What should a 20-year-old do in life?

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What should a 20-year-old do in life?

Namaskaram Sadhguru, I’m a twenty year old university student.

I’m sorry?

I’m a twenty year old university student striving to live a life of truth, involvement, fulfillment. How should I and people my age balance the inner path with the outer world, be it going to bed school, getting a professional career or spending more time at the ashram?

All of us have to live in this universe, no choice about it right now, but university is a choice and that’s why you are asking this question. How much time? Education is of value to do certain things, but what should we be doing as individual human beings, as a generation of people, what should we be doing in our lives? What I would I say is, as a young man, I want to open your eyes and look at the world. Right now, please see what is the most needed thing in the world right now? You don’t do some fanciful thing that you like to do. You must do what’s most needed, isn’t it? Isn’t it so?

If you get carried away my situations, people become like this, it’s useful, but it is not the basic thing. Today you saw a train burning, so you wanted to become a firefighter. Tomorrow you saw something, you want to become that. In reaction, emotional reaction, you choose to become something, it could be useful on some level, but now, when most young people cannot think, you’re thinking, “What should I do with my life?” When such a thought has come, I would say spend a little more time on it. Not being influenced by anybody or anything. Simply look at it. What is it that the humanity needs most? What is it that the world needs most today? I want you to recognize that.

The only thing that needs to be fixed on this planet is human beings, everything else is fine, isn’t it so? I would say all young people, not just you, must take a break from hat you’re doing, just caught up, because you did school, you went to a college, because you did college you went to the next thing and the next thing and you end up with a PhD. What to do? It’s dangerous, you know, because the education scientists are saying, “If you go through 20 years of formal education and land up with a PhD or something, 70% of your intelligence is irrevocably destroyed.” Yes, you become a very knowledgeable idiot.

Truly, knowledge has no use because whatever a PhD holder knows, a high school kid can open the internet and talk the same language. You can’t even look smart anymore with what you collected, isn’t it? Because just about anybody will talk these things because it’s all over the place, so are you preparing for the university or the universe? That’s where you have to live. Unless you want to become an academic. I’m not saying these things are wrong, but human beings, tangible human beings must inverse their life towards what is needed most, isn’t it? Not some fanciful thing that I want to do or you want to do.