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Lewis HowesDAILY STEPS To Manifest What You REALLY WANT | Sadhguru & Lewis Howes
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85 min read · 17,167 words- 0:00 – 4:45
Joy as Expression, Not Pursuit, in Relationships
- SASadhguru
Do not think in terms of abundance. Think in terms of a fulfillment of life.
- LHLewis Howes
Yeah.
- SASadhguru
If you are a fulfilled life according to your competence, according to your capability, according to the times in which you live, nothing makes you better. The only thing is...
- LHLewis Howes
When people are in a relationship and there seems to be a wave of joy, and love, and acceptance, and then other days maybe it's anger, or resentment, or frustration, how do we re- how do we move out of that and more into acceptance and conscious love as opposed to control, or manipulation, or well, you need to do this for, to make me happy? How do we e- expand beyond that?
- SASadhguru
See, first of all, you must decide, is your life in pursuit of happiness or is it an expression of joy?
- LHLewis Howes
Is it in the pursuit of happiness or expression of joy?
- SASadhguru
Tell me, in your life, when you're expressing your joy, was that the best moment? Or when you're pursuing happiness-
- LHLewis Howes
No
- SASadhguru
... was that the best moment?
- LHLewis Howes
The joy.
- SASadhguru
Yes. So why is it that you have not done that? Because you still believe there is joy in this tree and you can squeeze it out.
- LHLewis Howes
Mm.
- SASadhguru
There is joy in this man or woman that you can squeeze it out.
- LHLewis Howes
Mm.
- SASadhguru
You wring them, and then you expect relationship be great. It will not be. You're wringing them out so the juice of joy will come to you or love will come to you.
- LHLewis Howes
Mm.
- SASadhguru
No. Love is not something that you do. Love is something that you can become.
- LHLewis Howes
Mm.
- SASadhguru
It's your quality.
- LHLewis Howes
Mm-hmm.
- SASadhguru
If your mind is in a certain way, it's joyful. If your emotions are in a certain way, it's loving. This is the quality of sweetness of bod- if your body becomes sweet and pleasant, it's called health and pleasure. If your mind becomes very pleasant, it's called peacefulness and joyfulness.
- LHLewis Howes
Mm-hmm.
- SASadhguru
If your emotions become pleasant, it's called love and compassion. If your very life energy becomes pleasant, it is called blissfulness and ecstasy. Only if your surroundings become pleasant, it's called success. Only to achieve success-
- LHLewis Howes
Hmm
- SASadhguru
... you need competence, you need cooperation, you need help from other people. All right? Because without all of them cooperating, there'll be no success.
- LHLewis Howes
Mm.
- SASadhguru
Right now, these guys, uh, must cooperate. Otherwise, this shoot is not going to go well.
- LHLewis Howes
The camera crew, yes. Yeah.
- SASadhguru
All right. [laughs] But even if these guys don't shoot well, we can still be joyful. They cannot stop us.
- LHLewis Howes
No. We cannot... We can be joyful, yeah.
- 4:45 – 14:27
Fulfillment of Life Instead of Abundance
- LHLewis Howes
For the people watching or listening who might be saying, "You know what? I've struggled in my relationships. I, I don't have financial abundance. I'm struggling financially. I'm out of shape, struggling in my, my health and wellness," and they're wondering how they can use karma, in a sense, to support them to create more abundance, financial abundance, spiritual abundance, relationship abundance, health and wellbeing, or maybe they've been thinking, "Well, maybe, uh, karma's been against me," in that, that way of thinking.
- SASadhguru
[laughs]
- LHLewis Howes
How can they start to think differently to, to apply-
- SASadhguru
See-
- LHLewis Howes
... these principles?
- SASadhguru
You're setting up all the wrong goals.
- LHLewis Howes
[laughs] What should the goals be?
- SASadhguru
Simply this. See right now, if you, instead of philosophizing, reading scriptures, reading self-help books, all this, just pay attention to the trees around here.
- LHLewis Howes
Mm-hmm.
- SASadhguru
What are they doing?
- LHLewis Howes
Being.
- SASadhguru
Be- no, no, no, no, no. They have no capability to be. [laughs] They're not called beings. Only you called being. Human being you are.
- LHLewis Howes
Mm-hmm.
- SASadhguru
They are not. That's just a tree. It's a wonderful tree. What is it doing? Beneath the ground, it's fighting. All right?
- LHLewis Howes
Mm.
- SASadhguru
What is it fighting for? Is this... Maple tree trying to produce apples?
- LHLewis Howes
No.
- SASadhguru
No. It is just trying to be the best possible maple tree it can be. It is not trying to produce apples.
- LHLewis Howes
Mm.
- SASadhguru
Definitely I don't see any coconuts up there.
- LHLewis Howes
[laughs]
- SASadhguru
All right?
- LHLewis Howes
Right.
- SASadhguru
This is all. As a human being, you must see how this life can blossom into its fullest.
- LHLewis Howes
Mm.
