A Lesson From Guru Nanak - Sadhguru
Sadhguru
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xVbcVQApKig

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0:00 Sadhguru: Guru Nanak was traveling by foot, walking from village to village, offering his teachings to people.
0:09 A very compassionate and courageous man, both ways, and quite uhm… we like him because...
0:22 he is not one of those all-the-time smiling, gentle saints. He knows when to be hard, when to be soft – real thing!
0:35 [Laughter] So, one day he happened to be a guest in a home of a…
0:46 a very rich man in the area. So, when he was… he was a guest in this house for a few days.
0:56 When he was leaving, he gave this man a needle – a sewing needle. He gave this needle and said, “You keep this with you.
1:08 Some time when you see me, you can give it back to me. Till then, please keep it with you.”
1:13 A needle, not a golden one, just a simple needle. That man took it and kept it with him.
1:21 Then after the guru left he told his wife, “The guru gave me a needle,
1:29 and I'm supposed to keep it in safekeeping, and give it to him later.” The wife, who was a little wiser than him,
1:40 – usually they think they are – [Laughter] said,“You fool, why did you take a needle from a guru?
1:49 If you take something from a man like him, and suppose he is an old man, and if he dies,
1:56 and you don’t get to give back this needle, what will you do? You will be in debt forever! Taking a needle from a guru, why did you take it?
2:08 You should not receive anything from a man like him. What we offer is fine; never take anything from a man like him.
2:17 And if he dies and goes away, you can't carry this needle to heaven and give it there.
2:28 It is not possible to take the needle to heaven and return it there. So, you will be in debt for ever, and ever, and ever,
2:35 and you will not be able to wash off that one karma, and it may mean a thousand lifetimes! This is not a good thing.
2:44 Just, somehow, find him and return it to him immediately.” So, the man started trekking behind the guru – the guru walks fast.
2:55 But slowly, after a couple of months, the man caught up as to where he is, and then he said, “Oh, my guru, I don’t want to carry this needle with me,
3:06 because just in case, you are an old man, if you die... [Laughter] and I will be left in debt forever!
3:16 And I know I cannot carry this needle to heaven and return it to you there.” So, Guru Nanak said, “So you know that you can't carry this needle to heaven.
3:30 You know that, right?” He said, “Yes.” “Then when you know this, that you can't carry a needle,
3:36 what are all these things that you are accumulating? You will not be able to carry any of that. If you can't carry a needle,
3:43 definitely you can't carry anything else.” Then the man got the message. He fell at his feet, and...
3:52 he went back home, sold everything that he can sell, just kept what is needed for his family, for him and his family, and the rest…
4:04 Because the whole society was poverty-stricken, so he went about building whatever was needed
4:12 for the well-being of the people around. All these days people were living in poverty, he was going on accumulating.
4:22 The world is a limited space. This planet is a limited resource.
4:31 If each individual goes about accumulating endlessly, all that can happen is strife, all that can happen is pain.
4:39 Unless every individual somewhere fixes it within himself, “Okay, this is my deal; beyond this I will not go.
4:48 Rest of my capabilities, I will use it for everybody’s well-being.” If this does not come in a human being,
4:55 he is a disaster to himself, and to the world. The disaster on this planet is not earthquake,
5:06 not a volcano, not a tsunami, the true disaster is human ignorance.
5:13 This is the only disaster – ignorance is the only disaster. Enlightenment is the only solution, there is really no other solution, please see.
5:22 So, spiritual process, if it has to become alive, this is not about renunciation, this is just about living sensibly.
5:36 Wrong words have been put by external scholars. There is no such word as ‘renunciation’ in any of the Indian languages,
5:45 if you don't know this. Yes. There is no such word as ‘renunciation’ in Sanskrit language.
5:54 It is the outside scholars who come and say, “Oh, this man has renounced.” No, he has embraced the whole universe, and you think he has renounced.
6:04 That is your understanding, because you cannot think of life without possessing this, this, this – one part of the planet is mine, without that you cannot live.
6:14 Somebody has embraced the whole universe, so he did not think he has to gather it, because all the stars belong to him.
6:22 The whole galaxy belongs to him. He did not think it is necessary for him to gather something,
6:27 and keep it in his bag, or in his bank; it did not arise, it did not occur to him. This is not renunciation.
6:37 So, understanding life from an inner perspective, not from an objective sense, because objectively whatever you perceive is only good enough for survival.
6:50 You need a subjective perception of life.