Water Has Memory - Sadhguru at IIT Madras (Part V)

[Questioner] You said that water has some memory. Is there any viability to bring that memory level to our life or something? Is there any scientific evidence or spiritual evidence or some other evidence is available for that? Basically, as I’m a chemist I'm telling this.

[Sadhguru] Okay. Today, is it okay if I walk down into you?

[Audience] Yes

[Sadhguru] Today, particularly in the last four-and-a-half years, phenomenal amount of research has gone into water and water potential. This started off inadvertently because of the way the usable water in the world is receding per person.

In India, for example, in 1947 how much water an average Indian had, potable water, today we have only twenty percent of that.

They say by 2025 we’ll have only seven percent of what we had in 1947 per person, per capita water, only that much will be available.

So because of this, lot of research has gone into water. It went mostly from this line, but slowly they went deeper and deeper into this and they find – which you must be being a chemist you must be very much aware of this – without changing the chemical composition of the water, you can rearrange the molecular arrangement in such a way that the water will behave completely in a different way than the way it does, to such an extent, it's sensitive to this extent, that if I take a glass of water in my hand and just look at it in a certain way and give it to you, well-being will come to you.

If I look at it another way and give it to you, you will fall sick tonight.

This is no more superstition, this is science.

I’ll tell you an incident that happened.

About seventeen years ago I announced a ninety day program.

Ninety day program for what?

The most fundamental aspect of yoga is considered as Bhuta Shuddhi.

Bhuta Shuddhi means… Bhuta means, you know what?

Pancha bhutas, the five elements in nature - earth, water, fire, air and space – these are the five elements in nature. It is these five elements which is the basic components which make this body, which made this planet, which has made the whole universe, isn't it?

The whole existence, in a way, is a play of these five elements.

So Bhuta Shuddhi is about cleansing these five elements within the system.

How these five elements behave within me will determine the quality of who I am – based on this, the basic form of yoga is just Bhuta Shuddhi; everything else is an outcrop of that, taught in various bits and pieces by many people without understanding the whole… the homogeneity of what it is, but essentially it's about taking charge of the five elements.

You practice Bhuta Shuddhi for a certain period of time and you achieve what is called as Bhuta Siddhi, that means you have total control over the five elements, to such an extent, there is any number of incidents where at the time of death or at the time of leaving their body, a yogi goes into a room, people lock it from outside, he goes in and after a few days they open and he's just not there because he de-materializes himself, he doesn’t want to trouble you with a funeral, he doesn’t want anybody to carry him to the grave, he just dematerializes his own system.

Seventeen years ago I announced one program for the first time, ninety day program.

Why ninety days is, approximately between forty to forty eight days the system goes through a certain cycle on the elemental level; this is called a mandala.

Every forty to forty eight days, there is a cycle where the system goes through this cycle.

So this is the reason if you go to any Ayurvedic doctor, or a Siddha vaidya, he will always give you a medicine for forty days or forty eight days to make use of that cycle, natural cycle in the body. So I said two mandalas minimum.

Three would be good, but if I say three, many things will happen.

I said, ‘Minimum two mandalas if you do sadhana, you can gain control over your system, those who want to come, you come,’ and I left the town because I know lot of drama will happen.

Now in a family, husband wants to go for ninety days; wife will do kathak.

Wife wants to go for ninety days, husband acts like Rajinikanth in the house - angry man, walks up and down like a hero, so many things, drama will happen, so I don’t want to be there. I said, ‘Those who want to come, you come, it's up to you.’

So after that I came back, you know, to a particular family that I know well.

You know, it's a normal part of our hospitality, when somebody comes home, first thing is you bring water.

So this lady in the house brought water for me and she's like Kali suddenly, not just kathak, she's like Kali. I looked at her – she's a nice lady, today she's in the Kali form – so I looked at her and she offered water to me and I said, ‘Amma, I don’t need this water. I don’t need to drink this water. You're like Kali right now, I don’t need Kali’s prasadam right now, I'm fine.’

She said, ‘Why, will I poison it?’ I said, ‘No, you don’t have to poison it, it's already done.’

Then I told her, ‘You take a sip from this glass.’ She took a sip from the glass, then I said, ‘Give me the glass to me.’ I held in my hands for two minutes and I just gave it to her, ‘You drink it now.’ She drank one sip and burst into tears and started crying, she said, ‘It's sweet.’ I said, ‘That’s all the difference it is.’

