a ceiling, he gets

1:45

frustrated and miserable. Because

1:49

nature, this

1:51

process of evolution has delivered to us to

1:53

a place where there is only the

1:55

bottom line, there is no top line. Though

1:57

some human beings are trying to breach

1:59

the bottom line and go below, that

2:02

effort also is going on. So

2:05

essentially, what human

2:07

life is, is when life

2:09

was in the other forms of

2:11

life that you see on

2:13

the planet, nature determined

2:16

a certain compulsive,

2:18

instinctive ways of functioning.

2:21

Once you become human, these

2:23

lines have been removed. you

2:25

can act consciously. That

2:28

means what you call as human

2:30

potential is not of any kind

2:32

of measurable limit. It can go

2:34

as far as you desire or

2:36

as far as you have the

2:39

courage to walk. So

2:41

when we say human potential,

2:43

unleashing human potential, it is

2:45

not about reaching the peak,

2:48

it is a trajectory. because

2:53

what our life is, is

2:55

a combination of a certain amount

2:57

of time and energy. Time

3:00

is rolling away for all of us at the same

3:02

pace. If you sit, it rolls

3:04

away. If you sleep, it rolls away. If you do

3:06

something, it goes away. If you don't do anything,

3:08

it goes away. You're happy or miserable, it goes away.

3:12

Time is running out for all of us. So

3:15

it's only the energy that

3:17

you can do different things with.

3:19

If you bring your energies

3:21

to a certain level of intensity

3:24

and possibility, what somebody

3:26

does in ten years, you may do

3:28

it in one year. This

3:30

means if you live here for

3:32

hundred years, it feels like in

3:34

people's impact that you've created, it

3:36

feels like you lived here for

3:38

a thousand years, simply because you

3:40

have managed your life energies in

3:42

a certain way. So

3:44

for me, a human

3:46

being being impactful means How

3:48

conscious have you become? This is very

3:51

important. Because if you're in

3:53

compulsive cycles, then your

3:55

energy gets wasted in so

3:57

many things. If you observe

3:59

people in a day, let's say,

4:01

let's take twenty -four hours, in that

4:03

anyway most people by prescription in America

4:05

they sleep for eight hours. So,

4:09

eight hours means one -third of life is

4:11

gone. In the remaining two

4:13

-thirds they have to eat, they have to,

4:15

you know, shower, bathroom, this,

4:17

that, all this, another two,

4:19

three hours gone. So

4:22

literally fifty percent of life

4:24

is gone, daily basis, just

4:26

for basic maintenance of this

4:28

life. Fifty percent

4:30

of the time is gone in

4:32

maintenance, remaining fifty percent what they

4:34

have. If you look at

4:36

every single move that they may make

4:38

with their body, their thought process, their

4:41

emotions, you will see a

4:43

whole lot of it is happening in

4:45

compulsive cycles. Or

4:47

in other words, if you

4:49

are little sensitive to life, you

4:51

will realize you are the biggest issue

4:53

in your life. So

4:56

this is one thing that I'm

4:58

trying to do with people, that you

5:00

are never the issue in your

5:02

life. I'm not the issue. My

5:05

thought, my emotion, my body

5:07

is never the issue. My

5:09

thought, my emotion, my energy and

5:11

my body are my instruments of function.

