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.

The Science of Being Successful - Sadhguru

[Questioner] Sir, I'm a skeptic. Sir, you… you talked about this fact that we should enhance our competence. So how do you start this process?

[Sadhguru] IIT is a beginning. So… what are you skeptical about?
You don’t believe competence will work in this world, is it?
Corruption is also a certain kind of competence, anyway.

[Questioner] That was supposed to be a joke.


[Sadhguru] Okay, that’s supposed to be a joke.
So, now, ‘How do I enhance my competence?’ See, let’s say you want to run on the field, let’s say you want to run a race, you want to run one hundred meters.
It is not running that you have to work on right now, you have to work
on your legs and lungs and muscle and everything. Isn't it so?

So if you want to become a great engineer, yes, definitely an institute like this is crucial on one level, but any number of people might have come here and gone, not all of them became great engineers.

Though they might have produced hundreds of great engineers, still not all of them will become, simply because of their own individual attitudes and competence and whatever else, isn't it?
So whatever the institute can do for you, it is doing. One foremost thing that you need to do is to enhance your own physical and mental capabilities, because if you want to be a good engineer you need a working brain.

Just having a degree of engineering can… may be a passport to a job, but it is not a passport to success, isn't it?


So to have a working brain, which the engineering degree will not freeze. Usually lots of degrees, when people acquire degrees they freeze their brains; they think they can… now they are finished using it and now they can rest it for the rest of their lives; it is not so.

This is only to enhance your capability. This is just an organized effort.
A school, a college, an institute is just an organized effort towards that, because each individual cannot craft it for himself, that is why an institution; otherwise an institution has no other purpose, it is here to just organize that possibility of you striving to be of a certain competence - but that is a mass application.

But as an individual, your most important thing is you as a human being, you are functioning at the fullest level. If that has to happen, there are other dimensions which one needs to explore. Unfortunately though these sciences and technologies for inner well-being have been the mainstay of this culture for thousands of years, today we are largely losing it for various reasons because we want to imitate somebody else, we don’t want to imitate our grandfather Topiwala anymore, we want to imitate the hat seller from another country; because of that we are losing those things, but we should not.

We have to bring it back into our lives, this is very much a part of the way the culture itself is structured, that it is all about the human being.


See, this is the only culture which talks about – which even a illiterate person in this culture is aware of – that you can actually evolve to another dimension of existence.

Even if I go into a village and talk to an illiterate peasant, who has not read anything, who doesn’t know anything, who has not heard any of this stuff, even to him if I go he will not ask me, give me a golden horse’ or something, he’ll say, ‘Mukti venum Swami.’

He's saying he wants Ultimate liberation. Where did this fellow get this?

Nowhere else on the planet this is possible.

Nowhere else on this planet is it possible that an illiterate person is thinking that he can break his present dimension of existence and go to another place, whatever that place is.

So this was bred into our culture so deep, we should not lose it. It was not just the idea – there are technologies to become free. If you became free from the process of your body and the process of your mind, if you can sit outside of it and work it, you would work it brilliantly, do you understand?

You would be able to use this body and use this mind only when you're able to not treat it as ‘myself.’


These are powerful instruments in your life. These instruments can be employed the way you want it, only when you have an outside access to it.

Right now you are a phenomenal computer, but you don’t know where the keyboard is.

When you can’t think, you scratch this spot; that’s not where it is.

Do you see people, when they cannot think, they're thinking hard, they scratch here, it doesn’t work like that. There are proper steps that one can take; it could be offered here if everybody's willing for that.

Sadhguru on the God Particle - Higgs Boson (Part 2)

It's a very good thing that they called it 'The God particle.'

It seems somebody wanted to call it the goddamn particle so they just put God particle and that's a very clever ploy... marketing ploy.

You must be glad that scientists are becoming market savvy.

They have always been in a subtle way, now they are getting little overt.

So, you know for most people their idea of science is just the new telephone model that's coming up, the next model of I-phone is their idea of science.

All these people who never, ever were interested in any kind of physics, now talking about particle physics, world over, everybody is talking about particle physics, that's an achievement.

Breaking a proton and coming up with the boson - is that an achievement that needs to be seen?

But it's definitely an achievement that suddenly the whole world, at least the educated part of the world is thinking particle physics - that's an achievement.

That's a good achievement, at least people are thinking of science as not a way of milking the existence, not entirely, at least a little bit.

They're willing to spend ten billion dollars just to know something; I like that.

There is right now no technological use but they're willing to spend ten billion dollars and thirty years just to know something.

That sounds very spiritual to me it ...usually doesn't cost that much but...

So having achieved one thing, having made a social goal, scientifically what does it mean?

