The REAL Reason You're Unhappy In Life & How to Overcome It

30:31What is the easiest way then to shift being a director of drama to a director of a pleasant experience? That is also drama, I'm saying. But it's a better drama. See, whether you want a comedy or a tragedy, it's your choice. Yeah, it's a better drama. There are people who enjoy tragedies. If they like it, it's fine. But they want to have pleasantness and they're having unpleasantness. That is not acceptable for me. Yes. You must be doing what you want within yourself. Around yourself is not all yours. There's a whole world whose opinion, whose intentions, everything matter. Around us is not all us.

31:11Everybody has a stake, isn't it? But within myself, how I keep myself is my business. Nobody can intervene in this. That itself, your dream is not happening the way you want. How will your life happen the way you want? Yeah. So, for all this, the fundamental is, we have not tasted life. We're misunderstanding thought and emotion as life process. What is life process then? Are you alive or no? I believe so in this world. You believe so or you're really… I believe I'm alive, yeah. You believe or it's true? Depends what you consider is true. No, no, no. Let's come to this. Do you believe you have two hands or you have two hands?

31:56I have two hands. Yes. But you believe many other things. Why? You are a bull. We all are, I guess, right? Don't include me.

32:08I'm saying, why don't we become straight enough, sincere enough? What I know, I know. What I do not know, I do not know. Yeah. Isn't it good like that? Yeah, I think so. So, what do you really know? I know I'm a blessed human being. I have a beautiful life. Who told you this? I did. So, you believe? Yes. No, that means you don't know. I also know there's a lot that I don't know and that's why I constantly ask questions. That is fine. Yeah. You don't know. What do you know I'm asking? About what? About life? Because that's all that is there? What I know is that I'm a grateful human being. That I was born, that I'm here, and I want to experience a beautiful life.

32:58And that's what I know. See, all that will change. If I put a nail in your foot, it'll all change. You won't be grateful, you'll be hateful. Eh, I don't know. I've had a lot of challenging moments that... Challenging moments, but nobody nailed you. A lot of broken bones, a lot of... That you did yourself. Some people did to me. I've had a lot of pain. And I've had to learn how to navigate. No, no. Please look at this in a more fundamental way. Yes. What I'm saying is, I am a joyful human being. I am a miserable human being. I am a grateful human being. This is all things that you make up in your head.

33:35Yes. Good. You made up some pleasant things. I'm happy about that. That's good drama. Yes. But this drama is playing upon the fundamentals of you being a life, isn't it? Yes. What do you know about that? Because that is the greatest phenomena that's happening in this universe – life. And you're that? What do you know about that? I know that I'm alive. Thank you.

34:05Yes, you know that you're alive, fortunately. That's because you're that much conscious. If you become totally unconscious, you wouldn't even know that. But now the question is, what is the nature of your life? Is this like a philosophical question for my life? No, no, it's a factual question. What is the nature of my life? What is the nature of your existence, I'm asking? I'm not asking, say you're misunderstanding the life situations as life. Yes. No, life situations are a consequence of things that we do and do not do. Right? Yes. I'm asking, right now you said you gathered this body, you gathered this mind, you gathered this clothes, you gathered this studio, you gathered many other things – people, relationships, family, this, that.

34:53Everything you gathered. Why? All of this to sustain and make this life good. Yes. When I say life, don't think in terms of so many years. Because you're here and alive. Yeah, that's right. Alive. This life. I'm talking about life as you, not life as a situation. The word life is very misunderstood. When you say life, people think you're talking about their home, their car, their dog or their office or their business or their money. No, no. I'm talking about you. These are all accessories. We need accessories to facilitate many things in our lives. What I need, you may not need. What you need, I may not need.

35:35But we all make accessories as it is necessary for our lives. Some people make too many and they'll have to carry it on their head. What do you know about life as such? The life that you are. What do I know about my life? No, no, don't. About life. Life that you are, not the life that you do. My being? Call it what you want. I'm just calling it life. Yeah. What do I know about my life? I'm calling about, say I'm just you. Let's say you. Me personally. I mean, I thought I'd try to tell you that I feel like I'm living a beautiful life. No, that's all your idea. That's in your head. Okay. I guess I'm not sure what the answer is.

36:16I mean, my life is, I feel like I'm living a blessed, beautiful life. I feel like I'm here to fulfill a purpose. and I'm trying to… See, these are all things you're making up in your mind. I'm blessed, I'm beautiful. Versus how should I be making it up or explaining it? No, no, you can make up whatever you want. I said I'm glad you're making up pleasant things. See, it's like this. Yeah. Suppose you built a castle in the air. Mm-hmm. Or let's go with this. Just look at my little finger and try to rebuild it in your mind. Okay. It'll take a lot of effort. Only a fine artist can do it, isn't it?

