Waching daily Dec 31 2017

on a certain day Shankaran Pillai was going home 7:30 in

the evening there are rules at home you know every home has some rules otherwise

they can't be a home some rules right may not be written down but there are

roots in his home that were wives runes are 8 o clock he must be home

he saw still there is time he he doesn't want to go even a minute early

so he thought there's still time so he walked into your local bar thinking

he'll just have a quick drink and then go home well he had a quick drink and a

quick drink and a quick drink and a quick drink and a quick drink then he

looked at his watch it says 2:00 a.m.

you know drinking people are like Yogi's they're timeless I see there's a lot of

appreciation no he got off his tall stool of the barstool it's an unfair

world it's a completely unfair world you expect a man to walk on a round planet

and the damn thing is spinning you're supposed to walk on that only when you

have a few drops extra or a couple of drops missing between your two years

suddenly you realize the planet is round

with great difficulty he was trying to find his way back home he took a

shortcut through a garden and unfortunately he fell headlong into a

rosebush his face became a mess he gathered himself somehow went home and

those damn keyholes they made so small you know he took another 20 minutes to

find it somehow he went in crawled up went into the bathroom looked at himself

in the mirror a complete mess so he opened the medicine cabinet took out

some medicine plaster a band-aid everything he fixed himself then slowly

crawled into the bed fortunately the wife is a big sleeper she crawled in and

fell asleep morning 8 o'clock their wife took a bucket of cold water

and threw it on his face what about it he woke up why it's only

Sunday she said you fool again drinking he said honey

six months ago I promised since then I have not touched a drop he's our

domestic conversations okay I'm just exposing I have not touched a drop she

grabbed him by the shirt and took him into the bathroom

and showed him all the plaster was on the mirror now this is the whole problem

you feel unpleasant you think this one has to be fixed you feel unpleasant you

we need to think that one has to be fixed you feel unpleasant you have to be

you think the whole world has to be fixed now I am asking you a simple

question if you are feeling any level of

unpleasantness stress anxiety anger fear whatever nonsense rubbish whatever is

happening within you who should be fixed if something is unpleasant here who

should be fixed or if you understand this mind this is transformation you

know this is fantastic in ten minutes this is great transformation if you

if you understand this much this needs to be fixed not something else the world

will change right now everything that we are doing on this planet is in pursuit

of human well-being in the last hundred hundred fifty years

with the aid of modern science and technology we have done too much

external engineering too much which has rendered us into a certain level of

comfort and convenience we have comforts and convenience no other generation

could even imagine isn't it yes or no the level of comfort and convenience in

which you and me right now existing here no other generation could ever even

imagine we are the most comfortable generation ever do you agree with me

physically but can we claim we are the most peaceful generation or joyful

generation or loving generation or ecstatic generation in many ways we are

becoming the most neurotic generation we are complaining about any everything and

