3 Hacks To Manifest Success, Peace & Abundance In Your Life [MASTERCLASS] EP 1437

0:00This is what is happening to people's lives. They are trying to fix everything with their intellect. The harder they try, the more tatters they have become. These particularly Western societies have become such slaves of their intellect because of that. Welcome to the School of Greatness. My name is Lewis Howes, former pro athlete turned lifestyle entrepreneur. And each week we bring you an inspiring person or message to help you discover how to unlock your inner greatness. Thanks for spending some time with me today. Now let the class begin.

0:38Welcome to this special masterclass. We brought some of the top experts in the world to help you unlock the power of your life through this specific theme today. It's going to be powerful. So let's go ahead and dive in.

0:55Are we stressing our minds? No, there is an entire, there is a mind across this body. What is it that you call as a mind? A certain combination of memory and intelligence is mind. It's our whole body's mind. Yes. In yoga, we see physical body, mental body, energetic body, etheric body, it's body like this, everything is body. Because it is right across, it is not in any one place. Only intellectual activity is here, okay? Right now, because modern societies, particularly Western societies, have become such slaves of their intellect. Because of that, they think everything is here. Intellect works only with the data that you have gathered.

1:37You cannot function beyond your data. That means you will remain so small. Because even if you've read the libraries on this planet, what you know in terms of data is minuscule compared to what this cosmos is. With that minuscule, you think you're very intelligent because you're analyzing and processing. Anyway, all these people who think they're intellectually very smart are going to feel dumb, stupid in the next five years because your phone will be far more smarter than you. Already people are calling it a smartphone. See, why would you call somebody or something smart? Only because it's smarter than you, right?

2:15Right, yeah. Yeah. Otherwise you wouldn't, all right? So right now, too much dependence on intellect because our education systems are crafted like this, not exploding other dimensions of intelligence at all. See, intellect, if I ask you this simple question, would you like your intellect to be sharp or blunt? Choose, choose quickly, I'm going to bless you. Yes. Sharp. So essentially, intellect is like a knife. If you want to dissect something, it's very good. Yeah. So, now the only instrument that you have is a knife in your hand. You want to stitch your clothes. If you stitch your clothes with the knife, what will happen?

2:55You will be in tatters. This is what is happening to people's lives. They are trying to fix everything with their intellect. The harder they try, the more tatters they have become. With all this education, tell me, uneducated people are more unhappy or educated people are more unhappy in the world. It depends what type of education. No, generally illiterate people in the rest of the world, tribes and this and that, even in India, many, many people. Whenever I visit, I go to Guatemala almost every year and I visit small villages and the kids seem so happy. Yeah. Because they didn't go to school like me.

3:36They don't have much, but they have family, they have community. What do you mean they don't have much? I mean they don't have much in terms of the material world. They are not environmentally disastrous, that's what you're saying. Right, exactly, yeah. They don't have a lot in the material side of things, but they have a lot in their hearts, richness, connection, community, love, and they seem very happy. Essentially, uneducated people or illiterate people are happier than the educated people. With education, your life should have become better, isn't it? Unfortunately, they're becoming unhappy simply because they only have sharpened their knife.

4:12And a sharp knife in your hand and you're unconscious, you're cutting yourself all the time. All the time cutting yourself. That's painful. You don't need any outside help. You could stab yourself. Yes. See, people come to me and say, Sadhguru, my boss, he's horrible. My mother-in-law, she's not even human. My wife, she's such a pain. My husband like this. 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. You must be just joyful.

4:49I'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. If you remain joyful, I will feed you for the rest of your life and take care of you like you're my prized guest. But if you show misery, we won't feed you. Well, you leave them in one room for twenty-four hours, you will see in how many ways they'll twist themselves out, it's unbelievable. Because when you're alone, if you're miserable, obviously you're in bad company. Right. I'm with you, I'm miserable. I think it's because of this guy I'm miserable, this guy I'm miserable.

5:31I'm sitting here alone and miserable. Now who? Right. Who… who is causing misery? How do we get out of that though? No, essentially one must understand human experience is caused from within, not from outside. Right. 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 going to make you happy or unhappy. But right now, the car sellers are telling you only this is joy, this car... I'm sorry, I'm not against any brand. I like the brand. They say, this car is joy. Another, somebody else says, this car is love.

6:15Oh, all the best. This is power. This is, yeah. Power is okay. Car has power. But where is love exuding from the engine or joy exuding from the engine? All right? Power, all right. But right now, if you... you know, this is something I've been noticing, it's only in recent times, probably last ten, fifteen years. If you look at any car, I look at every advertisement, whether they're selling an automobile or a machine or a crane or an earthmower, because I'm interested in anything that works, not that I'm going to buy them. So when I look at it, car ads, nobody's telling you what's the engine, What's the transmission?

