With Sadhguru In Challenging Times - 16 April

Don't miss this rare opportunity to join Sadhguru Darshan, live from Isha Yoga Center held last 16 April 2020. Yogi, mystic and visionary, Sadhguru is a spiritual master with a difference. With 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.

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I hope as human beings,

We become far more resilient than the virus and bounce back with vigor,

Bounce back with great enthusiasm and strength.

Because we are number one in the evolutionary scale of things on this planet,

This is the time to prove it,

How consciously with how much intelligence and resilience we can bounce back.

I think this is a test for who we are in many ways.

It's a kind of war like situation,

But nobody's shooting at us.

That is the grace.

At least nobody is bombing our homes down.

Nobody is burning us out of where we live.

If you're conscious and careful,

We live.

If you're a little arrogant,

There is a price to pay.

This question is from Ramadevi Garu.

Namaskaram Sadhguru.

You have mentioned many times in your talks about signs of god making.

I really found those words very fascinating,

But never understood what you mean by this.

Can you explain about it more in detail?

Ramadevi Garu,

Obviously Telugu speaking lady,

She has a deep desire to get me into trouble.

Because God is explosive material.

Those who meddle with it usually get killed by those people who believe they're God's soldiers.

If God is omnipotent and powerful enough to make this inexhaustible creation,

I don't think he would hire you as a soldier.

Puny little thing you are.

Well,

You can cause damage to another human being.

There are of course other animals,

Plants,

Trees.

If you stand here on this tiny little planet,

Freak and fret and throw even your nuclear damn bomb.

Nothing happens in the cosmos.

You are too puny.

You are.

So,

I don't think creator would hire you as a soldier.

So,

Let us examine Ramadevi Garu's desire.

Please have the courage to look at this in a very fundamental way.

Let us say,

Before human beings came upon this planet,

Well,

A whole lot of stupid people believe the world started only with human beings.

Well,

Today even a school going child knows that's not the case.

The world,

The creatures,

The plants,

The trees and the cockroaches,

They were here well ahead of you,

A billion years ahead of you.

So when there were no human beings,

Do you believe there was God on planet earth?

Even now,

If all of us,

Entire humanity,

If we go to sleep for two hours,

Everybody,

You think there is God somewhere?

It's a product of human mind.

God as we know it,

I'm saying,

Obviously you and me did not create this cosmos,

That we know.

But this idea,

There is a big man sitting up there and doing all this,

Is a product of a childish mind.

It's a man,

I want the ladies to remember.

Ramadevi Garu,

I want you to remember,

It's a man.

Fortunately in this culture,

Because we are conscious,

It is we who make the gods.

For the sake of gender parity,

We made male gods and female gods.

Everywhere else where they believe God is really up there and he makes you,

There is only male god,

You better understand that.

So in this country,

We mastered the technology of god making.

What does that mean?

First of all,

This is a culture which doesn't have an idea of the god.

There is no the god.

All the people you worship are icons of the past.

You take Shiva,

Rama,

Krishna,

Whoever else,

A Buddha,

Whatever.

These are all people who walked this land at one time,

Went through all the drama of life,

Struggles and tribulations,

More than you do.

But because they became so iconic,

We looked up to them as an inspiration to live better.

Which is natural among human beings,

To look up to something which will upgrade you.

Something is better than you,

You look up to that so that you can upgrade yourself,

That aspiration is fine.

But inventing things and then believing this is it is a tragedy of humanity.

Because essentially this comes from a fundamental level of dishonesty that you are not willing to see whatever you do not know as I do not know,

Lack of humility and honesty.

Everything that you do not know,

You believe.

The moment you say I believe,

We must be careful,

Because what you believe is more sacred than reality itself.

What you believe is more important than the existence itself.

What you believe is more important than the very phenomena of life around you,

Because it is your belief.

So your belief is even bigger than the creation and the creator of course.

No,

No,

No,

Let me change the term.

If I say creator,

See,

See,

See you also,

Sadhguru,

Believe.

Well,

Language is limited in expression,

We can say the source of creation.

Source is also a wrong word because you would think it's in one place.

But it is a fact that you or me did not create this existence.

It was here before you came and I came.

Don't blame me for this,

Okay,

I didn't do this.

Now,

Having said that,

What is the purpose of God making?

First of all,

The word God,

The God never existed in this country.

We are only looking at how to make things work.

Because in this culture,

You've always been told,

Your life is your karma.

Karma means you're doing.

When I say,

This is my karma,

What it means is,

This is my making.

My life is my karma means my life is my making.

