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Not every situation which seems
like a solution is actually a solution
and not every situation
which seems like a problem...
is a problem.
So, what is a problem,
what is a possibility?
It's like this.
There was a little bird
in Michigan,
United States,
and winter was just setting in.
This's the time, he has to move south
to warmer climes.
But he was little too happy
and tweeting around, you know?
He had found lot of company in the...
human species,
that...
so many of them were tweeting,
so he was also busy tweeting...
and he kind of
delayed his
flight south.
So, after
weather started freezing, he tried to fly
and his wings froze and he fell.
Then a cow was walking by
and it…
You know cows,
droppings happened,
it landed straight on the bird.
Feeling the warmth of the dung,
slowly the bird recovered
and became very happy
and tweeted again,
from within the dung.
A hungry cat was passing by,
heard the tweet,
opened up the dung
and ate up the bird.
So not everybody
who heaps shit on you are your enemies
and not everybody who gets
you out of shit are your friends.
It is just that
if you are equipped…
If you have equipped
yourself in such a way,
no matter what happens,
you know how to make it into a
wonderful possibility for yourself…
Because what life throws at us
is not our choice always.
We try to manage it to some extent,
but it's not entirely our choice.
Life may throw all kinds of things at us,
but what we make out of it
is one-hundred percent ours.
If this one dimension,
if we take charge of this,
“No matter what life throws at me,
I will make this into a
tremendous process for myself,
let it throw whatever”,
doesn't matter what life throws at you,
you will turn it into a possibility,
you will not make anything into a problem,
because you are not a problem.
This is a choice that every human being has
either…
For every situation.
When I say every situation,
there are only situations and
situations and situations in our lives.
When you don't know
how to handle a particular situation,
you call that a problem.
What is a problem for you,
may be wonderful
possibility for somebody else
– usually is,
isn't it?
There are no problems in life,
there're just situations.
You can either make it into a possibility
or a problem.
You can...
either you yourself
become a possibility
or a problem.
This is a choice every human being has.
But to exercise this choice,
you have to be in a
certain way within yourself.
Within yourself,
you are in a certain state of equanimity,
balance and exuberance,
that
no matter what life throws at you,
you will make it into
a wonderful possibility.
Life can throw all
kinds of horrible things.
Don't underestimate life,
it can do things to you,
tch...
yes?
It can…
It can do all kinds of things to you.
Most unexpected time,
it will throw something at you
that you did not imagine possible.
The more active you are,
more unexpected things happen to you.
Yes.
So instead of trying to control
what life should throw at you,
equipping yourself in such a way,
no matter what it throws at you,
you will make it into
a wonderful possibility,
if this one thing is done
within the human being,
then every situation is a possibility.
Once every situation becomes a possibility,
this human being will blossom
to a full-fledged life.
And this is the aspiration of every life,
to somehow become a full-fledged life.
People always kept account
of money and things that they have.
But very few people kept accounts
of how they are
are they progressing or
regressing or what is happening
People have taken on this mode,
if small things go wrong in their life,
they'll find one little person down there
and say it's because of him.
I am talking about the
husband (Laughter).
If big things go wrong,
it's because of him,
the big guy up there
(Referring to creator).
This guy, (Referring to oneself)
Never in account.
The little people or big people…
This one...
(Referring to oneself)
This one acts really big
when he has to receive something,
but when he has
to give something,
he really acts very small.
(Laughs)...
People have taken on this mode.
This is because there is no
clear accounting process (Laughs)
And no clear cut balance sheet,
“This is where I stand in my life.”
If there was an accounting process…
When you were five years of age,
how joyful you were,
today, how joyful you are,
the balance sheet, is it profit or loss?
Hmm?
That means it's loss.
I was…
I was speaking to a…
A group of people
at the Princeton University
and I looked around,
a whole lot of people
sitting with long faces.
Particularly in your university,
the faces are extra-long (Gestures).
So I looked around
– except for three-four faces,
which were young faces, which were bright,
all others (Gestures)…
Then I asked them,
“What's happened to all these
people over thirty years of age?
Why are they carrying such long faces?
One lady stands up and says,
“They are all married”.
This is happened only because
there is no day-to-day accounting.
Every day before you go to bed, if you had
a balance sheet going,
“Today, am I little better human being
or am I little worse?”
Every day
if you had accounts,
once a year if there was a clear audit
– external audit –
then very quickly you would have recovered.
But after twenty-five years,
one day you realize,
you are deep in the red.
Now very difficult to recover
because it's gone to another place,
where to a point,
where a whole lot of people
have an argument
that..
It is not practical to be joyful
in the accounting job (Laughs).
A whole lot of people
are actually arguing
that it's not practical
to be joyful.
