For every individual his life is important. When his life is important, his wellbeing is also important. This is so for every individual, whoever he is. So people invest a lot of time on their wellbeing. You may find someone has invested a good 25 years to become an engineer, to earn a living. He has invested half his life to build his family, but how much time has he invested for his inner well-being?
Today, everyone is busy managing and fixing the outside situation. It doesn’t matter how much you fix them, you can never fix them one hundred percent. Nobody can. Affluent societies in the world are a living example for this. They fixed the outside sufficiently, but look at the people’s condition. For example in United States, the outside is sufficiently fixed but a significant percentage of the people are on anti-depressants, they have to take medication just to remain sane on a daily basis! That is not wellbeing.
Those of you, who are successful enough, at least in your material life, understand that unless you do the right thing, it will not work. Or do you still believe you can do idiotic things and tell a prayer and everything will be okay? No. You know if you have to be successful in the outside world you have to do the right things, otherwise it will not work, isn’t it? So what makes you think it is not true with the internal?
Unless you do the right thing it will not work there also. As there is a science and technology to create external wellbeing, there is a whole science and technology – the yogic science to create inner wellbeing through which you can become the master of your own destiny.
(Sadhguru is a yogi, mystic and visionary, and a prominent spiritual leader. An author, poet, and internationally-renowned speaker, Sadhguru’s wit and piercing logic provoke and widen our perception of life. isha.sadhguru.org)