- SASadhguru
If it blossom to its fullest, somebody may become rich with money, or somebody may become intelligent, somebody may become knowledgeable, somebody may become loving, somebody may become an artist, somebody may just wander. But a fully blossomed human being is a joy to see, no matter what the hell they're doing-
- LHLewis Howes
Mm
- SASadhguru
... or what they're not doing.
- LHLewis Howes
Mm-hmm.
- SASadhguru
Whichever way, they're an asset to whole humanity.
- 14:27 – 19:33
Ease, the Body as a Borrowed Piece of Earth, and Fearlessness
- LHLewis Howes
how do we nurture our, our inner roots and not focus on the fruit?
- SASadhguru
See, as there is a science and technology to create the situations that we want in external situations, there is a whole science and technology to create inner situations the way we want. If you want to be nurtured, the first and foremost thing is just look back and see has there been one 24 hours in your life, or many people that you know in your life, one 24 hours that they passed without anxiety, without fear, without being agitated, nothing, simply at ease 24 hours? 24 hours if you come to ease, believe me, your ability to use your mind and body-
- LHLewis Howes
Mm
- SASadhguru
... may go up 100%-
- LHLewis Howes
Yeah
- SASadhguru
... in 24 hours. Just ease. This has not come to people. They're not even at ease. People ask me, "Sadhguru, how are you like this?"
- LHLewis Howes
[laughs]
- SASadhguru
I say, "I'm like, uh, I'm talking to a crowd of 100,000." The way I would talk to somebody, they came and asked me something, I'm in the bathroom, I have to peep out of that and speak. Just like that I'm speaking to-
- LHLewis Howes
[laughs]
- SASadhguru
... 100,000 people on stage, with the same ease and with the same-
- LHLewis Howes
Yeah
- SASadhguru
... not being concerned about what somebody thinks about me. What happens, that's not the point. What I see as truth, I speak. You like it, you don't like it, you realize it, you don't realize it-
- LHLewis Howes
Mm-hmm
- SASadhguru
... that's left to you. But you will get it someday. If you li- if you heard the words, not today, maybe on your deathbed you will get it, but that's a wasted time. If you get it today, it would be wonderful. Today if you understood sitting here, this body is just a piece of the planet that I've picked up. This is not really me. It's for me to use it right now. It's wonderful. Okay? This human body is the finest mechanism on the planet. It's given to me as a gift. I must keep it well.
- LHLewis Howes
Yeah.
- SASadhguru
But it's not me. It's something that I picked it up from the planet. If I understand this now, I will live a very sensible life. If you get it from the maggots, what to do? Some realization happened, at least for the maggots.
- LHLewis Howes
Yeah.
- SASadhguru
It's good.
- LHLewis Howes
Yeah. [laughs]
- SASadhguru
[laughs]
- LHLewis Howes
Do you have any personal fears?
- SASadhguru
What do you mean by that?
- LHLewis Howes
Do you have any fears of anything in your life?
- SASadhguru
[laughs] No.
- LHLewis Howes
Are you afraid? Do you remember the last time you had fear? How old were you?
- SASadhguru
I know fear only from other people's experiences. See, it's not about whether I have fear or not. I made myself like this.
- LHLewis Howes
[laughs]
- SASadhguru
Only what I want happens within me. What I want may not always happen around me.
- LHLewis Howes
Mm.
- SASadhguru
But within me, only what I want happens.
- 19:33 – 26:17
Intelligence, Being in the Moment, and Taking Oneself Too Seriously
- LHLewis Howes
do you have any big dreams? Do you think about your dreams of the future, or is it more just you're here in this moment, you're here to show up the most joyful way you can?
- SASadhguru
[laughs] No. See, this whole thing about being in the moment is a, just a mixed-up idea.
- LHLewis Howes
Hmm.
- SASadhguru
See, what this means is right now, the way it is understood in, in this part of the world-
- LHLewis Howes
Yes
- SASadhguru
... the way it's understood is-
- LHLewis Howes
[laughs]
- SASadhguru
... being in the moment means don't think about the past, don't think about the future. Essentially, they're saying, "Do not use your cerebral capability."
- LHLewis Howes
Mm-hmm.
- SASadhguru
A human being is endowed with a phenomenal cerebral capa- capability which no other creature on this planet has. In that department, we are number one on the planet.
- LHLewis Howes
Mm-hmm.
- SASadhguru
Isn't it?
- LHLewis Howes
Yeah.
- SASadhguru
So right now, because people do not know how to use it, and they're torturing themselves with their cerebral capability, they're poking themselves with their sharp intellect, because of that, somebody is saying, "Don't think about the f- for past. Don't think about the future. Just be in this moment. If you're drinking water, just drink water. If you're talking, just talk. Don't do anything." See, this is just saying, "Why don't you become an amoeba once again?" An amoeba also has a brain.
- LHLewis Howes
Hmm.
- SASadhguru
Small brain, that's all.
- LHLewis Howes
Hmm.
