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Caught Up In Time

by Sadhguru Jaggi

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Is time a game of our own creation, and have we gotten entangled in it? Sadhguru speaks about how various devices we created for our convenience - time, money, technology or comforts - can turn into burdens if we are unaware. Yogi, mystic and visionary, Sadhguru is a spiritual master with a difference. An arresting blend of profundity and pragmatism, his life and work serves as a reminder that yoga is a contemporary science, vitally relevant to our times.

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What do you think of time?

See from where to where we jump in.

Time is a game I don't play.

Yes definitely.

Otherwise how do I tell you what time to come for dinner?

We all become timeless,

How to invite you for dinner tell me?

We don't have to be slaves,

It's a device that we used for our convenience.

See if we don't divide this day into 24 hours,

Would you know when to come here for dinner?

It's a convenience,

Where is the question of enslavement?

See you may come when you're hungry but there may be no dinner when you come.

You may not feel hungry till one o'clock in the morning,

That doesn't mean it's a dinner time here.

See any convenience,

Any convenience that we create for yourself,

Time or money or a car or any technology that we created for our convenience,

Out of our unawareness,

Out of our unawareness we get enslaved to it.

There is nothing wrong with the device that we created,

There is nothing wrong with the car,

There is nothing wrong with the money,

There is nothing wrong with the time.

You got enslaved to it out of your unawareness,

That's the problem,

Isn't it?

Time is not the problem,

Money is not the problem,

Car is not the problem.

Any other technology is not the problem,

You got enslaved to it that is the problem.

Enslavement happened because you're unaware.

So your unawareness is the problem.

So how to become aware,

What is this awareness?

Awareness is in many different levels.

One can… what you are aware of is all that exists for you.

This must be understood.

Right now you are sitting here,

Don't turn back and see.

Right now there is a huge dinosaur standing behind you.

You are not aware of it.

Does it exist for you?

No.

So it doesn't matter,

Such a huge animal is standing there.

You are not aware of it,

So it doesn't exist for you.

So only what you are aware of exists for you.

Right now your awareness is limited to small aspect of your life.

Whole aspect of spirituality means to become aware of everything that you are,

So that before you go,

You know life,

You experience life in its totality,

To live totally.

To live and to live totally,

That's spirituality,

So that you know life in all dimensions.

You don't go just knowing a little part of your life,

You want to know all of it.

So if you want to know all of it,

How?

If we have to use an analogy,

Let's say we turn down the voltage for the lights.

Now let's say just one light is there,

It just lights up only that much.

Only that much we see.

If you turn up the voltage,

Suddenly you are able to see much more because the light has spread.

So awareness is just like this.

Right now your energy is your body,

Your emotion,

Your mind,

Everything is functioning in certain limited voltage.

You crank up the voltage,

Suddenly you start seeing so many things which are not in your experience till that moment.

So in a way,

To put it very simply,

To put it technically,

You need to turn up your voltage.

The voltage,

Life voltage within you,

Today she was saying she doesn't want to sleep because she wants to live.

If you don't want to sleep,

I don't want to sleep will not take away sleep.

You turn up your voltage,

Suddenly no sleep.

You can turn up your voltage simply with your enthusiasm,

But that will not take you all the way.

There are other kinds of technologies to turn up your voltage in a certain way where all the time you are high.

See within myself right now I am absolutely drunk,

Not with alcohol,

Okay.

I never touched it.

I am totally drunk within myself.

Am I balanced enough and logical enough to handle any situation?

Yes?

So all the time I am fully drunk on one level,

Another level I am perfectly sane.

If I want to flip,

Any moment I will flip.

If you are like this,

Inside you are fully charged,

Outside you are controlled.

This is what is needed in your life if you want to experience life in its totality.

You have tried to exercise control over your life and you started putting this control over your very process of life.

So life is happening like a trickle.

Life within you should happen like a huge explosion,

But outside it is fully controlled.

You will see initially when you go into your face like this,

Even the outside tends to happen like an explosion for some time,

But within a limited period of time you will gather control over it.

Outside is controlled,

Inside is an explosion.

That's how it should be.

Every moment of your life within you life should be an absolute explosion.

Outside of you it is properly controlled.

When it's like this you will get to use your physical body,

Your mind,

Your emotion,

Everything that you have to its fullest extent.

Things that you never thought you were capable of,

Suddenly you start doing simply because your voltage is full.

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Recent Reviews

Michael

April 20, 2018

I needed this today bc I wasn't aware of how I was a slave to time when I reacted to a "time crunch" this morning. "Inside fully charged/high voltage, outside controlled" -- now to somehow live this. ❤️🙏

LizzieO

June 25, 2017

Time is a tool that we allow ourselves to become enslaved by- that is our mind. Will have to come back to this over and over. Wow.

Sandra

May 22, 2017

Nice way to get day started.

SimplyKerrie

May 17, 2017

Beautiful said. Thank you

eugene

May 17, 2017

Thanks for meditating with me

Angie

May 17, 2017

Always keeps my attention, always makes me wish I were there so I could say, yes, but, what about....etc. I DO want to turn up my voltage to experience the totality of life. Now...how to do that?

Shamanoodle

May 16, 2017

I hunger for more!!!

Leonardo

May 16, 2017

Inside explosion, outside control.. Need to think.. Thanks

Kate

May 16, 2017

Thank you! Always great🙏🏻🦋

BrandonDauphin

May 16, 2017

Explosion of enthusiasm on the inside yet it's completely controlled on the outside

Godsy

May 16, 2017

Wise words as usual. Thankyou.

Morag

May 16, 2017

Good answer to being trapped by modern technology

Wendy

May 16, 2017

As always, right on. Namaste.

Carol

May 16, 2017

I always learn something valuable - thank you!

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