Sadhguru and Rakul Singh

Rakul Preet Singh: Now coming to intention, you know, like you say, that your thought is something that when you give it out to the universe, like the law of attraction, the ask, Sadhguru: You've been reading all these American books. I've Rakul Preet Singh: been, I've read Inner Engineering as well. But the.

So it just makes me, curious about these things. When you say the law of attraction, where you ask, believe, and receive, anything that is sent out to the universe in a positive direction or in a constant direction, rather, happens, you know? Because they say that you design your destiny, you design your life.

Like, you just happen to say that, you know, you. Your conscious efforts, you can have control over your life. Now, coming to intentions, now what if someone's.

I mean, you're sending out a positive signal, great. What if someone Sadhguru: No, I did not agree with that. You made a theory.

There are lots of holes. Rakul Preet Singh: Okay. So, well, my question, you do not agree to it. So my question is, if someone is sending out.

Okay, you want your life to be a certain way, you send out positive signals, which is great. Sadhguru: To whom? Rakul Preet Singh: To the universe. To the universe. Sadhguru: Which direction?

Up or down? Rakul Preet Singh: That's what I'm asking. How does the law of attraction work? Does it really work?

Sadhguru: It doesn't work. Rakul Preet Singh: It doesn't work? So what works? How do you design your own destiny? Law Sadhguru: of attraction is something that happens between opposites.

Yes. Whether two magnets or two, you Male and female. Two opposites, male and female, or whichever way. Law of attraction is always between opposites, isn't it?

From North Pole to South Pole, to this and that, it is working like that. Right. Now you're talking about the universe, so that means you are an alien to this universe? Rakul Preet Singh: Part of the universe.

Sadhguru: If it's part of the universe, what is there to be attracted about? Rakul Preet Singh: Well, how. Why do they say then you can design your own destiny? Sadhguru: You can. You can determine your destiny.

You should. That's what being human means. Right. See, if you had come here like any other creature on this planet, they have compulsive cycles. They live by that.

It's okay for them, because that's all they're capable of. Once you have come as a human being, everything that you can do. Actually, if you look at your life, you're not doing anything very greatly different from what the other creatures are doing.

They are born, you are born, you grow up, they grow up. They they reproduce, you reproduce. They die, you die.

Nothing very different, but these same simple things, we can conduct them consciously. That is the significant thing about being human. The moment you conduct it, let's say you conduct your hand consciously, now this hand will do what you want, isn't it?

You won't simply sit here and do like this. Now this will. Hand will do what you want.

Suppose you conduct your thought consciously, now your thought will do what you want. If your thought was doing what you want, how would you keep yourself blissful or miserable? Rakul Preet Singh: Blissful. Blissful. Yeah. Sadhguru: If you are blissful, would you go in search of happiness?

So these things that people think are the greatest things in their life, to be peaceful, joyful, nonsense, wouldn't mean a thing to you because you're blissful. But you can't say that to them. They'll feel insulted. You have to Rakul Preet Singh: play the tunes.

Sadhguru: But essentially, if your thought and emotion was taking instructions from you would keep yourself in the highest level of pleasantness, whatever that is. Isn't it? Correct. Yes. If that happened, if that happened, your entire life process will come to an ease, total ease.

Right now, this is because you have. You're a crouching tiger. You have to go get something, always.

There is nothing to get. If you sit here, your life is complete. Now it's at ease, total ease.

When it's in this kind of ease, it will become perceptive. Now, just pursuing a profession, making money, or even being joyful or being loving or falling in love, nothing means anything to you because just sitting here, the highest level of pleasantness is happening to you. So what would you do with that life?

Naturally, you would explore something that is not in your perception right now. This is how spiritual process begins. This is how you take charge of your life.

Now, you wish for something, it happened. I want you to know this. For most people, at least 50% of what they wish happens.

It is just that they are focusing on a few things that did not happen. If you want to be fair, in a reasonably well-settled society, 90% of what they wish happens. It is the 10% they're complaining about.

