Inner Management: In the Presence of the Master

by Sadhguru

What you call as "body" is just a piece of earth, that you converted into food and made into body, isn't it?

What you call as "my mind" is a heap of impressions that you gathered from outside.

It once happened, on a certain day, a bull and a pheasant were grazing on the field. The bull was grazing on the grass, the pheasant was picking ticks off the bull; they are partners, you know? Then the pheasant looked at a huge tree which was at the edge of the field, and very nostalgically said, "Alas, there was a time when I could fly to the topmost branch of the tree, but today I do not have the strength even to fly to the first branch of the tree." The bull very nonchalantly said, "That's no problem! Eat a little bit of my dung everyday, you will see, within a fortnight's time you will reach the top of the tree." The pheasant said, "Oh, come off it! How is that possible?" The bull replied, "Really, please try and see. The whole humanity is on it, you could try, too." Very hesitantly, the pheasant started pecking at the dung, and lo on the very first day it reached the first branch of the tree. In a fortnight's time, it reached the topmost branch of the tree. It just went and sat on the topmost branch and just enjoyed the scenery. The old farmer saw a fat old pheasant on the top of the tree. He took out his shotgun and shot him off the tree. So the moral of the story is: even bullshit can get you to the top, but never lets you stay there. [Everybody laughs]

You go on the street and see, how many joyful faces do you see on the street? Very, very few, isn't it so? If you see any, usually they are young faces. Faces over 30 are all long faces. What has happened to them? For most of them, their lives have worked out far better than they ever imagined.

If your body, if your mind, if your emotions, if your energies are not functioning the way you want them to, then this is the worst kind of slavery, because somebody else decides what should happen within you.

Our lives become beautiful not because we are perfect. Our lives become beautiful because we put our heart into what we are doing.

Incredible things can be done simply because we are committed that we want it to happen, that's all.

fundamentally management is your ability to inspire people to do their best and that is all you can do.

Our lives become beautiful not because of what we do, our lives becomes beautiful simply because we have included everybody around us as a part of our dream of well being.