Sadhguru corrects a common misconception that spirituality is about finding yourself. In fact, it’s
the other way around.
The word “seek” tends to create a wrong notion in people’s minds. When we say “seek”, that means we
are seeking to find. Seeking and finding are connected in language. But when it comes to spiritual
process, they are not connected. A seeker is not seeking to find anything – especially not anything
in particular. He does not know, so he is seeking. This is one fundamental correction that needs to
happen in most spiritual seekers.
The idea or notion that you have to find the purpose of your life, or the source or the goal of
your life has caused immense damage to spiritual seekers and set them up on an empty, endless run.
Ignorant people have constantly goaded spiritual seekers to somehow find themselves. Maybe to start
off on the path, you need a fruit to attract you because you only work with temptation – so
something needs to be set up. But spirituality is not about finding yourself, it is about losing
yourself. You are willing to lose everything that you call as “myself”.
If one can just sit and lose themselves into meditation, wonderful. If such a thing is not
possible, play a game or dance and lose yourself into that. If you cannot do that, lose yourself
into work. It doesn’t matter what, somehow learn to lose yourself.
If you try to find yourself, you will be on an endless run. A human being is constantly longing to
be something more than what he is right now. If he knows only money, he is thinking of a little
more money; if he knows power, a little more power; if he knows love, a little more love. There is
something within him which will not settle for who he is. In whatever way you know best, you are
trying to be a little more because there is something within you which does not like boundaries,
which is looking for a boundless experience. Just think about this: if you have to find the
boundless, when and how long and where do you think you will find it? It will be an endless run.
But you can lose yourself. That’s easy because you are a limited entity. If you completely lose
yourself, everything that needs to be found is found.