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27 Feb 2012 7 Comments

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MASTER'S WORDS

I’ve heard that Samyama helps to drop

your karma but I wanted to ask how that
works and also if it helps you to escape
the cycle of death and re-birth?

Sadhguru: Essentially all

spiritual process is to put
your life on a fast forward.
If you go by the normal
course of things, it may take a long time.
So, spiritual process is for those people
who are in a hurry. They want to get to
the goal at the quickest possible time. If
you tell me how quick you want to get
there, we can key up your sadhana to that
extent. But you must understand when
things are moving very fast, there is a
certain discipline you have to maintain. If
you’re walking along the street or if you’re
walking through the forest path, if you
see tamarind, your mouth will water. You
can pluck them, even the flowers are
good. You can eat the tamarind flowers a
little bit.

So, it’s nice if you’re walking. You can

climb the tree, eat all the tamarind you

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want and go. If you’re riding a bullock-
cart, you must be quick – what is
available, chuk you must pluck. You can’t
select and pluck. You’re going in a car,
then plucking will be little dangerous. If
you pluck, it may just cut through your
hand. If you’re doing something else, if
you’re flying an airplane, you cannot even
imagine such things. You don’t put your
hand out at all.

So people choose
the journey
according to
their willingness.
You want
People should to know
choose the mode the very
of journey source of
according to
their willingness
life, if
as to how much such a
they’re longing longing
to get to their has come,
destination or
how much
you have
they’re enjoying to make a
the journey and little
don’t care about more
the destination.
It’s not that they
serious
don’t care – effort.
nobody can say Samyama
they do not care. is just
When they sit
down here, they
that.
don’t care
because it’s
comfortable. But when time passes they
will care. Everybody wants to get to the
destination. The question is just how long
are you willing to wait?

Samyama is a certain kind of process,

where we are putting you on fast forward,
but in an extremely safe atmosphere. If
you try to do it by yourself without a
protective atmosphere, it could be
dangerous. People can blow their brains
off, if it doesn’t happen in a protected
atmosphere. The reason why we’re fixing
such stringent filters is because we want
proper discipline and focus towards what’s
being done. Otherwise, even going by bus,
if you hold on to the tamarind tree, either
the bus has to stop or you have to leave
your arm there and go. One of these

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things has to happen. Otherwise you
shouldn’t stick your hand out. You simply
watch the world go by. If you’re walking
it’s not like that, but it takes a long time.
Even to get to Coimbatore it may take a
very long time.

So Samyama is
neither
dangerous by
itself nor is it
Samyama
something that is that
somebody is dimension,
ready or not where
ready for.
Everybody is
what is
oriented towards opaque
it, but without we want
the preparatory to make it
steps definitely
they may find it
transparent.
difficult; without
the necessary
longing they may find it difficult. So I
would say if all you’re thinking of is a
good life – good life means, peaceful,
joyful, loving life – then Inner
Engineering and Bhava Spandana is good
enough for you. But you want to know
the very source of life, if such a longing
has come, you have to make a little more
serious effort. Samyama is just that. That
is, you slowly learn to keep yourself aside,
which you will be willing to do only when
you understand that you are the only
barrier in this creation. At the same time,
you can become a doorway, if you wish.
This is like a door. If a door is closed, it is
a barrier. If it’s open it’s a gateway, isn’t
it? So you are just like that. You can
become opaque and become a block. Door
is closed means, even metaphorically if I
say the doors are closed for you, that
means you can’t go. If there is a door,
there must be a way to open it, isn’t it? It
may be closed right now, but if there is a
door, there is a possibility. If all of it was
sheet rock, then it would be different.
Now it is a door. Somebody has closed it
all right, but if you’re willing, you can
open it.

So Samyama is that dimension, where

what is opaque we want to make it
transparent. If that is not possible at least
to make it translucent, so that even if it

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 doesn’t let you pass, at least you can
clearly see there’s another dimension to
life. Once you have seen, you cannot fool
yourself. You know you have to go there.

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