Drishti - Yoga of Vision - Sadhguru

If you feel the world around you - the human part of the world around you - you will see your experience is a cacophony of voices, thoughts and emotions. These voices, thoughts and emotions are all an outpouring of confusions of many different levels and states. With a very distorted perception of the current reality, these voices, thoughts and emotions are formed and expressed.

When man is in this level of confusion, when he is subjugated by the misconceptions or the wrong perception of reality around him, the noise that he creates around himself, the pain and suffering that he creates for himself and the people around him and to all other life forms around him is very unfortunate.

With all the conveniences and facilities we have because of science and technology, individual man and humanity have still remained an absolute confusion, an absolute mess. All the noises he is making in the form of his thoughts and emotions, if you look at it, if you really are a little sensitive to feel people's thoughts and emotions around you, you will see it is an absolute mess, it is an absolute confusion,

That is the reality you see today. There is no clarity in him. Nor any will or vision. Most people in the world live their lives without even understanding what it is that they really want for themselves. Or even if they know what they want, they neither have the will nor the vision to create what they want in their lives. Most of the time just settling for whatever is easy, whatever they term as attainable, whatever is within their reach; they settle for anything if they feel it is easy.

If something is easily attainable, people go for it. Not really seeing whether they really need it in their lives or not. Not really seeing whether that is what they really want in their lives. It is easily attainable, that is the whole thing. At any given moment in life, if we go by the experiences of our past or in other words if you trust your logical mind to decide what is possible, what is not possible, what is attainable, what is not attainable, then it will always tell you mediocre things as to what is possible.

We are always trying to create our life based on the current reality that exists around us at this moment. Whatever may be with us at this moment is not the point. Where we cant to go tomorrow need not be connected to where we are right now. What we want as the highest in life need not have anything to do with our present situation. If we enslave our visions to current situations, then we are once again settling for what is attainable, what is easy, what we think is possible. It is not in terms of thinking what is possible or not possible. It is just in terms of seeing what is your vision, what is the highest that you can seek in your life.

If man has a vision of what he wishes to do with himself and the world around him. it is not beyond man's capacity to create it. It may happen in this lifetime, it may take a couple of lifetimes but what he wants will definitely come. For that person, for whom his vision of life is clear and who just seeks it every moment of his life, for him, the highest things will come and fall at his feet. It is only because man is a bundle of confusion, it is only because man is most of the time seeking what he doesn't want that things that he really wants never come to him. This lack of vision and will in his life is fundamentally because of a distorted understanding of the world around us.

What you know as the highest, you just seek that. It doesn't matter whether it is going to happen or not going to happen, simply living with the vision itself is very elevating. is itself very liberating, is itself a very joyous process for any person. Whether it is going to happen tomorrow or after 100 years is not the point. But you have a vision and you are not concerned whether it is easy or difficult, you are not concerned whether it is attainable or non- attainable, or in other words, you are not concerned about the result in the end. It is just that you have a vision and you give your life towards it. This is one of the easiest ways to attain the highest also. The whole Gita is just about this - to simply give yourself to what what you want, not caring whether it is going to happen or not going to happen. It is a spiritual process by itself.

Vision is a important way of transcending limitations within and outside ourselves. If one wants to live here without any vision, without being burdened by visions, without being burdened by will, then that person should be absolutely innocent. Absolutely. Such a person can simply live here. He need not live with a vision. He does not need a vision. He does not have to have a will about anything if he is absolutely egoless and childlike. And if it is not so, it is very important that man lives with a vision.

There have been many stories, many examples in the Indian culture. Certain sages and saints, once they willed, even Gods had to come down and do things for them. There are many stories like this. Lord Shiva cannot help it; if a man sits here with complete will and vision that he wants Shiva to come down, he has to come down - he has no choice about it. There are many stories like this. So all these things demonstrate to you that if what you want is very clear to you and if you are set on it, what seems to be impossible today, tomorrow becomes a normal part of your life. Without any fuss it falls at your feet. But if you question this at every moment logically and think in terms of "is it attainable or not attainable", then the confusion you create in your mind, the confusion that you create in the world around you makes the world itself into a big confusion.

It is time to really create a vision within ourselves as to what is it that we really care for, not just for today. If you look deep enough, your vision will be universal vision. Really, being a human being, see what is the highest that you can seek and simply create that vision. Whether everything else happens or doesn't happen on the way is not the point. Whatever you have known as the highest, simply seeking that with undivided attention, is a way of knowing life here and beyond. It is a simple way of knowing life here and beyond.