A survivor of an almost-fatal accident asks Sadhguru how to feel life more intensely. Instead of waiting for a car accident, Sadhguru replies, you can live fully every moment.
Q : I had an imminent death experience when I was almost hit by a car within a few seconds. I lived these few seconds completely in slow motion and in great detail. Why did I live these few seconds this way, and can I live consciously in such detail?
Sadhguru : Once - two old men were at the bar of a small town in Indiana. The two old men were seated, grumpy, at two separate tables in front of their glass. One of the two looking at the other saw a birthmark on his temple. He looked at him in the face and said, "Hey, are you Joshua? " " Yes, and you, who are you? " " Do not you recognize me? I am Mark. We went to war together. " " Oh my God! And both became animated. "During the Second World War, we were together. It's been fifty years since that. "
So they sat together at a table and began to drink, talk, eat. They had lived forty minutes of action during the Second World War in Europe. Forty minutes of bombing. They spent more than two hours discussing and reliving these forty minutes with ardor. Once they had gone around the question, one of them asked the other, "And what have you done since? " The other replied," Oh, I've just been traveling salesman. " From their forty minute war they spoke passionately for two hours. But forty years of life, "I was just a sales representative." That's all that happened.
Train for the grave.
Unfortunately, many people only wake up to life when they are threatened with death - whether through war or a car accident. You really start to feel alive only when death is facing you urgently - what a pity! When you actually do and honestly face your mortality, you understand that the simple fact of being alive is the most important thing.
When you actually do and honestly face your mortality, you understand that the simple fact of being alive is the most important thing.
When I look at people, they seem to be training for the grave - the kind of posture, the kind of facial expression they will have when they are in their coffin. They do not understand that they are deadly. They think they will live forever so they practice being dead while alive. However, as soon as you threaten them with death, they wake up.
Why do you think Krishna chose to teach on a battlefield? Not in the tranquility of an ashram, nor in the beautiful Indian jungles, nor even in a cave of the Himalayas, but on a raging battlefield - for if they are not threatened with death, most human beings do not have the intelligence to look at their lives.
I think the day when self-driving cars will come out, many people will reach enlightenment. After a while, with the habit you may be able to fall asleep, it's something else, but the first time, you're not quite sure whether the car brakes or not. You do not know if it will brake in time or if it will crash. I think that in the first months after the exit of the cars without driver, the planet could know a wave of awakening! We can prepare to see a few awake.
Awaken to life
Do not wait for the car accident. You must realize that you can collapse and die instantly. That's not what I wish you. I bless you with a long life. But it's a possibility. Everyday lots of people are dying like this. Sitting, standing, lying - they die in all kinds of postures.
For now, your brain drama is superimposed on everything else. It means that your ridiculous creation takes the place of the magnificent creation in which we live.
When you become aware that you could die, suddenly life becomes valuable to you, you wake up to life. I often remind people that in this life you can not fail, everyone will pass. You have never seen anyone being held back because he did not live properly. Everyone passes. But the majority of people go by without ever knowing what they went through.
When you were on the edge of the accident, for a few moments you knew what you were going through. The rest of the time you do not know anything about it. For now, your brain drama is superimposed on everything else. That is to say that your ridiculous creation takes the place of the magnificent creation in which we live. When your ridiculous creation collapsed, when you could no longer think or feel anything because of the mortal danger of the situation, then suddenly you felt really alive. We teach you yoga, we introduce you to all these processes for the sole purpose of helping you to get a little distance from your personal drama, so that you begin to perceive the great cosmic drama. Without that, there is nothing in this life.
