Moderator: Sadhguru, how do you suggest that
we appropriately question authority
without being disrespectful towards them
because from our very childhood
we've been taught to obey our elders
because they know better and they are right.
But they are only humans and
it's possible that they are wrong
or they make an error in judgment.
So, do you think…
so I am not talking just in context of parents,
it could be political leaders, scientists, experts…
Sadhguru: Me also, me also (Laughter).
Moderator: Spiritual leaders as well.
How do we question them,
to look beyond the traditional paradigm?
Sadhguru: Just the way you are doing it right now
Moderator: Without being disrespectful I do I understand
but it is possible that do… they take it as… as challenging their authority.
Sadhguru: So, see respect...
you used the word respect,
respect is not something that you ever demand in your life.
Please don't ever do such a vulgarity that you demand respect.
You can only earn it, you cannot demand it.
The moment you demand it, it becomes vulgar.
Yes or no?
Participants: Yes.
Sadhguru: So you stand one step higher than somebody
and you demand respect or
the only stupid thing that you did is
you came here a few years earlier than someone else
and you demand that "I am senior,"
it must be happening in the college also (Laughter),
hmm?
"One year senior I am,
hey, you better respect me, hmm" (Few laugh)!
Just one year ahead I joined the college and
now I am senior, okay?
So, this is an unfortunate reality
that's well established in the world
that in the name of religion,
in the name of authority,
in the name of parenthood,
in many different ways,
we have been trying to establish
authority is the truth.
No, authority is not the truth,
truth is the only authority.
This is why Youth and Truth (Few laugh).
Truth is the only authority,
nothing else is the authority.
So, if I ask a question, somebody freaks.
See, if you ask a question somebody freaks because they don't know the answer.
Suppose you go,
sit in your examination and look at the question paper,
you don't know a damn thing, don't you freak?
Just like that they are freaking, why don't you understand (Laughs)?
Hello (Laughs)?
See, you… they gave you a question paper, you have no clue, do you freak or no?
Sadhguru: So they are also freaking.
So you must understand and be little compassionate,
when you ask a question,
somebody freaks means
obviously they don't have an answer.
So you must be compassionate, considerate
because they are your seniors.
Okay (Laughs)?
They came ahead of year…
ahead of you but they are no better than you,
so they're freaking a bit.
Please make way for them, a little bit,
what to do?
They've grown little bigger than you (Laughs)
but at the same time,
there is no need for anybody to succumb to that.
It's all right, there is no need to confront people.
A question first of all…
See a question is a tool,
a question is a tool to dig little deeper, isn't it?
Hello?
Participants: Yes.
Sadhguru: But somebody is asking a question to prove a point, that's not good.
So don't ask a question to your parents or to somebody else
just to prove your point.
No, ask a question because it's a genuine question.
So people were asking me,
"Sadhguru, what kind of questions can we ask,
what can we not ask?"
I said, "Even the dumbest question you have,
if it means something to you,
it means something to me.
If it doesn't mean anything to you,
don't ask such stupid things
because it doesn't mean a damn thing to me either.
But if it means something to you,
maybe it's a stupid question,
somebody thinks it's a stupid question
but it means something to your life,
it means a lot to me."
So please make sure your questions are genuine
whether you ask a parent or a political leader
or a spiritual leader,
it doesn't matter who the hell you ask a question.
When you ask a question,
you must understand
the purpose of asking a question is to expand yourself
from what you know to enter a territory,
where you do not know something
- that's the idea of asking a question.
But you ask a question to prove them stupid,
then maybe they are getting mad (Laughs).
See, you are entering their territory now (Few laugh)
but you have to make sure in your life…
because your life is not just about your life,
how you conduct your life will determine the nature of this world.
Isn't it so?
When you have such a responsibility
you have to ensure that truth is the only authority,
authority is not the truth.
It doesn't matter
whether it's Parents or Teachers or Spiritual teachers,
Political leaders or God himself came down
and he said something stupid,
you must be able to question him,
that is the nature of this culture.
See even when those entities
which we considered divine came,
in India all we did is ask questions,
endless questions.
When Shiva came,
his wife Parvati freaks him with a million questions
(Few laugh).
When Krishna came, Arjuna asked 1000 questions,
questions and questions and questions.
I must tell you this,
we were trekking in Tibet,
a group of people almost from forty-two different countries.
So an Indian man who is settled in United States
wanted to ask a question.
I said, "You can ask questions",
immediately he raised his hand and he stood up.
He asked a question which lasted over eight minutes
and it was going on.
I said, "See, this is too long a question" (Few laugh).
Then I told the others because they were all looking like this (Gestures)
because they are from different nations,
they can't understand this question,
I said, "See, this is a very Indian question" (Laughter).
Question inside a question inside a question inside a question inside a question.
Indians are experts in this
because they have 15,000 years of culture,
they've crafted questions like this (Laughter).
We doesn't matter Shiva comes, Krishna comes, they want to bowl a googly to him (Laughter),
that's the whole intent.
So I said, "See, this is an Indian question"
and I tried to explain to them
what is an Indian mind and why it asks such questions(Laughs)
- so much of culture.
Then one Chinese lady says,
"Sadhguru, I was working at the United Nations,
even there only Indians ask questions (Laughter).
