Sadhguru Jaggi Vasudev New Year Message

If u r deeply involved with the simplest
aspects of Life, U will see every aspect
of your Life as Spectacular .

--Sadhguru Jaggi Vasudev

Clear Vision

Time to Create a Clear Vision:

If you feel the world around you – when I say the world, I mean the human part of the world around you – you will see your experience is a cacophony of voices, thoughts and emotions. These voices, thoughts and emotions are all an outpouring of confusions of many different levels and states. With a very distorted perception of the current reality, these voices, thoughts and emotions are formed and expressed. When man is in this level of confusion, when he is subjugated by the misconceptions or the wrong perception of reality around him, the noise that he creates around himself, the pain and suffering that he creates for himself and the people around him and to all other life forms around him is very unfortunate.

With all the conveniences and facilities we have because of science and technology individual man and humanity has still remained an absolute confusion, an absolute mess. All the noises that he is making in the form of his thoughts and emotions, if you look at it, if you really are little sensitive to feel people’s thoughts and emotions around you, you’ll see it is an absolute mess, it is an absolute confusion.

That is the reality that you see today. There is no clarity in him. Nor any will or vision. Most people in the world live their lives without even understanding what is it that they really want for themselves. Or even if they know what they want, they neither have the will nor the vision to create what they want in their lives. Most of the time just settling for whatever is easy, whatever they term as attainable, whatever is within their reach, they settle for anything if they feel it is easy.

If something is easily attainable, people go for it. Not really seeing whether they really need it in their lives or not. Not really seeing whether that is what they really want in their lives. It is easily attainable, that is the whole thing. And at any given moment in life if we go by the experience of our past or in other words if you trust your mind – trust your logical mind to decide what is possible, what is not possible, what is attainable, what is not attainable, then it will always tell you mediocre things as to what is possible.

We are always trying to create our life based on the current reality that exists around us at this moment. This moment whatever may be with us is not the point. Where we want to go tomorrow need not be connected to where we are right now. What we want as the highest in life, it need not have anything to do with our present situation. If we enslave our visions to current situations, then it is once again settling for what is attainable, what is easy, what you think is possible. It is not in terms of thinking what is possible or not possible. It is just in terms of seeing what is your vision, what is the highest that you can seek in your life.

If man has a vision of what he wishes to do with himself and the world around him, it is not beyond man’s capacity to create it. It may happen in this lifetime, it may take a couple of lifetimes but what we want will definitely come. For that person, for whom his vision of life is clear to him and he just seeks it every moment of his life, for him, the highest things will come and fall at his feet. It is only because man is a bundle of confusion, it is only because man is most of the time seeking what he doesn’t want – things that he really wants never come to him. This lack of vision and will in his life is fundamentally because of a distorted understanding of the world around us.

What you know as the highest, you just seek that. It doesn’t matter whether it is going to happen or not going to happen, simply living with the vision itself is very elevating, is itself very liberating, is itself a very joyous process for any person. Whether it is going to happen tomorrow or after hundred years is not the point. But you have a vision and you are not concerned about whether it is possible or not possible. You are not concerned whether it is easy or difficult, you are not concerned whether it is attainable or non-attainable, or in other words, you are not concerned about the result in the end. It is just that you have a vision and you give your life towards it. This is one of the easiest ways to attain the highest also. The whole Gita is just about this – to simply give yourself to what you want, not caring whether it is going to happen or not going to happen. It is a spiritual process by itself.

Vision is an important way of transcending limitations within and outside ourselves. If one wants to live here without any vision, without being burdened by visions, without being burdened by will, then that person should be absolutely innocent. Absolutely. Such a person can simply live here. He need not live with a vision. He does not need a vision. He does not have to have a will about anything, that is if he is absolutely egoless and childlike. And if it is not so, it is very important that man lives with a vision.

There have been many stories, many examples in the Indian culture. Certain sages and saints, once they willed, even gods had to come down and do things for them. There are many stories like this. Lord Shiva cannot help it if a man sits here with complete will and vision that he wants Shiva to come down. He has to come down – he has no choice about it. There are many stories like this. So all these things demonstrate to you that if what you want is very clear to you and if you are set on it, what seems to be impossible today, tomorrow becomes a normal part of your life. Without any fuss it falls at your feet. But at every moment logically if you question this and think in terms of “Is it attainable or not attainable”, then the confusion that you create in your mind, the confusions that you create in the world around you makes the world itself into a big confusion.

