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Give Yourself a New Lease of Life

On this Spot, Sadhguru writes about the big changes that the Earth is currently going through
and that in this connection, It is time to shed some old nonsense and come up fresh and
alive. This Spot also offers the rare opportunity to participate in an intense meditation
process with Sadhguru through video.

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I n the last few days, the planet has been going through big changes,
and this process is going to continue for some time. With the solstice
and the beginning of Uttarayana, there has been a shift in the very way
the Earth and all life is relating to the Sun, which is the very source of all
energy on this planet. In the planetary movement, the winter solstice A woman should not
represents a new beginning for the Northern Hemisphere, a new have to fit into a mans
possibility, a fresh lease of life. At this time of the year, preparations for world. Half the world
spring are underway. There is an enormous amount of activity in the should anyway be hers.
atmosphere and in the earth. Every creature is working overtime to make
it happen. There are two kinds of people those who make things
happen, and those who enjoy it when it happens well and complain when
it is not happening to their liking. You may not see those who are making
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things happen in the forefront, but in the background, they are working Todays Mystic Quote

tirelessly. This time around the turn of the year is like a molting for the
planet and for all life. Particularly in the Northern Hemisphere, life is
gearing up for harvest, flower, and fruit.

Too many people think to welcome the

new year, they must do the silliest
things possible get drunk silly, drive
In the coming year, silly, some even die silly. For anything
do you have the to be popular today, it has to be silly.
Should we not redefine our idea of
courage to commit celebration and learn to enjoy
something profound? In the coming
yourself to make year, do you have the courage to commit
yourself to make something happen
something happen that is bigger than you? Every other
that is bigger than creature functions according to its
instinct, lives and dies according to the
you? natural laws. Being human means we
can transcend the natural laws and
make something happen that is larger
than us. You have the possibility to
strive to do this, rather than enshrining
your limitations with ideas of my space, your space.

You cannot preserve this life you can only expend it. Whether you just
sit around or create something fantastic, whether you do something
profound or something silly, you will anyway die. Either way, you have to
spend your life the only question is how. The choice of how we spend
our lives is a human privilege. For every other creature, it is all fixed. It is
in our hands how beautifully, how profoundly, how magnificently or
how foolishly, how uselessly, how lethargically we live. I do not suggest
you make some silly New Year resolution. At this time of the year,
external changes are many. The quality of human life will only truly
change when we change within ourselves. Otherwise, we could be in the
most beautiful place feeling miserable. To create what we want in the
world, we have to bring many forces together. To create what you want
within yourself, you have to bring yourself together.

It will be wonderful if you can create

something fantastic in the world. But at
least within you, something fantastic
The quality of must happen. If something fantastic is
human life will only happening within you, no one can stop
you from creating something fantastic
truly change when in the world. People may set up little
road humps thats all. Thats an
we change within opportunity for us to slow down, enjoy
the scenery, and again speed up. If you
ourselves. try to create something fantastic in the
world without making something truly
fantastic happen within you, it could
become a tyrannical, disastrous process.
Human history is full of such examples. Even someone like Adolf Hitler,
whos at the top of the baddy list of all times, believed he was going to
create something fantastic with the most horrible consequences. When
ugly things are happening within you and you try to create something, a
magnified version of this ugliness will manifest on the outside. It is very
important that if you want to create something, first something fantastic
is happening within you. Do what you want, in the end, who you are is
what will manifest in the world.

Just come to your senses then joyful is the only way to be. This neither
needs a resolution nor an amendment to the constitution everyone in
this country should be joyful. What is needed is a rise of human
consciousness. Consciousness is non-physical. The physical dimension is
one of boundaries. Consciousness is a dimension beyond boundaries it
is all-encompassing. Either you are just a piece of flesh and bone then
it is good it has boundaries or you touch the other dimension within
you that we refer to as consciousness, which is boundless. Once your
experience is boundless, the possibilities become boundless as well.
What you manifest will not be boundless but at least bigger than you, and
that is important. Only if something bigger than you has happened
within you and if possible outside of you, can you as a human being live
well and die well. Otherwise, you live a constipated life.

In this culture, Uttarayana is seen as harvest time, both agriculturally and

spiritually. Many saints, sages, and yogis have chosen to leave their body
at this time. This does not mean it is time for you to leave. It is time to
shed some old nonsense and come up fresh and alive. Lets see what new
possibilities will arise out of that. This is not about making resolutions to
do a particular thing or give up another. But even crawling creatures have
the wisdom to shed their old skin periodically we should be able to
expect the same from you. When a snake, a cockroach, or any other
creature molts, they become very vulnerable for a period of time. Its a
big risk living in nature without skin for a few days or weeks. Just a
bunch of ants can take your life. But even these little creatures have the
innate wisdom to take this risk. It is time you take that risk in your life.

In the next few days, tear down

something about you that has stuck
with you for a long time but is no good.
If you drop your Ive been waiting for a long time for the
nonsense, I can thick skin to go. If you drop your
nonsense, I can make you drip with
make you drip with ecstasy. Now the question is, How can
I shed my skin? You know, if you got a
ecstasy. cut or scratch and a scab has formed,
somehow, almost everyone has the urge
to pull it off a little before it would fall
off by itself. Similarly, if you want to
shed something that has been sticking
to you for a period of time, it hurts a bit. Every day, you shed old skin
cells without even noticing it. They fall off by themselves because their
time is up. Now that you are on a spiritual path, you want to go faster
than the regular course of nature. Some philosophers may argue that
anyway by nature, slowly it will all happen. The only problem is its a
bloody brief life. The evolution from monkey to man took millions of
years. You want to be on fast-forward you want to peel off the old skin
early.

You are fortunate enough to have come here as a human being, you have
a reasonably working brain, and you are aware that you need to do
something about yourself. This is the time to do it. How? The sadhana
that we initiate you into, for example in the Inner Engineering program,
has this potential, but it all depends on with how much intensity you are
doing it. Its good to come and stay for a couple of days in the ashram for
a sadhana upgrade. This does not mean doing more sadhana but doing
the same a little more fiercely. If you do that, it will shed. If you drop
your old ways of thinking and looking at things afresh, you will become a
beautiful human being the world will become a beautiful place. This
new you will only look for solutions, not problems.

The shedding has to be done by you. We can only help you if you make
yourself available to Grace. That means you must keep yourself like a new
born baby. Whatever age you are right now, how would you look at life?
Everything would be new everything would be fantastic. If you look at
everything afresh, I will take care of you. This is what new means
nothing of the old. Dont wait until the first of January. For the planet, a
new phase has already started, and we are part of the planet. Look at
everything like an infant does absorbing everything, not judging
anything, not labeling anyone as good or bad, okay or not okay, not
categorizing people into those you love and those you hate. Just look at
life like this. If you do this even for one day, you can have a fresh
beginning and be wonderful.

Love & Grace,

With this video, Sadhguru is offering you the rare opportunity to

participate in an intense meditation process, originally conducted during
a Darshan on 24 December 2016 at the Isha Yoga Center. Darshan means
to behold. To best benefit from the process, sit in a cross-legged posture,
hands open, palms facing upwards, with a slightly upturned face, gazing
at Sadhguru.

Darshan with Sadhguru 24 December 2016

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TAGS: Life, Meditation, Mysticism, New Year, Spiritual Growth, Starred, Transformation

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