Life is what you make of it

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Sadhguru Jaggi Vasudev [1]

Only life can know life. A thought cannot know life. An emotion cannot know life. An ego cannot know life. Only life can know life. How can one claim to know life? If you stop being a bundle of thoughts, opinions and emotions and just exist here as life, just throbbing pulsating life, knowing life is just natural.
A state of enlightenment is to have greater knowledge and understanding about a subject or situation. Often people ask what is the state of enlightenment? It is To give spiritual or intellectual insight.

So what we are referring to as enlightenment is just this: instead of being a thought, instead of being an emotion, instead of being an ego, you just become life — simply life. In a way, it is the most basic thing. Enlightenment is not the ultimate thing. Yes it is in one way. In another way, it’s the most basic thing because first you’re life; only then you’re everything else, isn’t it? Only because you’re alive, you’re capable of thought. Only because you’re alive, you’re capable of emotion. Only because you’re alive, you’re capable of ego. So this is the most basic thing is life. So, this is like becoming very basic, just life, pure life nothing else. All other things are there, but you’re never identified with it.
Experientially, intellectually knowing I am not this, I am not that, doesn’t liberate a person. Something deeper is needed. Right now, the centre of your existence is your identity or your identification. You are identified with your job, your family, your home… All identities are assumed, taken on-put on. So currently the very centre of your existence is something that you have put on and not real. So when you’re not in reality, the question of experiencing life as it is doesn’t arise.
For you today, words and classifications have become more important than the experience itself. If you look at the sky, you will see the sun and the moon, and the clouds and the flowers and the trees and a million other things that you have divided life into. If you just become life, there are no clouds, there is no moon, there is no flowers; there is simply pulsating life. Just as you are, everything is. Flowers, clouds, mountains, moon exists because you have become something other than life. If you become just life, none of those things exists. Only life exists, just this pulsating mass of energy. You can call it creation; you can call it Creator; or you can call it myself, it’s the same thing. What you call it, it doesn’t matter; but it’s just life. Some of it manifest; most of it un-manifest, but still life. All of it is some kind of possibility. Every atom in the existence is a possibility. So it’s life. What you call as life is just a possibility. What you make out of it is all that it is, isn’t it?

— Sadhguru Jaggi Vasudev, a prominent spiritual leader, is a visionary, humanitarian, an author, poet and internationally-renowned speaker. He can be contacted at www.ishafoundation.org