Sadhguru explains how people over-identify with their thoughts and emotions, mistaking psychological dramas for reality. Using cosmic-scale metaphors, he argues that losing perspective on your own smallness causes suffering, and that most people live inside self-generated thoughts rather than experiencing life itself.
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One nasty little thought. Ah, it's a bad day, isn't it? The problem is we have lost perspective as to who we are in this cosmos. This solar system is a speck, yes or no?
It's like a speck. Tomorrow morning, if the entire solar system evaporates, nobody will notice it. In that speck, planet Earth is a micro speck. In that micro speck, Los Angeles is a super micro spec. In that, you are a big man. That's a serious problem. This is your psychological drama exaggerating things.
To a point where you think.
If you have one bad thought, the whole world is ruined.
Because we have gotten identified with the thoughts that we generate, with the emotions that we create, not understanding. It's our prerogative to create the kind.
Of thought we want, the kind of emotion we want. If you created the kind of thought.
You want and the kind of emotion you want, would you not do the.
Best sort of thoughts and the best.
Kind of emotion that a human being is capable of?
Yes or no? Then you would function.
At the peak of humanity right now.
Our own intelligence has turned against us. We don't need any external help. We're just doing fine by ourselves. Yes or no? Simply sitting standing. Rich, poor, every kind is suffering. You ask them. Childhood, big problem. Diaper problem. Toddler, big problem. Lot of mischief. Adolescence, oh my God. Too many problems. Middle age crisis, Old age, terrible. Tell me, which time of your life is fantastic?
But the problem is not anywhere else. The problem is just that we have.
Lost control over our psychological drama. Because the existential drama of life is not in our experience. Our psychological drama is like a cloud blocking up the sun. We don't experience life. We only experience thoughts, emotions, ideas, prejudices.
And all the rubbish that we can generate. Instead of living in the Creator's creation.
We are living in our own petty creation. That's the big thing.
I didn't create anything. So I am here in this world.
