Spirituality Means Self-Destruction
Q: You talked about carrying awareness from
one life into another. The only thing that
you carry forward is awareness. Is there an
end to this process? Is there a beginning?
Was I a blade of grass at some point? Was
I a monkey, was I a lizard, was I a rock on a
mountain? It is all forms of energy after all.
Sadhguru: A blade of grass, I do not know;
monkey, I will not dispute! The question is a
bundle of confusion – awareness, energy or
carrying awareness beyond what you call as
life right now. Where did life begin? Where
does it end? Where it began, let us leave that
at this point because it is already here. What
you consider “myself” is already here. The beginning was obviously not caused by us, but
going beyond has to be because of us. It has to
be a conscious process. There is no other way.
“If everything is energy, where did I spring
from?” You never sprang up, you just anointed
yourself. “Does it mean to say I am not real?
Are you telling me that nonsense about everything being maya [illusion]?” No, it is just
that life is happening. How did this life begin
to happen? Take planet Earth, for example,
which has its own individuality compared to
other planets. As you have your own individuality compared to other people, so does this
planet. No matter how many forms life takes,
it still has the capability to take on a unique
form – a unique quality about itself. Whether
it is the whole planet or you as a person, an
ant, your own little finger or even the hair on
your head, it has a unique quality about itself.
From Earth to Earth Again
At the same time, this uniqueness does not last
forever. You as a person, being here – you as a
body – you know it will end one day. Right now it
is unique. When it ends, this body will not retain
its uniqueness anymore. It will become a part of
the earth. We call this Mother Earth simply because we understand that, in some way, we have
come from it. This body is just a lump of earth taking on a different form and doing all these things.
One day it will sink back and become earth.
This body is just a lump of earth taking on
a different form and doing all these things.
One day it will sink back and become earth.
However, the earth is still retaining its uniqueness compared to the other planets. But as
your body dissolves into the earth, the earth
will also dissolve into a larger lap and become
that – whatever that is. Right now, because you
have no perception of that, we are referring to it
as Shiva. As we have repeatedly said, the word
“Shiva” means “that which is not.” When we
say “that which is not,” it does not necessarily
mean that which does not exist. It means that
which is not in your experience right now. Only
physical creation is in your experience. That
which is the basis of creation is not in your experience. So that which is the basis of creation
is being referred to as Shiva – that which is not.
That which is not became that which is, and took
on a certain quality of its own. In that, millions of
forms came up. All of them took on their own individuality for some time. Right now, when you
are busy or active in your life, it is everything.
Tomorrow morning, if you fall dead, suddenly
life becomes something else. This person who
was so active, doing all those things, suddenly
disappears, but everything is still fine. Only the
thoughts and emotions of those close to you are
disturbed. But as far as existence is concerned,
everything is perfectly fine because nothing has
happened. The body sprang up, played for some
time and went back – just like a little wave in
the ocean. It rolls and falls back. In your individual experience or in the experience of people
around you, this is a great calamity. All these
calamities exist only in your thoughts and emotions, they have nothing to do with life. Only
when your awareness and aliveness has risen
beyond your thought, emotion and body, only
then the question of going beyond also arises.
Bursting the Bubble
Right now, your awareness is limited only to
these dimensions. So the question of carrying
it beyond this life does not arise. But if your
awareness is perfect – if your awareness is very
clear between that which is physical and that
which is not – that is the end of it. If one leaves
the body in full awareness, it can happen only
out of choice. When one is aware, everything
is a choice. Only when one is not aware, everything is a compulsion. If you are truly aware,
being in the body and not being in the body
also happens by choice. Once such a choice has
come, that is the end of the game. What was
functioning as “me” will not exist anymore. Everything has become as it should be, as it was.
Whatever I say verbally is bound to be wrong, but
as an analogy, you can say it is like the rivers we
have been passing. This river that you see now is
Mandakini; what you saw just a little while ago
was Alakananda; what you saw yesterday was
Bhagirathi. Down at Hardwar, the foothills of the
Himalayas, everything becomes Ganga. All these
rivers had their own individuality. But in Hardwar, they lose their individuality and take on another kind of individuality. The Ganga flows into
the ocean and there it too loses that individuality
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and becomes the
Indian Ocean. And if you look deeper, there is no
Indian Ocean or Pacific Ocean. It is just an ocean.
Similarly, if your awareness separates the physical from that which is not physical, everything
merges as one. It is like children blowing bubbles. If you blow a bubble, there is air in it. This
air has a certain individuality because it is in
the body of the bubble. The moment the bubble bursts, where is that air? Similarly, once you
burst what you refer to as “myself” with your
awareness – if you know how to burst the physic al that is holding life energy in a certain bondage
– then energy is just energy. It is a sea of energy.
So spirituality does not mean growth, it means
self-destruction, self-annihilation. This is not
about physically torturing yourself. It is about
destroying the individual and becoming the
universal. This is why Shiva is worshipped.
He is the destroyer. If you are not a destroyer, you have nothing to do with spirituality.
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