A brief discussion on Miracles. Sadhguru

See I didn't say there are no miracles, there are miracles

some people are saying

they didn't get angry in the last two days

that's a miracle

isn't it so?

isn't that a miracle?

and that's a miracle badly needed in the world, isn't it so?

Yes?

wherever I go people ask me
can you raise the dead?

I say I will never do such a blunder

Tell me in the last thousand years everybody that are dead

if you want I'll raise them

shall I raise them?

you have no love for your parents and grandparents?

the dead should remain dead, isn't it?

if I turn this into gold and give you,
in what way does your life really become better?

it makes you believe what?

See, I'm not saying anything

which you have to believe

I'm just giving you a method

to work with

step by step as you are going
is it working in a small way atleast?

it is working

you go a little more it will work
better and better and better

So

why do you need to believe in it?

you learn that it works

so you'll postpone your learning

So

if I convert one thing into another

So I must handle your shop from today

Seeker: it is not that I don't believe

Its just that I can't experience it right now
I have to go through

whatever time it takes for me to get there

the usefulness of miracle can be

when I have not reached there
I can hold on to something and say

it can happen, one day I'll reach there

Okay.

so

if I start moving your pens and socks

tomorrow maybe you'll drive your wife out
and say Sadhguru why don't you cook let me see

let me see if you're true

breakfast should be ready

it will not enhance your life in any way please look at that

it really won't

it is just that

you'll look up to something
thats all

but right now

this particular is asking
why have I chosen this way of doing is because

I believe there is enough

intellect here to understand

to percieve

the possibility that's being offered

now I go into rural Tamil Nadu

I don't talk all this

but then

if I just walked through their village everything
happens for them really

there

I don't go like this talking and joking

like this

if I simply go and sit there everything works
for them

they keep a photo and they worship me
and everything happens for them

they are simple minded people for them that's
fine

so you need to understand

that

for example I'm using this because I'm in that part of the world

because that's what you know you're not been exposed
to

idea of other things

when Jesus said come and follow me

who followed him

in that society

the educated

the sophisticated this schollarly did they follow him?

it is only the uneducated the simple-minded
the fisherman and peasants

those kind of people that followed him

because only they can do that

just come follow me

is only possible for simple minded innocent child
like people

and he made it clear

only children will know my kingdom of God

what does it mean he's not talking about little
children he's saying only those who are childlike

innocent

can walk this path of faith

so

we have talked bhakti for thousands of
years in India

it won't work for you

are you capable of being a devotee?

that means it doesn't work

so when you say it depends

devotion is not possible

devotion is possible

only for a very childlike person

otherwise what's passing as devotion is
just deception

you're trying to make a deal

you remove my pen then I believe
in you

that's just a deal people who are trying to make
a deal can't be devotees

so

anyway you want to make a deal
fine I'll offer you a deal

you do this this this this this
this will happen to you

that's the property isn't it

if you were very simple

innocent people

nothing

you come and see

how we do programs in the rural areas

we just do this and people will just go boom like that

not like this two hundred people

an evening meeting means fifty thousand
hundred thousand people are there

if I just open them up they'll burst

they're different kind of people you're not there

you are made in such a way right now

if God came up here right now

you would not become a devotee

you would want to investigate and find
out wether he is really God or not

with this state of mind don't try to be a devotee
it's waste of time

devotion will not work

devotion will find expression only as
deception

devotion means the word devotion comes
from the word dissolution

I devotee has no other goal in his life

for him

he just wants to dissolve

into his object of devotion that's all

he has no agenda in his life

he just wants to merge

that's all his thing is only he can be a devotee

now

I will come and break a coconut give me a million
dollars this is not devotion this is a deal

a very stupid deal

what kind of idiot will make a deal like this

coconut towards a million dollars

the worst nut would not make that

I'll give you ten dollars

now I'll give you

you go and stand in any main street in atlanta
who ever comes

wave into their face and say i'll give you ten dollars

give me ten million please

people will slap you in the face and go

can you find one idiot in the whole of atlanta

who will make a deal like this with you?

but you think God is such an idiot

that he'll make a deal like this with you
ten dollars ten million deal

stop the tricks

you can't stop the tricks right now because
your intellect has reached a certain point you think

you have to play tricks

so I'm

dealing with you this way

I don't deal with everybody like this

if I go sit there in the village

I don't talk all this hair-splitting nonsence

there it is a different deal