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How to be peaceful and happy? | Sadhguru in Conversation with Anupam Kher | #9

Synopsis: Good evening all of you. Guruji, I would like to know, you know, man is always craving for more and more. And not happy with all he gets. Of course, you just explained how happiness is an internal state of being. What would you tell the normal people as to how to get peace and happiness in their lives?

Synopsis: Good evening all of you. Guruji, I would like to know, you know, man...

... is always craving for more and more. And not happy with all he gets. Of course, you just explained how happiness is an internal state of being. What would you tell the normal people as to how to get peace and happiness in their lives?

May 7, 2021

6:15

Mental Health / Video / Yoga & Meditation

How to become ecstatic? | Sadhguru in Conversation with Anupam Kher | #8

Synopsis: At the Isha Yoga Center in Coimbatore, near the samadhi of your wife is a photograph which sent shivers down my spine. The feelings are of sheer ecstasy in my interpretation. How does one achieve that level of ecstasy in life?

Synopsis: At the Isha Yoga Center in Coimbatore, near the samadhi of your wife...

... is a photograph which sent shivers down my spine. The feelings are of sheer ecstasy in my interpretation. How does one achieve that level of ecstasy in life?

May 7, 2021

6:43

Mental Health / Society / Video

Is technology bringing discontentment? | Sadhguru in Conversation with Kiran Mazumdar Shaw | #8

Synopsis: You talked about technology and we know that technology, of course, also raises aspirations. And I remember, we grew up at a time when we didn’t have phones, we didn't have televisions. We were very content with small things. We drove around in an ambassador car, we were lucky if we had a landline. And if we aspired for a telephone and we got a landline after three...

... years, we were very happy and content. If we got a premium padmini after the ambassador, we were very content. But today things are so different. It’s a great transformation that we’re seeing in our country. You know, you can choose any model you want of cars, smartphones. And yet, we see that technology and aspirations are almost proportionate to discontentment. Do you feel it is true?

Synopsis: You talked about technology and we know that technology, of course, also...

... raises aspirations. And I remember, we grew up at a time when we didn’t have phones, we didn't have televisions. We were very content with small things. We drove around in an ambassador car, we were lucky if we had a landline. And if we aspired for a telephone and we got a landline after three years, we were very happy and content. If we got a premium padmini after the ambassador, we were very content. But today things are so different. It’s a great transformation that we’re seeing in our country. You know, you can choose any model you want of cars, smartphones. And yet, we see that technology and aspirations are almost proportionate to discontentment. Do you feel it is true?

May 6, 2021

6:03

Life Wisdom / Video

How to not get attached? | Sadhguru in Conversation with Karan Johar | #20

Synopsis: So my question is, I get very attached easily. And now I feel I’m very attached to my responsibilities. So how do I break this bondage? And if I really want to do something for myself, not for anybody, just feel the joy that I’ve been listening to you. If I want to really, really feel that joy, how do I break the bondage of responsibilities and move ahead? And how...

... do I overcome my attachments?

Synopsis: So my question is, I get very attached easily. And now I feel I’m very...

... attached to my responsibilities. So how do I break this bondage? And if I really want to do something for myself, not for anybody, just feel the joy that I’ve been listening to you. If I want to really, really feel that joy, how do I break the bondage of responsibilities and move ahead? And how do I overcome my attachments?

April 25, 2021

3:51

Be Inspired / Video

Working for joy or working for others? | Sadhguru in Conversation with Karan Johar | #16

Synopsis: My question is that when we cook, if we have to get joy, joy of cooking, then that joy is something which is internal. And I cook for my joy. But when you’re cooking for others, then you want to give them joy. And at times there’s a conflict. Who should win?

Synopsis: My question is that when we cook, if we have to get joy, joy of cooking,...

... then that joy is something which is internal. And I cook for my joy. But when you’re cooking for others, then you want to give them joy. And at times there’s a conflict. Who should win?

April 25, 2021

5:37

Be Inspired / Health & Wellbeing / Video

Are Isha volunteers driven by clarity? | Sadhguru at Yale School of Medicine | #11

Synopsis: My question is that you mentioned before that just the belief without clarity is not a good thing. And I’m absolutely impressed by the amount of volunteers, like millions of volunteers. I cannot even imagine how many people come to learn and volunteer. It’s a lot. Do you think they are all driven by clarity? And the search for clarity? Or they believe that once they...

... will do inner engineering, they will work around the process of gaining joy. And eventually they will have a positive aura as yours. The positive storage as you mentioned before.

Synopsis: My question is that you mentioned before that just the belief without...

... clarity is not a good thing. And I’m absolutely impressed by the amount of volunteers, like millions of volunteers. I cannot even imagine how many people come to learn and volunteer. It’s a lot. Do you think they are all driven by clarity? And the search for clarity? Or they believe that once they will do inner engineering, they will work around the process of gaining joy. And eventually they will have a positive aura as yours. The positive storage as you mentioned before.

April 19, 2021

5:07

Be Inspired / Lifestyle / Video

Step 1 for everyone to start feeling that life is beautiful | Sadhguru in Conversation with Rakul Preet Singh | #6

Synopsis: Whenever I’m talking to you, or listening to your speeches, or following you. It feels like life is really simple, you know. And it’s beautiful, it’s full of love everywhere. We are love, things around us have life. But, how difficult is it for people to understand that life is simple? And why do you think the smallest of the things have been complicated by the...

... human race so much? Be it relationships, be it marriages, be it love, be it work. There’s just so many superficial things overcoating it. And people are just missing out on small joys of life. And they just don’t live life the way it’s supposed to be. What is it that you would say, would be step 1 for everyone to start at least looking into that direction of feeling that life is beautiful?

Synopsis: Whenever I’m talking to you, or listening to your speeches, or following...

... you. It feels like life is really simple, you know. And it’s beautiful, it’s full of love everywhere. We are love, things around us have life. But, how difficult is it for people to understand that life is simple? And why do you think the smallest of the things have been complicated by the human race so much? Be it relationships, be it marriages, be it love, be it work. There’s just so many superficial things overcoating it. And people are just missing out on small joys of life. And they just don’t live life the way it’s supposed to be. What is it that you would say, would be step 1 for everyone to start at least looking into that direction of feeling that life is beautiful?

April 14, 2021

9:49

Be Inspired / Lifestyle / Video

How to live consciously? | Sadhguru in Conversation with Juhi Chawla | #8

Synopsis: So, for all of us, give us in clear, simple sentences, do this, and you will be at least on the way to be blissful or happy or aware or living in a nice, conscious way.

Synopsis: So, for all of us, give us in clear, simple sentences, do this, and you...

... will be at least on the way to be blissful or happy or aware or living in a nice, conscious way.

April 14, 2021

7:39

Lifestyle / Mental Health / Video

Is being ecstatic the best way of being? | Sadhguru in Conversation with Ranveer Singh | #9

Synopsis: So then if peace is the basic requirement, what’s a better way of being? Ecstasy, ecstatic?

