Mind is your Business by Sadhguru

Author:Sadhguru [Sadhguru]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Mobilism
Publisher: Jaico Publishing House
Published: 2015-04-29T00:00:00+00:00

“One should use information and logic as a drunkard would use a lamp post, only for support, not for illumination.”

Questioner: If to perceive the mystical, one has to drop the logical, how does a gnana yogi progress and attain on the path? Isn’t that path all about using the logical mind and dissecting things?

Sadhguru: If your logical intellect could grasp it, why would you call it mystical? What we refer to as the mystical has become mystical only because it is not within the grasp of the logical intellect.

A gnana yogi is someone who uses his intellect to start with, and then moves on to use his intelligence. If he is just bombastic intellect, he is not a gnana yogi. If he is truly a gnana yogi, he understands that the logical intellect can never function without information. If you take away all the information from your memory, how will your logic function? Logical intellect is purely information technology, and information is something that you gather from outside. The only means of gathering information is the five sense organs, and sense perception is not reliable. They have told you, “Seeing is believing.” Seeing is not believing – everyone sees what they want to see.

Sense organs can perceive everything only in comparison. If you had not seen darkness in your life, you would not know what light is. It is only in comparison that you know what light is. Now you see a little boy walking around. He is small for you, but that is not the truth. The ant which is crawling on the ground experiences him as a giant. Your ideas of small and big, your ideas of light and darkness, your ideas of good and bad, are all depending upon what you are identified with. Because you are identified with this human body, a dinosaur is big and an ant is small. But that is not the reality. Whatever you experience is only in comparison, which is good for survival, but it does not give you a perception of reality the way it is.

Modern neurosciences say that whatever you may be looking at, you are never seeing it the way it is. Your eyes are not like cameras. Your eye just grasps information and categorizes this information into twelve different aspects. These twelve different aspects go into twelve different parts of your brain where they all get assimilated, and your brain creates an image. What they are saying is, the way you think the world looks is not the way it is. This is not philosophy or mysticism; this is neurology. They are also saying that if there is no past information in your mind, you actually cannot see something.

Your logic functions on information. The very nature of information is such that it does not matter what volume of information you gather, information is always limited. There is no such thing as limitless information. Even as modern sciences process information about the existence, we are not getting any closer to knowing anything.

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