Is It Possible To Master Time? – Sadhguru
Sadhguru: Without having mastery over time,
nobody can determine the nature of their destiny in their lives. So, the only way you can take charge of time is
by mastering your energies, and how they function. If you are functioning like a steam engine, it’s a long time.
If you are functioning like a jet engine, boom, and one who’s taken charge of time, for him,
the entire universe is a sweetness of compassion. Once you came here as a human being,
life got a little complicated. If you came here, like any other creature on this planet –
stomach full, life settled. Once you come here as a human being – stomach empty,
only one problem; stomach full, one hundred problems (Laughter).
So, what we are calling life here,
is just a certain combination of time and energy. This combo of time and energy, unfortunately,
the majority of people never learn to handle seamlessly and wonderfully. Hitch after hitch, everything is a problem.
If you’re a toddler, you have diaper problems. If you become an adolescent,
you have hormonal problems. If you become middle-aged, there is a crisis.
Old age is horrible (Laughter). In every phase of life, people are seeing it as some kind of a problem.
Of course, death is a serious problem.
So, with this combination of time and energy,
we must understand the nature of what we are handling. Time by its nature is such –
you do something, it rolls; if you don’t do something, it rolls. You don’t have to push it, I’m saying.
Hello? As you’re sitting here, it’s rolling away.
You’re doing a lot of things, it’s rolling away. You do nothing, it rolls away.
You’re awake, it rolls away. You’re asleep, it rolls away. But without having mastery over time,
nobody can determine the nature of their destiny in their lives.
How to grab time? People are talking about time management.
Have you ever managed time (Laughter)? As you sit here, it’s ticking away.
And what’s ticking away is not a clock. What’s ticking away is our life itself.
Hello? Since I walked in, you’re two minutes closer to your grave (Laughter)?
Yes, you’re. Me too (Laughs). This is the nature of time.
Whatever you do, do not do, do anything you want, but you’re not able to roll it back.
It is only rolling forward. It is just that if you are happy,
it seems to tick away very fast. If you’re miserable, it goes very slowly for you.
Have you noticed this? On a particular day, you’re very happy – twenty-four hours cheap.
Now you’re depressed, twenty-four hours feel… feel like an eon for you? Yes or no?
Participants: Yes. Sadhguru: So, only miserable people have a long life (Laughter). If you’re a joyful person, it’s a brief life.
If you’re an ecstatic person, it’s just a moment, and poof,
it’s gone before you know what’s happening. Life has gone so fast that even
my body has not realized the time has gone by. And it’s still (Laughs)…
I have not realized the time has gone by. This is the thirtieth year of Isha, it…
The thirtieth anniversary of the Isha Foundation and I can’t believe, thirty years… it feels like three days in my experience.
And in these three days or thirty years, my schedules are… Singapore is a holiday for me,
I just come to golf and (Laughs)… Otherwise, my schedules are insane, okay?
Every day twenty hours minimum we are on. I’ve never been… I never missed a single airplane till now.
In a day, sometimes I’ve been in six airports. But I’ve never missed an airplane,
I’ve never missed an appointment. I have never been late to an appointment in thirty years.
But I don’t manage time, I manage myself.
Time, how to manage?
It’s too big a thing to manage. It’s not in your hands, whether you like it or not,
it’s ticking away, isn’t it? Yes. If you sit here, it’s ticking away. If you jump around, it will tick away.
Do whatever you want, it’ll tick away, isn’t it? But what you can do with yourself, that you can manage.
There’s nothing to do with the time. So, self-management, not time-management. Just a few days ago, I was flying in from India.
Normally, it used to be thirteen-and-a-half, fourteen hours. But now there is some issue that Pakistan is not allowing
airplanes to flow… fly over their airspace.
So, it’s taking sixteen hours. Because I know all the pilots
and I’m a licensed pilot myself, so they let me sit in the cockpit, and
I’m interested in what’s happening there. So, I was talking to them and they said Sadhguru… I said, “Fourteen hours, isn’t it?” They said,
“No, Sadhguru, sixteen hours, it’s so long.” Then I said, “See I’m not complaining.
Because just a century ago, if I had to go to the United States, it was sixty days
– sixteen hours, I’m not complaining, I’m okay. I’ll sit down, lie down, read something,
do something or talk to you. But I’m not complaining about sixteen hours.”
How did sixty days become sixteen hours? Simply because from us… a chugging
steam engine to a jet engine. Hello? Suddenly, sixty days became sixteen hours. So, the only way you can take charge of time is
by mastering your energies, and how they function.
If you are functioning like a steam engine, it’s a long time.
If you’re functioning like a jet engine, boom. Right now, they’re saying the Chinese have developed an airplane
where Beijing to New York you can do it in two hours. They are saying by 2028 they’ll have it commercially ready. Two hours. So, this is not mastery of time
but consequentially it is mastery of time. If what somebody does in ten years
if you can do it in one year, if both of you live for hundred years, in terms of impact and expe…
the profoundness of experience you live for a thousand years.
Hello? That is the only way you can take charge of time,
and one who’s taken charge of time, for him, the entire universe is a sweetness of compassion. That will be his experience of life
once he’s taken charge of time.
