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Intoxication is the nature of the moon May 10th is a special pournami are a special full moon day because it’s called Buddha Pournami this is the day Gautama the buddha got enlightened you notice This year it’s on 10th of may this full moon day is the day gautama the buddha got enlightened There are many aspects to his life The most important aspect is that he is a Bhu-dda That’s not his name His name is Gautama Siddhartha but he is a Buddha Buddha means he transcended his intellect Bhu means Buddhi Dha means Datha Buddhi means the intellect datha means one who is above one who is above his intellect is a buddha One who is in his intellect is a non-stop suffering human being Something happens they suffer nothing happens they suffer whichever way that is if you’re below the mind we call them Buddhu If you are above the mind you are a buddha if you’re below the mind you are Buddhu if you are in the mind are nonstop suffering So how did you become this? He tried many things in his life. He was a prince of a small princely state because some yogi predicted that this will either become a great emperor or become a great sage when you made this prediction the father got little excited. he did not want him to become a great sage. He wanted to become a great emperor So he decided he will not expose him to because he thought by Being exposed to some suffering or misery he may turn into usage So he kept him in utter pleasure… the best of food best of clothes best of pleasures everything When he was a 19 years of age he got him married to a very pretty young woman kept him in a palace secluded from the rest of the society Where he lives in pleasure never exposed to any kind of suffering. One day he thought he will just take a drive through the town he asked his charioter to take him across So he was going and then he saw a man who was old. Was going like this So he had never seen old man in his life his father had protected him from all this See what has happened to him so the charioter said that’s just an old man How does it happen he asked? Said everybody gets old some day He looked at himself use a nice youth What me also? Said yes everybody everybody gets old they live long enough they get old You this was a realization for him. I will become like this Then he saw a man lying on the street was ill with something Not able to get up in great suffering. He said stop. What is this guy? What’s he doing? He said oh he’s sick unfortunately What does that mean? He said my body sometimes it gets sick It can happen to anybody it can happen to just anybody me a prince Can happen to me it can happen to anybody? And he’s how I can become like this Then they were going further. He was completely disturbed by this then he saw a funeral they were carrying a Dead body of A man What happened to that guy? Oh he just died? What does that mean? that happens to everybody without exception? Then he said what am I doing just eating pleasures nonsense? What am I doing with myself and He struggled he went into turmoil within himself This suddenly being a prince and his pleasures and all this palace Suddenly broke apart for him and he started looking What is the point of all this this is going to get old this may get sick for sure this will be dead? What am I investing my entire life in this? But by then he had an infant boy he looked at his wife and his child this Loving wife and this lovely little baby. He could not leave he struggled and struggled and struggled By then a little or one and a quarter years passed when the boy was one and a half years of age He could not hold it anymore in the middle of the night like a thief Without telling anybody he slipped out of the palace and left for good He went in search. I want to know the truth about this life He went from school to school These are times when different schools were established in India At one point there were over 1800 schools I’m saying not just institutions 1800 different ways of doing things [1800] different varieties [of] Yoga Not the kind that you’re seeing in Somebody doing like this somebody doing like this really intricate Expressions it is like how the medical science is becoming today 25 years ago you wanted a medical check-up. All you needed was your family doctor today But every part of your body there [is] a doctor I Was [a] Few years ago. I had You know I had a knee injury. I was playing soccer and I broke something in the knee and I was all packed up and I was speaking That’s how I got into golf Because of this knee injury Somebody told me gifted me of golf kit and said Sadhguru you’re too old for any other game. You just play golf So I was sitting [there] in Atlanta talking speaking at a place Then I was in pain I couldn’t even move so After the when this is over. I mean when I was speaking one person raised his hand I thought he wants a question But then he said Sadhguru I would like to examine your knee after The zoa I [am] a knee doctor. I Said come on. You are not to panic [so] [no] no I am a new doctor Then I said right or left Which one are you? so specialization Specialization is going a time will come probably in 50 years time if you want a medical check-up You need 100 doctors to check you by the time you get these 100 appointments Maybe you need an undertaker Then it will become ridiculous. Okay you went to three doctors. All right you and do Five doctors all right if it becomes fifty [hundred] doctors for a medical check-up It’s become ridiculous. Isn’t it this happened to yogic system People started specializing and specializing in variety of small things Each specialization has a whole thing by [itself] Someone just came and told me [they’re] a dentist okay. [I’m] not speaking in another thing for example dentistry just 32 teeth Right they study for nine Years [Thirty-Two] teeth Nine years of study still they don’t know everything about it. That’s the nature of creation If you start studying one tooth at a time you will see each one of them has something specific about it You somebody can spend a lifetime of study just learning about one tooth Just see if you had 32 dentists to look at your mouth Disaster you are isn’t it so a specialization? Specialization happens when it crosses a certain point it will become ridiculous this happened to yoga it crossed that point where [1800] schools different specializations of Yoga happened So that is when patanjali came and kind of assimilated everything into yoga Sutras to minimize this expanse That was growing endlessly so when Gothama came it was post patanjali but Still there were many things so he went from school to school He pursued eight different forms of Samadhi We talk about [semantics] okay? He pursued eight different forms of Samadhi He saw all of them were wonderful experiences but still it did not liberate him so in this condition He was walking as a samana. There’s a certain system of practice called Samanas their fundamental practices this They will never ask for food You should not go in pursuit of food because they want to beat the fundamental Instinct of survival No matter what you’re always going in pursuit of food please understand this you may complicate it in so many ways but fundamentally You’re talking so much the word economy means you’re just thinking about survival all the time isn’t it [sir] I will glorify it but till it is survival So one fundamental Sadhana for them is you never pursue your instinct of survival You simply keep going so samanas used to just walk never asking for food but the culture was sensitive if they saw a spiritual person walking people will cook at home and run behind him and serve him wherever