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Questioner: Sadhguru, what should I do to

progress rapidly on the spiritual path and
live joyfully and well?

Sadhguru: First of all, your priorities must

be set. Do not think of what kind of things
you want; just see how you want to be and
work towards that. Things will arrange
themselves anyway, according to your skill,
your capability, and the situation in which
you exist. Rather than thinking what kind of
house to live in, what kind of thing to do,
just say “I want to be spiritually focused
and I want to live joyfully and well.” Other
things will arrange themselves around that.
Maybe you will walk ten miles every day
and enjoy that or maybe you will drive a
BMW or maybe you will ride a bicycle –
that’s not the important thing. The
important thing is that you are going about
your life joyfully, enjoying every bit of it. Isn’t
that the most important thing? Other things
are only arrangements. But when people
have no sense of wellbeing within
themselves, their only way to be well is to
be better than someone else.

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You wanting to be better than somebody is
a sickness – it is not wellbeing. This
sickness has caught the world so badly.
People want to own so many things, only
because no one else can have them.
Suppose I give you the biggest diamond in
the world, if you were a human being who
just looks at this, it is just a stone. Only in
the marketplace they made it such a big
thing. A simple granite stone that you find
on the street, if you look at it carefully
enough, is equally beautiful in a different
way. But there are too many granite
stones, so you won’t pick it up. There are a
few diamonds on the planet and everybody
cannot have them, so you hang it around
your neck or on your nose or on your ears.
Not because it’s beautiful – don’t believe
such things.

Human life has gotten poisoned with wrong

ideas about life. Just trying to be better than
somebody, how many human beings have
destroyed themselves! How many human
beings have wasted their lives on this
planet just trying to look a little better than
somebody else! Don’t waste your life trying
to look better than somebody else. It is
such a horrible waste of life, because you
will never blossom into your full potential if
you keep thinking how to be better than
somebody. Fix the priority of your life and
leave it. Do the best that you can – what
has to happen will happen.

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