This Indian Mystic Drops KNOWLEDGE BOMBS (I’m Speechless!) | Sadhguru on Impact Theory

Pain is a good thing physically because it is your self-preservation mechanism. But suffering is something you do in your mind. Then the pain that occurs in your body you take it in your mind and multiply it a thousand or a million times depending on how capable you are and you suffer it a million times right now. Most human beings are like that what happened ten years ago. They can still suffer. What can happen the day after tomorrow? Are they already suffering? They are not suffering from life, they think they are suffering as if they were not suffering from life, they are suffering from the two most fantastic faculties.

Only human beings have a vivid sense of memory and a fantastic sense of imagination. Everyone welcome to

impact

theory

. Today's guest is a

mystic

. and the New York Times bestselling author, who has built one of the largest nonprofits in the world, was named one of the 50 most influential people in all of India—not bad considering the country has 1,300 millions of inhabitants. He has been invited to speak at some of the most prestigious international conferences on the planet, including the United Nations World Peace Summit and the World Economic Forum. His mission is to elevate every human being to the peak of their potential and toward that goal.

He established the Isha Foundation, which based in both India and the United States has implemented several large-scale human initiatives. Service projects designed to improve rural areas help with educational reform and environmental stewardship, as well as healthy, holistic living. He has also written several deeply transformative books including Inner Engineering, A Yogi's Guide to Joy, and Adi Yogi, The Source of Yoga, so please help me welcome him. The contemporary spiritual leader with millions of followers around the world. The man who has made irreverent jokes everywhere, from MIT to Google, about

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al and very practical things. The uncompromising guru.

Welcome. I am beyond excited to have you on the show. I go and see what you are. are you trying to achieve in the world? It's very much in line with what we're trying to do in terms of human potential, which I think is very exciting, but we definitely do it in very different ways and reading your book I was really shocked, so I dug deeper. In

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I think it's going to be a lot of fun and I think the first place to start is explaining to me what you mean by Potential, like what? What do you think is human potential?

So yes, every Christian From a worm insect bird plants a tree All of them are trying to have full lives If one sees What is happening under the ground in terms of the root systems? It is a huge effort for a plant or tree to become a full-fledged tree. Well, an apple tree doesn't try to be an oak, but an apple tree wants to be a full-fledged apple tree. The effort is in every life. So does it happen in humans? But the problem with Humanity is precisely

this

: For all other creatures, Nature has drawn two lines.

Within these two lines they live and die. So your idea of ​​fulfillment is hitting the ceiling of your life. But if a human being touches a ceiling, he becomes lifeless. Frustrated and miserable because Nature, this process of evolution has taken us to a place where only the final result exists. However, there is no final result. Some human beings are trying to break through the bottom line and go further down. That what is happening is essentially what human life is. When life was in the other forms of life seen on the planet, Nature determined certain instinctive and compulsive ways of functioning. once you become human These lines have been removed You can act consciously That means that what you call human potential has no kind of measurable limit You can go as far as you want or we as far as you have the courage to walk So when we say human potential unleashing human potential It's not about reaching the top It's a trajectory Because what our life is Is it a combination of a certain amount of time and energy?

Time passes for all of us at the same pace. If you sit, it moves away, if you sleep, it moves away. If you do something, it walks away. If you don't do anything, it disappears. You're happier, miserable, it's gone. Time is running out for all of us, so it's just the energy with which you can do different things if you bring your energies to a certain level of intensity and possibility. What someone does in 10 years, you might do. Do it in a year, this means that if you live here 400 years, it feels like you were created in the

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of the people.

It feels like you have lived here for a thousand years simply because you have managed your life energies in a certain way. So to me an impactful human being means how conscious you have become, this is very important because if you are in compulsive cycles then your energy is wasted on so many things if you absorb people. In a day, let's say we spend 24 hours on it. Most people buy prescription drugs in the United States anyway. They sleep eight hours So eight hours means that one third of life is gone the remaining two thirds they have to eat, you know, shower Bath this that all this another two three hours are gone So literally 50% of life It is gone daily just for the basic maintenance of this life, 50% of the time it is gone and the remaining maintenance is 50% of what they have.

If you watch every movement they can make with their body, their thought process, their emotions, you will see a lot of it happening in compulsive cycles. Or in other words, if you are a little sensitive to life, you will realize that you are the biggest problem in your life. So this is something I'm trying to do with people where you're never the problem. your life I am NOT the problem my thought my emotion my body is never the problem My thought my emotion my energy and my body are my instruments. It is a function They are not impediments in my life But I would say that for 90% of human beings their own body So ​​the compulsions of the body the compulsions of their thoughts the compulsions of their emotions govern them most of the time So when you yourself for a problem?

