Everyone wants to feel good. Not too many people would turn down the chance to feel happy. Unfortunately, too many people think that the way to achieve happiness, even if only for short periods of time, is to take drugs. People who opt for this path in life want to change something about their lives, but is this the answer?
What situations prompt one to turn to alcohol, marijuana, or other drugs as a solution? Perhaps it was feeling the need to fit in, or trying to escape from tension, anxiety, feeling unhappy, or any problem that just seems insurmountable. However, this type of high doesn’t last, doesn’t bring clarity to the mind, and has detrimental effects on the body and overall health. Despite these risks, many people choose drugs as a way to fill the void in their lives. The numbers are increasing according to an article by Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
Sadhguru tells us the way to feel ecstatic all of the time, a way that enables us to live life fully. Why settle for less?
Sadhguru: Every human experience is backed by a chemical basis. People try to put in chemicals either in the form of drugs or drink or whichever way, to manipulate their chemistry into a pleasant experience. If all you are seeking is a little bit of pleasure, I am not against it. But if you are a pleasure seeker, wouldn’t you be interested if you were given an opportunity to have a much bigger pleasure? If you could learn to be drunk all the time and fully alert, wouldn’t you be interested?
I don’t think there is anything wrong with alcohol; I am ignoring it because it doesn’t have enough kick in it. I am constantly drunk on something else – simply drunk on life. I can get intoxicated on just my inhalation and exhalation. People have fallen for alcohol because that is the biggest thing that they have seen. I am offering them a different drink, a drink which is much more intoxicating than alcohol. Most people who have tasted this with me have given up alcohol, not because they think it is bad but because they think it is kindergarten stuff. They have grown beyond it.
The question is not about wrong or right. This is not a moral standpoint. It is just that it is very limited. You drink a little bit tonight and tomorrow morning you get a big hangover. But I can be drunk twenty-four hours of the day – no hangover, it doesn’t cost anything, and it’s good for health! Isn’t this a better way to drink? We look at alcohol, drugs, and all these things as kindergarten stuff because we can get intoxicated a thousand times over just with our aliveness. Why simply wine? You can get drunk with the di-vine.
When I say “Inner Engineering,” I am talking about a technology where you can create a chemistry of ecstasy all the time, consciously. Right now, it is happening accidentally, triggered by somebody. Whatever you can do unconsciously – by looking at the sunset, or by looking at your loved one – you can also do consciously. That is the basis of Inner Engineering.
Within you, you have experienced peace and turmoil, joy and misery, ecstasy and agony. So you are capable of all these things. But right now, you are conducting this whole experience and chemistry unconsciously. You can also conduct it consciously. That is the whole effort of all spiritual processes – to see that you create your life consciously instead of blundering through it by creating it unconsciously.
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