Are you a seeker NOW ?

Questioner : Sadhguru, what should be the foremost quality of the seeker ?

Sadhguru : If you are a genuine seeker, that’s all. If seeking is the only quality you have, that is definitely the most important thing. Most of the seekers are only off-and-on seekers. In 24 hours, how many of you are even conscious of your seeking, and how many moments? “No, No, I attended all the programs, all the three. I also did 55 days of Hatha Yoga.” [Laughs] What you did yesterday is not the point. This happened……Charles.M.Schwab, who became one of the big steel magnets on the planet at one time (before the Mittals came), before he stood on his own feet, was working for Andrew Carnagie, another great entrepreneur. One day he sent a telegram to Carnagie, saying, “Yesterday, we broke all records.” So immediately, Carnegie sent back a message, “But what you are doing today?” [Laughs]

That’s all I am asking you – what are you doing today ? “No, I attended Isha Yoga, I did Bhava Spandana, I did Samyama, five Samyamas.” All that is fine, but what are you doing today ? That’s my question. People think, “Sadhguru……no compassion in him. It doesn’t matter what we have done, once again he is asking,’What have you done today?” Because if you are a seeker, what you were yesterday doesn’t mean anything to you. “What have you done today?” is the whole thing. The psychological survives, nourishes itself and flourishes on the past. The existential is of the now.

So unless you are truly concerned about what you are doing today, how you are right now, are you still a seeker ? “I have been a seeker for 10 years” – That doesn’t mean anything. Are you a seeker now ? Because the existential is only now ; the rest is all psychological. I see a lot of past seekers. They have been seekers for 25 years, 30 years – veterans. What to do with that ? Only if somebody is hungry now, you can serve them food, isn’t it ? If somebody is alive now, you can feed them. Somebody was – what can you do with them ? So if your seeking is in the past tense, it doesn’t mean anything. Are you a seeker now, right now ? If you are, that is what it means most to me because only then I can do something with you; if you are a past seeker, we are just neighbours. If you are a seeker now, I have something to do with you right now.