What does it take to be a genius? Most people know of a few geniuses, like Einstein or Stephen Hawking, or any number of other people whose names have become synonymous with excellence, brilliance, and creativity in virtually any field. But how does one become a genius? Is it even possible to become a genius through our own efforts, or is genius outside of our individual control, a genetic inheritance like being born with a certain hair color? If it is possible to become a genius, or to somehow activate our innate genius, how might we go about it? Is there perhaps some spiritual process or practice that might help?
Sadhguru: “Genius means… the word genius comes from the word genesis – genō – means creation, or creativity, or the source of creation. So, a genius means, somehow he touched the source of creation – unknowingly, or knowingly. Either you can become consciously moved towards being a genius, or unconsciously a genius.”
“You heard of the mathematician Ramanujan? On his deathbed he wrote a theorem – there are many others before that – but on his deathbed he wrote a theorem. After 100 years, only in 2010 I think, they figured it out that this theorem describes the black holes in the universe. 100 years ago even the concept of black hole did not exist in the scientific community, but he made a mathematical calculation for the black hole, describing black hole through mathematics. Because unless… any theory that you make, unless you have a mathematical backbone, that theory is discarded. But now he did not have a theory, he just made a mathematical backbone, and he said, “I don’t know what this is, my Devi gave it to me.”
“Like in Yoga Center, we have a Linga Bhairavi; like this, some deity consecrated window into the creation. So, all these deities are actually doorways into the limitless possibility; if you know how to open the doorway, this becomes a limitless possibility. For him it all became mathematics, for somebody it might have become music, with somebody else it becomes something else. Or if you are consciously approaching it, you can make it what you wish – whatever you wish you can make out of it. Unconsciously if you get there, it may become one dimension of the universe. So, mathematics did not get invented in your classroom, do not curse your math teacher; it is the nature of the universe.”
“This is the only way the nature of the universe can be translated into human experience, and one of the reasonably efficient ways to do this is mathematics. Words would be total waste. The only efficient way to do it is, to imbibe the universe as a part of yourself. That’s what yoga means; yoga means, it’s become one – everything is in union. That’s the only way you can truly know it. Mathematics is a reasonably good way to interpret it.”
“So, a genius might have happened due to many reasons, but it is not necessarily that in his previous life Ramanujan was a mathematician, a Beethoven was a musician – not necessary. There might have been something else, definitely there was something of some consequence, okay? Definitely there was some evolution of state within themselves that might have manifested as music, or math, or something else in this life, but it is not necessary that there must have been musicians, or mathematicians. It is just that somehow they opened a window, or a door; because of that, one dimension of life became simply apparent for them.”
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