Sadhguru Reveals Secrets to Life and Happiness

0:00Time is rolling away for all of us at the same pace. If you sit, it rolls away, if you sleep, it rolls away, if you do something, it goes away, if you don't do anything, it goes away. You're happier, miserable, it goes away. Time is running out for all of us. So it's only the energy that you can do different things with. If you bring your energies to a certain level of intensity and possibility, what somebody does in ten years, you may do it in money. This means if you live here for hundred years, it feels like in people's impact that you've created, it feels like you lived here for a thousand years, simply because you have managed your life energies in a certain way. So for me, a human being being impactful means, how conscious have you become? This is very important. Because if you're in compulsive cycles, then your energy gets wasted in so many things. If you observe people in a day, let's say let's take twenty-four hours, in that anyway

1:04most people by prescription in America they sleep for eight hours. So eight hours means one third of life is gone. In the remaining two-thirds they have to eat, they have to you know shower, bathroom, this, that, all this, another two, three hours gone. So literally fifty percent of life is gone, daily basis, just for basic maintenance of this life. Fifty percent of the time is gone in maintenance, remaining fifty percent what they have. If you look at every single move that they may make with their body, their thought process, their emotions, you will see a whole lot of it is happening in compulsive cycles. For in other words, if you are little sensitive to life, you will realize you are the biggest issue in your life. You are never the issue in your life. I'm not the issue. My thought, my emotion, my body is never the issue.

2:06My thought, my emotion, my energy and my body are my instruments of function. They are not impermanence in my life. But I would say for ninety percent of the human beings, their own body, then the compulsions of the body, the compulsions of their thought, the compulsions of their emotions are ruling them most of the time. So when you yourself are a problem, well you are on self-help. Your joy and misery comes from within you. But now you can look at everything joyfully. What is a problem? Try to find a solution to it. Or you can look at everything with great sense of misery and you become part of the problem. This is a choice you have. Either you become part of the solution or part of the problem. If you are joyful, you will become part of the solution. If you are miserable, you are also part of the problem, isn't it?

3:09You could also become the source of problem for somebody. But see, all this is happening because people are not conscious that they are mortal. They think other people die. They don't know consciously that I will die. As I sit here, my clock is ticking away. What is ticking away is not the clock. Life is just ticking away. As you sat here, both of us are thirty minutes closer to our grave, yes? If you are conscious of this, you would manage your life in the best possible way. See, the problem with every generation is the previous generation, things the next generation is all confused. It's not true. It's not true. It is just that the older generation is not able to come to terms with the new possibilities that the next generation is exhibiting. But one concern is physically, mentally, the next generation, the generation that's coming

4:14up now seems to be much weaker than the previous generations, especially physical strength I am saying, because I am not talking about you being a muscle man or something, but this is weakening of the species, which is dangerous over a period of time. You can maybe, after some time, only two thumbs will be living because the only thing they do is text, they will be drawing big thumbs, but nothing is growing in them. So I feel the youth of today should get little more in terms of physical activity, little more into nature, maybe Climb of Mountain, maybe swim in the lake. How will a young person gain strength, courage, learn to handle many things if you don't do something little unpredictable? All human experience comes from within, isn't it? I don't know what kind of geniuses start these things. I know in America there must be a million books telling you how to, you know, milk happiness

5:19from something else or somebody else. But all human experience is generated from within. What comes from within you must be the way you want it, isn't it? Isn't that simple enough? I am asking you. What comes from around you? May not be the way you want it. But what comes from within you must be the way you want it. If whatever happens within you, the way you want it, will you be blissed out or miserable? When you understand life as a race, if you are in a race, what is objective? You must reach the finish line, quick, isn't it? What is the finish line of your life? There you have it. This may not be a conscious process, but life within you is understanding it like that. Whether you are conscious of it or not, any human being. Right now if you make yourself miserable, you must understand you are sending a message

6:19to every cell in the body that I don't want to live. You might not have articulated it in your head yet, but when you become miserable, you notice suddenly your body seems heavy and it's like, doesn't want to get up from this chair. When you're happy, you're willing to bounce at everything and do everything bend backwards if necessary. Why this is happening is the message is going to every cell in the body, this guy wants to die. They are all thinking, okay, what can we do to help him? That by then of course you'll recover. So you want to die, you want to live, you want to die, you want to live, the body is getting confused because you must understand this is a very intelligent body, sticking instructions from you. Every cell in the body has a normal sense of memory and intelligence. If you keep sending wrong messages, if they act, you did. Because you're sending contradictory messages, you're not dead, you're half dead.

7:24You can give it any number of exotic names. Essentially you have turned your intelligence against yourself. See you just see, you look at your own picture when you have five years of age, it's like this. Slowly it's becoming like this. What is it? You're dying in installments. The more conclusions you make, the less alive you become. This is all that's happened to people. They call this knowledge. This is not knowledge. This is just conclusions that you're drawing about everything. See with all this scientific exploration, the fact is that even today we do not know one single atom in its entirety. We know how to use them. We know how to use everything on this planet, but we don't know anything about anything. For 90 percent or 99 percent of an atom is empty. We don't know what that emptiness contains. Over 99 percent of the cosmos is empty.

8:26We don't know what that is. So this is like I give you a million piece jigsaw. But you found, in your hands, you have only three of them. With this three you make a picture and you're euphoric that you made a picture. Well, I'm sorry. There are a million pieces to this. I'm not interested in how much somebody is doing. I'm very interested in how they're doing it, because that's what changes the quality of who we are. Because the content of our life will not change our life. It is the context of our life, which changes our life.