5:14

They are not impediments in my

5:16

life. But I would say for ninety

5:18

percent of the human beings, their

5:20

own body, then the compulsions

5:22

of the body, the compulsions of

5:24

their thought, the compulsions of their

5:26

emotions are ruling them most of

5:28

the time. So when you

5:30

yourself are a problem, well,

5:34

you're on self -help. Everybody

5:36

wants a solution. But nobody wants to

5:38

delve into the problem and see what

5:40

is the nature of the problem that

5:42

we have. The nature of

5:44

the problem is like this. Why

5:47

are we compulsive? What is it that's

5:49

compulsive about us? Compulsion means

5:51

we are going to the same place again

5:53

and again. That means we're going in circles. The

5:56

nature of physical existence in the

5:58

universe is such, whether

6:01

you take an atom, an individual

6:03

atom or the cosmic space, everything

6:05

that's physical is always in

6:07

cyclical movement. The

6:10

atoms are doing their circles, the

6:12

solar system is doing its stuff,

6:14

the galaxies are doing their stuff,

6:16

our own bodies are going through

6:18

cycles. In fact, we are

6:20

born because of the cycles in our

6:22

mother's bodies. That's why we are born. So,

6:25

entire physical nature is born

6:27

out of cyclical movement. That

6:29

means compulsiveness. So, do not

6:32

misunderstand compulsiveness as something bad.

6:34

It's the basis of your

6:36

existence. It is a

6:38

good platform. But you're

6:40

supposed to stand on the

6:42

platform and act. Right

6:44

now, you have become the platform. So,

6:46

somebody else will dance on you. Only

6:49

when you're in a pleasant state of experience,

6:52

your body and your brain works at its

6:54

best. There's no argument about that. There's enough

6:56

evidence to show that. So

6:58

whatever impact or success or

7:00

reaching goals or growth or

7:02

whatever you say, on

7:04

one level in the physical

7:07

world, it's about how well you

7:09

harness your physiological and your

7:11

psychological process, isn't it? Whether

7:13

your body and mind works against you

7:16

or works for you, this is a

7:18

big difference. So

7:20

there is enough evidence to show

7:22

only when you're in pleasant levels

7:24

of experience, this happens best. So

7:27

obviously joy is first, then

7:30

growth. If you're joyful

7:32

constantly and you have no fear

7:34

of suffering because you understand all

7:36

human experience comes from within you

7:38

and so you have managed to

7:40

create the kind of experience that

7:42

you want, now growth is possible

7:44

and riddled. If you have

7:47

the fear of falling down and suffering, You

7:49

will not go very high, isn't it?

7:52

Many ways to look at it, one of

7:54

the simplest ways to see it is

7:56

all human experience has a chemical basis to

7:59

it. Right now, let

8:01

us say you're joyful. If

8:03

you look at your chemistry, it'll be in a certain

8:05

way. Let's say you're

8:07

miserable. If you check your

8:09

chemistry, it'll be a completely different way. Now

8:12

we have a technology

8:15

that with which you create

8:17

a chemistry of blissfulness. So

8:20

my chemistry is blissful, doesn't

8:22

matter what's happening. The

8:25

drama around me is happening in

8:27

so many different ways, but this

8:30

is a privilege that I've kept

8:32

for myself. Me being

8:34

joyful or miserable, me

8:36

being peaceful or

8:39

disturbed, these privileges I

8:41

have not given it to anybody else. I

8:43

kept them to myself. I think every human

8:45

being should do that. that the

8:47

privileges of the nature of your

8:49

experience must be in your hand. Because

8:51

when you try to act in

8:53

the world, there are many, many

8:55

forces. All of

8:57

them will not always cooperate. Sometimes

9:00

they cooperate, many times. They

9:02

will not cooperate, many times they'll turn

9:04

against you. This is the nature of

9:06

the world. how it should be. World

9:09

will never happen hundred percent your way. And

9:11

I'm glad it is so. Because if it all

9:13

happened your way, where do I go? I'm

9:17

glad it's not happening your way, little

9:19

bit my way, little bit your way,

9:21

little bit somebody else's way. That's how

9:23

the world should be. How

9:26

many parents would dare

9:28

and encourage their children

9:30

not to be identified

9:32

with parents, not

9:35

to be identified with the religion

9:37

that they follow, not to

9:39

be identified with their racial and

9:41

national and other prejudices that they

9:43

hold? They all think these

9:45

things are sacred, isn't it? Yes.

