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Working with left hand can shorten your life

Working with left hand can shorten your life

If you are using your left hand for all the more physically difficult actions - there is a research which shows that left-handed people on an average live seven years less than right-handed people. Because the left has the responsibility of cardiac function, which is not a small ...

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Is inception possible?

Is inception possible?

Questioner: Namaskram Sadhguru. The other day you had mentioned that thought is very necessary for one to take any action. Sometimes I feel that the action I have taken is based on a thought that's not mine. Is that possible for someone to plant a thought in ...

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Wearing black can cause psychological issues

Wearing black can cause psychological issues

Black absorbs everything. If you’re in a space where you want to absorb what is around you, you must wear black. But if you wear black in a place where you don’t want to absorb - but you wear because you look slimmer - then you will start accumulating all kinds of things. ...

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Where should we apply Vibhuti?

Where should we apply Vibhuti?

Ash is made in different ways. When you apply - if you go into a space which is energetically charged in some way, if you apply it between your eyebrows. There is a spot - you must know this exact spot - there is a spot behind your ears, if you apply on those two sides. And the ...

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Benefits & dangers of shaving your head

Benefits & dangers of shaving your head

If you suddenly remove this hair, then you will see the energies will move in that direction. So people who are doing certain type of sadhana, want that to happen....Some of you may know that - particularly ladies who have never shaved their head in their life - suddenly one ...

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What is Prana?

What is Prana?

The word prana - there is no equivalent word in English, but we can say it’s a 'vital energy'. That which we call as the life energy, is Prana. Prana has ten different manifestations in the body. But for the sake of understanding we’ll bring it down to five. These five are ...

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Sadhguru maps the Chakras of a person

Sadhguru maps the Chakras of a person

If you read the basic map of one’s 'prana' you know their past, present and future – everything about that person. Because in a way your life is just a manifestation of your energies, how they function. If you do proper Hatha Yoga, this slightly skewed positions that your ...

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The benefits of balancing the energy body

The benefits of balancing the energy body

Most of the yogic practices work on the energy body, because if your energy body is in full vibrance and proper balance, physical and mental health will happen naturally. ...

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What is the key to freedom?

What is the key to freedom?

Having expectations of others means you're trying to fix their lives. Fix your own life, that is freedom. ...

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What is the significance of volunteering?

What is the significance of volunteering?

If you want to get involved but not entangled, volunteering is a powerful tool. You should make use of it to make activity a tool for your liberation. ...

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What is the secret of life?

What is the secret of life?

The secret of life is to see everything with a non-serious eye, but to be absolutely involved. Like a sport. ...

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The ‘right’ way to intoxicate yourself

The ‘right’ way to intoxicate yourself

I am not against intoxication. But it should come from an endless source, which can only happen from within. So if you’re generating your own intoxicant within the system, it is very good because this will make you, or enable you to be functional irrespective of what you’re ...

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How to understand your thoughts?

How to understand your thoughts?

If you look at your thoughts in the context of the whole cosmos, they do not mean anything. If you realise that, you will naturally create a distance from your thought process. So if you create a little distance - when I say create a little distance from the thought process, ...

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Stay awake on this night to open your third eye

Stay awake on this night to open your third eye

On the 14th day of every month, which is 1 day before the 'no moon' day, there is a natural upsurge of energy. Everyone should stay awake, to keep their spine vertical and make use of this for their benefit. Of all the Shivaratris the Shivaratri that appears in the month of ‘maga’, ...

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Dance as a spiritual process

Dance as a spiritual process

Question: I am just very grateful to have the opportunity to ask you a question today. My question for you Sadhguru is, do you in the Indian culture have a dance, that is also considered a medicine dance or you know do you guys consider dance to be something ...

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What does it mean to be a human be-ing?

What does it mean to be a human be-ing?

You are called a human be-ing. I want you to get the meaning of this. Human being means - not that you know, how to run. Not that you know, how to jump. Not that you know, how to do circus in life. You know 'how to be'. Human being means, you know 'how to be'. ...

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Can one be in a perpetual orgasm?

Can one be in a perpetual orgasm?

How to experience the ultimate orgasm? Sadhguru says, most people relate orgasm to sexuality. Orgasm is an internalized ecstatic state. When the whole organism reaches a certain level of peak, that is orgasm. When one knows, how to be orgasmic without the need for physicality, ...

