Women on the path of freedom
 If
the need to grow is deep within you, if that is your aim, first of
all you should be clear about what is there in your experience and
what is not. Clearly mark what is there in your experience and what
is not. What is there in your experience, you know.
What is not there
in your experience, you need not say it does not exist. Just say,
"I don’t know." If you have reached this state, growth
will happen by itself. What you don’t know, if you accept that you
do not know, then there will be growth. Instead, whatever you do not
know you start believing in and think you know everything.
Now, if growth has
to happen within you, you should see what is there in your
experience right now. Right now, what is there in your experience?
You have experienced your body to some extent, you have experienced
your mind to some extent, you have experienced the world to some
extent. In some moments you might have also experienced to a certain
extent the energy which makes this body and mind function.
Beyond this you
have not experienced anything. Everything else is just imagination.
Whichever way the society has taught you, your imagination is that
way. Look into what is there in your experience and what is not. And
all that is not there in your experience you accept as, "I do
not know." This is very, very essential. Otherwise this whole
life will pass in pretensions.
You don’t have to
come to any conclusion. What you do not know, if you accept as,
"I do not know," then the search will happen within.
Whether it is God, whether it is truth, if you have to search, where
should you search? You should search within, isn’t it?
If you have to
search within, if you have to realize within, there is a need for
the necessary tool, isn’t it? Now, you have the urge to know the
depth of the ocean. Is it possible to do that with a foot scale? Is
it possible? Is it possible to measure the depth of the ocean with a
foot scale?
You will come back
with the conclusion that the ocean is bottomless. But that is not
the truth, isn’t it? To go inward, you need to have the necessary
tool. What is there with you right now to go inward? What tool do
you have right now? Just your five sense organs. You have nothing
else to search. These five sense organs can realize only
materialistic things. Isn’t it so? There is no chance of
experiencing what is beyond the materialistic world with these
limited tools.
 Now
this body is sitting here; this is very important right now. You
have to feed it, you have to clothe it, you have to decorate it, and
you have to do so many things to it. There is something invaluable
within you and till now you have not experienced that. This
something which is within you, if it goes away tomorrow morning,
nobody wants this body after that. Even your city municipality does
not want it after that. Isn’t that so?
Only because the
fruit called life is inside this peel, this skin has so much value.
What happens if the fruit within is gone? There is nothing after
that. But you are not bothered about the fruit. You are very much
occupied with the peel.
If you keep on
eating the peel all your life, how would it be? Bitter isn’t it?
But the problem with the peel is, there is some sweetness here and
there. Because of its association with the fruit, there is sweetness
here and there.
Now your whole life
is about searching for that sweetness. If you struggle a lot, you
will find some sweetness here and there. Instead of this, if you are
able to realize the fruit beyond the peel, you can always be joyous.
There is every possibility that you can be in this sweetness always.
Had this peel been completely bitter, you would have all been
enlightened by now. The trouble is, there is some sweetness here and
there and you have gone after that sweetness and forgotten the very
source.
For details, contact:
Isha Yoga Center,
Velliangiri Foothills, Semmedu (PO)
Coimbatore - 641 114, India
Phone: 91-422-2319345
Email: yogacentre@ishafoundation.org
Website: www.ishafoundation.org
Extracted from the
book ‘Mystics Musings’ – Sadhguru Jaggi Vasudev
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