9:48

These are the things which destroy

9:50

human potential. Whether

9:53

you want to turn a

9:55

human being, see,

9:57

I see this term

9:59

and it really hurts

10:01

me. When people

10:03

say, it's very common, only

10:05

in America I hear this,

10:07

I was raised as whatever,

10:09

a Catholic or Baptist or

10:12

a Christian or Muslim or whatever

10:14

else. I was raised. See,

10:17

you must raise only cattle

10:19

and sheep. You don't

10:22

raise human beings. You

10:24

have to cultivate a human being. You

10:27

have to give space and

10:29

give support of love and support

10:31

so that a human being

10:33

grows because every human being is

10:35

capable of a unique possibility. Raising

10:38

means what a flock is what

10:40

you raise. You don't raise an individual,

10:42

isn't it? It's

10:44

very interesting. So,

10:48

for this, we

10:50

need to come to a certain level of

10:52

maturity within ourselves. The most

10:54

fundamental thing is, our children

10:56

need not look like us, no

10:58

not think like us, need not act

11:00

like us, need not be us in

11:02

any way. A child is

11:04

not a legacy. It's

11:08

a life and it

11:10

is an individual life. It

11:13

has to be what it has to be. Well,

11:15

if I do not influence, right

11:17

now the fear is if I do

11:19

not influence, somebody on the street

11:21

will influence the child. On the social

11:24

media they'll influence the child. So

11:26

to cultivate a child so that they

11:28

know that the intrinsic intelligence

11:30

and being human is more important

11:32

than being influenced by this or

11:34

that, it doesn't matter what it

11:37

is. Whether it's

11:39

parentage or it's a priest or it's

11:41

a guru or it's a pundit, it

11:43

doesn't matter who, influence is

11:45

not important. What

11:47

is important is the intrinsic intelligence

11:49

finding its full potential. You

11:52

look at your own picture when you are five

11:54

years of age, it's like this. Slowly

11:57

it's becoming like this. What

11:59

is it? You're dying in installments.

12:03

The more conclusions you make, the

12:05

less alive you become. This

12:07

is all that's happened to people. They

12:09

call this knowledge. This is

12:11

not knowledge. This is just conclusions

12:13

that you're drawing about everything. See,

12:16

with all this scientific exploration, the

12:19

fact is that even today, we

12:21

do not know one single atom in

12:23

its entirety. We know how to

12:25

use them. We know how to use

12:28

everything on this planet, but we

12:30

don't know a damn thing about anything.

12:32

Over ninety percent or ninety -nine

12:35

percent of an atom is empty.

12:37

We don't know what that

12:39

emptiness contains. Over

12:41

ninety -nine percent of the cosmos is empty. We

12:43

don't know what that is. So

12:46

this is like I

12:48

give you a million piece

12:50

jigsaw, but you found

12:52

In your hands, you have

12:54

only three of them. With

12:57

these three, you make a picture and

12:59

you're euphoric that you made a picture.

13:02

Well, I'm sorry. There

13:04

are a million pieces to this. Has

13:07

anybody gathered all the pieces? No.

13:10

Then don't make a picture. See, right

13:12

now, what are the instruments of

13:15

your experience? You

13:17

know you're here only because

13:19

you can see, hear, smell,

13:22

taste and touch. This is the only way

13:24

you know that you're here right now. Suppose

13:26

you doze off, don't, okay? Suppose

13:29

you doze off, you don't

13:31

know that you're here, isn't it? Even

13:34

though you're here, your heart

13:36

is beating, everything is functioning, the world is on,

13:38

we are all here, but you won't

13:40

know that you're here, nor will you know

13:42

that I'm here or anybody else is here,

13:45

isn't it? All that's happened

13:47

is life is on, full on, even

13:49

within you. Only thing is these five sensory

13:52

organs have shut down. So

13:54

your entire experience of life right

13:56

now is happening because you can see,

13:58

hear, smell, taste and Just

14:01

look at the nature of the sensory

14:03

organs. In the very nature, they're

14:05

outward bound, isn't it? Can

14:08

you roll your eyeballs inward and scan

14:10

yourself? No. Shall

14:14

I give you a bad example?