It is time to really create a vision within ourselves as to what is it that we really care for, not just for today. If you look deep enough your vision will be the universal vision. Really in terms of being a human being, what is the highest that you can seek and simply creating that vision. Whether everything else happens or doesn’t happen on the way is not the point. Whatever you have known as the highest – simply seeking that with undivided attention – that is a way of knowing life here and beyond. It is a simple way of knowing life here and beyond

Satsang with sadhguru

Experience shared by Sharmila[isha volunteer]:




I registered with 3 days Tamil Satsang 'The lap of the Master'. Whenever I am planning to go to Velliengiri, happiness that stuck in the mind and sing.

Earlier i didn't know the importance of the program. I just thought this is one of the satsang. But the teacher said it is the kind of program that will happen 1000 years one. Oh! i couldn't believe. I had the great opportunity in my life.

I never felt such type of happiness. Nothing is initiated me to being happy. It happened just like that. Without getting anything i could be happy. Without involve with anything i could be happy. Nobody with me still i am happy. I am asking this question with me. How? No answer. And i don't want the answer too.

I started my travel on Apr 16 at 11 O' clock from chennai to Pondicherry. There Isha center arranged bus to Coimbatore. As my mother, brother, aunty everybody moving to coimbatore i joined with them.

Once the bus started we prayed. I just brought jaggi into my mind. My mother written some beautiful poem against sadhguru and composed herself. It comes as a beautiful song. As my whole family is good singer we used to sing the song. She started to sang the song. And end of the song she couldn't sang. Tears that made her to stop. Everybody kept quit and we gone deeper into the silence.

Then my aunty ask me to sing a song. That is written by Marabin Mainthen Ma. Muthaiya.

When i went to BSP i got Gnaniyin sanithiyil Book. Once i returned just read the poem. And i don't know how it made me to sing. Within a minute it came as a beautiful song. Believe me i am not a musician. Here is the Lyrics for you.

Unai Kana vanthen kaelvikalodu
Sadhguru nadha nee bhathil kooru
Ponai thedi poruli thedi
Poorgal nadathugiren
ennai theda vazhi theriyamal
Kalam kadathukiren

Thannai Kadanthu Anbai
Unarthennai Adaivenna?
Iraiva innimel ithayam thelivena
Payanam kilambi pogum neram
Pathai Neelkirathey
Salanam sabalam thuyaram Palavum
Vazhiyil varukirathey

Summakkum Summaigal
Irraiki vaippena
Sugathai unarvena siva ne!
Enathu suyathai unarvena


How beautiful lyrics. Whatever we want to tell everything that this lyrics do.

And then my brother sang a song 'Pitchai Pathiram'. O!!! it is another heart melting song. As the bus was too hot we couldn't sleep. Then once we reached coimbatore that chillness made us to sleep.

We came to registration place. Earlier i thought how asharam going to manage 12000 people. No doubt, They can do even it is Triple. The registration place told everything how they have arranged the thing properly.

Only place in the world that teaches Humanity, Spirituality, Yoga, Punctuality, Planning, Silence, Love, Life .....everything. This is the place where you can learn what is joy without anything.

Then we took nice bath, morning meditation, nice Sambar rice. Went to Dyanalinga the divine place.

They have announced satsang will be started at 5.30PM. Temperature was too high. As people wanted to see Sadhguru very close they stand in the queue before 3PM. God! We stayed just opposite to the Home school Playground where the satsang happening. Queue crossed the spanda Hall. So i don't to stand in the queue. I know we feel the vibration wherever we are sitting. Even we no need to see him.

He came!!!!!

you know all, how the feeling. Sadhguru said he knows only 33 tamil words. Even if we know lakhs word that couldn't help us to describe the feeling towards the Guru.

Isha Troop played nice song. We clapped, smiled but the eyes do the tearing work.

And he started the powerful meditation. I felt that i was in 'Silence' Class. Such a powerful meditation.

I just went deeper into the meditation. My sister-in-law asked me 'you have family in chennai, do you remember'. I said ' Now i am with Sadhguru. i don't remember anything' and i said 'The Earth revolve without me, like that my family too'

You can experience the thing when you be there 100% is it.

Next day morning 5.30Am we started Shambhavi and 6AM sadhguru came. What a man he is. How he Knows these much jokes. Too much sense of Humor.