36:53Because he has that level of keen observation of this little finger. Small thing in the universe. But if I ask you to build a little finger exactly like this, you will be… Very challenging. No, very, very challenging, you can't do it. Some great artist may have the keenness to see this finger exactly and create it. But now, using your imagination, you built a castle in the air. Yes. Every brick in full detail. I look at it and say, fantastic. Luis, fantastic. What a wonderful castle you built. But after some time, you started thinking it's real. Then we say, you're neurotic. After a while, you started living in that castle.

37:43Then we say, you're psychotic. Right. Then a third person will come after some time and starts collecting rent for that castle. We call him a psychiatrist. With all due respect for all the doctors who help people who are unwell, that's a different matter. But essentially, you lose the boundaries of what is memory, what is imagination, what is experience of life, all mixed up. Can you live without your memory? No, without your memory you don't know a damn thing. Can you live without imagination? No, you can't create anything without your imagination. Are they a problem? No. But if you do not know what is memory, what is imagination, what is present experience of life, everything is mixed up and it's a mess.

38:37So you living well is a chance. When you live by chance, essentially it means you're living accidentally. When you live accidentally, anxiety is normal. Suppose you sit in your car and the steering wheel has become a little funny. If you do this, it'll go this way. You being anxious is normal or no? Yeah. Right now, that's all it is, life. The steering wheel is funny for most people's lives. If they turn this way, it'll go that way. Their mind itself, not even life. Their mind, if they want to think about this, it'll think about that. With this mind, if you're not anxious, you're a miracle. That's true.

39:22Do you feel anxiety ever? Look at me and tell me. You tell me. Doesn't look like it much. but there's got to be some moments right in the hospital or doing the surgery did you feel any anxiety or were you just at peace you must talk to my doctors but did you always have that ability to navigate your mind's steering wheel to stay more present in this moment versus having anxious thoughts or dramatic thinking um where you were kind of all over the place in your mind See, human intelligence as a faculty is a fantastic thing only if it takes instructions from you. Otherwise, it's a terrible thing.

40:05That's all human beings. That's why I said if you had the brain of an earthworm, you would be fine. Be happy. That's why we need inner engineering. Definitely. But most people don't know how to navigate their mind. See, they don't have to know all that. It's too complex a mechanism. You're not going to... See, it's like this. Well, you've given up a watch, probably you're on the phone. I had it this morning, but I... Okay. Right now, it's a simple watch. Yes. But if you open it, there are hundred wheels in it or more, I don't know how many. So, if I take out all the wheels and keep it here, can I put it back?

40:45Yeah. No. It might take time. Even if you have an instruction manual, most of us can't do it. Right, right. I mean, if you get an engineer who's an expert at it, over time... That guy can do it, obviously he built it. You can, yeah, yeah. Yes. You... Right, right. His wheels will spin all over the place and you'll be lost. Of course. Such a simple thing, all right. Uh-huh. This is not some rare computer or this is not some super something. This simple watch which has been around for a few hundred years and you can't put it together. You're talking about human mechanism. Right. The most sophisticated and complex mechanism on this planet.

41:27Every thing, supercomputer also is a drop out of this. Yes? Yes. Everything that we have done is a small drop out of this one. So, you don't try to understand this. You'll just learn to operate it. You have a phone. You don't know how it works. No idea. You know how to use it. It makes your life. At least that much you must learn. To engineer that is another level of application. We shouldn't even talk about it at this level. No. Because that's another level of application. A learning to operate it. We should learn. Yes. If you don't know that, then even your phone can be a big nuisance. You call your friend and it calls the President of the United States.

42:12You're in trouble or no? Yeah. But most people don't know how to operate it. Why do you think we haven't been taught how to operate it? That's the whole thing. There's no attention about anything inward. We think we conquer the world outside, everything will be okay. Yes. You can enslave the whole world and you could be still more miserable than a slave. It's happening. The richest people are going around with the longest possible faces. Just look at it and see. I mean, you were asking me about the nature of life. I'm trying to understand. what would you say is the nature of life for you? See, you know you gathered the body, at least now, intellectually.

42:51Yes. Experientially, it may not be so. At least intellectually, you understand this is an accumulation. This is a piece of planet which will go back one day. We wish to complete a full cycle. We don't want to go untimely. Yes. In India, there are only two kinds of deaths in the yogic culture. Sumrityu, akalamrityu. This means timely death, untimely death. In the West, people think if they are in pain, it's one kind of death. If they have medical attention, another kind of death. Family is around, another kind of death. Died alone, another kind of death. No, we don't see it like that. We just see timely death and untimely death.