14:18

Your… our nose is located

14:20

right above our mouth. Suppose

14:23

you don't brush your teeth for

14:25

three days. Though

14:29

this nose is right here, it won't tell

14:31

you you have not brushed your teeth. The

14:34

whole room will know you have not brushed your

14:36

teeth, but you will not know. This is the

14:38

human predicament. It's

14:43

very easy to see what's wrong with this guy,

14:45

what's wrong with her, what's wrong with her. It's

14:48

very, it takes a lot of observation

14:50

to see what's wrong with this. That

14:53

level of keenness of observation is

14:55

missing in most people. They need

14:57

to cultivate that. People are who

14:59

they are only because of what

15:01

they believe and what they have

15:04

held like that. Because without this,

15:06

they don't know where they belong.

15:09

To live here without belonging

15:11

to anything, but still involved

15:13

with everything takes a lot. Most

15:16

people belong, but they're not

15:18

involved. It is

15:20

like belonging is like an insurance

15:22

policy. It's simply there. Involvement

15:25

takes you. To

15:27

be constantly involved with people around

15:29

you, it takes you to be

15:31

conscious and on. But

15:33

I belong to you. I

15:36

don't have to do anything. I've… I've

15:38

professed already I belong to you. I'm

15:40

married to you. I belong to you. Legally

15:42

it is settled. So I don't have to

15:44

be conscious of you nor do I have to

15:46

be involved with you, still I belong to

15:48

you. So belonging

15:51

means belonging, believing

15:53

or identifying simply

15:55

means you have found

15:57

a way to

15:59

sleep through your life.

16:01

It's called sleep. When

16:05

we say, you know, people

16:07

usually use this term with

16:09

animals, if you said,

16:11

we put our cat to sleep. What

16:14

does it mean to you? For

16:16

real that they killed

16:18

their cat. Yes So I'm

16:20

talking about sleep in

16:22

that context. I

16:24

Believe this I belong to

16:26

this. I'm identified with

16:28

this means it's sleep That

16:30

means you're partially dead

16:32

you made conclusions which takes

16:35

away the life that

16:37

bubbles within you. This is

16:39

why people are walking

16:41

around like They're dying

16:43

in installments. Not

16:45

knowing is not a notion. It's a

16:47

fact, okay? It's

16:49

not a notion. You really do not

16:51

know a damn thing about this existence,

16:53

isn't it? Yes. We

16:55

don't even know a blade of grass in

16:58

its entirety. We do not know a single

17:00

atom in its entirety. We do not know

17:02

a single cell in this body in its

17:04

complete context. We do not. We

17:06

know some things. We

17:08

can manipulate a few things, but we

17:10

don't know much about it. So,

17:14

it's like this. Let's

17:17

say we turn off all the lights. If

17:20

the lights are on, you can whistle and

17:22

just walk around wherever you want in this

17:24

building. We'll turn off all the lights and

17:26

make it pitch dark, where you can't even

17:28

see your own hand, like that. Now,

17:31

every step that you take, will

17:33

you take it in? At most

17:35

alertness, will you be

17:37

fully awake or asleep? fully

17:41

awake fully awake why

17:43

because you don't know where's

17:45

the next step Just

17:47

to live like this if

17:49

you simply live like

17:51

this Naturally, you're on the

17:54

highway to enlightenment Everybody

17:56

assume and believe because it's

17:58

comfortable To simply believe

18:00

something the very word belief

18:02

means this That I

18:04

have concrete concretized assumptions of

18:07

which I know nothing

18:09

about Isn't it? Isn't

18:13

it so? Yeah. Either

18:15

you know or you do not know. Where

18:18

does the belief come from? When

18:20

you pretend what you do not know as

18:22

I know, that's belief.

