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Forget Philosophy, Embrace Reality

by Sadhguru Jaggi

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Intelligence, says Sadhguru, is not in confusing people, but about making them understand what they could not understand. He explains that the way to know is not in thinking up philosophies, but in being in touch with reality. 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. For more Sadhguru's insights, follow him on twitter and facebook.

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Transcript

There was a terrible actor,

A truly lousy actor who was playing Hamlet.

As the play went on,

It got worse.

When he came to the famous to-be or not to-be silly lock way,

People started throwing things at him.

They took their footwear and threw it.

So he got off stage and said,

Well folks,

I didn't write this crap.

All the miserable people in the world think there is something wrong with the creation.

All the miserable people in the world think creator has made a mistake.

To explain this mistake or to explain themselves into that mistake,

They have all kinds of philosophies.

All the philosophies in the planet,

If you put them together,

All of them together do not have the beauty of a single leaf industry,

But still it occupies people for a lifetime because it gives them the kind of explanations that they like to hear.

Philosophers are usually out of work men,

Not many women philosophers,

Out of work men who at least have an explanation as to why they are out of work.

So these out of work men who have nothing else to do or nothing else to create,

Keep churning up philosophies.

Anybody coming up with any kind of philosophy is sacrilege against creation.

Nobody has any business even to generate a single thought when so much has been done.

If you come here a thousand lifetimes and twenty-four hours if you pay attention,

Still you will not know a minuscule part of creation.

When this kind of creation is here,

Anybody thinking of their own nonsense is absolute sacrilege.

But socially,

Unfortunately,

The world has reached a point where if you say something that nobody understands,

Most people believe you're being very intelligent.

Intelligence is in being able to make people understand what they could not understand.

Intelligence is not in what people knew perfectly well for ages,

Confused the hell out of them.

That's not intelligence.

But unfortunately,

It passes off as being smart,

Being intelligent.

People have fallen in love with words and lost the world.

It's time to regain it.

If you stand on the summit of the garbage heap of one's mind,

Your feet will never touch the ground.

If your feet never touch the ground,

You will never know what this is.

It is this… it is for this reason that in this culture,

Wherever you see people go all out,

Damn,

They want their whole body to touch the ground,

Not just the feet.

Most part of their life or most part of the day.

The very culture was designed in such a way that you walk barefoot unless you're going on rough terrain because we want you to be in touch with the earth.

If you don't get anything else,

If you as much as sit like this for ten days,

You will know a lot more than reading a thousand books because if you just sit like this,

Mother earth will creep up into you without your permission.

Don't believe that.

She need not creep up because as this little bit of grass has shot out of the earth,

You also just like that,

Little mobile.

Otherwise,

Right now as you sit here,

You are just a mound of earth.

That's all you are.

You may believe yourself to be something,

But that's all you are and that's not small.

If you believe yourself to be something other than that,

You are small.

Otherwise,

You're the planet itself.

You are the creation itself.

So you're just a bump on the planet and don't think that's small.

Vellengiri mountains also small bump on the planet.

Himalayas also small bump on the planet.

You too.

It's in being in touch with reality in every possible way that one will know,

Not by thinking of nonsense,

Which may pass in a tea party.

Existentially,

It will not pass.

It may pass with a bunch of fools that you gathered around you in the form of society.

It will not pass in the eyes of the creator.

If you do not pass in the eyes of the creator,

All the other distinctions that you may attain are just empty stuff.

It will not stand by you.

When the time to shed this coil,

When the time to put earth back into earth comes,

It will not stand by you for sure.

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Janet

September 7, 2019

Thank you 🙏 Sadhguru

Christina

February 6, 2018

Standing ovation!!

Raquel

February 4, 2018

Truth, as always.

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February 4, 2018

Always such a breath of fresh air!

Bishan

February 3, 2018

As usual, a wonderful talk. Thank you

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February 2, 2018

Thankfull for soft words of wisdom flowing in ... Blessings

Shirlee

February 2, 2018

Lo Edit! Be true to self and experience.... otherwise it is fake.

Angela

February 2, 2018

So very wise & true 🌍

Hannah

February 2, 2018

I really enjoyed this humbling and witty talk. It's important to be reminded of the folly of humanity every once in awhile.

💞🐾🦮Jana

February 2, 2018

I love the “summit at the garbage heap of ones mind.” Very insightful. 🙏🏼💖🦋🐾💐

Paula

February 2, 2018

Perspective, reset.

Shera

February 2, 2018

Many Thanks again. What a blessing you are for those who have ears to hear!

Sandra

February 2, 2018

Thank you - namaste 🌸

Oliver

February 2, 2018

I like this teacher very much as he gives the soul much clarity while we make our way through the fog on planet earth - thank you for sharing

Meijo

February 1, 2018

I love his humor and how my heart beats with joy when his words resonate with how I often feel!

Christine

February 1, 2018

Smart and simple ... maybe I don’t need to read all those books nagging me 😊

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