How Do We Handle Hard Times in Life? Sadhguru Answers

When you will learn: "how to manage my thinking, how to manage my emotion." We will give you tools to understand this machine...whatever the problem is, we will do our best, but this should not be a problem. Interlocutor: In

life

there are many phases in which we feel that we are depressed, that we are alone and when everyone is against us and there is no one to guide us or talk about it. So at that point, how should we

handle

it or how should we approach it? Sadhguru: Look, this is an unfortunate condition that many human beings find themselves in: in their experience, in their personal experience,

life

is like "me against the universe." Competing with the universe is stupid.

That's not a competition you should participate in. Hello? Me against the universe is a bad competition to participate in. Would you also agree with me? That's why yoga is. Yoga does not mean twisting and turning the body. The word yoga means union. Right now it's me against the universe; This is just your psychological condition. This is not reality. Even when you feel completely alone, do you still breathe? So you are transacting with the world, aren't you? Yeah? The only thing you can't do is get along with the people around you. But the atmosphere seems good to you.

Food is fine, if it tastes good. The water is fine. You have transactions with the world, don't you? Your existence is constantly engaged with the universe, but your mind turns against the universe. If you create a psychological condition that you are against or in competition with the universe or the cosmos, you will obviously feel crushed by small things. The little things will crush you. When I say little things: maybe you failed the exam, maybe you were expelled from the university, maybe you were fired from a job, maybe someone abandoned you, maybe something else like this happened.

These are all little things between life and death. Because you came here with nothing, right? When you die, there is no container service for you. You die with nothing. Despite this, most people have turned their homes into warehouses. Most people carry such enormous baggage on their head, as if they carry the entire universe on their head. This is your own psychological condition. Your thought and emotion is what you are talking about. Good? When will you discover how to manage your thoughts and emotions? Not hers, not hers, not his, yours. When are you going to learn to manage my thoughts and emotions?

At the end of your life? Really, the only problem with life is this: most human beings have taken themselves too seriously. They do not understand. Have you seen these pop-ups on your computer screen? You are a pop-up on this planet. (laughs) You appear for two seconds and exit. (Applause) No, no, you must see, countless people like you and me have walked this planet, they were important people too. Where are they? All the top floor? Upper land or not? Unless someone, your friends, has decided to bury you very deeply, fearing that you might rise from the dead.

You know, there have been cases of this type. Or maybe you're planning to go to heaven. Hello? Anyone who talks about a place other than this as a better place than this is a crime against humanity. My fundamental job is to destroy all the heavens, so that people learn to live well here. All these idiots who made themselves hell want to go to heaven. They made a mess in this place and then they want to go to heaven. I ask you, do you have any proof? Do you have any proof that he is not already in heaven and is ruining it?

Do you have any proof? You're already in heaven, making a mess. Yeah? Simply because you are not even learning to manage your basic faculties of thought and emotion. It is not like this? His only justification is: "Everyone is like that, just that"; That's how it is in a madhouse. (Laughs) That's how things are in a madhouse, only the doctor seems crazy. So when are you going to

handle

it? Slowly, at sixty years old? I am asking. When will you learn how to manage my thoughts, how to manage my emotions, how to manage my body, how to manage my chemistry?

When will you realize this, at the end of your life? Because this culture has grown: when doing spirituality means when you are seventy years old, when you are no longer good for anything else. No. As soon as possible, everything that is deeper about you, not about the heavens, about this life, everything you need to know you should know as soon as possible, right? Only then will you live a sensible life. Okay, if we tell you a joke you won't be offended? Because this is the most serious crowd I've seen in recent years. Sadhguru (speaking aside): How many of them are journalists here? (Laughter) Panel Member: Most of them (Laughter) Most of them?

Okay (Laughs / Laughter) This happened: Shankaran Pillai, when he was in Paris, was married to a French woman. One day it was his anniversary, his first anniversary. He then invited a group of friends over and wanted to cook something really fresh, everything fresh. So, from the morning, she took him to this market, to that market. He got fresh vegetables, fresh meat, fresh chicken, this, that, everything. Then at night, he said (because the French have this snail appetizer), he said, “Go to the beach and buy some fresh snails. And I will make an appetizer for all the friends who will come.” Then Shankaran Pillai went to the beach and was collecting all the snails and putting them in a bucket.

Then he met an old friend, an Indian, they hit it off and were talking about his old days, but he forgot that he was married. You know, when you meet old friends it happens. And they both went to a bar and had a few drinks, and he just forgot. Then he noticed that the snails were coming out and a snail fell out of the bucket. He realized, “My God, I'm supposed to take the snails. “My wife, my French wife, is waiting.” Then he said, "I have to go." And he left. By then it was too late.

It was, he knew it wasn't going to be pleasant. Then he approached the house and spilled all the snails on the floor, threw away the bucket and went and knocked on the door. French fury arrived. He turned and said, “Come on, guys. We're almost there. Come on. Come on!" So when are you going to pick up your snails, put them in the bucket and fix them? Hmm? Your problems, you need to fix them, don't you? These are not problems, I want you to understand that you are not suffering your life, You are only suffering from two fantastic faculties.

It is a privilege of human beings to have these two fantastic faculties. One is that we have a vivid sense of memory. This is because of this memory, our life is as rich as that of any other creature. We have a fantastic sense of imagination. Now this is what you are suffering, what happened ten years ago you can still suffer, why are you suffering from life or memory? Hello? The day after tomorrow you are already suffering. Are you suffering from life or imagination? Participants: Imagination: The two most fantastic faculties you have are suffering. So what are you asking for?

You want to become an earthworm again. of land is a very ecological creature, I have nothing against it. But it took millions of years of evolution to get a brain this size and now you're suffering. If we take away half your brain, of course you will sit there without anxiety, without suffering, at peace. What we need is to remove your brain because you are suffering from your own intelligence, yes or no? Because we gave you a very complex machine, you haven't bothered to even read the user manual, you just want to make mistakes. No? Young people, it's time for you to discover some things about yourself, if you don't know how, we will give you tools to discover this machine because in your lives many problems will arise, more problems will arise in your lives. you are living a more active life.

Nothing came up means you're not alive. Yes, many problems every day. I have the maximum amount of problems in my life on a daily basis because of so much activity around the world, global level of activity only with volunteers, okay? Volunteer means no one is qualified for the job and you can't fire them for inefficiency and they love you, what to do? So, this thing that you need to fix and that is in your life, you are not the problem, okay? Whatever the problem, we will do our best, but this should not be the problem.