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Watch the stand-up comedy video 'Sadhguru on the Lost Concept of Heaven' from PowerfulJRE on Comedy Buff. Published 2022-03-14. Transcript available.

No, today we have come to this place where if you want to be peaceful, you need
a chemical.
You want to be joyful, you need a chemical. You want to be healthful, you need
a chemical.
Well, you want to be ecstatic, of course there is a chemical.
Right.
So, what is the consequence of this? Why this is happening? One thing is in
this generation,
one thing that's happened in people's minds is the heaven has collapsed in
people's minds.
The heaven?
Yes.
How so?
See, I've been talking to people. Fifty years ago if I spoke to people
and I asked how many of you want to go to heaven, almost eighty percent would
raise their hands.
Today you go to your university and ask them how many of you want to go to
heaven,
they'll say hee hee hee hee hee. They think it's a ridiculous question.
All right? Nobody will raise their hand. So, in their minds, heaven has
collapsed,
there's no place to go. So, they want to do it everything here, all right?
I see.
So, they have not found how to be joyful and ecstatic within themselves.
So, chemical usage, initially it became alcohol, then it became chemicals, it's
getting stronger
and stronger. And, you know, so many people dying of those things every day and
illnesses and
it's costing a nation and the world a lot. It's not just in one country, it's
going across the world.
Law enforcement agencies may be controlling it a little bit, but they can never
control it totally
because the consumption is mass-based. It is more people maybe consuming these
things than people
eating bread. It's becoming like that. So, this whole movement, where it's
going means,
if you do not raise human consciousness, if you do not teach people how to sit
here feeling
absolutely blissed out within yourself by your own nature because this human
mechanism is the most
sophisticated chemical factory. If you are a good CEO, you would produce the
chemicals that will give
you fantastic experience. If you're a lousy CEO, you're giving yourself a bad
experience.
Yes.
Now, you're buying chemicals from outside to fix that, all right? So,
essentially, you're a bad manager of
your own system. You're not taken charge of this. Why has that happened?
Because your education,
your society is talking about conquering the world, but never taught you
anything about how to take
charge of this. Do you agree with me? The most… in this room, there's so much
technology here.
In this room, the most complex and sophisticated technology is within your
system. Yes or no? Human system.
Yes.
This is. Have you read the user's manual?
There's no user's manual.
There is.
There is?
Yes.
Where is it at?
It's built into the machine.
Oh, how do I get it?
You need to pay attention. You're reading Inner Engineering. Read that
carefully.
There are…
I'm reading it. I'm in the middle.
I'm at part two.
There are pointers as to how to read your own user's manual.
Yes. Let me take you back to this concept of heaven. You know, when you're
talking about
people in universities that you say, how many of them want to go to heaven? The
problem is,
they don't have any evidence of heaven. And so when a lot of these young people
that are atheists or agnostics,
they don't want to buy into anything that they believe is connected to fairy
tales or they're
connected to some sort of an ideology that they believe was manufactured to
control people and
to keep people in check…
That's what I said. Heaven has collapsed in their minds.
Yes.
In their minds. But it's also because heaven is connected to religion and
religion is connected
to atrocities. There's a lot of people that think of religion. They think of
the evils of the
Catholic Church or they think of, you know, what religion has justified, the
horrors of history,
the things that people have done in the name of religion. So, a lot of younger,
sophisticated,
intelligent people don't want to believe in anything that there's no evidence
for. So, when you say,
how many of them want to go to heaven? Say, show me a video. Tell me where I'm
going. You have a map of
heaven? I am not asking that question, offering a ticket. I'm just telling you,
heaven has collapsed
in people's mind, which is a good thing, because… It's a good thing? It is,
because…
because the idea that this is not the place to live well… Right. There is
another place where you
will live well. Right. It's a wrong idea. Right. This is the place to live well.
You can have heaven
right here. Yes. And who told you you're not already in heaven and making a
mess out of it?
No one. I think that's possible. We are in a heaven making a mess out of it.
We also could be in hell too, right? So, right now, whether we want to fix the
soil,
or we want to fix the human mind, we are only trying to see that you don't mess
up the heaven
in which we have landed. Yes. I could agree with that. I think the problem is
the term heaven.
When you say it, people think of a biblical heaven. They think of a place that
you go… No,
no. Every religion has their own kind of heaven. That's the whole thing. I'm
saying,
before the Bible came, there have been heavens in other places. Yes. Yes. You
know one thing I found…
This is one thing good about this soil is… See, people may even have separate
heavens to go to,
but we all come from the same soil. Our bodies go back to the same soil. So,
this is a unifying
factor, irrespective of one's religion, caste, creed, whatever else.
