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Sadhguru
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March 4 - March 4, 2018
“Only if you are out of the circus of your mind, you will be hundred percent free of madness
Only when you get dis-identified, when you are able to be involved but not entangled, only then it can stop.
“Your mind need not be controlled; your mind needs to be liberated.”
Having an aversion to something and an attraction towards something else is the basis of identification.
There is no subtraction or division in the mind, there is only addition and multiplication.
It is the identification which is causing entanglement, not the involvement. If your involvement is beyond your identifications, you will see that involvement brings absolute joy to life.
Your aliveness is going down because you are committing suicide in installments by becoming selective in your involvement. Whatever you do willingly, that is your heaven. Whatever you do unwillingly, that is your hell.
Whether your mind is a misery or your mind is a miracle simply depends on whether you are allowing life to happen to you absolutely willingly or unwillingly.
The passion with which you look at your lover or your child, with the same passion, look at the sky, the trees, the earth, or anything. If you have the same passion and involvement with every aspect of your life, the mind is not a misery. It is a beautiful circus. “Circus” is not a negative word. A circus is a hugely coordinated symphony of actions.
if you really want to unleash the mind – not control the mind – if you truly want to unleash the power of the mind, the fundamental thing is, your intellect should not be identified with anything.
Detachment means you have disentangled yourself from the process that you call “body,” and from the process that you call “mind,” because both these things are accumulations from outside.
In your experience of life, what is going on in your mind is more important to you than what is going on outside of you. What your thought and emotion says, is far more important than what the world is saying. But if you turn it off, it suddenly ceases to exist.
“If you try to make the limited unlimited, you will suffer.”
Desperation comes because you are trying to make a small aspect of your life into everything.
The difference between a stupid person and an intelligent one is that an intelligent person knows he is stupid, but an idiot does not.
“The main aspect of meditation is, as you become more meditative, you become the boss, your mind becomes the slave, and that is how it should always be.”
Truth is that dimension which is not logically explainable. It does not fit into logic because logic is always dividing; truth is always unifying.
If you think hundred percent logically, there is really no possibility of life. Only if you know to what extent your logic should go and where it should not go, your life will be beautiful. If you become absolutely logical, there is no beauty to your life.
Logic is essential only to handle the material aspect of life.
“Seeing is believing.” Seeing is not believing – everyone sees what they want to see.
Sense organs can perceive everything only in comparison. If you had not seen darkness in your life, you would not know what light is. It is only in comparison that you know what light is.
Logic is like a scalpel. Your intellect is like a scalpel. You can use a sharp intellect to cut things open and look inward. By cutting alone, you will not know – it is only by looking that you will know. Your intellect and logic can only cut, it cannot look. Your logical intellect can do a phenomenal amount of logical circus.
Creator is just pure intelligence. Intelligence beyond logic is Creator, or what you are referring to as God.
“A devotee has no agenda of his own. His only objective is to dissolve into his object of devotion.”
Devotion is the quickest way. It has always been, and it always will be. But it means you have to remove yourself – you have to uproot yourself. Only then it works;
Most of a human being’s suffering is mental, and mental suffering is self-created. A human being is an expert at creating suffering for himself and for others. This is because he has a discretionary mind – he can choose to be any way he wants right now. He can make himself joyful or make himself miserable. You can make anything out of your mind. This choice is there at every moment. Your mind is not a solid state; it is a fluid. You can make it take on any shape.
Only an idiot is dead sure. An intelligent person is constantly confused with every little step that he takes. You may get thoroughly confused just choosing your breakfast because once you become human, you are a possibility. Your life is not fixed. This is the freedom that nature has given you – to choose
Freedom is only a problem when you are unaware. If you were aware, the same freedom would be your benediction. Why meditation has been given so much importance is because it is about making you as conscious as possible, so that you don’t suffer your freedom – you make use of your freedom to flower into a larger dimension of who you are.
According to modern physics and neurosciences, the distinction between imagination and hallucination is very thin, but there is a distinction. The distinction is just this – you have imagination which is unconscious, not a conscious process. If you could do the same hallucination consciously and empower it with your energy, it can become reality.
