Your life on fast-forward

One aspect of getting onto a spiritual process is, to put your life on fast-forward. On one dimension what spirituality means is, you are not willing to wait for the normal process of evolution to happen; you want it fast. Once you put it on fast-forward, your joy, your pain, your suffering, everything becomes intense in life.

Your energies are anyway always on the path of the ultimate but once you start doing certain aspects of spirituality, it is on fast-forward. It was going slowly with the natural process of evolution, but now it has been hastened. There was suffering even when it was going slow, but you did not feel it much because it was traveling at a snail’s pace. Now it is moving fast, and it is just like your vehicle – if all four wheels are in one direction, it flows smoothly. If one wheel turns the wrong way, there is struggle and the damage is more because it is travelling fast.

So, once you set your energies on this path, it is very important that your mind, body and emotion cooperate and align themselves in the same direction. Don’t try to entangle your emotions and mind in little things because if your energies are going one way and you want your mind and emotion to go some other way, it will create a struggle. It is up to you to put your mind, emotion – everything in that direction. If you do, you will travel joyfully. If you don’t, you will still travel, but you will be hollering and crying.

Now you set your energies for the ultimate; set your mind and emotion in the same way. So does this mean you have to leave your family or your and that? Not at all. You have to live somewhere, isn’t it? You live wherever it is conducive for you, in a family, an ashram or the forest. If your family is not at all conducive, go to the forest. If the forest is not conducive, live in the city. What is suitable for you, wherever you are comfortable, you live there? It has got nothing to do with your spirituality. It has got something to do with your choice of habitat.

If your pains, your joys, if everything has become intense, don’t ever think that Grace is not there. That is the Grace. Grace does not mean that you are treated like a sweetie pie all the time. Grace just means hurrying you up constantly and not letting you sit anywhere.

Ranked amongst the fifty most influential people in India, Sadhguru is a yogi, mystic, visionary and a New York Times bestselling author Sadhguru has been conferred the Padma Vibhushan by the Government of India in 2017, the highest annual civilian award, accorded for exceptional and distinguished service.