43:35Timely means your karmic system, your information has found its… It has found its full cycle and now you come to that place and any human being will become ready to die. But when these things are desires and longings are still on, if it comes, you will struggle. So, right now you're cultivating a whole society where doesn't matter, even if you're 85… It's untimely. Yeah, it's… No, no, I am not killing you it. Yeah, yeah, yeah. You're 85, if you go and sit on the street, if a young woman is walking, if you say… Wow, see how young he is. Fantastic, he's still romantic. No, it's inappropriate. At 18, you did that, it's all right.

44:33It's part of that stage of life. Yes. But by now, you should have looked beyond these things. But still, if you do the same thing, it's appreciated. That means you are neither preparing the world or human beings to get older, they can't get old gracefully. Dying is out of question gracefully. Struggle and helpless way of dying. So, only thing is people start telling you stories, don't worry, you will go to heaven, you will go to heaven. This happened. Can I tell you a little story? Sure. Shankar and Pillai and his wife were driving after 25 years of marriage. They crashed the car. He died, He went to heaven.

45:17His wife was injured after three weeks. She died and she went to heaven. Then she went shanku looking for him and she ran towards him. He said, stop. The vow was only till death do us a part. The deal is over. Death do us a part, now you're still following me. So, I'm saying your idea of heaven is a childish understanding of life. Your idea of heaven is there is a better place than here to live. If you think there is a better place than California to live somewhere else, please go today, why are you waiting? Hello, suppose I go and take the whole place, what will you do? This idea is a crime that people are telling you there is a better place to live.

46:10this is creation. If you believe in God, this is God's creation. If this is not a good place, which other place is better than this? Heaven and hell is a question of your experience. If you sit here blissed out, you think you're in heaven in a black room like this? If you sit here in distress, this feels like hell.

46:37Distress and joy comes because either you're sitting here absolutely willingly or unwillingly. If the best things in the world are done to you when you're unwilling, will it become your hell or no? Yeah, become hell. Yes. Yeah. It's only if you're doing things willingly, if you're sitting you're absolutely willingly, Every breath becomes heavenly. This is all it is. Is life happening willingly or unwillingly? If life has to happen absolutely willingly, there should be no yes, no, yes, no. It's yes and yes to life. To life and death you are yes. Then you live here willingly. The fear of death will never avoid death.

47:26It'll only stifle life. Let's say that one more time. The fear of death. See, the fear of death will not ward off death. It will stifle the life process. I don't want to die. I don't want to die. Will you not die? You will not live, that's all. Yes. You're not riding a motorcycle.

47:49The motorcycle. That's interesting. But why do so many people fear death then? And they live life afraid that they're going to die versus fully living their lives. And I'm not saying you should risk everything and do dangerous things. No, no. That's not the point at all. The point is not about inviting death. Right. You don't have to invite death. Many aspects of life, you have to strive to make those things happen. To educate, you must strive. Many things to build a family you have to strive, to build a nation you have to strive, to build well-being and wealth for yourself and everybody around you you have to strive.

48:38Everything needs application and planning and works. Death is super efficient, you don't have to do anything. It happens. It will come and it will happen perfectly. You can't improve upon it. Life is such, no matter how you do it, there is a better way to do it. Yes or no? Yeah. Whichever way you do it, if you are a sincere human being with a certain sense, you can see however you have done it, you could have done it better. Yeah. But with the death, you can't improve on it. It's perfect. When it happens, it's perfect. So, it doesn't need your assistance, nor your welcome, nor your invite. It's going to happen.

49:29It will anyway come. See, other things you may do or you may not do in life. Death is one thing you will certainly do. So, how can you breed a whole civilization without even telling them what is the nature of your existence? The fundamental nature is your mortal, that means you're on a limited amount of time and energy. Time you can't stop, you can't break, you can't rewind. But energies you can make it more and more exuberant. If you make your energies truly exuberant, you will learn to ride the cycles of time. If you ride the cycles of time, then your life becomes a dance. Otherwise, the cycles of time will crush you like a mill.

50:14Now you see face becomes long. Most human beings, almost everybody who's here, when they were six, seven, eight years of age, their faces were like this. What were they jumping about? Nothing. Life. No, no. Life. Exuberance of life. Now why have they become like this? Cycles of time has crushed them, the mill. It's a mill. It crushes you if you don't learn how to ride it. Very few are as exuberant as they were as children even today. Others are all becoming grave. Grave means what? Either they're going to it or they came out of it. I don't know which one.

