Sadhguru's Top 10 Rules for Success

Sadhguru didn't become one of the most influential spiritual leaders of our time by teaching conventional self-help.

People think I have knowledge. No, my head is empty. That's why to make it little look— look little substantial, I have a turban.

He built a massive global movement by challenging people to take absolute responsibility for their own inner well-being.

Thinking means you are doing something consciously. Right now, this is in a state of mental diarrhea. It's just pouring all the time.

He focused on engineering profound joy when everyone else was chasing external external validation.

If your mind, your body takes instructions from you, being peaceful and joyful is not even an issue.

He spearheaded ecological movements to rejuvenate millions of hectares of land when others ignored the planet.

You heard of dinosaurs going extinct, dodos going extinct, but what we are facing now is soil extinction.

He refused to let past karma dictate his present experience.

Right now, your own ghosts have become so big that you want to fight them. If you win, you're really lost. Because something that is not true, if you fight and win it, you have really lost it, isn't it?

He chose conscious response over compulsive reaction.

If you can identify what is existentially true and what is not true, you will navigate, navigate your way through life effortlessly.

And he treated the human mind not as a master, but as a vital tool.

Once your mind, your intelligence turns against you, there is no way out. No power in the universe can do nothing for you.

So today we're breaking down the top 10 rules for success from Sadhguru. If you want to take absolute charge of your life, break free from self-imposed limitations, and engineer your own ultimate well-being, this video is for you. Need motivation?

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You take away negative thoughts. Don't identify any thought as negative because it's just a thought. Who told you it's negative? It's just a thought. You're making it up, maybe you like it. What's the problem? If you understand this is just a thought, it has no power. If you think it's a reality, then it destroys you. It's just a thought, isn't it? Is it true that you made up the thought? No? Ah, it's— you're having doubts about it because you are not thinking, you have a mental diarrhea happening. Yes, it's simply happening. Thinking means— the word thinking means you are exercising your thought process consciously, isn't it?

Yes?

Thinking means you are doing something consciously. Right now this is in a state of mental diarrhea, it's just pouring all the time. Now, what is negative about it, what is positive about it? The what is negative is, it's happening unconsciously, that is what is negative, not the content. You thought about a devil, that's negative, you thought about a god, that is positive, there's no such thing. It is— the most negative thing that's happening right now is it's happening unconsciously. That is what is negative about it. And mo— a whole lot of people have destroyed themselves trying to stop those thoughts that they think are negative. And they try to fight them in so many different ways. You create these things and then you fight them. It's your thought. You must be able to throw it and roll it back whenever you want, isn't it? You must be able to roll it out and roll it in as you want. But right now, your own ghosts have become so big that you want to fight them. If you win, you're really lost because something That is not true. If you fight and win it, you have really lost it, isn't it? So there is no such thing as negative and positive thought. Either it's a conscious thought or it's a diarrhea. So how to stop this? See, suppose you are having diarrhea, gen— physical diarrhea. First thing to do is— every other treatment is next. First thing to do is stop eating bad food, isn't it? Hmm? Something caused diarrhea, first thing is stop eating bad food. Whatever caused this, stop that. This is the first thing you must do. Right now the bad food is just this— you identified yourself with something that you are not. Now you can't stop your thought process, do what you want. You do any mantra you want, think of any god you want, do whatever the hell you want. The moment you identify yourself with something that you are not, you cannot stop your mind.

Rule number 2 is have clarity.

People think I have knowledge. No, my head is empty. That's why to make it little look— look little substantial, I have a turban. It's totally empty always, but I have clarity. Clarity means what? You see things the way they are. Knowledge means what? You have fixed information about everything. If things have changed, you will not see it the way it is. That's as good as being blind. See, people think owls are blind. It's not true. Their vision is far more sensitive than yours. But because of sunlight, they are blinded because it's too much. When light goes down, he sees very clearly, not because he is blind, because his eyes are super sensitive. So it's important that you bring clarity to your life, not knowledge. Because knowledge is conclusions that you gather. Knowledge is okay when you're trying to do something physical, material in the world, but not with life. Is it true what you thought was absolute at the age of 12, today is not true? Yes or no? Are you sure that whatever you think is this is it right now will be this is it in another 3 years' time?