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The significance of silence for a spiritual seeker

The significance of silence for a spiritual seeker

The importance of silence. This complex amalgamation sounds, creates a different level of bondage. Silence is about moving from compulsiveness to consciousness. Sound is of the surface, Silence is of the core. ...

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Guru: Like a Movie Director

Guru: Like a Movie Director

In life a human being goes through a series of deceptions. It is like a play. If you get caught up in the play, what is real is completely lost. A Guru's role is like taking you on the tour of the projection room, for you to realize that though you have a role to play, you don't ...

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Life in cycles? How to overcome emotional & physiological cycles?

Life in cycles? How to overcome emotional & physiological cycles?

Question - The same pattern of things keep happening over a period of time. The same kind of #emotion, the situation we go across is same. How to come out of that pattern in life? Sadhguru explains that physical existence is cyclical, and there are various cycles going on in ...

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Does Soul Exist?

Does Soul Exist?

In responses to a seeker's question, 'Does soul exist?', Sadhguru asks us Do you really know who you really are? What is the nature of your existence? Only once the pain of ignorance becomes unbearable for you, you can know the answer to these fundamental existential questions! ...

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YOGA – A profound technology to move from ‘personality’ to ‘presence’

YOGA – A profound technology to move from ‘personality’ to ‘presence’

This is a profound talk, where Sadhguru tells us the fundamental purpose of Yoga. Sadhguru says that Yoga as a process, as a technology, as a science - is essentially to break the personality. It is to evolve from being a 'person' to a 'presence'. Now, it is scientifically proven ...

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What is Pyramid meditation?

What is Pyramid meditation?

Sadhguru explains the five different manifestations of prana (life energies). He explains that one of them, vyana, is in-charge of the preservative nature. The geometry of a pyramid is such, that it preserves the vyana, so anything kept in the pyramid will be preserved. He tells ...

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Four Parts of The Mind, A Yogic Perspective

Four Parts of The Mind, A Yogic Perspective

Dr David Frawley talks about how modern medicine and modern science looks at consciousness, mind and brain. He asks Sadhguru to talk about the nature of brain, mind and consciousness. Sadhguru explains that in yogic sciences, brain is just part of the body. Yogic sciences looks ...

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Rings & Occult

Rings & Occult

Is there such a thing - that one should not wear a ring on the thumb? The human body is a complex mechanism, a complex machine. The physical reality is a multi-layered existence, one inside the other. Occult is a technology handling a different level of physical dimension. Rings ...

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Kumbh Mela: The Science & Significance

Kumbh Mela: The Science & Significance

Sadhguru explains the science and significance of the Kumbh Mela, the largest gathering of humanity on the planet. Why does it happens only at specific places, and after every 12 and a quarter years. Some scientific studies have shown that, phenomenal physiological changes have ...

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Did you know – Cows have human like emotions

Did you know – Cows have human like emotions

Sadhguru talks about the close relationship between cows and their caretakers, and how deeply cows can experience emotions. Sadhguru also narrates incident from his childhood. ...

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The 4 stages of life: Every parent must tell their children

The 4 stages of life: Every parent must tell their children

Question: I have a one year old child. But nothing in my 20 years of education trained me to be parent. Is parenting supposed to come naturally?   Sadhguru talks about the deficiency in the current education system, and explains the Varnashrama Dharma (Different stages ...

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Why do Guru’s keep a beard?

Why do Guru’s keep a beard?

No body part has come without a purpose, isn’t it? For everything, including the spleen, there is a purpose. So nature did not give you anything without a purpose. If you’re in a certain level of sensitivity, then you would know what is the effect and the aspect of, you know, ...

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How to benefit from Dhyanalinga from your home?

How to benefit from Dhyanalinga from your home?

Namaskaram Sadhguru. Is it possible to invoke Dhyanalinga's energies from anywhere? How can I become available to the grace of Dhyanalinga from home? ...

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10 manifestations of Prana in the human system

10 manifestations of Prana in the human system

Prana has ten different manifestations in the body. But for the sake of understanding we’ll bring it down to five. These five are referred to as five vayus, or panchavayus. This is pranavayu, samanavayu, udhanavayu, apana, and vyana. The karmic memory of the individual person ...

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How does one feel when dying?

How does one feel when dying?

You must see how people die. It’s very important. If you watch people die, over 80% of the people on this planet - when the moment of death comes, there is no pain. There is not even fear. But you will see bewilderment on their face. ...