The strength of One

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Sadhguru: He said, “It's better to walk alone than to walk with a fool.”
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If you want, consciously you can evolve in this evening.
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There is no limit as to how a human being can become.
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This is something that every human being must do.
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Then, coming together will be hugely rewarding.
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When Gautama the Buddha was asked,
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“Is it better to walk alone or in company?”
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He said, “It's better to walk alone than to walk with a fool.” (Laughs)
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Well, that's him, not me.
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He was quite sure that only a fool will walk with you. (Laughs)
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So he said, “It's better to walk alone than to walk with a fool.”
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Certain lore in this country says,
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when you want to do a short and quick journey, walk alone.
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When you want to do a long journey, walk in company.
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But the important thing is, who is walking with you?
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Not always being together is a good thing, many times being together can be a nuisance.
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So, first and foremost, unless you are a twin, even then, we come alone and we go alone.
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If one does not know how to be by himself or herself,
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then being together can be a lot of nuisance.
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We are referred to as human beings.
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Human beings means every other creature is what it is simply because of what it does.
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But a human being can simply be,
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which is a unique quality of the human being, that we can simply be,
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that we are not compulsive action, that's what it means.
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Our action is conscious and judicious but generally, when people get together,
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generally, people are in compulsive action.
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It can be an association, where there could be a purposeful action
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or it can be a gang where there can be more purposeful action
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or it can be a crowd which can be a compulsive action.
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So, essentially, to be human means
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we have reached that point of evolution within ourselves
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that if we wish, we can simply sit here, just be.
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We can consider as to what action to take and what not to take.
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This is definitely individual. When individuals come together,
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we say it’s “We” in plural, but still it is individuals who have to come together.
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To be an individual means you are not further divisible,
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that means you are just one.
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People find different ways to divide themselves within themselves.
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In India, with a 8-10 thousand years of cultural history, we have invented various words to divide ourselves.
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It's very common for people to talk in terms of atma, paramatma,
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ahankara, this one and that one. But every culture has this in their own way.
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When things are going right, when good things are being done,
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if you ask people, they say, “Yes, I did it.”
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When things don't go right, when things go wrong,
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then they will try to find somebody, if they don't find anybody,
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he's always there. (Laughs)
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When they are very wonderful, of course they take pride in being how wonderful they are.
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When they turn nasty, they say, “It was my ego.”
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Mr. Ego is always a fall guy. So individual means,
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that if I'm wonderful, it's me; if I'm nasty, it's me.
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All of you, are you 24 hours wonderful? Hello?
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Are you 24 hours wonderful? No, no, sometimes wonderful,
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sometimes nasty, sometimes beautiful, sometimes ugly. It's okay.
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If we understand it is me who is capable of being absolutely wonderful
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and it is me who is capable of being absolutely nasty another moment,
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then gradually the number of moments of nastiness will keep on receding.
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If I see what is wonderful is me, what is nasty is…
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In India, we have many words, “It's my karma. What can I do?”
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No, you must fix this. Being an individual is very important.
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That means you're not further divisible.
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If I'm wonderful, it's me. If I'm nasty to me,
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if I succeed, it's me. If I fail, it's me. You have to fix this.
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I'm just asking you a simple question – Within this, how many people?
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Hello? How many people within you? One? Two? Only one.
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If you're one, you’re normal human being.
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If you're more than one, you're either schizophrenic or you're possessed.
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You either need a psychiatrist or a exorcist.
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But you will see whenever things don't go right, another guy will pop up from somewhere.
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So becoming an individual means
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you killed all those pop-ups and just said, “This is me.”
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This what is me has many dimensions. If I don't see this is an individual,
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I cannot divide this further, then transformation will not happen.
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If transformation does not happen,
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if people come together in that state, there will be more mess than solutions.
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All creatures hang out together.
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Whether it is various wild creatures, most of them hang out together.
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Even monkeys who are just one step behind us, they are also in bunches.
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It is only human being who can sit alone
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and transform himself or herself because this is the prerogative of being human
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that we can simply be. This is why you are called human being.
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You're capable of being. You are not in a compulsive state of activity.
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If you want, consciously you can evolve, in this evening you can evolve, if you're willing.
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It doesn't take a million years because our evolution is not biological anymore, our evolution is conscious.
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For every other creature, it is fixed.
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Nature has fixed two lines within which every other creature lives and goes.
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But once you have come as a human being, there is only bottom line, there is no top line.
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There is no limit as to how a human being can become.
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So before we associate ourselves with people,
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it'll be good every day in the morning or a certain period of your life
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if one withdraws to spend a little time with oneself and see how,
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in what ways can this be a little better than the way it was yesterday.
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This life, how it can be a little better life than what it was yesterday.
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Because most people are coming together for their needs. To fulfill needs, people come together.
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Some people come together to fulfill a purpose or a cause.
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Some people come together to eat, drink and be together because they cannot be alone.
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This is something that every human being must do.
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A certain period of time, you do one thing, just 24 hours, take a break from everything.
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Not today, right now you're among people. You take a break sometime, just 24 hours
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and don't read, don't watch television, don't use a phone,
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simply sit in your room, alert, not sleeping.
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And if you watch the nature of your mind, you yourself will certify “This is a madman.”
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Because for most people, their mind cannot stay on any one thing
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unless they're in activity, simply they cannot be here.
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In compulsive state of psychological activity is on; when you are like this, you cannot be.
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That means you cannot be a human being.
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Being has to happen, only then togetherness will be very rich.
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If you know how to be by yourself, then coming together will be hugely rewarding and of tremendous value,
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that means we came together consciously.