Name: Sadhguru | This Past Weekend w/ Theo Von #542
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Sadhguru | This Past Weekend w/ Theo Von #542

I have some tour dates upcoming to tell you about Bloomington, Indiana,
November 13th,
Columbus, Ohio, Champaign, Illinois, over there in Illinois, Grand Rapids,
Michigan,
Lafayette, Louisiana, and Beaumont, Texas.
There are some tickets still available, theovon.com slash T-O-U-R.
Make sure to go through that link so you're getting fair-priced tickets.
Today's guest is an Indian guru and a yogi.
He is an author, he's a speaker, he's a spiritual teacher.
He is the founder of the Isha Institute, which teaches yoga as well as other
spiritual practices.
They have a branch here in Tennessee, which is why he's here today.
I'm really grateful for his time.
Today's guest is Sadhguru.
Tell me to you, how have you been?
Oh, frenetic, I feel like a lot of times.
Why?
That's just how I feel.
I think I'm trying to do a lot of things, like trying to get my brain to shift
from like,
sometimes like relaxing to being active or doing something, you know, it's like...
Human brain is capable of doing a lot more than that.
Yeah.
Well, good.
Yes.
That's a positive to know that for sure.
Yeah, I believe that.
Yeah, I definitely believe that.
I mean, I'm grateful that my mind is able to kind of shift gears here and there
where I need it, you know.
But sometimes it's like, yeah, I think sometimes it does feel frenetic.
See, the thing is this, any machine for that matter, depending on what is the
volume of friction there is within it,
accordingly, it'll reduce its ability to do things.
If you take a car, let's say, if you take the best car in the world, and if you
reduce the lubrication oil,
it'll go dead in no time because of friction.
So this also is the same thing.
People's thoughts and emotions are in frictious condition.
So, ordinary things that we can do feel stressful.
And all, almost all human misery is manufactured in human mind.
Isn't it so?
So it's on the inside, you're saying?
I'm not saying.
You tell me.
Ah.
Yeah.
Unless you are in a famine or a war zone or something where somebody can cause
some trouble to you,
rest of the time, it's all self-help, isn't it?
Yeah.
The war zone is more inside.
I mean, it's not on the outside.
No, I'm saying physically, if somebody is shooting a bullet at you, that's a
different matter.
Yeah.
But right now, we are poking ourselves all the time.
Why?
The important thing is, see, to get human intelligence to its present state.
It's taken millions of years of evolution from an amoeba to make you like this.
It's taken millions of years of evolution.
It's just one word, but actually tremendous amount of research and development
has happened
to get you to this place.
But now, that brain is trouble for most people.
Ninety-five percent of the people use this brain to harm themselves.
Because if we give you something sharp, if I ask you a simple question, do you
want your
intelligence or intellect to be sharp or blunt?
It's a question.
I would like it to be sharp.
So, if I give you something sharp, how you hold it is very important.
If you don't know which is the blade end, which is the handle, if you hold it
tight, it'll
hurt you more and more.
Or if you're unconscious and you're like this, like this, like this, intestines
may come out,
you know.
Why we don't give a knife to a child's hand?
Not because knife is dangerous.
Has it ever happened a knife popped up and stabbed someone?
It never happened.
Knife is not dangerous.
It's the people who hold it and how they hold it.
So, right now, we've been given an intelligence.
You know, there is a...
The biologists today are saying the DNA difference between you and a chimpanzee
is only 1.23%.
1.23% is not much of a...
It's not far off the jungle.
Not far.
So, physiologically, that's how close we are to a chimpanzee.
But in terms of our intelligence and awareness, we are worlds apart.
So, essentially, we have an intelligence for which we don't have a stable
enough platform.
If you don't create a stable platform, stable chemistry, stable energy, stable
physiology,
if you don't create that, your intelligence will work against you.
Once your intelligence works against you, there is no force in the universe
which can save you.
You can call it stress.
You can call it anxiety, misery, anger, angst, whatever.
Different levels of unpleasantness within you.
Essentially, your intelligence is not working for you.
It's working against you.
Wow.
Grateful to have you here today, Sadhguru.
Thank you very much for coming.
Yeah, that's a great place to start.
Good that you call me here.
So, I get to golf in a good golf course tomorrow morning.
Do you actually hit the ball or do you just imagine that it's in the hole?
I've had four hole-in-ones.
Have you really?
Yeah.
Wow.
So, I'm not an imagining character.
No, it's good to hear.
That's awesome, man.
I wanted to, so you're like a sorcerer, not a sorcerer.
What is you guys, you're a visualizer?
What is kind of the terminology that they use for?
I'm a full-fledged human being.
Okay.
Is that good?
That's fair.
Okay.
Because right now, human beings are always trying to cripple themselves with
their thoughts,
with their emotions, their whatever else.
Yeah.
If you do one thing, that in your life, you're not the impediment.
You're not the what?
You're not the impediment.
You're not the problem.
You're not the issue.
There are a thousand issues you need to handle in the world.
The more you try to do, the more problems and more troubles there will be.
All those things you handle to the best of your ability.
But you are not the issue in your life.
If you just ascertain this one thing, that you yourself are not an issue,
just check and see for most human beings, they themselves are an issue.
Their thought, their emotion, their needs, their compulsiveness, that's what is
the big problem.
Outside problems are small.
