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