Name: Who is Sadhguru?
Uploaded: 2024-11-15T12:01:17.000Z
Description: Watch the stand-up comedy video 'Who is Sadhguru?' from Theo Von Clips on Comedy Buff. Published 2024-11-15. Transcript available.

Watch the stand-up comedy video 'Who is Sadhguru?' from Theo Von Clips on Comedy Buff. Published 2024-11-15. Transcript available.

Grateful to have you here today, Sadhguru. Thank you very much for coming.
Um, yeah, that's a great place to start. You call me here, so I, you know, 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? So I'm not an imagining character.
No, it's good to hear. That's awesome, man. Um, I wanted to, so you're like a,
like a sorcerer,
not a sorcerer. What is you guys? You're, you're a, um, 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, 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. Yeah.
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.
Ah.
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, that 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. Like, 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. 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. The 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.
Understood.
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 or the way you are, you're blissed out all the time.
Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. You got to get blissed out.
Yeah. I understand that. So if you, if you can.
No, no, no. I didn't ask you to go for those things. Blissed out mean not that.
No.
Blissed out mean 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, if I get myself to a
state
that, cause what the state I can control is the state that I am. So if I can
keep that state as comfortable as possible, then.
Then don't do the word comfort.
Okay.
See, the chemistry causes bliss. See, every human being at some moment in their
life,
they have had blissful experiences.
Yeah.
Joyful experiences.
Oh yeah.
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. You will say H2O. 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 night. My dear father, being a physician, he started thinking I need
psychiatric evaluation
because this boy is staring at something all the time.
I'm not dreaming. I'm just paying attention. See, I look at this. I don't know
what this is.
So I'm not able to look at the other thing because I still don't know what this
is.
So I went on like this. And in this condition, they sent me to school.
My mother said, "You must pay attention to the teachers. Don't look here and
there." So I went
and I paid attention to the teacher, the kind of attention they had never
received in their entire
life. That kind of attention. Then, you know, initially, I saw, I kind of
understood what they
were trying to say. Then I saw, actually, they're only making sounds. I'm
making up the meanings in my mind.
See, right now, if I start talking in one of the Indian languages, you know,
India has over 19,000
languages. If I speak one of those languages, as far as you're concerned, it'll
be just sound.
You can't attach meanings to it. So language is a kind of a conspiracy between
two people. I utter one
sound, you make up the meaning. You utter another sound, I make up the meaning.
So I just sat there,
oh, they're only making sounds. I'm making up the meanings. I stopped making up
meanings. Just listen
to the sound. Very attentively, not disregarding, listening carefully. Then I
found it so amusing.
Teacher after teacher, they come and make noises and noises and noises.
A big smile spread on my face. But they were not amused at all.
So this happened probably 12, 13 years ago. It's 24 now, probably 14 years ago.
This school where I studied over 50 plus years ago, they came to invite me for
their 125th anniversary.
Wow. I said, see, you know, they came and said many things. I said, please see,
I was not just a not
good student. I was not even a student. I only came there when it is a must,
otherwise I escaped.
So why me? Then they said, no, no, our school has produced film stars. Our
school has produced
cricketing stars. You know, in India, cricket. If you don't know anything about
cricket, they'll take
away your passport. They now lie, I guess.
So we have produced cricketing stars. We have produced music stars, but you are
the only mystic,
you must come. I said, okay. And I went there. I stood in the quadrangle,
looked around,
same oppressive buildings. Then I suddenly remembered in this particular
classroom,
what happened? I must have been around 12, little over 12 years of age.
One day a teacher comes and asks me a question. I've slowly graduated to a
place where initially I was
not attaching meanings to the sounds. After some time, I'm not even hearing the
sounds. If I see somebody,
I see just a blob of energy and all kinds of things happening, but I'm just
fully attention,
but I can't even hear what they're saying. Wow.
So he asked me a question and I'm just looking at him without a single word.
And he tries to get an
answer out of me for over 35 minutes. When he doesn't get it, he comes and
holds me by the shoulder,
shakes me violently like this and says, you must either be the divine or the
devil. I think you're the later.