Now your body is over seventy percent water, if the water in this system behaves in a sweet manner, will you be at least seventy percent sweet? Hmm?

If the air and earth behaves sweetly within you, will you be at least ninety percent sweet?

Space is never bothering anybody, isn't it?

So the essential science of yoga is about Bhuta Shuddhi, taking charge of the elements within the system.

Once you have control over the elements in the system, you can also influence the elements around you.

Essentially your whole work with life, your whole work in the world is just with the elements, always, in a very basic form, isn't it?

So if you have certain mastery over this, you will what you want, you don’t even have to think about it, your intention you don’t have to generate a thought, just before you intend, that is how life will work out for you.

So success is not an uphill task. If you raise this to a higher place, if you raise this to the highest place it can reach, then everything is downhill.

Downhill you can run easily or uphill you can run easily? Definitely downhill, isn't it?

So is there any scientific evidence? There's substantial scientific evidence today about how the molecular structure of the water can be rearranged without changing the chemical structure, even with a simple thought or a touch.

The problem is, your grandmother told you this, didn’t she?

Didn’t your grandmothers tell you you should not drink water from anybody’s hands, do not take food from anybody, there is a certain way you must receive only if they have good intentions for you. Did they tell you these things?

But when your grandmother said it, the problem is if it goes from the East it is superstition, if it comes from the West it becomes science.


That’s where it is.

That has to change.

Your generation of people, that’s your responsibility to change that, that even if it goes from the East, if it is science it's science.

[Questioner] When you say that yourself and your body have to go together, that is clear to me, but like mind goes somewhere else, mind doesn’t go with you all the time.
You are sitting here but mind can be elsewhere, so that can be separate at times, at times it can be with you, so this is my first question and after

[Sadhguru] Let’s go one at a time.

[Questioner] Ok.

[Sadhguru] Now, your mind also doesn’t go anywhere.

It is here thinking about something. Does it go somewhere?

Your mind doesn’t go anywhere, it is here and thinking about something else but still it is here, isn’t it?

Neither your body goes somewhere nor your mind goes somewhere nor you go somewhere.

They’re always one composite whole.

If you want to do anything you have to do something that works for all of them.

You can’t handle this separately, that one separately and this one separately, they’re always together, isn’t it?

Your mind doesn’t go anywhere, did you lose it?

It is just that you’re being deceived by the imagination of your mind.

It is sitting here and imagining something, it is not going anywhere but you’re so identified and lost that you think the mind is going somewhere.

Mind doesn’t travel anywhere, it’s very much here, isn’t it?

You need to understand this: Why your mind is going on with uncontrollable endless thought is you’re identified with things that you are not.

The moment you get identified with something that you are not, then mind is non-stop activity.

You’re identified with too many things and you’re trying to stop your mind.

I’m telling you, if you try for a million years it’s not going to happen. It cannot happen.

If you take away your wrong identifications then you will see this moment, mind will be just like a mirror, not saying anything, just reflecting everything.

That’s how mind should be. Your mind is a mechanism, works best only when there is clarity in it, isn’t it? Isn’t it so?

Your mind is not here to think up all kinds of fancy things. That’s a distraction in life.

Your mind is here to give you clarity and penetration into life, but right now mind is just a huge ball of confusion simply because you got identified with so many things that you are not and now you’re trying to hold it back.

There is no way to hold it back. You ate very bad food, now there’s gas in the stomach.

You can’t hold it. You’ve eaten bad food, the consequence is there.

You got wrongly identified with too many things, now this is going on endlessly.

You cannot stop it, it doesn’t matter what you do.

You think of God, God himself will go take you to many places.

Now, you’re sitting here and you’re trying to meditate, but you’re thinking of your bar or restaurant or friend or cinema or something.

Now, people told you, ‘think about God, everything will be okay.’

If you think about Rama, or Krishna then you will find you will go to cinema with Rama.

That’s the nature of the mind. Rama himself will take you to the bar.

Rama himself will take you to the restaurant.

You can’t stop it because you’ve gotten yourself identified with things that you are not.

No way to stop it.

So what’s being done here is not about controlling your mind.

To bring an awareness as to what you’re not.

Right now to start with, the most fundamental identity is your body.

You’re identified with your body, the clothes that you wear, your hairstyle, your goatee also, aren’t you?

Very much identified, isn’t it? Your wife, your children, your family, your education, your religion, endless number of identifications.

