How Do You Recognize An Enlightened Being? - Sadhguru

In a way, enlightenment means that you have an immaculate, unmarked life. Once you confuse memory with intelligence, you're screwed. There are only two types of people, mystics and errors. If you see things as they are, people will label you a mystic. Superscript: How do you

recognize

an

enlightened

person? Sadhguru: People even believed that there would be some signs on the body and they burned trishul on the back, on the forehead. "Look, this just showed up." In the West, people show their hands and there are marks here and they say, “Look, I have the marks of the crucifixion.

Then Jesus appeared to me.” In India, sankhu will appear on the shoulder. Just how to burn yourself. You can mark yourself with sankhu, chakra or crucifixion marks or whatever nonsense you want. In a way, enlightenment means that you have an immaculate, unmarked life. So you brand yourself and think you're

enlightened

, I'm so sorry. So if there are no marks, how is it

recognize

d? You can't recognize. You can't recognize. How does anyone here know that I am enlightened or not? I never made a statement about that. So how do they know? Are they just guessing? Yes. Look, go and sit in front of your kindergarten teacher.

Do you know what knowledge he or she has? No, but let him know ABC. You don't know, so you sit down. Right now we are talking about XYZ. You don't know, so you sit down. So what does it matter if I received recognition from somewhere else or not? If you want to learn XYZ, sit here. If you don't want to, you leave. So what do you refer to as enlightenment? You know there is something called dawn. It's a good word. I like that. It's called dawn. But it's a day of rest. The day dawned. It is?

No, it's a night that broke. Hello? Has the day dawned or has the night dawned? Participants: Night has arrived. Sadhguru: Night has come. What does the night mean in our perception? Participants: Darkness. Sadhguru: Darkness. If you were an owl, it would be different. In your perception, night means uncomfortable because it is dark. Your visual apparatus does not feel comfortable in the dark. That's why we invented all these lights and this and that. Because? Because we don't feel comfortable when it's dark because we don't know what is what. In the light, we see things clearly. So if night comes, that means clarity has appeared - this is all that the dawn is doing to you.

You couldn't see, you were struggling, the sun came out, suddenly confidence: you know where to go, where not to go, what to enter, what not to step on. This is all that enlightenment is. (Applause) Clarity has come where everything is seen clearly. You know there was a book we were publishing, this is a series of talks and something came to give it a title. So I looked at the content a little and then said: “Of mystics and errors.” Our English department said, “Sadhguru, this is too direct. Say something a little nicer.” People always ask me, "Sadhguru, say something a little nicer." You are capable of that.

Come on! I'm capable, but I don't want to say it because people will twist it and turn it in so many ways. If you say it as a slap in the face, they don't pry too much. Then I said: “Of mystics and errors.” What it means is that there are only two types of people, mystics and errors. If you see things as they are, people will label you a mystic. So what are they? They are a mistake. They are making mistakes in perceiving basic aspects of life, that's all. Yes, making errors of perception. Why do they make errors of perception?

His only hand is always immersed in his memory. That's why we say karma. They are confusing memory with intelligence, that is all the mistake they have made. Once you confuse memory with intelligence, then you are ruined. If you have a memory about something other people don't know, you seem like a scholar. Look, people read ten books and become scholars. People just read a book and become religious. Just a book, how does it qualify you to become a representative of God? If you read more than one book, then you can't be one, right? You only have to read a single book.

So, this is confusing memory with intelligence. Our entire educational system is just this garbage: confusing memory with intelligence. If you confuse memory with intelligence, we call you a case of karma. You are a case of karma, because you live by your memory, not your intelligence. If you live absolutely on your intelligence, without mixing your memory and your intelligence, then people will say, "Oh, it's enlightened." Because whatever you put in front of him, he's going to look at it and say this is what it is. Simply because it doesn't mix memory and intelligence, that's all. As simple as it seems.

All you are now is memory. You are a man or a woman, this is memory. No memory means just conscious memory in your head. Your body remembers, right? Hello? Participants: Yes. Sadhguru: If you and I eat the same food, I will not become a woman, you will not become a man. The same food enters me and I become a man, the same food enters you and you become a woman, this is from memory, right? The body remembers. The body remembers, if you and the monkey eat the same food, he will not become you, you will not become him.

Because the body remembers. There is evolutionary memory, genetic memory, elemental memory, atomic memory, levels of conscious, unconscious memory, levels of articulated and inarticulate memory, what you are in itself is memory. So if your intelligence has to be free from memory, that means you are free from yourself. That's all.