When you visit someone’s website or YouTube channel, you will most often hear an answer to a question you never asked them and never intended to ask. You are told “What you should do and who you should be.”
This “answer,” which you never even asked for, is disguised in all sorts of ways.
As a result, you experience some vague, unpleasant feelings after yet another lecture, satsang, video, or training session. You do not even understand why.
Something just feels unpleasant. They seem to speak beautifully about something important, lofty, and useful—but there is some kind of intuitive aftertaste.
The point is that you do not need to become someone else or do what other people tell you.
Humanity has immense Experience. We have been destroyed and started over many times. And all of this lives within us, whether in our genes or somewhere else.
Knowledge exists—it is there. The One who created us did not arrange things so that we would be born with a book, read it, and learn everything from it.
That is how irons, smartphones, and watches are made—with instructions included.
But our Creator thought more highly of us than of irons
He placed Reason within us.
It allows us to learn the instructions for ourselves.
A book can be lost. It is harder to lose Reason
Unfortunately, some people lose that too.
Using reason, we see that alcoholics drink alcohol, which is why they become alcoholics. Chess players play chess, which is why they are so clever. Football players train according to a special program, developing football skills, so you are unlikely to beat them at football. That is why they are football players.
What creates you, makes you who you are, and determines who you will become is called Sadhana.
Sadhana is a particular kind of activity.
For a mathematician, sadhana means studying well at school, going to a mathematics institute, then studying higher mathematics, associating with mathematicians, reading books on mathematics... So what is he? A mathematician.
That is what he chose!
It was not someone who told him, “You must become a mathematician.” Or, “You must do what I think, and then you will become a mathematician.”...
Do you understand?
You decide for yourself.
For example, I am not telling you anything. Neither who you should be nor what you should do.
I am only saying that there is an ancient Path. It is called Sadhana.
A person comes and says, “I want to love God,” “I want to become more spiritual,” “I want to become more successful,” “I want to become healthier and more energetic”...
This is the kind of person who comes to an Ashram.
And there is a Sadhana for everything.
Even for someone who wants to remain a failure. They simply continue performing the sadhana of a failure.
It is simple.
What you should do and who you should be—you can, of course, ask a bunch of different “gurus”... But believe me, you cannot escape yourself.
You will return to yourself.
Sooner or later.
And you will regret only one thing—the time you lost.
The best thing about Sadhana is to begin it right now. Then you will be who you want to be. And you will do what you want to do.
