Sadhguru reveals that we as a species are fundamentally still not fully evolved. The world is in urgent need of transformation, and that is why creating a Conscious Planet is so critical. And here is where your sadhana comes in: Sadhguru highlights how it can induce a great shift for yourself and the world.
Questioner: Sadhguru, you speak about crafting a Conscious Planet. I am curious to know how we as human beings became unconscious in the first place?
Sadhguru: The problem is that you understand consciousness as a solid entity or qualification. Consciousness is a fragile thing. One moment you may be conscious; the next you may not be. It is like the voltage of a light bulb. The lights that are focused on me are voltage-controlled. When they want good video footage, they put the voltage at a certain level. When they want to torture me a little bit, they turn it up. When they think I am not looking pretty enough, they turn it down for special effects. It is the voltage that decides the amount of light. So what is needed is to increase the voltage.
Raising Your Voltage With Sadhana
The sadhana that you are doing – Surya Kriya, Shambhavi, Shakti Chalana Kriya, and Shoonya – is about rigging the system to a higher capability. It appears to be hard work, but it strengthens the energy system and makes it capable of taking much higher voltages. If you do not have an enhanced energy system, other things will be just momentary and cannot be sustained. This is why 4 to 5 sadhana programs are necessary to bring you into Samyama[1]. Without that preparation, your energetic system will waste this possibility.
For one moment during the program, you may experience something, but afterward, due to insufficient structural strength in the energy system, it will dissipate. Many of you experienced this in Bhava Spandana, where there were moments when you thought you were enlightened because it brings you to such a space. Many of the meditators everywhere have started doing their sadhana far more earnestly only after Bhava Spandana because this experience ignited something, and they realized that this is a possibility.
If you prepare your system to take much more energy, you can get energetically enlightened.
The sadhana is to strengthen your system because if the voltage is raised without the right preparation, something will burn out. If you prepare your system to take much more energy, you can get energetically enlightened, which is a low-hanging fruit. You can bring your energies to a certain place where energetically, you are never confused.
You may still have psychological issues, emotional entanglements, and karmic stuff, but you are energetically vibrant, which will give you a certain amount of freedom to ride through any kind of terrain. The terrain can still cause damage, but you can ride through it because you have a powerful vehicle. Otherwise, you will get stuck in the first piece of slush you encounter. This is why the first effort is always to get people to a certain energy level, so that they become eligible for bigger possibilities.
[1] Intensive residential meditation program and practice
Humanity Is Still Work in Progress
Homo sapiens, as a species, is not fully delivered yet. It is like we are still in the womb of creation. This atmospheric bubble is a kind of womb, and so is the solar system. You cannot get out of it and still walk around in space. There have been beings in the past who came from elsewhere and some who evolved here, who could go wherever they wanted. Adiyogi himself does not seem to have any human trace in him. Without modern space technology, they seem to have access because they are fully delivered.
Now that we are such a hugely empowered species, it is important that we function consciously.
This is possible for you too, but your physical body may not be ready for that. Many such instances have happened in the past that people would like to call legends today. Beings who have no need to brag or make up stories have spoken about how they preserved their body in a certain way and traveled elsewhere. You have heard of Shankaracharya, Shukracharya, and many other sages who traveled beyond the limitations of what we think is human. Within these limitations, we can only exist in a somewhat unconscious state. But, as human beings, we have the possibility of being conscious. Making a monkey fully conscious is not a possibility. It has the intelligence, but it does not have the stability to ever become fully conscious. Human beings are almost there. If they put in a little effort, they will get there.
One may ask, “Sadhguru, why all this effort to create a Conscious Planet? Why don’t we just wait for a million years?” It may happen anyway, but I will not be around; so I am trying now. It is a very important step for the world. It may not bring about a complete transformation, but at least a significant shift. This is the right time because humanity has never been as empowered as it is today. Human beings have done wonderful things, and they have done the most horrendous things. But now that we are such a hugely empowered species, it is important that we function consciously.
Chief Coordinator for India’s G20 Presidency in 2023, Harsh Vardhan Shringla, announced on 15 August 2022 that at least one important G20 meeting will take place at the Isha Yoga Center, Coimbatore.
The Role of Consciousness in Shaping Our Shared Future
This year, India holds the presidency for the G20. The G20 consists of 19 major nations and the European Union, which together account for around 84 % of the world’s GDP, over 75% of the world’s international trade, and two-thirds of the world’s population. And one of the G20 meetings will be held in the Isha Yoga Center, Coimbatore. Normally, such events are held in government facilities or in 5-star hotels, where food and drink are abundant.
One of the G20 meetings will be held in the Isha Yoga Center, Coimbatore.
This is probably the first time that it is happening in a spiritual center. This is significant because India is beginning to recognize that spiritual process is important in our culture. The theme that they chose for the G20 this year is “One Earth, One Family, One Future.” It presents consciousness as a moral principle, but it is a good beginning. Even if just a small percentage of these 20 nations’ thought process begins to go in the direction of one earth, one family, one future, considering the amount of power they hold, it will make a huge difference.
In terms of raising human consciousness, everything is beginning to fall into place. We need to show the necessary striving and commitment to continuously push it so that we see at least a few percentage points of change in how human beings look at and experience each other in this very generation. This can be done because we have already had 3.5 billion YouTube video views in 2022, and we are seeing how to not only raise that number but also translate it into a spiritual process for those people. Even if one billion people start thinking and experiencing life in a certain way, the world will change significantly.
