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𝗜𝘀 𝗖𝗲𝗹𝗶𝗯𝗮𝗰𝘆 𝗮 𝗡𝗲𝗰𝗲𝘀𝘀𝗶𝘁𝘆 𝗼𝗻 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗦𝗽𝗶𝗿𝗶𝘁𝘂𝗮𝗹 𝗣𝗮𝘁𝗵?

Sadhguru looks at why celibacy was usually prescribed for those wishing to take up the spiritual path.

𝙌: Is celibacy the only way or can people in whatever is considered as “normal life” also have a foothold in spirituality?

𝙎𝙖𝙙𝙝𝙜𝙪𝙧𝙪: The whole dimension of spirituality is to grow beyond the physical, to taste something beyond the physical. If your involvement with the physical is very deep, naturally your attachment to the body is very strong. It is not sex per se which can be an impediment in one’s growth but one’s attachment to the body definitely is an impediment – there is no question about that. Generally, sexuality breeds that attachment. Celibacy has been talked about in that context. But does the sexual act itself stop a person from pursuing his spiritual path? Not at all, but what is being said is, unless your focus is strong and one-pointed, the chances of progress or the progress itself will naturally be very slow because you are thinking in many directions at the same time.

For a person who wants to go all out and do things in a short time, the advice is definitely to not get entangled with these bodily aspects because then you will get involved in many things. For many people, if they start out with any kind of physical involvement with something, emotions and thoughts follow and their whole life becomes just that – they cannot keep their focus on anything else. If a person is such that one department of his life is handled one way and it is totally absent when he sits for something else, then it is not so much of an impediment. But most people cannot deal with their lives like that. It just entangles them on all levels. It is in that context that this has been said.

Whatever activity you do in your life has nothing to do with the spiritual process because the spiritual process is inward, activity is outward. Action is either of the body, mind, energies or emotion. All these things can be stepping stones for a spiritual process but they are not spiritual in any sense because all of them belong to the physical realm. Spirituality and activity have actually got nothing to do with each other if you know how to keep a clear distance between the two. But that distance is not there in most people, so we say “do not get entangled in this, do not get entangled in that.” If you are absolutely conscious in every aspect of your life, nothing that you do in your life is an impediment. But that is a far away thing for most people.

𝐂𝐨𝐦𝐩𝐮𝐥𝐬𝐢𝐯𝐞𝐧𝐞𝐬𝐬 𝐭𝐨 𝐂𝐨𝐧𝐬𝐜𝐢𝐨𝐮𝐬𝐧𝐞𝐬𝐬

Though people would like to project their sexuality as a very conscious process, it is not so. It is a compulsive process. Maybe it is handled a little consciously by some people while others do it compulsively, but essentially, the basic ingredient and seed of sexuality is a compulsive process. It is physiological and chemical – it is a function of hormones which drives you in that direction. Unless you are able to transcend all compulsiveness within you, it is definitely an impediment in that sense.

Any kind of activity, whether it is eating, sexuality, talking or whatever, if it is a compulsive process – if you are enslaved to it – it is an impediment. If you look at what is causing this compulsiveness, if you understand that and handle that aspect, compulsiveness goes away. That means you are definitely moving towards freedom. If one pursues a spiritual path, irrespective of where he is right now, he will gradually evolve out of many compulsions within himself.

I am not saying that we are worse than other generations, but we are not significantly better, despite the amount of toll we have taken on every other life to have what we want to have.

These technologies will bring comfort and convenience but will not bring wellbeing. It is time to focus on inner wellbeing. Right now, your wellbeing is still determined by what is around you, not what is within you.

If your body and your brain took instructions from you, would you keep yourself healthy and blissful every moment of your life? If you had a choice, definitely you would. If you are not blissful every moment, obviously, your body and your brain are not taking instructions from you. This means you are not conscious enough.

So, we have to invest in that direction. In our cities, there are hospitals, schools, toilets, and everything. But do you have a place for people to meditate? When technology starts doing most of the things that you are doing now, and you do not know why you exist, then the need for inner wellbeing will become super-strong. So, if we want to be ready for that day, it is very important that we invest both physical infrastructure and human infrastructure which focuses on the innermost core of who we are.

𝗪𝗶𝗹𝗹 𝗧𝗲𝗰𝗵𝗻𝗼𝗹𝗼𝗴𝘆 𝗼𝗳 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗙𝘂𝘁𝘂𝗿𝗲 𝗕𝗲𝗰𝗼𝗺𝗲 𝗕𝗼𝗼𝗻 𝗼𝗿 𝗕𝗮𝗻𝗲?

Sadhguru shares his perspective on how future technologies will reshape our lives.

𝙎𝙖𝙙𝙝𝙜𝙪𝙧𝙪: Right now, ninety percent or more of humanity lives by their physiological and intellectual capabilities. But everything that you can do, a machine will do in future. Anything that can be built by storage of memory, access to memory, analysis of this memory and expression of this memory, everything that you are doing through your intellect, thinking that is you, will be done by a machine at some point.  

Once machines start doing this, it is inevitable for you to explore the deeper dimensions of who you are. And that will be a great day, because that means we are on a holiday. We will not work for a living. Then we can look at life in a completely different way.

