Knowing the human mechanism
It is not necessary to think, “I have to become spiritual.” You are a human being – one way of looking at it is you are a certain mechanism. This is a human mechanism that is functioning, which involves body, mind, emotions and energy – a whole lot of things which makes you a complete piece of life. If you want to be an effective human being in this life, if you want to perform and do things well, if you want to enjoy, know and experience your life, you must be able to use this mechanism to the fullest extent. If you want to use this to the fullest extent, first of all, you need to know what potential it carries.
As a piece of life, isn’t it worthwhile for you to pay a certain level of attention to the human mechanism, which you call as “myself ?” If you think life is valuable, then the first and foremost thing that you need to do is pay enormous attention to this mechanism. What is this? How is it made? If you do not understand this, you are never going to use it to its fullest extent. You are going to live half a life and go.
Every person is interested in knowing the human mechanism to its fullest. Everybody is a spiritual seeker unconsciously. People have gotten an allergy to spirituality because of the horrid, impractical ways in which it has been presented. Otherwise, there is no human being who does not want to know the fullest dimension and depth of himself because without that, he cannot operate. To what extent you know this body, the mechanism of the mind and the mechanism of this energy – how it flows – only to that extent you can use them. If you buy any machine, let’s say a cell phone, how well you know it is how well you can use it.
Why is the same not true with the human mechanism? This human mechanism is the most sophisticated machinery on the planet, not the phone, or the computer or the spacecraft. If you want to live a full life, you must know this human mechanism in the highest possible way. Ranked amongst the fifty most influential people in India, Sadhguru is a yogi, mystic, visionary and bestselling author. Sadhguru has been conferred the “Padma Vibhushan” by the Government of India in 2017, one of the highest annual civilian awards, accorded for exceptional and distinguished service.