Questioner:
What, if you can offer an insight into this, what is the life objective for me?
They are doing the most horrible thingsand they’ve always been doing the most horrible thingsbecause when you have a God-given purpose,life here becomes less important than your purpose.No,life is important.Life is important -when I say life,I am not talking about your family, your work, what you do, what you do not do, you partyI am not talking about that as life.This is life, isn't it?Life is within you or around you?
The… the ambiance of lifeyou’re mistaking the ambiance of life for life.Your home, your family, your workspace, your partythis is all ambiance of life.
This is not life, isn't it?Yes or no?Participants: Yes.Sadhguru: You’re mistaking the ambiance for the real thing.No.Life is importantbecause it's the only thing you know,you don't know anything else.Do you know something else?Rest is all imagined stuff, isn't it?The only thing is that this is beating and alive and that's all there is.So, is this important?
It is of paramount importance.
Not you as a person, that’s not important,but you as a piece of lifeit’s very importantbecause that is the basis of everything.
When I say that is the basis of everything,the universe exists for you only because you are, isn't it?Yes or no?
The world exists for you only because you are,otherwise it won't exist in your experience.So, in every way this is important.
So, what is the purpose for this?
After that, what would you do?
Bored, isn't it?
That’s how it is.There is...…Is there a meaning to it?
— Sadhguru (@SadhguruJV) June 9, 2019The greatest thing about life is that there is no meaning to it.This is the greatest aspect of life that it has no meaning to itand there is no need for it to have a meaning.It is the pettiness of one’s mind that it’ll seek a meaningbecause psychologically you will feel kind of unconnected with lifeif you don’t
Now the whole purpose that I go through all this misery is because the children.Like this, it goes on.These are things that you’re causingand holding these as purposes of lifeand is there a God-given purpose?
What if God does not know you exist?
No, I am just asking, by chance. (Laughter)I am saying in this huge cosmos,for which God is supposed to be the Creatorand the manager of these hundred billion galaxies,in that this tiny little planetand youSuppose he doesn’t know that you exist, what to do?Possible or no?
What if he doesn’t know that you exist?What if he doesn’t have a plan for you? (Laughter)Suppose, he doesn’t have a plan foran individual plan for you,don’t look for such things.The thing is the creation is made in such a way thatCreation and Creator cannot be separated.Here you are a piece of creation.
It’ll keep you engaged for a million years if you want.There is so much happeningso much means so much unbelievable things are happening right here.If you pay enough attention,a million
Right now, the need for purpose has comebecause you’re trapped in your psychological structure,not in your life process.Psychologically youryour psychological structure functions from the limited data that it has gathered.
So, because of this you’re seeking a purpose as an escape from the trapthat you have set for yourself.It is a trap set by you.You can easily come out of it.
I am… I am talking about life not marriage,that’s what I mean. (Laughter)That’s what. (Laughs)So this is a trap set by you.
This is easy to come out,but that is the whole thing.Why it is so difficult isnow you’re identified with the trap,you like it.You like it because it gives you a certain sense ofsafety and security and protection and individual identity.
If you build a cocoon around yourself,it gives you safety,but it also imprisons you.Walls of self-preservation are also walls of self-imprisonment.When it protects you, you like it.When it restricts you, you do not like it.That is why we have doors.We like the walls because it's protecting us,but we have doors so that we can open it and get out when we want to.It doesn’t matter how nice it is, we still want to go out, isn't it?
So that is how it is with every trap that you set.It doesn’t matter how nice it is, you still want to go out.So, the psychological wall that you’ve built,which gives you some sense of identity,which gives you some sense of being a personan individual person and which gives you securitybeginning to experience it like a trap;somewhere you want to break it.So, one way of not breaking it is to find a purpose.Those who find a purpose in their life,they become so conceited.They will live within their own trap foreverthinking that they’re doing the most fantastic thing.First thing you need is balance.If you have balance, then you can climb.
If you don’t have balance, it's better you stay on the ground”, isn't it?It's not safe for somebody who is not balanced to climb high.It's best you stay close to the ground.You should not climb.So, first thing is to establish a balance,then you loosen your psychological structure,then it's a wonderful thing.If you are loosening your psychological structure without balance,which lot of people are doing todaysee, why does somebody want to drink alcohol or take a drugbecause it loosens your psychological structure and makes you feel liberated for a momentbut without the necessary balanceyou have not worked for the balance, but you got freedom.Freedom without balance is destruction, anarchy, isn't it?
So, first thing is to work for balance,an enormous sense of balancewhere even if you dismantle your psychological structure,you can simply live here.
Dismantling your psychological structure is an important processbecause that is your trap,that is your security,that is your stabilityat the same time, that’s your trapbecause the walls are set, you feel You also dismantle your sense of purpose.You also dismantle everything that matters to you.
So, that will need balance.Without balance, if you dismantle you’ll go crazy.But, don’t look for a purposebecause if you look for a purpose, you are seeking madness.If you find one, you are sure mad.Yes. (Laughter)If you think you’ve found a purpose in life,you still… you’re for sure gone crazybecause only the insane people have purposeor people who have a purpose are insane in many ways.These are things that you create in your mindand believe it's true, isn't it?
If something is needed, we will do itwith… with absolute involvement.There’s no other purpose.The purpose of life is to live and to live totally.To live totally does not mean party every night. (Laughter)To live totally meansbefore you fall dead, every aspect of life has been explorednothing has been left unexplored.Yes?
Before you fall dead, even if you do not explore the cosmos,at least this piece of life (Referring to oneself) you must know it in its entirety.That much you must do to yourself, isn't it
You just do that.That will take a long time.That’s …good enough purpose for you. (Laughs)
— Sadhguru (@SadhguruJV) June 22, 2019