POSITIVE

Be just as you want to be. How do you want to be? That's all. It's as simple as that, but it's also remote, isn't it? It's as simple as that: after all you want to be happy, just be happy, who's stopping you? "No, no, they do that."

See now, you don't want them to do what they want but you want to do what you want. That's a problem. If you want to do what you want, you also have to be okay with everyone doing what they want. It's the only way, because freedom is a two-way street, isn't it? Yes ? Now, is anyone physically torturing you? If so, come on, we'll take you, because then you need to be protected.

No one physically tortures you, they just do what they want to do, they say what they want to say. Or they just say what they know, right? So who is causing the mess in you? Yourself. Because somewhere you believe that if you get angry, if you get unhappy, it could pay off, and it does pay off sometimes.

If there are other unhappy people around you who value your unhappiness, it pays off, doesn't it? Yes ? If you play miserable at home, you get a lot, if you're happy, maybe you get nothing, right? So you've learned the trick, but what you need to understand is that the trick is a double-edged sword.

If you're unhappy, whatever you get means nothing. If you are happy, you get nothing, so what? So it's not just your trick. Everyone around you has always used this trick and you thought this is the right thing to do. But what do you want? Do you want to be happy or unhappy? Participants: Happy.

So be just as you want to be. Does it harm anyone? Does it harm anyone? No. Now I want to smoke. If I do that, now it's going to upset someone a little bit. I just want to be happy. Does it impinge on anything from anyone? Is that the case, I ask you? Participants: No.

So be what you want to be, who's stopping you? You can't do everything you want to do, but you can be whatever you want to be, right? Yes ? Can anyone stop you? Others don't even have to know you're happy, if they like unhappy faces, give it to them.

If they like unhappy faces, give it to them, but you can still be happy, right? Now we're going to do an experiment, okay? There now, many faces look happy. I want you to maintain the same joy and look unhappy, do it now.

Do it now, let me see, don't smile at me, make me an unhappy face by being joyful in yourself. You have to practice. Please do. See, it will be necessary in your house. If you're still ha, ha, ha, ha, they're going to go crazy. Sometimes they wait for an unhappy face.

Hmm? "What's so spiritual about you? All that damn yoga, hee, hee, hee, hee and all that?" Where is the problem ? The action must be as the situation demands, haven't I insisted on this all the time? But, tell me, what comes first, your way of being first or the action first? What comes first? Participants: The way of being. Your way of being. So if you say, "I want to be joyful," establish that. Action, as the situation demands. Some love misfortune, some love to laugh, some love to cry, do it, I do it all. Please practice life in satsang, that's what you are here for.

"Encounter with the truth" you know? It should be here, not after you get home. What I'm telling you is, everything you do is actually a number, isn't it? Either you do it consciously or you do it compulsively. If you do it compulsively, you think it's real, but it's actually a number, isn't it? It's all simmering in your head, isn't it, everything you do? So it's a number anyway.

So do you want to do it consciously or do you want to do it compulsively, that's the only choice. So you do it compulsively and you think it's real: it's a stupid way to exist. It's a number anyway, at least do it consciously, then life will be good.

If you do it compulsively, it looks like a trap, it's not a trap. Life is not a trap, because the exit is always there, wide open. Yes or no ? Yes or no ? Participants: Yes. Life is not a trap, the exit is always open. Everyone tries to dodge the exit.

No ? So if the exit was closed, only then could you call it a trap, right? The exit is always wide open, one moment if you are not careful you will be dead. The exit is wide open. Your whole life is about somehow not getting to the exit, right? So it's not a trap.

It's just that, if you think your numbers are all real, then it looks like a trap. Whatever you think, feel and do is your number, isn't it? Yes or no ? When you don't realize it's your number, you think it's instructions from God, you're going to start hearing voices.

When you hear voices, it's very clear that you need treatment. So if you ask this one, this one wants to be as good as possible, right? Yes ? You want to experience the highest level of wellness, right? So who's stopping you? "No, but they do that." They do what they please. Be as you want to be, if you establish your way of being, then everything you do is only a matter of situation. Depending on the type of situation that exists, we act accordingly. "No, no, I want to do my own stuff." Your own stuff doesn't exist.

"No, I want to become a computer developer." It does not exist. As you were born today in India, you think of IT developer. Imagine you were born here 1000 years ago, you would think of going sea fishing, right? Yes or no ? Participants: Yes. Action is according to what the situation requires and allows, is it not? How to be, belongs to you.

If you have decided how to be, be like that, then act according to what is necessary. Video Title: Sadhguru on Life's Big Number: Play It Right Video Description: Sadhguru explains that we should act according to what the situation calls for, but whatever we do, we can remain joyful within ourselves. Life is not a trap: "Everything you do is actually a number" says Sadhguru. Either you do it consciously or you do it compulsively. If you do it compulsively, you think it's real. If you do it consciously, then it becomes beautiful.

Question on slide: When I meet people and try to be positive, negative emotions always seem to take over. I can't keep a positive, exuberant state of mind all the time. What can I do for this?