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Stop Limiting Life’s Possibility
So this is the nature of the human being. Whatever you are deprived of, you think that is the highest thing. Whatever you don’t have, it looks like, at that moment, that is the highest thing. If you have not eaten for two days, food will be god, no? Yes. If you don’t understand this, close your mouth, hold your nose like this for two minutes … will you ask for air or god? God comes and says “You want me or air?” You’ll say “Hell with you. I want to breathe,” (laughter) because whatever, at that moment, you’re deprived of, that becomes … takes on a … enlarges itself in such a way it blocks everything out.
In other words, when you are in any state of compulsiveness, you don’t see anything the way it is; it gets exaggerated. If your bladder is full, one minute I am talking about enlightenment … your bladder is very full. Are you interested? I don’t want any enlightenment. Right now, going to the bathroom feels like ultimate liberation. (laughter) Yes or no? Just about anything, when you are in a state of compulsiveness, you don’t see anything the way it is. You will … life will get distorted to make you think that that is it at that moment.
So like this human life passes from one compulsive state to another, never allowing yourself that little bit of space where you could see things the way you are. If you do not even see life the way it is, can you handle it the way it needs to be handles? It doesn’t arise, does it? If you don’t see things the way they are, you can never handle it the way it needs to be handled; because of this, in many ways, individual human lives in all societies have become distorted humanity. When I say distorted, it’s normal. I mean normal.
I was talking to fourteen, fifteen year old kids in a school and I couldn’t believe that I was talking to about eleven or twelve of them, young boys and girls, and something came up and I was just asking them what are they going to do next, because they were in their tens or something. They’re only talking about finding a job and earning a living. I couldn’t believe this, because my whole life, I never thought of earning a living. My dear father, you will break his head, “This boy has no fear in his heart. What will happen to him? What will happen to him?” I said “Not having fear is a problem? I thought fear is a problem.” I never thought not having fear is a problem.
I called into the dictates of the divine. I was supposed to become a doctor because my father is a doctor. At the age of ten, I told him “No.” That’s one thing I’m not going to be. I’m not going to be a doctor, but everyday, somebody is trying to work on me. “You must become a doctor. You must become a doctor.” You know, Indian family. “You must become a doctor. If you can not,” … of course, now they’re all shifted to software.
I was in Chicago … just two days ago I came to India, so one week ago, eight days ago I was in Chicago and an Indian person came, and I asked “Okay, what are you doing?” That means he’s a software engineer. There was a time when people said “What else? You are a doctor.” Now, if you say “What else,” it means you’re a software engineer. It is not because they’re phenomenally interested in human physiology and they became doctors, not because they have an electronic … this thing that became a software engineer … just to earn a living. Is it not important? I’m not saying it’s not important, all I’m saying is even an ant, which is one millionth of your brain, is capable of earning a living. What’s your problem with such a big brain? Why I’m saying this is this idea, this horrible and limiting idea has been imposed into our youths that you must earn a living and that’s the biggest thing. With this big brain, earning a living is actually a problem on this planet? I know everybody has been conditioned to believe that. It is not so, I am telling you. It is not so.
Earning a living is a petty thing for human consciousness, but unfortunately, whole humanity is investing all it’s energies in intelligence in just earning a living. If this one thing does not change in the world, that … I’m not saying one should not. All I’m saying is you need not occupy the entirety of human consciousness to earn a living. If you put one little finger to work, it’ll earn a living. It’s capable. This is capable of that. All human genius has been smothered to death simply because everybody is thinking how to earn a living. The moment they can earn a living, they will sit down and become fat.
You must be saying “What can I do with this life?” Yes? You must be saying “What is the greatest thing I can do with this life?” Because one day, we fall dead. Do you know? Do you know you’ll fall dead one day? So before you die, whatever it is the big possibility for this life should happen, isn’t it? “I earn my living, I earn my living.” This is a big pride. Why don’t you see every insect, every worm, every bird, every animal … every creature on this planet is earning a living. What is there to be so proud of about “I earn my own living?” Everybody is earning their own living, isn’t it? Only human beings are making a big issue out of it.
Two big issues. When I look at how human intelligence has been sacrificed to the art of earning a living is unbelievable. How many things human beings could have done. How many incredible things they could have done, but instead of that, they’re earning a living.
It’s very, very important … I’m just thinking we should start a wave, particularly in schools and colleges, that earning a living is not … is a damn little thing. It is not the prime of your life. With one little finger, you can earn a living. With this big brain … when an ant can earn it’s living, this big brain. Should it struggle to earn a living? That has become a problem because you want to be like somebody else. Isn’t it? You want to be like somebody else. That ends, and once you are into this, nothing else is possible. It just keeps you going and going and going endlessly.
Now, this possibility of this simple thing called yoga is not about twisting your body. It’s not about getting fit, it’s not about getting healthy. All these things nature will do for you only if you live in tune with it. This is about understanding the geometry of the cosmos, through the geometry of your own system. I’m calling this a geometry because cosmos is a geometry, isn’t it? Planet Earth is going around the Sun. What is it? Diesel powered? You think a big, diesel engine is pushing it? If it was, the power of the engine would have killed us. Just the perfection of geometry just keeps going and going and going, isn’t it?
You’ve seen those perpetual machines? Have you seen those little ones? If you just do it like this, for years on end, it’s going, so this is just that. It’s a perfection of geometry, which keeps it going and going and going. The whole universe is geometrically perfect; that’s why it stays there. Otherwise, it wouldn’t, and if you learn to hold your body in a certain way … if the geometry if your body is in alignment with the geometry of the rest of the creation, suddenly you will find there is a part which will allow you … you can download the whole cosmos into this one. This is not a tiny little … if you simply like this … if you live, you’re just a piece of flesh and bone. If you just get it right, suddenly this is something else.
Probably, these days, you don’t have this experience anymore because you got all you need dish, net, and all that stuff, but if suppose you had a television in your home in the ’80s when the first version came, you are watching your favorite click-it match, suddenly your television would (makes noise), then you’ll climb up the television and the aluminum contraption. If you do it like this, nothing will come. If you do it like this, nothing will come. You just get it to the right place. Ah, the world pours into your sitting room. This is just like that. If you learn to just hold it right, the whole cosmos will pour into you, so this is engineering yourself. It does not mean engineering yourself to breathe a little better, to be a little more healthy, no. This is about realizing the full potential of what it means to be human.
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