Do You Want to Understand or Experience

Question asked "How can we understand what we are beyond our body?" Sadhguru talks about the difference between understanding and experiencing something, and the need for a longing in order to transcend the present dimension of one's existence.

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.

Transcript

Music Who wants to understand? What do you want to understand? What I am, Along with my body, I want to experience it. Oh, Now you are changing the track. Your luck. Which party are you? No, You are changing your position too often, That's why I am asking. See, Initially you said you want to understand, Now you are saying you want to experience. I want to understand to experience it. You want to understand to experience it. If you experience it, You will have no need to understand it, Isn't it? If you eat something, You experience that. Do you understand that? You don't care, You experience it. Only if you want to manufacture this, You eat a rasagulla, You experience it, It's nice. Now you want to start a rasagulla factory. Now you want to understand everything about rasagulla. If you want to just enjoy the rasagulla, You don't have to understand anything. You just have to have a sensitive tongue. Yes? If you take rasagulla and keep it in your hand, I want to understand this, I want to understand this. Hand cannot taste rasagulla. If you put it upon your tongue only, You experience rasagulla. So these are two different aspects. Experience will transform your life. Understanding comes in only if you want to transform others' lives. So understanding later, Right now you want to experience. There are methods and methods and methods to do this. How you're asking, Let's not go into how, How badly do you want it, That's a question. Because what you're asking is, I want to transcend the dimension, The present dimension of my existence. No transcendence will happen unless… nobody will cross any dimensional limitations, Unless you're truly, Truly longing for it. Yes? You won't even pass a 10th standard examination if there is a reasonable amount of longing, Isn't it? Yes or no? You won't transcend from school to college if you do not have a certain level of longing. From college to your masters, You will not transcend unless you have a little bigger longing. From masters to a PhD, You will not transcend unless you have a much bigger longing, Isn't it? So to transcend from one dimension to another, You need a certain level of longing. So I'm asking you, How badly do you want it? See, This is the problem with me. I'm not simply saying, Don't worry, You just say Ram Ram twenty-five times a day, It will happen. This is the problem with me because I'm not here to soles you and let you sleep tonight. I'm here to awaken you in such a way that you can't sleep. You can't go to sleep. Till you… Till I know this, I can't sleep. If you become like that, You will know today. If you can ask these questions, Go home, Eat well and sleep, We don't know when it'll happen. Not because it's far away, Not because it's difficult, Because there is not enough longing. Not enough fire in the belly, So you don't move. This is so with everything in life.

Reviews

As usual, a very tasty nugget to contemplate. Thank you very much!🌺🙏🌺

Another nugget.🙏🏼

It is so with everything in life! 💭💡
🙏🏾 thank you.

So insightful. Namaste 🙏

Amazing wisdom and insight.