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 Creating
Your Own Destiny
by Sadhguru Jaggi Vasudev
Right now the quality of
your life does not depend on how much money you have in your bank
account or what kind of house you live in or what make of car you have
parked outside. It depends on how you feel inside, whether you feel
anxious doing what you do or enjoy whatever you’re doing. Whether you
are angry or peaceful, whether you have love in your heart or hatred in
your heart, whether your mind is full of fears or positive thoughts,
these things decide the quality of your life.
People ask me, “We know
Sadhguru, but have you seen my boss? Have you met my mother-in-law?” I
have seen all those people. The world is full of them. But it is
possible to be joyful and happy in spite of them. There are methods in
yoga which will keep you happy and enjoying every moment of your life.
Forces of love-compassion and anger-hate are always functioning in the
world. It is a seesaw game. The question is where do you want to take
your life? What do you want to create?
You can even create your
destiny. Destiny is something you have been creating unconsciously. You
can also create it consciously. You can rewrite your destiny. All that
is involved in spiritual process is just that. You decide where you want
to go, taking the next course and destination. The decision is in your
hand.
Once your decision is
made, you map it out – what spiritual processes to follow and how fast
to go. Your aim should be you have to touch the core within you; that is
really you. If you can touch that core in you, if you can for one moment
experience that the source of creation is within you and shift your
whole focus to yourself, you can rewrite your own destiny. All the time
your focus is scattered, because what you consider as “myself” is your
house, your car, your spouse, your child, your pet, your education, your
position, your power and your other identities. If you can strip
yourself of all these identities, you will feel like nobody.
Unfortunately, what you call “myself” is spread around you right now,
depriving you of what is really you.
Right now, whatever you
call as “myself” is simply a certain formation of mind you have
collected. It is a certain type of information in your mind. When you
say, “I’m a good person,” “I’m a bad person,” “I’m naughty,’ “I’m meek’
or whatever you may say, all these things are simply formations of mind
or in other words, it is just past accumulation. You simply live through
your past. If the past is taken away, most people are just lost.
Everything depends on the past. It is the previous moment which rules
everything. This moment is not important. As long is personality is
important, it simply means previous moment is important. This present
moment is not important, because the personality belongs to the past.
In this moment you really
have no personality, do understand this. The personality that you carry
is a dead thing. When you are carrying a dead body over your shoulders,
you can’t walk very far. With a dead body, which way can you head? Only
the burial ground!
So when I say “you,” it is
you, not your status symbols, not your educational qualifications, not
your job title, not your family and not your personality traits. When I
say “you” it is just you. If it shifts to this, you can rewrite your
destiny whichever way you want. Right now what is “you” is spread out;
you are a scattered being. You are not an established being. You still
have to gather all this mess and put it aside. Then it becomes you.
You still have not become
you; you’re a crowd, isn’t it? The crowd’s destiny is always
predestined. Once you become an individual – individual means
“indivisible.” It cannot be divided anymore. It cannot be here and
there. Once you have become a true individual, your life is yours and
your destiny is yours.
So once your destiny is
happening in awareness, the next step will just happen by itself,
because life within you has the intelligence to choose the right thing.
It will not choose suffering; it will choose joy, happiness, peace and
love instead. Only because your destiny is being created in unawareness,
you go about weaving bondage around yourself, getting stuck in it and
experiencing suffering.
This is why in spiritual
process people avoid getting identified with things that they are not.
They keep dropping their identifications, so that they can create their
own destiny. If your destiny is in your hands, will you choose bondage
or freedom? You will choose freedom, because the very longing of life,
the deepest longing of every life is to become free form bondage and
suffering. Whether you suffer traffic jams or panic attacks or fear of
death, you want freedom from whatever it is. You want freedom to create
your own destiny.
Sadhguru Jaggi Vasudev is a yogi,
mystic and visionary. He is a spiritual master with a difference. His
life and work serve as a reminder that inner sciences are not an
esoteric discipline from an outdated past, but a contemporary science,
vitally relevant to our times. Sadhguru’s talks have earned him
reputation of a speaker and opinion maker of international renown. For
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