It’s fair to assume that most people have an idea of what being successful means to them. Many of us focus on having certain material things; a nice car, home, or vacations. To others, success means having a family and children to love and be loved by, or they may judge their success based on how revered they are in their communities, what their job title is, or how many advanced degrees they have. Many of us focus on the end goal and not on the process and the qualities within ourselves that it takes to reach what we think of as success. In that frame of mind, we might not think much about how our mind, body, and energy should be on the journey to success. And even then, even if we’re aware of our own individual internal states on the journey to success, how many of us imagine a kind of success that has a positive effect not only for ourselves but for many?
Sadhguru says, “The quality of my activity, the nature of my activity, is definitely determined by what kind of body, what kind of mind, what kind of energy that one carries, isn’t it so?”
“If I meet you when you are unhappy, frustrated, and angry, you are capable of being nasty, aren’t you? Isn’t this true for every human being? Yes, or no? Anger is unpleasantness, isn’t it? When a man is angry, this is what happens. The more powerful he is, the more successful he is, the more unpleasantness he is capable of spreading, isn’t it?”
“Our idea of success, or the quality of success, is essentially coming from what’s happening in our minds, what’s happening in our body, what’s happening in our energy. So, making your body very pleasant, making your mind very pleasant, making your energies very pleasant must happen before you embark on success.”
“If he is unpleasant in his body, unpleasant in his mind, unpleasant in his energy, if he seeks success, he will spread unpleasantness all over the place. His idea of success will be such.”
“You can only do what you are, you cannot do anything other than what you are, isn’t it? Yes, or no? Can you do something more than what you are? You can only do what you are.”
“If you’re feeling very pleasant right now, you will think of doing pleasant things to everybody around you. If you’re feeling unpleasant right now, you will naturally do unpleasant things to people, isn’t it? If I meet you when you are very happy, I’m sure you are a wonderful man. Yes, or no?”
It makes one stop and think about what we want to channelize? How should we keep ourselves? What kind of success do we want to bring to the world?
Sadhguru says, “So, definitely how you keep yourself – before you embark into the world, before you touch any other human being – to make this one [Referring to oneself] utterly pleasant is a fundamental responsibility, isn’t it? If you make this unpleasant for some reason, whatever may be your reason, you will naturally spread unpleasantness in the world. So, before you touch another life, you must make this life a very pleasant process, then whatever you touch, you touch in a pleasant manner.” That’s one of the greatest things about being human: we are able to choose our response.
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