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Prana: Exploring Life Energy - Ep. 1 (1 of 5 on Prana)
14 minutes - 1998
Transcript
Audience member Q:
If you could explain the pranic system in its entirety, its structural and functional aspect, how can it be influenced and how one can enhance it and also how it effects...how it effects one? What effects it has on us?
Sadhguru A:
I don't think you understand the full scope of what you just asked. [Sadhguru grins at her and audience laughs]. No, because what you're asking me is, (draws breath)..in a way what you're asking me is, "What is the nature of Creation?". That's what it means. When you ask, "The entire pranic system" you must understand pranic system is not just of your body, it is of the whole of existence, particularly of the planet, and of the solar system and the universe. Because if there is no pranic connection, this (gestures to his body) cannot live. If air can go inside and make life out of you, what is here (gestures to air in room) and what is here (gestures to his body), in some way is the same stuff, isn't it? This is the biggest folly of modern societies. This is the greatest mistake that western societies have brought to the rest of the world is to treat life as a commodity. Now,...(draws breath and looks around) food is a commodity. Food is not commodity. If you have not eaten for five days you will understand food is life, isn't it? Yes or no? If you don't eat for five days, food appears in front of you, you will not think, "How much does it cost, how much should I pay what," You're willing to pay with your life, because it is life.
So I will tell you how these things were structured into the society to support the spiritual process. In this country (India) food was never sold in the past, never. If anybody comes home, offering food is natural. Whoever, if he doesn't have something all he has to do is go stand in front of some house and say, "Bhiksham dehi." If he asks with necessary humility, they will give. Even if their children are hungry, they will give because he's asking because he's so much in need. Somebody's asking for it, that means he's in such need, so you cannot say no to him, whatever you can give, you give, always. Based on this a whole spiritual culture evolved that somebody on the spiritual path need not be concerned about his food when he wants it, if he asks, somebody will give. The culture evolved like this.
In the last, one, two generations we have uprooted that culture pretty badly, but still it is there. At least on certain days of the year if somebody comes to their door they cannot say no. Except people...Indians...who are now completely western educated like us. [Sadhguru gets severe look on face] They'll say, "Who are you?!" [Makes 'go away' motion with his hands].
If you have no food, that's not it. Even if you have, you will say, "No." And this is the trend in the whole world. In the year 1998, on this planet, we produced enough food for 18 billion people. We were only 6.2 billion people on that day, but still 40% goes hungry. [throws up hands and arms in questioning gesture]. Where is the rest of the food going? They would rather throw it into the ocean; they won't give it to the hungry because they have market places to manage because we are treating food as a commodity, not as life. For one who is hungry, it is not a commodity; it is life, isn't it?
Now water is getting bottled, this is the future war on this planet that corporations are entering into water in a big way because they know water is going to be scarce and they want to use that fully. All the milk producers of Coimbatore district poured hundreds of liters of milk on the street a few months ago to bring attention to this, that a liter of milk costs less than a liter of water in Coimbatore City. One liter of water is 15 rupees. One liter of milk is 9 rupees. So water is not a commodity, it's life. If you get thirsty, you know it is life, isn't it? And it must be treated as such. It is not just life; it is the source of life, that's why you bow down to it every time it comes in front of you. You're not thinking of some God up there who gave you food; you're bowing down to the food itself, to the water itself because it is the source of your life.
So when we say Prana, [looks out again at the audience and the woman who posed the original question] we are not talking about some electronic stuff or we're not talking about some electrical stuff - this is life. This is the basis of your existence and it's not just your body. If there is no pranic connection with everything, you will die. Everything may be perfect in this body, but if you lose contact with the rest of the prana, you will just crumble and die, do you understand?