With all these identities you want a quiet mind. There’s no such thing.

That’s why we gave you a simple device called Shoonya where you create a little distance from the mind.

Once distance happens, even if it's a noisy mind, still it doesn’t matter. Disengaging from the mind.

Once you disengage from the mind, you disengage from all identity because it’s the mind which manufactures identifications, isn’t it?

So don't think up all kinds of things, just employ the device.

Things will happen.

Things that you have not imagined will happen.

Measuring Spiritual Progress - Sadhguru

[Questioner] How do you measure, …one measures their own spiritual progress at individual level?

[Sadhguru] Oh, you want a meter? Oh, we’ll give you a meter.

Don’t worry about your spiritual progress.

There is no such thing as spiritual progress.

Are you becoming more available to it, that's all the question is.

Let's not talk about something which is not in your experience because if I talk about something which is not yet in your experience there are only two options - either to believe me or disbelieve me, isn't it?

Believing doesn’t get you any closer, disbelieving doesn’t get you any closer.

So let's talk about something that is in our experience.

What condition, what state of mind, emotion, body and let's leave the energy because that’s not in your – experience. What condition of your body, mind and emotion makes you more available to life than the way you are right now?

You tell me? If you are sad, do you become more available?

If you are tense do you become more available? If you are peaceful do you become more available? If you are blissful do you become more available?

In which condition would you become more available to the life process?

If you are in utmost pleasantness you become more and more available to everything around you. Isn't it so?

Right now you are feeling very happy, this one comes and asks some stupid question, you are okay with her. That one comes and asks something else, you are okay with her also. This one comes and asks something, you are okay with that also. You are in a certain state of unpleasantness, you are irritated, frustrated, angry, depressed about something, this one comes and even tries to say something nice to you, poofff, this’ll go.

Yes or no? Even to simple aspects of life you are more available only when you’re in a certain state of pleasantness, isn't it?

So let's measure by that standard. If by the day if you are becoming a more joyful human being - you just keep accounts of this on a daily basis, ‘From yesterday to today, am I little more joyful?’

If you’re keeping accounts and if you are becoming more and more joyful by the day and your face, instead of becoming like this, is… slowly is becoming like this, that means you’re progressing.

Yes, you are definitely progressing; because spirituality is not some nonsense up there, it is about becoming available to life process in its fullest possibility, not just to the physicality, not just to the mentality, to becoming available to life process in its fullest scope – this is spirituality.

Living Fully, Dying Gracefully - Sadhguru

(Questioner): A very dear friend of mine is completely consumed with cancer. She is very very very ill. Is there anything that I can do or she can do to come through this?

(Sadhguru):Come through means, get cured?

(Questioner): Yes,

(Sadhguru): Or die peacefully?

(Questioner): Get better. Get better.

(Sadhguru): Hum?

(Questioner): Get better, get well.

(Sadhguru): Now, I'm not talking with any disregard to your friend but I want you to understand people need to die. When and how is the only question, isn't it?

So, if death comes to us, yes we will do everything possible to save ourselves but if it goes beyond that let us learn to die gracefully.

Let's not fight with it and fight with it like endlessly, you know, it's a horrible way to die.

The way people are dying in western countries is really a horrible way to die.

Even though they're 85-90, staying in a hospital with full of pipes and needles all over them this is not. It's okay if you die two years early, what's the problem?

You die peacefully and gracefully, that's more important, isn't it?

See, death is the last thing that you do in your life, shouldn't you do it gracefully?

We must learn to accept death as a part of our life.

We are not wishing death but when it comes let us learn to go through it gracefully, you know.

If there is a possibility of saving ourselves, living beyond that, that is fine but what I see in all the geriatrics homes in United States, many people are living beyond their death just because of medical support and it's such a torture to themselves and to everybody.

You should see the way in some of the homes they're being treated, not because of anything. the people who work there, after sometime they get irritated because these dead bodies walking around, they don't understand anything, they've forgotten everything, they are like lost all their senses because they have lived beyond their time.

If there was no too much medical input they would have gracefully died at a certain point, isn't it?

There is no sense in stretching it one more month, one more month, one more month; it doesn't make any sense.

But life is not understood that way, we are thinking of always stretching it.

So, if somebody's body is broken beyond redemption let's learn to die gracefully.

Let us make the person understand it's okay, it's alright, you know, we're all in the cue, aren't we?

