Many of us may have encountered people in different walks of life who have a certain ease about them in the way they live. Can we call it “effortless living” to the outside observer? On the other side, we see people who live their life in a more laborious way with a lot of emotional ups and downs. What factors influence whether one is living effortlessly or laboriously? Granted, life situations play some part in the quality of our lives, but even a critic would agree that there’s more to it than that. A person’s way of being certainly plays a big role. Is it possible that people who experience emotional upheavals are frequently building stories in their mind which cause pain or joy? How can we keep things simple within ourselves and not overreact to unexpected circumstances? In the sport of Cricket, it is often said that one should only play one ball at a time on its merit and respond appropriately; if you bring memories of past successes or failures or an opponent’s reputation to the equation, things can become extremely muddled. How can we consciously find ways to stay in the moment and see things as they truly are?
Listen to Sadhguru answer a seeker’s question on “achieving balance between the material and the spiritual world” in the video below. “So, definitely you understand, what you gather can be yours – at the most – but never, ever, can be you, isn’t it so? Is this understood? So, everything that’s material about you, is gathered from outside, isn’t it? But to gather all this, there must be something fundamental which gathers all this – let’s not give it a name, we’ll just call it life for now. You are a life, but you gathered a body, you gathered information, and became like this. Now, if you’re only experiencing what you have gathered – that is, your physiology and your psychological structure. That means, you’re going through life process without touching life – ever! Just the surface aspects that you gathered, you’re only experiencing the accessories of life.”
Sadhguru also implores us to go beyond the five senses and sharpen our perception to truly see things as they are: “Why I’m saying this is, right now your entire experience of life is limited to seeing, hearing, smelling, tasting and touching – this is the way you know there is a world, this is the way you know that you are existing right now. Just because we realize the planet is round at one time, it has empowered us in so many ways, isn’t it so? If we thought it’s flat, which we did some time ago…no, but we just realized we didn’t make it round. It was always round, but we thought it’s flat. But one day we realized it’s round: how it’s changed our life, isn’t it? Similarly, spiritual process means just this: you are not doing anything, you just started seeing everything the way it is, rather than imagining it some other way. And seeing things the way they are is the biggest empowerment you can have, isn’t it? In your life, whether you want to engineer, or you want to run commerce, or you want to do biology, first and foremost thing is, you see it the way it is, isn’t it? If you don’t see it the way it is, everything that you do will be wrong; not one thing, everything that you do will be wrong.”
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