Evening crowd started to stand in the queue before 2PM.

My friend said everybody want to see him near. Why sadhguru allow them to see by passing him in a queue.

I said that wouldn't be nice. That is usual procedure of other people. I don't like that too.

Then Sadhguru came. Started mediation. All the sudden he came down from the stage. And started to walk around the people by stretch out his hand and distributing the vibration. My friend got her answer. Not her answer more than that.

But the sad thing is while he walking around somebody tried to touch his foot. He slipped and fall. God!! i couldn't bear. He ready give his soul to us. But we are doing? Atleast good receiving. My heart was heavy and i cried for an hour. Still the feeling stuck into my mind.

In Ashram every poster is telling the expenditure around 64,000,00. But donation in 2 days is only 10,000,00. Third day morning Sadhguru didn't come. One Samiji Talked. Not talked he cried. He said we have only our hand to give sadhguru we don't have even a single money.

One lady stood and asked her husband permission and gave her Tali chain Immediately. Everybody started to surrender their gold. Included my mom and aunty.

So i just understood their feelings towards Sadhguru. Great people. Great Heart.

Final day Sadhguru came meditation, joke etc. Cultural for an hour. We all dance together. Even a 60 years Grandma also danced.

I enjoyed each and every moment. I never forget these 3 days. Whole joy and only joy nothing else.


Be happy. Live Happy
Namaskaram

courtesy:
http://sadhguru-jaggi.blogspot.com
http://ishafoundation.com

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Kotagiri Anandha Alai Sathsang with Sadhguru

And the Clouds Parted...


In Kotagiri, one of the picturesque hill stations of the Nilgiri Hills, volunteers arranged to give the best reception for the Anandha Alai Sathsang with Sadhguru, for which more than 2000 were expected to assemble. Two days of incessant rain failed to dampen spirits as, beneath an overcast sky, ebullient volunteers bustled to prepare the venue. The welcome committee was formed of about 80 volunteers in traditional Badaga1 attire.

Coincidentally, guru poojas were underway, at the Sadhguru Sri Brahma ashrams in the nearby villages of Naduvatti and Yedapalli. Meditators and residents of Isha Yoga Center, on way to the Sathsang, stopped by and the rain and hail evoked joyful dancing.
While dark thunderclouds hung over the whole area, just above Kotagiri where the Sathsang with Sadhguru was about to take place, the sky was blue. The villagers who for the past 88 years have kept the tradition alive to honor Sadhguru Shri Brahma on this particular day with their very own Guru Pooja, saw this extraordinary phenomenon as Sadhguru’s way of blessing the occasion.
The sun above Kotagiri joined hands with the volunteers and meditators in welcoming Sadhguru. After a half hour live concert by the Sounds of Isha, the participants did their Shambhavi practice. Soon, Sadhguru was in their midst, on the dais. Volunteers honored him in the Badaga way, offering flowers, and dignitaries of the town welcomed him with the traditional Kalasam ritual.

In the reverberating atmosphere, Sadhguru spoke about creating the wave of bliss (Anandha Alai); stating that, generally, “joy is treated as abnormal and misery is normal.” To quote: “Somebody who hurts himself, won’t he hurt another person also?” and “If you have not experienced tears of bliss, you life has not started.”
Sadhguru said, “You cannot determine the circumstances you live in; but, you can decide how to be in any circumstance that you are in.” He further emphasized that pleasantness or blissfulness is not a teaching but the yearning of every life and that the meditators had been empowered for this purpose with the Shambhavi Maha Mudra.

Sadhguru elaborated on the uniqueness of Indian culture, how spirituality was different from communism, peace, social realities and how an individual can use every situation to grow, within. He said: “So what if God is loving? If we are loving, it is nice for us.”
Somehow, whatever he spoke, you could almost hear the voices: “Isn't that true? Why didn't I think of this earlier?” Asked about the Sadhguru Sannidhis, he explained the science behind these sacred spaces which can be established in Isha meditator’s homes. Each house should be as an ashram and yoga should happen as a way of life. The ashram, he explained, is a place where every circumstance is used for inner growth. “If so, every situation will be like a prasadam.”
The Sathsang ended in a fervor of music and dance that vibrated and resonated across and around long after the Master departed. The currents and undercurrents of bliss were palpably alive and deeply moving.