Synopsis: So then if peace is the basic requirement, what’s a better way of being?...

... Ecstasy, ecstatic?

January 6, 2021

5:32

Be Inspired / Mental Health / Society / Video

Entertaining the people around you | Sadhguru in Conversation with Ranveer Singh | #7

Synopsis: I feel a compulsion to entertain people. Does that make any sense to you?

Synopsis: I feel a compulsion to entertain people. Does that make any sense to...

... you?

January 6, 2021

5:22

Be Inspired / Video

How to live life at its fullest? | Sadhguru at University of Michigan | #8

Synopsis: The question has to be asked. That, okay, I don’t have to have passion at this moment, or any ambition. I just want to live my life at its fullest. Full on happiness, joyful, and I just want to live at the fullest of my potential. How can I do it? What’s the step for it?

Synopsis: The question has to be asked. That, okay, I don’t have to have passion...

... at this moment, or any ambition. I just want to live my life at its fullest. Full on happiness, joyful, and I just want to live at the fullest of my potential. How can I do it? What’s the step for it?

January 4, 2021

3:24

Be Inspired / Video

Try this – A simple way to be always joyful and exuberant!

Transcript: The simplest and the most fundamental thing that you can do in your life is, that you're life always. You don't have to be in any particular way, you just have to be alive. Everything else, including the body and the mind, are accessories to life. Accessories are added to life to facilitate certain things, not to overshadow life. We add accessories to facilitate, to add on and enhance. Not to overshadow...

... completely, not to occupy life but to enhance life. If you know this, and know this every moment of your life, that everything that you possess including your body and your mind are accessories. They're here only to enhance this life, not to overshadow this life. Oh let me see how you get depressed. You must get spot on with life, this is all you have to do. What is you and what is not you must be distinction. So whatever is not you, when you hold it you must hold it in a certain way. Of course, depending on the nature of what it is. If it's a flower, we hold it one way. If it's a vessel, we hold it another way. If it's a pen, we hold it another way. Can you employ the same grip on everything? It's different depending upon the nature of what it is. But every kind of grip that you use, if you notice how you hold anything for that matter, there is always this dimension that you can loosen the grip and let it be. Suppose you hold something and you cannot loosen the grip. Okay, you are heading for the stuff. So just look at these things, how many things in your life are such that you held it and now you can't loosen the grip? But this, a simple thing is like this, tomorrow morning you're going to die. I'm very generous, I'm giving you 24 hours. Yes? The nature of life is such, it never guarantees 24 hours for you, but I am giving you 24 hours. Tomorrow morning you're going to die. Do what you want, you're going to loosen the grip on everything, isn't it? Do whatever you want, whichever way you want to loosen the grip on anything. Have you seen in the Hindi movies? No? Have you not seen the movies? Loosen the grip, it's gone. Loosen the grip on your body, loosen the grip on your mind, your thought, your emotions. Just loosen the grip a little bit. When you're alive, if you loosen the grip you will become exuberant.

Transcript: The simplest and the most fundamental thing that you can do in your life is, that you're life always....

... You don't have to be in any particular way, you just have to be alive. Everything else, including the body and the mind, are accessories to life. Accessories are added to life to facilitate certain things, not to overshadow life. We add accessories to facilitate, to add on and enhance. Not to overshadow completely, not to occupy life but to enhance life. If you know this, and know this every moment of your life, that everything that you possess including your body and your mind are accessories. They're here only to enhance this life, not to overshadow this life. Oh let me see how you get depressed. You must get spot on with life, this is all you have to do. What is you and what is not you must be distinction. So whatever is not you, when you hold it you must hold it in a certain way. Of course, depending on the nature of what it is. If it's a flower, we hold it one way. If it's a vessel, we hold it another way. If it's a pen, we hold it another way. Can you employ the same grip on everything? It's different depending upon the nature of what it is. But every kind of grip that you use, if you notice how you hold anything for that matter, there is always this dimension that you can loosen the grip and let it be. Suppose you hold something and you cannot loosen the grip. Okay, you are heading for the stuff. So just look at these things, how many things in your life are such that you held it and now you can't loosen the grip? But this, a simple thing is like this, tomorrow morning you're going to die. I'm very generous, I'm giving you 24 hours. Yes? The nature of life is such, it never guarantees 24 hours for you, but I am giving you 24 hours. Tomorrow morning you're going to die. Do what you want, you're going to loosen the grip on everything, isn't it? Do whatever you want, whichever way you want to loosen the grip on anything. Have you seen in the Hindi movies? No? Have you not seen the movies? Loosen the grip, it's gone. Loosen the grip on your body, loosen the grip on your mind, your thought, your emotions. Just loosen the grip a little bit. When you're alive, if you loosen the grip you will become exuberant.

December 30, 2020

3:58

Be Inspired / Video

How to change the current system to end my suffering?

Transcript: See we are always thinking of changing the system. I'm not saying it should not, it should. But, within the existing systems we can do many things. Depending upon the individual teachers and the individual educators, how they operate. Because when you try to change the system in your own time, when you want to change the system, you must understand any system, even within the family if you want to...

... change a system, it will take many years. It's not going to change overnight. Sometimes a generation has to pass for it to change. To walk into your house with your shoes on, one generation has to pass. Isn't it? So, instead of thinking how to change the system, yes we must have the vision of changing the system, but within the system how to do the maximum delivery is something that all of us should always look at. Otherwise, we are always talking about future generations without addressing the current generations. It'll never work that way. It'll only be a dream. We have to make the difference in the current generation, only then, if you take a small step now, the next generation will take a bigger step. But without taking this step, we are dreaming of a big step, it will not happen. It will be just an idea which will not work. So, as an educator, you mentioned the word meditation. We must understand this, what meditation means. The word meditation, the English word meditation doesn't mean anything. If somebody sits with their eyes closed, people think they are meditating. But you can sit with your eyes closed for many reasons. Unable to bear the world, you can close your eyes. Yes? You may be, in yoga there are many things, you may be doing japa, thapa, dharna, dhyana, samadhi, shoonya, samyama, we don't know what you're doing. So, there is the word meditation is not specific. It is too general and it's not saying anything in particular. Let us say, if we are thinking to allign the word meditation with what we refer to as dhyan. Or dhyana, or dhyanam as you go South. Because Hindi speaking people, you have a way of clipping away the words in the end. We say Rama, you say Ram. We say dhyanam, you say dhyan. You're cutting off everything in the end, that's your option. But, if you are thinking it is dhyan, or dhyana, or whatever. What this means is, if you sit here, if you sit here, if you have a distinct experience that your body is here, your mind is somewhere else, what is you is elsewhere. Or in other words, there is a little space between what is you and what is your body. What is you and what is the content of your mind. Suppose this little space was achieved within you right now, would all these young boys be complaining about stress? Once there is a little distance, that's the end of suffering. If you create a little space between you and your body, between you and your mind, this is the end of suffering. Because there are only two kinds of sufferings in your life, physical suffering, mental suffering. Do you know any other kind of suffering? Only two sufferings. If you distance yourself a little bit, that's all.

