Stop Managing Your Time: Manage Your Energy - Sadhguru
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Why can’t we manage time but can manage our energy?
The more deeply you're entangled, the more time has a grip on you. You cannot manage time, but you can manage your energy. The sadhana is essentially designed to crank up energy if your energies are at a certain peak. What is hundred years for somebody is like ten minutes for you. Once there's no sense of time, there is no burdensomeness in one's life. Everybody intends to be joyful. They keep falling into pits because they don't have the necessary energy to keep it up. If you want to be ecstatic, every moment of your life, you need a powerhouse of energy within you. If you want to know life in a graceful manner, you must know how to combine this time and energy in perfect unison. In our lives, Essentially, this is a combination of time and energy.
If time runs out before energy runs out, it's called untimely death. If energy runs out before time runs out, it's called vegetative life because energy has run out, still there is time. If you want to know life in a graceful manner, you must know how to combine this time and energy in perfect unison. Only then, this life will be a fulfilling life. This way, life will be managed well. A whole lot of people, especially the management gurus around the world, are always talking about time management. Don't try to manage time because time is slipping away for all of us at the same pace. You do something, you don't do something, you're a mystic, you're a mistake, it doesn't matter what you are, time is slipping away for all of us at the same pace.
Don't try to meddle with it. I'm not saying you cannot master it, but If you want to just live well, don't bother about managing time. You cannot manage time, but you can manage your energy. If your energies are at a certain… in a certain way, what is ten years for somebody is ten minutes for you, depending upon the exuberance in which you keep your energies, at the peak, if you keep it. What is hundred years for somebody is like ten minutes for you. In terms of activity, what is… what somebody can do in a hundred years, maybe you can do it in one year, if your energies are at a certain peak. So there is a lot one can do with energy. It's almost a limitless possibility. But don't try to meddle with time, because do what you want, time is slipping away at the same pace.
You're sitting here, as I'm talking about time, it's going away, slipping away. You are, since we started the darshan, you're twenty minutes closer to death. Yes or no? Don't laugh, it's true. So all this yoga is... The current form of yoga that we are teaching you has nothing to do with time, has something to do with your energy. Time becomes a relative experience. In different people's experience, time may be different. If you're a joyful being, twenty-four hours may pass off like that for you. If you're depressed, twenty-four hours feels like a eon. In your experience, it may be different, but in terms of time, it is passing at the same pace for every one of us.
How does peak energy affect our perception of years versus minutes?
If you want to meddle with time, it's a different world altogether. Right now, all the sadhana is designed so that you can manage your energy at the highest possible level. People hit peaks. The problem is not sustainable. The idea of every day, every day, every day sadhana is so that energy you can manage at a certain peak always. When you become very joyful or when you become very angry, you are at a peak energy, you know. But you can't sustain it. You don't have the energy to sustain it. It's not that you are not joyful enough. It is not that you are not loving enough. It's not that you are not angry enough. It is just that you don't have the energy to sustain it. If you want to be ecstatic, every moment of your life, you need a powerhouse of energy within you.
If you don't know ecstasy business, try anger. Try to remain angry for one hour, let me see. No, you will see two minutes of anger, poof, it goes. After that, you only bicker with people. Intense anger maintain it for 24 hours. Let me see You cannot do it Not because you don't have the intent Because you don't have the energy if you don't have enough energy to maintain 24 hours anger as an experiment if you try Obviously, you don't have the energy to maintain ecstasy for 24 hours.
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Chapters
8 chapters
1
Why can’t we manage time but can manage our energy?
0:00–4:10
2
How does peak energy affect our perception of years versus minutes?
4:10–7:37
3
What is the role of sadhana in cranking up sustainable energy?
7:37–12:03
4
Why does sustained ecstatic or angry energy feel impossible?
12:03–14:48
5
How does darkness and closing the eyes enhance sensory awareness?
14:48–17:53
6
What is the true meaning of renunciation beyond giving up material things?
17:53–21:39
7
Why does the ashram avoid TV, coffee, and loud media?
21:39–26:42
8
How do specific sounds and bells activate the nervous system during yoga?
26:42–30:53
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