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Chapter 1: What makes Sadhguru a unique spiritual leader?
Why is it that your inner engineering has not been done so that you have the conducive climate that you want? So my whole work is this, that to teach people how to engineer themselves. When I say engineer, people think it's some technology kind of thing. We need to understand. What we call as engineering today used to be magic at one time. Oh, yeah. I've heard of it.
Huh? Yeah, magic. Yeah, they had wizards, everything.
Not like that. If I sat here a thousand years ago and lights came on.
What would you think I am? Not magic. Maybe an electrician?
Come on. There was no electricity a thousand years ago.
I thought you'd have been mystical.
I could have said I'm the messenger.
Oh, you could have said you're a messiah.
Yes. Or I could have claimed I'm the son. Or I could have said I'm himself. Yes. If just I turned on a light bulb. Unfortunately, I didn't have a light bulb thousand years ago. Now everybody has it. So it's not magic anymore. It's just engineering. So I'm just saying engineering means when you engineer something well, it's more than magical.
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Chapter 2: How can we manage our thoughts and emotions?
No, don't even go to consciousness. That's another thing. If you wish to go there today, we will go. Otherwise, we won't go. Okay. Just the neuronal system is largely unused. Most studies say our brain capacity is only used 8 to 12% in average human beings. Wow. Some are using up to 20%. Yeah, some are not. Yes. 20% is still not a great percentage. No, yeah. Because… It's like a G minus, I think.
I don't know what that is. I don't even know what it is. Because I didn't go to school much, so I don't know what grades they gave me. Yeah.
Let us imagine they were good, you know? So if we only are using up to 20%, but you believe that we can evolve that.
Yes. Wow. You can push it. If you push it to 100%, you'll be five times at least, probably many, many fold more than what you are right now in terms of your intelligence and capacity, which some human beings are displaying, all right?
Yeah.
So initially you said about this whatever, See, for example, the number of things I'm doing, probably I don't know what you know about us. The number of projects and things, all being done by a volunteer organization. Every day, you know, I have to guide them. It's not like they're professionally trained. Running a volunteer organization means nobody's trained for the job. They're enthusiastic.
Yeah, they're enthusiastic. But they're not trained for the job. And you can't fire them for inefficiency. Yeah. So try to run something like this. Over 18,000, I mean, 18 million volunteers across the world. Really? Yes, part-time. Full-time, over 6,000 full-time volunteers. Wow. Massive projects being run in many places. We are the largest ecological movement on the planet right now.
We're the largest tree plantation program on the planet right now. Replantation? Tree plantation. Tree plantation. We just completed about 25 or 26 days ago, we completed 114 million living trees. So all this takes a certain amount of work. And also our programs are going on all around the world. For all this, it takes a lot of management. At any given time, I can run 14 tracks in my mind.
They're all simultaneously working. Every building that is designed, I design it. From a door bolt to a window to everything, I get engaged.
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Chapter 3: What is the significance of inner engineering?
Yeah, birds. Okay. So you eat a chicken egg. And over this three, four hours, this chicken egg becoming a human being, isn't it? The body that you carry is all what you have eaten. So a bird egg, if a chicken, according to Charles Darwin, has to become a human being, he will say it will take so many million, million years, all right? But you are such a miraculous guy, Theo Vaughan.
Such a miraculous guy over... The morning, over four, five hours time, he would transform a chicken egg into a human being. Wow. Are you doing it or no? Yeah, technically, yeah. But missing the whole process, missing the profoundness of that experience, isn't it? Yes. Because unconscious, whatever you're unconscious of doesn't exist for you. Right now, there's a huge dinosaur standing behind you.
Don't look back. But if you are not conscious of it, it doesn't exist, isn't it? True. So, I'm saying the greatest force in the universe, which is consciousness… Most human beings are not aware of it, so it doesn't exist for them. They struggle with their little bodies and little minds endlessly.
If you become conscious of an intelligence which is devoid of memory, this is important, please understand this properly. Your intelligence presently what you're using is mainly memory-based. If I wipe out your memory, your intellect is useless. It's like you have a computer. If I wipe out all the memory from it, what does your computer do? You can jam your keyboard, nothing happens.
Only with memory it functions. So your present intellect or what you're using right now is only data-based. If you remove the data, it's gone. But there is an intelligence within you which makes a chicken egg into a human being that's not data-driven. It's pure intelligence. You want to call it God, you can call it. You want to call it consciousness, you can call it.
You want to call it myself, you can say myself. Call it what you want. But one thing is clear. See, people are always spreading these things. God is love, God is compassion, God is whatever. If you don't listen to anybody, if you paid attention to life, all you can see is whatever created this is super brilliant. Yes or no? Yes. From filth a flower comes. From stink, fragrance comes.
Is this not just brilliance? It's pretty fascinating. If you just do not take any input from anybody, just pay attention to life around you, you will see you should have said God is brilliant instead of sad because people who are desperate, desperate for love because nobody around them loves them. or they can't love anybody. Because of that, this is God is love, God loves me. No, no.
Whatever you're referring to as God is come because mainly you have no explanation for the creation. You don't know how all this happened. So, somebody sitting up there and doing it, being human being, we are thinking it's in human form. But essentially, you're talking about the source of creation.
Source of creation, the only way you can define it, if you pay attention to it, is incredible intelligence, isn't it? Yeah. That is the only qualifying value that is there. Rest is all made up according to your needs. If you've fallen down, you think God should be compassion. If nobody responding to you, you think God should be love. So many things.
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