The Resilient Mind - You’re the Peak of Evolution. Start Living Like It. - Sadhguru

Episode Date: June 5, 2025

Sadhguru is the founder of the Isha Foundation located in Coimbatore, India. The foundation operates an ashram and yoga center that specializes in education and spiritual practices. An accomplished yoga teacher since 1982, Sadhguru is also the author of several New York Times bestsellers, such as Inner Engineering: A Yogi's Guide to Joy and Karma: A Yogi's Guide to Crafting Your Destiny. He is also a frequent speaker at international events and forums.Take action and strengthen your mind with The Resilient Mind Journal. Get your free digital copy today: ⁠⁠⁠⁠Download Now⁠⁠This episode was brought to you in partnership with MotivationHub Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Welcome to the Resilient Mind podcast. In this episode, you will be listening to You're the Peak of Evolution. Start Living Like It with Sad Guru. Get access to the Resilient Mind Journal by clicking the link in the show notes. Enjoy. Time is not something that you use. Time is the basis of your life. Your life is time.

We have a brief moment of life here. Both in terms of time and space, we occupy. just a speck in this cosmos. Right now I can say I'm living or I can say I'm dying because both are happening at the same time. The process of death is on. One day it will be complete.

So when you say I'm lazy, that means I will sleep most of the time and sit around without any purpose to myself. That means that you are incurring death. If life is a race, what is the goal? You must get to the finish line faster than others. You know what's the finish line?

Finish line is there. This whole nonsense about wanting to be better than somebody is happening because you have not found any sense of profaneness in your own existence. There is no struggle for survival. Survival is taken care of. Now you need profoundness. If there is no profoundness, you wonder why are you alive? I know only one thing.

I don't know too many things. I just know only one thing. I know this piece of life from its origin to its ultimate. I only talk about this life. But the world assumes I'm talking about them, because fortunately life is made the same way within them also. On the surface, deep inside, both lives are made the same way. When I talk about this, plants think I'm talking about them,

the worms think I'm talking about them, every other human being thinks I'm talking about them. I am only talking about this, because this is the only thing I know. You've seen the entire world only within you. Everything that you saw, heard, smell, tasted and touched, happened only within you. So your whole experience of life is only happening within you. If you know this life, in reflection, you know everything, in that sense.

But actually, you know only one thing. Rest is all imagination. Well, most things that human beings do are not done consciously, unfortunately. It is mostly compulsively done, and that is the whole problem with humanity. With the level of intelligence and competence that we have, the moment we function compulsively, we become destructive. If you become conscious, naturally you will curtail so many of your actions because they are absolutely unnecessary.

Either you're trying to be better than somebody which you can never be, or you're trying to do something in competition with the rest of the world, wanting to prove some nonsense that nobody is convinced about anyway, and all these countless number of people who existed on this planet before you and me, all those idiots also were doing the same thing. But where are they now? They're all top soil. You and me also will be top soil after some time.

So let's not think too much about ourselves. If we understand the context of our existence, we are just a small pop-up on this planet and will pop out. If we know this, keeping your life pleasant, profound, if necessary in action impactful, that is a choice. To do it without activity is much harder than to do it with activity. Most people who are lazy are also bitter about something. There is no sense of profoundness to their life. They always feel insufficient.

That's not the way to live. If you are very pleasant and you have a profound experience of life, you have a right to do nothing. Absolutely not. Time is a very relative experience. On a given day, you're very joyful. Have you noticed on that day, 24 hours, pooh, went off like a moment. Another day you're miserable or depressed.

24 hours feels like 10,000 years. So only miserable people can have a long life. So those miserable people raise all these kind of questions and make it like it some great philosophy. Life is not a philosophy. Philosophy is a silly explanation to a life which is a phenomenon beyond all explanations. You can only experience this.

