Consequences of Meddling with Life Energies | Sadhguru

So I went into mulberry plantation. You know what's mulberry? So all the money that I have, I put it in the farm. But there is lot of wild bush on the side. So I told my man, the laborer who was in the farm, two days I have to go out somewhere, I'll come back and we'll burn it. So I'm just riding and coming towards the farm in the morning. I just looked at that point, everything is burnt out. My man is ---- scared that an enormous amount of money has been lost, time has been lost and I just burst out laughing. Now Samadhi means only one minute point is holding on to the body. When somebody is like that, they'll go for good. Then we say you are Mahasamadhi. We don't want you to go there right now. There are any number of people here that I can get you into a Samadhi state very easily. In a moment we can get them to edge of life. When we are preparing people for the consecration, at that time I interfere with their life process. Every other day I have bizarre diseases in my body. What a terrible asthmatic attacks I had. Over a liter and a half of blood I just vomited. Dr. Swaminathan said, it looks like it's done, your time has come. In Isha Yoga Center, the people who are there, they are putting enormous amount of work upon themselves. They will become wonderful healers. But if anybody attempts anything like that, that's the end between me and them. They will never know anything spiritual in their life. If you look at humanity, you see human beings have gotten themselves totally distorted. Distorted faces you can see all over. When I say distorted, it doesn't mean that your face has smashed up. A joyless face is a distorted face, isn't it? Isn't it so? It is not the shape of your nose, it is not the size of your mouth, it is not the shape and size of your chin or cheek which makes you beautiful. When you're joyful, you're wonderful, isn't it? Any face in the world, when it is joyful, is it a beautiful face? So, all the joyless faces are distorted simply because they lost the awareness of what this is about. If you're not aware, you can very easily get distorted. One day, a man went to his office and he had a badly burnt up face on one side. People looked at him and asked, what happened? He said, I was just attending to the telephone. Said, what? You were attending to a telephone and you got burnt like this, your whole face is gone. How can that happen? No, I was just doing the iron and the phone rang. So, if you're not aware, you will become distorted. Just the simple process of life is just twisting you out of shape, isn't it? Yes? Just the simple process of life is completely twisting people out of shape. I want you to just take a picture of yours, even your eight or ten or whatever, just see your faces were like this, now like this. Distorted faces, isn't it? Why you become distorted means everybody has an excuse, wonderful excuse. Oh, maybe everything is going very well for Sadhguru. With all of you around, how can everything go well? When I was… I, you know, I was in business and then, you know, this happened. I just dropped all that as it was, I handed over everything just the way it was. Didn't bother to take my money out of it and all those things that are needed, you know? When you're working together, when you want to part, you know, you have to do many things to get all that. I'm not willing to go through all that, I just left everything as it was. It didn't mean anything to me. Anyway, I had my farm, this, that, so many things. Then I want to just get rid of all this and I want to set up a farm in a remote place. This is a small hill, a nice slope. At the base of the slope, there's a wonderful lake. This is a slope that I've been using to fly hang gliders. So, I decided to set up a farm there so that if nothing else happens, I'll fly. So, I bought this land and started working this and, you know, planted coconuts and mangoes and this and that and these things won't yield for five, six years, they won't bring any money. They only make you spend. Many things happened and then first two crops I made, some cotton, this, that worked out well. Then I thought I'll go into something else which is more cash rich so that I can do it for some time and I'm teaching off and on, not full time but traveling and teaching. I want to establish something. I had a doctor with me. This guy had a passion for handicapped children, especially mentally handicapped children. He wanted to do something. I said, okay, this farm is there, I will set up something for you. Said, if you build a place for me, I'll dedicate my whole life for this. People say such things, I believe them. And I was working towards establishing that for him so that, you know, in my land this can go on. But to keep everything going, you have to make some crop. So I went into mulberry plantation. You know what's mulberry? Making silk. It is very intensive cultivation. It in, you know, I put everything that I have. I have not recovered anything from my businesses. So all the money that I have, I put it in the farm, made this whole crop. It is just that it's prime. But there is lot of wild bush on the side. I'm using it as mulch so I don't want to destroy it completely till a certain point. But now it's time has come because once this mulberry leaf is there, every kind of insect wants to come because it's rich, very protein rich leaf. All insects want to come and eat. So I had to clear the bush now. Clearing the bush manually would take lot of labor and time and effort. So the only way is to burn it. So I told my man, the laborer who was in that farm, like this, we are going to burn it this way. In a controlled way, we're going to burn it so that it doesn't