Inner Engineering: The Way it Works

What does it mean to engineer yourself? Below, Sadhguru explains the technology of engineering your own system of body, mind, emotion, and energy.

Sadhguru: Engineering means making or building something the way it works. Something is well engineered means, something works with least amount of friction. If a machine is well engineered, it functions with least amount of friction. Least amount of friction means it is not against itself. Inner Engineering means just this, that you are not against yourself.

Why am I against myself? Well, if you’re feeling stress, if you’re feeling tension, if you’re feeling anxiety, fear, anger, hatred; if you’re knowing any kind of suffering, you must know your own intelligence has turned against you. If your body, your mind, your emotions and energy were flowing smoothly within you, would there be any of these things? So your own system is turning against you.

So what is lacking is proper engineering. It needs to be engineered. Otherwise, it is functioning in reaction to something around you. It has become accidental. It is not well engineered. So Inner Engineering essentially means, to bring yourself to a state where all that you have, all the faculties of being human works for you, not against you. That means, if your mind is working for you, would it create suffering for you?

Is Your Mind Working for You?

A miracle of this mind has been transformed by most human beings into a misery manufacturing machine. If you understand all human experience is coming from within–your miseries and your joys are coming from within, your agony and your ecstasy comes from within, that the making of who you are comes from within you—if you understand this, how can you not engineer yourself to perfection. So this is what Inner Engineering means, technologies to bring yourself to a state where this functions at its optimum level. Nothing less than that.