51:06Was there any lessons for you from the last year, from the surgery years or from this, you know, closeness to death, maybe? No. I've always lived like that. Yeah. I'm always living like that. I know. See, this is like this. You're breathing? Yes. You're just agreeing with me. Check and tell me. Are you breathing? Yes. You are. How many moments in a day are you aware of this? Not many. That's what. Unless I'm focused on it, yeah. Yes. This is inhalation. exhalation, inhalation, exhalation, inhalation, exhalation. Next inhalation did not happen.

51:54Where's Lewis? No trace of the guy. Search where you want, you won't find him. You can imagine all kinds of rubbish but you won't find that guy. Yes or no? See how fragile it is. One exhalation went out, next inhalation did not come back, boof, gone. So, you are playing yo-yo with life, in and out. In yoga, we say inhalation is life, exhalation is death. If you want to look at it the other way, see, when you were in your mother's womb, you were drowning in her fluids. She didn't let you breathe. No. Of course, she put a pipe so that you got everything you needed. Oxygen, yeah, but you want to breathe it, yeah.

52:41No, oxygen also she gave you. Yeah, that's true. But not breathing, you're drowning. So, when you came out, you still don't know how somebody lifted you by the legs and slapped you on your backside? Start crying, yeah. No, no. First thing you did was a gosh puff inhalation. The first thing you did in your life is inhalation. What do you think is the last thing you'll do in your life? Exhalation. Exhalation. If you exhale, if next inhalation does not happen, everybody says you're dead. Whether you're dead or not, you don't know. But at least the world thinks, the doctor thinks you're dead. Death is not an incident or a one-time happening.

53:29It is happening. As we are living, we are dying. one day it will reach a certain graduation level. This doesn't mean everything is over. Body becomes inhospitable for life. Water was soil became food. When it was soil, could you eat it? I guess. You can eat soil? I mean, you could eat. Technically, it's not going to taste good. Really? Soil? Try and see. Yeah. It's not going to taste good. you could try and see. No, it's not that easy. You can't eat it, you can't digest it. I mean, you can't, yeah, it's not nutrients, but you can put it in your mouth. You cannot get what you need to build a body.

54:14The same soil became a carrot or an apple or something else, a bird or an animal or a fish, something it became, the same soil. Now suddenly it nourished your body. Yeah. But if you eat a piece of carrot, does it look like you? No. Does it become you? It becomes a part of you. The nutrients... How did you get this? How many kilograms are you? 230 pounds. I don't know what that is. Whatever that is. Yes. 230 pounds is about... Double you, you know. 100 kilograms, let's say. Yeah, yeah. These 100 kilograms, where did it come from? From your mother? Your parents are very stingy people. They didn't give you a million cells, they gave you one each.

55:02One. How stingy. They would have given you a million each. No, only one. And then multiply. Rest of it is where? Rest of it is where? From here, building. Hundred kilograms. You got it from the planet. Yes? Yes. It's soil. So, this soil where it became food and it became you, if you put it back again, it becomes soil. So, as far as your body is concerned, you just a pop-up and you'll pop back. But to gather so much of body and mind, there must be something more fundamental, isn't it? Right now, let's not give it names, we'll call it you. Okay. You exist or no? Yes. You exist. You may not know what is the nature of the existence, but you have no doubt about whether you exist or not.

55:57Can you see me? Yes. Are you seeing me or your eyes are seeing me? You're seeing me through the window of your eyes. If you close the window, you don't see me. Right. If you open the window, you see me. But you are there, isn't it? Yes. It's not the instruments of eye which are seeing me. You are looking at me through the visual apparatus. Like a telescope, we are looking. We are looking. Telescope is not looking. Just like that, your eyes are not looking. You are looking. Yes? Yes. Hundred percent in your experience or no? Yes. Yes. So, you are there. whatever damn thing you are, but you are there.

56:42Right. So don't assume things. You are there, that's important. You gathered the body, you gathered the mind, you gathered many things. You think it's blessed, it's cursed, it doesn't matter what the hell you think. You can think whatever you want. You think pleasant things, it's good for you. You think unpleasant things, you'll suffer and you'll also make everybody suffer because you'll do unpleasant things. when you're feeling unpleasant, you'll share it one way or the other, isn't it? So, right now, when we say death, as I said, we call the crematorium kāyanta sthanam, where the body ends. Body ended, did you end or not?

57:26That's a big question. The soul, where's the soul going? Oh, well, those two souls you have fear, these will go. No, the inner soul. How do you know there is one? You're given a lot of fiction. You don't think we have a soul? I'm not saying anything. I'm saying do not assume anything because if you assume one thing and the next one and the next one will come, you will become hallucinatory. Death is not a psychological process. It is existentially true, isn't it? Yes. So, don't apply your psychological imagination and create a fairy tale. I have a soul. Soul means it has to go somewhere. Where will it go?