Transcript: See we are always thinking of changing the system. I'm not saying it should not, it should. But, within...

... the existing systems we can do many things. Depending upon the individual teachers and the individual educators, how they operate. Because when you try to change the system in your own time, when you want to change the system, you must understand any system, even within the family if you want to change a system, it will take many years. It's not going to change overnight. Sometimes a generation has to pass for it to change. To walk into your house with your shoes on, one generation has to pass. Isn't it? So, instead of thinking how to change the system, yes we must have the vision of changing the system, but within the system how to do the maximum delivery is something that all of us should always look at. Otherwise, we are always talking about future generations without addressing the current generations. It'll never work that way. It'll only be a dream. We have to make the difference in the current generation, only then, if you take a small step now, the next generation will take a bigger step. But without taking this step, we are dreaming of a big step, it will not happen. It will be just an idea which will not work. So, as an educator, you mentioned the word meditation. We must understand this, what meditation means. The word meditation, the English word meditation doesn't mean anything. If somebody sits with their eyes closed, people think they are meditating. But you can sit with your eyes closed for many reasons. Unable to bear the world, you can close your eyes. Yes? You may be, in yoga there are many things, you may be doing japa, thapa, dharna, dhyana, samadhi, shoonya, samyama, we don't know what you're doing. So, there is the word meditation is not specific. It is too general and it's not saying anything in particular. Let us say, if we are thinking to allign the word meditation with what we refer to as dhyan. Or dhyana, or dhyanam as you go South. Because Hindi speaking people, you have a way of clipping away the words in the end. We say Rama, you say Ram. We say dhyanam, you say dhyan. You're cutting off everything in the end, that's your option. But, if you are thinking it is dhyan, or dhyana, or whatever. What this means is, if you sit here, if you sit here, if you have a distinct experience that your body is here, your mind is somewhere else, what is you is elsewhere. Or in other words, there is a little space between what is you and what is your body. What is you and what is the content of your mind. Suppose this little space was achieved within you right now, would all these young boys be complaining about stress? Once there is a little distance, that's the end of suffering. If you create a little space between you and your body, between you and your mind, this is the end of suffering. Because there are only two kinds of sufferings in your life, physical suffering, mental suffering. Do you know any other kind of suffering? Only two sufferings. If you distance yourself a little bit, that's all.

December 22, 2020

3:59

Be Inspired / Video

Should I control my excitement?

Transcript: I wanted to know basically, how to control excitement? If you could give me an easy or simple way, which I can follow. We can, we can do that if we just have you shot. After that you'll be cold and unexciting. Why do you want to control excitement? I want you to be in a state of excitement all the time. Your problem is, because see, people have been telling you this, if you're too happy, sadness will...

... follow. Do you understand? They've been saying this traditionally. So you're laughing too much, so tomorrow you will cry. This observation has come because you are not functioning from your awareness. You're cyclical in your nature. If you become too much laughing today, tomorrow you will cry because it keeps happening for people. For many people, it's true. For a lot of people it is true. It is from that context, you are saying, don't want excitement because excitement leads to trouble, isn't it? If you can be blissful and always in a state of excitement, is it not nice? I'm always excited about everything. There's nothing that doesn't excite me. That's why I'm asking question to you, Swami ji. So I'm saying, why do you want to kill the excitement? No, you must bring the necessary balance, that excitement doesn't lead to disaster, isn't it? Excitement means life is happening more intensely, isn't it? Always it must be happening at maximum intensity. But now you should create the necessary balance, so that your excitement doesn't lead to disastrous situations within you. So ask for the right thing, you need the necessary balance. Not to kill life. Because if you live life, something may happen. If you live life, something may happen, so the best thing is to fall dead. That's the logic you're going, right now. Is it the answer? No. If you live life, injury may happen, tragedy may happen, so best thing is fall dead right now, so that nothing happens to you. That's definitely 100% insurance, but that's not the way, isn't it? You want to be alive, exuberantly alive, and still maintain the balance. You're half alive and you're peaceful, it doesn't mean anything. You're exuberantly alive and still you're peaceful, this is beautiful. This is fantastic. Or you're exuberant, and once in a while you lose your balance, that's still okay with me. But you're dead and peaceful, it doesn't mean anything to me nor does it mean anything to life, isn't it?

Transcript: I wanted to know basically, how to control excitement? If you could give me an easy or simple way, which...

... I can follow. We can, we can do that if we just have you shot. After that you'll be cold and unexciting. Why do you want to control excitement? I want you to be in a state of excitement all the time. Your problem is, because see, people have been telling you this, if you're too happy, sadness will follow. Do you understand? They've been saying this traditionally. So you're laughing too much, so tomorrow you will cry. This observation has come because you are not functioning from your awareness. You're cyclical in your nature. If you become too much laughing today, tomorrow you will cry because it keeps happening for people. For many people, it's true. For a lot of people it is true. It is from that context, you are saying, don't want excitement because excitement leads to trouble, isn't it? If you can be blissful and always in a state of excitement, is it not nice? I'm always excited about everything. There's nothing that doesn't excite me. That's why I'm asking question to you, Swami ji. So I'm saying, why do you want to kill the excitement? No, you must bring the necessary balance, that excitement doesn't lead to disaster, isn't it? Excitement means life is happening more intensely, isn't it? Always it must be happening at maximum intensity. But now you should create the necessary balance, so that your excitement doesn't lead to disastrous situations within you. So ask for the right thing, you need the necessary balance. Not to kill life. Because if you live life, something may happen. If you live life, something may happen, so the best thing is to fall dead. That's the logic you're going, right now. Is it the answer? No. If you live life, injury may happen, tragedy may happen, so best thing is fall dead right now, so that nothing happens to you. That's definitely 100% insurance, but that's not the way, isn't it? You want to be alive, exuberantly alive, and still maintain the balance. You're half alive and you're peaceful, it doesn't mean anything. You're exuberantly alive and still you're peaceful, this is beautiful. This is fantastic. Or you're exuberant, and once in a while you lose your balance, that's still okay with me. But you're dead and peaceful, it doesn't mean anything to me nor does it mean anything to life, isn't it?

November 16, 2020

3:46

Be Inspired / Video

How can I become truly happy – Kagiso Rabada

Transcript: Hey Sadhguru. My question is, so many times in society you are often told what should make you happy and in a way we are followers. I wanted to find out your opinion on what should make a person essentially happy. So what is it or what does it mean to be truly happy? Namaskaram Kagi. I was just telling them this is mango season in India and maybe in some parts of Africa also. Now when we go near a...

