Inner Engineering: A Yogi's Guide to Joy

by Sadhguru

the bees have engineering plans in their heads? No. These plans are there in their bodies. They know exactly what to do because of a blueprint in their systems. Spiritual knowledge or “knowing” was always transmitted like this—not

There is an intrinsic intelligence within you that, as we have seen earlier, is capable of transforming a piece of bread into a human being. The most sophisticated machine, including the brain, was created by this intrinsic intelligence.

Right now you are just trying to use a limited section of your brain, and you think that is intelligence. No. There is something within you that can create an entire human

brain in all its magnificent complexity and capability. That “something” functions in an altogether different way. For example, I don’t think with my head but with every cell in my body. This makes my thinking an organic, seamless, and integrated process. There is a certain level of integratedness about it, because it invol...

Nothing has ever been out of place in this existence. Things have only been out of place in human societies. Between this piece of life and that piece of life, there can be a comparison. But for the intelligence that is making all life happe...

What a tragic choice people so often end up making—choosing the finiteness of the human brain over a universe of infinite knowing.

Sadhana

The moment you get strongly identified, you lose your perspective on life! Ideas of good and bad, right and wrong are all your mental constructs.

They have nothing to do with life as such. What was considered to be moral a hundred years ago is intolerable today.

If you want an element of spirituality to enter your life, the first thing you must do is drop these rigid ideas of virtue and vice, and learn to look at life just the way it is.

Spirituality, on the other hand, is born of inclusion.

If your humanity were active, there would be no need for morality at all.

Only because religions have instilled such a sense of fear and shame are you ashamed of your very biology!

Spirituality does not mean moving away from life; it means becoming alive to the core, in the fullest possible way.

Human society reflects the inner experience of human beings.

The premise is simple: if you have a good seed and if you create the right atmosphere, it will sprout.

Creating the right atmosphere of body and mind is the only work.

Once your thoughts get organized, your emotions will also get organized.

If you simply commit yourself to creating what you really care for, now once again your thoughts get organized in such a way that there are no hurdles. Your thoughts flow freely toward what you want, and once this happens, the manifestation of your desire is a natural consequence.

Is that what you really want?

Once that is clear and you are committed to creating it, you generate a continuous process of thought in that direction. When you maintain a steady stream of thought without changing direction, it will manifest as a reality in your life.

Let us not make hard work of the simple aspects of life.

Emotion is just the juicier part of thought. You

Since it takes longer to turn, and its intensity is usually substantially greater than thought, it often seems as though thought and emotion are different. But they are no more separate than sugarcane and its juice.

Thought is not as intense as emotion in most people’s experience.

you either come to terms with the laws that govern the non-physical realm or you dissolve into

this dimension,

The endless nature of human desire is an expression of longing for infinite nature or life beyond physical existence.

Infinity and zero are just positive and negative expressions of the same reality. Devotion means dropping

“what’s fine” and “what’s not fine” do not exist for you anymore;...

Devotion is a tool to transcend the dual nature of logic. But instead of transcending logic, one may end up denying logic altogether.

Logic is essentially a cutting tool, an instrument of discernment.

If your intellect becomes this refined, you will find devotion fits in perfectly with your logic.

Devotion can be very beautiful, joyous, ecstatic, but without the clarity of knowing, it could lead to stagnation.

On the other hand, without emotion, spiritual practices can become barr...

if you want to experience a mountain peak, you either elevate yourself to that level, or simply look up. The devotee knows that if you manage to ascend to meet the peak, you still only stand beside the peak. But if

you become the valley, you hold the entire mountain in your lap.

Only when the gnawing anxiety of self-preservation is completely eliminated from your mind would you dare to explore life.

Once the fear of suffering is dropped, you can

plunge into any situation without...

You don’t climb in love, you don’t stand in love, you don’t fly in love, you fall in love. Something of you should fall or melt away to accommodate the other.

If you can look at everything lovingly, the whole world becomes beautiful in your experience.

The divine is not an entity sitting up there; it is a living force every moment of your life.

When somebody said something similar two thousand years ago it worked for him—because of the fire in his heart, because of the truth that

was burning within him, not because of the words he uttered.

AKKA MAHADEVI

The power and passion with which they lived their lives make them inspirations for generations of humanity. Akka continues to be a living presence in the Indian collective consciousness,

But becoming a devotee does not mean you are a pushover. That which knows how to bend will not break.

A devotee is someone who is willing to dissolve into the object of devotion. If you are a devotee of life, you will become one with it. Don’t be an outsider to the life process. Become a devotee. Dissolve.

Modern science has proved beyond all doubt that all of existence is made up of the same energy, manifesting itself in millions of bewilderingly different ways.