Mystic Mantra: Awaken the Buddha within you

Once you begin to understand and realise the limitations of your existence, there will naturally be an urgency on the spiritual path. Only people who have glorified their limitations have no urgency. If you do not glorify your life, if you just look at it in its bare form, you will realise, “Okay. This is just a piece of flesh.” There is a different dimension to it, but right now you see it just as it is. If you simply do this, you will understand what kind of terrible limitations you are living in. The moment you realise this, there will be urgency. You cannot help it. Otherwise what is the urgency? An eternity lies ahead of us. But you do not have that kind of time. Existence has the time, but you do not.

Gautama the Buddha was a prince — he had everything that anybody would want in the world. He had a loving wife and an infant who was very dear to him. A sensitive man like him would definitely have had immense love for his wife and child. He was certainly not callous. But the moment he realised the limitations of his existence, there arose within him an urgency that did not even allow him the time to awaken his wife and convince her about his ideas. The prince left his palace like a thief, in the middle of the night. The moment you begin to see the limitations of your existance, the urge to go beyond the limits is natural because there is something inside you which cannot exist within these constraints.

Sadhguru Jaggi Vasudev, an internationally renowned spiritual leader, is a visionary, humanitarian, author, poet and speaker. He can be contacted at www.ishafoundation.org