Sadhguru:
Maybe you cannot release your body from the chains but you can
definitely release your mind from the chains. That is in your hands,
isn’t it? Right now, maybe you cannot take Sanyas and live in an ashram –
your husband, wife or your children will not allow you, but you
becoming mentally free, can anybody stop you? No. The bondages have come
only because of yourself and nobody else. Freedom does not mean we have
to change all our situations. We do not have to turn our life or
situations upside down to become free because one situation is not
better than some other situation; don’t ever believe that. It is just a
choice. Somebody chooses to live in this situation and somebody else
chooses to live in another situation; everything has its pluses and
minuses. The important thing is how you
are within yourself, isn’t it? So, you may not be able to change your
external situation immediately, maybe there is nothing wrong with it and
there is no need to change it. But you should change your inner
situation because it is bothering you.
This mind can become a
ladder to divinity, it can make you ecstatic. Many times this mind made
you happy, isn’t it? And many times it made you very unhappy, fearful,
tense and frustrated. So the same mind is doing both. It is doing
whatever it wants because this little instrument of a mind is not in
your hands, it has gone out of control. You can take your car and reach
the next city or you can ram it straight into a tree. It is left to you.
So, it is just about what you do with it. You can reach very far if you
keep the controls in your hands.
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