Sadhguru,
I believe that talent is something which is grossly exaggerated in success.
It's… when I was in medical school,
I used to teach martial art.
That was my passion.
And every time a Bruce Lee's movie was released,
All these school kids would come and join in hoards to martial arts schools.
We used to call as Bruce Lee Phenomena.
Sadhguru – I used to see some kids whose physique is meant for martial art,
Who have the natural flair and I used to think,
Oh,
This kid is going to get a black belt.
And interestingly Swamiji,
After six months,
They are never there.
The guys who go up to the black belt and,
You know,
Do something very good in martial art are the ones who joined the school without any skills,
Without any talent,
Who worked very,
Very hard.
For everything,
They had to sweat it out.
But in the end,
They are the ones who succeed.
How do you explain this phenomenon?
Sadhguru – See,
For variety of reasons,
Let me not go beyond this.
For variety of reasons,
A certain individual could be born with a certain flair – physical flair,
Mental flair,
Emotional flair,
Style.
You know,
Five-year-old child,
One has style,
Other is clumsy,
Okay?
So the one with the style is not going to become necessarily a fashion thing.
Somebody else who seems to be clumsy may grow into something else.
Like,
You don't know when a woman is pregnant,
The child within that womb,
Whether it's a sage or a sorcerer,
Nor the woman know.
No,
The mother does not know whether she is producing a sage or a sorcerer or what.
This is because – I use the word coherence because of modern science is using that word.
Who you are here right now,
As you sit here,
This is physics.
Every subatomic particle is in constant contact with everything.
What you call as cosmos is living life and it's a live mind.
You have captured only one small part of it.
If you work with only that one smart… small part of what you have captured,
Both as life and as intelligence,
You will function at a certain level.
If you apply yourself to break the barriers of your limitations that you've set for yourself,
Then there is an intelligence beyond anybody's understanding,
Beyond anybody's estimate which is available to you.
Once this is available to you,
People think you're superhuman.
No,
This is not about being superhuman.
This is about realizing that being human is super.
The immensity of being human has not been realized.
So we are always making a kind of a mathematical calculation.
Okay,
If this person has this much IQ,
Maybe this is what he will become.
This is what Newton's law that everything that moves on this planet works to your mathematical precision or a geometric precision.
That is,
If you take a pendulum,
The length of the pendulum will decide how it will swing.
If you take a projectile,
Depending upon its mass,
Velocity and the trajectory,
It will go to a certain place.
That is not how the cosmos is working because what you think is physical and not physical is all mixed up within this.
Within this human being,
The physical self,
The psychological self,
The emotional self and who you call as myself,
The life within you,
The fundamental life process,
These are all different dimensions and the innermost core of who you are,
Which… because all the other words are corrupted,
I'll use the word life or just you,
What you call as me.
This,
If you love it,
If you do not identify it with any form,
With your physical form or with other different identities which you take on,
It has a way of being cohesive or collaborative with everything around.
When we say somebody worked hard,
All he is trying to do is stretch his boundary of identity,
Isn't it?
He is trying to stretch his boundary.
If he succeeds to stretch his boundary,
Something that was… he never thought possible or imagined that is within his competence or capability becomes his.
Miraculously,
I can show you hundreds of people who come to me,
We prepare them for a certain period and then we initiate them.
In twenty-four hours,
You will see the shape of their face will change.
Genetics are altered.
In twenty-four hours' time,
You can see the photographic images,
They have actually changed dramatically overnight,
Simply because of a certain extension of their identity.
So,
In the Indian spiritual milieu,
When you say spiritual,
You must understand this.
This is not about looking up or looking down.
When we say spiritual,
We are talking about transcending the limitations of physical.
So,
Right now,
The physical is here as if it's a solid entity in people's experience.
But modern physics is telling you and medical science is beginning to tell you,
Or if people don't understand,
If they just hold their nose for two minutes,
They understand that they are not an independent existence.
It is in transaction,
Not just in terms of breath,
Even on the level of subatomic particles,
It's in constant transaction.
If this transaction becomes even minutely conscious,
Suddenly,
You have immense capabilities that you never thought were possible.
Biological identity is the most limiting identity that you have,
Because it limits to the area of your body.
Now,
When you strive,
You break this.
It doesn't matter in what way you strive.
Most people strive in unconscious,
Unscientific,
Simply out of striving,
They do things.
But there are ways to strive scientifically,
In a proper way.
There are tools to strive with specific direction to break the limitations of who we are.
If you break this boundary,
The subatomic particles are transacting,
The intelligence is transacting,
Only you're missing the whole game.
If you don't miss the game,
If you are in the game of life,
Not in the game of thoughts and emotions,
You are in the game of life,
Suddenly,
Just about anything you want,
You can do,
Not this or that.
I'm saying,
Anything can a human being can do,
Simply if he breaks his barriers.
And these barriers are many levels,
But the most fundamental thing is the identity.
