This is a YouTube video titled "You Control Your Own Karma with Sadhguru" containing a recorded conversation from July 21, 2022, featuring Sadhguru and Dave Asprey. The discussion explores philosophical and spiritual themes around the concept of being "uneducated" in the sense of remaining untouched by societal and cultural influences, and the nature of life and self-awareness.
You're listening to the Human Upgrade with Dave Asprey. One of the things that's interesting about your path is that you call yourself, or you've named yourself, Sadhguru, which means uneducated guru. Can you explain that to me.
When I say uneducated guru? See, the moment you're born, from the time you're born, your parents are trying to educate you. Every adult around you is trying to educate you. Teachers are trying to educate you, priests and pundits are trying to educate you. Just about everybody is trying to teach you something that's not worked in their life. So to remain uneducated is not easy. Education is not so ardorous. You can pick up something and call yourself educated. But to remain uneducated, to remain untouched by all these influences around you, your parentage, your family, your society, your religions, your social and national atmospheres, not to be influenced by anything and just to remain as you were, that is being totally uneducated. In that sense, I am fully uneducated. I just remain as I am.
How did you pull that off? Did you arrive after multiple lifetimes and have special skills or how did you remain uneducated?
Definitely it takes some striving and certain amount of daily bath, you know, daily baths. Not just water baths. You need to wash yourself clean with everything that stuck to you on that day from morning to evening. So many impressions are sticking to you every day. Cleaning yourself up so that you are once again as you started. So that takes some work, but it is doable. Everybody can do this. Being like this essentially means that you don't become a personality, you don't become this or that. You just remain as life, which is what is intended. Actually, you are supposed to be here as life, but you become too much of a man or too much of a woman, too much of an American, too much of an Indian, too much of this or that, all kinds of things. In all this, you fundamentally forget you are alive and the life sense is gone. And though you're alive, people are walking around like they're half dead. It looks like when I look at the expressions on most people's faces on the streets, not in any one place, just about anywhere. It looks like they're practicing for their last pose, how they should look when they are in their undertaker's place. But I wish to tell them that will come naturally. You don't have to practice it all your life. Anyway. That stiff face will come as a natural consequence of death. This is a time to be alive, because this is about life. This is not a mission. This is not something that you believe or disbelieve. This is not about heaven. This is not about hell. This is about life. Because life is the greatest phenomena that's happening here. Do you want to know it? Do you want to experience it in as profound a manner as you can, Or. Or do you want to philosophize about it, you want to create ideologies and belief systems about it, or do you want to experience it? If you wish to experience it, you must remain as life, not become identified as something or the other. So in that sense, education means just this. A constant process of identifying yourself with newer and newer things, or more and more things that at the end of the game, you don't know who the hell you are. You are a heap of things.
