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[Questioner] I wonder if you could explain to us how the consecration procedure... the process took place.
I just saw a lot of ingredients went into that pit but I really
[Sadhguru] It looked like we're making 'Sambar' (a South Indian dish). [laughter]
[Questioner] I really don't know what made it consecrated and what are the steps that went through and how it impacted.
That's a big topic I suppose but I really would like to know now that I have attended consecration.
[Sadhguru] See, this is always happening in the world, constantly all around us one substance is being made into another;
another is being made into another. This transition and this transformation is happening all the time.
If you make mud into food that's called agriculture.
If you make food into a human being this is called digestion.
If you make human being into a mud again we call this cremation. [laughter]
If you transform the physical into the non-physical, that's called consecration.
Why the need to transform the physical into non-physical - 'cause that's your longing.
When you say 'I want to walk the spiritual path' what you're saying is 'I want to touch something which is not physical.'
It is just that the word 'Spirit' is so terribly corrupted.
If you leave the social implications to that word... essentially when you say spirit
what you're saying is you want to touch something which is not physical. Thats spiritual.
So, this transformation from one dimension to another is always happening,
whether a flower blossoms or a fruit comes out or a sprout comes out of the earth, isn't it happening all the time?
One thing is becoming something else. One substance is becoming something totally different.
What is mud, just look at the way -- the flower and the mud, are they the same?
They're the same, isn't it, but look at the difference.
So, using all sambar ingredients [laughs]
largely we make something else out of them.
Whatever substance that your parents gave you is once again just... the womb is one kind of incubator;
the fetus is also another kind of incubator.
You as a body is also another kind of incubator which is nurturing something else within.
A fetus or the formation of these bundle of cells in the mother's womb by itself is not life.
The womb created the fetus; the fetus became a receptacle for life and nurtured that life which is still continuing to happen.
Somebody in their garden produced a thousand roses out of their plant.
Someone else has just managed one in 10 years.
Depends on what kind of soil, what kind of care, what kind of nourishment went into this.
Similarly, same kind of body everybody has -- one person can make this into so many things,
another person struggles with it, another person somewhere in between, each person in his own way.
So, the whole system of Yoga and Tantra, the essential nature of spiritual process
unfortunately too much nonsense has been said about these things
so the moment I say spirituality people say 'Yes, I want to be peaceful.'
If you want to be peaceful you must be dead. [laughter]
You don't walk spiritual path for peace. I know worldwide this kind of nonsense is happening.
To be peaceful you don't have to be on the spiritual path.
A drink will do it.
If you go climb one mountain and sit there that'll happen.
If you take a long walk and lie down you'll sleep peacefully. No?
You ate a full stomach you'll sleep peacefully. Yes or no?
You don't need spiritual process to be peaceful.
It's a shame that so-called spiritual teachers are going about telling people this is about being peaceful.
The longing for peace has essentially come from troubled minds; minds who are torturing themselves -
for them peace is a big commodity that they have to seek.
If you're not using your mind for self-torture why would you think of peace?
Would you think life or would you think peace? Would you seek exuberance of life or would you seek peace?
If you have not become an expert in self-torture;
only if you have become an expert in self torture peace seems to be the greatest thing.
A bullet in your head does it very well actually.
Really. It just renders you peaceful.
This was about four months ago, people... [Laughs]
someone comes to me and says 'Sadhguru, your face Sadhguru so peaceful, Sadhguru you look...' [laughter]
'What! Me peaceful? Look at my eyes and see I'm like a bloody volcano!' [All laugh]
Don't...don't insult me by saying I'm peaceful. [All laugh]
Peace is the last thing I'm seeking. I mean it; peace is the last thing I'm seeking.
You want it now? You want it now? [All laugh]
Peace is the last thing that you seek, isn't it?
You 'rest in peace.' [laughter]
This is the time to live. People who have lost control over their mental faculty,
what should have been a miracle has become a misery manufacturing machine.
Now they're thinking... if I just get peace. If you want peace all you need is a tranquilizer, a glass of wine,
heavy stomach or something to do which will exhaust you which will make you sleep peacefully. No? No?
Doesn't these things work? They'll work wonderfully well.
So this is not about being peaceful; in terms of experience we want to make this very pleasant.
We want this to be blissful, ecstatic but even being ecstatic is not a goal by itself.
If you are blissful by your own nature then the important thing is you're no more a issue; you're not the issue anymore.
There are other issues in the existence, let's look at it;
but if you are a issue what other issue will you take onto your hands? You will not touch anything.
Right now, everybody is like this because 'I am enough trouble, I don't want to touch you.'
When I'm enough trouble myself why do I want to take on this one or that one?
When I'm no more a issue, now I'm willing to dig into the whole existence and see what it's all about.
So, mysticism evolved only in those places where people learnt the technology of being ecstatic by their own nature.
For you to experience a little bit of pleasantness within you
if you have to drink, if you have to dance, if you have to do some other crazy thing
then you will never explore any other dimension of life
because keeping yourself pleasant itself is a great challenge and it's a fulltime job. Isn't it so?
Pursuit of happiness has become the goal of life itself.
Happiness is not the Z - not the A of life, its the Z of life
its not the Z of life; it's the A of life. It is not the end product of life.
It is not something that you achieve. It is something that you start with, that's the square one of life;
that's how all of us started, isn't it? Hum? Isn't it so?