6:55What's the power? What's the torque? Nothing. They're talking about the leather, they're talking about the wood paneling, they're talking about the stereo. Are you buying a sitting room? You want to buy a drawing room or do you want a car? If I want a car, I would look at the engine, how it is made, what does it do? No, nothing. Only… Why is that? Because they're buying a car for neighbors and we. they're not buying a car because they love to drive a good machine. Yeah. It's always about being better than somebody else. Why do we obsess over that in general? And is that mostly in America or do you see that all over the world?

7:36No, no, it's everywhere. America kind of setting the, you know, path breaking. The standard. We're the best at trying to be the best. So this is unfortunate cultivation that is happening from kindergarten. If you are going to school, what your parents will say, you must be number one. If you are number one, what about all the other 30-40 kids who are there, they must be below you. They're losers. They're losers. So your joy is only in other people failing. When your joy is about other people's misery, that's not joy, that is sickness. Right now, the whole world is invested in this. It's not just America.

8:19America kind of displays it like that. Not that it's not there everywhere else in the world. Everywhere it's there. But here it's being shamelessly displayed. They are a little shy everywhere rest of the world. But still they got it. What would the world look like if we chose to lift everyone up and celebrate other people succeeding or being happy or whatever it looks like for them to succeed, what would the world look like? See, I see in America, everybody keeps talking about family, family, family. But you've forgotten just maybe a century ago. Yeah. Maybe a century ago or even 70 years ago or 50 years ago.

8:59If you said family, it meant crime. Why? Because the families were running the crime. Oh, wow. Costa Nostra. Family crime. Gotcha. They always refer to crime as family. Because family is a crime. Really? Let me come to that. I know this will get me into trouble. Explain it to me. See, there is only one crime and there is only one evil in the world. That is limited identity. How much crime you will commit simply depends on how empowered you are. Say it one more time. How much crime you... Simply depends on how empowered you are. How empowered you are? Yeah. Yeah. So, do I want to be… If you are highly empowered and your identity is very limited, you will do terrible things.

9:50So, the most important thing is to enhance or to expand one's identity. How do we do that? See, for example, traditionally in the yogic culture in India, Before we start education for a child, the first and foremost thing is that he must take a cosmic identity. A cosmic identity. Yes, he has to take that. What does that look like? So, if I am a child and you are teaching me this… Yes. So, the thing is, one thing is there is a mantra which says that, that he has to say it again and again. He has to look at the sky and say it, he look at the earth and say it, look at the air and say it, look at the fire and say it.

10:27all the elements of water and say it, because these are all the comp... composition of the cosmos. You look at empty space and say it, you look at water and say it, you look at fire and say it, you look at the earth and say it, so that you understand your identity is limitless. Why this is being done is... Oh, wow. Why this is being done is, education is seen as an empowerment. You should not empower a person who has a limited identity because he will cause havoc. I'll take the worst example which will get me into trouble. Sure. See, everybody talks about, you're not even supposed to mention this name, Adolf Hitler.

11:09Well, many people have been there who caused enormous pain to other human beings. But I don't think anybody managed to organize it, mechanize it and really deliver it like a factory of misery, like this man did, all right? It's a factory. Literally a factory of misery, manufacturing misery, properly organized. But do you think there aren't thousands or hundreds and thousands of people with the same mindset in the world? Absolutely. They are. Only thing is they're not empowered like him. Competence is the only thing that's lacking. Tyranny is there in people's mind. They're as much tyrants as Adolf Hitler.

11:52You may find them in a school teacher, you may find them in your parents, you may find them all around you in your neighborhood. Only fortunately they're not as potent as that man. That man is super competent. That is what the problem. So right now human competence becomes a terrible problem simply because you have a limited identity. So you invest your identity in a family, you invest your identity in a community, race, religion, nationality. Your relationships, your... Tell me, in the name of nations, in the name of race, in the name of religions, in the name of communities, how much, how many terrible things have we done in this world?

12:34It's still happening today. Leave what's happening today. Just look back in the last hundred years. All for someone's identity. Pride, country, city, state, religion, all these things. Just take 20th century. Okay, one century past. 21st century is just progressing now. 20th century, take it in the name of race. What all have we done to each other? In the name of religion. What all have we done to each other? In the name of nationality. What all have we done to each other? Just look back and see, we've literally killed half the world's population in 20th century. Because of identity. Yes. Of a philosophy, of an ideology.