In yoga we see it this way; there is......existence is like this, there is something called as 'sthoola', 'sookshma', 'shoonya', 'Shiva'.

'Sthoola' means the gross existence, physicality is sthoola.

Everything that you can see, everything that you can sense through five sense organs, everything that you can see, smell, taste, hear and touch is considered sthoola.

This can be analyzed with your intellect and understood and grasped.

And this is always made of, as we know today of 'anu' or 'atoms' because it's physical in nature.

It's a complete block of... building block of existence is an atom and if it's made of an atom, once enough number of atoms are there we can touch it, we can smell it, we can taste it, we can see it if it becomes big enough, initially in a microscope, after that with our bare eyes we could see it. But if it goes beyond the perception of the five senses but still it is physical in nature, we call it 'Sookshma'.

So when you enter into Sookshma, it is still physical but you are not able to grasp it; do what you want you cannot grasp it through five senses nor can you analyze it through your intellect, that dimension if we approach it, we call it 'Vishesha gnan' or 'Vishesha gnana,' that means an extra-ordinary knowledge.

Gyan or gnana means knowledge, Vishesh gnan is extra-ordinary or significant knowledge.

So Visheshgnan is referred to as 'Vigyan'.

The word Vigyan is being very loosely used today but essentially it means this -- those dimensions which cannot be perceived through five senses, if you perceive them, that is Vigyan.

So today science is entering those spaces because never, ever is anybody going to see... a Higgs boson.

They are only going to see its footprint. Even now they only saw the footprint; they did not see a Higgs boson. But because they see the footprint, they believe he is there.

Somebody has gone by, they left the footprints. We have not seen the man but we know it's gone by.

We go into the forest, we see the pugmarks and we say, 'Okay there is a tiger.'

We haven't seen the tiger. In fact in a tropical forest it's very difficult to see a tiger but we will see pugmarks here and there.

Just like that they saw the footprint. So they are entering vishesh gyan.

If you go further it will become 'Shoonya' that means absolute emptiness.

There your intellect will be completely useless, your senses will be completely useless because there is no physicality. Where there is no physicality your sense organs and intellect will become absolutely redundant.

If you go beyond shoonya there is something that we refer to as Shi-va.

When I say Shiva don't imagine that calendar man from Shivakasi. Shi-va means 'that which is not'.

If you touch 'that which is not' -- we have always seen it is not physical in nature.

It is not physical in nature means it does not exist but it is opaque.

How can that be? It is not in the realm of your logical mind.

Today modern science believes the whole existence has to oblige to human logic which is a very limited way of approaching life. The whole existence will not oblige to human logic.

You think you can fit the whole existence into your head. No, no, your head fits into the existence, the existence will not fit into your head. Your logic can analyze the physicality of the existence.

Once you cross the physical dimension your logic is completely out of its realm.

So there are,... because this is a dialectical culture, the same science has been expressed in story forms.

I cannot go into the whole story, it's a long story but when I told this story to one of the top scientists in the world, when I was speaking to him and I explained this, 'See this is how it is. This is the nature of the existence.' This is from the yogic lore but we are always told not to believe the lore till it becomes a reality in your experience.

And this is the reality in my experience, if you go like this, this is what will happen.

So when I spoke to this very top-level scientist who is a Nobel Laureate and I was telling him that this is what it is. There was a group of them and when I explained this is how it is within me, what do you think?

They said, 'Sadhguru, if you can give a mathematical backbone to what you are talking, this is Nobel Prize stuff. Can you give a mathematical background?'

I said, 'I'll never bother about the mathematics. It's true for me and it's transformed everything that I am because it's true for me; everything that I ever was changed simply because I touched this dimension within me. I don't wish to work equations for that and anyway Nobel Prize wouldn't mean anything to me.

I would be too embarrassed by such things.

So this story I will... because I will make it so brief there could be holes in it.

If I make it elaborate enough there will be no holes in the story; it's a perfect theory.

And we have proved it within ourselves that it is true but you want to build a ten billion dollar instrument under the ground to prove the same thing; it's up to you.

This can be experientially proved within yourself if you are willing to go into the depths of what this is because this is made exactly the same way the whole universe is made.

If you go deep enough into this and you know how this is made, by inference you know how everything in the universe is made, by inference and even now science is also only inferring.

Today modern science has admitted that it's an ever-expanding universe or an endless universe, rather ever expanding is a yogic term, they are calling it a endless universe.

If it's an endless universe, trying to travel across the universe and find out the nature of the universe is untenable, isn't it? Simply out of question.

The only way you could know the nature of the universe, nature of the creation and the source of creation is by going inward because whatever you ate in the morning whether it's a idly or a dosa or a banana has been transformed into a human being in the last few hours. Nobody else can do this except the source of creation.

