![]() Therefore, nature is allotting an amount of prarabdha that you can handle. Suppose I reminded you of a hundred lifetimes in great intensity, most of you would fall dead right here, unable to bear the burden of that memory. Many of you are not even able to shake off memories of this lifetime. If it gave you the whole lot of your karma, which is called sanchita, in this lifetime, you would die. One fundamental reason is your prarabdha – the allotted karma for this lifetime. When you walk the spiritual path, your inner situation is on fast-forward. ![]() This has nothing to do with reality – it is a mental condition. Right now, you consider many things as life that actually have nothing to do with life in a deeper sense. I am talking about life in the sense of being, existence. When you said, “My life was everybody’s envy,” it is not a statement about life in its fundamental sense – it is a statement about your social situation. The problem is in comparing yourself with others, in the sense of “Oh, she has it – I don’t.” If those who do not have a car do not compare themselves with those who have one, walking or cycling is perfectly fine. If there were no cars at all, no one would desire to have one. It is definitely comfortable and convenient, but it is not a great fortune. People who do not have a car think people who have one have a great fortune. You said, “My life was what many people would envy,” but you know how empty it was. If you took a cake and lived on the icing alone, after some time, sweetness would become poison. If you were only eating a thin wafer of life, maybe it would be all sweetness, but it would still only be a thin wafer. In fact, anything that you are going for in life is an effort to have a larger slice of life. If you want to turn spiritual, naturally you are seeking a larger slice of life. Life is happening in great intensity – that is all. I want you to look at this beyond the identification of good and bad. “Then what about Isha Foundation, what about my family and my children?” For all of them, life will also happen in great measure, because we suddenly evaporated. Even if a thunderbolt hits and all of us got struck and burnt up, I don’t think it is a tragedy – it is just a happening. ![]() On a fundamental level, the events that are happening on the planet are of no consequence. Some people enjoy it – some people suffer it.Īll we can do is to see to it that everyone enjoys it. If you do not identify one thing as good and another thing as bad, you will see life is happening in great intensity – that is all. ![]() The moment you step into the spiritual stream, life is happening to you in great measure, as if everything is on fast-forward. Sadhguru: You know, Balarama asked a very similar question when they had to leave Mathura and were going through all kinds of hardship, walking through the forest without proper food or rest: “Why are all these things happening to us, and that too with you around?” Krishna’s answer was, “Don’t you complain when life is happening to you in great measure." It is because you look at certain situations as good and others as bad, or certain situations as desirable and others as undesirable, that you ask yourself why these things are happening to you rather than just seeing life as life. If it is not about making life smooth, then what is Grace all about? In fact, it has been quite a rollercoaster ride for me. Now still people envy my life, but in a different way. Questioner: Sadhguru, if we assume Krishna was God himself, why did his devotees face so many difficulties? And as for myself, until I laid my eyes upon you, my life was what most people would envy. Sadhguru recounts a situation in Krishna’s life and talks about Grace, karma and the nature of one’s life on the spiritual path.
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