Sadhguru, Isha Foundation
Being energetic means different things to different people. For a schoolchild, being energetic means being able to go to school, play games, come back home and fall asleep.
For a labourer on the street, it means to be able to perform his activity all day.
For an executive, it may mean to sleep less, travel more, or be more productive.
For a Yogi, he doesn’t want to sleep or eat. He wants to be that way for many days – just being alive by his own contact with existence, not by putting something into him.
Varied Levels
One level of energy is the food that you eat, the water that you drink, the air that you breathe and the sunlight that you receive. These things become the day-to-day energy that you experience. Another way of looking at it is that what you call “life” or what you call “myself” is energy.
If you want to function on a higher plane of life, you need a higher level or quality of energy. There are many methods to do this. There are dramatic ways to energise a person, but such methods need proper preparation, balance and control over life.
Raising awareness
That requires much more awareness from a person, to know what he is doing and not doing with himself. Most people, even the so-called “spiritual” people, do not know what is happening within themselves 98% of the time, especially when it comes to their body or their energy. And when it comes to their mind and emotions, they usually do not know until it becomes acute.
When this is the case, the whole process of life is accidental, and your energy is accidental. When it is accidental, you will see that one day you are energetic, the next day you are not.
You would definitely have noticed that on a certain day if you are very happy, you seem to be very energetic. Another day, when you are not so happy, you have no energy.
One reason we are always talking about being peaceful and happy is not for the sake of peace and happiness, but only because if a person is peaceful and happy, his energies begin to come alive in a certain way.
Otherwise, the system is simply blocked up. Only if these energies are alive can you activate them towards a higher possibility.
Simple, definite practices
So, when you say “energetic,” if it is just about being a little more energetic in performing your day-to-day activities in the world, there are many simple practices that will definitely take care of it. But for me, being truly energetic means that when you just sit, the physical body is no more a limitation for you.
If your energies are really active, the physical body is no longer a limitation; energy becomes the main contact. Right now, your body, mind and emotions are the main contact that you have with the rest of the world.
That is how you communicate and reach out. You can touch someone physically. Or, you can communicate with your thoughts, or emotionally convey something.
But once you are truly energetic, you can communicate with everything in the existence energy-wise. When you start communicating energy-wise, there is no distinction between this and that. Once the barrier is broken, that is ultimate nature.
Going beyond limitations
When you start a spiritual process, being energetic means going beyond all limitations because in energy there is oneness. In the physical body, there can never be oneness. In mental thought, there can never be oneness.
We may talk about oneness, but it is never going to happen. With our emotions, we may think we are one, but we are still separate.
No two people can feel exactly the same way. You may believe so, but if you have any sense, you will realise within a short time that it is not so.
Some people may take years to realise; a few people will realise quickly, but everyone will realise. No two people are exactly alike physically, mentally, emotionally; it’s not possible. But when you become truly energetic, oneness is just natural. That is the way it is.
Isha Foundation New Zealand conducts Isha Inner Engineering and Hatha Yoga Programmes. It also offers free Isha Kriya and Isha Upa yoga practices for the General public regularly. For more information Pls contact: 0224637811 or Visit: www.ishayoga.nz
Ranked amongst the fifty most influential people in India, Sadhguru is a Yogi, Mystic, Visionary and Bestselling Author. The Indian Government conferred on him, ‘Padma Vibhushan’ the second highest Civilian Award for exceptional and distinguished service.