hurt the mulberry. This is how to do, this is how to do. I told him, I told him, you wait anyway. Don't do it when I'm not there. Two days I have to go out somewhere. I'll come back and we'll burn it. This is the things that you need to do. These are the preparations that you must do. I went for two days. I couldn't get back on time. I came back two days later. Then those are my still my motorcycle days. So I'm just riding and coming towards the farm in the morning. There is one point on the hill when I just go up on the road, I can just have a glimpse of the farm just for few seconds and then I have to go around another four, five kilometers and get back to the farm. I just looked at that point, everything is burnt out. My whole crop, my investment, everything is what was rich green has become black. Just for a few seconds I just saw and I passed on. Then when I just thought everything that I put in, all the effort that it took for almost eight months and I just burst out laughing. I was laughing my head off and riding down the hill. Then I came and entered the village. When they heard the motorcycle, they all came running, Swami, Swami, you know what happened, what happened. I know I shouldn't laugh in front of them. They will think I've gone totally nuts. I just controlled myself. I said, okay, okay, I know I saw it. They said, oh, this happened, that happened. Oh, they're all, you know, hollering because they've all worked in my farm and they know what it's taken, they know how much money is involved. Then I said, it's okay, let me go and see. Then I came to the farm. My man is ---- scared. He heard the motorcycle and he ran into the mountains and he left his wife there to handle the situation. You know, it's his own wisdom. He thought a situation like this, it's better faced by the woman than him. So I just looked at the whole scene and I was just, my head was bursting with laughter because I know suddenly I was unemployed for some time because this meant lot of activity in the next few months. And suddenly I was unemployed and I would have nothing to do for some time, which is making me extremely happy. But an enormous amount of money has been lost, time has been lost. Then I just, you know, some payments had to be made. I just looked at her, didn't say anything. She was all in tears. I asked, where is he? She showed the mountains. He's gone there. And I said, okay, there's some labor payment to be made. You make this. And I left. I didn't have to go back to the farm another, you know, month or so. So I went back home and my wife Viji was working at that time. I went home and there was nothing to do. Then I went, I thought lunchtime, I'll go out and take her for lunch. I just went there. She was not expecting me because I've taken my lunch, everything and gone to the farm. I won't come till late evening. Then I went and said, how come you're here? I said, no, I have nothing to do. I'm free. And the crop is totally burnt and I have nothing to do. We are free. She said, what? She went, didn't you fit? I said, what are you getting so excited? I've been thinking. Anyway, I was thinking of doing a program in a coastal town. At that time, I just picked the most beautiful place and did the program. I didn't have these kind of compulsions of going and going. I just went and did programs where I wanted. So we'll go to Mangalore. I decided tonight we'll ride to Mangalore because it's on the coast and beautiful. Let's go there and see what to do. She was all gone and I took her out and said, how can you be like this? What do you think you're doing? Do you know how much money is gone? I said, OK, you're so excited. I'm leaving for some time. I'll come back after 10 days. You tell me when you're down. Then I'll come back. Then she sat there and then she smiled and said, OK, you're not bothered. So what's my problem? I said, you got the point. So what's your problem? I am the one who did the work. I did everything. Now it's gone. And it was quite funny in the way we wanted to burn the bush and burn the whole crop. Left. So the question is not whether something is going right or wrong. Many things in the outside go right, go wrong. Something happens, you know. We try to manage them. Sometimes they go off. Outside has anyway gone wrong. At least inside you can keep it blissful. So I decided to start a bliss party, not Democrats, not Republicans. Bliss party. I'm just trying to add numbers to my party. Are you interested? So that's fine. When you look closely at a person, can you actually sense whether they're being real or fake? I'm not looking whether somebody is real or fake because nobody's fake. Everybody's real. Maybe real gold or real ----, but everybody's real. Nobody's fake. It is just that it is not even that people don't want to change. They want to change somewhere deep down. But the surface core, the surface is so hard that it doesn't allow the core to find expression. That's why we call them nuts. The core is good, the surface is so hard. You just, you know, you take a nut, you have to hit it the right place, top it'll crack. You hit it all over, it doesn't crack, isn't it? It may break your teeth, but the right point if you hold it, tuck, it opens up. Inside is wonderful. Yes? All nuts are wonderful inside, isn't it? The surface problems. So these surface problems, handling that, unless we create the right kind of situation where we can crack them, you cannot even approach it. When they're out on the street, you cannot even approach it, isn't it? It'll become disastrous if you approach them outside. You just have to get them in the right place before you try to crack them. So, is there anybody who does not want to transform? No, everybody wants to