- SASadhguru
No problems. Amoeba need not pray. Amoeba need not meditate. Amoeba need not think how to be peaceful, very peaceful and fine. All right? So even now for the human beings, if you remove half their brain, they will all be peaceful.
- LHLewis Howes
Hmm.
- SASadhguru
Essentially, their problem is they don't know how to handle their own intelligence.
- LHLewis Howes
Hmm.
- SASadhguru
So either you come up with philosophies like this, or you soak your brains half in alcohol, or drug it-
- LHLewis Howes
Right
- SASadhguru
... do something, eat too much so that it won't work. All you're trying to do is somehow dull the brain. I'm saying this evolutionary process took millions of years to give you this cere- cerebral capability, and now you don't know how to handle it. How sad is that?
- LHLewis Howes
Hmm.
- SASadhguru
That's a miserable thing that you're doing, because no other creature has the cerebral capability that human being has. So essentially, we are thinking intelligence is a curse. I told you already, it's a curse.
- LHLewis Howes
Hmm.
- SASadhguru
If you have limited idety- identity, intelligence is a curse, not just for you, for everybody around you. See, somebody who is very sharp but evil thoughts, and they're doing things, you wish he was brainless, isn't it so?
- LHLewis Howes
Hmm. Yes.
- SASadhguru
So this is simply because of this. You don't know how to handle your intelligence for wellbeing. Int- you tell me, in your experience, is intelligence a solution or a problem?
- 26:17 – 33:08
Death, Rest, and the Cobra Test
- LHLewis Howes
And, and, you know, I've, I've learned that in some cultures they focus on death multiple times a day to bring them back to that moment of, "This is the only time we have. Make the most of this moment. Don't take things too seriously." Do you focus on death a lot throughout your days, or is that not something you think about?
- SASadhguru
I live death all the time. [laughs]
- LHLewis Howes
You're on a motorcycle. [laughs]
- SASadhguru
[laughs] Not just that, motorcycle I live. [laughs]
- LHLewis Howes
Yeah.
- SASadhguru
Just now, if you do not know this, I just released a book on death.
- LHLewis Howes
Really?
- SASadhguru
Do, do you know this? Yeah, it's a bestseller in India right now.
- LHLewis Howes
Wow.
- SASadhguru
So, uh... [laughs]
- LHLewis Howes
Is it here in the USA yet? I gotta get a copy.
- SASadhguru
We will send you a copy, but it's not released in USA. It's only released in... by Penguin India. Because USA we're releasing another book, so this has been stalled. Uh, in US we're releasing-
- LHLewis Howes
Yeah
- SASadhguru
... a book on karma. [laughs] So-
- LHLewis Howes
It's perfect. I need both. [laughs]
- SASadhguru
[laughs] So the book is about, uh, it is only for those who shall die. That's how it is titled, Death: A Book for Only Those Who Shall Die. Because most people think other people die.
- LHLewis Howes
Mm.
- SASadhguru
[laughs] They don't realize we die. [laughs]
- LHLewis Howes
Right.
- SASadhguru
They do not... See, death essentially means it reminds us that we have a limited amount of time and energy to live. Nobody has unlimited time or unlimited energy. If one is constantly conscious of this, definitely they will organize their life, and they'll prioritize their life in much better way than the way they're doing it right now. This is a fundamental. Death does not mean something else. Not some terrible thing. Uh, death simply means it is clearly reminding you you have a limited lease of time and energy. That means you need to organize your time and energy to what is most valuable for you, not do one more thing that is not necessary for yourself or anybody around you. And because people think they are forever, they are in some restlessness all the time. I think they just put up a poem [laughs] which I wrote three, four days ago. It's called Life. "The most restless ones rest so well when life is taken out of them, as if the only curse was life."
- LHLewis Howes
What does that mean to rest so well? You mean sleep so well, or live so well that you feel restful?
- SASadhguru
Oh, even in sleep they're rolling all over the place, huh? [laughs]
- LHLewis Howes
[laughs] They're not sleeping well, it means.
- SASadhguru
No, no. [laughs] They need to either drink or pop a pill to sleep, most of them.
- LHLewis Howes
So how do we get to a restful p- uh, place? Is it, is it more about our thoughts? Is it more about our, our heart, our soul, our karma, our, our physical body? What's the place to start for rest?
- SASadhguru
See, uh, right now people... Generally people's understanding is rest means sleep. Wakefulness means something is happening. No, you have to make your wakefulness also restful. It is just like if you, uh, if you have an automobile who's running at a very high RPM all the time, it'll naturally wear itself out. So it's important that you run cool. So if you run at a, running at a easy pace, your efficiency will go up, your ability to do things will go up, your competence will go up and everything. Above all, the number of hours that you sleep will go down dramatically. See, uh, for most people who are practicing Inner Engineering practices, their pulse rate is somewhere between 45 to 65.
- LHLewis Howes
Really?