There is occult processes in India, very sophisticated ways of...[suddenly stops and asks someone in the audience - probably the original Questioner]...you do any occult? [looks to someone else] You? No? [looks at someone else] You got a flower in your left ear, I'm scared of you. [Sadhguru grins and audience laughs. Person he was talking about replies, "Devi" and Sadhguru grins even more.] Hmm? I get it. And Devi is occult. You know, one reason why I created Devi is I started seeing people who want to use this energy for occult started planning things for Dhyanalinga Temple, they want to take it over. Because it's such a huge source of energy they want to use it for occult purposes. When I first spoke about Devi, it is in this context that I spoke, "We will create another energy center that anybody can use whichever way they want - so that they won't disturb the Dhyanalinga." So we created Devi so that people can use it. [looks at woman with flower behind ear]. You started already. [Sadhguru and audience both laugh]
Now, in Africa, a lot in North America at one time, South America, to some extent in Australia, all these places occult is the only thing they had. There was no active spiritual process. Occult itself was perceived as spiritual process. Occult essentially depends on the pranic energy, it is physical. Prana is a physical dimension of the subtlest manifestation of life, the physical life, is prana. It is still in a formless state, but it has the intelligence of life, otherwise it could not form life. We will see how it is intelligent. In the occult processes, if they want to destroy somebody they don't poison them, they don't shoot them, because all these things will create problems. They just create a pranic energy around this person in such a way that his prana gets disassociated with the rest of Creation. It's just a matter of time. Usually 30-40 days before he just shrivels up and dies, simply because it's like people, you know, kill each other by putting a plastic bag over somebody's head. No need to break something, nothing, just put a plastic bag, no air, slowly they will die, slowly means 2-3 minutes. Here [he makes a circular rotation movement with hands] it will take 30-40 days. You don't even deny him the air, you just deny him the prana. He'll just crumble. Unless he's very well established, up to 40 days, otherwise within 10-15 days he will go.
So prana is not just of the body, we're talking about the whole universe. And we have found that the prana in this universe, or what we know as our Creation, [makes widespread upward outreaching arms] is very different, uniquely different from anything else from outside. So people are looking for water in...[makes far off movement with hands]...another planet is ok, but if they are looking in another place somewhere, even if you find water, a human being will not be able to survive because the nature of the prana is different. It has to be conducive to this [gestures to body]. Or in other words, it's not that it has to be conducive to this - this [gestures again to body] is a product of that [gestures to earth]. This has evolved like this only because this energy is of a certain nature.
So when you say, "I want to know the whole map of prana." You are talking about the whole universe. Let's not go that far in 21 weeks, ok? Let's talk about your body. It's very difficult to dissociate your body from the rest of the universe and try to understand it, it is a very childish way of looking at things. Everything that is happening to this is only what's happening to the larger reality, which is just manifesting in a focused way within a human being, it is not very different.
See, when Adiyogi [tradition says Adiyogi was the first yogi on this planet] spoke about the evolutionary nature of life. When he said, "First it was fish, then it became amphibious, then it became a boar, then it became a dwarf man, then full-fledged man - like this, when he went about saying these things, he did not go like Charles Darwin to Galapagos Island to study. [Sadhguru closes his eyes face upward] He just closed his eyes, [Sadhguru opens eyes and looks at audience] looked at the people around him [points to an audience member] - looking at this person he said, "This is how this has come." Or just feeling the fabric of energy, just feeling the fabric of energy of this universe, he said, "Ok, this is how it has happened." He's not interested in going and studying insects and worms and somebody, inverebrates and vertebrates and stuff. He's just feeling the fabric of energy and say, "Ok, this energy can only do this." That's how he's seeing it. He never went about studying about the evolutionary theory, studying animals and other creatures.
Now, to put it into this system, I know many of you might have already read books on prana and chakras and stuff, I'm telling you I have not seen one book which is even written by a sane human being. Forget about knowing something, they're not even sane. It's just rubbish. They picked up certain words from the original text and they understood it logically and they made books out of it. Patanjali says one word, these people become thousand pages of misinterpretation, because there's no inner experience.
You cannot know these things by taking an x-ray of a human being. Now Adiyogi sits here, [Sadhguru closes eyes and lifts arm and rubs fingers together] just feels the texture of the universe and says, "This is how life has happened." This is because there is an inner experience, otherwise this is not something that you intellectually perceive. But we can set up systems through which you can perceive in at least a limited way, at least about your own body if not the rest of the universe. If you pay a certain attention to certain aspects of your life, you can understand how it is happening.
