Is It Possible to Live Without Pain? | Sadhguru Answers
[Music] it is the mental pain that you're talking about I must tell you this incident there was a bishop in the Greek Orthodox community in Istanbul [Music] he came to Southern India and he wants to meet a genuine Yogi to stand it hurts you lie down it hurts at Guru they say pain is an inevitable part of life is that so [Music] foreign [Music] there was a bishop in the Greek Orthodox community in Istanbul [Music] being on the silk route from India many mystical stories of yogis and Mystics and miraculous things have been wafting across the Bosphorus for centuries so always this bishop has been wanting to go to India and meet a Mystic or a yogi well it never happened because being a man of cloth he could not decide where he goes but after semi retired he got an opportunity to go to Southern India patiently waiting each day that goes by staring out windows that stars in the sky imagining one I'll be one of them but patiently waiting till then [Music] he came to Southern India and he wants to meet a genuine Yogi to somebody directed him if you go up the mountain like this in front of this kid that is a yogi he will be there you can meet him he's the right man for you to meet [Music] thank you so our man set forth on the mountain unless you keep yourself well they're not kind to you at all so he after and went up [Music] and he saw the yogi sitting there totally blissed out eyes closed people had told him if you see a Indian Yogi you have to prostrate but his physical form wouldn't allow that with great difficulty he went down and in great commotion he was getting up hearing all this commotion the yogi opened his eyes and smile so the bishop asked can I ask you a question [Music] so he asked what is life the yogi went to raptures and said life is like the fragrance of Jasmine upon the spring Breeze the man blinked the what life fragrance of Jasmine upon gentle spring Breeze but my teacher told me life is like a thong once it gets into you if it is it it hurts if you stand it hurts if you lie down it hurts and you are saying life is like the fragrance of a Jasmine upon gentle spring Breeze is the yogi smiled and said well that's his life [Music] it's a physical pain there's physical pain and mental pain unless that is Grievous injury or an ailment generally there is not much physical pain it happens often on here and there but not much human beings go through largely mental pain if physical pain happens we just have to distance ourselves if we sit here something boxes we don't sit there again we sit elsewhere physical pain we know how to dodge unless we are in a war zone or some other violent situation hopefully that doesn't happen to any human being but unfortunately it happens to a few physical pain is good for you I know that's not a popular statement but why I'm saying this is if there was no physical pain in your body most people most people wouldn't even know how to preserve this body see wherever there is no pain in your body see what all we have done to it to this one this one see what all we have done why only because there's no pain isn't it if there was no pain in your nose in the name of fashion in how many ways you would have cut it by now even though there is pain there are 25 piercings in the face many people are going around with a lot though though there is pain if there was no pain at all in the body it would be fashionable to pull out your intestine and put it over shoulder and walk they would have done all kinds of things isn't it so pain is good because if there is no pain there's not enough sense in most human beings even to physically preserve themselves they would have done all kinds of things so physical pain we know how to handle unless it goes beyond a certain point it is the mental pain that you're talking about when we say mental pain I must tell you this incident this was last year in the month of August we were checking in Himalayas between Nepal and Tibet we're checking I'm in a tent someone else is in a camp is in the same tent cutting an apple is another person who tells this person it's a very sharp knife be careful it irritates me because knife is supposed to be Sharp if it's blunt we won't call it a knife and this is not a child this is a full grown man he's a child yes we will tell I looked like this but I was at work so I ignored that and continue my work another two minutes later again she tells him it's a very sharp knife be careful come on leave him alone he's a full grown man he must at least know how to handle a bloody knife he's not some spacecraft or something that he's handling this is knife a full grown man he can handle a knife with no sidhu it's a very sharp knife and I ignore that and continue my work quietly be careful and in two minutes he cuts his hand [Music] so okay it looks like she knows she's going to cut his hand I left it there why I'm telling you this is this is all that's happened to you if we were like any other creature without the intellect that you carry right now the nature of the intellect is it must be sharp if it's not sharp it's no good yes or no right now the problem is you have a sharp knife in your hand but you don't have a steady hand you all the time poking yourself if you had the mind of a wild boar I don't think you would be so hurt unless you were shot because you have the intellect of a human being which is sharp and your hand is not steady every day you're cutting yourself around some reason whatever pain or pleasure pain or pleasure within you happens only from within you isn't it so um at least what happens from within you must happen the way you want it isn't it no what happens in the world see we cannot control it okay it happens within you must happen the way you want it isn't it if your mind took instructions from you would you cause pain or joy for yourself what would you cause please make a choice I'm going to bless you enjoy of course so the problem is not about pain the problem is you have a complex computer all right but you have not read the user's manual that's the whole problem if your mind took instructions from you for sure you would keep yourself in the highest level of pleasantness yes what is your choice for yourself highest level of pleasantness at least for yourself what you want for your neighbor may be debatable but what you want for yourself is very clear isn't it it's not happening not because of some something gone wrong in your life just that your mind does not take instructions from you it's as simple as that time to take charge of that what is a miracle has become a misery manufacturing machine on the planet human mind is the most sophisticated instrument you can find on this planet yes or no do you agree with me but it's turned into misery manufacturing machine all human misery is manufactured here isn't it so don't romanticize by pain that means you're not interested in human well-being there's a lot of romanticizing of pain all the time in the world the moment your romanticize pain it means you are not interested in human well-being you're playing with it there is music around human pain there is sin movie around human human pain there's drama around human pain there's a lot of romanticizing of this because whatever is the condition of the people in some way they have to energize that if you are by choice painful if that's your choice I have no issue you want to be Blissful but you're painful this means you have a mind which doesn't take instructions from you is out of control this out of control nature if you romanticize see right now there are a lot of things freaky things that people do they are romanticizing those things they are compulsions somebody's getting drunk somebody's getting drugged out somebody's doing something else these are not done as a conscious choice these are compulsions within a human being if these compulsions if you romanticize you will never seek well-being neither for yourself not for others [Music]
