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[Sadhguru] So, the very reason why we take people into the mountains
is to make them experience the mystical dimension of the Himalayas.
We are not a tourist company. If you go there by yourself, the enormity of the mountains,
the natural beauty of the mountains is so overwhelming that you will just be gaping
at every rock and every peak because it’s much more than your eyes can grasp.
It’s very difficult for you to understand what’s Himalayas even physically.
Right from my childhood, I had seen many, many photographs of Himalayas.
I had seen many documentaries about Himalayas. I had a huge picture of Himalayas in my mind,
but the first time I went there, everything that I had in my mind was shrunk.
What is actually there is far bigger than that, you know.
It’s very difficult even to take it all into your mind.
So, if you go there, generally the physical Himalaya itself is too overwhelming.
It puts you down to your size.
You will become a small little human being, you know, like an ant you will become.
Once you go and stand in front of Himalayas, you feel like an ant crawling up on the earth.
But the mystical dimension will be missed
because you will go about gaping at the beauty of Himalayas.
So, the very purpose of taking people on a trek like that is so that,
they can have an experience of a completely different dimension.
If I go into these things, it will go endlessly - your question.
Let me try to bring a little experience to you.
This was many years ago. At that time, I used to travel alone in Himalayas,
but now traveling alone is impossible. If I go, have a full ten busloads of people with me.
So, I went to Kedar. Beyond Kedar, there is a place called Kantisarovar.
Anybody been to Kedar? Nobody? Okay, that’s good.
Beyond Kedar, there is a place called Kantisarovar. The legend goes like this –
that Shiva and Parvati lived on the banks of Kantisarovar. The sages lived in Kedar.
So, sometimes they came down visiting. That’s how the legend goes.
So, I wanted to see this Kantisarovar.
I just went there and I just went and sat on a particular rock.
See, me as a person, I have always avoided learning Sanskrit language.
Though I had an immense liking towards the language,
I avoided learning it when I had the opportunities to learn
because the moment you learn Sanskrit, you will end up reading the scriptures.
My own vision has never failed me even for a moment in my life.
I didn’t want to clutter myself with traditions and scriptures and other things.
Right now, everything that I do is simply purely from the source,
not cluttered with any tradition, any scripture, any teaching - simply looking at life.
So, I didn’t want to read scriptures. I consciously avoided Sanskrit language.
On that day, I was sitting there alone… it’s… in terms of visual beauty,
it’s the most incredible place that you can think of.
You know, snow-clad mountain peaks, completely snow-clad everything and there is,
you know, like a… like a lake which is about two kilometers… two square kilometers kind of lake,
absolutely still reflecting the mountains.
It’s, you know, not… not even a blade of grass anywhere. Everything is white
and this patch of water reflecting the mountains.
It’s indescribable really, even visually I am saying.
So, I was just sitting there my eyes open and suddenly everything in my experience –
my physical body, the rock on which I am sitting, the mountains, the lake –
everything became sound. What was all form became everything into sound.
Now, that sounds crazy.
When everything becomes sound, you call such a state as ritambharapragna.
When you are in a ritambhara state, everything becomes sound.
It’s based on this nadabrahma. And in my own voice, this song is going on like full volume.
I can clearly feel that my mouth is shut.
I am not singing, but it’s my voice - in full volume, the song is just going on.