- SASadhguru
Many of them... Yes, yes. Many of them below 45, between 35 to 45, also in sitting states, in restful states. So once your, uh, system is going at such an ease, then the need for rest will come down. There was a time, not anymore, I'm [laughs] becoming little old and lazy these days. So [laughs] there was a time, three days and three nights if I don't sleep, I will still be perfectly normal. Still doing all my activity. Whole night I will drive. Next day, whole day I will teach. Whole night I will drive, and again I will teach. Like this. Uh, these days I can do one night, next day I will need to rest a little bit. [laughs]
- LHLewis Howes
Right, right. You take naps throughout the day now.
- SASadhguru
But-
- 33:08 – 40:32
Perception, Experience, and Making Mistakes
- LHLewis Howes
I love your, uh, [laughs] I, I'm really enjoying your inner engineering course right now. I've been going through it and I'm really enjoying it.
- SASadhguru
Oh, okay.
- LHLewis Howes
You have a quote, I think I'm gonna get the quote correct, I believe. I wrote it down. Where you said, "Only what you perceive you know. The rest is imagination." And you were talking about that, uh, in the context of what we learn in school. You were giving this example of, you know, we only really have 50% of our time available because the other 50% is with our faculties and with sleep. And for many years we learn things, the content, that we only use 1%, is what I remember you saying. What do you mean by this, "Only what you perceive you know. The rest is imagination"?
- SASadhguru
See, uh, perception happens to you in five different dimensions. Seeing, hearing, smelling, tasting, touching. This is how you're perceiving life. This data, data has gathered within you. Only because this data has gathered within you, now you are able to walk on a round planet which spins. It's not a small thing. It is not a small thing that you are able to walk on a spinning round ball. Because all this data has gathered through five senses, it is not intellectual information, but it is a perceptional information. If this information is not there, you won't be able to walk, actually. You will not be able to walk straight. This is what is happening for people when some people lose their memory and things like that, suddenly they become unstable in their body because some of the data has gotten disconnected with their system. So this data that you perceive is most important. That's what a child is all the time drinking up everything. You see how the child is looking at everything, because he wants to drink up as much data as possible because instinctively he knows without the data he will not be able to function. So how attentive you are, how attentive your eyes are, how attentive your ears, nose, tongue, and touch is, accordingly you have that much p- you know, that much, uh, usable information.
- LHLewis Howes
Mm-hmm.
- SASadhguru
So why one person is more efficient? Well, you are an athlete. Why one person is able to catch a damn ball-
- LHLewis Howes
[laughs]
- SASadhguru
... another person can't catch the damn thing? Why is it? Because that level of attention of exactly how that ball will behave-
- LHLewis Howes
Hmm
- SASadhguru
... how you can anticipate where it will go, this is not there. Intellectually, suppose you have a PhD in football. You think you can play football? [laughs]
- LHLewis Howes
Uh, if you have a PhD, I... No.
- SASadhguru
[laughs]
- LHLewis Howes
I think you need to experience it as well if you just study it only.
- SASadhguru
Yes.
- LHLewis Howes
Yeah.
- SASadhguru
No, that is, that is not experience, it's perception.
- LHLewis Howes
Mm-hmm.
- SASadhguru
You are, you're watching it out of your keen interest. You're watching exactly how a ball moves. You may not be thinking the physics of it, but you're watching it and perceiving it.
- LHLewis Howes
Mm-hmm.
- SASadhguru
Because of that perception, you know something that you cannot know by reading 100 books about it.
- LHLewis Howes
That's true. You've gotta experience life.
- SASadhguru
Of course. [laughs]
- LHLewis Howes
You gotta experience it.
- SASadhguru
That's the only reason we are here. [laughs]
- LHLewis Howes
[laughs] You ta-
- SASadhguru
To experience life at, as profoundly as possible.
- LHLewis Howes
Absolutely. What do you think is, is missing in the world the most right now? Especially here in America, there's a lot of... You know, we have corona and then people feel like they're suffering, they're angry, they're, uh, they feel unjust with a lot of different things that are happening. What is missing in the world?
- SASadhguru
See, talking about those situations in America, America has, uh, an unfortunately very cruel history. Whether, whether it concerns the Native Americans or the African, uh, Americans today, there's a very cruel history.
- LHLewis Howes
Mm-hmm.
- SASadhguru
By trying to put it under the carpet, it'll keep popping up. We have to come to terms with it.
- 40:32 – 47:30
Karma as Memory: Platform or Quicksand
- LHLewis Howes
Where does karma fit in-
- SASadhguru
[laughs]
- LHLewis Howes
... a- around people that are acting to harm or to not support someone else's wellbeing or the things around them? How does karma fit in?
- SASadhguru
See, all your identity is only from your memory, isn't it? How are you an American? You remember-
- LHLewis Howes
Mm
- SASadhguru
... that you were born in America.
- LHLewis Howes
Yes.
- SASadhguru
Suppose I erase your memory. Are you American?
- LHLewis Howes
Suppose what? Sorry.
- SASadhguru
I erase your memory.
- LHLewis Howes
Oh. Am I an American?
- SASadhguru
Yeah.
- LHLewis Howes
I don't know.
