Different States of the Same Energy. Sadhguru

Now the question is, is self realization possible for an animal, is that the question?

The animal and uneducated, innocent, violent persons.

See uneducated, innocent, violent is different and animal is different.

Now when we say animal and human, we are not talking in terms of which is superior.

It's not a question of superiority, inferiority.

It’s a question of evolution; it’s a question of energy existing in a certain level of evolution.

See it’s the mud, the mud that you walk on is actually your body, isn’t it?

It’s from that you are eating. Isn’t it so?

And it’s become like this it’s the same material, isn’t it?

But is it the same? Or let me give you a more blunt analogy.

Today night you’ll have dinner, good food served on your plate, you will like it so much, with so much like you ate this.

Tomorrow morning, what has happened to this food?

It has become shit, isn’t it? Same stuff or not?

What you ate with so much liking, is it the same stuff?

Can you handle both of them the same way?

What is it then?

It’s the same stuff but you cannot handle both of them the same way, isn’t it?

Because they are in a different state.

Your food has become excreta, this you love so much, that you don’t want to go anywhere near it; same
stuff, same energy but it’s different.

So you can’t do the same things with both, isn’t it?

Similarly, it’s not the... but once again, if you want to grow your food, you need either your excreta or animal excreta or something to grow, isn’t it?

So we can use it that way but can we take it on our plate and eat it? No?

So every state, the same energy manifesting in different ways but you have to handle them different ways, depending upon in which state it is.

So now, if I bring one dog here and try to make him meditate.

I may love the dog, I can just caress the dog and make him feel comfortable and nice, give him food, make him comfortable.

I can love him, make him love me, that’s all.

But if I try to make him meditate, it’ll be foolish because that is not how his energy is right now.

Not because he’s inferior or you are superior or something, right now that is the state in which he is functioning.

Now, this energy has come to this state.

Here something else can be done which cannot be done there.

So that’s why it’s being done here, not there.

And there, there is nothing much to be done because most of it is in nature’s hands for him, okay?

Not so much is in his hands, he’s never a bad dog or a bad tiger, did you see?

They're all good tigers, isn’t it?

Only human beings are the problem.