"What is Astrology?" - Sadhguru

[Sadhguru] Whats astrology? The position of the planets deciding the course of your life, fundamentally.

See, every object has a certain influence on you.

Right now, there is a vessel here. This is modern science.

Every form has a vibration of its own.

The whole existence is a vibration as far as the science is concerned, isnt it? You know this?

So, this vessel is a certain kind of vibration.

Naturally, its animating a certain field around itself.

So, if I allow myself to be too much influenced by this vessel, slowly I will become like this dumb vessel.

Objects around you can influence you.

So, if this vessel can influence you, definitely the huge planets.

They must be exerting some kind of influence on you, but this influence is like this.

Suppose there is somebody who is mentally imbalanced, do you know on full moon nights

and new moon nights, they become more pronounced in their imbalance?

You are aware of this? Hmm? You are aware of this?

So, full moon nights and new moon nights, do you all go crazy?

Yes ma, you do? [laughs]

Even the ocean is going crazy on those nights, isnt it? Yes?

The ocean is going crazy on full moon nights and new moon nights, but do you go crazy?.

No. Many nights, probably you pass without even knowing its full moon or new moon, isnt it?

So, compared to that person who gets into an imbalance simply because of the position of the moon,

you are little more established, little more in balance

that the position of the moon does not influence the course of your life,

but for that person, the position of the moon for the sailor

and the psychologically imbalanced person, for both of both of them,

the course of their life is influenced by the position of the moon, isnt it?

But, you are not like that.

You are capable of being free from the moon, wherever it is, you can continue what youre doing.

Similarly, all the other planets also exert certain types of influences on this planet

and all the beings on this planet, but whether you want to be

whether you allow them to influence you or you dont allow them to influence you

simply depends on how well-established you are within yourself.

If you are truly well-established, these planets let them go wherever they want to go,

they will not decide the course of your life.

Planets means planets and stars means they are inanimate things. Isnt it so? Hmm?

Like mud and rock. Should inanimate things decide the course of your life?

Should inanimate things decide the destiny of human nature

or human nature should decide the destiny of inanimate things? Hmm?

Which way should it be?

[Audience] Human nature.

[Sadhguru] Human nature should decide the course of what happens to the inanimate, isnt it?

So, human nature should decide the course of what happens to the inanimate.

Inanimate should not decide what happens to me and you, isnt it?

But right now, stars and planets are deciding the course of many peoples lives

and life is a disaster because of that.

Now you want to get married, horoscope should match, isnt it?

Horoscopes are all well matched, but how to match these two idiots, tell me.

Nobody can match these two idiots unless they are willing to be responsible for their lives

and create something out of it.

No amount of horoscope matching is going to make the marriage, isnt it?

And first of all, you going and asking a third person, Will I live happily with my wife?

I think is obscene. [laughter]

Isnt it so?

Whatever kind of fool I marry, I will live well with this person.

This is how you should be, isnt it?

[Laughter]

They all got the point. [laughter]

Now, every step you want to take, you are looking at the stars and looking at the planets.

You are so interested in the other planets, that you are making a mess out of this planet.

It would be good if you look down at this planet and walk, what you are doing with every step that you take,

you would live more sensibly, more intelligently.

Looking up at the other planets and walking, you are completely messing up this planet.

We must send you there I think.

All those people who are looking up, we must send them export them to those places.

Let them go and live.

Those who are interested in this planet, what happens on this planet,

must look at this planet and decide what should happen on this planet, isnt it?

Other planets, we will leave it to them. They have a little bit of influence on you.

Yes, if you allow them to influence you, but if you

see, when you say I am seeking spirituality, what it means is I dont care what my stars are saying.

I dont care what my karma is saying.

I dont care what anybody has said. I am going to go where I want to go.

Thats what it means.

When you say I am seeking liberation,

it simply means I am going to break loose from every kind of bondage, every kind of influence thats there on me

everything that controls me.

I am going to go beyond that and become what I want to become. Isnt it so?

You say I am on the spiritual path and then you seek astrological help.

Its simply ridiculous. Its ridiculous for anybody whether its a physical or spiritual,

but especially when you say I am spiritual, it becomes all the more ridiculous

because the very fundamentals of spirituality means you are deciding the course of your destiny.

Now, I am talking about another kind of science, an inner science,

a yogic science through which you can decide the very course of your destiny.

To an extent where you even decide in which womb you will be born,

even now it is decided by you, but decided unconsciously.

What can be decided unconsciously can also be decided consciously, isnt it?

Please dont let those inanimate things influence your life.