You… You met lot of them?
Yes or no?
People are making an case,
that it is not practical to be joyful.
Is it practical
to be in various states
of stress and distress
and still function properly in the world?
If one has to function in
variety of atmospheres,
in variety of situations,
variety of challenges
on day-to-day basis,
one fundamental thing is,
this (Referring to oneself) must be
a peaceful and joyful being, isn't it?
Otherwise,
how is it practical
that...
a person under great
stress or distress
can function
effectively in any
field or any area of life?
We must understand
this - engineering means…
Essentially,
to make things happen
the way we want it,
that's engineering,
isn't it?
To engineer this building means what?
We want it the way we want it.
We could've sat under a tree,
but we choose to build this building
because
we want to sit under something
engineered the way we want it,
as suitable for us.
We air conditioned the place
because we want the
temperature in a certain way.
All this we did,
but is it not important
that you engineer this (Referring
to oneself) the way you want it?
Outside is air conditioned,
inside is boiling
what's the point?
I'm saying, power is being wasted on you.
In the last hundred -
hundred-and-fifty years
with the advent of science and technology,
we have more comforts and conveniences
than any generation
ever could imagine, isn't it?
Yes or no?
You have more comforts and conveniences
than any generation could ever imagine.
We are the most
comfortable generation ever,
physically, materially.
But can you say
are you the most peaceful generation?
Joyful?
Loving?
No.
Or can you even say you're
the most intelligent generation?
That'll be wrong thing to say.
Anybody who claims he is intelligent
amounts to foolishness, isn't it?
Because the significance
of intelligence is,
it shows you
how many loopholes are
there in your intelligence.
Only a fool thinks there are no loopholes.
A truly intelligent person always sees
how many loopholes in my intelligence.
Making life happen
better than the way
it's happening right now
because this is a fundamental
responsibility that we have
as a generation of people
because we occupy this space on the planet
for a short… brief time.
When...
the last generation gave this planet to us,
whichever way they gave it,
it's our business
that when we leave it,
we leave it little better
than the way we had it -
very important.
How better, in what way better?
You can decide that.
I won't say only ecologically better,
but in every way better.
It must be better
than the way we got it.
This means we have to engineer
ourselves
to fit in such a way…
See, a well-engineered machine means
least amount of friction.
Isn't it so?
Yes?
A well-engineered machine means what
least amount of friction.
Heavy friction means
badly engineered, isn't it?
So, the fundamentals of yoga is this
the fundamentals of yoga...
is in the geometry of physical existence.
If you understand the geometry
of what this...
human mechanism is
the body is,
the psychological structure is,
the chemical processes
are, the energy structures are
if you understand the geometry
of this (Referring to oneself)
And become capable
of observing the cosmic geometry,
if these two things are well-aligned,
suddenly your life hits off like a magic.
Your life is no more...
a miserable drag,
but it's magical simply because
you have gotten the
right geometry of things.
Anything that is geometrically perfect
will function
absolutely smoothly
and...
for a very long time.
This is something that
you must do to yourself.
It doesn't matter
what you want to do in your life,
one thing must happen
your body and your brain
should not come in your way,
they must work for you.
Never…Your body and your mind should
not come in the way of who you want to be
Right now, for most people,
they themselves are a big issue.
When you are an issue,
how will you address
the issues in the world?
If you really want to address
the issues in the world,
this one (Referring to oneself)
Should never be a issue, isn't it?
"I am not the issue here."
I am never the problem.
"If there are problems,
I will deal with it,
but I am never the problem"
this must happen to you, isn't it?
Please make yourself like this
that you are never the problem,
you're always a part of the solution,
never a part of the problem.
So there are people who
are working for problems,
there are people who
are working for solutions.
Young people should stand up
and become a solution
for future generations to come
and your own life to blossom
because
the greatest fulfillment
in one's life is...
that you functioned in such a way
that...
you could do something which
is much larger than yourself.
This must happen.
This is the highest fulfillment of activity
that you are able to do something
which is larger than yourself.
Only then,
you will see fulfillment in activity.
Activity is one thing,
but most important thing is how you are.
You must know the nature of who you are.
You should not go on dodging yourself
and one day you will
explode into something.
You must know
what is the level of
madness you're suffering.
When I say madness
if your mind is out of your control,
is that called madness?
Sadhguru: Just try.
Just today, after this event,
just go sit quietly in your room,
just see what all your mind does.
You decide, don't tell anybody,
you decide what is the level of
madness you're going through.
With this, if you enter the world,
what will you create?
You will only create who you are,
isn't it?
You cannot do anything
other than what you are.
What you are is what will
happen to the world around you.
Before you step out into the world,
is it not important, at least
you're this much equipped
that you are not the problem?