18:25

But you can't believe something all by

18:27

yourself. So you need

18:29

a hundred people around you. That's

18:31

why always believers are in

18:34

groups, seekers are alone. You

18:36

don't have to cultivate this. This

18:38

is intrinsic to human intelligence. If you

18:40

do not bullshit yourself with all

18:42

kinds of things that you do not

18:44

know as you know, it's

18:46

intrinsic to human intelligence to

18:48

seek, isn't

18:51

it? Yes. You don't

18:53

have to teach seeking. You have

18:55

to teach belief systems. You don't

18:57

have to teach seeking. If you

18:59

don't teach anything, everybody is a

19:01

seeker. It is the

19:03

nature of human intelligence. It naturally

19:05

seeks. But people want

19:07

to seek with the comfort of

19:09

belief. They want to be in

19:11

the belief system and then seek. This

19:14

is like tying your boat

19:16

to the pier and then rowing

19:18

hard. It's good. It's not

19:20

bad because it gives you good

19:22

exercise. It's like being on

19:24

the treadmill. Most people are

19:26

on the treadmill because they are

19:28

not walking or running to go

19:30

somewhere. They're just trying

19:32

to tone their muscles. It's perfectly

19:34

fine. So if that's all you

19:37

wish to do, it's fine. But if you want

19:39

to go somewhere, you can't tie your boat and

19:41

then row, isn't it? If you just let it

19:43

go, even if you don't row, it will go.

19:47

What do you tell people about responsibility? It's

19:50

just your ability to respond. You

19:53

have to make up your mind.

19:55

Do you want to retain your

19:57

ability to respond to every situation

19:59

that may arise or may not

20:01

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20:03

you want to surrender your ability

20:05

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20:07

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mind. Life

22:22

is an openness. Death

22:24

is closing, isn't it? Death

22:27

is a closure. Life

22:29

is a possibility. If you're

22:31

just alive, everything is open. Tell

22:35

me, can you be alive? Suppose

22:37

you don't like me. So

22:39

you don't want to inhale what I

22:41

exhale. Stop breathing and exist

22:43

for some time. Let me see,

22:45

possible? So I'm saying, if

22:47

you don't like me, your dislike

22:49

will not go away in thirty seconds,

22:51

isn't it? Yeah, for sure. Suppose

22:53

I hate you. I don't want to

22:55

inhale what you exhale. I

22:58

will die within myself, isn't it? Yes.

23:01

This is all people are doing to themselves.

23:04

I like this guy, I don't like that

23:06

guy, this is somebody I love, that's somebody

23:08

I hate, this belongs to me, this doesn't

23:10

belong to me. They're just killing themselves, step

23:12

by step. They're

23:14

planning to die in

23:16

installments. If you want to

23:18

live, here you are. You

23:21

must make up your mind. whether you

23:23

want to live or you want to

23:25

die, you want to know the certainty

23:27

of death in life. This

23:29

is called belief, this is

23:31

called belonging, this is called

23:33

identification because you are trying

23:36

to find the certainty of

23:38

death in the seamless process

23:40

of life. Fundamentally,

23:42

if people understand that

23:44

the source of human experience

23:46

is within you, joy

23:48

or misery, agony or ecstasy, pleasure

23:51

or pain, everything comes from

23:53

within you. If you understand

23:55

this much, if I understand, suppose

23:58

right now I think I'm miserable

24:00

because of you, there's no solution

24:02

for my life, isn't it? Because

24:05

all you have to do is walk in front

24:07

of my home, I will become miserable. So

24:10

simple it is, you don't have to kill

24:12

me, you just have to walk around in front

24:15

of me, I will die within myself every

24:17

day. If I understand

24:19

the source of my joy and misery

24:21

are within me, Then you

24:23

know, what's the obvious choice? Joy.

24:26

It's obvious choice, isn't

24:28

it? So

24:31

this one fundamental thing has to get

24:33

across to all the human beings on

24:35

this planet. Your

24:37

experience is entirely

24:39

determined by you. This

24:42

is what the word karma means, unfortunately.