Of course not.

You know that, so you know you're wrong. Yes or no? Yes. So you know anyway you're wrong, so why assert the wrong things? Well, right now we are wrong, at least let's manage with little— little more conscious. If you know you're wrong, you will walk carefully, isn't it? Hello? But you think you're absolutely correct. Then you will do stupid things and you blunder around the world. If you know you're not seeing properly, will you walk carefully or no? If I ask you to walk through a dark room, suppose we turn off all the lights and close it down, everything, pitch dark. If I ask you to walk, suddenly will you become super alert and conscious as to how you walk? But when the lights are on, You're just going unconsciously bumping into everybody. So if you learn to walk every moment like there are no lights and you're looking at everything absolutely carefully, then what you see clearly, you go through it. What you don't see clearly, you hesitate. Some places you take a little bit of chance. But if you are just confident, you will blunder through life. We don't know where you will get in. And what you will get trapped into. Most people are trapped into their professions, their family situations, their social situations in such a way, they all became like this. Yes, already I'm seeing not just older people, youth have become like this, tch. "what will happen to me at the end of my life, what will happen to me at the end of my life?" I've already revealed the secret, you will die. "But Sadhguru, if this happens, what to do? If that happens, what to do?" All those things will happen. It's not that everything will happen in your life the way you like it. Things will happen in the way you don't like it. It once happened, Shankaran Pillai got fired from his job. Simply because he asked a question, "Smoking or not smoke— nonsmoking?" How can you get fired for asking such a simple question? "Smoking or nonsmoking?" he asked and he got fired because what he was supposed to ask was, "Cremation or burial?" Many times what you do thinking I'm right may be irrelevant to the situation in which you exist. So the most important aspect of your life is you're relevant, not right. You're just relevant to the existing situation, you're relevant. "I am right, I am right, I am right." This is confidence. You being right, nobody cares. All the idiots who think they're right, Nobody wants to listen to them, nobody wants to be around them, isn't it? People who always think, "I'm right, I'm right," you want to be around them? No, the important thing is you're relevant to the situation in which you exist. If you have to bring relevance into your life, you must extinguish your confidence and bring clarity.

Rule number 3 is control your mind.

If your mind is working for you, you see it makes miracles happen effortlessly. But if your mind turns against you, Even if the whole world belongs to you, you're living in a palace, you have a mountain of gold, but you are gone. Once your mind, your intelligence turns against you, there is no way out. No power in the universe can do nothing for you. So if one wants to realize the miracle of mind, there are simple processes. There are very powerful and sophisticated processes. If you want to do very complex and sophisticated things, it'll take a lot of time and energy and focus, certain dedication to make it happen. But I don't know how much investment is worthwhile for your well-being, how much investment of time and energy is— you deserve for your well-being, that's something you must decide. After watching the world, there was a time I was demanding if anybody comes, minimum 18 months you must do this, this, this, otherwise I'm not going to teach you. Because I invested lifetimes. 18 months I thought is very simple, then I saw people, 18 months they think is too much for their life. So we reduced, reduced, reduced. I've brought it down to 7 minutes. 7 minutes. Shame on you all. 7 minutes. At least 7 minutes can you invest for your well-being every day? 7 minutes. 7 minutes a day. You can own your day. That's the miracle of mind. If you attend to it properly, your mind can do such miracles.

Number 4 is live consciously.

