Questioner: Namaskaram, Sadhguru. I have been doing Chit Shakti meditation, and

sometimes, I find it difficult to visualize, but later on, things have really happened. Can you

throw some light on that?

Sadhguru: Chit Shakti meditation is not just visualization. In the yogic understanding, there

are 16 dimensions to the human mind. These 16 dimensions fall into four categories. These

four categories are known asbuddhi, manas, ahankara, and chitta. Buddhi is the intellect the

logical dimension of thought. Unfortunately, the modern education systems and modern

sciences have largely limited themselves to buddhi. That is abuddhu (foolish) way of

existence.

The Limitation of the Intellect

Buddhi or the intellect cannot function without a certain bank of memory or data.

Depending on the data you have, the intellect plays around. Suppose in your memory

system, there are 10 gigabytes of memory. Depending on how sharp your buddhi is, one

person can produce, lets say, a trillion thoughts with these 10 gigabytes. Someone else can

produce 10 trillion thoughts with the same 10 gigabytes of memory.

In the yogic understanding, there are 16 dimensions to the human mind.

If you can think a little better than someone else, it is considered as intelligence today. If

someone says one thing and you can say ten things to that, you may be socially smart, but

you are not any more intelligent. Unfortunately, in todays systems of education and

academics, everything is determined by this. If you can make more things out of it, you are

considered intelligent, which is not true you only have a sharper buddhi. The buddhi will

not take you beyond limits in any way, because it can only function based on the data that is

already there. It is not capable of accessing anything beyond that.

The Memory of Your Forefathers

The next dimension is called manas. Manas has many layers to it. But manas is not just the

brain it is right across the body. Every cell in the body has a phenomenal memory not

just of this life but of millions of years. Your body clearly remembers how your forefathers

were a million years ago. Top to bottom, there is manas this is called manomaya kosha. In

every cell in the body, there is memory and intelligence, but no intellect. Intellect is only in

the brain.

What is in the brain is intellect, not intelligence. Intelligence and memory are right across your body. But people have never been trained how to use this

intelligence.

In English language, everything comes under one banner called mind. The idea that

intelligence is only in the brain has produced human beings whose consciousness is

seriously constipated. What is in the brain is intellect, not intelligence. Intelligence and

memory are right across your body. But people have never been trained how to use this

intelligence. Instead, they use their intellect for everything. No wonder they are stressed out

whatever job you give them. The whole weight is on only one dimension of the mind out of

sixteen. It is like loading a sixteen-wheeler truck and trying to drive on only one wheel you

can imagine the stress! That is what todays world is going through.

People may be using other dimensions of the mind marginally, unconsciously, but they are

not trained to use them. They have only been trained to use their buddhi, or their intellect.

They are very smart. They know everything about everything, but they do not know how to

figure their own life. They do not even know how to sit here peacefully and at total ease

within themselves. If there is true intelligence, the first thing that you need to figure out is

how to make life happen. You know how to make the world happen, but you do not know

how to make your life happen. You do not know how to conduct your mind, your energies,

your emotions or your body.

If you ask people to become fit, they become tight. If you ask them to live in a more natural

way, they become fat. Where is the intelligence? There is only intellect. Intellect looks good

only in comparison. Suppose you are the only person on the planet, your intellect will not

mean anything. Only because there are a few idiots around you, you shine. By itself, intellect

will not be of any consequence.

The Sense of Identity

The intellect directly connects with the third dimension of your mind, called ahankara.

Ahankara is sometimes translated as ego, but it is much more than that. Ahankara gives you

a sense of identity. Once your ahankara takes on an identity, your intellect functions only in

that context. It is important to function beyond the intellect, because the intellect is

seriously enslaved to your identity.

There are other ways to know life beyond the identities we have taken on for our survival in the

world.