... mango tree, this is a time when all the young boys and girls are looking. Parrots are also here, they're all looking up for the mangoes. This is the direction we're looking because that's where sweetness is. Suppose you go under the mango tree and start digging, is there any chance of you ever eating a mango I'm asking? Is it possible? So what we need to understand is human experience is caused from within us. No matter what. Joy or misery, agony or ecstasy, pain or pleasure is caused from within us. But, we are trying to fix the world so that we are happy. Nothing in the world will ever happen 100% your way. This one person must happen your way, 100%. If this one happened 100% your way, would you keep yourself blissful or miserable? That's all the question is. I know what's your choice. You're asking this question because as you said, people say this will make you happy, that will make you happy, fix this, fix that, fix that, fix everything. Still it will not happen because you are trying to dig mangoes from the roots, that's not where it comes, it comes up there. So what is within you, if you search for it outside, it's going to be an endless search. This is why we are talking about Inner Engineering. you fix this one. Being joyful is assured. Rest of the life, we have to do to the best of our ability. No two human beings can do outside life to the same extent. It's never possible. No two human beings can ever do it the same way, when it comes to the world. But, if you are joyful you will do your best and that's all that matters. In this life, are you're doing your best in every possible way? You can only do that if you're happy and joyful by your own nature.

Transcript: Hey Sadhguru. My question is, so many times in society you are often told what should make you happy...

... and in a way we are followers. I wanted to find out your opinion on what should make a person essentially happy. So what is it or what does it mean to be truly happy? Namaskaram Kagi. I was just telling them this is mango season in India and maybe in some parts of Africa also. Now when we go near a mango tree, this is a time when all the young boys and girls are looking. Parrots are also here, they're all looking up for the mangoes. This is the direction we're looking because that's where sweetness is. Suppose you go under the mango tree and start digging, is there any chance of you ever eating a mango I'm asking? Is it possible? So what we need to understand is human experience is caused from within us. No matter what. Joy or misery, agony or ecstasy, pain or pleasure is caused from within us. But, we are trying to fix the world so that we are happy. Nothing in the world will ever happen 100% your way. This one person must happen your way, 100%. If this one happened 100% your way, would you keep yourself blissful or miserable? That's all the question is. I know what's your choice. You're asking this question because as you said, people say this will make you happy, that will make you happy, fix this, fix that, fix that, fix everything. Still it will not happen because you are trying to dig mangoes from the roots, that's not where it comes, it comes up there. So what is within you, if you search for it outside, it's going to be an endless search. This is why we are talking about Inner Engineering. you fix this one. Being joyful is assured. Rest of the life, we have to do to the best of our ability. No two human beings can do outside life to the same extent. It's never possible. No two human beings can ever do it the same way, when it comes to the world. But, if you are joyful you will do your best and that's all that matters. In this life, are you're doing your best in every possible way? You can only do that if you're happy and joyful by your own nature.

November 7, 2020

3:21

Be Inspired / Video

Playfulness – Simple way of Krishna to remove all suffering

Transcript: Simple things that people take up to do in their life, after all for most of the people, 95% of the people in the world, all that they have taken a piece just to earn something for their survival. Procreate, bring up their children, that's it. Just for the small drama that they have picked up for themselves, they wanted it. A little business, or one job, a home, wife, children, husband. This is it....

... To manage this, where they end up. Many of them end up in the insane aslyums too. Just doing the simple job, isn't it so? Yes? They have not taken up the problems of the world, they don't want to be dharmaguptas, wanting to establish dharma in the world. No such great responsibility they have taken up. Just earn their living, survive, procreate, and die. Which every creature on the planet does. For that, see where people are ending up. How many people are ending up total nuts. How many people are halfway down there. Yes? Too many people, isn't it? It is taking an unusually heavy toll. Simple life process. It is not necessary this way, but unfortunately it does go that way for many people. Simply because there is no playfulness in their way of existence. There is no playfulness in the way they live. They're too dead serious. So fundamentally, that's what Mahabharata is. That, there are all types of people. Good people, bad people, outright evil, absolutely virtuous, various types of people. If you look at it, every kind of human being that you can find in any society, they're all there in Mahabharata. The whole range of people. Greedy ones, absolutely selfless ones, fearful ones, brave ones, valiant warriors, cowards. Every kind are there. And they're all being put through a whole intense drama. And you look at each one's experience. It's very different and the way he handles it is very different, and they way he lands up in the end is very different. Through this whole drama, of all the people, Krishna is going through the maximum amount of drama. But untouched. Because he said, "Yogastha Kuru Karmani". That means, first establish yoga and then act. If you act, without establishing yourself in yoga, then your action will become an entanglement, it doesn't matter what you're doing.

Transcript: Simple things that people take up to do in their life, after all for most of the people, 95% of the people...

... in the world, all that they have taken a piece just to earn something for their survival. Procreate, bring up their children, that's it. Just for the small drama that they have picked up for themselves, they wanted it. A little business, or one job, a home, wife, children, husband. This is it. To manage this, where they end up. Many of them end up in the insane aslyums too. Just doing the simple job, isn't it so? Yes? They have not taken up the problems of the world, they don't want to be dharmaguptas, wanting to establish dharma in the world. No such great responsibility they have taken up. Just earn their living, survive, procreate, and die. Which every creature on the planet does. For that, see where people are ending up. How many people are ending up total nuts. How many people are halfway down there. Yes? Too many people, isn't it? It is taking an unusually heavy toll. Simple life process. It is not necessary this way, but unfortunately it does go that way for many people. Simply because there is no playfulness in their way of existence. There is no playfulness in the way they live. They're too dead serious. So fundamentally, that's what Mahabharata is. That, there are all types of people. Good people, bad people, outright evil, absolutely virtuous, various types of people. If you look at it, every kind of human being that you can find in any society, they're all there in Mahabharata. The whole range of people. Greedy ones, absolutely selfless ones, fearful ones, brave ones, valiant warriors, cowards. Every kind are there. And they're all being put through a whole intense drama. And you look at each one's experience. It's very different and the way he handles it is very different, and they way he lands up in the end is very different. Through this whole drama, of all the people, Krishna is going through the maximum amount of drama. But untouched. Because he said, "Yogastha Kuru Karmani". That means, first establish yoga and then act. If you act, without establishing yourself in yoga, then your action will become an entanglement, it doesn't matter what you're doing.

August 11, 2020

3:29

Be Inspired / Video

Is your happiness going up or down? It is time to take charge of yourself

Transcript: If we had come here as any other creature on this planet, life would be very simple. Eating, sleeping, reproducing, and dying one day. Now we have to do all those things but somehow where you are right now, wherever you may be, is not enough. Isn't it? You want to be little more than what you're right now. If you know only money, maybe you're thinking of little more money. If you know only pleasure,...