24:44

It's become something else here. Karma

24:47

means action. That means When

24:50

we say your life is

24:52

your karma, we are saying your

24:54

life is entirely your making,

24:56

hundred percent. What happens

24:58

in the world, there are many,

25:00

many forces involved. What happens

25:02

within me, it's one hundred percent

25:04

me, hundred percent,

25:06

isn't it? If you

25:08

don't take charge of this, then

25:11

you're an accidental life. When

25:14

you're an accidental life, anxiety

25:16

is very natural. Natural

25:19

instinct. Suppose

25:21

you're driving accidentally,

25:24

that is, you don't know what's happening

25:26

and you're simply somehow going, anxiety

25:28

is natural or no? Yes. Any

25:31

accidental moment creates

25:33

anxiety. So this

25:35

is why consciousness means this, that

25:38

you have taken charge of

25:40

the instruments of life, which

25:42

on most fundamental level is

25:44

our physiological and psychological space.

25:46

You've taken charge of this.

25:49

Now your health, your happiness, your joy,

25:51

your ecstasy, your misery, everything is in

25:53

your hands. You exercise them

25:56

as you want. The

25:59

idea is to pay attention to

26:01

something which has no relevance to

26:03

you. See,

26:05

people have divided the

26:07

universe This is important, this

26:09

is not important. This person is important for me,

26:11

this person is not important for me. This

26:13

is important for me, that's not important for me.

26:16

You divided the universe, you will never

26:18

know anything this way. Indiscriminate

26:21

focus, indiscriminate attention.

26:24

I am not attending to you because you

26:26

are somebody with a cobra in your heart, all

26:29

right? It doesn't matter who I

26:31

speak to, who I am with, I am the same

26:33

way. Indiscriminate. Only

26:36

when your attention and involvement

26:38

is indiscriminate, does the universe

26:40

open up to you. You

26:43

have discriminated. Naturally you closed.

26:45

You know, people come to me and say, Sadhguru,

26:47

I want to walk the spiritual path. I

26:50

say, okay, be

26:52

here for three days. Let's

26:54

see what we can do. Say, no,

26:56

Sadhguru, day after tomorrow, my uncle's daughter's

26:58

birthday, I have to go. Oh,

27:01

you want to get enlightened? And

27:04

day after tomorrow, uncle's daughter's

27:06

birthday also. All right, we

27:08

got one and a half days. You

27:11

do one thing, you do this, this and this. I

27:13

said, Sadhguru, but I don't like this. All

27:16

right, I'll give them a small piece

27:18

of paper and say, okay, write down things

27:20

that you like, we'll do only do

27:22

that. You won't

27:24

believe it. In this entire universe,

27:26

most people like only three or

27:28

four things. When

27:32

you are so constipated in your

27:34

head that you lack only three or

27:36

four people or three or four

27:38

things in your life, how do you

27:41

want to open up to the

27:43

existence? Because life is happening

27:45

because of its openness. This

27:47

is a fundamental difference between death and

27:49

life is, people are thinking

27:51

it's just breath, all right, on one level.

