Yogasanas – Postures to Elevate Your Consciousness | Sadhguru
Sadhguru explains how Yogasanas, or yoga postures, provide a means of transforming your body not to sit as a hurdle in front of you, but to act as a channel for your ultimate possibility.#Sadhguru
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Every day you’re getting identified with more and more things and you want to stop your mind. You do whatever kind of circus, it is not going to stop. If you disidentify with everything – if you understand “what is you” and “what is not you,” if you keep a little distance from that, your mind will become still. If you want you can use it, otherwise you can keep it. Now my hand is there, if I want I can move it, otherwise I can keep it. This is a useful hand. Suppose it starts jumping like this, (Gestures) you clearly know there is some kind of an ailment, isn’t it? Yes or no? So if the hand is jumping, you know it’s an ailment. If the mind is jumping, is it an ailment or not? Participant: Yes. Sadhguru: Ahh. The ailment has come because of a continuous wrong diet. You tell your mind, that “I am this, I am this, I am that, I am that,” it’s having diarrhea. You stop giving it the wrong food. If you clearly see, what… Even if you do not know “what is me,” at least you know “what is not me,” isn’t it? This much you do. Tonight, before you go to bed, sit on your bed and sit down and discount everything that is not you. This house in which you are living, is this me? No. This loving parent or mother, father, wife or husband or child, they are wonderful, but is this me? No. Now these nice clothes I am wearing, is this me? No. Now my body, I like it but is this me? No. Now I’m having so many thoughts, is this me? No. Now I am having wonderful emotions, is this me? No. Like this, everything that’s not you, before you sleep, keep it down and go to bed. Tomorrow morning, you will wake up considerably more intense than today. Every day you do it. In a little while, if you simply sit here, things around you will reverberate, really. A few years ago… a couple of years ago I was in America and this is a very typical American question – this lady (Laughs) comes up to me and she’s very angry. “I have been doing this yoga for the last 35 years, nothing happened. But you went and just sat on a rock and things happened to you. (Laughter) This is not fair. Where is that damn rock?” (Laughter) She thinks it’s the rock that did it. (Laughter) The only sadhana that I did in my life is, right from a very early age, though I was very actively involved with everybody around me, I never identified myself with my parents or my siblings or my endless number of friends or the society or the religion or the country or anything around me – never identified, not that I was not involved. I was very involved and very active. Even today I am very active and involved but not identified. If you don’t identify with anything, there is enough energy in this (Referring to oneself) to become intense. See I want you to understand, your life energy right now in this body, how many things it’s doing here as you’re sitting here! Hello, do you know the complexity of the activity it is doing? Every cell in the body, your liver, your kidney, your damn spleen, and all kinds of stupid things that we cannot even figure even today, yes? Just see as you sit here, how many things this energy is doing. Obviously, it must be intense to do all this. You are not able to experience it because of diarrhea. (Few laugh) Tch… When you have diarrhea, (Gestures) that’s how you feel, isn’t it? Yes or no? So that’s how it is. Stop the diarrhea, stop eating bad food, diarrhea will stop. Once the diarrhea stops, there’s enough energy in this to sit here and reverberate in a very intense way.
Hmm…” [Laughter] Why? Because of distance, isn’t it? When you’re in it, traffic is a different experience. From really high up there, sitting in a hot air balloon, you look down, and you can’t even hear the sounds, looks wonderful traffic, isn’t it? Yes, or no? Participants: Yes. Sadhguru: Because there’s a distance. So, once there’s a distance between you and your mind’s activity, the mind is not a problem – the mind is a miracle, it is not a problem. And anyway, if thoughts are going continuously, if you’re having mental diarrhea, [Laughter] you ate some bad food, isn’t it? Yes? If you’re having physical diarrhea, you ate some bad food, isn’t it? If you’re having mental diarrhea, you consumed something wrong. What this wrong thing could be is, the moment you identify yourself with something that you’re not, then you’re finished – your mind is a continuous run. There is no other way. Do what you want, and try as hard as you want, it is not going to stop. If you do not identify yourself with anything that you are not, you know how to be with everything, you know how to use everything, but you’re not identified with it, then you will see, if you sit here, simply, the mind will be like this; [Gestures] if you want to use it you can use it, otherwise, it’ll be like this. Right now your hands are like this; oh, you’re holding it tied up because it’ll go all over, is it? No, you can keep it like this. You can keep it like this, you can keep it like this. [Gestures] When you want to use it, you can use it. So, it’s a useful instrument. Suppose your hands become like this. [Gestures] You know, some people have become like this? Yes, or no? [Gestures] If it becomes like this, you will become ridiculous, isn’t it? If it happens to your mind, also you’re equally ridiculous. It is just that you are living in the comfort that nobody else can see it. But people can see it; if they watch you closely enough, they can see it, isn’t it? And whether they can see it or not, that’s not the point; the point is, the most important faculty of your life is out of control. It doesn’t matter whether they can see it or not, that’s not the issue; the issue is, the most important faculty in your life is out of control, doing its rubbish all the time, not doing what you want it to do. So, if you have to be freed from this ailment, you should stop eating bad food. Wrong food, or bad food means, you are identifying yourself with things that you’re not. If you sit here, if you’re not identified with this, and with this, [Gestures] then you will see, everything is just fine. Then your mind will do what you want it to do; otherwise, it’ll simply hang there, and that’s how it should be. The mind should not be telling its own stories all the time; it should tell the story that you want it to tell, isn’t it? Otherwise, it’s quite a nuisance.
He also goes to the toilet. He also brushes his teeth. He also does the same things. But somehow his life is magical and beautiful because of the context. This could have happened to people when they fall in love with somebody. They were doing the same thing, suddenly they are in love with someone, and suddenly everything is different because the context of their life has changed. But then once they fall out of it, again (Laughs) the context of their life changes and it becomes miserable. Now, changing the context is voluntary, which is just something that you can do willfully. Changing the content may not be possible as you will. Because to change the content of your life, you need permission from the situations in which you exist, isn’t it? Shekhar Kapur: Yeah. Sadhguru: But to change the context of life, you don’t need anybody’s permission. You… it is not at all situational. So on a certain day, three men were working in one place. another man came by and asked the first man, “What are you doing here?” This man looked up and said, “Can’t you see I’m cutting stone? Are you blind?” This man moved on to the next man and asked, “What are you doing here?” That man looked up and said, “Something… something to fill my belly. I come here and do whatever they ask me to do. I just have to fill my belly, that’s all.” He went to the next man, the third man, and asked, “What are you doing here?” That man stood up in great joy and said, “I’m building a beautiful temple here!” All of them are doing the same thing, but their experience of what they’re doing is worlds apart. Every human being, every moment of his life could be doing whatever he is doing in any one of these three contexts and that’ll determine the quality of his life, not what he is doing. How simple an activity you’re doing or how complex an activity you’re doing doesn’t change the quality of your life. In what context are you doing, changes the quality of your life, isn’t it? Shekhar Kapur: Completely.