transform, but they don't know what it means to transform. They just don't know what it means to transform. They're genuinely ignorant. They're not fakes. They're genuinely ignorant, that's all. They're genuinely ignorant of their own nature. There is no faking about it. It's hundred percent genuine, isn't it so? So, we are just seeing what instrument we have to use on a particular nut. I'm wondering if I should stop practicing Reiki. See, especially in the last probably ten years now, the last ten years, this healing business is becoming a huge thing around the world, mainly in the last ten years, isn't it? Especially in places like India, this was unheard of. But today, it's every street corner there are healers. Is all this healing done? Are people genuinely healthier? Is it so? See, so many healers everywhere, the volume of people going to the hospital should have dropped. Has it dropped, I'm asking? Now, I'm not trying to blame these people that people are still going to the hospital. It is just that for lot of people, nobody has even touched them with any sense of involvement with them. So, all such people I see are always going to healers and massage therapists and others because they want to be touched by somebody. Probably even as children, nobody really touched them. Touching does not mean all the time somebody should be touching you. Somebody just one moment of involvement, you know, because a human being is longing for involvement. Not for touch, not for sex, not for kiss, not for something. He's basically longing for deep sense of involvement with something, isn't it? Generally, people understand these acts are as acts of deep involvement. But today, we have learnt that these things can be done without any sense of involvement. Isn't it so? Without absolutely any sense of involvement, all those things can be done. So, there is a deep desperation in people that they want to be at least touched. Doctor will wear gloves and touch. A lot of people, when they lack love in their life, they keep falling sick, falling sick, falling sick just because they want little attention from everybody around them. They want somebody to touch and see, is this okay, is this okay, is this okay? You know, they just… they just want to be touched. But now, the doctor doesn't touch, he puts you through the CAT scan. All this man means, somebody wants him to touch all over and feel, oh, it's okay, nothing wrong. Am I okay, doctor? Yes, you're okay. He'll okay. But now, if you say something, okay, CAT scan. And they don't even stain your blood a little more gayish color or lavender or pink or something. You know? You know what I'm talking about? No? When you go through a CAT scan, they're going to stain your blood, you know? They're not even putting little more exuberant color into your blood. They make you drink the gooey stuff and then put something else and go through a machine and you come out. The touch, the human touch is going away in everything. So, massage therapists and healers and others are becoming naturally popular. And these dogs and cats on whom you're depending for your emotional security, they don't touch, they wait for you to touch. Yes? They are even more demanding than you. They want to be touched, your cat comes and demands. I want to be touched, isn't it? It is not willing to touch you and make you feel good. It is expecting you to do all the jobs. Now, this Reikis and other things are all dropouts from Zen and Tao ways of spiritual processes. These are things which dropped out of monasteries because when they do such things, truly established spiritual monasteries, push them out. So, these people started their own things. Even today, see for the level of sadhana, the level of inner work that people are doing in, for example, in Isha Yoga Center, the people who are there, they have put in enormous amount of work upon themselves. If they want to move into healing, they will become wonderful healers. But if anybody attempts anything like that, that's the end between me and them. Not only that's the end between me and them, I will also peg them in such a way, they will never know anything spiritual in their life. This is not in revenge, this is for their own safety. So, any genuine spiritual process never allows any kind of healing. There's no fine line, it's a clear-cut issue. I want you to understand, every action that you perform, there is always a consequence to it. That's what we are talking about as karma. Every single action, every breath, every thought, every emotion, every act that you perform physically, there is a consequence to it. Because life is happening between cause and effect all the time. So, if you take an aspirin, there is a consequence to it. Somebody is drowning in a lake, if you try to save him, there are many possible consequences to it, isn't it? You could join the drowning party, you may bring him out, there's so many things that can happen. There is a consequence to everything that you do. Now, when you try to intervene, not on the level of the mind, not on the level of the emotion, not on the level of the body, but you're trying to intervene on the level of your life energies, you're trying to live life without consequences. For this, there is a very big consequence, which is not necessary for that person or for you. That's why, that's why no healing. Because there are various reasons for this. One thing is, you yourself have no complete mastery over your own life energies. You just learned this. If you're in absolute mastery of your own life energies, you know all the nuts and bolts of it, you can dismantle your life and put it back. That's what yoga means. Yoga does not mean just holding your breath or twisting your body or, you