Live In Reality

Sadhguru discusses deeper perceptions, knowing the environment you live in and the importance of understanding physical reality.

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Transcript

The physical existence is ruled by the physical loss.

You better be in tune with it if you want to handle it.

There is no other way to handle the physicality.

Because you are very spiritual you can't walk the streets eyes closed.

Can you?

You have to walk the streets with eyes open,

Isn't it?

So the physicality has to be handled properly.

As we were mentioning yesterday when the tsunami happened,

So many people died.

But people in the ocean did not die.

Yes,

People on the coast died.

Fishermen who were on their catamarans on the ocean did not die.

But those who did not go to work that day,

They died.

So his moral of the story is go to work every day.

No,

That's not the point.

It is just that moral of the story is if you want to live in some place,

The deeper your understanding of the place,

The better you get to live.

Now you are in Chennai.

The deeper your understanding of how the city functions and what happens and how the Chennai drivers drive,

Okay,

And what is the intention of the state transport bus driver,

If you understand all these things,

The chances of your survival are better.

Not that it's guaranteed.

It's better.

Now you want to live on the coast,

Now you have to understand the ocean because it's an everyday dance with ocean,

Isn't it?

Do you see the ocean is always wanting to engulf you,

Boom,

Boom,

Boom,

It's keep on coming at you?

Yes or no?

Many ways of looking at it.

When you're looking at in terms of survival and death,

The ocean is always trying to get you,

Trying to reach out to you and get you,

Isn't it?

Some days it'll reach out little more.

When the tide comes,

You know you have to walk back,

Isn't it?

So you need a deeper understanding of the whole thing.

The fish that live in the ocean had this understanding.

The animals which lived on the coast had this understanding.

But somehow human beings failed to have this understanding.

It's a physical reality.

Where the deeper your perception is,

The better you can handle it.

Now if you want to drive on the road on an Indian street,

The London people,

You're not really driven on Indian highways.

You should.

It's an experience.

If you want to drive on the Indian road,

You not only know how to handle your car,

You must be able to mind read all the people who are walking on the side.

That's if you want to drive fast.

If you really want to drive fast,

You really have to know the intentions of the people.

Otherwise you can't drive fast.

Have you driven fast on the Indian highways?

Okay,

I keep the car floored all the time and you really have to be absolutely every moment there.

I'm just most of the time driving my car at 160,

170.

I just stay like this for eight hours if I'm driving.

I'm like not one moment like this.

If you do this,

You won't live.

You want to drive at 40 kilometers per hour,

Then you can talk,

Look around,

Do this,

Do that and go.

Yes?

So you want to do something,

You need a deeper and deeper perception of the situation.

Only then the chances of your survival are enhanced,

Isn't it?

If you don't do that,

You will pay the price.

But your train came late,

So you got saved.

Thanks to Indian Railways,

Isn't it?

Or something else happened.

Your ticket got cancelled,

You were on the waiting list,

You didn't get it.

See these things are happening every day to people.

Whenever it happens,

You curse it.

But once in a way an airplane crashes or a train crashes or a tsunami happens,

Now you want to give some divine meaning to it.

There is no need to look for mystical in the ordinary.

Learn to handle the ordinary as ordinary,

It's perfectly fine.

People want to make everything mystical.

This has become a fact that all the new age people right now,

They want to make everything mystical.

When I first went to United States,

I went to Nashville in Tennessee.

There somebody came up and told me there is a spiritual expo going on right now,

Would you like to come?

I said,

Wow,

This is wonderful.

Even in India we don't have a spiritual expo,

I want to come.

They said we will go next tomorrow and the next day they came and said we have got you a slot to speak in the spiritual expo.

I said that's wonderful,

Let's go.

I went there.

One thing it being Nashville,

If you don't know this,

Nashville is called as the music capital of United States,

The country music.

So somebody is really screaming away and I go inside and they are selling spiritual bath soap,

Spiritual toothpaste,

Spiritual everything.

This is like an Indian shandy,

You know.

You go to the village shandy,

They got a root,

If you eat this you will become invisible,

If you eat something else you will become something else.

You have seen all those things?