Well, you're in self-help. So how do you start to get out of that like we're all stuck in these compulsive patterns? How do you gain the awareness you're talking about and start not doing it? know if the words go beyond elevating. How do you stop being in that endless cycle? Everyone wants a solution, but no one wants to dig deeper into the problem and see what the nature of the problem we have is. The nature of the problem is like this: Why are we compulsive? What is it? That is compulsive in us. Compulsion means we go to the same place again.

And again, that means we go in circles. The nature of physical existence in the universe is such whether you take an atom, an individual atom or cosmic space. Everything that is physical is always in a cyclical moment. The atoms are making their circles. The solar system is doing its thing. The galaxies are doing their thing. Our own bodies are going through cycles. In fact, we are born because of the cycles in our mother's bodies. That's why we are born. So all physical nature is born from a cyclical moment. That means compulsiveness. So don't misinterpret compulsivity as something bad.

It is the basis of your existence. It is a good platform. But you are supposed to stand on the platform and act correctly. Now you have become the platform. Then someone else will dance with you. Interesting. That's my thing and part of what motivates me is becoming efficient in achieving your goal, which I'm sure isn't so much your goal for you. So for me, I'm interested in executing my potential and transferring my ability to do something to the real thing. So the simple example I give people is what does impact mean to leave a mark? Not entirely, I have a very specific kind of impact that I'm trying to have, which is helping people activate their potential, so I think that a lot of people are capable of doing extraordinary things and I think, to your point about Joy, I think one of the things that is absolutely fundamental to joy is growth.

And thus lead people to a path where they believe that. That is fundamental for joy. Joy is essential for growth, isn't it? Probably yes, but I have no idea which came first. And that's exactly why you're here. No, no, there is substantial medical and scientific evidence to show that only when you are in a state of pleasurable experience does your body and brain function at their best, there is no argument about that. There is enough evidence to show that, whatever the impact or success. or achieving goals or growth or whatever you say on A level in the physical world.

It's all about how well you harness your physiological and psychological process, isn't it? Whether your body and mind work against you or for you. This is a big difference. So there is enough evidence to show that only when you are at pleasant levels of experience does this happen better. So, obviously, joy comes first and then growth if you are constantly joyful and are not afraid to suffer because you understand everything human. The experience comes from within you and thus you have managed to create the type of experience you want. Now growth is possible and plagued. If you are afraid of falling and suffering, you won't reach very high, right?

So how do you fix that? How do you help people on that path? Many ways to see it. One of the simplest ways to look at it is that all human experience has a chemical basis. Right now let's say you're cheerful. If you look at your chemistry, it will be a certain way. Let's say you're miserable. If you check your chemistry, it will be a completely different way now that we have a technology with which you create a chemistry of happiness. So my chemistry is happy, no matter what's happening. The drama around me is happening in many different ways. but this is a privilege I have reserved for myself, whether I am joyful or miserable, whether I am at peace or disturbed.

I have not given these privileges to anyone else. I kept them to myself. I think every human being should do that, that the privileges of the nature of your experience should be in your hand because when you try to act in the world there are many forces. All of them will not always cooperate. Sometimes they will cooperate many times. They will not cooperate many times. They will turn against you. This is the nature of the world. So it should be. The world will never happen 100 percent your way. And I'm glad that's the case because if everything happened your way, where am I going?

I'm glad it's not happening your way a little bit my way a little bit your way a little bit. Someone else's path. This is how the world should be. It's very interesting. Is there any way to avoid it? Falling into those traps. As I know you've taken very different approaches, at least from the American point of view, to raising your daughter and not loving her, not wanting to teach her a lot, is that to avoid dogma. Is it to avoid closing doors? because you think you know something like how we would do it if we had kids and raised them in a way that kept them from falling into some of these traps.

What would we do? How many parents were there encouraging their children not to identify with their parents, not to identify with a religion they follow, not to identify with their racial and national and other prejudices that they expect? Everything is sacred, right? It is not like this? Yes, these are the things that destroy human potential, whether you want to convert a human being. I see this term when it really hurts me when people say that it is very common only in America. I heard this. I was raised like any Catholic or Baptist or Christian or Muslim or anything else.

Look, you should raise only cattle and sheep. You don't raise human beings. You have to cultivate a human being, you have to give him space and give him support of love and support so that a human being grows because Every human being is capable of a unique possibility. Breeding means what a flock is, what you run, you don't breed an individual. , No? That's very interesting, for this we need to reach a certain level of maturity within ourselves. The most fundamental thing is that our children do not need to look like us, they do not think like us, they do not need to act like us, they do not need to be like a child in any sense.

It is not a legacy. It is a life and it is an individual life. It has to be what it has to be. If I don't influence right now, the fear is that if I don't influence, someone on the street will influence the child on social media. will influence the child. So, to cultivate a child to know that intrinsic intelligence and being human is more important than being influenced by this or that, it doesn't matter what he is, whether he is related, a priest, a guru or a pandit. It doesn't matter who. Influence is not important.