58:08If you're religious, of course, it'll go to God. If you're a satanic thing, it'll go to devil. Some nonsense. So, what do you believe? Is there a soul? Why? You're again going back to this. Let me settle this for you. Okay. See, the word believe means I don't know, but I myself. Okay. So, is there a truth that you do know? The truth is this, I know or I don't know. Okay. This is a fact of life, isn't it? If you know, it is fantastic. If you don't know, there is a possibility. But if you don't know and you believe something, you destroy the possibility. Well, you could say you know something, but it may not be true.

58:52I mean, how do you know? That means you don't know. You could think it's true. See, you can think whatever you want. Exactly. That's why I'm saying, do not misunderstand psychological reality as existential. It's not existentially true, whatever. You think I'm blessed, I'm cursed, this is all your head. You can do what you want in your head. You have been given so much freedom, most people are misusing it to cause harm to themselves and to others. But this is intelligence going wonky. this is inability to manage your own intelligence. It's turning against you. You can call it stress, anxiety, this, that, but essentially your intelligence has turned against you, isn't it?

59:36So, leave that condition. That's a medical condition. I don't want to handle it here. I'm not a doctor. Sure. What is true about us after death? See, as life is a process, from the moment of conception, cells multiplied. They gave you only one cell each. It multiplied, become a mass of cells, a ball of cells. Maybe like your American football. Yes. Not like a soccer ball. Right, right. Maybe like this. Yeah. Then life got infused somewhere between 40 to 48 days, life gets into the cells. What these cells mean is they're creating a housing and welcoming a life. Life got infused into it. Generally, within 48 days, it happens.

1:00:30In rare cases, it'll go beyond that. Max is generally 54 days. Beyond that, it won't go. But if somebody crosses, if in a womb life has not happened in 48 days means most probably this woman is going to deliver in some way an extraordinary human being. Only that kind of being can delay that process. All others will jump into it the moment they get the opportunity. Like in everything in life. the whole lot of people if the moment they get something they'll jump into it. They got a job, they've got it. Because it provides for their food and beer and cigarette. I'm talking American life. Sure, sure, sure.

1:01:15I don't drink or smoke but yeah. Because even the beggar on the street is saying please five dollars for my beer. Yeah. In India if a beggar says that they'll throw him out of the damn place. You want to drink and you want to ask money from me. But here it's normal. Yeah. All right. So, whatever it is, lot of people just jump at the first opportunity. Somebody with little wiser waits, looks at various things. So, the same is happening at the fetus level. There are only certain lives which wait and choose. All others jump at the first opportunity where there's a housing which is hospitable to life, life just jumps in.

1:02:05What is this life? See, when we sit here, this is my body, that's your body. Unless sometime in future, hundred years after I'm dead, when they bury you, I'm giving you hundred years extra. Yeah, thank you. If they bury you in the same place, then you know this body, that body, same soil. Yes. But right now, that's your body, this is my body, hundred percent. This is my mind, that's your mind. Here and there we may overlap, but this is my mind, that's your mind. But there is no such thing as your life and my life. What is it? Life is a universal happening. You captured a little bit, I captured a little bit.

1:02:46It's like we are blowing soap bubbles. The soap bubble happens because of memory. There are eight types of memory. There is elemental memory. Elements come together. In the sense, right now, upon this planet, water, air, temperature, earth and ether or we call it akash or space, these five elements have to come together for anything to happen. This is elemental memory is there, how these come together. because it comes together in a trillion different ways. So, within this life, it's come together in a certain way. That elemental memory is there. Next thing is evolutionary memory. You know, modern science is talking about you were an amoeba a long time ago and this happened, that happened, whatever.

1:03:39Now you're Lewis Howes. Howes. Howes. Like how's it going? Not like house. Not like house, but how's your day? Okay. Okay. House. Dr. Raghuram Gaurabhya House. Okay. Now you're loose house but not me, scientists are saying you're an amoeba. Some whatever ten million years ago, a billion years ago, I don't know what, something. So the memory of all this is there in this, that is why this doesn't get confused. If you eat dog food in the next three months, you will not become a dog. No. Because the memory is hundred percent, this is a homo sapien. You feed it whatever you want This will only be a human being It'll stay human form Suddenly it'll not grow horns or a tail or something Because of the nature of food that you eat Because evolutionary memory is intact Next thing is genetic memory Genetic Genetic memory You everyday liked What do you like?

1:04:39Indian food? Chinese food? Mexican food I do love Mexican You can eat as much as you want But you will not become Mexican. No. Your features will not change, I'm saying. No. You eat only Mexican food. Will you become an amigo? No, you remain a gringo. They call me the poppy gringo. So, because there is genetic memory, it will stay that way. Next comes karmic memory. This is very, very important. This is what gives you a certain flavor and a character to who you are. You may have certain type of genetics, certain type of evolutionary memory, but it's karmic memory which shapes you as a, for lack of words I'm saying, as a person.