Our identities, such as belonging to a certain nation, community, or whatever else, are

necessary for our survival in a particular society. But you cannot think beyond this because

you are functioning only from your intellect, and the intellect takes its sustenance from

ahankara. Only along the axis of ahankara, the intellect can function. The intellect cannot

transcend this, because that is its nature. But there are other ways to know life beyond the

identities we have taken on for our survival in the world.

The Cosmic Intelligence

The fourth category of the mind is called chitta. Chitta is mind without memory pure

intelligence. This intelligence is like the cosmic intelligence simply there. Everything

happens because of that. It does not function out of memory it simply functions. In a way,

what you call cosmos is a living mind, not in the sense of intellect but in the sense of chitta.

Chitta is the last point of the mind. It connects to the basis of creation within you. It

connects you with your consciousness.

Chitta is always on whether you are awake or asleep. Your intellect comes on and goes off.

Many times it fails, even when you are awake. If chitta or the intelligence within you was not

always on, you could not stay alive. Try to conduct your breath with your intellect you will

go crazy. Chitta is keeping you alive, keeping you going, making life happen. If you touch

this dimension of your mind, which is the linking point to ones consciousness, you do not

even have to wish for anything, you do not have to dream of anything the best possible

thing that can happen to you will anyway happen.

The Divine Enslaved

When people touch this dimension of the mind, it is called ishwara pranidhana in yoga. This

means God becomes your slave he works for you. You know, yogis say, Shiva is my

servant. He does everything for me. In a way, otherwise, I would not be here. Once you

know how to consciously access your chitta, everything that is needed will simply happen in

the best possible way. If you go by your intellect or your buddhi, today you think this is it,

tomorrow morning you think that is it like this it goes on endlessly.

Chitta is the last point of the mind. It connects to the basis of creation within you. It connects you with your

consciousness.

Once you know how to consciously keep your chitta on, once the Divine is your servant,

when someone really efficient is working for you, you do not have to do anything. Simply sit;

the best things will happen things that you could not imagine. People always think if their

dreams come true, their life will be great. I think that is a very poor life, because you cannot

dream about anything that is not at all in your experience. My wish and my blessing for you

is things that you could not dream of, things that you never thought possible, must happen

to you. What you did not dream must happen to you that is why you should not dream.

Instead of seeing how to delve deeper into yourself, you go on projecting stupid ideas into

the world. People think that is a great thing to do. Last time when I was in the US, and

someone said to me, Sadhguru, how do you manifest all this? I said, I do not manifest

anything. I am just fooling around. I got a very efficient partner [Shiva]. I simply leave it to

him, and it happens.

Chit Shakti is about touching the dimension of your mind that is pure intelligence

unsullied by memory, unsullied by identification. It is beyond ahankara, beyond buddhi,

beyond judgment, beyond divisions simply there, just like the intelligence of existence

that makes everything happen. If you access this, you do not have to worry about what

happens or what does not happen. It will happen in a way that you never imagined possible.

Once you have access to your chitta, it is also a multi-pointed telescope. It makes you see things that no

one else can see in every direction.

Once you have access to your chitta, it is also a multi-pointed telescope. It makes you see

things that no one else can see in every direction. It is your crystal ball. It is a magnifying

glass that brings the very core of life close to you. For everyone else, it is far way. Everyone

thinks the Divine is somewhere up there. Where exactly, no one knows. All they know is, it

seems far away.

The moment you start looking at life through your chitta, where there is no memory, there is

no karmic substance and no division. Suddenly, the Divine is right there, bang on, in your face

all the time. You cannot miss it.

The idea of Chit Shakti is not to keep asking for things. The idea is that if the physical

arrangements of life happen easily, you can dedicate more time for your spiritual wellbeing.

It would be stupid if just because it happens easily, first you want to be a millionaire, then

you want to be a billionaire. The main intention is that your physical life happens more

easily, that it does not take your entire time to handle it, so that you will have time to close

your eyes and sit. Please make use of it for this purpose.