 Change and the world will change with you
Q: Can you tell us how we can work for the wellbeing of society?
A: I’m not interested in the wellbeing of society because society is a big lie. Where is society? I only see individual beings and only the individual can grow. Each one is enormous and tremendous in his own way, each one unique.
“Oh, if we think of ourselves are we not selfish?” These are the ‘good’ people talking. If you don’t know how to be well, what wellbeing will you bring to the world? If you don’t know how to be joyous, if you don’t know how to be peaceful, if you don’t know how to be ecstatic, whatever you do in the world, you’ll only spread your misery around; that is all that is happening right now. If individual human beings are not well, no society is going to be well.
If individuals are rotten and you go on tinkering with society, you’ll have only empty rules and empty morality. World is full of that, world is full of highest morals but look at the immoral way in which people are living. With morality, world has not become clean. It has become dirty. Only because of morality, world has become filthy.
If you do not even know how to keep this little person happy, are you going to make the world happy? These are miserable people with good intentions, and they’re always keeping account of all the good deeds they do, they’re hoping the accounts are properly kept in the heaven, and one day they will go there because of all the good deeds that they did. I just heard that computers in the heaven have crashed and they lost all the data (laughs).
This is all because people are thinking of social wellbeing and not individual wellbeing. If you know how to be well within you, this wellness will grow into society. If you don’t know how to be well, what wellness will happen in society? If you’re a sick person., will you make society well? You’ll only go on to spread your sickness in the world; nothing else will happen.
That is why in Isha yoga, the approach is “I am willing to change. I am not looking forward for the world to change. I am willing to change.” When you say I am willing to change, it’s a huge revolution – a silent revolution. We don’t have to shout slogans, we don’t have to slaughter people, we don’t have to throw stones at each other, but very quietly the world will change. Your homes will change; your offices will change even if a little bit of change enters you. That’s the only way wellbeing will come into society.
Sadhguru Jaggi Vasudev
Isha Yoga Centre
New No.55, Moosa Street
T Nagar
Chennai - 600 017
Ph: 91-44- 24333185, 24348732
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 Sadhguru Jaggi Vasudev is a realised master, Yogi and a profound mystic of our times. Sadhguru developed Isha Yoga - Yoga of the Divine, a scientifically structured programme, as the vehicle to transmit a deep experience of the
Self that changed his life completely about two decades ago.
Belonging to no particular tradition, Sadhguru incorporates what is most valid for the modern seeker. Isha Yoga flourishes today as a spiritual science for hundreds of thousands of initiates around the world.
An accomplished poet and an author of several books, his latest book -
Mystic's
Musings - is one of the most candid unveiling of the mystical dimensions of life.
Isha Foundation, founded by the Sadhguru, also administers the Dhyanalinga multi-religious temple and meditation shrine, an ashram, and a yogic hospital at the Isha Yoga Centre, located on 50 acres at the foothills of the Velliangiri Mountains, 30 km from
Coimbatore.
For More details, contact:
Isha Yoga Center,
Velliangiri Foothills, Semmedu (PO)
Coimbatore - 641 114, India
Phone: 91-422-2615345
Email: yogacentre@ishafoundation.org
Website: www.ishafoundation.org
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