What is important is that intrinsic intelligence finds its maximum potential? And do you think we grow in a modern context? We can avoid adopting those Beliefs he once spoke of. I thought it's very interesting how every time you have a belief it's like a conclusion and every conclusion is a death in itself and it's like closing a door on something. Yes, in other ways I see, you just see. You look at your own photo when you were 5 years old. It's like that. Little by littleMaybe you would have taken it off. Because there are many advantages, you will get approximately 22% extra. oxygen if you just remove this contraption.

Where there is no pain, people mess with it like crazy, don't they? They call this hairstyle so many things, suppose there was no pain throughout the body, in Los Angeles people would remove their stomach pouch and you think they wouldn't do it, not the father. Only pain helps them preserve themselves. . It is not like this? Pain is good. There is no physiological pain. Most people wouldn't know me here in the United States. There is a group that call themselves something. I forgot that word. They actually cut off their fingers in the video. Well, they're posting it online.

There is a group like that. Oh. Can you imagine now, despite so much pain, if there is no pain? Almost everyone would have cut themselves in the name of fashion, they would have cut themselves into strips so that pain is a good thing physically because that is your preservation mechanism, but suffering is something you do in your mind. It happens in your body. You take it in your mind and you multiply it a thousand times or a million times depending on how capable you are or how stupid you are and you suffer it a million times right now.

Most human beings are like this, what happened ten years ago. back. They can still suffer. What can happen the day after tomorrow? Are they already suffering? They are not suffering from life, they believe they are suffering from life, they are not suffering from life, they are suffering from the two most fantastic faculties that only human beings have a vivid sense of memory and a fantastic sense of imagination. Why do you think depression and anxiety are suicide? so rampant right now. Look, one thing is that the survival process has become easier than ever. Trust me in the morning if you need a bucket full of water.

If you had to walk a mile to the river to get a bucket of water. And your family needed it. 25 buckets of water You wouldn't have time to shit Now you have a lot of time to shit because our survival is better organized than ever Another thing is that most human beings don't know how to manage their biochemistry without physical activity. I have seen many people, especially teenage boys and girls between 12 and 16 years old, who come to me with serious violent problems inside if you leave them like that. They can commit suicide or kill someone else and in that kind of state many of them have even killed their parents, you know, it just happened all over the world and in 2017 when I heard about it in India, which is not so suicide. in that sense because there is enormous family support and things like that despite that In 2017 eighteen thousand six hundred children under 18 years of age committed suicide, of which 7,200 are under 15 years of age So 12 13 14 years Who should be full of life or ?

Wanting to kill yourself, why? Obviously, we're doing something fundamentally wrong with society, aren't we? Yes, our goals and our stupid ideas about what success is are driving them crazy. Because we're trying to use our kids as racehorses, that's interesting and when you say that that's something that represents us and that we've become something amazing or what. How are they similar to racehorses when you understand them as a race? If you are in a race, the subjective thing is that you must reach the finish line quickly, right? Yes, what is the goal of your life and death?

There you go. This may not be a conscious process. But life with the new is to understand it like this. When you see, you must understand this, whether you are aware of it or not, any human being. At this time, if you make yourself miserable You must understand that you are sending a message to every cell in the body that I do not want to live. You may not have articulated it in your head yet But when you feel miserable You suddenly realize that your body seems heavy and it's like it doesn't want to get out of this chair Have you seen this?

Yes, when you are happy, you are willing to bounce everything and do everything, lean back if necessary. The reason this happens is that the message has reached every cell in the body. This guy wants to die. Everyone is thinking, okay, what can we do to help him, but by then, of course you will recover? So do you want to die, do you want to live, do you want to die, do you want to live? The body is getting confused. Because you must understand that this is a very intelligent body. He is receiving instructions from you. Every cell in the body has an enormous sense of memory and intelligence.

If you keep sending the wrong messages, if they act the way you did, because you are sending mixed messages. You are not dead. You're half dead. You can give it any number of exotic names. Basically, you've turned your intelligence against yourself. This is supposed to work for you, but now that you've turned her against you, it's working against you. Yes I know. Putting words in your mouth, which is very dangerous, but I feel like the whole notion of being happy really addresses how to live fully in his book Inner Engineering, which really resonated with me if I had to define what exactly inner engineering is and how. would you say it?

Tell me, do you agree with me that our life today is like a generation of people? It has become much more comfortable and convenient simply because of our understanding of science and our exploitation of that

knowledge

as technology. Yes. Hmm We are the most comfortable generation in the history of humanity. There's no doubt about it, isn't there? Yes, we are super empowered by science and technology, since it is a science and a technology. For our external well-being there is a whole science and technology for internal well-being. Unfortunately most cultures have ignored this and think that if we do all the external arrangements right Everything will be fine.