So, you're ahead of me, isn't that great? (Laughter)

In any cue you want to be ahead of everybody, isn't it? (Laughs)

So, I'm not trying to make fun of somebody's illness but we should understand where one thing stops and the other thing begins, isn't it?

Why Must Handicapped Children Suffer? - Sadhguru

See when a child is handicapped either physically or even mentally, a child is not suffering; parents are suffering, isn't it? A child is incapable but not suffering. Have you noticed this? Even a mentally handicapped child he is not suffering; actually he is more free of suffering than lot of other children.

Parents are suffering because their child is not like somebody else’s child.

It's the parent who is suffering because the parent knows the consequence of this child living in the society; he doesn’t have certain capabilities; what will happen to him tomorrow.’ With these concerns the parent is suffering. Isn't it so?

The child is not suffering. The child is incapable, handicapped means just that. Handicapped, the word itself says that.

So a handicap has come, why? A certain manufacturing defect.

That’s what you are talking about, isn't it? All this may sound very brutal to you, the way I am talking; it’s very brutal but I didn’t create this brutality.

Life is like this, isn't it? Yes? Your creator is brutal;

I am only explaining his brutality. I am bringing clarity to his brutality;

I did not create this brutality, isn't it? Yes or no? Somebody is born with half a brain;

I didn’t create it but if you are saying this is the work of the creator this is creator’s brutality. Either you see it the way it is and see what we can do out of it or you don’t see it. Today we no more call them as handicapped children; we call them ‘Special children.’ They’re special because they are not like other children.

They are different. That’s a good way to look at it.

They are special children. It is just that because you are comparing the child to some other child you are thinking it is handicapped.

Otherwise it is a special child. Suppose do you know, you are printing currency notes;
All 100 rupee notes are supposed to be one way except the number but one 100 rupee note went crazy like this. Do you know a collector would pay a …million rupees to buy that 100 rupee note?

It’s a special currency note, a freaky one. You can't buy anything out of it but still it is special currency note.

This is just like this. A child, something has gone not…not the way it should go normally, it’s gone some other way.

You don’t have to make everything into a suffering; that’s what I am saying. People who have normal children, who have all their limbs and everything in place, are they not suffering?

Because the child is not listening to what you think they should do you’ll suffer, isn't it? So your suffering has nothing to do with the handicap; nothing to do with well-being; your suffering is just that if anything happens that you think should not happen you will suffer. Or in other words you want the whole existence to happen the way you think it should be; it will never be so. In what form it comes to you it doesn’t matter; it comes to you in the form of a handicapped child; it comes to you in the form of a ruined business; it comes to you in the form of death, sickness - which way it comes it doesn’t matter but your demand is just this - existence should happen according to your will. It will not happen that way. Hm?

[Questioner] How do you deal with it, if it doesn't go according to your will?

[Sadhguru] If the whole existence goes according to your will

[Questioner]...doesn't go according to your will!

[Sadhguru] No, suppose it goes according to your will

[inaudible]

Yes, the whole existence goes according to your will Seema, where should I go?

It should happen according to my will also, isn't it?

So some things happen your way; some thing happen my way.

What is God? - Sadhguru

The soul is sacred for people; the body is filthy, how is it possible? Yes?

That’s what we have been doing. Isn't it so? Saying God is sacred; creation is filthy, how is it possible?

The very thought of God occurred to you only because you saw creation, isn't it?

When you were born and you opened your eyes, you looked around, so much creation!

Before you came here so much has happened, obviously you did not create it, so you thought there must be a creator. This is how you come to the creator, isn't it?

The moment you thought there must be a creator, because you are in a human form you thought it must be a big man; a small man like me cannot do all this, it must be a big man.

Just two hands, how can he do so much creation? Must be eight hands, isn't it? Isn't it so?

If you were a buffalo you would be really thinking God is a huge buffalo.

Isn't it so? Yes or no?

You go and ask a buffalo and see, a buffalo will insist God is a huge buffalo, maybe four horns.

You know Idi Ameen, you heard of Idi Ameen, the Uganda man? Idi Ameen declared ‘God is black.’

I agree with him. If a white man can have a white God why can't a black man have a black God?

But both those people are confused, we know God is brown.

Because he visited us, you know.

Sometime ago I was talking to a group of people in Nashville in Tennessee and I was telling them a joke.