he is Because they know he will not ask for food Today if you become a samana you will walk yourself to death Those days people were sensitive to his sadhana and responded so there were thousands of samanas walking the country so Gotham on became a samana and Even if you are not asking for food you will walk near a town so the food will come but Gothama took it too seriously and Just walked he became all bones just bones and a bag of skin like that he became Then he came to a place where there was a river called Niranjana unfortunately that river is gone now no more river just About 18 to 20 inches of water may be moving little rapidly He stepped into it halfway down into the river. He did not have the energy to cross There was a tree branch a dead branch he just held onto it He doesn’t have the strength to take the next step But he’s not the kind of man to let go he held on we don’t know for how long People say for a very long time maybe it was two minutes When you’re feeling so weak those two minutes might have looked like many years Then as he hung on He just realized what is it that? I’m striving for What is it I’m wondering the entire country growing from school to school learning this learning that what is it that? I’m looking for Then he realized This is really nothing This life is wrong. All I have to do is Just take away the barriers which are not allowing me to experience this When he realized that everything is within him. There’s nowhere to search Suddenly he had the energy to take the next step in the next step across the river came and sat down under that Now very famous bodhi tree Which has become more then the buddha himself? A part of the tree a remnant Or a progeny of the tree still exists in both Gaya and He sat under the tree. It was this full moon night. Which is coming now on 10th of May He sat there and he sat there with this determination either I must see the ultimate nature of my existence now Or I will sit here and die I will not open my eyes till I know this Once he made that resolve because the only problem is there is no resolve every two minutes your intentions are changing If you are totally on to know what is within you how long should it take? It should happen in a moment isn’t [it]? Because there is no distance to travel Time is a quantity which [is] necessary only when there is a distance to travel isn’t it? If there is no distance to travel if I ask you how long does it take for you [to] sit [here]? You’re already sitting It’s already there. It doesn’t take any time So you’re already alive and on it doesn’t take any time for realization because you don’t have to do anything particularly? when he saw this he was fully enlightened and the moon was shining and He had not eaten for many months on end properly used actually for years. He was a samana and People around him he had gathered about five disciples. I think These guys thought he’s real because he doesn’t eat his really rigid and They saw he’s in some state exuberant state and they could see the light on his face Then they were waiting for him to open his eyes and give the teaching He opened his eyes look them smiled and said cook something let’s eat They have a totally disappointed they thought he has lost it They walked with him for four to eight years when he had nothing but torture When he got enlightened they left him because They wanted to hear something severe He said cook something let’s eat We’ve been wasting our time There are many beautiful episodes in his life When he one day walked upon the Riverbank after he has become a good and went and sat down under a tree Tree not because tree is the best place to sit under you know ants can get you Because that was the only real estate of those times there are no buildings and buildings and buildings everywhere So tree was a good place to a pleasant place to sit under rather than sitting in harsh sun. You sit under a tree An astrologer who is of great proficiency in history Saw the footprint on the Riverbank he had come to In the in India people of any this thing means bad means always river those rivers are going away. I will tell you later bath means always river So he came for a bath that they were then he saw the footprint There is a whole science or rather observations Through which by looking at the way [one’s] feet is somebody predicts exactly what he will do So he saw the footprint and then he saw that this is the footprint of an emperor somebody who should rule the world Then he wondered why would such a person be in this remote place near the jungle Then he followed the footprint Thinking he will meet an emperor Then he saw this monk Gothama sitting under a tree Then he looked at this this he thought either my astrology has gone all wrong or I am being fooled or and in some kind of a hallucination What’s happening here then he went to Gotham and asked who are you? Gautama was in this kind of just Jeet kind of state He said and no crime. [I] am just a nobody But you have the feet of an emperor you should conquer the world Gautama said that I will But not by conquest see there are two ways you can have the world either by conquest or by inclusion yes I can make you yours either by capturing you chaining you and making you do what I want or By including you as a part of myself. Yes Both ways something or somebody becomes yours isn’t it But if you go by conquest it will be a pain in your neck always if you include This will become a great enhancement of life He said I am the emperor of the world but then he said you’re a monk you own nothing. I own nothing and I am a nobody that is why? Everything is mine Even mathematicians are trying to teach you the zero on the infinite or one and the same So you becoming of a no thing? does not mean You are of no use You are [a] no thing means you have become All inclusive isn’t it you’re something means you can only be that You’re nothing you can be any way you want this is how this life is made if your ability to respond is not curtailed You can be anything you wish at any given moment isn’t it? So Gothama said I am anyway the emperor of the world if that’s the word you like but I’m actually a nobody Because everything is anyway mine If you see I’m responsible for everything everything is yours isn’t it how does somebody become yours Because you want them or you take responsibility for that? because you take [responsibility] [for] them they become yours not otherwise isn’t it If you own them forcefully they will never be yours Yes or no if you forcefully own somebody will they ever be yours they’ll never ever be yours So this astrologer sat down They said you’re a monk you have nothing on top of it. You say you’re just it. I’m sorry I’m top of it you say I’m a nobody and Everything is yours. What is this? Gothama said you come I have a way for you You are busy making predictions of Life I have a plan Why do you make predictions of life? [you’re] incapable of making a plan and executing a plan that is why you fall back any predictions isn’t it? if you are capable of making a plan and executing the plan would you fall back on predictions? no So gautama said you were busy making predictions. I’m here. I have a plan Come become a part of my plan We’ll make something else happen You must become a part of this plan we can make something wonderful happen this same world This same World can be turned into paradise If all its all of us go buy a paradise plan isn’t it? Yes or no The question is only do that because between a Possibility and the reality there is a distance or do we have the courage and the commitment to walk the distance. That’s all it is Yes you

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