Inner Engineering # 1 - Mechanisms of Life
In this series of posts, I will be sharing my experiences of Inner Engineering with Sadhguru. It was an immense pleasure to do Inner Engineering with Sadhguru, a self transformation course. Inner Engineering is meant for all those who are asking questions to themselves, who are struggling to know about the existence of entire creation and how does their own existence matter or what is the purpose of their own life. These are Sadhguru’s own words and my understanding in understanding the exact purpose, why we are here, I used to ask this question to myself and I will be putting before you all that I found and learned. Now, I do not ask myself the question, why I am here and what is the purpose of life, as I have the answer.
There will be 7 posts based on Inner Engineering helping us understand all the different aspects of this life, nature of human and the way to live this life in the best manner. The first session deals with the mechanisms of human life and aspects related to our life. So, let’s start this journey. While you read these posts, sit calm and forget everything for a moment to get the best benefit.
This whole life given to us is a gift from the God. But these days, we have forgotten how to live the life and enjoy this life rather we are running behind things which should really don’t matter to us. Things that make us feel miserable and we blame ourselves or others for that. In this modern world, everybody is going through that.
Sadhguru says, sometimes a bullshit can help you to get out of your miseries or to reach success. But, it will not help you to enjoy the life to the fullest, you don’t need to become the most successful in the room to be the happiest person.
Happiness comes from something else.
We are compulsions and made to desire more and more.
He explains, If I put you in a 5m*5m cubicle and provide you the necessities, you might feel good for a day. Then, I give you more liberation and put you into 10m*10m cubicle, there you might feel better for 3 days or more. Then, you will again feel bound and will seek liberation.. again I put you into a 100m*100m cubicle, you might feel good for a week. But, once you realize again, that you are bound, you will start feeling caged and will seek more freedom.
So, we all just want to escape our boundaries, once we realize that, this is Human Nature. Whatever you currency is, let’s say Money, Love, Lust, Power.. you will want more and more all the time. Human mind is full of desires and greed.
So, how to deal with it?
You need to understand.. Not everything will happen 100% in your way. The Reality is you, yourself are not 100% of your own. So, if you yourself are not the 100% of yourself, how can you expect everything to go in your own way.
Be yourself first
You are dealing with so many problems at this present time, you should realize firstly that you are responsible for yourself, not someone else. Don’t complicate the things for yourself, this is what you need to understand.
Mind, Body, Emotions and Energy.
This is you and this makes up your existence.
Your Mind is the most important aspect of your existence. This is what you need to understand. It is the manufacturing unit of all the thoughts and affects your life, if you are able to control it, you can win this life.
MIND a gift to the human beings, it makes us the most conscious animals or life forms on the planet, it provides a way out of this life-death cycle..but we use it to create miseries and troubles for each other. Isn’t it?
If a person has Schizophrenia, a psychological disorder, he or she can maintain a maximum of 33 different personalities without even knowing. See, how complex your Mind is. If your mind is not controlled, it can make you the most miserable species on the planet as well. Another example is.. if you are sitting, and your hand is moving this way or that way and you cant control it, people will call you mad, the same is happening in your mind, your thoughts are moving randomly in different directions, but here people are less likely to see it, unless they are living with you.
Be an individual, not 33 individuals.
think Natural, not Supernatural. Put the underwear inside not outside as superman does, you are a man or a woman, not super man or super women.. that is what you need to understand.
Be yourself, admire yourself and tell yourself, you are so happy and you have everything you need to live the rest of the life to the fullest.
Sadhguru says, If you go to a monastery, nobody will ask you, who are you? The reason is, all of them who are sitting there, they are themselves sitting there to know who they are. So, they won’t ask you the question, who are you.
Now, coming onto another similar question.. who am I. It is the question, we all ask ourselves or to our closed ones.
Who Am I ?
It is the greatest question in the entire cosmos if that question is asked by one to oneself but if you the same question to someone else, it becomes the most stupid question ever asked..
You need to identify yourself, be the best and happiest version of yourself. Remember, in this mind, there is no division or subtraction, there is only addition and multiplication. Tell yourself, whatever the hell happens in your life, you will be ALRIGHT.
What I know, I know.. what I do not know. I don’t know.
That’s it. Enjoy your existence and spread love. Luxury does not make you happy, but your own self within you and identifying yourself at first place.
That’s it.
