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A Simple Process to Find Success on the Spiritual Path _ Suhel Seth with Sadhguru – Video

A Simple Process to Find Success on the Spiritual Path _ Suhel Seth with Sadhguru – Transcript

Ritu (Questioner): Namaskar Sadhguru. My name is Ritu. My question is – what according to you is being successful in spirituality? Sadhguru: In spirituality or life? Ritu: In spirituality. Ritu: And will I know it before I die? Sadhguru: See what this entire contrived ideas about what is spirituality – what’s happened is people think if they are seeking god they are spiritual. What you need to understand is – you have already made an assumption and than then you’re trying to concretize your assumption. You want a guru to tell you “Yes god is there seek him.” Seeking means this – you don’t know whether god rules this existence or devil rules this existence or it’s simply un-ruled like India (Laughter). You don’t know that’s why you want to seek. You Seeking means you do not know and you want to know. If one has to be successful as I said earlier the most important thing is your intelligence is not identified with anything because the nature of the intellect is this – the moment you take on an identity your intellect will work hard to protect that identity. You just have to tell yourself three times “I’m an Indian” suddenly everything Indian looks nice everything across the border doesn’t look nice. You just have to tell yourself “I am this” and immediately it only protects that and nothing else. This is the nature of the intellect. In fact that is the work of the intellect because intellect is a tool of survival intellect is not ultimate intelligence. Unfortunately because we are too much under European influence and somebody there said “I think so I exist” (Referring to philosopher Rene Descartes’ statement “I think therefore I am”) we just lost it. In India in the yogic system we do not ascribe too much significance to your thought first of all. So once we do Why we do not give significance to thought process is – it can only happen from the limited data that you have gathered. What you call as thought whatever kind of thought you have is just recycling the limited data that you have gathered. You may think about gods you may think about pleasure you may think politics you may think money – it is only the data that you have you’re recycling. You are not You are not touch See you may be thinking whatever so I’ve been telling This is a hard thing to do with people constantly telling them tch “If god appears in your meditation you just have to ignore him.” “Ah but Sadhguru if Shiva comes?” “Especially if he comes” (Laughter) because Shiva is coming only because of the calendar images that you have seen. If you were born elsewhere somebody else would be coming. So this is the old data playing up so whatever plays up See you cannot you cannot think god you cannot think money you cannot think ocean or the sky. You’re only recycling the limited data. So we don’t acknowledge thought process as a great form of intelligence. It’s a wonderful instrument for handling your survival in the material world. But if you want to pursue something there are other dimensions of intelligence within you. To put it very very simply today afternoon whatever you had for lunch – let us say you had a chapatti – a chapatti turns into a wonderful woman like you because you ate the chapatti. If Suhel ate this chapatti it will turn into a man. If a dog eats this Suhel Seth: But I’m a man (Laughter). Sadhguru: That is why I’m saying. Suhel Seth: Ah okay that way. Sadhguru: You’re not getting it. What I’m saying is – if a dog eats the chapatti it turns into a dog So very intelligent chapatti you think? No this is programmed. In your system there is a certain volume of memory and intelligence which is capable of turning a simple chapatti into a human being. When I say ‘a human being’ I’m talking about the most complex mechanism in the universe that we know of. There may be others but this (Referring to oneself) is the most complex mechanism in the universe that we know of. What have you manufactured such a complex machine with? With chapattis bananas dal and this and that – just about anything you eat gets transformed. So there is an intelligence within you which is the very source of creation. Instead of finding access to this you are too lost in your own thought process. Once you get lost in your thought process your identities become super strong. When they become super strong you have a sense of confidence but all your clarity will go away. Unfortunately the very foundations of the so-called religions of the world is about building confidence – “Don’t worry god is with you.” You know there are some bank there are some bank advertisements you know “I’m with you” (Laughter). You know how a banker is with you (Laughter). So this is a confidence building process. But confidence without clarity is a disastrous process. What you need is clarity. Confidence means you can’t see but you’re confident. This is a dangerous way to go. This is what This is a continuous disaster. See it doesn’t take thousands of years to figure out simple aspects of life. I’m saying Now Suhel is going at these things – anger hatred all kinds of prejudice against each other – with great vehemence about it. What I’m saying is these are simple things in a human being. After million years of living here if you can’t figure it out which way to be out of it obviously your intellect is not doing well enough isn’t it? You need other dimensions of intelligence. People ask me “Sadhguru all other gurus are doing so many miracles. You don’t do anything.” I say “You want me to pull a pigeon out of my pocket (Laughter)? If I do that you will have a bird and I’ll have a shitty pocket” (Laughter). Suhel Seth: But no let’s stay with this. But you do acknowledge that there are many such people who are actually defrauding the emotions of a large population by doing this kind of nonsense? Sadhguru: See corruption is not the prerogative of only spiritual people (Laughter). There are corrupt politicians there are corrupt lawyers there are corrupt policemen there are corrupt doctors there are corrupt ‘every kind of profession’ okay? It has entered every sphere of life. It is just that when a person who claims to be a spiritual guide or a guru turns corrupt it stands out glaring because today if you go to a police station you’re expecting him to be corrupt unfortunately. If he’s not corrupt you’re surprised. That’s when you talk about it “Oh my god I went to the police station they didn’t the guy didn’t ask for a buck. He did the job for me you know” (Laughs). But when you go to a doctor if he is corrupt you are little hurt because you placed your physical self in his hands. But when you go to a guru you placed your entire life in his hands. If he is corrupt you’re very profoundly hurt all right. So the integrity that is necessary to perform different levels of activity is definitely more demanding when more trust is invested in that. But unfortunately spiritual enterprise has started okay? It’s an enterprise. If you read two pages of Gita you can become a guru in the country. You don’t have to read the entire thing. Two pages and go on repeating the same two pages in a language that other people don’t understand you will become a guru (Laughter/Applause). Sadhguru: So about being successful with her spiritual process this is all you have to do. Tonight when you go home sit on your bed look at yourself – what is you what you gathered okay? You have a home – you gathered it. You have people – you gathered them. You have clothes – you gathered this. You have a body – you gathered this. The content of your mind you gathered it. See before going to bed close your eyes and see if you can keep all that aside even intellectually. Just try to keep it aside and go to bed every day. You will see one day you will wake up in a way you have not believed possible – truly awake (Applause).

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