As children we all started joyfully without any hassle.
So, do not understand spiritual process as peacefulness or joyfulness or even blissfulness.
Only if you're blissful you will truly explore all aspects of life; otherwise you will not dare to
because maintaining your own little bit of pleasantness within you is such a big challenge,
where is the question of taking on bigger challenges?
There was a time when we believed that whether the tree in your house bears fruit or not depended on God's will. No?
There was a time the tree in your garden, whether it bears fruit or not depended on God's will.
But such things we took charge of these things.
Now, we know if this is not bearing fruit what is the problem with it, what to do with it, all these things slowly we figured out.
So, when you understand that if this one has not blossomed it's got nothing to do with anything
except that we're not doing something right with this one; it's as simple as that.
When we understand that, that is when a spiritual process actually begins.
So, once youre not a issue, being peaceful or joyful or blissful is not an effort anymore;
then naturally you want to know what's behind everything because it is not an induced quest.
It is very natural for human intelligence to look for it, you cant help it.
Spiritual process is not a conscious choice; it's a kind of compulsive behavior. [Laughs]
It's a compulsive behavior unless you handle it consciously it'll not yield, that's why it looks like a trick thing.
It's actually compulsive behavior - longing for the boundless is a compulsive behavior
but unless you become conscious it'll never work.
So, it's little one inside the other.
If you..
when you are stuck to the rigid formats of your logical mind it looks like an impossibility; it looks like there's no way.
If you... if you come to India you will see this -
people will go down here, there's one, let's say, one Devi temple.
They'll go bow down to her, like all the mantras and the chants, and the prayers that they do, they're saying 'You are everything.'
They go here, one Ganapati temple - half man, half animal.
They go down, bow down to him and all the chants, prayers, everything, they're telling him 'You're everything.'
They go to Lakshmi temple they do the same. They go to Vishnu temple they do the same.
They say Shiva of course they say 'You're everything.'
I know youre also doing this with people. [laughs]
But they're genuinely doing it; there's no deception in this.
Because when you say 'you're everything' you're saying 'you're the center of the universe'
and it's true. The cosmos doesn't have a fixed axis.
Today after much struggle modern science is slowly coming to terms with this -
you can make anything the very center of the universe.
It is all in your consciousness that you make it that way.
So, people move seamlessly from one thing to another; they just don't have problem with anything.
And this is very important because if you want to access other dimensions of life,
if you want to know, experience and be able to handle other dimensions of life
it's very important that you have no rigid structures in your mind.
So, consecration is just this - you're making one thing into another thing.
What is just a physical thing you're making a God out of it;
you're making it the very center of everything.
People keep asking me 'Sadhguru, are you going to make another Dhyanalinga in United States?'
I tell them 'no use, there is no need to' because you can bring that here whenever you want'
because Dhyanalinga doesn't belong to time and space. If you are willing it's here also.
We can establish one space where... it is like...
we won't consecrate anything but if all of you're willing that'll become the Dhyanalinga Temple without actually doing it.
Now, I'm beginning to talk mumbo jumbo [all laugh]
because life is mumbo and it's jumbo. [all laugh]
It's big.
The biggest thing in the existence is life itself, isn't it?
The biggest thing in the existence is not some God sitting somewhere.
The very life process itself it contains the creation and the creator.
If you are willing to go beyond the surface substance of what this is, suddenly everything is plastic.
You can move one thing to another, another thing to another, it's all mixed up.
There's a beautiful song in Telugu. There' are Telugu people?
Oh! This was sung by a person who was inebriated, who's constantly in a state of inebriation
and he said, 'Jagame Maya' (Telugu) that means life is... the existence is illusion.
'Brathuke Maya' - that means life is also an illusion.
So, if right becomes left and left becomes right there's no problem.
[Talks in Telugu]
... that means if right becomes left and left become right, man becomes woman and woman becomes a man,
there's really no problem because after all it's an illusion.
So, today modern physics is coming to this that you can make one thing into another.
Time and space is stretchable, you can make it small, you can make it big, you can make it anything you want.
So, consecration process is touching the borders of that.
The main part of the consecration was not done here, it was done in the last two days
and we were only creating a conducive atmosphere for what's been happening.
I don't want to ask certain questions which will make some people go into flights of imagination
and some people feel depressed that they can't feel anything and whatever;
all this is not necessary but if you're willing, if you came into this hall yesterday
and today there's a big difference in the way the space is.
If you... you should have meditated yesterday or today morning and now do it,
you'll notice a big difference in the way it happens.
So, you change the quality of the space simply because you change the reverberations.
So, always yogis and mystics chose spaces which are small and generally into the earth.
Caves are just cubicles in the earth. If you go like this there'll be drainage problems
so they went like this into the mountains; that's why the mountains and the caves
always popular with spiritual people because they want to be surrounded by earth.
They don't want to be in wide open space where they can't retain the energy that they want to
that they can't be in a space that they want to be in.
So, they created into the terrain some kind of thing.
Those mystics who were further evolved into these aspects went into subterranean spaces
where in your perception it may be just as big as a mustard seed
but for them it's a whole city; lots of people living there and doing their sadhana,
living full scale life but in your perception of space it may be just this much, like a grain of sand,
that kind of space but in their perception and experience and in their life experience it's big.
You can stretch space like this.