- SASadhguru
No. So how does your family identity come? How do your racial identity come? Everything is by memory, isn't it?
- LHLewis Howes
Yeah, yeah.
- SASadhguru
Now, karma means this accumulated massive amount of memory. Now, will you stand above that? Is, this is a stage for our life. This karmic background is like a platform. If you create s-
- LHLewis Howes
Mm-hmm
- SASadhguru
... enough surface tension in this, you can stand on it and do your fresh act today. But if your feet sink into it like quicksand, then you're just a victim of your memory. Right now the person that you think is a racist is a victim of his memory.
- LHLewis Howes
Right.
- SASadhguru
The person that you think is a terrorist is a victim of his memory.
- LHLewis Howes
Mm-hmm.
- SASadhguru
The person who is a suicide bomber is a victim of his memory, because he remembers what has been taught to him. All right? If he loses his memory, he's a fine guy.
- LHLewis Howes
Right, [laughs] right, right.
- SASadhguru
[laughs] Yes. So right now you don't have to lose your memory. Where is your memory? Your memory is in your body, and what you call as your mind, which is all one.
- LHLewis Howes
Yes.
- SASadhguru
All right? This is hardware, that is software. [laughs]
- LHLewis Howes
Sure, sure.
- SASadhguru
So this software, you wrote it unconsciously through various incidents, experiences, your own perception according to your intelligence. You wrote your own kind of software unconsciously. It's written by you, but unconsciously. There have been cases where people have sleepwalked and committed a murder.
- LHLewis Howes
Mm.
- SASadhguru
Even the judiciary thinks that is not worth punishing. They don't punish them, even though they committed murder sleepwalking. As far as the act is concerned, somebody died. They lost their life. Not a small thing. But this man was sleeping. So that man doesn't get punishment because he was sleepwalking, all right?
- 47:30 – 54:38
Identity, Body and Mind as Possessions, and Yoga as Union
- LHLewis Howes
Can identities be good at all? Can having an identity be good?
- SASadhguru
See, without identity you cannot function in the world. Right now this is me, that's you. If this identity is not there, if you ask me a question-
- LHLewis Howes
[laughs]
- SASadhguru
... I will look like this. What is the point of that?
- LHLewis Howes
Right.
- SASadhguru
No activity is possible without identity. The important thing is to ... It's like wearing your clothes. Right now these are my clothes.
- LHLewis Howes
Yeah.
- SASadhguru
See, I wear loose clothes-
- LHLewis Howes
Yeah
- SASadhguru
... so that always you're aware this is my clothing, this is not me.
- LHLewis Howes
Mm.
- SASadhguru
Suppose I wear skin tight nylon clothes. After some time I don't know which is my clothing, which is my skin. So that's all the thing is. Do you have a space between you-
- LHLewis Howes
Mm
- SASadhguru
... and what you have created? Or are you stuck with it? That's the important thing. If you are stuck with it you will do crazy things thinking you are doing good things.
- LHLewis Howes
If you're hel- held onto the identity, if you're attached to it.
- SASadhguru
Uh, it will wrap you up. [laughs]
- LHLewis Howes
[laughs]
- SASadhguru
Once you create it and live it-
- LHLewis Howes
Right
- SASadhguru
... it will just wrap you up-
- LHLewis Howes
Yeah
- SASadhguru
... unless you're conscious.
- LHLewis Howes
Sure.
- SASadhguru
So if you can ... See, this is the entire inner engineering process we are offering.
- LHLewis Howes
Mm-hmm.
- SASadhguru
It's just this. If you do this practice which we call a Shambavi, if you sit here, your body's here, your mind is out there, what is you is elsewhere. Once there is a little space between you and your body, between you and your mind- This is it
- LHLewis Howes
Mm
- SASadhguru
One thing is there's no suffering within you anymore, because suffering happens only two ways, physical suffering, mental suffering. Do you know any other kind of suffering?
- LHLewis Howes
Not I'm aware of.
- SASadhguru
Once there is a, once there is a little distance, this is the end of suffering, and above all, this is the end of all identity.
- 54:38 – 1:05:17
Emotions Are Self-Created: Inner Engineering and Freedom from Suffering
- LHLewis Howes
When we have emotions, thoughts, or feelings, emotions of anger, resentment from something that happened in the past, upset that we see on social media, frustrations in the world, where should we be redirecting these thoughts, feelings, and emotions? Should we be feeling them and allowing ourselves to go with anger until it stops? Should we be- ... guarding our thoughts with, with the reverse of that. Where, what's your, uh, ideas on thoughts and, uh, feeling and emotions?
- SASadhguru
You must punch a window pane or a wall better. A stone wall is good.
- LHLewis Howes
[laughs] You'll feel it more. Yeah, exactly.
- SASadhguru
[laughs] Because, uh, that is the model that the Hollywood and the television shows-
- LHLewis Howes
Mm-hmm
- SASadhguru
... everything is setting up. When you get angry, you break something, all right? [laughs]
- LHLewis Howes
Exactly.
