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Question:
I have noticed that you have emphasized
on inclusiveness. I am making an attempt to be as
inclusive as possible by breaking my own barriers,
but social upbringing has taught me that one should
be exclusive – exclusive clothes, watch, shoes, car,
home, designer stuff, etc. Not only that, I have to offer
exclusive products and services at work and make the
customers feel that they are getting exclusive products
and services. I have to offer exclusivity while feeling
inclusive about the customer. It appears to me to be
in contradiction with my ultimate objective of being
inclusive. So I am confused. Could you please help me
become clearer in my perception and understanding?
Sadhguru:
Inclusiveness does not mean you have
to go and hug everyone on the street. Yoga is about
enhancing the interiority of who you are. The outside
has to be conducted as it needs to be conducted.
When you are driving on the street and you see a
buffalo, if you go and give it a kiss and say, “Please
move away,” it’s not going to work. The buffalo is
behaving according to its nature. You are not behaving
according to your nature. This is not because of
inclusion, this is because of confusion.
Inclusion is not an idea or some kind of a concept.
It is how life is happening. It is the way existence
is. If you vouch by the commonness of the universe
as an intellectual idea, it actually causes damage
to the individual. People do all kinds of silly things
because they get this idea that everybody is one,
before somebody teaches them a good lesson and
then they see, “This is me, that is you. No way to be
one.” You will see, when things come down to even
money – it does not even have to boil down to life and
death – even for money, “This is me, that is you.” The
Exclusion in Inclusion
BY SADHGURU, ISHA FOUNDATION
boundary is clear. There is no question of you and me
being one.
Instead of being an intellectual idea, if inclusiveness
becomes an experiential reality, it will not bring forth
any immature action. It will bring forth a tremendous
experience of life. Physically, there are boundaries
and there have to be. There is something called “your
house” and “their house,” “my country” and “your
country.” Can we remove all these physical boundaries
right now? The world is not mature enough to do
such a thing yet. If such a thing happens, it would be
fantastic but we are far away from that – very, very
far. So we cannot remove the physical boundaries,
but a human being is capable of looking beyond his
physical boundaries. If you limit yourself to physical
boundaries, your whole life will be dedicated to self-
preservation and procreation and nothing else.
When we say spirituality, it means to take the
experience of your life beyond your physical process.
Once you take it beyond your physical process,
boundaries don’t mean anything. “This is me, that is
you,” “this is my house, this is your house” – these
are physical boundaries to maintain the physical
integrity of things. These are not the essence of being
human. The whole process of spirituality is to raise
one beyond his physical and individual limitations
and make him an all-inclusive human being. At the
same time it hugely equips the individual to be more
efficient, more capable, more balanced and in turn
more productive. This is good for business. This is
good for the world.
H
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Sadhguru is a yogi, mystic and visionary. An author, poet, and internationally-
renowned speaker, Sadhguru’s wit and piercing logic provoke and widen our
perception of life. To know more, visit isha.sadhguru.org