... maybe little more pleasure. Power, little more power. Everybody is wanting to be little more than they're right now. The process of desiring is continuously going on. Whether you're going to work, or you're going to the bar, or you're going to the temple, or you're getting married, or you're having children, you're studying in university. All this effort of life, everything was in pursuit of happiness. Is it so? In the last 100 years, with the use of science and technology, we have changed the very face of this planet. Today we have the kind of comforts and conveniences that no other generation could ever even imagine. We are definitely the most comfortable generation ever on this planet. Is it so? But are we also the most joyful generation? So it's not worked. Every creature, from plant to animal to everything, including human beings, have paid an enormous price to create these comforts and conveniences. And we are not even happy. What is the point? We have engineered the world today in many ways, so that it functions better for us. Isn't it? We have done nothing about ourselves. It's time to really look at it, isn't it? In the last 24 hours, how many moments of joy have you earned? When you're 5 years of age, a child, how many moments of joy did you have in 24 hours? The whole equation has gotten to reverse somehow. It doesn't matter where you are, you're sitting in a palace or in heaven, but your inner situation is not good, it doesn't matter. Isn't it? This mind could have been a source of ecstacy but this mind has been a source of misery for most people. Tension, anxiety, depression. Why? You just don't know how to handle it, isn't it? Nobody around you will happen 100% your way, isn't it so? Yes? Nobody happens your way, it's okay. The problem is, this one is not happening your way. That is the problem, isn't it? People have concluded that stress is a part of their life. Stress is not a part of your life, it is just that you do not know how to manage your body. You do not know how to manage your mind. You do not know how to manage your emotions, or your life energies. Everything is happening accidentally. Now I'm talking about creating the right kind of chemistry within you. Where, to be peaceful and blissful is just natural to you.

Transcript: If we had come here as any other creature on this planet, life would be very simple. Eating, sleeping,...

... reproducing, and dying one day. Now we have to do all those things but somehow where you are right now, wherever you may be, is not enough. Isn't it? You want to be little more than what you're right now. If you know only money, maybe you're thinking of little more money. If you know only pleasure, maybe little more pleasure. Power, little more power. Everybody is wanting to be little more than they're right now. The process of desiring is continuously going on. Whether you're going to work, or you're going to the bar, or you're going to the temple, or you're getting married, or you're having children, you're studying in university. All this effort of life, everything was in pursuit of happiness. Is it so? In the last 100 years, with the use of science and technology, we have changed the very face of this planet. Today we have the kind of comforts and conveniences that no other generation could ever even imagine. We are definitely the most comfortable generation ever on this planet. Is it so? But are we also the most joyful generation? So it's not worked. Every creature, from plant to animal to everything, including human beings, have paid an enormous price to create these comforts and conveniences. And we are not even happy. What is the point? We have engineered the world today in many ways, so that it functions better for us. Isn't it? We have done nothing about ourselves. It's time to really look at it, isn't it? In the last 24 hours, how many moments of joy have you earned? When you're 5 years of age, a child, how many moments of joy did you have in 24 hours? The whole equation has gotten to reverse somehow. It doesn't matter where you are, you're sitting in a palace or in heaven, but your inner situation is not good, it doesn't matter. Isn't it? This mind could have been a source of ecstacy but this mind has been a source of misery for most people. Tension, anxiety, depression. Why? You just don't know how to handle it, isn't it? Nobody around you will happen 100% your way, isn't it so? Yes? Nobody happens your way, it's okay. The problem is, this one is not happening your way. That is the problem, isn't it? People have concluded that stress is a part of their life. Stress is not a part of your life, it is just that you do not know how to manage your body. You do not know how to manage your mind. You do not know how to manage your emotions, or your life energies. Everything is happening accidentally. Now I'm talking about creating the right kind of chemistry within you. Where, to be peaceful and blissful is just natural to you.

July 26, 2020

3:56

Be Inspired / Video

The key to always be pleasant and peaceful

Synopsis: In this talk Sadhguru tells us that "it is very simple, whatever the nature of your experience is, it happening from within you". If your experience is happening from within you, then it is very natural for a human being to see how to make it most pleasant experience for themselves. Once you take charge, you will make sure that you make the most pleasant experience for yourself.

Synopsis: In this talk Sadhguru tells us that "it is very simple, whatever the nature of your experience is, it...

... happening from within you". If your experience is happening from within you, then it is very natural for a human being to see how to make it most pleasant experience for themselves. Once you take charge, you will make sure that you make the most pleasant experience for yourself.

June 28, 2020

4:21

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Being joyful is 100% in your hands

Transcript: We need to understand this. We are experiencing life the way we are experiencing not because that's how life is, because that's how we are. Our experience of life is essentially determined by us, not by what's happening around us. There are situations in the world, family, work, street, many things. Nation, world, all kinds of situations. Whatever happens in the outside situation has a certain amount...

... of impact on our physical lives. Definitely it has, isn't it? But it does not determine the nature of our experience. The nature of our experience simply depends on how we are. Situations, of course, are dependent on million other people. Your life situation right now, living in Kolkata. What every citizen of Kolkata is doing has some impact on your life situations. But it need not have any impact on your experience of life. Because your experience of life is essentially determined by you, you, and you alone. Nobody else but you. If you understand this, that is the basis of Sadhana. You are sitting down with your eyes closed, just to understand experientially that everything that I experience is coming from within me. Pain and pleasure are coming from within you. Joy and misery are coming from within you. Agony and ecsatasy is happening from within you. If you understand this much, then would you choose pain or pleasure? Would you choose joy or misery? Agony or ecstasy? That's all, you know the choice. If you are confused about the choice, then you would need lot of lessons. Your choice is clear for yourself, 100% clear. So when it is so clear, choice is clear, only thing is, your ability to make the choice. That's all you need to enhance. If you did not know what to choose, it would be more complicated. Your choice is 100% clear, only to be able to choose.

Transcript: We need to understand this. We are experiencing life the way we are experiencing not because that's how...

... life is, because that's how we are. Our experience of life is essentially determined by us, not by what's happening around us. There are situations in the world, family, work, street, many things. Nation, world, all kinds of situations. Whatever happens in the outside situation has a certain amount of impact on our physical lives. Definitely it has, isn't it? But it does not determine the nature of our experience. The nature of our experience simply depends on how we are. Situations, of course, are dependent on million other people. Your life situation right now, living in Kolkata. What every citizen of Kolkata is doing has some impact on your life situations. But it need not have any impact on your experience of life. Because your experience of life is essentially determined by you, you, and you alone. Nobody else but you. If you understand this, that is the basis of Sadhana. You are sitting down with your eyes closed, just to understand experientially that everything that I experience is coming from within me. Pain and pleasure are coming from within you. Joy and misery are coming from within you. Agony and ecsatasy is happening from within you. If you understand this much, then would you choose pain or pleasure? Would you choose joy or misery? Agony or ecstasy? That's all, you know the choice. If you are confused about the choice, then you would need lot of lessons. Your choice is clear for yourself, 100% clear. So when it is so clear, choice is clear, only thing is, your ability to make the choice. That's all you need to enhance. If you did not know what to choose, it would be more complicated. Your choice is 100% clear, only to be able to choose.

June 13, 2020

3:07

Be Inspired / Video

How to find happiness

Synopsis: During an interview on Bloomberg TV, the anchor asks Sadhguru - "I want to ask you a very simplistic question. But, it's something that evades everybody. How does one manage to find happiness... really simple question! But no one today is happy. So many people around us, are just not.. or they are not be able to be happy for other people, or just with what they have necessarily. They are always looking...

