10 Minutes To Start Your Day Right Sadhguru

the word yoga means union

union means whether you are aware of it

or you are not aware of it right now you

are happening here

as a part of everything else what the

trees exhale your inhaling what you

exhale the trees are inhaling

not just on the level of respiration on

all levels this is happening

what you think as myself is just a

psychological

boundary that you have set up so yoga

means

consciously obliterating the boundaries

of your individuality

so if you sit here if you experience

everything around you as myself

this is yoga if you experience all this

as myself

myself do you need morality

be good to people don’t harm them don’t

do this don’t do that would it be

necessary

no did anybody teach you out of these

five fingers

this is a small finger don’t cut it off

is this morality needed like that

anything that you feel is a part of

yourself with that you don’t need any

values ethics morals nothing

because it’s a part of you this is what

yoga means

you experience everything as a part of

you

when somebody experiences the whole

universe as a part of himself

then we say he’s a yogi

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charles darwin said that you evolved out

of a monkey

you were a monkey then you became a man

some of the genetic scientists are

saying this

that the difference the dna difference

between a chimpanzee

and you is only 1.23

so in that sense physiologically you’re

only 1.23

away from a chimpanzee not a big

difference isn’t it a shade

it’s just a shade of difference but in

terms of intelligence and awareness you

are worlds apart from a chimpanzee

so your problem is just this you have an

intelligence for which you don’t have a

stable enough platform

and that’s why yoga to create a stable

platform

so that your intelligence works for you

right now

you may call it so many things so many

exotic names have come up

stress tension anxiety depression

madness

all kinds of things all this essentially

what it means is

your intelligence has turned against you

that’s all

you can give any number of reasons but

essentially

your intelligence has turned against you

if your intelligence was working for you

would you create blissfulness or misery

plus this all why your intelligence is

turned against you

there’s no stable enough base so the

entire yogic system is about

this that you create a stable base so

that your intelligence works for you

if your intelligence turns against you

no power in the universe is going to

save you you are a

done thing if you become what you make

up

unfortunate isn’t it

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yeah you your thoughts belong to you or

you belong to the thoughts you must make

up your mind

they can be dangerous those thoughts

they’re not dangerous

they’re fantastic only thing is

fantastic things mishandled can kill you

car can kill you isn’t it it’s a

wonderful thing an automobile

it’s made our lives if you handle it

irresponsibly it kills you

every possibility is like this every

possibility if you do not harness it

it becomes a problem so the same goes

for your cerebral capability

if you do not harness it it’s a serious

problem

it’s taking away 80 percent of the human

beings are simply suffering

they don’t need any outside help they’re

on self-help

i understand when i say i’m thinking

this you another word

another way of saying it is i’m making

up this i’m making up that

you can make up whatever you want as

long as you enjoy it

to transform your life you want to do it

in two minutes

so is that what your life is worth

so if your life is worthwhile is it not

important that you invest a certain

amount of time and energy

rather than looking for this stupid

stuff of one mantra with which i will

transform my life

it will not happen like that that’s the

reason why most people have remained the

way they have remained

because they have not invested in their

well-being

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so it’s a serious long-term investment

it is not long-term i would say

if i ask you is your life worthwhile

enough

to invest 30 to 32 hours of focused time

to bring some basic transformation

within you

if i teach you a way where you can

manage your chemistry the way you want

but we need 32 hours of focused time

do you think your life is valuable

enough for that much investment i’m

asking

yes then you must invest that’s what is

called an engineering program

it’s 32 hours of focus time we can

format it in different ways

but that much investment has to go in

all human experience comes from within

isn’t it

i don’t know what kind of geniuses start

these things i know

in america there must be a million books

telling you how to

you know milk happiness from something

else or somebody else

but all human experiences generated from

within

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what comes from within you must be the

way you want it isn’t it

isn’t that simple enough i’m asking yes

what comes from around you

may not be the way you want it but what

comes from within you must be the way

you want it

if whatever happens within you the way

you want it will you be blissed out or

miserable

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blessed out see most people

understand complexity has intelligence

if they make themselves difficult they

are supposed to be intelligent

making a simple thing difficult is not

intelligence

making a very complex thing simple is

intelligence

isn’t it so wrong sense of intelligence

idea of intelligence has entered

people’s minds they think if they make a

problem out of every solution they’re

intelligent

no no if you find solutions for every

problem that is intelligence

that’s my understanding so essentially

this whole this whole attitude and

questioning

and this kind of thing has happened to

the world in a big way because

our education is confusing people to

make them believe

that memory is intelligence memory is

not intelligence

memory is useful as data but

intelligence is a different dimension

we have gobbled this up that we have

made children believe from a very early

age if you remember something you are

smart

no no a tape recorder can remember

everything

this camera can remember everything this

doesn’t mean it’s intelligent

so one major aspect of my work

is to separate these two in your within

your experience

your memory and your intelligence are

two different things

if you have an intelligence which

unsullied by memory

you will see everything just the way it

is but if you look at everything through

the filters of your memory

everything is prejudiced people who are

all this is fine but what’s the take

away they want a commandment

we are talking about consciousness

commandments won’t fly

commandments means you’re trying to fix

your life

consciousness means you want to liberate

your life

my intention is you must liberate your

life

people come and say sadhguru please

teach us how to control my mind

say you want your mind controlled or

liberated

oh yes yes liberated but how to control

because they think that intelligence is

a serious problem

and it’s been in their lives so what is

the solution if you remove a part of

your brain you will be fine

you’re essentially complaining i wish i

had the brain of an earthworm

this human brain i am not able to handle

yes that is a fact

we have come to a place where to grow

our food we need chemicals

to be healthful we need chemicals today

70

of the population is on prescription

medication of some sort

to be peaceful we need chemicals to be

joyful we need chemicals to be ecstatic

of course you have ecstasy

so we are going towards chemicals in a

huge way the water that you drink

is full of chemicals the air that you

breathe is like that

and the food that you eat is like that

so

if ninety percent of humanity goes into

chemical consumption

consciously or unconsciously if they

consume a lot of it

the next generation that we produce will

be

of a lesser quality than who we are

what i am saying is the important thing

about life whether

it’s a grasshopper out there or you both

of us are striving to be the fullest

possible life that we can be

a grasshopper is trying to be a

full-fledged grasshopper a human being

is trying to be a full-fledged human

being

so suppose you cut off one of

grasshopper’s legs which is supposed to

hop

the hopping leg if you take it off have

you enhanced its life i’m asking you

no no so similarly for a human being if

you take away

any of his faculties in any way even

temporarily

have you enhanced his life no so

intoxication is just that

it is taking away your faculties for a

period of time

but if you continuously do it it’ll take

it away for your life

so you’re taking away or subjugating

your faculties for a little bit of

pleasure

or maybe a lot of pleasure whatever you

wish to describe it

but the important thing is you’re taking

a backward step with life

because life can only be enhanced by

sharpening

and increasing our faculties not by

decreasing our faculties

our ability to be active

physically mentally emotionally

spiritually if this is in any way

crippled

this means we are taking a backward step

though there may be pleasure attached to

it

every human being wants his life

enhanced

if you don’t show them proper ways to

enhance

they will find shortcuts see a man who

goes to the bar and a man who goes to a

church or a temple or whatever

they’re seeking the same thing they’re

trying to enhance their life

isn’t it if you do not show them a

proper way

they will take whatever ways are

available on the street that’s all

that’s why i’m saying it’s not a moral

issue for me it is just that it sets you

backward

you want to go forward but it sets you

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backward

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you