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CONTENTS Lead Article A Sense of Wonder Sadhguru on a Fresh Approach to Life 4 Musings How to Make This Your Last Lifetime? Sadhguru on How to Create a Supportive Situation for Growth 7 Information Overrides All Else Sadhguru on the Thread That Runs from One Lifetime to the Next 9 Leela Series The path of the playful – part XLVI: Bhima and the Aghori 11 In Conversation with the Mystic Youth and Education in India Sadhguru in Conversation with Actor Siddharth 13 News & Happenings Sadhguru at the Aditya Birla Financial Services Group 14 First 21-Day Isha Hata Yoga Program Concluded 15 Fourteen Years of Dhyanalinga 16 Isha Kriya Meditation Camp for Sanitation Workers 17 Sadhguru Spot The Human Calamity in Uttarakhand 18 Upcoming Programs and Events Isha Yoga – Program Highlights 20 Isha Recipes For Healthy Living Kofta Curry 21 Zen Speaks: A Water Buffalo through a Window 23 FOREST FLOWER August 2013 3 SADHGURU A Sense of Wonder Sadhguru on a Fresh Approach to Life The following is an excerpt from a talk by Sadhguru during a 3 ½ Sathsang for meditators at the iii, McMinnville, Tennessee, on 25 April 2013. You should see how men in rural India squat. One thing is, if you are sitting out in nature, there are ants, bugs, ticks, snakes, and other crawling creatures. Any bite will get more serious when it goes beyond the limbs. Another thing is, he just sits and wonders about everything. I would like you to try this. Just sit outside at sunset and wonder. Forget about all these things they told you, that the Earth rotates and that is why the Sun disappears below the horizon, what the distance between the Earth and the Sun is and all that. They say it is 93 million miles to the Sun. This is just a number. Had they said it is just a few thousand miles to the Sun, still you could not have gone there; still you would have believed it. Whether it is a few million miles or a few thousand miles does not make any experiential life impact on you. If you just sit there, wondering about everything, it becomes so apparent that something beyond you is functioning. Right now, with all these lights on, music playing FOREST FLOWER August 2013 in your ears and the phone screen in front of you a conspiracy to bullshit you? I am not saying it is all the time, you think you are the universe. You so – suppose it is so. are moving away from reality and exploration – everything is set. If you simply sat there, who could Modern science exists only for the last few hundred not wonder what this is all about? Where does it years, but religion as you know it is at least 2000 come from? How does it happen? Even a half-brain years old. With the advent of science, what people would wonder about it. believed for over 1500 years suddenly sounded ridiculous. What is the guarantee for you that what When people wonder and wonder, when they strive you celebrate right now as science will not look to know, a few of them break through. Everyone ridiculous in a few hundred years? “Science has looks, but these two eyes show you only that produced technology; we can do so many things.” which is physical, and not even that just the way People who used to believe what you think is it is. These two eyes are largely functioning based ridiculous right now also did a lot of things. on the memory that you have gathered. If you wipe out your memory, your ability to see will be The Third Eye is significant because it is a thoughtless considerably reduced. Let’s say you go out on the eye, not glazed by the past. Only an eye that is not street, a thousand people are standing there and glazed by the past can perceive the present and among them, there is someone you know well; you conjure up the future without delusions. You can will see that one person’s face more clearly than the never grapple with the realities of existence with rest of the faces. That is because there is memory. these two eyes. It is because of this that when people looked and looked, and they saw these two eyes are To at least 30–40%, your vision depends on your insufficient, they strived inward to evolve another memory. In that sense, it is a cultivated vision. dimension of seeing. Thought and emotion are constantly playing through it. People say, and it is true, your eyes are Wherever that dimension evolved, tools were a window to your thoughts and emotions. If you created that led people to knowing. Wherever that want to size up people, you have to look into their dimension did not evolve, wherever only muscle eyes. If you hate them, you have to look into their evolved, force was the way. There, they insisted eyes. If you fall in love, you must look into their that you must believe what they say; to wonder was eyes. Especially if you think you are falling in love a crime. If you wonder, you will question. If you question, someone must have an answer. If someone with them, you definitely want to know what is asks a question and the other one doesn’t have an happening with the other person. You want to see answer, the questioner – though the question their thoughts and emotions, so you look into their is coming from ignorance – seems to be more eyes because to some extent, these are the windows intelligent than the one who cannot answer it. to their thoughts and emotions. A question is not knowledge – a question is an An eye that is not glazed by a sheath of memory, admittance of ignorance. But one who does not a thoughtless eye – simply able to look at things admit “I do not know” is unwilling to admit that he without memory – is what is being referred to as is ignorant, which establishes him in his ignorance. the “Third Eye.” People who look with these two One who questions is ignorant but he has the eyes alone become fearful of existence, because possibility of moving out of it. One who refuses whichever way they look, they cannot figure out a to acknowledge his ignorance is investing in his thing. I want you to try this – look as hard as you ignorance, and he will get a lot of dividend. want with these two eyes – you cannot figure out a thing. What you read in the science textbook is not Shankaran Pillai and his wife moved to the United the point. You still do not know whether it is true States and set up their home. His wife is excited or not. How do you know if the whole science is not about being in America. She wants to throw away FOREST FLOWER August 2013 5 everything old and buy everything new. She is of creation, is most important; otherwise, life is trying to be American. How can you be a citizen of cyclical. There is nothing wrong with that; it is just the United States if you don’t shop at least twice a a trap. What’s wrong with a trap? Actually, traps are week? Even the government encourages everyone much safer. If you trap a coon or a coot, he is much to shop, because otherwise the economy will go safer than if he crosses the highway. The highway down. So she takes to this policy and wants to spend. is not the only thing that could kill him; there are Coming from a traditional Indian background, so many predators. If he steps out into the jungle, Shankaran Pillai wants to save. In India, we always he may not last the night. If you trap him and keep look at our savings; here you look at your credit him here, he is definitely safer. But give him all the rating. So Shankaran Pillai says, “No, this is not the food that he wants, still the first opportunity he gets, way to go. This is it; you cannot spend anymore. he wants to chew through your cage and get away, You have shopped enough.” She flared up and said, no matter if he puts himself to risk. The coots and “You don’t even have the courage of the bureaucrats the coons have this much intelligence – what’s the and the politicians.” problem with you? Once you are infected by memory, you are a slave Only human beings with so-called evolved of karma. This is what karma means – that the past intelligence prefer the trap. This evolved intelligence is glazing your eyes. You cannot see the present the is like a womb that just aborts. There is no purpose way it is. It doesn’t matter how smart you think you to it. Human intelligence has been aborted by many are, once your eyes are glazed with memory, once things. One is rigid dogmas; another one is – in they are influenced by the past, when you conjure reaction to these dogmas – distrust about everything. up the future, you invariably become delusional. If you want to touch dimensions that are not yet in This delusion leads to what the sages called samsara. your experience, just sit and wonder. Samsara means your life has become cyclical. When you are going in circles, you are not going anywhere. Something goes on, but nothing purposeful.