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Sadhguru looks at the

mechanics and cause of
human suffering, and gives
us a tool to move out of the
“garbage bin” our mind is.

Sadhguru: There are two ways people can

suffer. Generally, people think in terms of
physical suffering and mental suffering.
Physical suffering could be caused in
different ways but 90% of human suffering
is mental, which is caused within
ourselves. People create suffering for
themselves everyday – suffering anger,
fear, hatred, jealousy, insecurity and so
many other things. This is the maximum
suffering in the world.

The Mechanics of
Suffering
Why is humanity suffering? Let us
understand the mechanics of suffering.
Today morning, did you see that the sun
came up wonderfully well? The flowers
blossomed, no stars fell down, the galaxies
are functioning very well. Everything is in

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order. The whole cosmos is happening
wonderfully well today but just a worm of a
thought worming through your head makes
you believe it is a bad day today. Suffering
is happening essentially because most
human beings have lost perspective as to
what this life is about. Their psychological
process has become far larger than the
existential process, or to put it bluntly,
you’ve made your petty creation far more
important than the Creator’s creation. That
is the fundamental source of all suffering.
We have missed the complete sense of
what it means to be alive here. A thought in
your head or an emotion within you
determines the nature of your experience
right now. The whole creation is happening
wonderfully well but just one thought or
emotion can destroy everything. And your
thought and emotion may have nothing to
do even with the limited reality of your life.

What you call as “my mind” is not yours

actually. You don’t have a mind of your
own. Please look at it carefully. What you
call as “my mind” is just society’s garbage
bin. Anyone and everyone who passes by
you stuffs something into your head. You
really have no choice about whom to
receive from and whom not to receive
from. If you say, “I don’t like this person,”
you will receive a lot more from that person
than anyone else. You really don’t have a
choice. If you know how to process and
use it, this garbage is useful. This
accumulation of impressions and
information that you have gathered is only
useful for survival in the world. It has got
nothing to do with who you are.

From Psychological to
Existential
When we talk about a spiritual process, we
are talking about shifting from
psychological to existential. Life is about
the creation that is here, knowing it
absolutely and experiencing it the way it is;
not distorting it the way you want. If you
want to move into existential reality, to put it
very simply, you just have to see that what
you think is not important, what you feel is
not important. What you think has nothing
to do with reality. It has no great relevance
to life. It is just chattering away with
nonsense that you have gathered from

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somewhere else. If you think it is important,
you will never look beyond that. Your
attention naturally flows in the direction of
whatever you hold as important. If your
thought and your emotion is important,
naturally your whole attention will be right
there. But that is a psychological reality.
That has nothing to do with the existential.

Suffering is not showered upon us, it is

manufactured. And the manufacturing unit
is in your mind. It is time to shut down the
manufacturing unit.

Download the free ebook “Inner

Management”, where Sadhguru offers
effective tools to enhance our capabilities,
and gives us a way to open up a whole new
dimension of life that frees us from external
influences.

Download Inner Management

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