Gurdjieff: The Rascal Saint – Sadhguru Exclusive

Sadhguru tells the story of George Gurdjieff, a Master whose extreme ways often left his disciples in great turmoil within themselves.

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[TheSamuiman]

It is said that Ouspensky spent 40 days with Gurdijeff alone in a house, when they finally left the house and walked the streets of the city, Ouspensky stopped..and looked somewhat astonished.. Gurdijeff asked: "anything happened?" Ouspensky said: "I feel like everybody is sleepwalking"! Gurdijeff laughed and said: "Finally you realized!"

[oso]

This man saved my life with his gentle ways and teaching

[VeraBousiou]

Gurdjieff's intention wasn't to ruin people's wills but to energize them to find their true will, to not identify with their personas but to seek for their essence. The presentation in this video is quite simplistic yet I can detect Sadhguru's admiration although not so obvious. Gurdjieff's legacy is becoming relevant again since many people awaken to the fact that they have to transcend external appearances and occurrences and to connect with something much more powerful within themselves. Gurdjieff was a truly intelligent person and knower of deep things, something not stressed here but I think anyone meant to find the Fourth Way will find it anyways, with critical filter but also some kind of excitement.

[ICEcoldJT]

“Keep searching for colors when everything turns grey.” 🙏🏽

[OM-roek]

I read Gurdjief when I was a young adult, a book left behind by a famous English actor. Started as fascination, and then curiosity, and I got hooked up. Never read any other of his books but he left genuinely a deep impression in me, of how a person who is unattached to material life sees the world around him. Like a pole vaulter, you have to let go the knowledge you hold on to, and then only you go higher see the other side.
Amazing Sadhguru speak about him. Great.

[mikisaba]

I am Serbian Orthodox 41 years of age from Melbourne Australia bless you all I have seen a lot in my life thank you💓🙏🌟🌍💥🦅🐜🐝

[queenofqwerty]

Gurdjieff’s legacy is 3 extraordinary books and dozens of sacred dances as well as a repertoire od hauntingly beautiful sacred music compsed with de Hartmann. Seems a shame to dwell on sensationalized bits and pieces of his reputation whilst ignoring his vast contribution to sacred music, dance, and lierature.

[imranragimov]

i started my spiritual way with Gurjieff. The great mind of Caucasus mountains

[aditya]

I remember being suicidal everytime but just listening to him helped me realised how ignorant and dumb I was. 🙏🏼🙏🏼

[jackladd]

Can't wait for this. I studied Gurdjieff. Never thought anyone else was interested. Really looking forward to hearing your opinions sir. I too have mixed feelings about this man.

[martinluckybramah]

Keep Gurdjieff's good name out of your mouth, Sadhguru.

[GL-mtsh]

Blessed be the memory, teaching an heritage of the great master Gurjieff !

[SailingPachamama]

Gurdjieff Did not destroy the will of people but help them attain a real will of their own free from outside influences.

[irishelk]

I've been thinking about this for weeks now. I've read up on Gurdjieff for over five years now. I think, i might know why he acted like this. Gurdjieff said, '''Fairness?, decency?, how can you expect fairness or decency on a planet full of sleeping people?''. Maybe he acted in this way to make people, or at least to see their mechanical reactions, to see who would be decent, and not decent?, maybe a way to learn about people and dissect.

[harekrishnauncommonpastime]

The Discomfort zone is where spiritual progress is made 👌

[gurdjieffgroupoftoronto]

Ouspensky never travelled with Mr. Gurdjieff to America.

And according to Mr. Gurdjieff's teachings normal mechanical slumbering human beings lack three things. Internal unity, will, and the ability to 'do.' So he never took over anyone's will because they had no real will.

And the train trip with Ouspensky never took place. Rather, he behaved terribly on an overnight sleeper train from New York City to Chicago that he took with Fritz Peters. Fritz Peters first met Mr. Gurdjieff when he stayed at his institute in Paris as a 12-year-old boy and it is believed Mr. Gurdjieff behaved this way in order to stop Peters from putting him on a pedestal.

The real story...

20-YEAR-OLD FRITZ PETERS AND THE MYTHICAL TRAIN RIDE



“Mr. Gurdjieff did not manage to complete his urgent farewells until the train was actually moving and I had to push him through the door of the last car with his six or seven pieces of luggage. As soon as he was in the moving train, he began to complain in a loud voice about having been interrupted and demanded that a bed be prepared for him immediately. The conductor, with my help, explained to him that our berths were thirteen cars ahead and that we would have to walk to them —very quietly, as most of the other passengers had boarded the train early and were already asleep—through the entire train. Gurdjieff looked appalled, sat down on one of his suitcases, and lighted a cigarette. The conductor or porter told him that smoking was forbidden except in the men's room and he groaned loudly about this hardship, but did consent to put out his cigarette.