So, in your mind, this concept of heaven relates to like a harmony amongst
yourself and the people,
the living things around you, including the soil. No. See, essentially, it's
like this.
If you feel pleasant in your body, we call this health. Yes. If you feel very
pleasant in your body,
we call this pleasure. If you feel pleasant in your mind, we call this peace.
If you feel very pleasant,
we call this joy. If you feel very pleasant… If you feel pleasant in your
emotion, we call this love.
If you feel very pleasant, we call it compassion. If you feel very pleasant in
your very life energies,
then we call this blissfulness. If you become very, very pleasant, then we call
it ecstasy.
If your surroundings become pleasant, we call it success. So, to create
pleasantness in the surroundings,
we need the cooperation of people and forces around us. Without everybody's
cooperation,
you can't create a pleasant atmosphere. But pleasantness of the body, pleasantness
of the mind,
pleasantness of emotion and energy is 100% your business, isn't it? So, if you're
feeling ecstatic,
you are in heaven. Because your idea of heaven is a very pleasant place, isn't
it?
Yes. This place, this planet Earth is very pleasant, except for the human
beings who are
creating unpleasantness among each other. Well, this sounds like a great
concept,
but human beings are very complex. Their emotions are complex, their needs and
desires and their trauma
and pain and insecurities and all mental health issues. How does one get to
that spot? Like,
what you're saying sounds wonderful. I mean, you're a guru. You're a literal
guru. So, when you sit here
and tell people these things, they go, "Well, that sounds easy for that guy."
No, no. Look at him. He's wise and enlightened. He's not easy or difficult. You've
got a great beard.
It is not easy or difficult. It's not? It is a question of wrong direction or
right direction.
That is, you went to an apple tree and you're digging the roots because you're
a potato farmer.
That is the only problem you have. You're… you're the source and seat of your
experiences within you.
What happens within you? Should it happen your way or my way? Tell me.
Your way or my way? No. What happens within you? Should it happen your way or
my way?
Well, it's within me. When you say within me, do you mean my thoughts? Do you
mean my overall experience?
Your thoughts, your emotion, your body, whatever, your chemistry, your energy,
everything. What happens
within you? Should it happen your way or somebody else's way? Well, I think if
your way sucks,
maybe you should listen to other people and maybe try their way. See, if it
happened your way,
would you keep yourself blissful or miserable? You would keep yourself blissful
if you were wise,
if you were wise and your mind was working properly. But if you have mental
health issues,
That's exactly what I'm saying. If you're filled with trauma,
if you're poorly educated, you're starting from a deficit, a severe deficit
where you don't think
correctly. No? No. You don't? That is not the problem. The original problem,
the root of the problem is this. Let's address one step at a time.
Okay. See, right now, the simple question is,
what happens in your mind, your emotion, your chemistry, your energies must be
your way, isn't it?
Well, it's yours, yes. It is yours. So, it must be your way.
But it's not happening your way right now because it's in a compulsive reactive
state.
Okay. So, anybody can cause anything within you. So, if I decide what clothes
you must wear,
what food you must eat, what you should do every day, you will call this
slavery, isn't it?
Or the government.
So, right now, someone else, something else can decide what happens within you.
Isn't this the
most horrible form of slavery? That someone can decide whether you're happy or
unhappy.
Yeah, that's not good. That's not good. That's not the best. So, the problem is
just this,
an intelligence which needs to be conscious is unfortunately unconscious and
compulsive. So,
the only problem that you have is compulsive reaction to life around you. What
is needed is a conscious
response to life. So, this simple thing people have not handled from their
childhood.
Right. So, when you don't handle this one thing, everything will be wrong.
Everything will be
accidental. Your success and failure both are accidental.
So, what do you say to someone, maybe they're 30 years old and they've had this
life of mistakes and
regret and maybe alcoholism or gambling or some other problems, but they want
to be conscious,
they want to be blissful, they want to be enlightened, they want to be a happy
person,
filled with love. What path do they take? What steps do they take to correct
the journey they're on?
Why is it though human beings are not the strongest creatures on the planet
compared to other species,
why is it the human beings are dominating this world? Simply because of our
ability to use tools,
isn't it? And our intellect, our ability to manipulate our environment.
Yes, but even then if we didn't have knowledge of using tools, the buffaloes
would have mowed us down,
all right. So, your intellect, they don't care. It's your ability to use tools.
