Amid the relentless push and pull of life’s external forces, Inner Engineering emerges as a pathway to personal mastery. But can we truly take charge of our minds and carve our own fate? Delve into Sadhguru’s profound wisdom as he illuminates the journey toward self-empowerment and the strength we hold to rise above our assumed limitations.
Questioner: Is Inner Engineering truly possible, considering that our minds are constantly influenced by external situations and people around us that are beyond our control? How to even mind my mind?
Sadhguru: Let us say, there is a family with four children – they have the same parents, went to the same schools, and had the same opportunities. But, as they grew up, each of them turned out differently. One managed to rise beyond the limitations of the family, situation, and circumstances, while the others did not.
o, even within the same society and culture with so many limitations, it is possible for a few individuals to rise beyond all those limitations, while others do not. They might not have known how to engineer their whole system internally, but just by developing some simple practices, disciplines, and ways of learning, they evolved beyond these limitations, but they did not approach it as a science.
Suppose you had not gone to school; would you be the same person? Your cognitive abilities and mental capacity would not be the same. That means your education has, at least to a small extent, engineered you. By looking at someone’s face, you can tell to what extent they employ their mind, and how sharp or dull it is.
Individuals have always been engineering themselves, but they have not looked at it in depth as a science. They have evolved using whatever resources were available to them. We may think that someone else has just been lucky, but they actually did certain things right. That is why they are where they are.
Many rely on astrological predictions before they take certain actions, for example before they get married. If you are planning to marry someone and you go and ask a third person if you will be happy with your future husband or wife, that does not make sense. People are resorting to such things because they have not done anything about their interiority. They do not realize that they can create the necessary situation if they take charge of certain aspects. Everything that you are is an expression of your energy. That includes the level of your intelligence or stupidity.
Modern science is proving to you that the energy within each one of us is the same. Religions say that God is everywhere. If God is everywhere, then he is within you too. But why is he functioning in different ways in different individuals? It depends on the possibility you have created for this energy to express itself. Whether you say “God is everywhere” or “it is all the same energy,” it essentially means the same thing.
When Einstein formulated the equation E=mc²[1], he showed that everything is one energy. It is just that he refers to this one energy with the initial “E,” while we call it “Ishwara.” We say that Ishwara is everywhere, while Einstein says that E is everywhere. The only difference is that we try to personify the energy, while he just talks about it as energy.
One thing is clear: both science and religion agree that the essence within each individual is the same. So, why does it find different levels of expression? It all depends on the opportunities you have created for yourself.
[1] Einstein’s equation stating that energy (E) is equal to mass (m) times the speed of light (c) squared, indicating the convertibility between mass and energy.