You can't deduct it into your philosophy. The moment you deduct it into your philosophy, you become a constipated life. That means it happens little by little. It doesn't happen like an explosion. See, everybody knows what is needed in the world. The most important thing needed is right now, we need pleasant human beings. Where should it start?

With yourself. At least you become peaceful, joyful, loving. At least this much you become. Less we will see what to do. Because there's only one problem on the planet, human being, isn't it? Human being is the flower of evolution, the peak of evolution. In terms of life, the heap of life that is there from mind, microbial life to complex manifestation of life on this planet.

You are on top of the world. But human beings are not experiencing their life like they are on top of the world. They are in the depths of misery compared to any other creature. All other creatures, if you just provide them, there are food that they need. They are all fine. A human being is miserable if he doesn't have food. If you give him food, he will feed his misery further. simply because

for all other creatures nature has fixed their way of being nature is fixed how they should be how a grasshopper should be how a tiger should be how an elephant should be nature is fixed at least 90% of their life

only 10% latitude may be there for individual animals to find some expression for themselves but in the case of a human being a human being comes largely unformed Only 10% is fixed, 90% is left loose. This is what human beings are suffering.

Human beings are not suffering their bondage. Human beings are suffering their freedom. You are free to make yourself whichever way you want. That means you know how to be. If you know how to be, would you like to keep yourself in the heights of pleasantness or unpleasantness? There's a big difference between loving to be lazy and being ill. because laziness if there is stillness in your body that's called death but if there is stillness in the core of who you are then that is a source of life there's a big difference only to create pleasantness in your surroundings

you need the cooperation of the people and the forces which are around you but to create pleasantness of body mind emotion and energy is 100% your business if this is this much everybody kicks care off, then what to do in the world we can see if there's something to do we will do, otherwise let's take a walk, let's climb a tree or go swim or just sit still, do whatever the hell you want. But the important thing is your life should be pleasant. Once you're pleasant, you're not satisfied with that. You will want profoundness of experience.

Then you make your life profound. If it's pleasant and profound, you'll have no need to do anything. If something is needed, you will do it. If nothing is needed, you can sit here joyfully. What's the problem? It doesn't matter. What is your level of intelligence? What is your level of capability?

Introvert, extrovert, this, that doesn't matter. Do you have the courage and commitment to make the possibility into your reality? That's all the question is. There is no such thing as extrovert or introvert. Do not classify people like that. Some people see that they need to act and reach out. Some people see there is not much need for that. So maybe they are not on the Twitter and Facebook and whatever.

This doesn't mean they're introvert. They have a life of their own. The difference between this extrovert or introvert is, it's like mistaking your exhalation for inhalation and inhalation for exhalations. We should not judge people like this. Every human being has a right to be whichever way they want. But now the question is, if I am not extrovert, will I be able to do things in the world? That's a main aspect, the question.

See, your ability to do things is not because you want to do things. I want to do something is my desire. Desire is just an intention. An intention won't make things happen. an intentional will only set direction. Still you have to make the journey, isn't it? Process is an end in itself. If you are absolutely devoted to the process,

something will come out. But now we are interested in the consequence, not in the process. This goal-orientedness, I want to get there, I want to get there, we become too goal-oriented. Goal-oriented means we're, We are interested in the consequence, but we are not interested in the process.

I think you should look at life like this. You must see how to enhance this one. Enhance this one means not blow up your ego in a big way. Enhance the life that you are. When I say life, I am talking about the life that you are. I am not talking about your body. I am not talking about the structure of your mind. I am not talking about, see, when people say alive, you are supposed to decipher.

They could be talking about their home. They could be talking about their relationship. They could be talking about their car or their dog. Or something, my life means something. I am not talking about that. I am talking about the life that you are. Are you alive? Are you really a life?

Or just a bundle of thoughts, emotions, ideas, prejudices, opinions. Most people are just this. Because of that, we make conclusions. This is an introvert. This is an extrovert. Because without conclusion, you can't have a thought. You need conclusions and conclusions and conclusions about everything. Now I need to conclude, this is introvert, this is extrovert.

