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[Questioner] Good evening, sir. I happened to listen to a lecture of yours that talked about joy and happiness.

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You talked that joy depends on oneself, whereas happiness depends on others.

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I tried a little while to practice it but what I found was that I was not able to sustain those small moments of joy.

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I could experience joy when I was completely into it, very passionate about what to do,

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but somehow when an external person or say, some external entity recognizes what I do,

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the joy is just out of my life.

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So how do you sustain those moments of joy and not succumb to these pleasures of happiness?

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If you could… it would be nice if you can share the difference between

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joy and happiness to this crowd too.

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[Sadhguru] See, right now if I tell you... or if you're… not me, let’s say your Dean tells you,

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from tomorrow, all of you, what kind of clothes you should wear, immediately there’ll be protests in the college.

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If your Dean goes further and says, ‘Everybody must eat only four idlis in the morning.’

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If your Dean tells you, ‘Everybody should get up at five o’clock in the morning.’

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Let’s say he put ten different rules like this, physical things to do,

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you will think he's trying to convert you into slaves and you will shout and scream for your freedom, isn't it?

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But look at yourself and see. Right now somebody else, if they determine what should

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happen around you, you feel like a slave, but right now somebody else is determining

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what should happen within you. Is this not slavery?

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Somebody can decide whether you're happy or unhappy, is this not slavery?

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Somebody can decide whether you will be a pleasant human being

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or an unpleasant human being, is this not slavery?

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What happens within you, somebody else determines –

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this is the worst form of slavery, isn't it?

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Isn't it so? It is just that because everybody is like that it seems to be normal; it is not.

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It is not normal. Just because everybody is like that, it does not become normal.

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This human being, life around you will not happen

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will never happen hundred percent the way you want it, and it should not happen;

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because if everything happens the way you want it, where do I go?

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I'm very happy it's not happening your way.

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And now that you're a student? You're still a student?

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I believe about sixty, seventy percent is happening your way.

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When you get married, the percentage will get reversed.

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We don’t know. We don’t know whether which way it'll go.

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So if… life around you will never happen hundred percent the way you want it

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and it should not. Unless you're living with machines, life will not happen

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and even those machines will freak on you, isn't it?

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Aren’t the machines troubling you every day for something or the other? They do.

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So outside will never happen hundred percent the way you want it

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and if your happiness or your joyfulness or let’s not use all these so many words –

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essentially it is pleasantness versus unpleasantness.

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For pleasantness we have many names, we call it peace, happiness, joy, bliss, ecstasy.

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For unpleasantness we have many names – stress, anxiety, fear, tension, whatever else, madness, whatever.

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Pleasantness versus unpleasantness –

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if your pleasantness is dependent upon what happens around you,

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the chances of you being pleasant all the time is remote, isn't it?

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In the very nature of things it's not possible.

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Only if you're able to create a distance between this and that, it is possible, in the sense.

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Whenever things don’t work, there is a habit in lots of people, they will look up, uperwala.

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Hmm? Isn’t it? The whole work is looking up.

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Looking up. See, you know the planet is round? You know this? Okay.

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The planet is round and you're not sitting on top of the North Pole,

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you're sitting in Chennai, here in the tropical climate and the damn planet is spinning,

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so if you look up you're always looking up in the wrong direction isn't it?

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You're invariably looking up in the wrong direction. Isn't it so?

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Maybe at a certain moment of, whatever, Greenwich Mean Time,

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zero hours, when you looked up maybe you hit the heaven;

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rest of the time you're always looking in the wrong direction. Isn't it so?

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So in this cosmic space, is there somebody who knows which is up and which is down?

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Does somebody know? Hmm? Is there somewhere is it marked, ‘This side up’?

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Nobody knows which is up, which is down, it's just an assumption, isn't it?

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Do you know really which is north, which is south?

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In the real sense do you know what is north and south?

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It is just for our convenience we just fixed it, isn't it? Yes or no?

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Do you know what's east and west? No. Do you know what is forward and backward?

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You do not know. None of these things you know.

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There is only one thing you can be certain of right now –

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this is, you know what is outward, what is inward; this one thing you're sure, isn't it?

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This is inward, this is outward – this is the only privilege you have.

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What is outward, what is inward, this is all you know.

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Just in case some day if you get enlightened you will lose that also.

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Yes. That’s what happened to me – now I don’t know which is inward, which is outward,

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which is me, which is not me, that’s why I'm all over the world because I don’t know

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whether this is me or that is me. So now you say, ‘I know what is inward, what is outward,’

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let’s examine this a little more. Can you see me right now, all of you?

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[Audience] Yes.

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Can you see me? Just point out where I am? Use your hands and point out. Can you see me?

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Oh, you got it wrong. You know I'm a mystic? You're getting it completely wrong.

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Now this light is falling upon me, reflecting, going through your lenses,

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inverted image in your retina – you know the whole story, right?

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Where do you see me right now? Within yourself. Where do you hear me right now?

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Within yourself. Where have you seen the whole world? Within yourself.

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Have you ever experienced anything outside of yourself?

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Everything that ever happened to you – darkness and light happened within you,

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pain and pleasure happened within you, joy and misery happened within you.

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Have you ever experienced anything outside of yourself? No.

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So what I'm asking you is – what happens within you, who should determine how it should happen?

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Hmm? What happens within you, who should determine how this should happen?

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Somebody else? Definitely you should determine what should happen within this, isn't it?

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So if you determine what's happening within this,

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your whole experience of life will be determined by you, nobody else but you, isn't it?

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The events around you may not be determined by you, but how your experience of life is

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on this planet is hundred percent determined by you, if you take charge of this.

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If you leave it loose, just about anybody will determine it.

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They will – not consciously, they're also like you, by accident.