"It must have taken us—Gurdjieff, conductor, porter, and me—at least forty-five minutes to get to our assigned berths. Our progress — with all the luggage and with Gurdjieff's lamentations about the rude treatment he was receiving—was so noisy that we awakened almost everyone on the train. In every car, heads would appear through the curtains to hiss at us and curse us. I was furious with him, as well as exhausted, and greatly relieved when we found our berths. Then, to my horror, he decided that he had to eat, drink, and smoke, and began unpacking his bags in search of food and liquor. I was finally able to force him into the men's room. Once in there he settled down to eat and drink and to discourse in loud tones about the terrible service on American trains and the fact that he—a very important man—was being treated in this shoddy fashion.



"When we were finally threatened—in no uncertain terms— by both the conductor and the porter, with expulsion from the train at the next stop, I lost my temper completely and said that I would be glad to get off the train in order to get away from him. At this, he looked at me in wide-eyed innocence and wanted to know if I was angry with him— and, if so, why. I said that I was furious and that he was making a spectacle of both of us, so he put his food and drink away sadly and then, lighting another cigarette, said that he had never imagined that I, his only friend, would talk to him in this way, and quite literally, desert him. This attitude only increased my anger and I said that once we arrived in Chicago I hoped never to see him again. He then went to bed in his lower berth, still very sorrowful and still muttering about my unkindness and lack of loyalty, and I climbed into the upper berth hoping for some much-needed sleep. After about five minutes, punctuated by moans and groans from Gurdjieff as he tossed and turned in the lower berth, and by renewed hissing and cursing from the other passengers, he began to talk in a loud voice, complaining that he needed a drink of water, had to have a cigarette, and so forth. There were more threats from the porter and finally, at about four a.m., he settled down and did go to sleep.



"We were the last passengers to awaken the next morning and while he dressed and made several trips to the men's room in whatever state of undress he happened to be at the moment, we were stared at by a car full of hostile travelling companions who had, of course, identified us as the troublemakers of the night before. After about one hour, I managed to get him to the dining car, hoping for a peaceful breakfast, but once again my hopes were dashed. There was nothing on the menu that he could eat, and we had long, irritating conversations with the waiter and the head steward about the possibility of procuring yoghurt and similar—at that time—exotic foods, accompanied by vivid descriptions of his particular digestive process and its highly specialized needs. After several long discussions, he suddenly gave in and ate, without any visible discomfort but with a great many complaints, a large American breakfast.



"As the train did not arrive in Chicago until late that afternoon, I was not looking forward to spending the day in the Pullman car, but once again I hoped for the best. My fears, however, were well-grounded. I have never, in my life, spent such a day with anyone. He smoked incessantly, in spite of complaints from the passengers and threats from the porter; drank heavily, and produced, at intervals when we seemed momentarily threatened with peace, all kinds of foods, mostly different varieties of strong-smelling cheeses. Although he apologized profusely every time the other passengers complained about his behaviour, he also constantly found new ways to annoy, irritate and offend them— not to mention me.



"When we did actually arrive in Chicago it seemed to me nothing less than a miracle. Whatever my opinion of the "Chicago group", when I saw a large number of them on the platform waiting to greet him, I was delighted. I helped him off the train with all his luggage and told him that I was leaving then and there and that he need not expect to see me again. When he heard this, he raised such an outcry on the platform that, for the sake of peace, I consented to go with him and the group members to the apartment they had rented for him. Although I was already furious and outraged, the sight of the fawning disciples made me even more angry. They had prepared, with obvious effort, a "Gurdjiefftype" dinner and they did everything they could think to please him. To my further disgust, he began to praise each one of them individually, telling them what a ghastly trip he had had on the train, how horribly I had treated him, and how different it would have been had only some of them— loyal, devoted, respectful followers—been along to take care of him properly and with the respect that was due to him. I was then promptly assailed by the more ardent members of the group, and attacked for treating their leader with such disrespect, and so on.



"After about an hour of this, I reached some sort of breaking-point, and told him and the group I was leaving. Gurdjieff looked at me in amazement and said that he would not be able to stay in Chicago, all alone in such a large apartment, unless I was there with him; that I could not leave him alone under any circumstances. To the horror of the group, I told him that since he was now safely surrounded by a large bunch of the faithful, he could very safely dispense with my services and that I was sure he would find them able and willing to perform any of the services he might require. In the course of this outburst I described some of their possible services in a few of the well chosen four-letter words that he and I had worked over in New York—and the group members regarded me with disgust as well as with increased horror.



"I did not see him again in Chicago, in spite of several messages begging me to take him back to New York, and on my return to New York I carefully avoided him and the New York group until I knew that he had sailed back to France.”

~ Frtiz Peters "Boyhood With Gurdjieff"

[dzemjsudin]

In gurdjieff and ouspenskys books everything is cleary explained...people need to be massively shocked to be awakaned...it can only be done in perfect circumstances...only gurdjieff who was enlightened and awakened could menage those stress situation...he was the greatest mystic of the 20th century.

[illustra]

👍Various material shells, each filled with a cosmic spark... becoming aware of this and intending to make others aware to find their own wisdom of apprehension.

[jungj]

Watch the Peter Brooke movie "Meetings with the remarkable Men"
based on Gurdjieff 's book of same name. An extraordinary person and great philosopher

[miguelleonelgranadospeguer]

Gracias, Meetings with Remarkable Men, good movie about gurdjieff