- SASadhguru
So, see, first of all, people are assuming that anger is happening to them-
- LHLewis Howes
Hmm
- SASadhguru
... or misery is happening to them. No, this is exactly what I said earlier. Maybe I didn't articulate it fully. No, you are creating anger. You're creating misery. You're creating joy. You're creating whatever. All this is happening from within you. Is it true all human experiences happening from within us?
- LHLewis Howes
Uh, it's, it's... Yeah, 'cause we perceive something and then we-
- SASadhguru
No, no
- LHLewis Howes
... and-
- SASadhguru
Something else, something else may stimulate, but human experience is happening from within us, isn't it?
- LHLewis Howes
Right.
- SASadhguru
Whether it's love or hate or anger or misery or joy or anything, it's only happening from within us.
- LHLewis Howes
Right.
- SASadhguru
Now, simple question I am asking is, what happens from within you should you ha- should it happen your way or somebody else's way?
- LHLewis Howes
It should happen your way.
- SASadhguru
Of course, because the world will never happen your way 100%, because there are so many stakeholders in the world. Little bit will happen my way, little bit your way. That is fine, but what happens within me must happen my way. If what happens within me does not happen my way, this is the worst form of slavery, isn't it?
- LHLewis Howes
Wow.
- SASadhguru
Somebody decides what happens within me. Somebody decides where I should sit. This is slavery. Everybody understands this.
- LHLewis Howes
Hmm.
- SASadhguru
Now, somebody decides whether I'm happy or unhappy. Isn't this the worst form of slavery?
- LHLewis Howes
Yeah.
- SASadhguru
So this is the liberation that humanity needs to work at. This is what inner engineering means. Inner engineering is not some, uh, mechanical process, because engineering means this essentially. You will say something is well engineered only if it works the way you want, isn't it?
- LHLewis Howes
Mm-hmm.
- SASadhguru
If this one doesn't work the way you want, what the hell are you expecting other things to work the way you want? It's just an accident. When you live accidentally, anxiety is normal.
- LHLewis Howes
Yeah, it's, it's every day.
- SASadhguru
[laughs]
- 1:05:17 – 1:13:36
Sadhguru's Anger, Righteous Anger, and Moving from Religion to Responsibility
- LHLewis Howes
When you, when was the last time that you felt anger or resentment and actually expressed it?
- SASadhguru
I was, I was just thinking of getting angry with you just now. [laughs]
- LHLewis Howes
[laughs] Perfect. Bring it. I love that.
- SASadhguru
See, [laughs] the thing is, Lewis, I, uh, I did not give this privilege to anybody, that somebody can make me happy, somebody can make me unhappy, somebody can make me ha- angry, somebody can make me miserable. I have not given that privilege to anybody.
- LHLewis Howes
Mm.
- SASadhguru
It's not that I'm incapable of all these things. If I want, I can be all those things.
- LHLewis Howes
Right.
- SASadhguru
But I have not give, given this privilege to anybody. They can't do something to me and make me angry, no. I have not given that privilege to anyone.
- LHLewis Howes
Did you ha- did you have that experience or give that privilege to someone when you were younger? Did you learn that at a certain point where you transitioned?
- SASadhguru
Till, till I was 23, 24 years of age, from the age of probably 11, 12, I was always 24 hours angry.
- LHLewis Howes
Really?
- SASadhguru
[laughs] Most yes, [laughs] because I was, I was on this binge of what is justice and injustice.
- LHLewis Howes
Huh.
- SASadhguru
So once you start looking what is justice and injustice, just about everything in the world looks unjust.
- LHLewis Howes
Everything makes you angry.
- SASadhguru
Small, small thing.
- LHLewis Howes
Yeah.
- SASadhguru
Yeah. Everything, anything unjust means it makes me angry, and everywhere I see, whether at home, in school, on the street, in the society, in the country, in the world, wherever I see, I think this is unjust, this is unjust, this is unjust. So much injustice. Always angry. [laughs]
- LHLewis Howes
Right. I mean, I feel like there's a lot, there's a lot of people in the, in America and in the world who a lot of things make them angry and there's a lot of injustice for people. So when, when did you shift and how did you come to that realization that this no longer works for you in your life?
- SASadhguru
See, it doesn't work for anybody
- LHLewis Howes
[laughs] That's true.
- SASadhguru
Not just for me. [laughs]
- LHLewis Howes
But for you personally, when did you realize? [laughs]
- SASadhguru
See, the reason why people think anger is some kind of a virtue, because they say righteous anger. All right?
- LHLewis Howes
Mm.
- SASadhguru
Right now, America is seething with anger, and they think it's righteous anger. This is simply because it takes some horrible thing to s- stimulate them into action. There's not enough love in your heart-
- LHLewis Howes
Mm
- SASadhguru
... to stimulate yourself into action. Something has to poke you, you must get angry, and then it propels you into action. So that kind of action sometimes will produce results, of course. But if you want genuine results which will be good for everybody, we must do it when everything is right. But when everything is little comfortable, nobody does anything. When something horrible happens, then we will get angry and propel ourselves into action. Right now, this propelling yourself into action with anger, how long will you keep it up?