Right now there is no experience of life. Largely you're just a bundle of thought, emotion, ideas, opinions, and prejudices. Your psychological drama is being mistaken for life. You must see how people die. It's very important. If you watch people die, over 80% of the people on this planet, when the moment of death comes, there is no pain, there is not even fear, but you will see bewilderment on their face. Like this they go because It's like you went to the cinema, you bought the ticket, went to the cinema, you sat there, during the trailer itself you fell asleep and when they turn on the lights after the movie, you woke up. "What? It's already over?" This is how most people are dying. This is the most unfortunate way to die because Before you open your account, it's over. Your own thought and emotion kept you so busy, you thought this is life. But when the moment of death comes, suddenly you know the drama that you were turning on within you looked so real, but the moment lights are going off, then you know this is not it. Your psychological drama. We can all sit in the same place and each one of us can have something different going in our minds right now. Yes or no? So obviously what's happening in your mind is your psychological reality, it's not existential. It has no existential basis. It is in this sense people are telling you, "Be in the moment," because there is no basis to your psychological reality, you can make up whatever you want. Or in other words, your creation, your petty creation has become larger than the magnificent creation of the Creator. So spiritual process means you set this anomaly right. You understand your psychological reality is something that you're making up. I'm not saying you should not make it up, you can, but you must be able to switch it off when you don't want. The problem is it's just on 24 hours, so it looks like that is the reality. It is not the reality, you're just making it up. Yes or no? The made-up world has become larger than the real world. Just to correct this is spiritual process. You understand what is real and what is made up. This means you're spiritual. If you can identify what is existentially true and what is not true, you will navigate your way through life effortlessly, isn't it? If your mind, your body takes instructions from you, being peaceful and joyful is not even an issue. Is it an issue? Hmm? If your body and mind is taking instructions from you, is it an issue? Is it even a consideration? Do you have to even bother about it? 'How to be peaceful, how to be joyful?' There's no such thing. This is coming from a very unnatural situation because made-up world has become larger than the real world. What's happening on your phone has become bigger than the cosmos, isn't it? So spiritual process does not mean— is not prescribing how you should be. Be whichever way you want. You like misery? Do it, what's my problem? If you're enjoying misery, what is my problem? I will not tell you be joyful. You like to be miserable, I appreciate that. But if you had a choice, would you choose misery? No. Maybe once in a way you like to read a tragedy or watch a tragedy, that is somebody else suffering. Not you, isn't it? You may want to watch a tragic movie or a drama, but you don't want a tragedy in your life, isn't it so? I trust your judgment on these things. So spiritual process means that you read the user's manual, you know exactly how this works. You keep it whichever way you want, that's up to you. You like misery once in a way, You like to— you know, people like some bitter things, not just sweet things. You want to enjoy that, what is my issue? I have no issue, enjoy it. But as long as you are choosing consciously. Right now misery is happening compulsively, isn't it? It's not happening consciously, it is happening compulsively. Once you get into the cycle, there is no other way, it rules you. Being human means just this, that you can consciously decide what is the nature of your experience right now. That means being human. Being in a state of compulsive reaction means lack of evolution. Yes or no? This is the animal nature. They can't help it. They have to be in a compulsive state of reaction. That's the only way they can exist. That is their nature right now. Being human means everything that animals do, you also do. They eat, you eat. They sleep, you sleep. They reproduce, you reproduce. They die, you die. Only thing is, we can conduct the same things that they do compulsively, we can do it consciously. That's the big difference, isn't it? Yes or no? If you do not exercise that one thing that you can conduct yourself consciously, it is a backward step in the evolutionary process. So spiritual process means a forward step in the evolutionary process. That means everything is conscious for you, nothing is unconscious. The very way you sit, stand, breathe, everything has become conscious for you. Once it's conscious, you will conduct it the way you want. Right now, the only and only source of misery is life is not happening the way you think it should happen. Is there any other source? Huh? No. It's not happening the way you think it should happen. If your mind thinks the way you want, if your body functions the way you want, life is happening the way you want. That's gratitude process.

Also, if you want to take real action after this video, I made a free worksheet just for you. It covers the top lessons from today, gives you space to write your biggest takeaways, and helps you build a simple action plan. It's 100% free. Just click the link in the description below to go grab it. I'll see you there. Rule number 5 is reach your full potential. You told the story of, uh, a man who had wings but never used them to fly and just reproduce and had a life and isn't it a tragedy that he never used his wings to fly? Do you feel like most of us are walking through life with wings and we never use them to fly?

