Sadhguru: On this planet
don’t think you are the most sophisticated being
on this planet.
Sadhguru: In your experience of life,
do you find all human beings
at the same level of evolution?
I’m asking you without prejudice?
With all due respect to every human being
do you find every human being at the same level of evolution?
Nobody has a tail though –
that they have passed
but there’re many who look more complete with a tail or horns
A whole lot of them would look more complete with a horn growing out of their head
because they’re always
Yes or no?
You drive on the street and see.
In this country it’s better
though the traffic is such a mess,
though driving in India is probably the most challenging thing.
But I see in other countries
the drivers driving their dream cars are on the edge
smallest thing,
they are in a rage.
Actually that is not so much here at least in South India.
In North India we know road rages,
in South it’s not like that.
We crash into each other,
we sit down and discuss and
maybe we’ll settle our son’s wedding
or daughter’s wedding right there
We believe this is our fate we crashed together
we met with a bang.
You don’t see much rage on southern Indian roads
but North India it happens
but in other countries I see the rage is so much
though traffic is far more disciplined,
very rarely anybody gets into your way
here every moment somebody is getting in your way.
Everybody, is you know trying to earn that seven years imprisonment
by attempting
they’re all testing their horoscope.
Their astrologer has told them you will live to eighty years,
so they’re testing it today
whether it’s true or not
It’s …it’s… A whole lot of things happening.
So in spite of all this horoscope testing,
you don’t find much rage.
So people who are in such a state of rage
if you gave them claws and horns,
it would be more suitable, isn’t it,
for their state of mind and emotion?
They actually want to claw somebody
but they don’t have the claws.
The evolutionary process should be
one day they’ll get the claws
So you don’t find all of them
the same level of evolution
because it’s a threshold that we have crossed,
that doesn’t mean that’s the end of it.
Because the significance of being human is just this
we are not doing anything very different
from what the other creatures are doing-
same damn things.
We are born, they are born just like that.
Their mother was… mothers delivered them,
our mothers delivered us.
Their mothers were more efficient with delivery,
our mothers struggled,
okay.
Yes
Because they delivered in hundreds
our mother to deliver one, she struggled so much.
They eat, we eat.
They sleep, we sleep.
They reproduce, we may reproduce.
They die, we die.
The only thing is we can do all this
we can conduct all these very simple aspects consciously.
So in a day from the moment - I’ll leave the sleep time for you,
that also needs to be considered
but we will leave that
from the moment you come awake till the moment you fall asleep,
how many moments and how many actions
and how many thoughts and how many emotions
or how much percentage of it
do you conduct consciously
this will determine the state of your evolution right now.
If you conduct it consciously
you will do it in a certain way.
If you’re going about compulsively
you will look like any other creature.
Yes.
You will look like just any other creature,
not any different,
once you do things compulsively.
Only when you conduct it consciously,
you seem to be on the peak of evolution on this planet,
not otherwise.
So you can gauge by yourself
I don’t to pass
I don’t want to pass a judgment on anybody
from the moment you come awake till the time you go asleep
fall asleep
how much percentage of time
are you conducting your body, your mind, your emotion,
your energy and your actions
consciously?
If you are less than one percent,
you know there’s a lot of work to do.
And I would tell you, the
if I have to speak frankly
more than ninety percent is less than one percent,
less than… well below one percent
more than ninety percent of the people.
Those ten percent who do little more than one percent,
suddenly they look like such graceful beings.
Just from tomorrow morning
you want to do it from tomorrow morning,
or now?
From this moment till you fall asleep,
just see how much of you can you conduct consciously,
all aspects of you -
your body, your actions, your mind, your thoughts, your emotions,
your energies, everything
to what extent can you conduct it consciously.
You see, if you conduct this consciously for five minutes,
by tomorrow morning people will bow down to you
without knowing why they’re doing.
So that’s evolution
and it’s something you can do.
If you just see “it’s me,” not something else
you will evolve
because once you become human
you have enough awareness and consciousness to evolve consciously.
When you were a monkey you did not decide
“I’ll become human being.”
Nature just pushed you on
but now you’re conscious enough to decide
“I want to evolve from where I am to whatever is possible.”
Just… Just try, just maintain
five minutes manage your life consciously today,
you will see tomorrow morning how you will be,
you’ll be shining, believe me
 