Prana: Exploring Life Energy - Ep. 1 (1 of 5 on Prana)
14 minutes - 1998
Transcript
Audience member Q:
If you could explain the pranic system in its entirety, its structural and functional aspect, how can it be influenced and how one can enhance it and also how it effects...how it effects one? What effects it has on us?
Sadhguru A:
I don't think you understand the full scope of what you just asked. [Sadhguru grins at her and audience laughs]. No, because what you're asking me is, (draws breath)..in a way what you're asking me is, "What is the nature of Creation?". That's what it means. When you ask, "The entire pranic system" you must understand pranic system is not just of your body, it is of the whole of existence, particularly of the planet, and of the solar system and the universe. Because if there is no pranic connection, this (gestures to his body) cannot live. If air can go inside and make life out of you, what is here (gestures to air in room) and what is here (gestures to his body), in some way is the same stuff, isn't it? This is the biggest folly of modern societies. This is the greatest mistake that western societies have brought to the rest of the world is to treat life as a commodity. Now,...(draws breath and looks around) food is a commodity. Food is not commodity. If you have not eaten for five days you will understand food is life, isn't it? Yes or no? If you don't eat for five days, food appears in front of you, you will not think, "How much does it cost, how much should I pay what," You're willing to pay with your life, because it is life.
So I will tell you how these things were structured into the society to support the spiritual process. In this country (India) food was never sold in the past, never. If anybody comes home, offering food is natural. Whoever, if he doesn't have something all he has to do is go stand in front of some house and say, "Bhiksham dehi." If he asks with necessary humility, they will give. Even if their children are hungry, they will give because he's asking because he's so much in need. Somebody's asking for it, that means he's in such need, so you cannot say no to him, whatever you can give, you give, always. Based on this a whole spiritual culture evolved that somebody on the spiritual path need not be concerned about his food when he wants it, if he asks, somebody will give. The culture evolved like this.
In the last, one, two generations we have uprooted that culture pretty badly, but still it is there. At least on certain days of the year if somebody comes to their door they cannot say no. Except people...Indians...who are now completely western educated like us. [Sadhguru gets severe look on face] They'll say, "Who are you?!" [Makes 'go away' motion with his hands].
If you have no food, that's not it. Even if you have, you will say, "No." And this is the trend in the whole world. In the year 1998, on this planet, we produced enough food for 18 billion people. We were only 6.2 billion people on that day, but still 40% goes hungry. [throws up hands and arms in questioning gesture]. Where is the rest of the food going? They would rather throw it into the ocean; they won't give it to the hungry because they have market places to manage because we are treating food as a commodity, not as life. For one who is hungry, it is not a commodity; it is life, isn't it?
Now water is getting bottled, this is the future war on this planet that corporations are entering into water in a big way because they know water is going to be scarce and they want to use that fully. All the milk producers of Coimbatore district poured hundreds of liters of milk on the street a few months ago to bring attention to this, that a liter of milk costs less than a liter of water in Coimbatore City. One liter of water is 15 rupees. One liter of milk is 9 rupees. So water is not a commodity, it's life. If you get thirsty, you know it is life, isn't it? And it must be treated as such. It is not just life; it is the source of life, that's why you bow down to it every time it comes in front of you. You're not thinking of some God up there who gave you food; you're bowing down to the food itself, to the water itself because it is the source of your life.
So when we say Prana, [looks out again at the audience and the woman who posed the original question] we are not talking about some electronic stuff or we're not talking about some electrical stuff - this is life. This is the basis of your existence and it's not just your body. If there is no pranic connection with everything, you will die. Everything may be perfect in this body, but if you lose contact with the rest of the prana, you will just crumble and die, do you understand?