You made an arrow,
you made a gun, you made so many things, everything, all instruments, right now
microphone or telephone
or whatever else, these are all instruments to enhance. We are this much,
because of our instruments,
we become that much. Right now, there is one little screw here in this
furniture.
I will ask you, you're a strong guy, I will ask you to unscrew this with your
hands.
Can't do it.
You do it, you may lose all your nails, I'll allow you to use your teeth, maybe
you lose some of them.
It's going to be a problem.
But it'll be right there.
But if I give you a screwdriver, boom.
I can do it easy.
In a minute, you'll get it out. So, this is the power of the tool.
Yes.
So, as there are tools for doing things in the external world, there are tools
to handle this.
Because you don't have a tool kit, this machine, which is the most complex
machine, is going crazy.
Right now, you're reading in engineering, it's a tool kit.
Yes.
You just use the tools. Don't worry about the philosophy, don't worry about
belief system,
don't worry about your concept, somebody's concepts, your beliefs, somebody's
beliefs.
Just use the necessary tools. Being peaceful, joyful, loving is a natural
outcome of that.
Okay. Well, what are those tools? Like the scenario that I laid out, you have a
person who's 30 years
old, they have a history of trauma in their life, they're very unhappy, very
depressed, maybe they're
alcoholics, they're trying to get their life in order.
Today, I want you to understand this. The Yisha Foundation and this inner
engineering process
that we are doing around the world, in 2021, I think it's 2021, our video views
are 2.2 billion.
2.2 billion video views?
Yes.
Yes.
That's a lot.
Yes. Why? Because it's worked.
And we have...
Because of what?
It has worked, I'm saying for people.
It's worked?
Yeah. We have over 16 million volunteers working with the foundation. Why are
they doing this?
Because the only reason is it has worked. What is it that's worked?
I did not teach them a morality. I did not teach them a philosophy. I did not
promise them miracles.
I did not pull gold chains out of thin air and give it to them. No, nothing.
Simply tools to fix
themselves. Just how to sit, how to breathe, how to manage yourself. This is
all.
Yes. But you're entertaining. That's also one of the reasons why you have that
many views.
How many views do we have, if you're a guest? Pull your mic down so we can hear
you.
On YouTube, I guess?
Yeah. Let's just go with YouTube.
No, no. It's okay.
That's not the point.
All told. How many views?
Two...
I don't know.
Say 4 billion. It's okay.
No, no, no. Probably about the same. Sounds about right.
Yeah. And we're not teaching you shit.
No, that's not true. Other people are that are on here. But I think that, I see
what you're saying,
that it works. But what I'm saying is, what are those tools?
This is all very mystical and difficult for people to grasp.
There are mystical aspects also, but that is not for everybody.
But I mean, this conversation is...
Only for those who are interested in those things, who want to pursue that
aspect.
For the rest of the people, for somebody, if their back... backache goes away,
his life changes.
For somebody, if his headache goes away, his life changes.
Yes.
Somebody drops his alcohol consumption... addiction, his life changes.
Yes.
Somebody, some compulsive thought that maybe drives him crazy, that goes away.
These are simple things. This is just a small screwdriver is all he needs.
He doesn't need a total overhaul. Mysticism is a different aspect.
It is like, you're not just interested in living well, you want to know the
very root of life.
Yes.
That's a different aspect. That's not for everybody. That is only for those who
seek that.
But for common people, all they want to do is, they want to live peacefully,
joyfully, with some sense of purpose to whatever they're doing in their lives.

Sadhguru on the Lost Concept of Heaven

No, today we have come to this place where if you want to be peaceful, you need
a chemical.
You want to be joyful, you need a chemical. You want to be healthful, you need
a chemical.
Well, you want to be ecstatic, of course there is a chemical.
Right.
So, what is the consequence of this? Why this is happening? One thing is in
this generation,
one thing that's happened in people's minds is the heaven has collapsed in
people's minds.
The heaven?
Yes.
How so?
See, I've been talking to people. Fifty years ago if I spoke to people
and I asked how many of you want to go to heaven, almost eighty percent would
raise their hands.
Today you go to your university and ask them how many of you want to go to
heaven,
they'll say hee hee hee hee hee. They think it's a ridiculous question.
All right? Nobody will raise their hand. So, in their minds, heaven has
collapsed,
there's no place to go. So, they want to do it everything here, all right?
I see.
So, they have not found how to be joyful and ecstatic within themselves.
So, chemical usage, initially it became alcohol, then it became chemicals, it's
getting stronger
and stronger. And, you know, so many people dying of those things every day and
illnesses and
it's costing a nation and the world a lot. It's not just in one country, it's
going across the world.
