How Your Mind Can Make You Sick

For many people today, the human mind is increasingly seen as a source of torment rather
than wonder. You develop resentment, anger and hatred – poisons that you drink and you
expect someone else to die. Life does not work like that. If you drink poison, only you die,
not someone else.

Unfortunately, a miraculous instrument has been turned into a misery-manufacturing
machine. Your mind should work for this life. After all, your mind is your employee. If you
do not know how to handle the people who work for you, they will turn into your enemies.
If your mind is working against you, the first and foremost thing that you should do is take a
break from everything that you are doing. Your work, your family – everything – take a break
and go to an appropriate place. Do something about this human being! Fix this before you
enter the world because once you live in this world, either you must do something good to
yourself or you must do something good to people around you. Either you must be joyful.
Then whether you care about anyone else or not, it does not matter because at least you are
joyful. Or, you should be doing something nice for someone around you.

People always think they have something important to do. Especially if that is the case, you
must work upon yourself because in everything that you do, who you are will find
expression. Even if you have very good intentions, if you have poison in your head, with
good intentions you will inject poison into the world. More damage is happening to this
world with good intentions than with bad intentions.

For example, Adolf Hitler once said that everything he was doing was his duty to his
forefathers. The most dangerous thing is that he was not a liar, he believed that this was true.
This is what empowered the man so much.

Your good intentions are not going to save the world. How you are is what matters. How you
are will change only if you can breathe, walk, lie down, sit down and do everything joyfully.
Only when you are pleasant within yourself, you feel pleasant about everything around you.
Only when you feel pleasant about everything around you, you move around with a certain
sense and value to life around you. The first and basic responsibility for a human being is to
ensure that he or she is a joyful human being.

One thing we need to understand is, whatever may be happening with your life, there may be
many things going on, but you are better off than when you were born because you came with
nothing. Now you at least have something, so you are on the profit side. Look at the beauty of
life! Whatever may be happening in your life right now, you are still in profit, not loss. You
cannot complain!

Ranked amongst the fifty most influential people in India, Sadhguru is a yogi, mystic,
visionary and a New York Times bestselling author Sadhguru has been conferred the Padma
Vibhushan by the Government of India in 2017, the highest annual civilian award, accorded
for exceptional and distinguished service.