know, being little peaceful. No. Yoga fundamentally means as a technology, you begin to understand all the nuts and bolts of life. You can pull down your life and put back your life. Completely dismantle the life process and put it back once again. Now, if you are like this, then in certain situations it could be done. I don't know if I should go into this, but I'm sure this question is there in people's minds. So at a certain time about… I'm not good with dates. Probably seven years ago, seven, eight years ago, when I started looking for a few people that I needed to consecrate the lingam. When I started, I had started this long ago, but when I started effective kind of work, when I began to speak about it about eight, nine years ago, I identified a few people who could be instrumental in making this happen. So we were looking for fourteen people, seven men and seven women who are of a certain capabilities within themselves. One of the basic capability that we want is that in a moment we can get them to edge of life. They're barely in the body. You know, a few people are going like that here now. They're barely in their body. It's like they're on the edge. Now, when people are in such states, we allow such states to happen only in a protected atmosphere, never simply anywhere, because simply anywhere could be dangerous. When people go into certain states of samadhi where their contact has become minimal with the body, right now your contact with the body is hundred percent, isn't it? Unless your legs have gone numb right now. Otherwise, your contact with the body is hundred percent, isn't it? Sometimes you might have noticed when you're sitting in shunya meditation, your contact with the body is not hundred percent, maybe seventy percent, maybe eighty percent. But not hundred percent. Have you noticed this? So, the whole effort is to take it to your point where your contact with the body is minimal, just one-pointed. That is, that means you are not existing here as a body. You are not existing here as a physical entity anymore, but you're still holding on to the body. You still retain the body, but you're not in your experience anymore existing here as a physical entity. Only when your experience goes beyond the physical, we can say you are spiritual. Otherwise, it's all empty talk. Everything else is simply empty talk. Unless experientially you transcend the limitations of the physical, there is no such thing as spiritual. There's too much empty talk going on. People read two pages of some scripture and they think they are spiritual. They learn some stupid prayer where they're begging in the morning, they think they are spiritual. Only if you transcend the limitations of the physical, you are spiritual. Otherwise, there is no spirituality, just talk. So, in shunya meditation, you are becoming twenty, thirty percent spiritual. Remaining seventy percent drags you back all the time. Now, samadhi means you have become 99.999% spiritual. Only one minute point is holding on to the body because we want to retain the body. If you drop this, then we say you are mahasamadhi. That means you are in a great samadhi. That means you left the body. We don't want you to go there right now. We want to retain the body. We want to see the physical body is a wonderful machine. We want to see that it runs its full course. We are not interested in dumping the body when it's still capable of doing much. We want to see that it runs its full course when we feel that it's beginning to fade. Then we will dump it. Right now, we don't want to dump it. So, when people are in samadhi states where their contact is very minimal with the physical body, then we keep them very protected. Because they may not have the necessary balance to hold on if there are disturbances. When somebody is like that, they'll go for good. One pin prick, enough. Just take a pin and poke that man in samadhi, he'll be gone. Because just that much is enough, it'll go. Maybe a mosquito bite could do it. So, we will keep them in very protected states. Now, we wanted people who are in this kind of minimal contact with the body, but they're required to be intensely active, which is a dangerous situation in many ways. Dangerous means very wonderful for that person if he leaves. Dangerous for me, because I'll have a dead body on my hands. So, I take good care of myself. So, I fixed various situations to fix them so that they don't play the ultimate trick on me. That when we are beginning to do work and they realize this is the moment for ultimate freedom and they don't play the trick on me and leave their body in my hands. So, I'm taking care to see that such things don't happen around me. So, one of the things to push them into this state… See, there are any number of people here that I can get you into a samadhi state very easily. There are… at least I would say here right now, today if you make an attempt, at least eighty-five percent of the people here, I can get them into a samadhi state for short periods of time. Short periods of time. But to sustain it, it needs sadhana. Without working with the body, without working with your energies, mind and emotion, keeping all of them in a certain state of receptivity and willingness. Willingness does not mean you just thinking consciously, yes I'm willing, no. Everything in you should become willing. See, you say, yes I'm very willing, I want to be spiritual. One ant comes, just see the way the body is resisting, isn't it? You're talking willingness, just one insect comes and sits here, whoo, it'll go like this. If you're willing, everything should become willing. Every cell in your body should become willing. This needs work. Right now, what you're doing, just push, ka, ka, ka, all