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Define Inner Beauty

by Sadhguru Jaggi

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Upon being asked to define inner beauty, Sadhguru explains that given a choice, one would always choose joy. However, since a large part of our emotions happen unconsciously, negativity arises. He concludes that when one's life energies are engineered in a certain way, inner beauty and joy radiate naturally. Yogi, mystic and visionary, Sadhguru is a spiritual master with a difference. An arresting blend of profundity and pragmatism, his life and work serves as a reminder that yoga is a contemporary science, vitally relevant to our times.

Inner BeautyJoyEmotionsNegativityYogaSciencePeaceIdentityCommitmentJoy CultivationInner PeaceSelf IdentityCommitted AtmosphereLife EnergiesSubjective TechnologiesUniversal Life Force EnergySpirits

Transcript

If you have the right kind of eyes,

Everything is absolutely beautiful.

Relative thing is a social factor.

Again,

It's a training.

It depends on what kind of data has gone into your mind.

But if you're in a certain state of joy and you look at anything,

Everything is beautiful.

When you're unhappy,

Only certain things are beautiful,

Certain things are ugly.

When you're very happy,

You look at anything,

Everything looks absolutely beautiful.

See,

There are many ways to look at this.

One simple way is,

Right now you may be identified with many things.

Going from your physical body to your mind to your education to your religion to your society to various things that you hold in your life.

But when you simply sit here,

If you simply sit with me right now,

You're just a piece of life,

Isn't it?

A certain amount of life energy,

That's all you are,

Isn't it so?

Identified with many,

Many things,

But fundamentally you're just a certain amount of life energy.

So this life energy which I… which you call as myself at this moment,

This life energy sometimes has been very joyful.

Has it been?

Has it been?

Please say yes,

Otherwise it's tragedy.

Sometimes it's been utterly miserable,

Sometimes very peaceful,

Sometimes turmoil,

Sometimes agony,

Sometimes ecstasy.

This has happened to this,

Isn't it?

So this life energy which you call as myself is capable of all these things.

So if this life energy is capable of all these things,

If you were given a choice what kind of expression your life energy should find right now in this moment,

What would you choose,

Agony or ecstasy?

Definitely ecstasy.

So if there was a conscious choice about how to keep your life energies right now,

Definitely you would have kept yourself absolutely joyful and ecstatic.

Only because a large part of you is happening unconsciously,

Other things which you do not want are happening within you.

What you do not want is happening in the world,

You cannot stop it hundred percent.

Only to some extent we manage these things.

But within you,

You are the only ingredient.

In the world there are a million things.

See if we want to create a situation the way we want it,

We need the cooperation of hundred people around us.

All of them will never cooperate hundred percent.

They will all play the game that way,

Isn't it?

In any given situation,

Even if you are just two people in the family,

You cannot have the situation one hundred percent the way you want it.

Yes or no?

This is the reality with the outside.

But with the inside,

You are the only reality.

Nobody in the world happens your way.

At least this one person must happen your way,

Isn't it?

But right now even this person is not happening your way,

That's why you are asking what is the way to joy.

Your mind is not happening the way you want it,

Your body is not happening the way you want it,

Your emotion is not happening the way you want it,

Nor your life energies are happening the way you want it.

We need to do something about it,

Isn't it?

If all these four are happening the way you want them,

You would definitely be joyful every moment of your life,

Isn't it?

Irrespective of what's happening around you.

So we need to explore the technology because it's a subjective technology.

Because the ingredient is you,

It's about you.

Unless we create a certain atmosphere of commitment and focus to look beyond certain things that you are identified with right now,

It will not be possible to explore this.

The reason why the spiritual sciences,

Especially in this country,

Which was so rich in the mystical traditions,

Has become so ridiculous is people try to do it anywhere and everywhere without necessarily committed atmospheres.

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Recent Reviews

george

November 28, 2018

Wish there was more to this talk. Enjoyable as short as it was.

Tom

February 22, 2018

True words wise words

KM

November 15, 2017

Thank you for another insightful and poignant lecture on who we are. I love thinking of myself as just a little bit of life energy.

Frankie

November 15, 2017

Sadhguru can certainly convince me to change my mind in some way. (From time to time of course) Regards Frankie 🙏🏻

Diane

November 15, 2017

This was the first of his talks I had listened to. He has a very profound way of opening up a topic and letting you see it from the inside out. Although it was very short, there was so much given to you to think about, I think that if there had been more content, it would have been hard to absorb it. I will be back to listen to more of his thoughts, and will share this with friends.

🌻Beda🌻

November 15, 2017

Wow, I do wish this audio clip had been longer as I’d have liked to have heard what Sadhguru said right after this, which was presumably about how to control oneself in such a way as to maintain joy, which is what we do want, instead of allowing all these things we can’t control to take away that joy...which is what we don’t want.

Sarah-Jo

November 15, 2017

Thank you so much.

Rosanne

November 15, 2017

❤️❤️ Thank you. Namaste 🙏

Kate

November 14, 2017

Always great🙏🏻💫💕

Angela

November 14, 2017

Exactly what I needed to hear 🦋inner atmosphere is 100% my responsibility 🙏

Rebeca

November 14, 2017

Thank you once again for the clarity of your wisdom

Thomasj

November 14, 2017

Always insightful🤡

Honorah

November 14, 2017

Love this!❤️ short but defining.

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