Question:
The western world teaches us
to look outside and to seek material objectives and
worldly possessions and to conform to societal constructed
values and ideas. Living in this culture, how does
one gain greater perspective or ability to look within?
Sadhguru's Response:
Who can deny what is within you?
Only yourself. So, that aspect of you, what you call
as myself, is just a bundle of conclusions that you
have made about life. These conclusions as to what’s
right, what’s wrong, what’s good, what’s
not good, will not allow you to move. You are the only
barrier. If you remove yourself, then to be spiritual,
to be peaceful is natural. It is just getting back
home. What you are referring to as myself is just your
mind and body right now. You have to use your body
and mind, but you don’t have ot be identified
with them. To be spiritual means to become free from
the body and mind heaps that you have gathered.
Once you have broken loose from
these two, you’re back home. It’s very
simple. If you become willing, it is one moment. Willingness
means you are willing to drop all the conclusions that
you have made. You’re willing to be here as your
creator intended you to be. Simply life.
Yoga and spirituality is about
seeing how to transcend all limitations. If you want
to transend your limitations the first basis that you
need to set is: stop fooling around with ideas, ideologies
and beliefs. Just see "what I know, I know, and
what I do not know, I do not know." As you go
deeper into this, you will see how little you truly
know about yoursef. When you come to a big "I
don’t know" knowing is just the next step,
just one moment. The only reason the spiritual process
seems to be such a struggle is you are not willing
to let go of your conclusions. What you call as truth,
peace, enlightenment, is something that is already
there within you. It is not somewhere else to be attained.
Yoga is just a device to help you see that it is there,
that’s all. |
Santosa