Unfortunately, yes. A whole lot of people, too many people. It's time that human potential is unleashed because we are the first generation on the planet for whom our survival is organized better than ever before, ever before. So this is the time to unlock our potential, to lose those all kinds of inhibitions and fears that we had. There was a time, if as much as cloud gathered and lightning and thunder happened, we thought God was angry with us. Okay? All those things are gone. It is time you take away the nonsense that's happening within you. And the entire process, the science of Inner Engineering is just this— how to work at it in a scientific manner, not with philosophy. I can tell you a thousand times, "Give up your fear," it's not going to go. But if your chemical soup is blissful, there's not even an idea of fear in your mind. Hmm?

Hmm? It reminds me of your concept of the movies. You play the movies in your mind, you can choose a drama, you can choose a horror story, or you can choose a positive movie. And not get stuck in the same movie forever. You can turn it off and start a new one.

Yeah, but for that you should know where the switches are.

Right.

You are like a supercomputer, but you haven't found the keyboard yet. Time to find the keyboard. That's my work, to give people the keyboard to their supercomputer.

Rule number 6 is experience everything.

Can you give us 2 tips that you think that we can live to our peak as an example to others? See, when we use the word peak, naturally you want to go moun— mountain climbing. That means you want to do something others cannot do. Not necessary because the peak is not in what you're doing outside, the peak is in the way you experience it, isn't it? Somebody can do something very small with very profound experience. Somebody can be doing big things without any sensitivity to what's happening around them. So essentially, what you're looking for— just look at this as yourself as a life. Right now you've become so many social entities, you may be lost in that, but actually you're alive. Most people realize they're alive only when they're threatened with death. Till then, they're something else. They've become so many other things. No, no, no, no matter what work you're doing here, you're just a piece of life, isn't it? It is a fortune that certain things happen through us which will impact many other lives, wonderful. But still this is a life, only if this life functions in its best possible way, everything else will happen. Best possible way means what? Is this very clear that you are not taking your own apartment when you go— I mean, when you die and leave? You're not taking— they tell me you're creating very nice apartments, and you're not going to take it, right? Your own accommodations you can't carry, you know that. So obviously, the only thing that is left here is the profoundness of your experience, isn't it? How profound is your experience? To make our life profound, somebody says, "If you have education, you can do this." Well, everybody went to the university, I didn't. Somebody said, "If you have money, you can do it," everybody ran after it. Somebody said, "If you can get married, it'll happen," everybody got married. Somebody said, "If you have children, then it'll happen," everybody did that. Somebody said, "This is not it, you must get power in the world," so people ran after that. Essentially, what should happen inside, you're trying to cause from outside. Hmm? What should actually happen within you, you're trying to cause it from outside. Yes, it is possible, sometimes it can be stimulated from outside, but it has to happen within you. All human experience comes from within you. Is that so? Your joy and misery, pain and pleasure, anything and anything, agony and ecstasy can only happen from within you. The question is only, your joy, your peace, your love, your ecstasy, is it on push-start or is it on self-start? I'm talking about upgrading technologies. There was a time in 1950s or 19— yeah, 1950s, if you bought a car, you needed 2 people to help you in the morning because it's a push-start. If you got one in early '60s, it's a crank-start, you need 1 person to help. Today all our cars are self-start, right? Technological upgradation. Things which are most vital to you, the profoundness of your experience, the pleasantness of your experience here, but right now it's all on push-start. If you have to be happy, how many people we have to fix in this world? If you— if you have to be peaceful, we have to fix the entire world. So there is an endless amount of conditions for your experience to be in a certain way. And in pursuit of human well-being, we've turned the world upside down, we've ripped the planet apart, but still we are not a— we are not the most joyful generation. We are definitely the most comfortable generation ever. Never before another generation of people have enjoyed these kind of conveniences and comforts as you and me are enjoying right now, isn't it so? Never before. But can we say with all these comforts we are the most joyful generation? No, not true. I'm not saying we are more miserable, but definitely we are not the most joyful. Are we peaceful? No. Are we loving? No. So our experience of life is still like how the caveman's experience was. Same anxiety, that guy was worried, "Where's my food?" You are worried, "Where is my next apartment?" Endlessly you think it's different, it's not different. It's rudimentary, isn't it? Hello? The idea of organizing our survival process the way we have organized is, we need not be concerned about it. Isn't it so? Hello? You open the tap, water comes. Don't think it's small— it's a small thing. Just 100 years ago, water means you had to go to the river. With a pot on your head. So today, all this convenience that we did, why? Because we don't have to concern ourselves with daily survival, everything is organized. Now we believed if all these things are organized, we will sit here blissed out. Well, that's not happened. It's not happened simply because we have not taken charge of this. So peak of human life does not mean you climbed Mount Everest. I have gone up Everest, you know that? No, you didn't know. To the top? Yeah, very top. Somebody went up there and took a photograph with my picture in his hand, so I believe I've been there. It's much safer. It's much safer that way. More sensible too, because this guy who went there took a picture with my picture in his hands, came down and said, "Sadhguru, of 12 people that we started out, only 2 of us made it to the top. And I took the picture and I came down. We were there just about 40 seconds, right on the top, because winds were picking up speed, we had to come down. Only 40 seconds I looked around and I couldn't see a thing. And I came down. Now I'm wondering why did I do it?" because you wanted to know the peak of suffering. It's not a simple physical challenge. Climbing Everest is not a simple physical challenge. I'm not saying you should not climb. All I'm saying is the peak can only happen within you. It will not happen outside of you. So if the peak and the valley and the very bottom can only happen within you, People can sit in a palace and be depressed, like they are at the pit of their life. Isn't it so? Hello? So similarly, if that is possible, you can sit on the street and be on the peak.