So if the source of creation is right here if you want to know anything about creation, isn't it the best place to consult?

If you want to know anything about creation, isn't the source of creation the best place to consult?

And if you had to go to heaven for this you could give it up; if it is right here why don't you consult?

Simply because you're too enamored by your own thought.

You think you are going to capture the whole universe with your thoughts.

It is a foolish way to approach. The only reason why science has survived is because of technology.

It keeps throwing out technologies. If no technologies were coming out of science, they were just talking about all the things that they have been talking, people would have beaten them down for the money that they spent.

And it's happened in the past when there were no technologies and people just spoke science they were beaten down, isn't it?

So science has its value in terms of utility but science cannot open up the existence for human experience. Will not, it can never do it because they are going with intellect.

Intellect, as an instrument works only to dissect.

The only way intellect can approach anything is to break it up and see.

If you ask a scientist to find out something about this flower first thing is he will break it up into pieces.

I think I should ask a scientist to make me understand one of you.

He will talk about dissecting you then. If you break this up you may know many parts of this, you may know the structure of it, you may know the chemistry of it but you will not know the beauty of it, you will not know the completeness of it because the flower is an expression of a plant finding its fulfillment.

It is the highest thing for the plant. For its life this is the highest happening; it's the flowering of that life. You will not know that.

You will not see the hand of the Creator in this if you break it up but as a whole, if you are willing to pay attention, absolute attention; if, in your approach you make this flower more important than yourself and keep your focus on it you will see the whole universe in this. If you break it up you will have petals, you will have other parts of the flower and you'll come to vulgar conclusions and then you will learn how to make use of it.

So right now unfortunately our approach, what we call as science has become like this 'How to use everything in the universe for our benefit?' If you see a tree In America they call it wood. I was, this happened when I was in college.

This happened about four years ago when I was in Mysore, for the first time I conducted a program after many, many years and all kinds of people turned up.

My teachers from school and college turned up. They wanted to see what has happened to me. So after I spoke there and we had two-day event and then my English teacher came and hugged me and she said, 'Now I know why you wouldn't let me teach Robert Frost.' I said, 'Why Madam, why would I not let you teach Robert Frost, I like Frost?'

She said, 'No, do you remember you wouldn't let me teach Frost?'

Then I remembered. One day she came and she opened the book and she introduced Robert Frost as a glorious poet and then she started off, 'Woods are lovely, dark and deep.' I said, 'Stop!’. I said 'A man who calls a tree, a wood, I don't want to listen to him.'

She said, 'No, no, Robert Frost is a great poet.' I said, 'I don't care how great he is; a man who calls a tree a wood, I will not listen to him.' I didn't let her teach.

I didn't let her teach Frost. So after many years she comes up to me and she says,

'Now I know why you wouldn't let...'...
 So if a tiger comes here now from the mountains I mean, if you come from Sri Lanka, that's different.

If a tiger comes down from the mountain, looks at you he will think, 'Wow! Dinner.'

So you look at a tree and you think 'Wood.' It's all right for a tiger to do that because that's all he knows but it's not all right for you to do that, isn't it?

But right now that is all science has become. Anything we see how to make use of it, anything we see how to make use of it. Even an invisible atom we won't leave.

Even the goddamn boson already people are talking about in how many ways it could be used.

We could make a 'boson bomb' do you understand?

If we make a boson bomb, all of you will just vanish; we don't even have to deal with your dead bodies, yes, because you will cease to exist just like the boson.

Instead of shooting you dead or burning you to death, if we make all the protons in your body collide with each other- phew'- you will just vanish. You want the technology?

But they will tell you, 'No, no, no there could be medical uses to it. We could do this, we could do that.'

Yes I know all that but just the idea; it doesn't matter what, you cannot look at anything

without thinking, 'In what way can I make use of it' is a very gross way to exist. 

With this level of existence you will have everything and you will have nothing.

This is modern life. People have everything like never before and they got nothing in their lives, nothing that you can call of any worth.

People who have everything and cannot feel life in any significant way, when they die or when the moment of death comes they will see that they spent these whatever number of years without living a moment because 'what can I get, what can I get' is a sure way not to live, because from what you get you can only make a living, it's only by what you give that you make a life.

So giving does not mean money or something else or something else, it is just that this moment if you look at this tree how totally you can give yourself to this tree, that is how intensely you know life. If you sit here and calculate’'What can I get out of this tree' you will completely miss life, completely.

Life will evade you.

So this kind of science which denies you life should be restricted if you ask me.

I know I am going to be hugely unpopular because somebody is going to twitter and say 'Sadhguru says science should be curtailed.' It's all right.