1:05:30Persona happens. Your personality, your energy, your… Yes, your persona happens. In this, the influence of genetic memory, evolutionary memory, everything is very much there. But it has taken a shell. It is like, yeah, we blew a bubble. Now, if you and me start blowing soap bubbles, your bubble came like this, my bubble came like that. Then I say, see, the big bubble is my bubble. The little one is yours, the big one is mine. But it went poop. The bigger it is, the easier it blows. Once it goes poop, then I don't say, see, that's my air, that's my air, that's my air. This is the same case with life.

1:06:13There is no such thing as your life and my life. There's your body, my body, there's my mind, your mind. But there is no such thing as my life and your life. It's just life. You captured some, I captured some. But the significance of life is in how much life can you take in to the bubble? Is it a big bubble or a small bubble? You have a small bubble, you work as hard as you want. Maybe you'll become a billionaire, but you will not be significant in your own experience. This is something one has to learn. If you sit here, not because of what you have, not because of what you're doing, simply if you sit here, there is a profound significance to your existence.

1:07:02This must happen. Only then a human being can just close eyes and implicit. Otherwise, for you to become significant, you have to have so many things. Akwir more. Akwir more or do more, something. Restlessness. This restlessness is coming because you're not blown a big enough bubble. Life is small. The wall is thick. Before you go on to the next four, I think it is, I'm curious, for those that have, I don't know, ambitions, dreams, goals and they want to be a creator in life and they want to create things that are inspiring to them and their imagination to bring it to life, how can people then bring to life their creations if there's something they want to do in a profound way without losing the inner significance.

1:07:58How can they do it and still be significant? Either way, if you see what I'm saying. Not just for significance, safe, but because it's... If there is no profoundness of experience, there will be no profoundness in activity. How can it be? You can't do anything that you are not. You may do many things which other people will applaud. Mm-hmm. Too many people are there like that in LA. Yes. Whole world is applauding them, but they're empty, hollow shells of life. It's true. Too many. Uh-huh. Their fame and name and stuff is because of something else which is working. Mm-hmm. Right now. I'm not saying it's wrong.

1:08:44Yeah. But if outside life is working well, it's very important that you make sure that your interiority becomes beautiful. Beautiful does not mean, I'm blessed, I love you, I'm full of love, I'm full of joy. That's not the point. Life has become significant because it is the most significant thing that's happening in the universe, isn't it? Life. Life. Yes. And you capture little. If you capture little more, suddenly your experience of life will be very significant and profound. Once it's profound, you don't worry what to create, what not to create. Anything that you touch will work. But what works, what doesn't work, how big it becomes, how big it doesn't become, is not all ours.

1:09:35It is the times in which we exist. See, many great beings have come. Like a Jesus came a 2 ,000 years ago. How many people could he speak to? Twelve people. And one idiot freaked on him anyway. Gautam Buddha came. Two dozen people, maybe a hundred, two hundred people he spoke. A Krishna came, a glorious human being, by any standards. Only one person he could speak and that fellow is full of doubt. Today, you and me can sit here and talk to the entire world. Last year, and this is not to brag about ourselves, just to say what kind of times we're living in. In 2024, our video reaches 5.23 billion B.

1:10:27Amazing. Just imagine if Buddha had this, Krishna had this, Jesus had this. Boom. So, I'm saying we are at such times where even an ant can do what an elephant cannot do. That's the kind of times we are in. This is the first time we can sit here and address the whole humanity which never ever was possible in the history of humanity. When we are at such time, If we do not transform individual human beings and human societies, it's a crime. What is missing is there's no love in our heart, that's all. If that one thing is there, this capability that technology and other things has given us, we would use it but people are using technology to kill each other.

1:11:19Yes. How many ways? I can laser burn up your brains from ten kilometers distance. People are proud of this. No, across the world you can transform human beings. This is very important. Yes. Because we have turned miracles into disasters. Since we're turning disasters into miracles, we have turned miracles into disasters. For example, human mind, human intelligence, isn't this the greatest miracle? What a disaster it's become for most human beings. That is the source of their suffering, isn't it? Yes. I must tell you this, to about maybe three, four years ago, a young woman of 33 or 34 years of age, I think, in a city called Hyderabad in southern India, she was a television anchor, reasonably popular television anchor.