Law enforcement agencies may be controlling it a little bit, but they can never
control it totally
because the consumption is mass-based. It is more people maybe consuming these
things than people
eating bread. It's becoming like that. So, this whole movement, where it's
going means,
if you do not raise human consciousness, if you do not teach people how to sit
here feeling
absolutely blissed out within yourself by your own nature because this human
mechanism is the most
sophisticated chemical factory. If you are a good CEO, you would produce the
chemicals that will give
you fantastic experience. If you're a lousy CEO, you're giving yourself a bad
experience.
Yes.
Now, you're buying chemicals from outside to fix that, all right? So,
essentially, you're a bad manager of
your own system. You're not taken charge of this. Why has that happened?
Because your education,
your society is talking about conquering the world, but never taught you
anything about how to take
charge of this. Do you agree with me? The most… in this room, there's so much
technology here.
In this room, the most complex and sophisticated technology is within your
system. Yes or no? Human system.
Yes.
This is. Have you read the user's manual?
There's no user's manual.
There is.
There is?
Yes.
Where is it at?
It's built into the machine.
Oh, how do I get it?
You need to pay attention. You're reading Inner Engineering. Read that
carefully.
There are…
I'm reading it. I'm in the middle.
I'm at part two.
There are pointers as to how to read your own user's manual.
Yes. Let me take you back to this concept of heaven. You know, when you're
talking about
people in universities that you say, how many of them want to go to heaven? The
problem is,
they don't have any evidence of heaven. And so when a lot of these young people
that are atheists or agnostics,
they don't want to buy into anything that they believe is connected to fairy
tales or they're
connected to some sort of an ideology that they believe was manufactured to
control people and
to keep people in check…
That's what I said. Heaven has collapsed in their minds.
Yes.
In their minds. But it's also because heaven is connected to religion and
religion is connected
to atrocities. There's a lot of people that think of religion. They think of
the evils of the
Catholic Church or they think of, you know, what religion has justified, the
horrors of history,
the things that people have done in the name of religion. So, a lot of younger,
sophisticated,
intelligent people don't want to believe in anything that there's no evidence
for. So, when you say,
how many of them want to go to heaven? Say, show me a video. Tell me where I'm
going. You have a map of
heaven? I am not asking that question, offering a ticket. I'm just telling you,
heaven has collapsed
in people's mind, which is a good thing, because… It's a good thing? It is,
because…
because the idea that this is not the place to live well… Right. There is
another place where you
will live well. Right. It's a wrong idea. Right. This is the place to live well.
You can have heaven
right here. Yes. And who told you you're not already in heaven and making a
mess out of it?
No one. I think that's possible. We are in a heaven making a mess out of it.
We also could be in hell too, right? So, right now, whether we want to fix the
soil,
or we want to fix the human mind, we are only trying to see that you don't mess
up the heaven
in which we have landed. Yes. I could agree with that. I think the problem is
the term heaven.
When you say it, people think of a biblical heaven. They think of a place that
you go… No,
no. Every religion has their own kind of heaven. That's the whole thing. I'm
saying,
before the Bible came, there have been heavens in other places. Yes. Yes. You
know one thing I found…
This is one thing good about this soil is… See, people may even have separate
heavens to go to,
but we all come from the same soil. Our bodies go back to the same soil. So,
this is a unifying
factor, irrespective of one's religion, caste, creed, whatever else.
So, in your mind, this concept of heaven relates to like a harmony amongst
yourself and the people,
the living things around you, including the soil. No. See, essentially, it's
like this.
If you feel pleasant in your body, we call this health. Yes. If you feel very
pleasant in your body,
we call this pleasure. If you feel pleasant in your mind, we call this peace.
If you feel very pleasant,
we call this joy. If you feel very pleasant… If you feel pleasant in your
emotion, we call this love.
If you feel very pleasant, we call it compassion. If you feel very pleasant in
your very life energies,
then we call this blissfulness. If you become very, very pleasant, then we call
it ecstasy.
If your surroundings become pleasant, we call it success. So, to create
pleasantness in the surroundings,
we need the cooperation of people and forces around us. Without everybody's
cooperation,
you can't create a pleasant atmosphere. But pleasantness of the body, pleasantness
of the mind,
pleasantness of emotion and energy is 100% your business, isn't it? So, if you're
feeling ecstatic,
you are in heaven. Because your idea of heaven is a very pleasant place, isn't
it?
