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The End of Suffering

by Sadhguru Jaggi

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Can there be an end to suffering? Sadhguru tells us where the source of suffering is and explains that there are methods to go beyond it, to become a Buddha. 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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Transcript

So,

Technology,

Because the technology is subjective,

Now the technologies that you're handling are objective technologies.

Now I'm talking about a subjective technology,

It's about you.

You're… you are the software that you're trying to handle.

Fundamentally,

If you look at yourself,

Right now you're operating according to the software that you have become.

Please see what kind of family you were born in,

What kind of parents,

What kind of school,

What kind of friends,

What kind of atmosphere,

What kind of religion,

What kind of society.

That's the kind of person you are right now,

Isn't it?

So software was written into you haphazardly by anybody and everybody that you came in touch with,

Not by trained professionals,

Just about anybody who came,

They put in something.

Wherever you went,

Somebody stuffed something into your head.

You had no choice from where to receive,

Where not to receive.

If you say,

I don't like this man,

I don't want to receive anything from him,

You will receive much more from him than anybody else.

That's how this one is.

So right now,

The very way you think,

Feel,

Understand and act in your life is just the way your software is,

Isn't it?

Yes?

The very way you move your body is the way your software is,

I want you to understand this.

It is so deeply conditioned.

If you are… somebody you know very well,

Somebody whom you are very familiar with is walking one mile away,

You can't recognize anything about that person,

But just the way he moves,

You know it is this person,

Isn't it?

Because the very way his body moves,

Only moves whichever way his software is written.

But this software was written unconsciously.

Now,

If we want some freedom to happen,

If we want some transformation to happen,

We have to create a little space between you and your software.

You are too identified with it,

You are just lost in it,

That's all you become.

Now you have to create a little distance.

You have heard of a word called Buddha?

If I say Buddha,

Probably you always think of Gautama the Buddha.

Gautama is not the only Buddha,

That's not his name.

He became a Buddha.

There have been thousands of Buddhas and they still are.

What Buddha means is,

Bhu means buddhi or the intellect,

Dha means dada,

One who is above.

One who is above his intellect is a Buddha.

Once you are above the intellectual process,

Suffering is finished in your life because all suffering is manufactured there in your logical mind.

When you are into your intellect,

When you are stuck in your intellect,

You are a non-stop suffering human being.

Wherever you are put,

You have a way of creating some kind of suffering,

Your fears,

Your anxieties,

Your tensions,

Your stress.

Just see people are capable of suffering just about anything.

Yes,

Isn't it so?

People are capable of suffering just about anything in the world.

Please see.

If you're not educated,

You will suffer that.

If you get educated,

You'll suffer that.

If you don't find a job,

You will suffer that.

If you find a job,

You will suffer that.

If you are not married,

You will suffer that.

If you get married you suffer that.

If you don't have children,

You suffer that.

If you have children you suffer that,

Isn't it?

People are capable of suffering just about anything.

This is the nature of the intellect.

Once you are into the intellect,

This is how life is.

If you are below the intellect,

You won't suffer so much.

Animals don't suffer as much as you suffer.

Physical things,

If they are taken care of,

They are quite okay.

They don't have the kind of suffering that human beings know,

Isn't it?

So if you are below the intellect,

You don't suffer so much.

Like you asked that question.

If you are below the… if you are above the intellect,

You are a Buddha.

If you are below the intellect,

Maybe we can call you Buddha.

If you are in the intellect,

Non-stop suffering.

So to avoid suffering,

People are inventing many ways to go below the intellect.

Excessive eating,

Alcohol,

Indul… you know,

Excessive indulgence in physical pleasures,

These are all the ways you are trying to avoid the torment of the intellect for some time.

You get drunk and you feel good for a few hours,

But then life will catch up with you with more intensity.

It won't let you go.

Now this being which was below the intellect somehow evolved into the intellect.

The only way out for this is to evolve beyond the intellect.

So the fundamentals of yoga,

The technology is how to go beyond this.

So how to do it now,

Subjective technologies cannot be explored in uncommitted atmospheres.

You need a very committed,

Focused atmosphere,

Otherwise it will not be in your grasp.

It's not a teaching.

It's a method,

To implement a method you need to be in a certain way,

In a certain level of commitment,

In a certain level of receptivity,

Otherwise it doesn't work.

Because see now if you go into a chemistry laboratory,

You take this chemical,

This chemical,

If you put it into it,

Something happens.

But if you are not willing to put it into it,

If you sit here and think and think and think what will this do,

What will that do,

You will come to all kinds of wrong conclusions.

Till you put it there,

You won't know.

Maybe it'll explode in your face,

But till you put it there,

You will not know what it is about.

But now you are the chemical,

You are the chemist and you are the experimental process.

Everything is you.

Now you need a different kind of laboratory,

Otherwise it doesn't work.

If it was objective,

We could have just written a book and given it to you.

But because it's subjective,

You have to be taken step by step because it's a completely different dimension of perception and experience altogether.

But is it possible for me?

It is possible for every human being.

Internally,

All of us are equally capable.

We are not capable in different ways.

All of us are capable of joy,

Isn't it?

Yes?

If you have been joyful for one moment,

That means you are capable of joy,

Isn't it?

It is just that you are unable to stay there.

That's the whole thing.

There is no human being on the planet who has never been joyful.

Every human being has been joyful at some point.

That means he is capable of joy.

It is just that he is unable to stay there.

So he needs a technology as to how to maintain the atmosphere within himself.

It is possible.

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February 24, 2019

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May 24, 2018

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September 2, 2017

This makes very much sense, but I hope that I am able to find another clip that will tell me the rest of the story: how get above the intellect. Because yes, I agree that my intellect has caused me no end of suffering. Thank you to whomever is posting these. They are very much appreciated!

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February 23, 2017

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February 23, 2017

Excellent! I love the explanations through software and lab experiments.

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