1:12:17One day she jumped off her fifth floor apartment and killed herself. Why? She left a note, no one is responsible for my death, my brain is my enemy. Wow. It took millions of years of research and development to get this brain to this level of competence. You can just dismiss it off with one word evolution, but actually it's tremendous amount of research and development through natural process. Yes. That our brains got to this level of cerebral capability. Now your brain is your enemy. It takes your life out. In 2023, 108 ,000 people in United States of America committed suicide. Wow. How many million people are trying to crawl through the wall and come to United States thinking this is heaven?

1:13:07But here people are killing themselves. I'm just saying the irony of the whole thing. Many people think if they come to United States, their life is made. But people who are living here want to kill themselves. What do you think it is? The miracle of mind has turned into a disaster. That's why this year I released this Miracle of Mind app. This is to address the mental illness pandemic. The idea is with a seven-minute simple meditation, you can transform your life. we want to make sure at least three billion people start doing this. The idea behind this is this. Meditation means it should not be in the hands of a guru or an institution or an administration or something else.

1:13:55See, in the year 1866, some survey says over 50 % of the American people over 45 years of age had no teeth left. Had no teeth left? Yes. In America? Yes. What do you think? The Wild West, they were brushing their teeth? Oh, yeah. They were shooting at each other. Most of them died before they were 50, so you didn't find out. Oh, my teeth are gone, yeah. Yes. Over 45 years of age, most of them didn't have teeth, 50%. Today, everybody has teeth. What do you think? It's because of the dentist? No, because our mothers told us, you bloody brush your teeth. You don't brush no breakfast today. Something they did their own trick and we all started doing this.

1:14:45Today we all have teeth. Similarly, for mental health, to make this mind into a miracle which it is already, we need something. We want to see three billion families on the planet in the next 24 months. This becomes part of that. After that, they should not need any guru institution. Every family should be transmitting this within their own families. Their children should learn as a part of growing up to meditate at least for seven minutes a day. Yes, I believe that. Simple thing, which is not religious, which is not from a particular culture, nothing. A simple thing that you do with yourself internally, because if you understand the miracle that your mind is, then you will see everything the way it is.

1:15:35You don't have to believe anything. You have the needed intelligence and sharpness to see things the way they are. Only thing is you have a wonky mirror. It's showing you all distorted images. Yes. And I've only got about 10 minutes left with you, Sadhguru, but it sounds like you could have, you kind of alluded to this and, you know, sounds like you could have all the money in the world or accumulate all the things in the world but still not learn how to love yourself. Why should you love yourself? Why not? Why not? No, love means there are two trying to become one. That is love. Now I am asking you, in this body there are two people or one person?

1:16:18One person. Yes. Because if there are more than one, either you are schizophrenic or you are possessed. Yeah, multiple… yeah, yeah. You're schizophrenic or possessed. You need either a psychiatrist or an exorcist. Don't go there. There's only one. Yes. So, how does one love oneself? What is that? Why are you playing these tricks? I mean… I'm not trying to play tricks, I'm just trying to understand that a lot of people commit suicide, you know, a hundred thousand people… That's not because of love or lack of love. That's because they're not able to handle their own intelligence. To manage their mind.

1:16:55They don't know how to manage it. Yeah. As I said, if they had the brain of an earthworm, they would be fine, peaceful. They're not able to handle their own intelligence because the social system, the educational system and everything else doesn't tell you a thing about how to manage this. It's all about how to conquer the world. Yeah. How to keep this well? See, every creature on the planet at least knows what to eat, what not to eat. The modern societies don't know what to eat, what not to eat. Every six months, somebody is coming up with a new recipe, which is the best thing to do. And in six months, it'll be gone.

1:17:39They made their money, they are gone, diet is gone. Another diet comes happening. In LA, I don't think it'll wait six months. Every three months, probably. Every three days. Exactly. When you don't know what to eat, what does it mean? See, you throw something to any animal, he knows whether to eat or not to eat. You have a much bigger brain and a much more sophisticated neurological system. How come you don't know? Obviously, you don't know. You've been given an instrument that you don't know how to handle. Time you learn. every family should have this as they teach their children how to brush their teeth and use the putty, they must learn how to meditate.

1:18:27You mentioned these eight types of memory. I think I got the first four, elemental memory, evolution, genetic and karmic, correct? Yes. Next comes, you know, unconscious layers of memory.

1:18:45Subconscious or articulate… in the subconscious is articulate and inarticulate memory. There are memories which play. There are memories which don't play on a daily basis but once in a way they kick in. And there is conscious memory which has many fragments, you can make it into many divisions for understanding. But it is a composite of all these memories that right now you call as myself. But that's not you. That is an accumulated past. Memory is a thing because without that there's no enrichment of life. There's no richness to your life if there was no memory. If I take out your memory card...