Rakul Preet Singh: Yeah. Sadhguru: Hello? Isn't it so? Yeah. 90% of your life is happening the way you want it. The 10% you're cribbing, you're never enjoying the 90% because this 10% did not happen the way you want it.

Yeah. So already, to a large extent, you are in control of your destiny. A little is going off, but that little can bother you. It's like you drove 100 kilometers properly.

Let's say you have to drive 100 kilometers. 90 kilometers you went properly where you want to go. At the 91st kilometer, you crashed.

Still, it's not good, isn't it? Yeah. So that's why they're complaining. I'm not saying they're complaining for nothing.

Because at 90 kilometers, everything went well. Just before reaching, something crashed, so they still suffer for that Now, right now this is because situations are happening around us. Not all situations will ever happen the way we want it, because situation is not just me.

Situation is so many people involved, so many forces involved. All of them need not happen my way. But if I'm happening my way, I'm blissful.

Okay? Whether the golf ball flies straight or goes into the mountains, I'm still blissful. Rakul Preet Singh: Right. As long as you're playing golf? Sadhguru: Even if I'm not playing.

Rakul Preet Singh: Right. So now coming to this, now as long as things happen your way and you're on your own paths and you're blissful and you know, Sadhguru: No, no. I'm not saying as long as things happen your way you will be blissful. Oh. If you're Things will happen.

It doesn't matter which way it happens. Right. Whichever way it happens, you're blissful. Rakul Preet Singh: Right. Sadhguru: See, this is essentially the world has put cart before the horse.

You tell me, it's, it is easier to take charge of yourself or it's easier to take charge of all these people? Rakul Preet Singh: Of. I mean, it's tougher to take charge of yourself, you Sadhguru: Or you can take charge of these people? Try. Rakul Preet Singh: Because people. No.

Because I why I'm saying that is, because people don't realize that they need to take charge of themselves, and are out there to take charge of societies and communities and people and trying to change Now, Sadhguru: right now, you're sitting here Rakul Preet Singh: To myself. Sadhguru: Is it easier to take charge of yourself or take charge of all these people? Rakul Preet Singh: Myself. Sadhguru: Yourself. You must first do that, no?

What is simple and easy? If you take charge of yourself, let us see how much we can get cooperation from these people. Now, when you say you're in pursuit of happiness, what this means is, you want all of them to function the way you want.

Then you will be Now, when we say, "If this happens, I will be happy. If that happens, I will be happy," what it means is, the world should function, the universe should respond your way. Rakul Preet Singh: That's not what I'm saying, no.

I don't believe in that because that's trying to put conditionality into everything that, you know, this is how it should function according to me. What I was saying was that, say, okay, for example, a very basic example of somebody wants to be an actor or somebody wants to be a cricketer and I'm taking a very basic example of what you want to do in life.

And you Sadhguru: So let's say it did not happen. It did not happen means what? People did not like your acting or the selectors did not like your cricket.

Something happened. Right. So what you want did not happen. Can you still sit here blissfully? That's a question. Rakul Preet Singh: Not a lot of people can.

That Sadhguru: is why I'm saying, what you're trying to do is, when you say, "Everybody should like what I am doing," in some way you have to take charge of their minds. That's what you're doing. In some way, through your cinema or whatever, in some way you're taking of the, charge of their mind and doing what appeals to them, and that's why it's working, isn't it?

Otherwise, it won't be working. Right. So which is easier, taking charge of this or taking charge of that? This. If you take charge of this, now you are not in pursuit of your happiness.

You are not tense about anything. There is no you know, sword hanging on your head. You will do everything to the fullest, to the hilt because you don't care what happens.

Whatever happens, you'll be still fine. This much you know. Now you will naturally do everything wonderfully well because there's absolutely no concern because you're not a vested interest anymore.

You will do what is needed without any effort. So what somebody thinks is a great circus and a feat, you will do it joyfully, playfully.