The United States of America is a big statement that this is not how it works. The richest country on the planet 70% of the population is supposed to take prescription drugs. Yes Wow What's the best way for people to interact with you? They don't have to interact with me because maybe they will learn from me. Because we can talk if what you need is inspiration, what you need is encouragement. I am willing to talk, but talks will not bring solutions. They will provide some clarity. The solution will only come when you take an appropriate step inward. That is the internal engineering process.

We are doing our best to deliver it in as simple and practical measures as possible. There was a time when people thought in such a complex way. Today we have simplified it divided into five different parts Offering it. like five layers of program so that people can experience it in small doses and slowly, step by step. You can go. I'm seeing that as they enter more and more prosperous societies, their steps are much more, small steps than other people's, so we have broken. Break it down into many steps so you can follow the small steps one by one and your website is the best place for it.

Yes, good. It's a good place to go. Perfect Yessir dot said guru dot org, that's what it's called. Okay, and we'll link to that as well. Our organization is 100% voluntary. So we are not professional in our approach and I am very proud of that because I am NOT interested in how much someone is making. I'm very interested in how they're doing it because that's what changes the quality of who we are. Because the content of our life will not change our life, it is the context of our life that changes our life. That is interesting. Very interesting because you are happy that you have changed and you see that people are not happy.

The content of our life is phenomenally improved compared to how our grandparents lived here. It is not like this? Even in this country? Yes Definitely, how can people change their context? That's what engineering is about if your contact changes from your psychological and physiological process to the life process that you are. Everything has changed. Because we must understand this while we are sitting here, this is my body, that is your body. This is my mind, that is your mind, but there is no such thing as this being my life. And that is your life if this is a living cosmos.

Everyone is free to capture as much as they want if you capture a substantial amount of life. Your mere presence will become a meaningful life. Otherwise, you will become a mediocre life. This is what is important. It is not the

knowledge

you accumulate in your head. It is not the muscle you accumulate in your body. It's life. How much life is it for you? This will make you significant in your very presence if the world gives us the opportunity. We will do something shocking. Otherwise, we will just be a significant presence, a huge oak tree standing outside.

It doesn't try to create an impact. It just has an impact, if you stand in its shadow, you feel it. Otherwise, it is also shocking. Most people notice it only when it's gone. What impact do you want to have in the world? When I was twenty-five when things suddenly exploded. inside me and I realized that if I sit here without getting dirty, I am naturally bursting into ecstasy and every cell in my body is dripping with ecstasy. At first I thought I was going crazy. Then, again and again, when I saw over a period of six to eight weeks.

When I saw that if I simply closed my eyes, I would explode into states of ecstasy. Then it dawned on me clearly. If I don't mess with my physiological and psychological process, ecstasy is the only way to be. Nothing to do. You don't have to do anything when I realized this. I sat down and really planned that day. The world population was 5.6 billion people. I made a plan two and a half years from now that would make the world ecstatic. There's no fool like a young fool, you know? Now it's been 37 years, not two and a half years Well, people say we've touched over 500 million people or So don't say wow!

You don't walk with my failures Yes, I guess this was my idea of ​​humanity seven point six billion people 500 million people Time is passing. I am condemned to die a failure, but I am a blessed failure. Okay, so what we need is this: do you want to live in a beautiful world? What does it mean? beautiful does not simply mean a beautiful view of the ocean or something more beautiful means that human life here is pleasant. Within each human being the question is not what I use, what I drive, where I live, but how I am within myself.

See what we can. What we do in the world is a question of times, in what time of history we exist and consequently we do things. If we were here a hundred years ago, we wouldn't be recording all this stuff. Very well, we would be doing something different But the human experience is constant Whatever generation you are, you can feel happy or miserable forever, that's how it has been and that's how it will be. What we can do in the world is subject to many realities of the times. But how we can be within ourselves is always a possibility.

So what is always a possibility must manifest itself, whether you run faster than Mr. Bolt or not, whether you will climb Mount Everest or not. This is not the point where those things are subject to individual tastes and individual likes and dislikes, but will your experience of life on this planet be pleasant or not? At least this? We must determine that every life experience of human beings on this planet is pleasurable. There is much we must do and it is doable. That's amazing, Sokurah, thank you so much for being on the show. That was absolutely incredible.

Thanks for your time guys, I can't recommend this book enough. Take a look at internal engineering. It's phenomenal if you haven't already, make sure to subscribe and until next time, my friends will be legendary. Take care of yourselves. Thank you very much again. Wow, that was really That's where I want to be and if the answer is no Then you need to find a new pub to understand yourself You don't know what you need in your life until you find out who you are