So if you ensure that you are not the issue in your life, then you are
naturally a full-fledged human being.
You will do the best that you can do in everything that you do.
Well, your best may not be the best, but it's the best that you can do.
In your life, if you do not do what you cannot do, there's no problem.
But if you do not do what you can do, you're a disaster.
But the moment your thought, your emotion is tripping you all the time,
you will not even do what you can do, isn't it?
And how do we get ourselves in the best situation to be able to do what we can
do?
They tell me right now, we don't like the weather outside.
For October, it's too hot in Nashville.
So what have you done?
Turn on the air conditioning.
What is the air conditioning called?
This is climate engineering.
You engineer the climate the way you want.
How come your inner climate is not engineered properly?
It gets hot, it gets cold, it gets boiling.
Yeah, it gets confusing.
You don't even know what it is.
Why is it that your inner engineering has not been done
so that you have the conducive climate that you want?
So my whole work is this, to teach people how to engineer themselves.
When I say engineer, people think it's some technology kind of thing.
We need to understand.
What we call as engineering today used to be magic at one time.
Oh, yeah.
I've heard of it.
Huh?
Yeah, magic.
Yeah, they had wizards, everything.
Not like that.
If I sat here a thousand years ago and did, and lights came on,
what would you think I am?
Yeah.
Not magic.
Maybe an electrician?
No.
Come on.
There was no electricity a thousand years ago.
You'd have been a very, I thought you'd have been mystical.
I could have said I'm the messenger.
Oh, you could have said you're a messiah.
Yes.
Yeah.
Or I could have claimed I'm the sun.
Yeah.
Or I could have said I'm himself.
Yes.
If just I turned on the light bulb, unfortunately, I didn't have a light bulb
thousand years ago.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Now everybody has it, so it's not magic anymore.
It's just engineering.
So I'm just saying, engineering means when you engineer something well, it's
more than magical.
No magic can do those things that we are doing, isn't it?
You pick up your phone and talk to just about anybody in the world.
If you did this 200 years ago, you could have claimed your God himself.
Yeah.
So if you engineer your interiority in the way it works for you, there are many
ways to describe it.
There's a simple way to say this is, let's say we create a chemistry.
Today, everybody knows that all their experiences are in somehow connected to
their chemical structure.
Right.
What you call as joy is one kind of chemistry.
Misery is another kind of chemistry.
Anxiety is one kind of chemistry.
Tranquility is another kind of chemistry.
Agony, ecstasy, everything has a chemical basis.
So in many ways, if you look at the biochemistry of a human being, it is the
most complex chemical factory on the planet.
That's true.
It is.
Because the number of things that are happening every moment in every molecule
of DNA and stuff is unbelievable.
Suppose you can create a chemistry the way you want it.
Would you create a chemistry of blissfulness or misery?
Choose, choose, I'm going to bless you.
Blessfulness.
You must choose quickly.
That's all I did.
And that's all I'm teaching people how to create a chemistry of blissfulness.
So suppose you're blissful, no matter what.
If you sit, stand, eat, don't eat, you're blissful.
If you're blissful, essentially what it means is there is no fear of suffering.
Only when there is no fear of suffering will you take full strides in your life.
Otherwise, every step is a half a step.
That's all that's happening to humanity.
The fear of suffering is crippling them.
Not allowing their geniuses to flower.
Every human being is capable of this, but it's not happening because the fear
of suffering, what will happen to me?
So if you are given this assurance, no matter what happens around you, nothing
happens to you.
You are the way you are.
You are blissed out all the time.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
You got to get blissed out.
Yeah, I understand that.
So if you can.
No, no, no.
I didn't ask you to go for those things.
Blissed out means not that.
No.
Blissed out means like this.
Okay.
That is, I fixed my chemistry from inside, not from outside.
So that's what you're, right, right.
So you're saying if I get myself to a state that, because the state I can
control is the state that I am.
So if I can keep that state as comfortable as possible, then.
Don't use the word comfort.
Okay.
See, the chemistry causes bliss.
See, every human being at some moment in their life, they have had blissful
experiences, joyful experiences, loving experiences, ecstatic experiences.
The same time, they're all versions of negativity experiences also have
happened.
So essentially, are you competent of being blissful and ecstatic?
You are, because it's happened to you already.
It's not like, you're not like a rock where it didn't go into such an
experience.
You have gone into that experience.
Now only the question is about sustainability.
Yeah.
Sustainability is a problem right now because most experiences are happening in
an unconscious manner.
You are not causing it.
Something else is causing it.
An external stimuli.
I look at something beautiful.
Wow.
Why am I not wow without my eyes closed?
This is what I realized very early on in my life.
You know, one thing I realized was when I was just four and a half years of age,
I realized I don't know anything.
Yeah.
Don't know anything means don't know anything at all.
To such an extent, if somebody gives me a glass of water, I don't know what is
water.
I know how to use it.
I know how to drink it.
I know all the other things you can do.
But I don't know what it is.
Actually, even today, you don't know what it is.
Yeah.
You will say H2.
But with all this scientific exploration, we still do not know one atom in its
entirety.
We know how to use it.
We know how to fuse it.
We know how to make a bomb out of it.
But we don't know what it is.
So, if I find a leaf, I'm just looking at it for hours on end.
If I sit up in my bed, I'm staring at the darkness for the whole