... for the next..goal, purpose, something. It could be material vindication, it could be experiential - anything.."

Synopsis: During an interview on Bloomberg TV, the anchor asks Sadhguru - "I want to ask you a very simplistic...

... question. But, it's something that evades everybody. How does one manage to find happiness... really simple question! But no one today is happy. So many people around us, are just not.. or they are not be able to be happy for other people, or just with what they have necessarily. They are always looking for the next..goal, purpose, something. It could be material vindication, it could be experiential - anything.."

June 12, 2020

4:28

Health & Wellbeing / Video / Yoga

What is the significance of Nada Yoga? Learn Nada Yoga – Yoga for Joy

Synopsis: Sadhguru tells is that today modern science is telling us that the whole existence is just a reverberation of sound. And wherever there is sound, there is bound to be a vibration. Sadhguru explains about the root sounds - the basis of all the sounds in the existence. These are referred as the basic sounds or universal sounds. This is the basis of Nada Yoga - the key to joyfulness....

... Sadhguru teaches a very simple 5 min yoga practice - which is beneficial to bring overall well-being, and remove excessive fear.

Synopsis: Sadhguru tells is that today modern science is telling us that the whole existence is just a reverberation...

... of sound. And wherever there is sound, there is bound to be a vibration. Sadhguru explains about the root sounds - the basis of all the sounds in the existence. These are referred as the basic sounds or universal sounds. This is the basis of Nada Yoga - the key to joyfulness. Sadhguru teaches a very simple 5 min yoga practice - which is beneficial to bring overall well-being, and remove excessive fear.

June 12, 2020

12:23

Be Inspired

Hard to give title to this talk just watch it to know how to be happy

Transcript: Today, just to take very affluent societies because every society is aspiring to be like that. Let's say you take United States, which is the most affluent nation on the planet right now. 70% of US population is on prescription medication. Another 30%, of course, buying it off the back streets. Most affluent nation. Obviously affluence is not working. To be healthful, you need chemicals. To be joyful,...

... you need chemicals. To be peaceful, you need chemicals. To be ecstatic, of course, there is ecstasy. So, I'm not even looking at it morally. It's never a moral issue for me. If 90% of this population right now, is on chemicals, believe me, the next generation that we produce will be a generation which is much less than us. If we produce a next generation less than ourselves, we have committed a crime against humanity. Because the next generation must be at least one step ahead of us. Otherwise we have lost it. So, we are heading towards this rapidly unless we teach individual human beings how to simply sit here and be blissed out. Stoned enough or no? Just look at me. But am I conscious enough? Alert enough? Clear enough? If there was a way to intoxicate yourself without losing your judgement, without losing your awareness, without losing your intelligence, it's a great thing. Intoxication is a fantastic thing. Only problem is it takes away your judgement, it takes away your intelligence, incapacitates you. That is the problem, isnt it? If you know how to manage this, you will be like me, always blissed out. Anybody can say what they want, anybody can do what they want, this is like this only. Because I have not given this priviledge to anybody. That somebody can make me happy, somebody can make me unhappy, somebody can make me miserable. It's very important that neither this way or that way. We listen to everybody because we could be doing something wrong. Hello? Any moment we could be doing something wrong. So we listen to everybody. But what they say will not determine how I am. Never ever. This you must fix.

Transcript: Today, just to take very affluent societies because every society is aspiring to be like that. Let's...

... say you take United States, which is the most affluent nation on the planet right now. 70% of US population is on prescription medication. Another 30%, of course, buying it off the back streets. Most affluent nation. Obviously affluence is not working. To be healthful, you need chemicals. To be joyful, you need chemicals. To be peaceful, you need chemicals. To be ecstatic, of course, there is ecstasy. So, I'm not even looking at it morally. It's never a moral issue for me. If 90% of this population right now, is on chemicals, believe me, the next generation that we produce will be a generation which is much less than us. If we produce a next generation less than ourselves, we have committed a crime against humanity. Because the next generation must be at least one step ahead of us. Otherwise we have lost it. So, we are heading towards this rapidly unless we teach individual human beings how to simply sit here and be blissed out. Stoned enough or no? Just look at me. But am I conscious enough? Alert enough? Clear enough? If there was a way to intoxicate yourself without losing your judgement, without losing your awareness, without losing your intelligence, it's a great thing. Intoxication is a fantastic thing. Only problem is it takes away your judgement, it takes away your intelligence, incapacitates you. That is the problem, isnt it? If you know how to manage this, you will be like me, always blissed out. Anybody can say what they want, anybody can do what they want, this is like this only. Because I have not given this priviledge to anybody. That somebody can make me happy, somebody can make me unhappy, somebody can make me miserable. It's very important that neither this way or that way. We listen to everybody because we could be doing something wrong. Hello? Any moment we could be doing something wrong. So we listen to everybody. But what they say will not determine how I am. Never ever. This you must fix.

June 12, 2020

3:06

Be Inspired

Just try this for two days and you will become truly joyful

Transcript: So what is it? Okay, so for all of us, how do we live our days? What is the best way to just go about it? Give us in clear simple, simple sentences, do this and you will be at least on the way to being blissful or happy or aware or living in a nice conscious way. Do not take this for granted. If you wake up in the morning, tomorrow if you wake up in the morning. No, this is not my wish. But I want...

... you to know, of all the people who go to bed tonight, over a million people will not wake up tomorrow morning. And tomorrow, if you and me wake up tomorrow morning, is it not a fantastic thing? A million people did not wake up. You woke up. Is it not a great thing? Just look at the ceiling and smile. You are still awake. You are still there. And for many many millions of people, somebody who is dear to them did not wake up. So just check those fix, six people around you. They all woke up. Wow! It's a fantastic day! You woke up, and everyone who matters to you around you woke up. Is it not fantastic day? You don't think so. You don't seem to think so, because the problem is just this, you are living with an idea that you are immortal. When I say you are immortal, you are not actually thinking you are immortal. But you are not conscious of your mortality. If you were not conscious of your mortality, somewhere you think you are immortal, isn't it? How many moments in a day, are you conscious that you are mortal? If you are conscious, would you have time to crib? Would you have time to fight with somebody? Would you have time to do some rubbish with your life? If you knew, if you are conscious that you are mortal, you would do nothing other than what is absolutely needed for you and everybody around you. This one thing if you do, if you just remind yourself. Don't think this is a negative thing, death is not a negative thing. It's the only thing which has added value to your life. If you are here forever, you would be unbearable. If you just become conscious of this one thing. That always you are conscious that I am mortal, you don't have to think I will die today. We don't intend. We want to live as far as possible. Just you know one day I will die. If you are just conscious of this one thing, you will naturally become spiritual. Everyday, every moment if you remind yourself, this is a brief life. I'm mortal. One day I will end. Just do this for 2 days and see, you will become something truly fantastic within yourself. Just, this is all. That is simple beautiful. That's all that is needed. If you want to know the value of life, just know that it's a brief happening.