anything like never before yes we are complaining about everything like never

before in the world so we have the most comfortable definitely materially you're

living better than your father and your grandfather aren't you yes or no unless

your grandfather happened to be the Maharaja unless that otherwise all of

you are in fact what royalty could not afford a hundred years ago today an

average citizen has isn't it true all of you driving chariot with hundred two

hundred horses or so it's not the best something wrong with life it is just

that fundamental faculties of life or not

they can charge off this is an evolutionary problem in a certain way

see between you and a chimpanzee the DNA difference is only one point two three

percent one point two three percent is not much of a difference isn't it

physiologically the difference between you and a chimpanzee is only one point

two three percent in the DNA content but in terms of intelligence and awareness

we are phenomenally different from a chimpanzee so you have an intelligence

for which you don't have a stable enough base it is your intelligence which is

torturing you right now if we take off a part of your brain I think most of you

will be quiet peaceful really I should know this is why a whole lot of people

are saying I want to be like a child even spiritual leaders going and saying

I am a child they suppose you are stuck let's say your body or your mind stayed

at the age of six you are a child is it a great state to be I'm asking you may

think your spiritual I will call you retarded I should know you want to be a

six-year-old child I'm asking you because almost every adult is saying

child being a child is beautiful because they've forgotten what it means to be a

child child means when somebody says wake up you have to wake up somebody

says go to sleep you have to go to sleep go to school go to school get back get

back eat eat all the damn things that you

don't like when you were a child you desperately wanted to grow up as quickly

as possible isn't it now you want to become a child

because you messed up your adulthood

messes up this wants to be somewhere else a whole lot of people said no no

I'm not interested in all this I want to go to heaven why because the

advertisements always said heaven is a very pleasant place if we had told you

from your childhood God lives in heaven but it's a horrendous place do you want

to go there please tell me sincerely no no we will

pray from here only we don't want to go there because they were advertised that

it's a very pleasant place lot of people who've made a hell out of themselves

here want to go somewhere else those who want to go to heaven must go

isn't it they won't go that's a problem if those who want to go to heaven go

those who want to be here can create a heaven here now those who are made a

hell out of themselves they don't go

they keep on talking about going but they don't go if you're so sure you are

going to a better place you must leave today you should not

postpone your appointment with God I'm asking you if you have an appointment

forget about God if you have an appointment the local minister or prime

minister somebody you would like to jump the queue and get there quickly isn't it

even a cinema ticket if you're standing in a queue you would like to jump and

get there quickly isn't it so so if you have an appointment with God and you're

so sure what have you postponing it you must go today okay I'm saying your mind

is full of all kinds of rubbish picked up from here and there just now we were

talking just outside but somebody said something 5,000 years ago somebody said

something 3,000 years ago with all you with greatest respect to all of them do

you believe that thousand years ago people were way smarter than what you

and me are tray do you believe so

I'm asking you if you believe so it's unfortunate because life seems to be

evolving but some people are not some people seem to be those who want to be

child children now after they've grown up they're retarding consciously they

are trying to somehow wrap themselves in a situation where they will not grow so

essentially it's your own intelligence turning against you if you had come like

an earthworm or a grasshopper or a bird or a tree you would be quite fine

because you have interested with such a huge intelligence this has become your

problem isn't it you know last year in the month of August we were trekking in

Tibet I'm an attempt oh another person is cutting an apple and there's one more

person you know one of those new porcelain knives which is supposed to be

very sharp so this person is cutting an apple and other person says it's a very

sharp knife be careful it irritates me a knife is supposed to be sharp otherwise

why will I call it my knife something is blunt I don't call it a knife it's

supposed to be sharp and this is if it's a child yes I would also say or I would

go and take away the knife that's different this is a full-grown man this

is he's not handling a satellite or or earth mover or something it's just a

knife well I continued with my work another two minutes later she says again

it's a very sharp knife be careful I said come on he's a full-grown man leave

him alone he should know how to handle a knife by now no said guru it's a very

sharp knife then I continue with my work and then she whispers so that I don't

hear very sharp knife be careful in two minutes he cuts his hand

and I say okay maybe he needed so much instruction about this this is all your

problem is you have a sharp intellect but not a steady enough hand now you're

cutting yourself all the time people come to me and say Sadhguru

I can't bear with my boss my mother-in-law she is torturing me

my husband is impossible my wife oh so I tell them don't worry you come here your

boss your mother-in-law your husband your wife nobody will enter this ashram

don't worry I will give you a nice place to stay good food to eat don't have to

do anything no work nothing you stay in your room whenever I come and check you

must be joyful that's the only condition if you're miserable I don't believe in

feeding misery you're joyful for the rest of your life will bow down and take

care of you oh you'll leave them for 24 hours in one place you must see the

circus okay when you are alone when you are alone if you're miserable

obviously you're in bad company isn't it

somebody's with you and you're miserable you can always say it's because of this

person you're alone and you're miserable means you're in bad company you need to

fix it you must understand this much if you understand this much then it's very

simple you would look inward

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