Yoga

The nature of the mind is always to accumulate. When it is gross, it wants to accumulate things, when it becomes a little more evolved, it wants to accumulate knowledge. When emotion becomes dominant, it wants to accumulate people. But the basic nature is, it wants to accumulate. 

With awareness and constant sadhana slowly the vessel becomes totally empty. Awareness empties and sadhana cleanses. When these two aspects are sustained, and emptiness arises, Grace descends upon you. If you are living with a guru just to gather his words, you are wasting your life.

If you do not make yourself receptive for the Grace, then the spiritual path needs to be pursued for many, many lifetimes. But if you become empty enough for Grace to descend, then the ultimate nature is within reach. It is here to be.

'Katradhu Tamizh' Ram's next Diwali in Suburbs Rajini Still In A Dilemma! அஜீத் பேட்டி? ராம் இயக்கத்தில் சேரன்? கமல் பாராட்டிய டைட்டில்்

When a person starts thinking or believing that he is on a spiritual path, then the mind starts accumulating so-called spiritual wisdom. Maybe it starts gathering the guru's words but until one goes beyond the need to accumulate — whether it is food, things, people, knowledge or wisdom — it means there is an insufficiency. And the feeling of being insufficient has entered into this unbounded being only because somewhere you got identified with limited things that you are not experienced and realised. It is going beyond all dimensions of existence, into the exalted state. It is not tomorrow, not another lifetime. It becomes a living reality. 

This whole attitude that wherever you go, you must gather as much as you can, has come into you. One basic culprit has been your education, it always taught you how to gather more and more things. With this gathering you can make a living, maybe you can enhance the physical quality of life around you to some extent. 

But, whether what you gather in your mind is local gossip or scientific knowledge or so-called spiritual wisdom, it is incapable of liberating you. It cannot take you even an inch closer to ultimate nature than where you are right now. To bring the necessary awareness and to constantly cleanse your vessel, there is really no substitute for sadhana or inner work.

I always insist, stick to the path of awareness and sadhana . If you naturally jump the line that is wonderful. But if you try to jump the line, then you will see, you will simply deceive yourself because it cannot be done. It can only happen.

When you are willing to drop all your capabilities and your incapabilities, all likes and dislikes, above all, all that makes you think 'this is me', if you are willing to drop all the substance which is supporting your limited self, then also Grace happens. It is not something that you can do, you can only allow it to happen.

The web of bondage is constantly being woven only by the way we think and feel. Whatever we are calling as awareness is just to start creating a distance between all that you think, feel and yourself. Sadhana is an opportunity to raise your energies so that you can tide over these limitations or mechanisms with which you have entangled your thoughts and emotions. 

Sadhguru Jaggi Vasudev
Isha Yoga Centre
New No.55, Moosa Street
T Nagar
Chennai - 600 017
Ph: 91-44- 24333185, 24348732

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Published on July 11^th, 2006