Sadhguru, What is this Dhyanalinga all about?
Seeker: Sadhguru, this Dhyanalinga, which you refer to as
the Eternal
Form, what is it? I am very intrigued.
Sadhguru: Dhyanalinga ...what it is all about.
If you look at life today, modern science tells you beyond any doubt that the whole existence
is just energy manifesting itself in so many different ways. The only thing is that it
is in different levels of manifestation. If everything is the same energy, can you
treat everything the same way?
We just had our dinner. There was so much variety, my mind
boggled. I didn't know what to choose. So I asked you, "Please choose for me.”
I did not want to choose from a hundred different varieties for myself. Now, this food
when it is on your plate, it's wonderful, tasty and delicious. Tomorrow morning, what
happens to the food that you have eaten? It becomes shit. This tasty food and that are
the same energy. This food that you have eaten and what has become of it, can you treat
both the same way? When it falls into the earth, in a few days again it stands up as
food. Again, you eat it gain you know what it turns into. It's the same energy taking on different forms. This form and that form, what a world of difference, isn't it? When
you make mud into food, you can call it agriculture; food into energy, digestion: stone
into God, consecration.
Similarly, what you call as creation is the same energy,
from the grossest to the subtlest. Just looking back, after I finished college, I
wanted to make some money so I could travel; I started a poultry farm. One day, I decided to
paint the wall. I dipped the brush in the paint and put it to the wall. I did not want to paint
the whole wall thoroughly, so I just put the paintbrush onto the surface and walked from
one side to the other. The paint started out very thick, then became thin, thin,
thinner and slowly disappeared. I saw this paint smear, which started out thick, became
thinner and thinner and then just disappear. Seeing this, I exploded; tears were simply
rolling out of my eyes. I just looked at this and there was the whole creation right there.
That's all the whole creation is: a paint smear. It starts out really thick and gross,
becomes thinner and thinner and thinner, and becomes nothing. So from the lowest to the
highest, it was all there, the Vishwa Rupa Darshana1 for me, in just this paint smear. I sat there going crazy and ecstatic (laughs). I didn't
paint for three days. Then I started again.
What you call as creation is just that. Everything is the
same energy. The rock is the same energy. God is also the same energy. This is gross;
that is subtle. As you make it more and more subtle, beyond a certain level of subtleness,
you call it Divine. Below a certain level of grossness, you call it animal; further,
below that you call it inanimate. It is all the same energy. So the whole creation is just a
paint smear for me, and if you look at it, it's the same for you. What you call as the
Dhyanalinga is the result of taking energies to subtler and subtler levels. The whole process of
yoga is to become less
physical and more fluid, more subtle. For example, Samadhi
is that state where the contact with the body is, minimized to a single point, and
the rest of the energy is loose, no longer involved with the body. Once energy is like this
much can be done with it. When the energy is stuck, identified with the body, nothing
much can be done with it. All you can do is produce thoughts, emotions, and physical
actions; but once the energy becomes free from physical identification and becomes fluid,
so many unimaginable things can be done with it.
Dhyanalinga is a miracle. When I say miracle, I'm not
talking about gross acts of changing one object into another. If you can go through life
untouched, if you can play with life whichever way you want and life still cannot do
anything to you, life does not leave a scratch on you; that is a miracle that we are
working to manifest in everybody's life in so many ways. That is also the miracle of Isha Yoga
programs. If a person does not realize the miracle that he is, the miracle that life
is, the miracle that holds you on this planet, the miracle that makes you die, the miracle
that makes you to be born once
again; if a person does not understand this, does not
experience this, such a fool will go about seeking these
frivolous miracles or the so called miracles of transforming one thing into another. Fundamentally, these so-called miracles
are meddling with the process of life. If you have tasted life, if you have known
and experienced some sense of depth to it, you will know that meddling with it is the most
foolish thing to do because you can't make it any more beautiful. The only thing you can
do is to allow yourself to experience the beauty of life, allow yourself to experience
the grandeur of life. Anything else you do with it is bound to be a stupid act. From your
limited sense of understanding, whatever else you do, whatever else you are
driven to do with your life is very immature and juvenile. The Dhyanalinga, I call it a
miracle because it is a possibility to know life in its utmost depth, to experience
life in its totality. The sphere and the energy of the Dhyanalinga will create a possibility
for every human being who comes in contact with it either actually in its vicinity, or
just in his consciousness if he is willing to open himself up. It will be available to him
it will become the highest possibility for him.
You have known the pleasure and the convenience of modern
science; so why the Dhyanalinga? It is because I want you to know the power, the
liberation of another kind of science, the inner science, the yogic science through
which you can become the master of your own destiny. That is why the Dhyanalinga. A
science like this gives you absolute mastery over life itself. The whole process of the
Dhyanalinga is just to manifest this science in such a way that it cannot ever be
taken away, to manifest it also in such a way that it is accessible at any time to everybody
who is willing. Not only to create your life the way have you wanted it, but to be able
to decide the very process of life, death and rebirth. Even to the extent of deciding the
womb in which you are going to be born; ultimately, being able to dissolve at will.
1An Experience of the Oneness of the Existence
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