I am telling you a science which is driven just by 'What can I get out of it' needs to be controlled a bit, otherwise human beings will have everything and they'll have nothing.

When that is your experience then you will destroy everything.

Today the planet is not being destroyed because of something else.

It is just unbridled use of technology, isn't it? It could have been used for our well-being but it's working against us because we have not worked the other dimensions of life, we are just going with this '"What can I get, what can I get?'"

If you go with this, there will be no planet left after some time.

But even if the planet is left, suppose we rope in another ten planets still it will not be enough. We will still have nothing, we will have everything.

This is my experience.

Science should have been just a quest to know, not to exploit the creation. It is just a longing to know.

Human longing to know, wants to find expression in every possible way.

Physical science is it's one of the ways, perfectly fine but once it starts serving the masters who sponsor it, then, if businesses sponsor it, they are looking for profit from it, if nation sponsor it they are looking how to make more powerful weapons out of it, all the time.

You must understand this:

The cutting-edge science always first becomes cutting-edge military technology, only after that it comes down to other uses.

How many lives has it taken, how many more do we want to take? That's the question.

So this goddamn particle, one good thing it's done is the whole world is thinking particle physics, I like that.

That's nice, but do you know the boson is named after Satyendranath Bose?

You know this? No? It's an Indian mathematician, a self-taught mathematician.

As Albert Einstein acknowledged, he said, 'The western sciences couldn't take a single step without the Indian mathematicians. The fundamentals of mathematics came from the East but always here the other ethos of the culture said, 'You should not do anything that's exploitative to nature' because nature was seen as 'Mother Nature'.

You don't go about raping Mother Nature. You take only what you need, nothing more.

Because of that attitude this science was not converted into technology and that is the wisest way to handle science -- just as a quest, a tool, a way to know and nothing beyond that and technology must be really controlled.

What is absolutely needed, that's all that should be done. This unbridled usage -- already people are talking how to use the boson that they have not seen, when we can use the atom that we have not seen. So it doesn't matter what you see, you are thinking of how to use it. This attitude unfortunately has been further fueled by the attitude of science. This needs to be checked, otherwise it will be our nemesis.

It will for sure be a goddamn everything.

Sadhguru on the God Particle - Higgs Boson (Part 1)

You know, they found or they seem to have found something near to what they are referring to as god particle, you know this?
 It's called the Boson, which has a mass which is of a certain significance. If you try to look at the whole universe, you will not see anything.
If you just look at an atom intensely enough and if the atom yields to you, then you know how the whole universe is made. Now, they are no more talking about atom, they were talking about subatomic particles. Now they are not even talking about that. When two subatomic particles collide, not atoms,when two protons collide, something spills out of that, they want to see that. But when you say I am on the path of yoga, you don’t you are not even interested in the tiny miniscule particle; you want to see the empty space which holds all this in place. That is their desire also but they’ve kind of given up on it.

That’s their desire also that they want to see what is it that’s holding all this together. But they understand, they are sensible enough to understand with these two eyes, with these senses we can’t see it. The only way is to go to the nearest point and see it. The nearest point is as far away as Timbuktu. Do you understand? Right now, I don’t know if you are interested in these things but you must know these things because it's got a very direct relationship with yogic system. There was a time when scientists believed…, they thought… let’s say if this is an atom – big enough for you to see, okay - if this is an atom - proton, neutron, electron are all embedded in it like these dots. They thought it was like that. Then by the time you came to High School they wrote a different picture, they wrote one central circle which contains proton, neutron and electrons are going around like planets in different formats. Yes, you have seen those pictures? But now they know it's completely wrong.

And we have always known it's completely wrong. That’s why text books never ever interested me because when I look at it, it looked dumb. Today, suppose… suppose this is the size of the core of the atom, the electrons are, let’s say somewhere approximately a mile away, that’s the kind of distance, you understand, within an atom. An atom is not like this. No human being has ever seen an atom, do you know this? Forget about a proton, neutron, electron.
Nobody has ever witnessed an atom. Even in a super electron microscope you cannot see it. In that, there is a housing where proton, neutrons are there and the electrons are about a mile away, in comparison, in proportion I am saying. So what is the maximum substance in this? Emptiness, isn't it?

We always told you, the yogic systems always insisted that the microcosm and the macrocosm are made the same way. If you know this piece of life you will know everything in the universe because that’s how it is made. When they say, if you know the way these Bosons behave and what they are, they are saying we will know the whole universe, the way the universe was made we will understand.
 
But you don’t understand that you are also a bloody Boson. In the cosmic space you are just a Boson. So you are as much as a Higgs Boson in the universe.

If you observe this, if you pay enough attention to this you would know everything. But if you have not even paid attention to anything around you, paying attention to within you will be out of question.