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CONTENTS Main Article A Love Affair with Life Sadhguru about Inspiration and the Spiritual Process 4 Musings Seven-Tiered Cities Sadhguru on the Human System and its Replicas 7 The Science of Aliveness Herbs for Vitality 9 Leela Series The path of the playful – part XXVII: What is Dharma? – 3 11 In Conversation with the Mystic A Sense of Wonder Anupam Kher in Conversation with Sadhguru 12 News & Happenings Isha Samskriti Applications open in December 14 In Gratitude to Life Dussehra Celebrations at the Ashram 14 Down Under in High Spirits Sadhguru visits Australia 15 A Symphony of Sound, Light, and Color Diwali at Isha Yoga Center 16 Indulgently Healthy Isha Life’s Mahamudra one of the Top Restaurants in Asia 17 Sadhguru Spot The Longing for the Infinite 18 Upcoming Programs and Events Isha Yoga – Program Highlights 20 Isha Recipes - For Healthy Living This Month: Pakora Kulambu 21 Zen Speaks Walking in the Rain 23 FOREST FLOWER December 2011 3 SADHGURU A Love Affair with Life Sadhguru about Inspiration and the Spiritual Process A few weeks ago, I was in Singapore, addressing the to wake up in the morning for sadhana. faculty of a premier management and administrative training college. Because I was hopping from When people are highly inspired, they can do great engagement to engagement, just before entering the things – or they can do absolutely stupid things. place, I asked, “What’s the talk about? What am I Inspiration does not always come with wisdom. supposed to speak?” They said, “Something about If we want to create something very purposeful leadership.” And as I was rushing into the college, I and focused, then we need more sensible, focused saw a banner with my picture which said, “A talk on people; more of those who do not need to be leadership by an inspirational speaker from India.” inspired by anybody but who clearly know, “This is So I just thought, what are the things which inspire what we want to do.” If clarity of what we really want people to do something, and when and why do to do is there in us, our ability to create what we people need inspiration? Only when you don’t really want is so much better than that of just an inspired want to do something, you need to be inspired. If lot. A group of inspired people are good for short- you really want to do something, you don’t need any term activity. Long-term activity can only be done inspiration. Do you need to be inspired to go for by those people who really want to do it anyway. dinner? No, but some of you may need inspiration The difference between a materialistic person and a spiritual person is just this: a materialistic person is 4 FOREST FLOWER December 2011 like a dog that has a bone hanging in front of it to then you are spiritual. Generally, materialistic life is make it win the race. Looking at the bone in front, not in line with that intelligence. Is it wrong? Is it the dog runs faster and faster, hoping to get the wrong to eat food, to wear clothes, to have a building bone, but this never happens. to live in? Is it wrong to do this and that? That is not the point. If you make the side dish of life into the The market economy runs like this – everybody main dish, it is a foolish way to live; that is all. We has a bone hanging in front of him. Their tongues build a home, we wear clothes, we eat food, we do are hanging out, but with some incentives, they everything because we want to live, and live totally. keep running. Of course there is always a threat We not only want to live, we want to know life in its that if you don’t run fast enough for what you are entirety. Not just the skin of life, we want to know paid for, you will be nailed. This is the fundamental the soul of life. difference between running a corporation and running a spiritual movement. In a corporation, If you are only eating the skin of life, it is an people are hired, a contraption is fixed to their collar, unintelligent way to exist. If you think your existence and a bone is hung in front of them – that keeps is exclusive, if you think you are an exclusive creation, them running. If they don’t run fast enough, they then this is what will happen: you will end up eating get nailed. Whereas a movement means, whatever only the skin of life, never the fruit. Spiritual process kinds of fools are with you, you have to take them is to eat the fruit of life, the juice of life, the core of along. You cannot fire anybody; you cannot nail life. We not only want to taste it, we want to know anybody. You want everybody moving. and experience it in its entirety, in its full depth and breadth, in its utmost profoundness. A materialistic person is constantly whipped by external situations; the market forces will whip So spiritual process is not a divorce from life; him. A spiritual person does not need any external spiritual process is an irrevocable love affair with whipping since he is doing what he really wants to life. Why is it needed? – Simply because it is a more do. The spiritual process is a far more intelligent way intelligent way to exist. No human being would to exist because it means you are in tune with the consciously want to be a fool. Even one who fools intelligence of the Creator. Whatever you can think around does it to show how smart he is. But if you up is in no way comparable to that intelligence think that you are an exclusive piece of creation, which is creating this body, to that intelligence if you think, feel, and experience life as if you are which is making a flower out of mud, which is alone in this existence, if your experience of life is making mud into food, food into human body and not of union but of divorce from the existence, then human body into mud again, which is making the your so-called intellect works against you. planets go round, and the galaxies function – that which is the very basis of creation. Whatever kind It once happened, just after the French revolution. of very smart thoughts you come up with, whatever The French had perfected the guillotine as a machine kind of equations you have produced in your head, to take off people’s heads. Because they had made whatever kind of formulas you have invented, they the machine, they had to use it as often as possible. are all just desperate attempts to understand the Wherever they saw a head, they felt like taking it off. intelligence of that which is the source of creation. So one day, three men were brought for execution – a lawyer, a priest, and an engineer. They put the What you think is science is just a desperate attempt lawyer down on the board with a hood over his to understand the intelligence of the Creator. What head and pulled up the blade – it did not fall down. you call technology is just a measly imitation of the Technology failure, you know. According to the law, technologies of life that already exist. So what you they had to kill him instantly; but now they had put think is human intelligence, the logical intelligence, him through the torture of waiting there and it did is not comparable to the intelligence which is the not happen, which meant tomorrow he might sue basis of creation. If you are willing to become one them – so they let him go. They put the priest on with that intelligence which is the source of creation, the board and pulled, again nothing happened. They 5 FOREST FLOWER December 2011 thought this must be divine intervention and let him hand of the Creator. “Within this, can I live my life? go. The engineer chose to go to the execution without Can I do what I want to do?” You can do everything a hood. Lying down, he looked up and said, “Hey, let that you wish to do and still not distort the hand me tell you what’s wrong with this.” [Laughter] of the Creator – if only you are in tune with it. If you are not in tune with it, you become an exclusive This is how human intellect is working right now. intelligence. The creation does not make room for We are doing so-called brilliant things which are that. Then you have to create your own creation like going to destroy our life. How can you call these Vishwamitra1 did. Viswamitra was an angry man, things brilliant when they are taking away the very so he was exclusive intelligence. With a little bit of earth on which we stand? You have heard of the affection and love, you are a little inclusive; when famous Panchatantra story where a woodcutter you are angry, you are exclusive.

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