We never ask questions,
only the Indians were asking questions all the time."
I said, "That is India" (Laughter).
Questioner: My name is Karishma Joshi and
I was an Isha Home School student.
Sadhguru: Oh?
Questioner: Yeah
How come I missed you (Both laugh)?
Questioner: And when I found out you were coming to college,
I was so, so, so happy
and my question to you is
in Mahabharat we see Amba,
she is so determined to take revenge on Bhishma
and she goes to Shiva
and Shiva actually grants her that boon.
So why would somebody want to live their whole life
just with the sole intention of taking revenge on somebody
and how would this affect them?
Thank you.
Sadhguru: Well, whether we like it or not,
there are such people in the world, all right?
Yes or no?
Are they there or not?
They are there.
So Mahabharat is depicting all sorts of people,
every kind of character
that can exist on the planet is there.
There are over 100,000 characters
representing the best, the worst, in between,
every range is there.
So she is one.
Because…
See just now some time ago
when she asked a question,
something horrible happened to somebody,
an abuse happened to somebody
and that person not willing to forget.
Some will become hurt and wounded,
some will become angry and vengeful
depending on their own nature
and also the situation in which we exist.
So she is in a royal setup.
Here, vengeance is considered honor.
Vengeance is not considered vengeance,
vengeance is considered as a virtue.
When somebody hurts a king or a queen,
they must go and finish them.
Till you finish them, your job is not done.
This is the culture that… in which she is.
We must not look at it from today's time
and today's culture that you are in.
That time she is in a royal family,
she is a princess and she is insulted.
She feels horribly insulted by what happened.
You know what happened to her life.
Now, she wants to, at any cost
extract a price for that so she goes for that.
So she is asking Shiva…
the question is why Shiva is assisting her - is that it?
Is that the question?
Yes.
Shiva is like that only (Laughter).
Because you know this happened to him.
Once Ravana - you've heard of Ravana?
Ravana came to Shiva
and worshipped him
and praised him and glory.
So he loved him so much and he said
"You ask whatever you want, I will give you"
and that guy says, "I want your wife."
Shiva is in a mood like that.
He says, "Okay, take her."(Laughter)
Parvati is having a bath in the Manasarovar close by,
and this guy goes looking for Parvati to take her home.
Then, somebody goes and tells her,
"Shiva has granted permission that
this man who's come from somewhere in the south,
he can take you and go with him."
She says, "Has he lost his mind?"
(Laughter)
Then, you know you have heard of these things…
Have you been kissing frogs?
No.
You don't believe that story.
No (Laughs).
This started long time ago.
So Parvati took a frog
and made this frog into a beautiful young woman
and left her in a lake adjacent to Manasarovar,
which is today called as Rakshas Tal.
So Ravana went straight to Rakshas Tal
and saw this young woman.
He thought she is Parvati,
took her and went home.
Then he realized
she has come out of a frog
but she was Mandodari.
That's why she is called Mandodari
- one who came out of a frog
but she was beautiful and wonderful woman so
she became his queen and stayed there.
But his thing about wanting to take somebody's wife
again took him to Ayodhya, you know (Laughs)?
You know all that trouble,
that's another matter
but you must understand this
- that which you are referring to as the highest
or the divine cannot be discriminatory, isn't it?
Hello?
If God says
- whoever the God is
- if he says "I am responsible for these people,
I am not responsible for those people,
" is he fired or no?
Hello?
Fired or no?
Because essentially,
it is a response, a limitless response.
When something responds to everybody,
if their thing is right, then we say this is divine.
It only responds to me not to you
- this is not divine,
this is my party, isn't it?
Hello?
So when Ravana as a great devotee,
he worshipped him,
he said, "Ask whatever you want"
but that guy should have civilization
but he has nothing like that,
he says, "I want your wife."
He says, "Okay, take her and go."
So in that context,
she burns in front of Shiva and says
she is doing austerities after austerities,
putting herself to extreme difficulties
and says,
"All I want is to kill this man.
Give me the power."
He says, "Okay, have it."
But this does not mean it will lead to your well-being.
See what happened to Ravana.
The same.
A man was driving in Mexico,
and he ran out of gas.
Then he walked,
and there he saw a local monastery
where monks were living with very meager resources.
He said, "My car has run out of gas, do something!"
So the monk said,
"See, we don't have anything else here,
we don't have cars,
we don't have gas,
but I can give you mule.
You ride on the mule to the next town,
and then you can get gas there and come back.
Only thing is we have trained the mules like this,
you sit on it, you don't beat it,
you don't do all that, you just say
'Praise the lord!'
It will go.
When you want it to stop, you say
'Amen', it'll stop."
So he sat on it and said,
"Praise the lord,"
it went, and went, and went,
did the whole day travel,
then he saw the mule was going straight towards a cliff edge.
He wants to stop it
– he's doing this,that,
but he's forgotten the mantra, tch.
He tried everything,
but the mule is just going straight to the edge of the cliff.
It came right here,
about to take its next step,
then he remembered, and said "Amen!"
It stopped.
He looked down, 2000 feet below,
"Oh my God, praise the Lord!"
(Laughter)
This happens, you know
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