Jealousy, anger, resentment, hurt, pain, depression are poisons that you drink but you expect someone else to die. Life doesn’t work like that. If you drink the poison, you die," says Sadhguru Vasudev, the man behind Isha Foundation.
It is said that our body retains every memory, even when our conscious mind forgets. Our body stores happiness, sadness, trauma, anger, joy, guilt, and every other emotion. The experience could be joyful as well as traumatic. But what matters is how we hold on to that memory. Talking about negative thoughts which affect a person’s mind and body, Sadhguru Vasudev throws light on what triggers them and the process of "inner engineering".
He says, "There are no negative or dark elements in any person. You can make your mind function whichever way you want. Unfortunately, many people make their minds function in ways which are detrimental to them. The problem is your unwillingness to employ your intelligence. Why should you suffer from something that you don’t want to?"
The mystic, who has offered himself tirelessly to help many achieve their full innate potential, says that feelings of jealousy, anger, hatred, contentment and many such emotions are not inherent, but a person creates them. Sadhguru says, "The problem is not that jealousy, anger, depression or any such emotions live in you or come to you because of an external factor. The problem is that you create them in your mind once in a while."
Explaining further, Sadhguru clarifies, "Why are you creating something that you don’t want? Are you angry, hateful or depressed while reading this? Maybe not. This proves that these emotions do not exist in your basic nature, but you create them by your own choice."
So how does one control the flood of negative thoughts in his mind especially in times of despair? He opines, "The fact is that many emotions which hurt you are not in your control. They bother you because you don’t know how to deal with them. You’re driving your body and soul without knowing how to handle them."
So does this mean that most of us know nothing about ourselves? He explains this with an example, "For instance, just like you should know everything about a gadget or a vehicle to use it in the best possible manner, similarly you must know yourself well to drive yourself. If you knew everything about your body and mind, you would always be happy."
And if you ask Sadhguru about the perfect way to drive one’s mind and body, he answers in two words, "inner engineering". But what is inner engineering?
"Engineering essentially means making things the way we want them. You can use the same technique for your inner self. And if you make your inner being the way you want it, you’ve engineered it well. And if you’re making it the way you don’t want it, it’s bad engineering," smiles Sadhguru.
So how do we engineer these negative emotions which leave us with a negative bent of mind? Sadhguru says that the only way to heal oneself is to know oneself. "By turning inwards," smiles Sadhguru. He pauses and adds, "Right now, the only means of perception that you have are your five senses. All of them are outward bound, isn’t it? You can see what’s outside, but you can’t see what’s inside. You can hear people outside but there’s so much activity in the body you can’t hear. When an ant crawls on your skin, you can feel it, but when the blood flows, you can’t feel that. Similarly, now you spend enough time to create jealousy and anger within yourself, but I used it in a meditative way and I’m ecstatic, wherever I sit I’m blissful."
SOURCE ; DECCAN CHRONICLE
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