Mind is your Business and Body the Greatest Gadget (2 Books in 1)

by Sadhguru

Now suppose you are a woman, does it mean to say your father has made no contribution to you? He does exist within you, doesn’t he? Suppose you are a man, does it mean your mother made no contribution to you? Doesn’t she exist within you? The fact is that you are either a man or a woman, but the truth is you are both. Truth is that dimension which is not logically explainable.

If you apply your logic too much to your life, all life will be squeezed out of you.

Moments of extreme logic are moments of suicide, please see this. If we think hundred percent logically about life, there is really no reason to live; there is

really no reason for you and me to exist here. But if you look at one beautiful moment of your life’s experience, suddenly everything is sparked up and you want to live.

In spite of all this exploration, no new dimension has occurred to you because the instruments of exploration that you are using are too limited. They are just logical and intellectual, so there is no way you will touch any other dimension of life. It is not possible.

“One should use information and logic as a drunkard would use a lamp post, only for support, not for illumination.”

A gnana yogi is someone who uses his intellect to start with, and then moves on to use his intelligence. If he is just bombastic intellect, he is not a gnana yogi.

you see a little boy walking around. He is small for you, but that is not the truth. The ant which is crawling on the ground experiences him as a giant. Your ideas of small and big, your ideas of light and darkness, your ideas of good and bad, are all depending upon what you are identified with. Because you are identified with this human body, a dinosaur is big and an ant is small.

Whatever you experience is only in comparison, which is good for survival, but it does not give you a perception of reality the way it is.

Your eye just grasps information and categorizes this information into twelve different aspects. These twelve different aspects go into twelve different parts of your brain where they all get assimilated, and your brain creates an image.

What they are saying is, the way you think the world looks is not the way it is. This is not philosophy or mysticism; this is neurology.

One should use information and logic as a drunkard would use a lamp post – only for support, not for illumination.

a PhD is celebrating the volume of information he has gathered.

A gnana yogi is not like that. He understands that his logic and intellect are a support, but not illumination.

If you go into the Vedantic philosophy, logic will rise to such a state that it will just freak you out completely.

To see, you need intelligence, and intelligence is not logical.

A devotee has no agenda of his own. His only objective is to dissolve into his object of devotion.

Let us say he is a devotee of Shiva. It means he just wants to merge or die into Shiva. That is all he knows. He is not thinking of living well or becoming rich or going to heaven.

Ninety-nine percent of them are just saying, “Give me this, give me that; save me, protect me.” Isn’t it so?

I am not saying there is no element of devotion at all in you. There is. It can serve some purposes, but it cannot be your way to the Ultimate. You can only take small rides on it – you can sit in the temple for ten minutes and say, “Shiva, save me,” and you get confidence to go through the next twenty-four hours. To that extent it works.

Just bowing down and touching someone’s feet is not devotion. You are bending down because there is going to be a benefit. Someone has told you, if you get blessings from some Guru, things will happen well. Your business will work well or your children will be healthy. So you bend down. It is okay, you get that also. To that extent devotion works for you, but not as an ultimate vehicle to take you beyond.

“Your mind is not a solid state, your mind is a fluid. You can make it take on any shape."

Your suffering, your enjoyment, and your wellbeing are always from your perspective because your experience of life is through you.

But the thing is, animals only suffer physically, if things go wrong. Human beings suffer much more than other creatures because we have a discretionary intellect.