27:54

That is also openness. Whether you

27:56

allow this to happen or you don't allow it

27:58

to happen. whether you did

28:00

it consciously or unconsciously, but it's

28:02

happening, isn't it? Openness is on

28:04

every subatomic particle, it's in communication

28:06

with everything. That's why this is

28:08

going on. Breath is happening,

28:10

so much is happening in connection

28:12

with everything. It is only in openness

28:14

you're alive. As

28:16

you close doors, you're

28:18

dying in installments. Dying

28:21

in installments is torture. See,

28:25

life is fantastic if you're alive

28:27

and fully alive. If

28:29

you're dead, it's good. At

28:32

least the neighbors may think so. This

28:36

may sound very

28:38

not so compassionate, but

28:40

I'm saying everybody dies,

28:43

you and me will die, all right? If

28:46

dead, the game is over. But

28:48

if you're half dead, oh, this

28:51

is endless torture to yourself. When you

28:53

are being tortured, of course, you will

28:55

share it with everybody else. See,

28:58

pain is physiological, it's there. If

29:01

it was no pain, most people would not even

29:03

know how to protect themselves. See,

29:05

just because there's no pain in this, see what

29:07

all you've done to it. Isn't

29:10

it? See, there's no

29:12

pain in this. So that's why you took

29:14

it off. If there's no pain in your

29:16

nose, maybe you would have

29:19

taken it off. Because are many

29:21

advantages, you will take in about twenty

29:23

-two percent extra oxygen if you just

29:25

remove this one thing, contraption. Wherever

29:31

there is no pain, people are messing

29:33

with it like crazy, isn't it? They

29:35

call this hairstyle, they call it so

29:37

many things. Suppose

29:39

there was no pain in the

29:42

entire body in Los Angeles, people

29:44

would pull out their stomach bag

29:46

and you think they wouldn't do

29:48

it? No, I think they probably

29:50

wouldn't. Only pain

29:52

is helping them to preserve themselves, isn't

29:54

it? So pain is good. There's

29:56

no physiological pain. Most people would not

29:59

know. I hear in the United

30:01

States, there's one group, they call themselves

30:03

something, I forget that word. They're

30:05

actually cutting their fingers off, their hands

30:07

off on the video. They're

30:11

posting it online. There's

30:13

a group like that. Can

30:16

you imagine this? In

30:18

spite of so much pain, if there was

30:20

no pain, Almost everybody would have

30:22

cut themselves off in the name of

30:24

fashion, they would have cut themselves into ribbons.

30:28

So pain is a

30:30

good thing physically because

30:32

that is your preservation, self

30:34

-preservation mechanism. But

30:37

suffering is something that you do in

30:39

your mind. So pain that happens

30:41

in your body, you take it in

30:43

your mind and multiply it a thousand

30:45

times or a million times depending on

30:47

how capable you are or how stupid

30:49

you are. and suffer it a million

30:51

times over. Right now,

30:54

most human beings are like

30:56

this. What happened ten years ago?

30:58

They can still suffer. What

31:01

may happen day after tomorrow? They already suffer.

31:05

They are not suffering life. They

31:07

think they are suffering life.

31:09

They are not suffering life. They

31:11

are suffering the two most

31:13

fantastic faculties that human beings alone

31:15

have. a vivid sense of

31:17

memory and a fantastic sense of

31:19

imagination. See, one

31:22

thing is the survival

31:24

processes become easier than

31:26

ever before. Believe

31:29

me, in the morning if you

31:31

need a bucket full of water, if

31:33

you had to walk a mile

31:35

to the river to get one bucket

31:37

of water and your family needed

31:40

twenty -five buckets of water, you would

31:42

have no time to mess yourself. Now

31:47

you have a lot of time to

31:49

mess yourself because our survival is better

31:51

organized than ever before. Another

31:53

thing is most human beings

31:55

do not know how to

31:57

manage their biochemistry without physical

31:59

activity. I have

32:01

seen a whole lot of people,

32:04

particularly teenage boys and girls

32:06

between the ages of 12 and

32:08

16 who come to me

32:10

with some severe violent problems within

32:12

themselves. If you leave them like

32:14

that, they may kill themselves or kill somebody else,

32:16

they're in that kind of state. Many

32:19

of them have even killed their parents, you know, it

32:21

just happened all over the world. And

32:23

in 2017, when

32:25

I came to know that in

32:27

India, which is not so

32:29

much suicidal in that sense, because there's

32:31

a huge family support and stuff like

32:33

that, in spite of that, in

32:36

2017, eighteen thousand six hundred

32:38

children below eighteen years of

32:40

age committed suicide. out

32:42

of which 7 ,200 are below

32:44

15 years of age. So,

32:47

12, 13, 14 -year -olds who

32:49

must be bubbling with life

32:51

or wanting to take their

32:53

own lives, why? Obviously,

32:56

we're doing something fundamentally wrong with

32:58

the society, isn't it? Yes.

