The True Miracle of Life

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The True Miracle of Life

Physicality is always a limitation. You can stretch it, but there is a limitation for physical means limit, doesn’t it? Because the basis of physicality is a limited boundary, isn’t it? Only because there is a limited boundary, you can call this physical. If you take away a defined boundary that the physical form has, there is no such thing as physicality. That which is boundless is not physical, isn’t it? Is there a boundary? Definitely there is. Nature has set up substantial limitations upon you, but what I am talking about it your inventing new limitations.

This is not necessary. As it is, nature has set up enough limitations upon you. You don’t have to invent new limitations and make yourself much smaller than what you are. If there’s so much talk about God and heaven and nonsense, mainly because human beings have not realized the immensity of what it means to be human. That is the main problem. If you are experiencing the immensity of what it means to be human, you wouldn’t be talking so much about other things. This is a grand thing by itself. You make sufficient you’re a human being for the afternoon. Is it not a grand thing? But he is doing it unconsciously.

If you can consciously convert a fish into a human being, it is a phenomena, isn’t it? Isn’t it so? It is an impossible phenomenon which all of you are performing, but unconsciously. How much of you has entered into your consciousness? That’s the question. If you look at it, actually not even 1% of who you are has entered into your consciousness right now. If a few more percentage points enter, suddenly everything that you do looks like superhuman. People around me every day witness things which they can’t believe. People keep on saying, “Sadhguru, are you superhuman? Are you a human being?” I keep reminding them this is not about being superhuman. This is about realizing being human is super.

Let me tell you a story. A certain man got a spiritual thirst. In those days, when they got a spiritual thirst, they went into forest, so he went into the jungle, found a nice rock for him to sit and meditate. He sat down. Then he noticed a little away from him, there was a fox. Both its forelegs were severed. Crippled fox. Probably in some hunter’s trap, both its legs gone. Nature is not kind to any kind of incapability. This taking care of incapable people is essentially a human society trait. In nature, if you’re not capable of earning your own food, you’re done.

Here, there is a fox without both its forelegs, but looking healthy and well fed. He noticed this, and he went, how is this fox managing without legs? Then he sat down. He had to do his meditation. Om … He started. Om om om, went on for some time. As the evening came, he heard the growl of a lion. The moment he heard, oh, om went way and he ran up a tree and sat down. He forgot about the meditation. Then the lion came with a piece of meat in its mouth. Came and dropped it in front of the crippled fox. The fox ate this meat and the lion went away. This man thought, Oh, this is a divine message. God is trying to say something to me. A crippled fox being fed by a ferocious lion. This is a miracle of miracles. God is sending a message to me. What’s the message? What’s the message? What’s the message? He completely forgot about his meditation and started thinking, what is the message?

Then he arrived at his own message. He said, oh, God is trying to tell me, in this miraculous forest, even a crippled fox is being fed by a ferocious lion. When this is so, you on the spiritual path, what are you thinking about food? Just sit there. It will anyway come to you. So he sat down, om, one day. Second day, om. Third day … Sixth, seventh day, he’s groaning for life. Not able to moan. Totally weakened. He was groaning. Death throws. A yogi was passing this way. He heard these noises. He came up to him and asked, “What happened to you? Why are you like this?” He said, “Oh, great yogi. Please tell me I got a divine message. I went by it and I became like this.”

Yogi asked what happened. He said, “Here, look at the fox. Look at him. He’s well fed. Every day, this lion comes with a piece of meat and he feeds him. Don’t you think this is a divine message? Please tell me, is this a divine message?” The yogi said, “For sure, this is a divine message, but why did you choose to imitate a crippled fox rather than a generous lion?” This is a choice you have. If you’re imitating a crippled fox, a generous lion looks like a miracle. It’s not a miracle. It is doable. It is doable.

Nothing miraculous about it, but there are two ways to look at it. One way’s everything is a miracle. Tell me, you put filth into the ground and mangoes come out of the trees. Sweetness. The filth and the sweetness of the mangoes are the same. They are same. Isn’t it so? Aren’t they same? The food that you eat and what you do in your toilet the next day, they are same. Isn’t it so? Yes or no? If you put that same filth into the field tomorrow, once again it becomes your food. Isn’t it so? It is the same, but can you treat both of them the same way? No. You need discretion as to how to treat it, but they’re same. Making filth into mangoes, is this not a miracle? Making fish into a human being? Is this not a miracle? Yes or no. Everything is a miracle. That’s one way of looking at life.

Another way of looking at life is nothing is a miracle. Everything is happening between cause and effect. If you are shortsighted enough not to be able to see the cause, you’re only seeing the effect. Then it is like this. If you are able to see both the cause and the effect, everything is explainable. Everything is repeatable. Everything is possible to make it happen. I am talking about a technology to make you into a miracle, but this is not a miracle. All technologies look like miracle, isn’t it?

Suppose you know nothing about electricity and the hall is dark right now and I tell you you just watch it now, I will just touch this part of the wall and the hall will be flooded with light. If I do it, wow. You will bow down to me, yes or no? Anything that you do not understand is a miracle for you, isn’t it? Yes. Anything that you’re unable to grasp is a miracle for you. Now I’m going to pull out something from my pocket, just a combination of plastic and metal. I’m going to do this and talk to somebody in India, in America, where you want. Is this a miracle or not? The problem is all of you have it. This I the problem. Only if I had it, if I had a cellphone a thousand years ago, I would have become God himself. The damn thing came to me too late. If I had a light bulb a thousand years ago, I could have become a god. The damn thing came too late. Technologies never come in time.

Anything that you do not understand is a miracles for you. At the same time, is there any one thing that you truly understand? I want you to look at this. Do you understand this flower fully? Do you? You may have studied botany for 10,000 years, but do you understand this flower fully? Do you understand a single atom in this existence? Do you? No, so everything is a miracles. If you look deep enough, everything is miraculous. On one level, everything is explainable. On another level, everything is miraculous. That’s the beauty of life. If you have the necessary reason and the necessary sense of wonder and inquiry in you, you can know it all and still wonder about it because you can study this flower for the rest of your life and still wonder about it. That’s the beauty of existence, isn’t it?

Or you can be a fool who’ll draw conclusions about this flower and believe you know it. That’s a difference. Everything about your life is like this. Isn’t it so? Yes. Everything about your life is like this. It’s miraculous and mundane at the same time. It is within reason and beyond reason at the same time. It is human and divine at the same time. You can play between the two. It’s very beautiful. You can also become an animal. Very easily, human beings can behave like animals, isn’t it? Because what is human is not established. You can freely, seamlessly move from animal nature to human nature to divine nature and back again if you wish. It’s very beautiful. Don’t mess it up.