Yes. This place, this planet Earth is very pleasant, except for the human
beings who are
creating unpleasantness among each other. Well, this sounds like a great
concept,
but human beings are very complex. Their emotions are complex, their needs and
desires and their trauma
and pain and insecurities and all mental health issues. How does one get to
that spot? Like,
what you're saying sounds wonderful. I mean, you're a guru. You're a literal
guru. So, when you sit here
and tell people these things, they go, "Well, that sounds easy for that guy."
No, no. Look at him. He's wise and enlightened. He's not easy or difficult. You've
got a great beard.
It is not easy or difficult. It's not? It is a question of wrong direction or
right direction.
That is, you went to an apple tree and you're digging the roots because you're
a potato farmer.
That is the only problem you have. You're… you're the source and seat of your
experiences within you.
What happens within you? Should it happen your way or my way? Tell me.
Your way or my way? No. What happens within you? Should it happen your way or
my way?
Well, it's within me. When you say within me, do you mean my thoughts? Do you
mean my overall experience?
Your thoughts, your emotion, your body, whatever, your chemistry, your energy,
everything. What happens
within you? Should it happen your way or somebody else's way? Well, I think if
your way sucks,
maybe you should listen to other people and maybe try their way. See, if it
happened your way,
would you keep yourself blissful or miserable? You would keep yourself blissful
if you were wise,
if you were wise and your mind was working properly. But if you have mental
health issues,
That's exactly what I'm saying. If you're filled with trauma,
if you're poorly educated, you're starting from a deficit, a severe deficit
where you don't think
correctly. No? No. You don't? That is not the problem. The original problem,
the root of the problem is this. Let's address one step at a time.
Okay. See, right now, the simple question is,
what happens in your mind, your emotion, your chemistry, your energies must be
your way, isn't it?
Well, it's yours, yes. It is yours. So, it must be your way.
But it's not happening your way right now because it's in a compulsive reactive
state.
Okay. So, anybody can cause anything within you. So, if I decide what clothes
you must wear,
what food you must eat, what you should do every day, you will call this
slavery, isn't it?
Or the government.
So, right now, someone else, something else can decide what happens within you.
Isn't this the
most horrible form of slavery? That someone can decide whether you're happy or
unhappy.
Yeah, that's not good. That's not good. That's not the best. So, the problem is
just this,
an intelligence which needs to be conscious is unfortunately unconscious and
compulsive. So,
the only problem that you have is compulsive reaction to life around you. What
is needed is a conscious
response to life. So, this simple thing people have not handled from their
childhood.
Right. So, when you don't handle this one thing, everything will be wrong.
Everything will be
accidental. Your success and failure both are accidental.
So, what do you say to someone, maybe they're 30 years old and they've had this
life of mistakes and
regret and maybe alcoholism or gambling or some other problems, but they want
to be conscious,
they want to be blissful, they want to be enlightened, they want to be a happy
person,
filled with love. What path do they take? What steps do they take to correct
the journey they're on?
Why is it though human beings are not the strongest creatures on the planet
compared to other species,
why is it the human beings are dominating this world? Simply because of our
ability to use tools,
isn't it? And our intellect, our ability to manipulate our environment.
Yes, but even then if we didn't have knowledge of using tools, the buffaloes
would have mowed us down,
all right. So, your intellect, they don't care. It's your ability to use tools.
You made an arrow,
you made a gun, you made so many things, everything, all instruments, right now
microphone or telephone
or whatever else, these are all instruments to enhance. We are this much,
because of our instruments,
we become that much. Right now, there is one little screw here in this
furniture.
I will ask you, you're a strong guy, I will ask you to unscrew this with your
hands.
Can't do it.
You do it, you may lose all your nails, I'll allow you to use your teeth, maybe
you lose some of them.
It's going to be a problem.
But it'll be right there.
But if I give you a screwdriver, boom.
I can do it easy.
In a minute, you'll get it out. So, this is the power of the tool.
Yes.
So, as there are tools for doing things in the external world, there are tools
to handle this.
Because you don't have a tool kit, this machine, which is the most complex
machine, is going crazy.
Right now, you're reading in engineering, it's a tool kit.
Yes.
You just use the tools. Don't worry about the philosophy, don't worry about
belief system,
don't worry about your concept, somebody's concepts, your beliefs, somebody's
beliefs.
Just use the necessary tools. Being peaceful, joyful, loving is a natural
outcome of that.
Okay. Well, what are those tools? Like the scenario that I laid out, you have a
person who's 30 years
old, they have a history of trauma in their life, they're very unhappy, very
depres