It's all gotten exported to America now.

We gave it up here but they are picking it up in a big way.

You should see the ridiculous spiritual expo.

Absolutely ridiculous spiritual expo.

It is just like the Indian village shandy where all kinds of miraculous things are attributed to.

Soaps and scents and bath salts and what not,

Everything is spiritual.

So people are trying to desperately make simple situations of life mystical.

It is because of this there is no responsible action in the world.

It's because of this.

Now there is a war happening.

Somebody says,

God told me and God has told you how to stop the war.

If you are looking at the issues involved,

You could have looked for a solution.

But when God is telling you,

Go and wage a war,

You must,

Isn't it?

You must,

Isn't it so?

So that's what is happening.

Because you are trying to make the physical realities of life into something mystical,

Something other worldly.

Physical belongs to this world.

It has to be handled by the physical loss,

Isn't it?

What is other worldly does not belong to the physical.

That's a different dimension.

That is not coming to most people's lives but they are imagining things.

They want to concoct something and make simple physical realities mystical and not handle the physical properly.

It is only those people who are handling the physical sensibly live well,

Survive well on this planet.

Is that so?

Is that so?

Yes,

That's all.

So somebody dies,

Somebody doesn't die.

There are many things that are happening in the world.

Every day,

How many people are dying in road accidents in Chennai?

Five people,

Ten people?

At least?

Yes or no?

Over four thousand people are getting killed in India every day on the roads by traffic accidents.

Over four thousand people die.

Oh,

It's not me,

Maybe God is with me.

That's not the point.

It can happen to anybody any moment,

The way things are happening on the street,

It can happen to anybody any moment,

Isn't it?

It's not you,

Maybe because you are a good driver or maybe you did not meet those drivers.

It's subject to physical reality,

Isn't it?

There is one drunken driver on the street,

Not all of us will meet him.

Somebody who happens to be there at that moment meets him,

Isn't it?

How he meets him also,

Whether he whizzes past you or he bangs into you,

He is also subject to various realities,

Isn't it?

It's a physical reality.

Don't attribute all kinds of other qualities to it.

Physical must be handled physically,

Only then we'll have a better place to live.

Now,

Tsunami has come,

All this hulla gulla,

You'll see,

They'll all forget about it in other few years.

Fifty years later,

Tsunami comes again,

Again the same nonsense.

Now,

What do you need?

You have clearly understood,

Tsunami gave you more than seven,

Eight hours of warning.

Yes?

But we didn't heed to it.

We didn't have the necessary instruments in place.

We didn't have any kind of early warning systems.

So when it came,

It looks like God's act.

Suppose you were warned and you moved away,

What a great wave it is.

If you had a ringside view of the tsunami,

Fantastic scene,

Isn't it so?

Yes or no?

If people did not die,

Isn't it a fantastic event?

We would have built stadia all along the coast,

One kilometer inside,

Sat there and watched the damn thing coming,

Isn't it?

Yes or no?

Such a great event,

Such an absolutely beautiful event,

But because we are senseless,

It's a tragedy.

Tsunami by itself is not a tragedy.

Human ignorance is always a tragedy.

It's a power of ignorance.

Reviews

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I listened with a big grin 😀 refreshing view of our reality. Excellent thank you 🙏

Always real with a message 💕

Sage advice, much appreciated by me, www.gratefulness.org, ahimsa

👍

(Sagely satisfying — minus the undesirable background hum ~~~)

Spirituality you can take home to meet your atheist family 😂✌🏽love it

Such true sage advise 🕉 Just live in reality.

This was mind-bending. I will be listening to this for a long time to come. "Human ignorance is always a tragedy". Wow... 🙌

Always insightful.
Thank you.

Brilliant, Simple, Common sense

Thank you for the realness

Brilliant! Thank you 🙏

Funny but so true... love his work... 😂💗💫💫💫💫💫💫💫

Namaste🙏🏻And thank you🌎🦋💫

Thank you, a good practical reminder!

Very interesting talk. And so true. Thank you. 🙏🏽

I am grateful for this meditation. I love how the explanation is simple and understandable. Namaste