BLOGCATALOG

Trust Can Do Miracles

The moment the word 'spirituality' is uttered, a number of misconceptions and misunderstandings surface. A spiritual process is neither an invention, nor something that you create. It is just a life process, which has unfortunately remained beyond common perception. It is the work of a guru to take a person from one dimension of life to another.

Right now, the only things that are in your experience are your body, your mind, and your emotions. You know them to some extent, and you can infer that if these three things have to happen the way they are happening, there must be energy that makes them happen. Without energy these were not possible.

Today modern science is proving that everything you know as life, everything that you know as existence, as cosmos, as galaxies is just an energy that is manifesting itself in millions and millions of ways. The whole process of yoga is about bringing this experiential reality into every human being. When I say yoga, I am not referring to any one particular practice or system. Yoga is the oneness in the existence. Either you can simply go at it with the strength of your emotion, or you can approach it systematically so that you find result as soon as possible. Or in other words, if everything is just one energy, the difference between a rock and a human being is just a question of subtleness of energy. Though it is the same, it is in different levels of subtleness. When it is very gross we call it a rock, when it is in its utmost subtleness, we call it divine.

Positions of energy

To know and experience this divinity means evolving our energies to higher possibilities, and evolving our energies to subtler dimensions within ourselves. If your energies are in muladhara, food and sleep will be the main qualities in your life. If your energies moves into swadhistana, then you are a pleasure seeker, you want to enjoy the world in so many ways. If your energies move into manipuraka you are a doer in the world, you are always doing something. If your energies move into anahatha, you become a very creative person. If your energies move into vishuddhi,you become a very powerful being. If your energies move into agna, then you are intellectually fully enlightened. You have attained peace. When your energies move to sahasrar, you will burst into ecstasy, unexplained ecstasies for which there are no external reasons.

From muladhara to agna, there are many ways. There are many systems through which you can move your energies to agna, but from agna to sahasrar, there is no way. There is no path. There is no particular way to do this; it is just a jump. It is because of this, that so much stress has been laid on the guru-shishya relationship. The master-disciple relationship has been held as the most sacred relationship in this culture because of this jump. If you have to take this jump you need deep trust on the guru.

Now let us say that you wish to go to Kedarnath right now. Somebody is driving; the roads are laid out. If you go alone and there is no proper direction, definitely you would wish there was a map to tell you how to get there. Similarly, on one level, a guru is just a map. He is a live map. If you can read the map, you know the way, and thus can go for your destination. A guru can also be like your bus driver. Even if you fall off to sleep in die bus, the driver would take you to Kedarnath, but to sit in this bus and doze off, or to sit in this bus joyfully, you need to trust the driver. If every moment, with every curve on the road, you go on thinking, "will this man kill me? Will this man go off the road? What intention does he have?" then you will go mad sitting in the bus. Similarly, a guru needs your trust; if there is no trust you will drive yourself mad.

Unconscious & Conscious Trust

This is not just for sitting in a bus or going on a spiritual journey. To live on this planet, you need trust. Right now, you trust unconsciously. Let us say you are sitting in a bus, which is just a bundle of nuts and bolts and pieces of metal. But unknowingly, you trust this vehicle so much, isn't it? You have placed your life in the hands of this mechanical mess, which is just nuts and bolts, rubbers and wires. You have placed your life on it, because you trust the bus unconsciously. The same trust, if it arises consciously, would do miracles to you. When we say trust, we are not talking about anything new in life. To be here, to take every breath in and out, you need trust. Your trust is unconscious. I am only asking you to bring a little consciousness to your trust. It is not something new. life is trust, otherwise nobody can exist here.

So, if you can draw your own map, if you can drive your own bus, it is wonderful. But on an uncharted path, if you go without a map, it may take a lifetime to find a certain place. But if you go with a map you can find your destination easily.

SADHGURU AT IPL:

IN THE LAP OF MASTER

Sometime in early March, Sadhguru announced his wish to conduct three-day residential Sathsangs at Isha Yoga Center, one in Tamil and one in English. The initial goal was to attract around 2000 meditators – and that was what the organizers went ahead and planned for. Only a week later, when Sadhguru inquired about the developments, the coordinators updated him proudly that the registrations had reached 2000 participants for each of the Sathsangs, that all arrangements have been made and registrations have now been closed. Much to their surprise, Sadhguru exclaimed that such an opportunity is available once in lifetimes and it would be a crime to deny anyone from being present during those days. And so the registrations reopened and for both Sathsangs altogether no less than 10,000 people were expected – and these expectations were met.

