visionary women is a volunteer-run
organization and i know that every
single person who is here is giving
their time to one organization or
another and the fact that you have nine
million volunteers and you were talking
about the relationship between
volunteerism and willingness
and that
it's through willingness that you uplift
your consciousness if i'm quoting you
correctly or i'm understanding it
in some ways talking about how it could
be a doorway to becoming a bigger person
and who you are
see
before we come to women
first thing is visionary
what a vision and vision means is
see everybody has desires
desire is an incremental way of
enhancing our life
today you desire i must have a home
tomorrow you desire i must have this
money tomorrow you desire something else
these are incremental ways of
arranging and rearranging our lives
which are needed to do a few things
when you say i'm a visionary what you're
saying is
i have a large desire
which is not about just incremental
improvement of my life
desire is about me always
vision is an all-in all-inclusive
process
so
this itself is a phenomenal thing if
people
instead of having desires if they have a
vision
vision is always all-inclusive
desire is personal
desire leads to incremental changes and
improvements
vision can transform the whole situation
i like music
so uh
about willingness
because you said you're a volunteer
organized to be a volunteer a volunteer
means somebody who is doing something
willingly right
there's no other compulsion
there are no financial compulsions there
are no social compulsions there is no
something else
you want to do something willingly
so when you're a willing participant
right now you're a volunteer i'm asking
all of you right now are you compelled
to be here or are you here voluntarily
oh thank you
because i've spoken to conscripted
people also i've spoken in the prisons
i've spoken in many places
so you're here willingly
you're doing something willingly
is the fundamental of your joy isn't it
so
hello
however simple or stupid or idiotic
activity it is i am doing something
willingly
makes a world of difference isn't it so
hello
the difference between
heaven and hell is just this
you're doing something willingly that's
your heaven
you're doing something unwillingly
that's your help
we have already taken on attitudes what
we like and what we don't like i like
this person i don't like this person
now with this person i will do things
willingly with this person i'll do
things running unwillingly this may be
two people two aspects of life two
communities two nations too many things
this i will do willingly this i do
unwillingly this means i've decided in
my mind this is good this is bad
when i hear even on national news
channels
good guys and bad guys it just
once you have this kind of thing
you are going to be disastrous to the
planet it's just a question of time
the moment you decide this is a good
person this is a bad person this has
gone deep into american society
no
there are no good people and bad people
everybody is oscillating between the two
if you create a very pleasant wonderful
atmosphere everybody behaves wonderfully
if you create an unpleasant atmosphere a
whole lot of people act nasty
yes or no
there are joyful people and miserable
people but there are no good people and
bad people
the the moment we think we are good
we are entitled to destroy the bad isn't
it
oh we've been destroying a lot of people
for a long time
time to stop that
because
human beings are in different levels of
experience and understanding
variety
of
people anybody who is not like you is
obviously bad isn't it
isn't it so
those who are not like me must be bad
people
because the basis of goodness
and what you think is goodness is
decided by you
now you have no business to do that
willing means this
i'm just willing
i'm 100 yes to life i am not yes to this
one no to this one no i am just yes and
yes to life
if you are a hundred percent yes to life
you are a volunteer
you have become a willing life
you have become so willing
that you have no will of your own
people ask me sadhguru how do you
operate with all these people all kinds
of horrible questions they're asking
they're doing this they're doing
that i said my life is not about them
it's about me
it's about how i am
it's about me
it doesn't matter how they are that's
their choice
but how i am is my choice this is my way
no matter what they do i'm like this
because i have not given that freedom to
anybody that somebody can freak me
somebody can make me angry somebody can
make me happy somebody can make me
unhappy these privileges i kept to
myself
it's time you do that too
because if somebody else can decide what
can happen within you right now isn't
this the ultimate slavery
isn't this someone else can decide what
should happen within you
what happens around you of course so
many people decide
what happens around us is not 100 hours
but what happens within me
must be my making isn't it
right now just about anybody can freak
anybody because they are not volunteers
they are unwilling
volunteering means you have no will of
your own you can do whatever is needed
you know we are a volunteer organization
this means all kinds of people
most of them are not qualified for the
jobs that they're doing
and i cannot fire them because they're
volunteers
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so people keep coming up to me on a
daily basis i said guru i can't work
with this person she's so horrible i
can't do it
i tell them see in this world
this is the sort of people who exist
like this like this like this like this
this is the kind of people there are
but if you
want to
work with ideal people
you must go to heaven
and today
today but
if you think
what you're doing is very significant
you must learn to work with all these
horrible people
this how the world is
if you think what you're doing is very
significant you learn to work with all
kinds of people you will see horrible
people will do wonderful things
yes
yes yes
but if you want to work with ideal
people
you won't find any i haven't found one
yet
all kinds of
mixed bags
but
if you are willing
that you are not yes and no yes to one
no to another
you're simply one big ass
you will find a way
thank you so much that i i always say
that it's good
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