𝐀 𝐃𝐢𝐦𝐞𝐧𝐬𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝐁𝐞𝐲𝐨𝐧𝐝 𝐌𝐞𝐦𝐨𝐫𝐲

What you call as your body and your mind is a certain accumulation of memory. Memory is what has made you everything that you are. For example, if a man eats a piece of bread, the bread becomes a man. If a woman eats it, it becomes a woman. If a dog eats the same bread, it becomes a dog. That’s a smart piece of bread! It is not the bread but the kind of memory the system carries that transforms bread into a man, woman or dog.  

The very structure of your body is a certain dimension of memory. Memory is also a defining boundary. But there is a dimension of intelligence which we call chitta, or in modern terminology, it can loosely be called consciousness. This dimension of intelligence has no memory in it. Where there is no memory, there are no boundaries to it. 

Human intellect is an island. All products of human intellect are small islands, including technology. Consciousness is the ocean in which we exist. Consciousness is an intelligence that is not identified with any memory or boundary of you and me, and this and that. This is a dimension of intelligence which has no boundaries.

As our technological capabilities increase, we must also strive to upgrade human beings to move beyond the limitations of their intellect and come to a deeper dimension of intelligence which is the very source of life itself within us.

𝐈𝐧𝐟𝐫𝐚𝐬𝐭𝐫𝐮𝐜𝐭𝐮𝐫𝐞 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝐂𝐨𝐧𝐬𝐜𝐢𝐨𝐮𝐬𝐧𝐞𝐬𝐬

If anything needs to happen, a certain amount of human energy, time, and resource has to be dedicated to it. So, we have to invest in consciousness. Till now, we have been investing only in our survival. But once these technologies start becoming a reality, survival will not even be an issue. When survival is not an issue, we will definitely start investing. But the sooner we invest, the lesser the aberration when we move into these new possibilities that technology will open up.

Technology is always a double-edged sword. Which way you are going to use it depends on who you are. Whether your identity and your experience are very exclusive, or your identity and experience are very inclusive, will determine in which way the sword will swing.

So, what do we have to do for consciousness to manifest in human societies large-scale? In every generation, there have been very conscious beings. But in some generations and in some societies, they have been heard. In other societies, they have been ignored. It is time we make that voice, which refers to a dimensionless, boundary-less consciousness, heard, and make available, methodologies of how to become conscious.

𝐓𝐞𝐜𝐡𝐧𝐨𝐥𝐨𝐠𝐢𝐞𝐬 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝐈𝐧𝐧𝐞𝐫 𝐖𝐞𝐥𝐥𝐛𝐞𝐢𝐧𝐠

As there are technologies to create wellbeing in our surroundings, there is a science and technology to do the same within us as well. With any amount of technology, if you do not know how to be, you still are not well. We know more comfort and convenience than any generation ever knew in the history of humanity. But can we claim we are the most joyful and fantastic generation ever? No! People are becoming neurotic.

Source: http://isha.sadhguru.org/us/en/wisdom/video/significance-kalabhairava-fearsome-form-shiva

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Questioner: Namaskaram Sadhguru, I want to know ‘Kalbhiarava.’ Just throw some light on it.

Sadhguru: How to throw light on darkness? Kalabhairava means the dark one, that’s one aspect of it. We shouldn’t throw light on him. It is seen in many different ways. It is a deadly form of Shiva. When he went into a destructive mode, not of destroying this or that, of destroying time; all physical realities exist within the span of time, isn't it? If I destroy your time everything is over. See, right now your clock is ticking lup-tup, lup-tup along with your watch something else is ticking inside right? Suppose we fast forward everything. We just shhhhch. Over, isn’t it?

So, Kalabhairava means just that. Because most people do not choose to live in a great manner, they have an aspiration. At least they want to die in a great way. So, Kalabhairava is a deadly form of Shiva, it was guaranteed if you come to Kashi, you will attain to Mukti, it doesn’t matter what kind of a lousy creature you have been all your life. So, all the lousy creatures started coming because they lived badly, and they want to die gloriously, only the population of the lousy multiplied. Then Shiva said, "The place is becoming lousy, with so many lousy people." So he said, "There needs to be some check." So, he took the form of Kalabhairava, and it's called Bhairavi Yatana. That means when the moment of death comes, for all that you have been, your many, many lifetimes plays out in a moment with great intensity and whatever pleasures and sufferings and pains that need to happen to you, will all happen, it would have spread over many lifetimes, but all that will happen to you in a micro second but with the kind of intensity that you cannot hold. So, this is called as Bhairavi Yatana. You know what "Yatana" means? Yatana means ultimate suffering. It's something that happens to you in hell, he will make it happen to you here.

So, when you want to do that kind of a job you need a right kind of costume, so he comes with the right kind of costume of looking terrible. If he looks nice, that will be very evil, you know. If somebody looks pleasant and does terrible things, that would be evil. If somebody has to do terrible things, they should at least look terrible isn't it? So, Shiva put on the right kind of costume and became Kalabhairava to create Bhairavi Yatana for you. To create such phenomenal pain, that you have not imagined possible, but just for a moment so that after that nothing of the past remains in you, undoing your software, painful isn't it? But this happens, at the moment of death, you have no choice, you can’t run. Yes, you can’t run but he makes it as brief as possible. Suffering has to end quickly, we must make it super intense, then only it will end quickly. If it is mild, it goes on and on forever.