this, is just to work towards that willingness. Making the physical body, making the energies, making the emotion, making the mind, slowly willing in such a way. Many of you might have noticed this. Before you started your yogic practices, let us say, taking the same example, if some insect came and sat here, there was a wild reaction in the body. These days, maybe you gently pick it up and leave it there. Have you noticed some change like that within you? Is it there? It will be happening. Whether you're noticing it or not, it is happening. One thing you must understand, once you make the mistake of coming and sitting with me, whether you like it or you don't like it, the process is on. If you create conscious willingness, you will go quick. If you do not create conscious willingness, you will struggle and go. But going or not going is no more in your hands, once you make the mistake of sitting with somebody like me. Because once you sit with me, I'm very presumptuous. I assume you want to go all the way because on the very first day you come, I create sufficient abrasiveness around me to see that all those finicky people leave. The remaining people who survive those few days, I assume they want to go all the way. I want to close my eyes to some of the little little resistances you have and I assume you really want to go all the way and it just goes all the way. It is just that either you travel the bus joyfully or you go like you're going to a slaughterhouse. That's your choice. Both ways it's okay with me. Now, when these kind of things were done, when we were preparing people for the consecration, we don't have the time to allow them to do ten years of sadhana and come to that state. We want them quick. We want them there in a couple of months. At that time, I interfered with their life process. All of them did not have diseases but there are various distortions of energy within them. They have not yet become diseased. If the same distortion, if you give more fuel to it, it will become a disease. In some people, there were manifestations of actual diseases. In others, they were healthy people but they have various distorted situations within them. If you give it sufficient time and nourishment, it will become a full-blown health problem. So, when I just started taking these people into me in some ways, every other day I have a new kind of disease. The doctors who examined me at that time, they wouldn't believe it. Every other day, I have bizarre diseases in my body. I am checking out with the doctors, not because I don't know what is not happening with me. I know what's happening with me on the energy level but I just want to see that I don't cause too much damage to my physiology. So, periodically I am checking myself with the normal diagnostics so that I am not causing too much damage to physiology because then again it will become a big work to set that right. So, at that time, these kind of things we did but once that's over, anyway those fourteen people did not come up the way we wanted because of various situations. They grew wonderfully, many things happened but putting life situations together and keeping these fourteen people who had families, who have children, who have this and that, getting all those people for the necessary period of time became impossible. Social pressures became so heavy. The social pressures upon us at that time were so very heavy that I had to abandon that and then choose for a more drastic and more risky process of just doing it with three people which for which we paid the price. So, that kind of thing is done but in very rare situations and that also you can't let it into the air, you have to take it upon yourself and know how to work it out. If, for example, one person had asthma, severe, severe asthma, everything else was wonderful with this person but this asthma was just raking this person's body so badly. Almost this fourteen, fifteen years of life has been every night asthma. Without medicine, without cortisone every other weekend, you know, there's no control. Almost once or twice a month in the hospital, that kind of very severe asthma. So, I had to take this and people who were around me at that time, they have seen what a terrible asthmatic attacks I had for almost ten, fifteen days. Such terrible asthmatic attacks that, you know, it's new to my body, my body is not used to something like this. An asthmatic would be used to it. This is too sudden, all of a sudden I am an asthmatic and I went through such a bad phase of asthma for about ten to fifteen days and many other things happened within the system but they were settled. At one point, it became too much on the system and you know, other activity had to continue. If other activity was not there, these things I can handle very easily. I have to teach two, three sessions in a day and on initiation day, initiation is always a challenge and those days the initiations were so much more intense because for United States, we have tuned it down a little bit because even for these people, that's getting little hyper about it. So, on an initiation day, I just vomited blood, over a liter and a half of blood, I just vomited. Doctor saw me and said, it looks like it's done, your time has come. I didn't go through any treatment. In about month's time, my livers were perfectly okay. At that time, if I pushed it little more, yes, it could have caused death. So, the life process is going on. You can't just, you know, do like this and make it all right. Everything is between cause and effect. It shifts from one to another, this to that, it takes on various forms but you can't obliterate the process of life. You can only transform it. So, that's too much mumbo-jumbo for a day.