There is occult processes in India, very sophisticated ways of...[suddenly stops and asks someone in the audience - probably the original Questioner]...you do any occult? [looks to someone else] You? No? [looks at someone else] You got a flower in your left ear, I'm scared of you. [Sadhguru grins and audience laughs. Person he was talking about replies, "Devi" and Sadhguru grins even more.] Hmm? I get it. And Devi is occult. You know, one reason why I created Devi is I started seeing people who want to use this energy for occult started planning things for Dhyanalinga Temple, they want to take it over. Because it's such a huge source of energy they want to use it for occult purposes. When I first spoke about Devi, it is in this context that I spoke, "We will create another energy center that anybody can use whichever way they want - so that they won't disturb the Dhyanalinga." So we created Devi so that people can use it. [looks at woman with flower behind ear]. You started already. [Sadhguru and audience both laugh]
Now, in Africa, a lot in North America at one time, South America, to some extent in Australia, all these places occult is the only thing they had. There was no active spiritual process. Occult itself was perceived as spiritual process. Occult essentially depends on the pranic energy, it is physical. Prana is a physical dimension of the subtlest manifestation of life, the physical life, is prana. It is still in a formless state, but it has the intelligence of life, otherwise it could not form life. We will see how it is intelligent. In the occult processes, if they want to destroy somebody they don't poison them, they don't shoot them, because all these things will create problems. They just create a pranic energy around this person in such a way that his prana gets disassociated with the rest of Creation. It's just a matter of time. Usually 30-40 days before he just shrivels up and dies, simply because it's like people, you know, kill each other by putting a plastic bag over somebody's head. No need to break something, nothing, just put a plastic bag, no air, slowly they will die, slowly means 2-3 minutes. Here [he makes a circular rotation movement with hands] it will take 30-40 days. You don't even deny him the air, you just deny him the prana. He'll just crumble. Unless he's very well established, up to 40 days, otherwise within 10-15 days he will go.
So prana is not just of the body, we're talking about the whole universe. And we have found that the prana in this universe, or what we know as our Creation, [makes widespread upward outreaching arms] is very different, uniquely different from anything else from outside. So people are looking for water in...[makes far off movement with hands]...another planet is ok, but if they are looking in another place somewhere, even if you find water, a human being will not be able to survive because the nature of the prana is different. It has to be conducive to this [gestures to body]. Or in other words, it's not that it has to be conducive to this - this [gestures again to body] is a product of that [gestures to earth]. This has evolved like this only because this energy is of a certain nature.
So when you say, "I want to know the whole map of prana." You are talking about the whole universe. Let's not go that far in 21 weeks, ok? Let's talk about your body. It's very difficult to dissociate your body from the rest of the universe and try to understand it, it is a very childish way of looking at things. Everything that is happening to this is only what's happening to the larger reality, which is just manifesting in a focused way within a human being, it is not very different.
See, when Adiyogi [tradition says Adiyogi was the first yogi on this planet] spoke about the evolutionary nature of life. When he said, "First it was fish, then it became amphibious, then it became a boar, then it became a dwarf man, then full-fledged man - like this, when he went about saying these things, he did not go like Charles Darwin to Galapagos Island to study. [Sadhguru closes his eyes face upward] He just closed his eyes, [Sadhguru opens eyes and looks at audience] looked at the people around him [points to an audience member] - looking at this person he said, "This is how this has come." Or just feeling the fabric of energy, just feeling the fabric of energy of this universe, he said, "Ok, this is how it has happened." He's not interested in going and studying insects and worms and somebody, inverebrates and vertebrates and stuff. He's just feeling the fabric of energy and say, "Ok, this energy can only do this." That's how he's seeing it. He never went about studying about the evolutionary theory, studying animals and other creatures.
Now, to put it into this system, I know many of you might have already read books on prana and chakras and stuff, I'm telling you I have not seen one book which is even written by a sane human being. Forget about knowing something, they're not even sane. It's just rubbish. They picked up certain words from the original text and they understood it logically and they made books out of it. Patanjali says one word, these people become thousand pages of misinterpretation, because there's no inner experience.
You cannot know these things by taking an x-ray of a human being. Now Adiyogi sits here, [Sadhguru closes eyes and lifts arm and rubs fingers together] just feels the texture of the universe and says, "This is how life has happened." This is because there is an inner experience, otherwise this is not something that you intellectually perceive. But we can set up systems through which you can perceive in at least a limited way, at least about your own body if not the rest of the universe. If you pay a certain attention to certain aspects of your life, you can understand how it is happening.
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