- LHLewis Howes
Not, I mean-
- SASadhguru
You cannot keep it up forever
- 1:13:36 – 1:21:44
Growing Up Should Get Better: Filth as Fertilizer and the Body-Wide Mind
- SASadhguru
Today, somebody has to make you happy, somebody has to work hard to make you happy. S- at that time, somebody had to work hard to make you miserable. Today, somebody [laughs] has to make you, work hard to make you happy. The whole equation has gotten reversed. What is it? What is it that happened to you? You just grew up. If you grew up, life should become better when you grow up, isn't it? All other life, you see a little plant, when it grows up into a tree, does it become better or worse?
- LHLewis Howes
Becomes better.
- SASadhguru
It becomes be- everything becomes better. Only human beings are s- saying, "Oh, childhood was so fantastic. My adulthood is misery." Why? This must be the best time.
- LHLewis Howes
[Instrumental music]
- SASadhguru
Your old age must be the most fantastic time.
- LHLewis Howes
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- SASadhguru
If all this is there, how do I live clean? How do I live happy?
- LHLewis Howes
How do you eliminate the waste, the trash?
- SASadhguru
You don't have to eliminate the waste. Waste is very valuable.
- LHLewis Howes
Huh.
- SASadhguru
If you know, right now in this garden, they buy waste at a very enor- you know, a very exorbitant price.
- LHLewis Howes
Mm-hmm.
- SASadhguru
Because their waste goes into the public system, they have to buy waste from somewhere.
- LHLewis Howes
[laughs]
- SASadhguru
They have to buy filth.
- LHLewis Howes
To fertilize.
- SASadhguru
Yes.
- LHLewis Howes
Yeah.
- SASadhguru
So whether you turn your filth into a fertilizer-
- LHLewis Howes
Mm
- SASadhguru
... or you smear it o- on your face and walk around, that's your choice.
- LHLewis Howes
Mm.
- SASadhguru
This is why karma. So what kind of karma happened in my life till this moment is not always my choice. So many things have happened, but what kind of karma I perform right now in this moment is 100% my choice.
- LHLewis Howes
Mm-hmm.
- SASadhguru
Will I use this filth as manure and blossom into a wonderful fragrance, or will I smear it around me and walk around with filth?
- LHLewis Howes
Yeah.
- SASadhguru
This is the choice everybody has. When unpleasant things happen to us, which happens to everybody in some way, if you're living in the world, I'm saying.
- LHLewis Howes
Mm-hmm.
- SASadhguru
Unless you're dropped from somewhere else.
- LHLewis Howes
Right.
- 1:21:44 – 1:25:55
Car Ads, Comparison and the Joy of Beating Others
- SASadhguru
I say, "You come here to the yoga center. I'll make sure your boss, mother-in-law, wife, husband, nobody enters this place, just you. I'll give you a nice place to live, good food to eat. Nothing to do, just be happy, that's all."
- LHLewis Howes
Yeah.
- SASadhguru
You must be just joyful. I'll make random checks on you. If I find you unhappy or miserable, then I won't feed you because I don't believe in feeding misery.
- LHLewis Howes
[laughs] Hmm.
- SASadhguru
If you remain joyful, I will feed you for the rest of your life and take care of you like you're my prize guest. But if you show misery, we won't feed you. Well, you leave them in one room for 24 hours.
- LHLewis Howes
[laughs]
- SASadhguru
You will see in how many ways they'll twist themselves out is unbelievable. [laughs] Because when you're alone, if you're miserable, obviously you're in bad company, isn't it? [laughs]
- LHLewis Howes
[laughs] Right.
- SASadhguru
I'm with you, I'm miserable. I think it's because of this guy I'm miserable.
- LHLewis Howes
Oh.
- SASadhguru
Because of this guy I'm miserable. I'm sitting here alone and miserable. Now who?
- LHLewis Howes
Right.
- SASadhguru
[laughs] Who? Who is causing misery? [laughs]
- LHLewis Howes
How do we get out of that, though?
- SASadhguru
No, essentially one must understand human experience is caused from within, not from outside.
- LHLewis Howes
Right.
- SASadhguru
What we do, arrangements we do outside in the form of home, family, automobile, this, that, these are arrangements to facilitate our activity. They are not gonna make you happy or unhappy. But right now, the car sellers are telling you only this is joy, this mo- this car... I'm sorry, I'm not against any brand.
- LHLewis Howes
[laughs]
- SASadhguru
I like the brand. They say, "This car is joy." Another, somebody else says, "This car is love." Oh, all the best.
- LHLewis Howes
This is power. This is, yeah.
- SASadhguru
[laughs] Power is okay, car has power.
- LHLewis Howes
[laughs]
- SASadhguru
But where is love extruding from the engine-
- LHLewis Howes
Mm
- SASadhguru
... or joy extruding from the engine? All right? Power, all right.
