Finding Success on the Spiritual Path

The fundamental reason why most human beings are not naturally spiritual is because of the identifications they take on and cannot put down when necessary. Sadhguru gives us a simple, daily process to do this

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

What is spirituality?

Questioner 1 Okay,

Namaskar Sadhguru,

My name is Ritu.

My question is,

What according to you is being successful in spirituality?

Sadhguru In spirituality or life?

Questioner 1 In spirituality.

And will I know it before I die?

Thank you.

See what this entire contrived ideas about what is spirituality,

What's happened is people think if they're seeking God,

They're spiritual.

What you need to understand is,

You have already made an assumption and then you're trying to concretize your assumption.

You want a guru to tell you,

Yes,

God is there seeking.

Seeking means this,

You don't know whether God rules this existence or devil rules this existence or it's simply unruled like India.

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'm 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,

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 have been telling… this is a hard thing to do with people,

Constantly telling them,

If god appears in your meditation,

You just have to ignore him.

Oh,

But Sadhguru if Shiva comes,

Especially if he comes.

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 are 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 chapati.

A chapati turns into a wonderful woman like you,

Because you ate the chapati.

If Suhail ate this chapati,

It will turn into a man.

If a dog eats the… Suhail Dutta- But I am a man.

That is why I am saying.

You're not getting it.

What I am saying is,

If a dog eats the chapati,

It turns into a dog.

So very intelligent chapati,

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 chapati into a human being.

When I say human being,

I am talking about the most complex mechanism in the universe that we know of.

There may be others,

But this is the most complex mechanism in the universe that we know of.

What have you manufactured such a complex machine with?

With chapatis,

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.

You know,

Our banker is with you.

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 Suhail 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?

If I do that,

You will have a bird and I'll have a shitty pocket.

But… but no,

Why?

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.

See,

Corruption is not the prerogative of only spiritual people.

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 that didn't… the guy didn't ask for a buck,

He did the job for me,

You know?

But when you go to your doctor,

If he's corrupt,

You're little hurt because you placed your physical self in his hands.

But when you go to your guru,

You placed your entire life in his hands,

If he's corrupt,

You're very profoundly hurt,

All right?

So,

The integrity that is necessary to perform different levels of activities is definitely more demanding when more trust is invested in that.

But unfortunately,

Spiritual enterprise has started,

Okay?

It's an enterprise.

If you wrote 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.

So about being successful with that 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.

Reviews

Whenever I’m feeling lost in the world, I always make my way back to Sadhguru. Thank you ♥️

This just became my new staple talk that I should listen to! Thank you for helping me align, Sadhguru. I am forever grateful for your wisdom.

Simplicity, vulnerability, lead us along the path of BEing FULLy alive, NOW, rather than hiding behind our body, emotions, language, logic, mind, thoughts or other perceived barriers. In gratitude for this sweet insightful, inspiring offering, ahimsa

Mind opening xxx

Interesting thank you

Namaste.
✌💚&💥~ Mizana

A useful bit of profound knowledge, but requiring tremendous determination and discipline to fully integrate. Delivered simply and with warmth, honesty and humor. How true this is. Thank you Sadhguru! 🙏

Love this, thank you x

Always enlightening

This was a wonderful message to hear at
the start of the day.

Absolutely beautiful!!

interesting talk

So much insight!! Great Talk. Thank you ✨💙

So excellent and with such humorous insight!

Delightful, stimulating, insightful and humorous! Thanks Sadhguru!

Wonderful little lecture. I only have to disagree with his point about intellect - it is true for most people; however sometimes someone will use known data but will come up with a new idea. Expanding the data set not recycling it.

Still, it is worth listening to.

Always amazing 🙏🏻🌈😘thank u

Eloquent & amusing - for clarity stop thinking & start living!