No room for boredom

Mystic’s Musings By Sadhguru – Founder, Isha Foundation

If you die of anything it is okay, but if you die of boredom that is the worst thing that can possibly happen. If you are willing to open up to the phenomena of life, how can you get bored?

If you have seen the existence through and there is nothing more to see, you should get bored, I understand that. But you do not even know how one single cell in your body works, what a single atom means. You have not even explored your little finger fully, how can you already get bored?

That is because you are not a living being, you are a thinking being. You are living only in your own petty creation, not in the creator’s creation. In the creator’s creation, every damn thing is unique. You search a tree and take one leaf and search the tree for one more just like that, you will not find another. Everything is absolutely unique.

So if you are living in the creator’s creation there is no room for boredom. But you are living in your own petty creation of your mind so there is boredom. You need to get out of that because your petty creation has been created by a little bit of fragmented data that you have gathered in your head. From that you are creating things, so naturally you will get bored.

The movement from thinking to being has to happen. But unfortunately, all the thinkers have been propagating thought as the highest thing. Thought is a small part of your existence also. But you are getting so enamoured with your own creation that you are missing the grandeur of the creator’s creation, to a point where people dare to say “I think therefore I am.” Which is true?  Because you exist, you think or because you think, you exist? Only if you exist you can think. Because you are in a compulsive state of thought all the time, you think without your thought the world cannot exist. It is not true.

If you do not think, if there is no thought on the firmament of your mind, that is when existence explodes upon you. Right now, you are trapped in your own creation. That is what karma means, that you are trapped in your own creation and are missing out the grandeur of the creation the way it is. That is why there is boredom. Otherwise, if you look at this world, to know one leaf you need one lifetime. That is how intricately it has been created. Where is the question of boredom?

So, that is why I say it does not matter which way you die, you should not die of boredom. If you are dying out of boredom that means you have missed life completely because you can be bored only with your thought process, you can never be bored with the life process because it is too exuberant and too intricate. The multi-dimensional nature of life is such there is no room for boredom. It is far bigger and much larger than what your logical process of mind can ever grasp.

If you use all the faculties and the full capacity of your mind, still you cannot grapple with the processes of life. If you live here for a thousand years, still you cannot grapple with it. You will still be wondering what happened. You will still be wondering about the fundamentals of life because it is like an onion peel. You go on peeling it, it goes on coming endlessly.

So, if you are getting bored it is time to meditate. The whole significance of walking the spiritual path is just this, that you do not get consumed by your body and your mind. You use your body and your mind to go where you want to go.

[Ranked amongst the fifty most influential people in India, Sadhguru is a yogi, mystic, visionary and a New York Times best-selling author. Sadhguru has been conferred the Padma Vibhushan by the Government of India in 2017, the highest annual civilian award, accorded for exceptional and distinguished service. www.ishafoundation.org]