‘The best gadget you can get is…’

KOLLAM, INDIA: Of all hi-tech gadgets one possesses or aspires to, which is the best?

Human body. Yogic guru Jaggi Vasudev says so. “Every (electronic) gadget has come out of this.”

In an enlightening discourse on ‘Inner Engineering’ at the C-Change 2012 here on Saturday, Vasudev cast a spell of sensibility on audiences, a majority of them CIOs from across India.

“Technology is doing something the way it would work, otherwise it’s just junk. Philosophy means doing something, but it need not work… isn’t it time to examine what this gadget (body) is?” he posed a question.

A mobile company conducted a survey recently and came up with results that indicated that most people use only about 7 per cent of what a mobile is capable of. “It’s not the smartphones, but the dumbphones am talking about,” said Vasudev, adding that the human body is also not being explored to its fullest potential.

Though one can evolve in different ways, many are thinking about their limitations rather than talking about the possibilities of being human, he contended.

Touching upon his expertise, Yoga, he asked tongue-in-cheek, “Is it what Madonna does? Americans think that it was invented in California.”

It was all about searching within oneself, as one sees the whole world there, he suggested. “You have no clue about what existence is, what you have is only a perception of what it is. If the body is not functioning at its peak, then you are not doing something the right way.”

Vasudev also said that if success came to one by chance, that person would have the fear of losing and if with the knowledge of it, then the same individual could be happy.

As the human sense organs are outside-bound, one should look within and introspect. “What’s around you only stimulate what is within. If you can get stimulated from outside, you can also do it inside,” he explained.

Unfortunately, most people were setting impossible conditions on themselves, without a clear understanding of their selves. “Think life happens within you and not around,” Vasudev advised.

He also taught the CIOs a simple breathing exercise, by making them chant, “I am not the body,” while inhaling, and “I am not even the mind,” as they breathe out.

According to Vasudev, University of California found out that Shambavi Mahamudra Kriya practiced for 20 minutes a day over a span of three months resulted in neuron regeneration by about 241 per cent.

“So many talk about god and divinity because people haven’t realized the immense potential of their inner selves,” he concluded.