It's beautiful,

It's my making,

It's ugly,

It's my making.

I am right now joyful,

This is my making.

I'm miserable,

This is my making.

Understanding that the way you're experiencing your life right now is entirely your making.

Now,

People have gotten into this more,

But somebody is rich,

Somebody is poor.

Why is it like this?

Is it my making?

He was born in a rich family,

I was born in a poor family.

See this rich,

Poor,

All this nonsense is only because you're comparing yourself with somebody.

If you sit here,

Your experience of life is entirely your making.

Physical arrangement of things is about the times in which we live.

These geographical locations in which we are born,

Those are not important.

Even a caveman who probably was always under lockdown of his own,

Social distancing because there was nobody around.

He also knew the same sort of joy and misery as you know.

Not because stock market went up,

Stock market came down.

Today he had a good hunt.

He is like this,

Tomorrow he's searching,

He did not find anything.

He's stressed and miserable.

In terms of experience of human life,

Nothing has changed.

Individual people are either joyful or miserable,

Pleasant or unpleasant.

Because we held the subjective dimension of life far more important than the physical arrangement of life around us.

We largely describe the quality of life as a subjective dimension,

Because your experience of life is the quality of your life.

What kind of home you live in,

What kind of clothes you wear,

How much money you got in the bank.

Virus is not checking all this.

Hello?

If it gets you,

You can't breathe.

Oh,

He's got a lot of money,

Let's leave him alone.

No such exemptions.

Because this is the nature of life.

So that is how we're looking at it.

It doesn't matter what physical arrangements you have,

How joyful you are,

How miserable you are,

How pleasant is your experience of life,

How unpleasant is it,

Is your karma.

So knowing this,

We started devising tools with which we can enhance our experience of life.

Because we understood that this body itself is a mechanism.

This human mechanism,

We understood is a better mechanism than that of a cockroach,

A better mechanism than that of a dog,

A better mechanism than even that of a tiger,

Though a lot of people wish to call themselves tigers or whatever.

It's an evolutionary backward step.

See,

Nobody calls themselves monkey,

But people go further back and say,

I'm a cobra,

I'm a tiger.

It's okay,

It's their choice.

I have no.

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Individual choices have no issue,

But it's an evolutionary backward step.

Because we realized that this is a superior mechanism or a more advanced mechanism,

This is capable of more things.

Then we realized that we could create many more mechanisms like this.

See,

Suppose if you were made like this tree,

I'm not saying because it's a fat tree,

Not because of that.

Even if you are like this tree,

Would you have thought up a bicycle?

Bicycle is a mechanism that came to your mind,

Simply because you're already mobile.

You want to move faster,

So you ran.

But still it is not good enough,

You want to go faster,

So you thought up a bicycle.

If you were made like a tree,

However intelligent you were,

You would not thought of a bicycle because it's of no consequence to you.

Because you're mobile,

You want to go faster,

You came up with a mechanism.

A mechanism like this or a machine like this is referred to as a yantra.

So we started creating yantras of various kinds.

Well,

In the physical world,

A bicycle,

A motorcycle,

A car,

An airplane,

Now spacecrafts going elsewhere,

All this stuff,

But this is in the outer world.

In the subjective dimensions,

We started creating instruments or machines or yantras.

Well,

In the northern part of the country,

Probably this is largely lost except in a few places maybe.

Because what you see is northern plains,

It doesn't have a single ancient temple left.

All of these things were raised to ground during invasions.

They've just put up small makeshift temples here and there,

And they're managing with that.

Only in the Himalayan folds or deep in the east,

Where invasions did not go,

You find ancient temples like Kamakhya or Uttarkashi or Guptakashi,

These are ancient temples where invasions did not go.

But the rest of the Gangetic Plain,

Punjab,

Gujarat,

All these places totally wiped out.

It's only in southern India,

You really see ancient temples and in the east like Puri and few other places.

Wherever there are ancient temples still alive,

You will see in this country,

We refer to the deity or today,

Because of English language,

We started calling it the God as a yantra.

This usage of this word is still very much prevalent in southern India.

We refer to the deity as yantra.

That means we're calling the deity as a machine.

We're calling it a machine.

Because a machine is just a complex arrangement of forms,

A form is a yantra.

The basic form was always seen as a triangle.

From that we created many complex forms and we made them function for our benefit.

Well,

There are many,

Many dimensions to this,

Difficult to explore with the clock ticking.

But to put it in the right context,

These are dimensions with which you can open up a new possibility,

A new window into creation.

You're not inventing anything.