Transcript: So what is it? Okay, so for all of us, how do we live our days? What is the best way to just go about...

... it? Give us in clear simple, simple sentences, do this and you will be at least on the way to being blissful or happy or aware or living in a nice conscious way. Do not take this for granted. If you wake up in the morning, tomorrow if you wake up in the morning. No, this is not my wish. But I want you to know, of all the people who go to bed tonight, over a million people will not wake up tomorrow morning. And tomorrow, if you and me wake up tomorrow morning, is it not a fantastic thing? A million people did not wake up. You woke up. Is it not a great thing? Just look at the ceiling and smile. You are still awake. You are still there. And for many many millions of people, somebody who is dear to them did not wake up. So just check those fix, six people around you. They all woke up. Wow! It's a fantastic day! You woke up, and everyone who matters to you around you woke up. Is it not fantastic day? You don't think so. You don't seem to think so, because the problem is just this, you are living with an idea that you are immortal. When I say you are immortal, you are not actually thinking you are immortal. But you are not conscious of your mortality. If you were not conscious of your mortality, somewhere you think you are immortal, isn't it? How many moments in a day, are you conscious that you are mortal? If you are conscious, would you have time to crib? Would you have time to fight with somebody? Would you have time to do some rubbish with your life? If you knew, if you are conscious that you are mortal, you would do nothing other than what is absolutely needed for you and everybody around you. This one thing if you do, if you just remind yourself. Don't think this is a negative thing, death is not a negative thing. It's the only thing which has added value to your life. If you are here forever, you would be unbearable. If you just become conscious of this one thing. That always you are conscious that I am mortal, you don't have to think I will die today. We don't intend. We want to live as far as possible. Just you know one day I will die. If you are just conscious of this one thing, you will naturally become spiritual. Everyday, every moment if you remind yourself, this is a brief life. I'm mortal. One day I will end. Just do this for 2 days and see, you will become something truly fantastic within yourself. Just, this is all. That is simple beautiful. That's all that is needed. If you want to know the value of life, just know that it's a brief happening.

June 11, 2020

3:36

Be Inspired

Joy or misery – you must make your choice today

Transcript: You heard of Lao Tzu? Lao Tzu? Lao Tzu is a celebrated Zen master today. Even then, he gathered a certain number of disciples around him. It is part of the Zen tradition, that when the master, or the Guru is dying, people gather around for a final message. So at the age of 83 or 84, he was passing. So people gathered around him and asked him, 'Master, what is the secret of your joy?' You know, he faced...

... a lot of extreme situations in his life. He was accused of things that he had never thought of. And he went through troubles. So people asked, you went through so many things, but you were always joyful. What is the secret of your joy? Lao Tzu said, 'Oh! That, it's just that everyday in the morning when I woke up, I used to get a question. The question is, today shall I be joyful or miserable? Till now I just happened to choose joy, that's all.' So, have you made your choice? I'm asking. Everyday in the morning, if a question comes to you. I will come and ask you a question everyday in the morning. Today you are going to be joyful or miserable? What's your choice? You must make this choice everyday. Today I'm going to be joyful. Joy is not a goal by itself, it is just that when you are joyful, you are pleasant to the world. When you are joyful, you are sensible in your head. When you are joyful, you will not do stupid things against yourself. But look at yourself and see. Right now, somebody else, if they determine what should happen, around you, you feel like a slave. But right now, somebody else is determining what should happen within you, is this not slavery? Somebody can decide whether you are happy or unhappy, is this not slavery? Somebody can decide whether you will be a pleasant human being or an unpleasant human being, is this not slavery? What happens within you, somebody else determines. This is the worst form of slavery, isn't it? Isn't it so? It is just that, because everybody is like that it seems to be normal. It is not, it is not normal. Just because everybody is like that it does not become normal. This human being, life around you will not happen, will never happen 100% the way you want it.

Transcript: You heard of Lao Tzu? Lao Tzu? Lao Tzu is a celebrated Zen master today. Even then, he gathered a certain...

... number of disciples around him. It is part of the Zen tradition, that when the master, or the Guru is dying, people gather around for a final message. So at the age of 83 or 84, he was passing. So people gathered around him and asked him, 'Master, what is the secret of your joy?' You know, he faced a lot of extreme situations in his life. He was accused of things that he had never thought of. And he went through troubles. So people asked, you went through so many things, but you were always joyful. What is the secret of your joy? Lao Tzu said, 'Oh! That, it's just that everyday in the morning when I woke up, I used to get a question. The question is, today shall I be joyful or miserable? Till now I just happened to choose joy, that's all.' So, have you made your choice? I'm asking. Everyday in the morning, if a question comes to you. I will come and ask you a question everyday in the morning. Today you are going to be joyful or miserable? What's your choice? You must make this choice everyday. Today I'm going to be joyful. Joy is not a goal by itself, it is just that when you are joyful, you are pleasant to the world. When you are joyful, you are sensible in your head. When you are joyful, you will not do stupid things against yourself. But look at yourself and see. Right now, somebody else, if they determine what should happen, around you, you feel like a slave. But right now, somebody else is determining what should happen within you, is this not slavery? Somebody can decide whether you are happy or unhappy, is this not slavery? Somebody can decide whether you will be a pleasant human being or an unpleasant human being, is this not slavery? What happens within you, somebody else determines. This is the worst form of slavery, isn't it? Isn't it so? It is just that, because everybody is like that it seems to be normal. It is not, it is not normal. Just because everybody is like that it does not become normal. This human being, life around you will not happen, will never happen 100% the way you want it.

June 10, 2020

3:16

Be Inspired

Do this before you sleep to become more and more joyful

Transcript: What is well being? When do you really feel well in your life? When do you truly feel well? When you're very happy, you're well. Even if you are physically ill, you are still well, isn't it? Even if you are medically diagnosed as ill, you are very happy right now. You are feeling well, isn't it? So fundamentally well being means a certain level of joyfulness. Certain exuberance of life. What is happiness?...

... We can say happiness is that, that. But in terms of life, your life energies are happening in a more exuberant way than it normally happens. Happiness means your life energies are exuberant. There are many ways of describing happiness. But only those who are happy know what it means to be happy. There is nobody who has not been happy. Everybody has been happy. But the problem is they are not able to maintain it, that's all. Why don't you keep an account book? At the end of the day, just check, am I a little more joyful today than yesterday? If you had done this since you were five years of age, you would have been ecstatic by now. Profit side. You became like this because you never kept accounts. One day you checked, when it became very acute, then you see, you are in a big loss. Everyday, every month, just keep accounts. Am I becoming more joyful or less joyful? There are only two things, how joyful are you? And how much joy do you give to people around you? This you can keep accounts. If you keep accounts of this, people are keeping accounts of their money, as if they are going to carry it with them. The real wealth of life is how joyful you are. How wonderful is your experience of life. Joy is not a goal by itself, but it's a necessary ambience for life. If you don't set this one ambience, then whatever you have, is just going waste.

