Sadhguru

Simply because it's not taking instructions from you.

If your mind took instructions from you, would you... would you make it blissful or miserable?

Don't think in terms of anxiety, depression, this, this, this, these are all various levels of suffering.

Would you cause suffering to yourself or would you cause joy to yourself if your mind was taking instructions from you?

It's very simple, no human being would want to create suffering for themselves.

But right now, mind has become a compulsive cycle.

They can't help it, it's running by itself.

Suppose, you know, like I was talking to during the COVID time, some of the top psychiatrists from UK wanted to speak to me.

I was not a client, I'm just making it clear .

They wanted to talk to me and they said there are seventy-two varieties of mental ailments.

I was surprised.

In my understanding, there may be there are five, six, ten, something like that, like you mentioned a few just now.

I asked, what are these seventy-six?

They said many, many things and one thing I struck me is that they said compulsive nose-picking.

I said, what?

Yes, people are compulsively picking their nose, even if they bleed, they cannot stop.

So essentially, we need to understand, all mental suffering is compulsiveness.

What is the solution for compulsiveness?

I'm asking you, if you're in a room,

and it's dark, what is the solution for this?