Otherwise, my thought every time freaks, okay, who the hell is she? But human faculties are such. I don't have to conclude. I can just look. This moment, how she is. That's all that matters. Yesterday, how she was, doesn't matter, isn't it? And tomorrow, how she's going to be?

You have no clue? Yes or no? Do not fix life, either yours or anybody else's. Do not fix it because what you're calling is human life is a possibility. To make this possibility into your reality, you have to travel a distance. Do you have the courage and the commitment to, travel the distance, that's all the questions.

The simple thing is this. See, if your joy, your sadness, your happiness, your misery is determined by something or somebody around you, the chances of you being joyful in your life is remote. For every one of you, your life is precious, isn't it? It's a precious life. If something is precious, where do you want to invest this life? into what do you want to invest this precious life if this is a worthless life throw it somewhere

if this is a precious life what do you want to invest this life into if you look at it this way you will find something truly worthwhile to do if you think in terms of how to earn a living how to get this kind of thing that kind of thing

then you will do something silly that you will regret for rest of your life. Most people are a regret. That's why they're going around joylessly because they're not doing what they want to do. They are not creating what really matters to them. They're doing something for a living. Earning a living is not a big deal for a human being. Every creature, every worm, insect, bird, animal is earning their living. Isn't it so? With such a big brain, what is a big deal about earning a living? What is it that you're going to create this precious life, where are you going to invest it? Are you going to invest it in something

that's truly worthwhile or are you going to throw it away as a worthless thing? This is the important thing because what you call as my life is just a certain amount of time and energy, isn't it? As you sit here, your life is ticking away or no? You are young, you may not be thinking like this, but actually it's sticking away. What is sticking away is not time. What is sticking away is your life? So this energy that you call as my life, how are you going to invest it? Because if you are doing something truly worthwhile, it gets over before you know what happened.

Only if you're doing something worthless, it feels like a long life. Something that happened 10 years ago, you can still suffer, isn't it? Something that may happen day after tomorrow, you already suffer. What happened 10 years ago or even 10 days ago? Does it exist right now? Does it exist right now? What may happen day after tomorrow? Does it exist right now?

No. So if you suffer something that does not exist, should we call you sane or insane? Success means what? I made it. What did you make? I bought a house site. You would think that's an achievement.

I got a job. I made this much money. This is a very constipated way of looking at life. I want young people to look at it in terms of how we can do something that cannot be done in this lifetime. Oh, what will happen if I don't fulfill it? If you work incessantly and still at the end of your life the job is not done, it doesn't mean you're a failure. It means you had a great vision.

That's what it means. If you go outside in the garden and try to catch an ant, who is born here, I was grown up here and probably he'll die here, If you try to catch him, he'll say, okay, crush me if you want. Is it so? He'll do everything to protect himself. He values his life, isn't it? Very much or no?

Tiny little creature that you may not even notice. We may step on him without even seeing him, unfortunately. But he values his life immensely. Does he or no? He's got spark. But you, a human being, at least on this planet, you are the peak of evolution. Physiologically, at least. What the most evolved creature on the planet means is it has the most complex neurological system

and it has the highest level of cerebral capability. That means you can think, you can remember, you have memory, you have a very vivid sense of memory, and a fantastic sense of imagination. An ant doesn't have such a vivid sense of memory, nor does he have any great imagination. Yes, some. But he has a presence of mind about the life that he is living. Because the education systems that you're going through

right from kindergarten level is such that it is about everything except you. Somebody is PhD in tourism, somebody's PhD in biotechnology, somebody's PhD in something. Nothing about this. How does this function? There is no attention at all. A human being exists in three times.

He lives because of the richness of his memory. The present experience is important. And how vivid is your imagination for tomorrow is very important. Thank you for tuning in. strengthening your mind by listening to our other episodes.