You are just enhancing your tools of perception,

So that you can experience and perceive dimensions that you would have not otherwise experienced.

Like today with a telescope,

You're able to see something that you would have not been able to see with your naked eyes.

Well,

How do we even know virus exists?

A microscope.

We're able to see something that we were.

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We would have not otherwise seen with our naked eyes.

Hundred,

Two hundred or five hundred years ago if the virus came,

Most people in many parts of the world would believe it's God's wish.

God is angry with us and killing us like this.

That's what they would think and that's what they thought.

Today because our perception is enhanced with machines that we have created,

We know this is the particular type of virus,

What is its nature,

How colorful it is,

You know,

Everywhere on the television channels,

Everywhere virus is floating around.

We know its form,

Shape,

Color,

Everything.

Similarly,

In subjective dimensions we opened up this possibility.

In many different ways this can be used in a very powerful way.

This is how the deities came into existence.

In that context,

I said,

We know the technology of God making.

Well,

We have Bhairavi,

We have Dhyanalinga.

Ask people what is their experience of the Devi and the Dhyanalinga.

For many people it's more than their life because it's opened up dimensions that they never imagined possible in their life.

Well,

There will be people who will say,

Oh,

What has it opened up?

How do you know?

How will you know?

If I look through the telescope and I say I see this,

This,

This.

I say no,

No,

No,

All you're seeing is you're just having a long metal tube and fooling us.

Till you put your eye into it,

You don't know.

So here,

It is not your eye,

You have to put your heart into it.

Otherwise you don't know.

Well anyway,

Because this needs anything that you see,

Anything that you realize,

Today needs authentication from the West.

So you have Ramanujan happened accidentally.

Ramanujan,

You know,

Poured out mathematics.

People couldn't believe where is this coming from.

Because what he said over a century ago,

People are still trying to decipher and figure out,

He even gave a kind of mathematical backbone to the concept or to the reality of the black holes.

When there was no concept of black holes in the scientific community,

He gave the math.

He just poured out mathematics.

People asked where is this coming from?

He said,

My Devi bleeds mathematics.

He used his Devi to open up the mathematical dimension.

If you do not know this in this culture,

For every aspect of life,

We have a certain deity,

For everything.

Because the idea was to create,

To find access,

To create a tool,

To create a window,

Or to create a mechanism through which you could access that dimension of life.

So this is a culture where we believed in only one thing,

Human ingenuity to create many possibilities.

There is no looking up and saying,

Dear God save me,

Protect me.

This is a recent happening because everybody else claiming our God is taking care of us.

You know,

We also had to make up something.

Otherwise,

Always you were told,

This is your karma.

Either you make this wonderful,

Or you make this miserable,

It's up to you.

There is nobody else intervening with this.

It is your karma.

Nobody,

Not your father,

Not your mother,

Not your God,

Not your angels,

Nobody can do anything to you.

You can use all for your well-being,

To create well-being,

But essentially it's your karma.

Your parents are one ingredient,

Your children may be another ingredient,

Your spouse may be another ingredient.

Your temple,

Your prayer,

Your mantra,

Your yoga are different ingredients of life.

You can use this to make this into a wonderful piece of life,

Or you can use this to make it into a miserable piece of life.

So based on this is the science of God making,

Technology of God making.

But because of today's silly levels of logic,

When I say silly levels of logic,

Rudimentary,

Kindergarten level of logic is being stretched to everything.

This is not being done by the scientific community.

This is being done by a whole bunch of idiots who believe they are scientists.

All they read is probably high school textbook on science.

Beyond that they have not seen nothing,

But they will negate everything because they have such a crude sense of logic.

With all your logic,

You still don't know what you're made of,

What is the nature of your existence.

What are you talking about?

Because you see everything,

You hear everything,

You smell,

Taste everything,

Just the way this mechanism is made.

The parrots are not seeing the world the same way as you see it.

The dogs are not seeing the world the way as you see it.

They're not even hearing it the way as you hear it.

Right here there's so many creatures who experience the world totally differently.

So,

Right now,

Your entire.

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I'm not talking about the scientific community,

That simplistic scientists who are all over in the social media,

They don't understand their idea of science is based in the fundamental idea that everything is human centric.

This creation is not human centric.

Both these WhatsApp scientists and the religion.

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Religious people believe that creation is human centric.

It is not human centric.

If this entire solar system evaporates tomorrow,

Everything will go on fine in this creation.

So don't make big fuss about the virus.

Just stay alive.

Stay healthy,

Stay alive.

° Sadhguru chants Shambho Shambho Mahadevaya

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