Most Replayed Moment: Sadhguru on Why You Don’t Need a Life Purpose!

**Steven Bartlett** (0:03)
That sense of purpose you have, the most popular question that young people ask me is about passion and purpose. They've been indoctrinated by society to think that they have this one purpose, and their big issue is they can't seem to find it. So like an Easter egg, they're going in a hunt of what's my purpose, how do I know once I've reached my purpose? The people that are working now in jobs, listening to this on their way on the tube to work, what is this subject of purpose and passion? What do I commit my life to? How do we go about answering that?

**Sadhguru** (0:34)
See, if you get absolutely committed to your purpose, you will be called a fanatic. If you're willing to do whatever it takes to achieve that, you will be called a terrorist.
So there is no purpose to life. If you are not a vested interest, and you can be not a vested interest, only when you're joyful by your own nature, that how you are is determined by you. So, this is the fundamental you have to set, that your experience of life is determined by you. When I say experience of life, people are always thinking experiences happen because of external stimuli. No. If you dream of a tiger, you can experience fear, isn't it? You can… you can dream of somebody beautiful and experience love, yes or no? So, I'm saying all experiences cause from within you. Human experience happens from within you, never from outside of you. There may be a stimuli. Now, this stimuli means just like this. You know, you're too young to know these things. There used to be wax hall cars in this country. They always used to bucket in a slope like this, because morning, you need two people to push that car in the morning, in fifties and sixties, I'm saying. Later on, they had crank start. You need one person to do that. Otherwise, you can't get your car started. Today, all cars are self-start. I'm asking you, your peace, your joy, your love, your blissfulness, would you want to keep it on self-start or push start?

**Steven Bartlett** (2:19)
Self-start, I wouldn't want it to rely on anyone else.

**Sadhguru** (2:21)
This is the question you're asking repeatedly. You want push start. Don't be on push start. Inner experiences are always on self-start. Outside world will never happen hundred percent our way. Little bit your way, little bit my way, little bit somebody else's way. And that's how it should be. Because if everything happened your way, where the hell do I go? It doesn't happen your way or my way. It's fine.
It is only fine if you're joyful by your own nature. But if your happiness depends on what happens on the outside, then you being happy is a remote possibility.

**Steven Bartlett** (3:00)
I want to be happy on my own nature. I hear what you've said. However, I'm going to walk out of this room and I don't know, something's going to annoy me. Maybe my words are even wrong, but then I'll immediately snap back into the sort of unconscious, I don't know, dismay or despair.
How does one go about like the first step in becoming happy by our own nature?

**Sadhguru** (3:27)
Do you think your life is worthwhile? Your life is worth investing about thirty-two hours of focused time upon it, your life? Yes, if you think so, you should do that. This is what the process that I've called it as inner engineering. Thirty-two hours of focused time. Book is just a large brochure, you know, because there is a practice involved. When I say a practice, a simple practice, which only twenty-one minutes of practice, to teach this twenty-one minute practice, we take thirty-two hours of orientation, because without that, it won't happen. You need to understand how the mechanism of your own thoughts, why are they hitting… see, if your hand is punching you in the face, why is it doing that? You need to understand. Otherwise, just holding it down is not the answer. This is the most sophisticated machine on the planet. Have you read the user's manual?

**Steven Bartlett** (4:24)
The user's manual for my body?

**Sadhguru** (4:26)
For yourself as a life.

**Steven Bartlett** (4:29)
No, I didn't know there was one.

**Sadhguru** (4:31)
So, when do you want to do it? Towards the end of the life is when people think they should do it. It's like you got yourself your iPad. Should you read the user's manual in the first three days or after three years when you're getting rid of the machine?

**Steven Bartlett** (4:44)
When I first get it?