For days on end, the whole Isha Yoga Center was getting equipped to be able to accommodate such numbers. From temporary sheds to outdoor dining arrangements to a large temporary kitchen and a huge ground to host the event, residents and volunteers worked day in and day out to make things happen. On 24 April, the opening day of the English Sathsang, as the participants rolled in, soon a vibe of excitement prevailed.

Everything from accommodation allotment to seating arrangements went on like clockwork, and by 6 pm, all were seated and an expectant silence prevailed throughout Spanda Hall garden. As Sadhguru appeared, the roaring drums of Sounds of Isha filled the air, accompanied by a vibrant fire dance performed by Brahmacharis.

Sadhguru began the Sathsang by reminding the sacredness of the Velliangiri Mountains and their significance to Isha, since Sadhguru’s Guru had graced these mountains. "For me, this mountain is very sacred because my Guru walked upon it.

Sadhguru even chose to shed his physical self upon it.And when he wanted to say something to me he did not sit down like this and talk to me. [Laughs] He could have told me… But everything he wanted to tell me, he put it upon the peak of this mountain, so it is very sacred to me."

Sadhguru also fulfilled the promise that he had made on the last Mahashivarathri when he had announced that soon he would be telling the story of why these sacred mountains have come to be known as "Kailash of the South" [see textbox].

Sadhguru then conducted a guided mediation, leading the participants through a series of moods andemotions, culminating with devotion. "Every emotion, every experience that you go through in your life is after all your making. If only you could be conscious that anyway it is your making, you would definitely choose the sweetest way to be. Devotion is not only the sweetest way to be, it is also the highest form of intelligence" Sadhguru concluded.

A special video was put together for the occasion, in which the story of the Isha Yoga Center and the Dhyanalinga consecration was narrated through the sharing of various meditators, emphasizing the fact that the whole foundation was built and still goes on to evolve on the strength of people’s devotion, commitment, dedication and willingness to give whatever is needed to make the ultimate happen for themselves and everyone else.

This set a strong mood for the remaining days when people were able to experience the preciousness of what was being offered and the great possibility that Sadhguru, the Dhyanalinga, the Isha Yoga Center and

Isha Foundation hold.

Over the next two days, an amazing atmosphere of spiritual intensity was created. The participants met every morning at dawn to witness Guru Pooja and do their practices together. An early morning Sathsang with Sadhguru was nothing short of a dream finally lived for many – and each day’s sunrise symbolized the new beginning which was being established.

Through the processes and meditations, it was clear that Sadhguru was putting his full being into each individual, and thus unraveled the significance of such an event and what a rare privilege it was to be in the presence of such an immense source of divinity whose endeavor is to make each and every single human being experience the ultimate within themselves. And as if that were not enough,

Sadhguru stepped down from the dais for one of the processes and walked through the crowd, who were left intoxicated with the wave of compassion that he spread.

So much can be said and described about these few days, but the most significant thing and the memory that will always remain is the overwhelming response that the Sathsangs generated, with people clearly surrendering to the Grace of Sadhguru and giving themselves totally to every process, every word and every moment that was lived throughout these three days.

The awareness about the value of what is being offered by Sadhguru in a sense of total giving, opened the hearts and minds of the participants and many contributed to whatever extent possible for them towards the enormous costs of this event which was free for all, and towards making the Dhyanalinga Yogic Temple expansion happen in the lines of Sadhguru’s vision. It was overwhelming to see meditators offering whatever they could.

The Sathsang participants were introduced to various aspects of Isha Foundation and its projects, namely the Ishaanga concept, an opportunity for Isha meditators to become limbs of Sadhguru by spreading the message of Isha Yoga (anga in Sanskrit means "limb"). Those who wish to dedicate themselves towards this can submit their application form and will undergo a two- to three-day-long training to become an Ishaanga.

Whether this type of Sathsangs can again be offered in the near future depends on many factors, particularly the availability of sufficient material and financial resources – however, after witnessing the amazing impact that these few days have had, many of those present felt the urge to make such a possibility available for many others. If thousands of us Isha meditators commit ourselves towards this goal, we can definitely make it happen. The Master is with us.

IN THE LAP OF THE MASTER VIDEO :