Rule number 7 is, do what you want.

Just learn to be like God. Never intervene in anything. Every day in the morning, every kind of idiot will tell you what you should do today. You just listen, just like God. Marriage will work. It may not work with your profession. See, you're misunderstanding this. You're trying to make this into some kind of a value system. You're trying to make it your philosophy, "I will do only what works." Well, you took an oath, "I will do only what works." Now you don't know what works. Because what works will not come with an oath or a commandment. What works comes with constant observation and evolution of who you are, isn't it? Hello? The same things, how you made them work, how clumsily you made something work 10 years ago, the same thing you may be doing it with ease today. Isn't it so? Or you may be doing it clumsily today, you were doing it well at one time, whichever way, whichever kind of evolution has happened. So what works is not some kind of a formula. It is an evolution of a human being to come to what works on all levels of life. This is like reading— I mean, you, you're just falling out of a self-help book. No, I am not a self-help book. Do what works. Do whatever the hell you want. What's my problem? But what's the point of doing something that doesn't work? Hello? I'm not telling you you should do only what works. Do whatever the hell you want. But for your life, because it's a limited amount of time, what is the point doing something that does not work, isn't it? Either it should work for you or it should work for people around you. If it doesn't work for you and anybody around you, what is the What's the point of doing that damn thing? This happened. Soldiers, American soldiers were leaving on duty. So one of them told the other, you know Steve's wife, she read Three Musketeers and she delivered triplets. This is the— "Oh my God, my wife is reading Birth of a Nation. What am I supposed to do?" That's not how it works. So don't make this into some kind of an ethic or a philosophy, "I will do only what works." Well, just to see what works, Needs lot of application even for the smallest damn things, isn't it? Hello? To do a smallest thing like hitting a ball or kicking a ball straight, you know how much it takes? Somebody who can kick a ball where he wants, wow, the whole world is worshipping him just because he kicks a damn ball. Yes or no? Because people understand what it takes. Nobody is worshiping him because he kicks a ball, because people can see what has gone into it. Hmm? Isn't it so? People can see what has gone into to be able to kick a ball the way he is kicking. What has gone into it? His life has gone into it. So don't make philosophies and ethics out of everything, or don't tell yourself a commandment, "I will do only what works." It's a good commandment, but now you don't know what works. So, no, no, you You need to be conscious and apply yourself to every damn thing. If you just learn this much, that you don't decide what is important and what is not important.