- LHLewis Howes
Mm-hmm.
- SASadhguru
But right now, if you, uh, you know, this is something I've been noticing. It's only in recent times, probably last 10, 15 years. If you look at any car advert- I look at every advertisement, whether they're selling an automobile or a machine or a crane or an earthmover, because I'm interested in anything that works.
- LHLewis Howes
Mm-hmm.
- SASadhguru
Not that I'm gonna buy them. So when I look at it, car ads, nobody's telling you what's the engine, what's the transmission, what's the power, what's the torque. Nothing. They're talking about the leather. They're talking about the wood paneling.
- LHLewis Howes
Mm.
- 1:25:55 – 1:36:34
Limited Identity as the Root of Crime and the Case for a Cosmic Identity
- SASadhguru
See, uh, I see in America everybody keeps talking about family, family, family. But you've forgotten just as a, maybe a century ago? Yeah. Maybe a century ago or even 70 years ago or 50 years ago, if you said family it meant crime.
- LHLewis Howes
Why?
- SASadhguru
Because the families were running the crime, you know?
- LHLewis Howes
Oh, wow.
- SASadhguru
The Cosa Nostra.
- LHLewis Howes
Family crime, got you. Yeah.
- SASadhguru
They, they always refer to crime as family.
- LHLewis Howes
Hmm.
- SASadhguru
Because family is a crime.
- LHLewis Howes
Really?
- SASadhguru
[laughs] Let me come to that.
- LHLewis Howes
[laughs]
- SASadhguru
I know this will get me into trouble.
- LHLewis Howes
[laughs]
- SASadhguru
Let, let me come to it.
- LHLewis Howes
Explain it to me.
- SASadhguru
See, there is only one crime and there's only one evil in the world, that is limited identity. De- how much crime you will commit simply depends on how empowered you are.
- LHLewis Howes
Say it one more time. How much crime you ...
- SASadhguru
Commit simply depends on how empowered you are.
- LHLewis Howes
How empowered you are.
- SASadhguru
Yeah, yeah.
- LHLewis Howes
So do I wanna be-
- SASadhguru
If you, if you are highly empowered and your l- identity is very limited, you will do terrible things. So the most important thing is to enhance or to expand one's identity.
- LHLewis Howes
How do we do that?
- SASadhguru
See, for example, i- traditionally in the Yogi culture in India, before we start education for a child, the first and foremost thing is that he must take a cosmic identity.
- LHLewis Howes
A cosmic identity.
- SASadhguru
Yes.
- LHLewis Howes
What does-
- SASadhguru
He has to take that
- LHLewis Howes
... what does that, what does that look like? So if I'm a child-
- 1:36:34 – 1:40:12
Borders, Raising Children, and a Global Anthem
- LHLewis Howes
What would happen if we opened up every border in every country?
- SASadhguru
See, that would be possible only if there was no economic disparity.
- LHLewis Howes
Mm.
- SASadhguru
If there was no economic disparity, there were no national boundaries about two centuries ago.
- LHLewis Howes
Mm.
- SASadhguru
People could walk wherever they want. There were no visas and passports anywhere because economically, reasonably, everybody was in the-
- LHLewis Howes
What about race, though? Would people be, you know, held back by that?
- SASadhguru
Well, India, India is a classic example.
- LHLewis Howes
Mm.
- SASadhguru
If you, if you travel from north to south, every 50 kilometers people will look different.
- LHLewis Howes
Mm.
- SASadhguru
They dress different, they talk different, and they eat different. Every, every few kilometers you will see people are different, and we have no problem. That's wh- that's how it would have been.
- LHLewis Howes
Yeah.
- SASadhguru
Only because you protected yourself for too long, now race seems to be one big issue, right?
- LHLewis Howes
Mm. But the money disparity, you think, is the challenge, right?
- SASadhguru
It is economic disparity which is difficult to handle.
- LHLewis Howes
Yeah.
- SASadhguru
Right now, if you take away the boundaries of this country, maybe half the world it'll be right here in United States. And that will not be a solution-
- LHLewis Howes
Mm
- SASadhguru
... because you will become poor.
- LHLewis Howes
Right, right.
- SASadhguru
Okay?
- LHLewis Howes
Right.
- SASadhguru
United States will be poverty ridden-
- LHLewis Howes
Mm
- SASadhguru
... if that happens. But if you, uh, totally wall yourself out, then also you will become poor in a different way. So this has to be, first thing is, if your identity is little flexible, you will do things judiciously as it's necessary for the situation. An appropriate action. Not, our actions are never, ever absolute. Our actions are just about being appropriate to the situations in which we exist.
- LHLewis Howes
Yeah. If there's some parents watching or listening, and they're like, "Wow, this is very eye-opening, I've never thought of it this way." They've always raised their kids a certain way. Their kids are between-
- SASadhguru
See, th- this word, this is a word that I hear very often in United States, we don't hear this in India.
- LHLewis Howes
[laughs]
- SASadhguru
I was raised this way.
Episode duration: 1:40:13
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