Transcript: What is well being? When do you really feel well in your life? When do you truly feel well? When you're...

... very happy, you're well. Even if you are physically ill, you are still well, isn't it? Even if you are medically diagnosed as ill, you are very happy right now. You are feeling well, isn't it? So fundamentally well being means a certain level of joyfulness. Certain exuberance of life. What is happiness? We can say happiness is that, that. But in terms of life, your life energies are happening in a more exuberant way than it normally happens. Happiness means your life energies are exuberant. There are many ways of describing happiness. But only those who are happy know what it means to be happy. There is nobody who has not been happy. Everybody has been happy. But the problem is they are not able to maintain it, that's all. Why don't you keep an account book? At the end of the day, just check, am I a little more joyful today than yesterday? If you had done this since you were five years of age, you would have been ecstatic by now. Profit side. You became like this because you never kept accounts. One day you checked, when it became very acute, then you see, you are in a big loss. Everyday, every month, just keep accounts. Am I becoming more joyful or less joyful? There are only two things, how joyful are you? And how much joy do you give to people around you? This you can keep accounts. If you keep accounts of this, people are keeping accounts of their money, as if they are going to carry it with them. The real wealth of life is how joyful you are. How wonderful is your experience of life. Joy is not a goal by itself, but it's a necessary ambience for life. If you don't set this one ambience, then whatever you have, is just going waste.

June 9, 2020

2:56

Be Inspired

The first step to be always joyful

Transcript: A young woman went to a doctor. And said, oh doctor, my body is hurting all over. Just everything in my body is hurting. The doctor looked at her, she looked quite young and healthy. He said, that looks strange. Every part in you body is hurting? Show me what's happening. She said, just look at this doctor and she just touched her right knee. 'Aaah!' she screamed. Then she touched her left elbow. 'Aaah!'...

... she screamed. She touched her neck and she screamed. The doctor said, okay, just relax. And he brought a little plaster and put it on her finger. There was an injury in the finger. So, if pain comes, suffering comes, misery happens, not time to look around. This is always the problem. If you are miserable, you think somebody else needs to be fixed. No no no no, if you are miserable, this needs to be fixed. Not somebody else. No, I'm miserable, fix the situation for me. No no no, if you are miserable, who should be fixed? If you are sick, who should be given the medicine? Shall we give it to somebody else when you are sick? If you are hungry, shall we give the food to somebody else? No, it only works if you give it to this, isn't it? If food is like that, medicine is like that, is it not true with every other aspect? Both your miseries and joys are caused from inside. It needs to be attended here, not somewhere else. The sooner you learn this, the more graceful and wonderful you life will become. If you are taking a lifetime to understand this, life will have its ways.

Transcript: A young woman went to a doctor. And said, oh doctor, my body is hurting all over. Just everything in...

... my body is hurting. The doctor looked at her, she looked quite young and healthy. He said, that looks strange. Every part in you body is hurting? Show me what's happening. She said, just look at this doctor and she just touched her right knee. 'Aaah!' she screamed. Then she touched her left elbow. 'Aaah!' she screamed. She touched her neck and she screamed. The doctor said, okay, just relax. And he brought a little plaster and put it on her finger. There was an injury in the finger. So, if pain comes, suffering comes, misery happens, not time to look around. This is always the problem. If you are miserable, you think somebody else needs to be fixed. No no no no, if you are miserable, this needs to be fixed. Not somebody else. No, I'm miserable, fix the situation for me. No no no, if you are miserable, who should be fixed? If you are sick, who should be given the medicine? Shall we give it to somebody else when you are sick? If you are hungry, shall we give the food to somebody else? No, it only works if you give it to this, isn't it? If food is like that, medicine is like that, is it not true with every other aspect? Both your miseries and joys are caused from inside. It needs to be attended here, not somewhere else. The sooner you learn this, the more graceful and wonderful you life will become. If you are taking a lifetime to understand this, life will have its ways.

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Success / Video

Do these simple things for eternal happiness and success

Synopsis: Everyone wants to be happy and successful in life, but don't know how to achieve that. We all have listened and tried many preaching which look good in theory but don't work in real life. In this New Year 2020 gift, Sadhguru blesses us with 5 simple and practical tools that one can implement in daily life for self transformation and eternal happiness.

Synopsis: Everyone wants to be happy and successful in life, but don't know how to achieve that. We all have listened...

... and tried many preaching which look good in theory but don't work in real life. In this New Year 2020 gift, Sadhguru blesses us with 5 simple and practical tools that one can implement in daily life for self transformation and eternal happiness.

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How to remain always joyful and happy?

Synopsis: What if you knew a way to remain in a permanent state of joy? Is it even possible - you ask? Happiness is a natural state for human beings - only if your mind takes instructions from you - says Sadhguru. In this talk - he gives 5 simple tools that you can practice daily which will transform your life forever.

Synopsis: What if you knew a way to remain in a permanent state of joy? Is it even possible - you ask? Happiness...

... is a natural state for human beings - only if your mind takes instructions from you - says Sadhguru. In this talk - he gives 5 simple tools that you can practice daily which will transform your life forever.

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Good people won’t get anywhere

Synopsis: Sadhguru asks the question, "in this world, are good people suffering more, or bad people?". It's the good people who are suffering more! Sadhguru tells us, "your goodness is only in comparison to something else". To illustrate the point that, good people won't get anywhere in this world, Sadhguru tells us a Shankaran Pillai joke!

Synopsis: Sadhguru asks the question, "in this world, are good people suffering more, or bad people?". It's the...

... good people who are suffering more! Sadhguru tells us, "your goodness is only in comparison to something else". To illustrate the point that, good people won't get anywhere in this world, Sadhguru tells us a Shankaran Pillai joke!

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Be Inspired / Video

What Is The Source of All Your Suffering?

Synopsis: In this inspirational talk, Sadhguru tells us, that the root cause of our suffering is our own psychological process. Although the human have the most evolved neurological system on the planet, and are the most intelligent species, and even though, today we live in a world which has comforts which have never been seen before - still we are suffering everything. Sadhguru tells us that our entire experience...

... of life happens within us. Pain and pleasure, joy and misery, agony and ecstasy, light and darkness - all happens within us. Wellbeing and joy can only happen from within us. And, whatever happens within us, must happen the way we want!

Synopsis: In this inspirational talk, Sadhguru tells us, that the root cause of our suffering is our own psychological...

... process. Although the human have the most evolved neurological system on the planet, and are the most intelligent species, and even though, today we live in a world which has comforts which have never been seen before - still we are suffering everything. Sadhguru tells us that our entire experience of life happens within us. Pain and pleasure, joy and misery, agony and ecstasy, light and darkness - all happens within us. Wellbeing and joy can only happen from within us. And, whatever happens within us, must happen the way we want!

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