Taking Charge of Prana | Sadhguru

Transcript

Sadhguru: The word ‘Prana,’ there is no equivalent word
in English but we can say it’s a vital energy. That which we call as the life energy is ‘Prana.’ Prana has ten different manifestations in
the body. But for the sake of understanding, we’ll
bring it down to five. These five are referred to as five ‘Vayus’
or ‘Pancha vayus.’ This is Prana vayu, Samana vayu, Udana vayu,
Apana and Vyana. They are in charge of different dimensions
of what happens in this human mechanism. This’s an endless subject if I speak like this. I’m I am just
trying to abridge it in a sensible manner (Laughs). Taking charge of this… ‘Yama’ means to control or to
take charge, ‘Pranayam’ means a method with which you want to take charge of these Pancha vayus. Sadhguru: Because how your body functions,
how your mind functions, how the whole physiological framework… this human mechanism, how it
functions, is determined by this energy. This is an energy… it is an intelligent energy,
in the sense, it carries a certain amount of memory. The karmic memory of the individual person
is imprinted on this energy. So, in each person the prana functions in
a different manner. It is unique to each individual. It is not like…
It is… like electricity. Electricity is not smart. It can light up the… ba… you know, the
light bulb, it can run the camera, it can… you know, run the air-conditioning, it can
do million things, but not because of its intelligence. It does the same thing always. Because of a
particular device, a certain thing happens. But now I am talking about – this will happen
in future – that you may have smart electricity, it is not far away. In the next fifty years, you may have
smart energy that the energy behaves in a particular way. You can make it behave in a certain way because
you can imprint certain memory upon it. Sadhguru: So, this is an intelligent energy, where
a certain amount of imprint is there. Because of that, it functions in a specific
manner in an individual person. That is going into an extremely refined form
of… pranayam, where we particularly design something for an individual person
because he is in a certain way. For that, to come to that level, it will need a general
developed pranayam, where it takes care of these five vayus. If one has a certain mastery over these five
vayus, there is no such thing as physical ailment or… Particularly, psychological ailment
is out of question. Sadhguru: If somebody takes charge of their
prana, whatever may be the external atmosphere, whatever influences in terms of reverberations,
waves, emotions, other kinds of pressures, doesn’t matter what – psychological balance
is one hundred percent guaranteed for a person, who takes charge of his prana, always. When I say balance, maybe most of you won’t
be medically considered imbalanced. But a whole lot of people are psychologically
imbalanced. Suppose you have a hand. Suppose this hand simply pops up right now (Gestures) (Laughter), it pokes into your eyes and it scratches you and beats you. If your hand starts
doing this, there is a sickness, isn't it? At least your hand is sick (Few laugh). Let…
Let me not blame the whole person, at least your hand is sick for sure, isn't it? Well, this
is what most people’s minds are doing. Every day, it scratches you from inside, makes
you cry, make you bawl, make you worry. In so many varieties of suffering, it pokes
your eyeballs out many times (Few laugh). Is it not doing? Participants: Yes
Sadhguru: It is sick. Maybe in a socially accepted manner, but it is sick. So one who takes charge of his prana can be one
hundred percent assured, his psychological balance is there, you cannot shake it. Physiological balance also is there but physiological
hap… ailments may happen due to various reasons. One thing is, there are infections and other,
you know, organisms, who want to live (Few laugh). Yes, they want to live (Few laugh). Another thing is, variety of chemicals and poisons and
stuff we may swallow, knowingly, unknowingly, and it and it can cause things. So physiological ailment is, I
would say, ninety percent guaranteed that it won’t happen. But psychological well-being is
one hundred percent guaranteed. If you’re psychologically in an extremely
good place, ten percent of physiological problems are not even a problem, you know. It’s not
even a problem. Most of the time, what little things that
may happen to the body, that’s not the thing. What reaction that happens in your mind is
the big thing, isn't it? Yes or no? Participants: Yes
Sadhguru: So, pranayam means you want to take charge of the vital forces. As I said, they have an
intelligence of their own, each one of them. Either during birth, after conception, how
they enter the newborn and how they leave the dead – in this, it clearly displays,
it has an intelligence of its own. One may not notice this unless they become
very conscious about these things. It's a world by itself, if you ask me. It takes
a certain level of attention. The word attention may not go deep enough. I am using the word attention because the
other words are horribly corrupted. Awareness and this and that are badly, badly
corrupted, so I am using the word attention. But the word attention is not
suggesting what is needed. Just mental alertness is not enough.
It has to become really attentive. If you make yourself like that, you know
how these five are functioning.