Rule number 8 is manifest.

So wherever your desire is, that's where your mind will be. If you desire something intensely, your mind will be always there. Right now, you desire the cup— wrong place to be. You desire a goal, that's what you should desire when you're on the field, isn't it? Now you can desire the cup, but once you're on the field, you just desire the goal and goal and goal, nothing else. Once your desire is strong, your body and mind naturally moves in that direction, isn't it? Whatever you desire, that's where you go. If your desire falls off, then you can't keep the mind on it. So you just have to develop the ichcha in you. The only ichcha is to score the goal, then you don't have to worry about mental focus. That's where the mind will be. Can somebody take your mind off what you desire? Can somebody take your mind off what you desire? What you desire is where your mind will naturally go, isn't it? So how does yoga help in this? See, what are the simple parameters with which the body and mind is functioning? This is a complex machinery. This is the most sophisticated machine in this planet, is human body and mind, isn't it? Everything that we have created has come out of this mind. So this mind is a complex machinery, very complex. So if you do anything wrong, it will create many distractions within itself. There are certain simple ways, there is some simple technology with which you can keep your mind in a certain condition of clarity where it simply sees, that you learn to keep your mind like a mirror. It simply shows you what is there, it doesn't distort. The moment your mind gets identified with many things, now you are playing as an Indian hockey player, now you get all distorted because now you are reading the whole history, the glory of Indian hockey, the depths of Indian hockey, everything will flow in your mind. Now you will not play the game. You will not see the game the way it is, first of all. Learning to keep the mind like a mirror where it simply shows you what is there in front of you, without any distortion. Once there is no distortion, you will walk to the best of your ability, isn't it? Now you are walking on this floor, there is no distortion in your vision, you can see everything clearly. To the best of your ability you will go, isn't it? In your very vision if there is distortion, you will unnecessarily stumble all over the place. So whatever talent you have, whatever capability you have, if it has to find full expression, your mind doesn't come in between and distort anything. It just shows you everything the way it is. So the whole yogic system is focused on this for a spiritual purpose, which can also be used for the sport, that it shows you everything just the way it is, not some other way, not the way you think it is.

Number 9 is be joyful.

Now we are thinking of happiness like it's some kind of a commodity. Or some kind of an attainment. No, when your life comes to ease, when you come to ease, happiness is a natural consequence. Coming to ease, what does it mean? There are many ways to look at this. Well, because I should not say look inward, you already put a condition on me. So, is it true that today, even medically we know, every human experience has a chemical basis to it. So what you call as peace is one kind of chemistry, happiness is another kind of chemistry, joy is another kind of chemistry, misery is another kind of chemistry, agony is one kind of chemistry, ecstasy is another kind of chemistry. Chemistry, every human experience has a chemical basis to it. Or in other words, you are a very complex chemical soup. The question is only, are you a great soup or a lousy soup? If you're a great soup, you taste good. Not for somebody, for yourself. When you taste very good for yourself, if you sit here, If you feel extremely pleasant within yourself because the soup is great, then people say you are happy. If you become very, very pleasant, people will say you're joyful. If you become super pleasant, people will say you're ecstatic. So, to make it very simple and understandable for most people, Your chemistry needs to be altered. There's a whole technology with which we can create the kind of chemistry that you want. If I teach you how to create a blissful chemistry within yourself, your very chemistry is blissful and you will be blissful. When you're blissful, you will no more be in pursuit of happiness. That is the biggest mistake that we are in pursuit of happiness. Your life has to become an expression of joy. When your life is an expression of your experience, then what you do, what you do not do will not determine the quality of your life. How you are within yourself will determine the quality of your life. I'm sorry, once again I use the word within, but chemistry is not within, it is still outside of you. But if you know how to make the right soup, then being joyful is not an issue, it's a natural consequence of that. So we can teach you a technology, we can teach you a methodology with which you will know how to stir the right kind of soup within you. This is what I'm calling as Inner Engineering. That you engineer ki— your chemistry in such a way that it's blissful by its own nature, not because of something. If you think you're going to squeeze happiness out of something or somebody, heh, you will be disappointed because nothing will yield anything unless you have a chemistry of blissfulness within you.

