How to Be Calm

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How to Be Calm

Manisha Koirala with Sadhguru

The other question which I want to ask is pertaining to this calming. Which is about in today’s world, with so much happening. Life throwing constant challenges, whether it’s health related, whether it’s relationship related, whether it’s career developments and constant struggle. Let’s forget the bigger terrorism and all that news, but in our own personal day to day life there’s so much pressure, there’s so much challenges that we face. How do we keep calm amongst so much chaos?

Anyway, let me put this to context. Life, even though a lot of organization needs to happen in our country, never before, life was as organized as it is today. You’re talking about relationships, problems and uncertainties. I wanted to know, if you lived here 1,000 years ago. If your man or your child went out, you’ll never know whether they’ll come back or not. Okay. There is always a tiger lurking right there. There is always an elephant waiting to stamp him. He did not go out … If he went out for two days, you sat here praying, wanting him to come back because he didn’t what’s up you and tell you every step of what he’s doing. You just vanished, you just vanished for days or months, you never know whether he’s going to come back or not. Every time he stepped out. Not for war, even for business, even for work, if he went you don’t know whether he will come back.

For the first time, you can keep track of him. I’m saying life is more certain than ever before. We have just become less competent to handle it. If you had to navigate your way through the jungle, it was different. Today navigating to through the Delhi traffic there is road rage. Yesterday or two days, some incidence are dead, people are killing each other. People are killing each other just because they’re not able to handle the traffic chaos. I can imagine if I left you in the rain forest. I can imagine the terror you’ll go through, because you won’t know a thing about how to navigate. Every moment you have to be alert and find your way. There is no traffic policeman pointing this way or that way for you. When to stop, when to go, somebody has to tell you now. Then if you didn’t stop at the right time you would be dead. I’m saying life is more organized than ever before on this planet. Don’t complain. You have more comforts, more conveniences than any generation ever had. Yes or no? Please all of you.

Yes.

Yes or no.

Yes.

Aren’t you enjoying more material comfort than your parents and your grandparents? Unless your grandfather was something else.

Don’t look at me.

Life is better than ever before, but we have the lost the ability within ourselves because somewhere we think by fixing the outside everything will be okay. No, by fixing the outside, comfort will come, convenience will come, well-being will not come. If you’re seeking well-being in is the only way out. If you lose the ability to look inward then … Glamour will be there on the outside. Glamour is good on the outside. Why I’m saying glamour is good is, suppose you’re running an industry. I’m sure many of you are running some industry or business or whatever. In your industry do you want glamour or do you want silence? Hello. You want glamour, they love the glamour. You understand? Suppose tomorrow morning they walked into their industry, everything is quiet. Oh that’s terror for them. They don’t want calm in their industry. We must understand these are two different dimensions. One is external situation, another is inner situation. Calm is of inner nature. Glamour is of the material world. More glamour, better you’re doing, isn’t it? Yes or no.

Yes.

More glamour, better you’re doing. Yesterday somebody was telling me Sadhguru no, development is happening, prime minister is going on saying things will happen, nothing is happening, the only thing that’s happening is more pollution. I said more pollution means something is happening. Yes or no? More pollution means more people are driving, more machines are working, something is happening. The only thing is we have to see how to make it for our lives, that’s different. More pollution means something is happening, isn’t it? If nothing is happening there will be no pollution, yes. If all your industries, businesses, everything come to a stand still, of course pollution will come down, but that’s not the way you want it to come down, isn’t it? You want glamour on the outside, and calm is of your nature, but you have never explored what is the nature of who I am? In the sense people are thinking by fixing this, this, this, this will be okay. No, we can put you in a palace you can still be miserable.

People have hung themselves in extreme poverty, people have hung themselves in palaces too, isn’t it? Creating a palace or extreme comfort levels does not mean you will be okay. You will be okay only when you know, understand and handle the mechanics of this life properly. As you know, all of you running industry and business you understand unless you understand the mechanics of what is happening in your business, you can’t run it well, it’s only by accident. Similarly with this, unless you understand and conduct this properly, you will not know what this is, only by accident. When you’re happy or peaceful by accident, then you will lose it on the road. Delhi streets are testing.