Why Trying to Forget Something Only Makes It Stronger | Sadhguru

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0:41Can you define karma for the uneducated person like myself? On what karma truth is? I thought that was my title. You're stealing that from me. Uneducated guru is what people say, and now you're saying you're uneducated. Human. An interviewer. Anyway, about if you do bad things, bad things will come for you. This has been the way of the world. You don't need the word karma for that because people have been trying to control people, either with fear or guilt. This has been the basis of a whole lot of things happening in the world. If you do this, you will go to hell. If you do that, you will go to heaven.

1:27Otherwise, here itself it will happen to you, whatever. Or there is somebody up there with a stick waiting and they will whack you. All these kind of things. Essentially, you're trying to manage humanity, control humanity with fear or guilt. Fear and guilt, I see particularly in the Western world is like enormous, which is in the psyche of people in such a big way. Well, karma is not about fear, karma is not about guilt, karma is about liberation. It is about freedom. Because you are a composite, as you sit here, you are composite of various memories within you. Yes. It goes back, it goes way back.

2:16But let's start with amoeba in recent times. Okay. From amoeba to now, the whole evolutionary process in some way is recorded in this body. Otherwise, this body would be confused every other day whether this is human or not. This is 100 % clear that this is human, this is evolutionary memory, always there. There is genetic memory, there is karmic memory, there is articulate, inarticulate, you know, unconscious, subconscious and conscious memories. Right now when we say memory, people think only of their conscious memory, which is less than one percent of their actual memory. So the things they actually remember in their mind, the conscious memory.

2:56Yes, that is less than one percent of the actual memory. For example, I can give you a thousand examples like this which are manifesting in everybody's life. The simple thing is this. Let's say 500 years ago, how your great-great-great-grandfather was, you don't remember for sure. No. But his nose is sitting on your face probably. Right. My ears are his ears. Yeah. Yeah. Many things. Yeah. Even the color of the skin and the texture of the skin, everything. So the minutest details of what happened to your forefathers a million years ago, still living with you right now. Wow. It is living with you right now.

3:32Now all these memories, a composite or an amalgamation of all these complex memories is what you call as myself. What you call as myself, consciously, maybe just a small part of that, but that small part is happening because of this massive memory that is there. In, you know, like in India, we have in the yogic culture, we have this word called vasana. Vasana. Vasana. Vasana literally means smell. Yes. So we say your personality is just your smell. See, right now you walk there, there is jasmine. You recognize the jasmine by its fragrance. You'll recognize filth by its stink. So we recognize your personality by your vasana.

4:22What kind of vasana or what kind of smell is coming out of you right now depends on what kind of stuff have you gathered. So now karma means to understand that there is all kinds of things. Because when it comes to memory, you have no choice what to keep and what not to keep. You can't erase memory. You cannot. No matter how hard you try. Try and see. What you try to forget will be foremost in your mind. Amplified, yeah. Whatever you think you should not remember. Always people tell me, Sadhguru, my memory is bad. I say, just try to forget it. You'll see, you'll remember it always. Right. It's simple.

5:03So because this is the nature of the mind, you cannot, there is no subtraction and division in your mind. There is only addition and multiplication. Whatever you try to do, it'll be one more. If you try hard, it'll multiply. This is the nature of your mind.

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