In the joke I just referred to God as ‘Him.’ Immediately a few ladies stood up, ‘Do you believe God is a man?’ I knew where it's going. I said, ‘See I... see I am only telling you a joke.’ ‘It doesn’t matter, you said Him. Do you believe God is a man?’

They take the jokes very seriously. Now, women are arguing God could be a woman.

Such problems exist only in those cultures. In India we have man god, we have woman god, we have cow god, we have monkey god, we have everything, every kind, crawling one, creeping one, flying one, because we foresaw all the problems of the future.

See, when man was the most powerful force on the planet man was naturally God.

Now women are also gaining in their power so women are questioning ‘Why it… why can't it be a woman?’

So, tomorrow suppose dogs gain lot of power which they are gaining; so dogs will ask ‘Why not a dog God?’ Actually the spelling also is close, you know? He seem to be closer than you, isn't it?

So, your idea of God is just an exaggerated version of yourself, isn't it?

Your idea of God is just an exaggerated version of yourself.

See, you are still not able to define yourself, isn't it?

Whatever definition you put on yourself is not correct.

Any kind of definition you put on you it is not enough to describe this one.

When this small piece of creation is like this, the source of creation, how are you going to put a definition on it?

You cannot define it, you cannot understand it, you can only dissolve into it.

You can experience it, you can never know it. You can't make knowledge out of it.

Whatever …knowledge you have about God is just pure nonsense, cultural nonsense.

Depending upon which kind of culture you are in, that kind of God you have, isn't it?

It can only be experienced. Experience does not mean you can eat it or you can grasp it.

No, you can experience only by dissolving in it, there is no other way.

So, we are just looking for methods of dissolution so that we can experience something far bigger than ourselves.

Shambhavi Mahamudra, A True Miracle - Sadhguru

[Sadhguru] Do you see this body -- as we have been going through this again and again to the same point when it was born it was so small, now it became this much.

Definitely you didn't need any external stretching help to get it to this size, isn't it?

That which is the source of creation, what you refer to as the creator seem to be functioning from within you.

Isn't it so? Yes?

The creator is functioning, that is... that means the manufacturer of this body and this existence seems to functioning from within you.

If the manufacturer is inside if you allow him to function, fixing small flaws in the body you think it'll be a problem?

So, Shambhavi Maha Mudra is just creating a passage so that your innermost core functions.

If you allow it to function the nature of this - in yoga we refer to the your innermost core as the bliss body.

People have always talked for ages that if you come in contact with God you will become blissful, you know, Brahmanand?

You know, they have been talking about this?

See, it's different ways of presenting it. Your innermost core is referred to as bliss body.

Now, all we are trying to do is the physical body, the mental body, the pranic body and the etheric body we are aligning it in such a way so that the innermost core within you, the bliss body finds expression.

The Shambhavi is not creating ecstasy. The Shambavi is just aligning these four so that this one, the source of creation finds expression.

If the source of creation within you, the creator finds expression, fixing your heart, liver or kidney you think it's a big problem?

Manufacturer, when he comes out and begins to function everything is fixed.

You will see miraculously health will become okay. I can show you thousands and thousands of people who come out of their ailments just like that, like a miracle. Is it a miracle?

Anything that you don't understand you will call it a miracle, isn't it?

Suppose you don't know what is electricity and I tell you 'you just watch this, I am going to press that wall and this hall will be flooded with light' would you believe me?

You won't believe me. You will say 'No, such things are not possible.'

Now, if I press it and suddenly there is light everywhere, now you think either I am son of God, messenger of God or God Himself depending upon which culture you come from, isn't it?

Anything that you don't understand is a miracle in your understanding.

Either there is no miracle in life, everything happens between cause and effect or everything is a miracle.

Isn't this life a miracle? You and me sitting here on this round planet which is going at a tremendous speed, is it not a miracle?

We sitting here and talking all this nonsense? Is it not a miracle?

[Audience] Yes.

[Sadhguru] So, if you look at it, if you have eyes to see, everything is a miracle or nothing is a miracle.

These are two ways to approach life; these are two forms of yoga.

One is to see everything as sacred; another is to see everything as utter nonsense but now your problem is what you like is sacred, what you don't like is nonsense, that's a problem, that's a trap. Everything is sacred; this is the beautiful way to live.

Everything is nonsense; that is also a very beautiful way to live.

What... these people are sacred, these people are nonsense - this will destroy you.