And rule number 10, the last one before a very special bonus clip, is create your destiny.

Sadhguru: People are always thinking that something else or somebody else is restricting their freedom. But one's freedom is lost simply because they are tangled up with their own body and their own mind. These are two dimensions of you, two faculties. Unless your body and your mind is fully in your hands, if they are continuously working for you, never against you, Only then you can live a successful life. People have approached inner well-being either with belief systems or philosophies or ideologies or some wacky ideas of their own. It's time to approach your inner well-being in a scientific manner. As there is science and technology to create external well-being, there is a whole science and technology to create inner well-being. That is what we call as— calling as Inner Engineering, technologies for well-being. It is time that you approach your inner well-being also in a scientific, systematic way and employ technologies to create this well-being. Everything else you're using technology, you understand that technology can facilitate everything on the outside. Why don't you understand that the best piece of technology on this planet is this human mechanism. Unless you approach it properly, it will not yield. Living here as half a human being is not good enough. Right now, people's idea of success is they're doing better than their neighbor.

Nah!

Your idea of success should be that you are a full-fledged life. Because— this is not my idea, this is not my philosophy, This is the longing of every life. Every worm, insect, bird, tree, animal, and also a human being are always striving to become a full-fledged life. But we know what is a full-fledged worm, we know what is a full-fledged insect, we know what is a full-fledged apple tree, but we don't know what's a full-fledged human being. That's where the problem is. Sadhguru: The greatest predicament that a human being faces and the greatest tragedy that human beings are going through and the greatest struggle that all humans seem to be toiling with is just this— their sensory perception gives one-sided perception. If you see this, you can't see this. If you see light, you can't see darkness. If you hear sound, you can't hear silence. So life becomes a heap of opposites or contradictions. Trying to wade their way through these contradictions, how much suffering, unbelievable. How much confusion, how much struggle. If this nearly 8 billion people, if you document what kind of suffering they're going through in one year or in one day, just one day, it's enough for eternity. All this is simply because they have misunderstood. As instruments of survival or as instruments of knowing. You must know which is light and which is darkness if you want to walk through this. You must know which is man, which is woman if you have to operate in the world. So these differences are very one-sided. Well, in many ways I have said this, now it's become bit— to comment for everybody to know this because I've been speaking about this for some time. Well, you are sitting here as a man or a woman, but you came here because a man and woman came together. Your mother and father exists within you. You being a woman or a man is just a surface thing, but you've taken it so seriously and you go through a whole lot of circus. Just being a man or a woman, how much circus in the world? Forget about light and darkness, that's more complicated. Gender is the simplest damn thing, but how much struggle, how much social confusion, how many religions and scriptures have been written about this misunderstanding endlessly. This is just that because between light and darkness, You think they are two different worlds because it looks like that. The day looks like one kind of world. This planet looks different during the day. During the night, it's a completely different world, but it is not. It's the same world. I think you get that point during twilight to some extent. This is why it's always important to wake up before the sun comes up. Because you don't have to do anything. If you're just alert and looking, slowly the perception will go into you. This is why always in yoga, brahma muhurtham, you should be up because twilight starts then. In twilight, if you're awake, you perceive that the differences that you have made out in your mind because of misperceptions, of senses that you have settles within you. When that happens, when—

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God has a plan, an amazing plan, with all the challenges With all the difficulties, with all the troubles that He sends our way, He has an incredible plan. None of us know what.