Seeker: How to know which is right for me?

Questioner: How to know which is right for me? I choose and un-choose many times, for example, sometimes I feel I should pursue studies in music. Sometimes, I feel I should pursue academics. So how to know which is right for me?

Sadhguru:

I don’t see how these two things are connected. See, now you want to become a great musician. If you can’t become one at least you want to sweep the musician’s house or at least you can work in a music store. Or at least you can wipe a musical instrument clean. That’s how it should be.

Music or academics, that means you still don’t know what is music, nor do you know what is academics. You are choosing for social reasons, you are not choosing for your own inner reasons. Which will be more successful? There will be no choice there. So if this is how it is, then you just don’t know anything as to what you should choose. Whatever is on hand right now, put your heart and soul into it. If you put your everything into sweeping the music store, according to your inner nature you will flower and find what you should do.

You don’t have the awareness to know what you should choose, so what you should do is simply throw yourself 100% into what you are doing now without entanglement. You must understand, people are always thinking in terms of where shall I get entangled? It’s not a question of where you should get entangled, it is a question of where you should get involved. Now you don’t know one thing from the other, so just show absolute involvement into what you are right now.

What you are right now is just breath, body, food, shit, wake up, sleep; this is what you are. Show absolute involvement in this, what you should do, where you should go will be 100% clear. You neither eat with involvement, nor breathe with involvement, nor shit with involvement, nor get up with involvement, nor sleep with involvement, please see that. If you are doing this, you will be somewhere else, if you are doing that, you will be somewhere else. Because of this, you have no sense of what to do. Whatever you do it seems to be inadequate - it seems to be the wrong thing.

People are always like academics or music, that’s a small choice. One big question in the ashram and everywhere else is, should I take bhramacharya or should I get married? Both are wrong. Marriage is terrible, bhramacharya is worse. For somebody who does not know involvement, for somebody who knows only entanglement; marriage is terrible, bhramacharya is worse, not necessarily in that order. (Laughs)

If you know involvement, then its different. You keep choosing and un-choosing, then both marriage and bhramacharya are going to be terrible; they cannot be any other way. So when you don’t know which is which, you don’t choose, you just show involvement into everything that you are, then life will choose and it is never wrong. Or I will choose, because I am a little more than life. (Laughs) You won’t understand what I am talking, I am actually a little more than life. I am quite a lot of life, but I am a little more than life, I don’t belong there. It doesn’t mean a damn thing to me, but I have more involvement with life than most people would ever know.

To be involved in something that doesn’t mean a damn thing to you, is different. It is something that people cannot understand. People can be involved in only that which means something to them. People do not know how to be totally involved with something which doesn’t mean a damn thing to them.

Becoming life is very beautiful, but you will see its not enough. When you have enough of it, you will see its not enough. This one is capable of becoming something more than life. Only then, everything is in place. Nothing is ever out of place, shame or fame, everything is in place. Success or failure, everything is in place. Life or death, everything is in place; nothing is ever out of place.

courtesy: Sadhguru in Speaking Tree