33:01

Our goals and our stupid

33:03

ideas of what is success

33:05

is driving them nuts because

33:07

we are trying to use

33:09

our children like race horses.

33:12

When you understand life as a

33:14

race, if you're in

33:16

a race, what's the objective? You

33:18

must reach the finish line quick, isn't

33:20

it? What is the finish

33:22

line of your life? There

33:25

you have it. This may

33:27

not be a conscious process, but

33:29

life within you is understanding it

33:31

like that. When you see

33:33

you must understand this, whether you

33:35

are conscious of it or not,

33:37

any human being. Right

33:40

now, if you make yourself miserable, you

33:42

must understand you're sending a message to every cell

33:44

in the body that I don't want to live.

33:47

You might not have articulated it in your

33:49

head yet, but when

33:51

you become miserable, you

33:53

notice suddenly your body seems heavy

33:55

and it's like, doesn't want to get

33:57

up from this chair. Have

34:00

you seen this? Yes. When you're happy,

34:03

you're willing to bounce at everything and do

34:05

everything bend backwards if necessary. Why

34:07

this is happening is the message is gone to

34:09

every cell in the body, this guy wants to

34:11

die. They're

34:14

all thinking, okay, what can we do to help him?

34:17

But by then, of course, you'll recover. So

34:19

you want to die, you want to live,

34:21

you want to die, you want to live, the

34:24

body is getting confused

34:26

because you must understand this

34:28

is a very intelligent

34:30

body. It's taking instructions from

34:32

you. Every cell in the

34:34

body has enormous sense of memory

34:37

and intelligence. If you keep

34:39

sending wrong messages, if they

34:41

act, you're dead. Because

34:43

you're sending contradictory messages, you're not

34:45

dead, you're half dead. You

34:49

can give it any number of

34:51

exotic names. Essentially, you have turned

34:54

your intelligence against yourself. This

34:58

is supposed to work for you, but

35:00

now you've turned it against yourself, it's

35:02

working against you. See,

35:04

do you agree with

35:06

me that our lives

35:08

today as a generation

35:10

of people has become

35:12

far more comfortable and

35:14

far more convenient simply

35:16

because of our understanding

35:18

of science and our

35:20

exploitation of that knowledge

35:22

as technology? Yes. We

35:26

are the most comfortable generation

35:28

ever in the history of humanity.

35:30

No question about it. Isn't it?

35:32

Yes. We are super empowered because

35:34

of this science and technology. As

35:37

there is a science and technology

35:39

for our external well -being, there is

35:41

a whole science and technology for inner

35:43

well -being. Unfortunately,

35:46

most cultures have ignored this and

35:48

thinking that if we make

35:51

all the external arrangements well, everything

35:53

will be okay. United

35:55

States of America is a

35:57

huge statement that this is

35:59

not how it works. The

36:04

most effluent country on the planet, 70

36:06

% of the population are supposed

36:09

to be on prescription medication. We

36:12

can talk if inspiration is what

36:14

you need, encouragement was what you

36:16

need, I'm willing to talk. But

36:19

talks will not bring solutions. They

36:23

will bring some clarity. Solution

36:26

will come only when you take

36:28

a proper inward step. That's what

36:31

in engineering processes. We

36:33

are doing everything possible to deliver

36:35

it in as simple and as

36:37

practical measures as it can be

36:39

done. There was a time it

36:41

was taught in such a complex way. Today

36:44

we have simplifies it, broken into

36:46

five different pieces, offering it as five

36:48

layers of program so that people

36:50

can experience it in small doses

36:52

and slowly step by step they can

36:54

go. I am seeing as you

36:57

come into more and more affluent

36:59

societies, their steps are far more baby

37:01

steps than other people. So

37:04

we have broken it into many

37:06

steps so that small steps you can

37:08

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