Whatever needs to be done, I can fix it. That is the 100 percent potential. That does not sound as grand and poetic as, “I am the lion among the beasts. I am the Himalaya among the mountains. I am the Ganga among the rivers.” My interest in the existence is that it works. It looks so chaotic, so unwieldy, nobody knows the beginning and the end, but it still works.
If you are interested in that which works, you are naturally a mechanic. It is just a question of creating a conducive atmosphere, and that is challenging. If we create the atmosphere, I can make it work on any level of existence. This is all I have aspired for, and this is all there is.
So, what do you have to do? One thing is the foundation–the foundation of any building should be on the ground, but the Isha Foundation is sitting on my head all the time. I want to put it to the ground. If you are willing to be that ground and if it is off my head, a lot more things could be done. That is not all, but it is an important factor right now–I am trying to unload. Step by step, I am getting it off my head, but still it is happening too slowly because life does not stop for one moment.
This is a race to the grave. You may think that the physical body is going to many places. “I went to the Himalayas, I went to Florida…” but still, your body is going straight to the grave–nowhere else. The rest is your imagination. That is something that I am constantly aware of.
In a very codified way, not the knowledge but the keys to everything that is worth knowing are all in one place. If tomorrow, someone with the necessary awareness comes, it will not be lost. That was the intention of the Dhyanalinga–not just what I know, also what my Guru knew and what the whole tradition knew, everything is there, not in the form of knowledge, but in the form of keys. If someone is aware enough, they can pick it up and open whatever they want in the existence. It is a dvara, a doorway to the creation. You can use it to open just about anything. But right now, the 21st century is a talking century. If you don’t talk, nobody gets the point.
So, because this is a talking century–I hope it won’t be a talking millennium–we have to talk, but at the same time create an atmosphere where the needed talk happens as quickly as possible so that we don’t have to go on talking endlessly. If the talk has to be quick, it has to be brutal. If the talk has to be brutal and still people should not run away, you have to create the necessary atmosphere where people are so overwhelmed by your love, devotion and intensity that when they come here, I can go straight at them–no diplomacy–so that the talking period can be shortened. Otherwise, you will end up talking for the rest of your life and still people won’t get it. If you speak gently, the conversation will go on forever. One brutal word, it stops. To say a brutal word and not make them run away, to make them realise this brutality has a profoundness behind it, you need to create a certain atmosphere, otherwise the diplomacy that you should do, I will have to do, and my time is ticking away.
If people are created who are of a certain capability, people who are stable beyond mental moods and emotions, they will be the foundation–that means it is off my head. Then a lot more can be done. If we could find 100 percent expression with even a handful of people that would already be fantastic. We are not expecting to find 100 percent expression with the whole world. That is never going to happen. I am not so dreamy. But definitely, it is possible to create a handful of people with whom it could be 100 percent. If that cannot be done, we may be a success in the world, people may be clapping their hands, but if we cannot find full expression even with a handful of people, if we have to be careful with them, watching out for their egos, then as a spiritual movement, it is a disaster.
We need people who have the necessary integrity, balance, stability, and heart in them, that even if you let them out into the most corrupt situation, they will function successfully there and come out untouched.