13:12People have killed, all right? Right. So, limited identity and empowerment is a disaster. But we are continuously cultivating this all the time. So, I said family is crime because family is the first identity that you take. After that comes community, after that comes maybe race or religion or nationality. Right now nationality is reasonably the largest identity you're taking. Within this nation it looks nice that you're committed as an American to the well-being of America. But just see who is fighting who in this world. A good Indian is fighting a good Pakistan. A good Hindu is fighting a good Muslim.

13:55A good American fighting just about anybody.

14:03Because you never fought a war here, you go out and fight all over the world, all right? Well, you will find reasons as to why you fought that war and the heroic nature of it. I know people who lost their lives believing that they're doing the best thing in their life, yes. But I want you to know that man that you think is horrible, that terrorist, that miscreant, that militant or whatever you want to call him, that guy also, like a suicide bomber. See, anybody, for every human being or even for an ant, its life is precious. You try to catch him, see, he'll do everything possible to save his life.

14:40So somebody to throw away their life like this, obviously, what they believe in means much more than their life. Crazy. Right? It's not crazy. See, if they do it your way, it's heroic. If they do it their way, it's crazy. I'm not trying to support terrorism or something, I'm just telling you it's limited identity. Genocides have been committed because of limited identity. Nations have been raised down because of limited identity. Evil things we have done to each other on individual level, simply because of limited identity. So this is what yoga means. Yoga means union. That means you consciously obliterated the boundaries of your individual nature and your experience of life expanded.

15:25Once you sit here and you experience everything around you as a part of yourself, after that you do not need any morality, you do not need any commandments. Thou shall not cut that tree, thou shall not kill this man, thou shall not rob this. This is meaningless to you when you have experienced something as a part of yourself. So, the entire system of yoga, when I say yoga, I mean yoga, all right? Not the yoga that's happening in Los Angeles studios. I have nothing against them. But I'm saying we've reduced it to something just one aspect. To build an identity around… Yes. Twisting and turning your body, it's good for you.

16:03You'll become flexible and maybe healthy. That's good for you. But I want you to understand, would you not wish that Adel Fittler was a sick man instead of a healthy man? I would not wish that, yeah. I wish he was a healthy man. I would wish he was a healthy man. He was healthy. That's the problem I'm saying. You wish he was a sick man? Yeah. Wouldn't you be happy if he got cancer at 25 and he wouldn't kill all these people, wouldn't set up this factory? Yeah, I wish they wouldn't have died. I'm saying health becomes a curse. Competence becomes a curse. Individual intelligence becomes a curse.

16:38Why? Because you have limited identity. It's in that context I said family is crime. Family is a wonderful place where people are supporting each other. Although you cannot change conditions or circumstance, you don't have to let them control you we can't control what's going on outside but we can control what's going on inside you know and unfortunately i don't think many of us have been raised to really understand that yeah and it's a lack of understanding that's causing all our problems you know but how i mean how can you say that to someone who's like well i don't feel like i have control on the inside when it seems like everything has power over me what's something that could start you know you see the truth is for for that person that would be true that they're being controlled by outside we look at it this way we are the only creature on the planet that's totally disoriented in our environment.

17:45All the little squirrels, the birds, all the animals are completely at home in their environment. They blend in. You and I are totally disoriented in our environment. We've been given the mental faculties to create our own environment. However, we go right through school and we've never learned that. We have higher faculties and the average person has no knowledge of how to operate with them, how to develop them. We have perception, the will, reason, imagination, memory, and intuition. Now, those mental faculties, they're not just words. They're actually mental faculties that we can use to take control over our world and to create the environment that we want.

18:31But unfortunately, we grow up, we don't know that. We've been raised to live through by what we see, hear, smell, taste, and touch, our physical senses. And we've been raised to be controlled by what's going on outside. As little kids, will you listen to what I'm telling you? Will you look at this? And so it's all outside. We get our report card, and that tells us what kind of student we are. But it really tells us where our mind was at for a few minutes three weeks ago. Got nothing to do with who we are. So I think we're raised in ignorance, actually. There's a very small percentage of the population that have a reasonably clear understanding of who they are and what they're capable of doing, but the ones that do are in the minority.

19:23Our whole company has been dedicated to teaching that to people for the last 50-some years. Powerful. You talked about the five faculty, the five mental faculties, and I even touched on this briefly in our previous interview. But I'm curious, I have a new question for you. Which of the faculties typically is the hardest to, I guess, master or become efficient in to use to your advantage in a positive way? And which is the one that you feel like hurts us the most when we don't master? Well, I think reason is probably, it's the one that's spoken about by almost all the great leaders. Yeah. They've all been complete and unanimous agreement that we become what we think about.

