"The way to peace"

Forces of love-compassion and anger-hate are always functioning in the world. It is a see-saw game. The question is, which end of the see-saw do you want loaded? If we are really on the brink of a terrible situation, it is all the more important that the spiritual process is applied more vigorously as ultimately that is the only thing that will maintain sanity in the world.

The moment you start believing in things that are not a living experience for you, you are naturally in conflict. Please see this. You are a peaceful person today, but tomorrow when somebody really confronts your belief system you will stand up and fight. 

What is the intelligence in moving into belief? What is the benefit of moving into belief? The only thing is your ego feels comfortable. ‘I don’t know’ is a big loss for the ego. ‘I know’ is the only way you can make the ego grow, isn’t it? In any given situation, when you say ‘I don’t know’ you are incapable of fighting with anybody, you are incapable of conflict. You are a very humble and wonderful human being. 

Without being capable of bringing peace into your own being, there is no way you are going to be capable of bringing peace to the world. If this little mind, you can’t make it peaceful, are you going to make the world peaceful? Whatever you’re seeing in the world is just a projection of your little mind, an enlarged projection of your mind. Is there anything happening in the world which is not happening in your mind? It is happening, isn’t it?

The science of yoga is a way to look inward. To look inward not from any standpoint, simply to look inward. You cannot look inward if you’re identified with something. The moment you’re identified, all doors are closed to you. Please see, the very way you think and feel depends on what you’re identified with right now.

Let’s say, for example, you identify yourself as an Indian. Now when a situation happens, the very way you feel and respond to it is in a certain way. At that moment in national interest, maybe it’s a good thing, but still, instead of reacting to it you can respond to it more intelligently. When you’re identified, you just become a reaction. You have no choice to think any other way. You have no capability of seeing the other person’s point of view. You have no capability of seeing from where the problem is springing. You will just react. 

It is better that you come from your intelligence, not from your reaction. To come from intelligence, the first thing is you must be able to look at things just the way they are, not from an identity. The moment you look at anything from an identity, you are prejudiced about it.

Meditation is a way to help you drop your identity and experience true peace. At least when you sit and meditate nothing else exists. There is just being, nothing else is there. 

Peace means nothingness. Peace is not something that you create. Peace is not something that happens. Peace is something that always is. Peace is the fundamental existence. What happens on the surface is disturbance. This is just like the ocean. On the surface of the ocean there’s turbulence, but deep down it’s perfectly peaceful. Only if you are in tune with that quality, you know true peace.

Sadhguru Jaggi Vasudev

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"Role of sadhana in enlightenment"

It is not that something like enlightenment “happens.” Enlightenment never happens. It is there; it is always there. The sadhana that you do is just to see it is there, you understand. You are not doing sadhana to construct divinity within you. All you will construct is only ego. When I went to the US, everybody there is talking of self-development. How to develop the self? You can develop the body; that is fine. You can develop the mind; that is fine. You can develop the ego, which everybody does anyway. How can you develop the self? And if you could develop the self, better discard it, because it is an incomplete stuff. Only that which is incomplete can be developed, isn’t it? If something is already all pervading, eternal, how to develop that? 

Self is one thing that you cannot develop. Everything else you may develop. You can develop the land, you can develop the earth, but you cannot develop the self. And if it can be developed it is better you put it in the storeroom like everything else. That is why Gautama went about saying, “You are non-self. You are Anathma.” People were talking too much about athma, then slowly it took the egg shape. So now he knew a chick will come. People will sit on it and make it hatch also (Laughs). Initially they said, “hell and heaven.” To which he said, “There is no hell and heaven.” “That we also know, but it is about reaching the Divine, God.” He said, “There is no God.” “That we also know. Our Upanishads also say we are Athma.” He said, “There is no Athma.” Then they said, “No, no, no the consciousness!” He said, “There is no consciousness. It is just that you are conscious that there is no consciousness; that is all.” See, everything he demolished because everything that can be demolished must be demolished. That is the whole sadhana. 

So sadhana is not about building something. It is not about creating divinity within you, not about becoming enlightened. It is simply there. Sadhana is just a way of opening your eyes. Sadhana is like an alarm bell. Some people need just a buzz - they wake up. That is all sadhana is. A long alarm bell - it must be piercing. You know, these days kids have those new James Bond watches. In these watches there is a small knife-like object which comes out and pricks you, along with a beep, beep sound. So if somebody is too thick skinned then we have to really poke. The whole thing is a process of just waking up, that is all. We are just stuck to one level of reality.

Waking up to another level of reality, can it just happen? Nothing to happen, if your involvement with this is total, so total that you transcend it. Or you are not at all involved, absolutely no involvement with what’s here, then also you see the other. These are two ways, either with 100 per cent involvement or zero involvement. Then you become loose in the present reality. Then you see the other reality within you.

So never seek enlightenment. The moment you start seeking you get rooted into this reality; please understand that. Without seeking you must work, that is the thing. When people have nothing to get they can’t be intense. That is their problem right now. That is exactly what you need to learn. 

When a person doesn’t seek anything but still he can act totally, with utmost intensity, then there is a way. If you seek, then something else happens; you get entangled with this, then nothing happens. So the whole process of spiritual dimension or the path is just because people don’t get this distinction. They have a mind which doesn’t allow them to be intense and involved with anything where there is nothing to get. That is the reason why it seems to be a great sadhana or struggle; otherwise, it is nothing. If you see this aspect, if you just eliminate this one calculation – “What can I get?” and simply you know how to throw yourself into everything that is around you, then 90 per cent of the sadhana is over in one stroke. Simply, it’s over.

If one’s relaxation is absolute, if you were utterly relaxed, relaxed to a point where you have no individual existence then there will be no need for sadhana. But the ego knows no relaxation; its existence is in a certain effort or tension. You have accumulated tensions, that is why sadhana is needed. Sadhana is not an effort to get somewhere; it is a tool to drop the effort and the need to get somewhere. Enlightenment is not an accomplishment, but a homecoming.

Sadhguru Jaggi Vasudev

SOURCE : CHENNAI ONLINE 

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