1:19:31Louis? Yeah. You don't know your name, come on, don't say it. You don't know your name. You don't know who your parents are. You don't know what is what, all right? So, memory is what is giving you a certain color to life. You must stabilize that. It must be a stage upon which you stand and do your dance. But if it becomes fluid, it becomes your quicksand. Or if you focus on the negative memories and you build that up… See, there is no negative positive memories. Or if you interpret it as an experience that was painful. How can yesterday, which doesn't exist, be painful or pleasurable? Well, if you don't know how to operate your mind.

1:20:17That's the whole thing. And you're... No, no, that's the whole thing. So you don't know how to drive your car. Yes. Then you don't think how to avoid hitting a bus, how to avoid hitting a lamppost, how to avoid hitting... No, bloody learn to drive. Yeah. Once you learn to drive, you're not thinking how to not hit a lamppost, all right? But we haven't learned how to do that yet. Most people haven't learned how to do that. Anything that we don't apply to doesn't exist for us, isn't it? Simple thing. Right now you're speaking a language. If nobody thought your language, you'll be blah, blah, blah.

1:20:54Something so simple. That's how I sound in Spanish. You know what? That's good. At least you can't say anything wrong to your wife. I know, I know. Oh, man. I've only got a few minutes with you, Sad. You're left because I know you got to run. But I want people to check out two things. The Miracle of Mind app, which I haven't checked out yet. So I'm going to download it. You must check it out. Not just check it out. Do it. Do it for 15 days. Then tell me what's happening with you. I'm assuming it's App Store, Android Store. It's everywhere. Yes, it's a free app. you can download. This is called Miracle of Mind?

1:21:29Yes. App? Okay, cool. So it's a 7-15 minutes a day? Seven minutes a day is minimum. If you want to extend it, you can extend it. Okay, perfect. And in this, it's going to just help people? It's an intelligent app. More features will be coming. There will be something that will come, which is called as Life Hopscotch. Life Hopscotch? Yes. What is that? Every day in the night before you go to bed, you play hopscotch for about 30 seconds. In the app? In the app. It will tell you what is your mental status today. Amen. It's like keeping an account of where you're going. Are you getting better or worse with your life?

1:22:08I love that. That's great. That's amazing. So it's out now, right? It's out. It's out. Okay, perfect. So I want people to get that. So specifically if you feel like you've stressed or overwhelmed, you don't. I've also read this audio book in my voice. I'm going to listen to it. So if you can't read, you can listen. This is the new book, which we covered a little bit about. It's called Death, Only for Those Who Shall Die. Yes, it's only for them. Are you going to die? I'm dying kind. I don't know about you. You're a dying kind? Death, A Yogi's Guide to Living, Dying, and Beyond by Sadhguru. Make sure you guys get a copy of this.

1:22:42Again, there's so many different things in here that I was going through just before we started about really understanding the process of death. how do we grieve, how do we navigate all these things, especially in our culture, in the Western culture, which has been taught, like you said, as kind of a scary thing or not to talk about. And I just think it's more important that we become aware of our death so that we can hopefully live a better life now in this moment. You can live your life well only if you're aware that you are mortal, that is your dying kind, That is, you have a limited amount of time and energy.

1:23:19If you think you're forever, you will live a stupid and arrogant life.

1:23:27Human means there's a natural humility in the being because you're capable of being conscious. One most important to be conscious is the mortal nature of your existence. If you're conscious of this, you have no time to do unnecessary things. See, if you know you have a limited amount of time, you will do what you genuinely care for. Otherwise, you'll do so much nonsense. Yes. What do you think are the three biggest wastes of time that human beings do today? I wouldn't like to say anything is a waste of time. Nothing. If they do it joyfully. Okay. If it enhances their life, they can do whatever.

1:24:08Okay. But if you're doing something not joyfully, then it may be a waste of time. If you're miserable, you're a waste of life, not just time. That's true. That's true. You got to start meditating. Start meditating. Sadhguru, final question for you. I've asked you this before, so I'm curious to go back and see your responses. But I'm curious, what's your definition of greatness? Say, there was a time when our program brochure used to say this, from ordinary to extraordinary. So, second, third day, people asked, Sadhguru, you said something special will happen to me, what? I said, I never said anything special will happen.

1:24:54But this brochure said like this. I said, ordinary to extraordinary. That means you'll become more ordinary than others. if you have no need to be special, you're extraordinary. Other people will think you're extraordinary and they'll attach greatness to it. If I think I'm great, I'm a bloody idiot. If people think I'm great, it's their magnanimity. It's good for them. Yeah. That's good. There you go. Saigur, thank you for being here. Appreciate you. What did I say last time? I don't know. I'm going to have to look it up. I'm going to look it up and I'll add it to the end of this. But thank you so much for being here, for sharing the wisdom as always.

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