20:11It's our reasoning factor that enables us to think. Ford says thinking's the hardest work there is, which is the probable reason so few people engage in it. Dr. Ken McFarland, who's gone for a long time now, but he was a great educator down in Kentucky. He one time said 2 % of the people think, 3 % think they think, and 95 % would actually rather die than think. Now, you know, that sounds cute, but it's true. If you stop and listen to what most people are saying, it's going to be fairly obvious they're not thinking. If you stand back and watch what most people are doing, it's fairly obvious they're not thinking.

20:57Or they would never say or do what they're doing. Most people today have their television on the news, and they're just soaking up all the stuff that's going on that's dominating the media right now. so they've become a play thing for what's going on outside and that's why they're living in such fear by consuming the media of whether it's true or accurate or not true you're you're being manipulated yeah it's not a matter of whether it's true or not is this how you want to spend your life just listening to that um that doesn't mean you should deny it it doesn't mean that you should say, well, that's all false.

21:43I don't know whether it's true or false. It's just bad news. I don't want to be involved in it. Am I aware that it's there? Well, you'd almost have to be dead not to be aware that it's there. But that doesn't mean you have to spend your time thinking on that. I would much rather activate some of my creative faculties and do something that's constructive. In a time under crisis and worry and fear for a lot of people, what should we be thinking about? How should we be using our imagination in different ways as opposed to fixating on the bad news? Well, I think a good idea right now would be spend some time thinking about how are we going to adapt when this is gone?

22:27Yeah. Because we're going to live in a different world. We're not going to be in the same world when this is all blown over than we're in right now. It's going to be quite different. People are not going to be rushing out to big events where there's a lot of people. They're not going to be rushing to restaurants. I think they're going to be very careful about what they do, where they think, and where they're going. I was listening to cynic and he said if you're a public speaker don't look for a stage for a little while because you're not gonna have one yeah now this also presents great opportunities it's for us for my company we're going online you know full speed ahead.

23:21Now, fortunately we built the studio four or five years ago. So You're prepared. We're equipped and we're ready. We can broadcast. We had a training class going in here just last week with about 300 of our consultants from all over the world. We had a three day training program for them and it was very effective. Online. We didn't have to come together. Yeah, yeah. We did it from right here. Yeah. I mean, you're known for doing these powerful transformational workshops in person. So for someone, I mean, it's very inspiring for me for someone at your age where would be the excuse of most people your age to say, well, I don't understand this technology thing, and I've been doing this way of business for so long.

24:08It's always worked this way, and I'm not going to try to reinvent or evolve and pivot and grow in this way. So it's really inspiring to see someone your age with your level of experience and say, you know what, I'm embracing it. Maybe I don't like it. Maybe you do like it, but you're embracing it and making the most of it as opposed to resisting. Because what happens when we start to resist in our life? What truly happens? Well, we resist it. We create it in our mind. That's all we think about. You see, I guess my age really has nothing to do with it, but I formed that attitude a long time ago.

24:45I didn't like the idea that when you've lived for so long, you've got to cut out, you've got to stop. I thought, I don't like that idea at all. First of all, I think we're, I believe we're here to do God's work. God's work is creation, you know, expansion, fuller expression, greater goodness. and if we're going to do that we're going to be working at it all the time we're here on this planet we never stop so age should have no bearing on it i had a couple of people asked me when we started to build this place we put a couple of million dollars into this and somebody said how old are you and i think i was probably 83 when they started to break ground they said you're 83 and you're going to spend$2 million building a studio?

25:39And I said, yeah, like, why not? I mean, you see, we let things that really have no concern, we let them bother us. We let them control us. Age is a dumb thing to let control you. It's our thinking that controls everything. That's the one point every great leader of the read on. We become what we think about. Well, what's a person thinking? I'm thinking if I get old, I got to stop. Well, then you'll stop. Or I'm thinking, well, if I've been here a long time, I've got a lot of experience. I want to utilize that experience to keep me going as long as I am here. I mean, anybody had their head screwed on right, a few years ago would know that this thing is going to take over.

26:27Yeah. And if we don't learn how to use it, we're toast. So, you know, I was doing seminars on my iPad because I can run it right on to monitor a note through to the universe. Yeah. What should we be thinking about the most right now in your mind? I think we should be thinking about our future. I think we should be thinking about the greatness, like it's the school of greatness. I think we ought to be thinking about the greatness that we've got locked up within us and bring it to the surface. Everyone has deep reservoirs of talent and ability within them. And they can bring it to the surface to accomplish anything they want.

27:10Now, to sit in fear and wonder what's going to happen, that is a dumb waste of your talent and your time. Yeah. And unfortunately, that's what most of the media is promoting right now.