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What is the role of our biological identity? | Sadhguru at Columbia University | #12
Synopsis: My question is actually also about identity. You’ve spoken about the need or benefit of detaching from a biological identity. And I’m curious, I think there’s a lot of people in the room and this question came up again and again. If somebody wants to act positively in society, there’s an instinct to start from the biological community, from the people that you...
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Synopsis: My question is actually also about identity. You’ve spoken about the...
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January 7, 2021
What advice would you give someone with healing gifts?| Sadhguru at Columbia University | #11
Synopsis: What advice would you give someone with healing gifts? Someone who can help people create miracles in their lives to grow in service to the world.
Synopsis: What advice would you give someone with healing gifts? Someone who can...
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January 7, 2021
How do religion and sexuality play a role in justice? | Sadhguru at Columbia University | #5
Synopsis: So, I understand, you know, the pursuit of freedom and justice. But oftentimes what I’ve dealt with in regards to religion, I grew up Catholic, I’m Catholic, is it’s view and limited acceptance of the lgbtq community. And the fact that I am lgbtq, and just trying to understand how I fit in. And oftentimes I was not accepted. It depended on how progressive a church...
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Synopsis: So, I understand, you know, the pursuit of freedom and justice. But oftentimes...
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January 7, 2021
What’s our role in the world? | Sadhguru at Columbia University | #4
Synopsis: What role can we play, when people aren’t as enlightened as the people in this room? We can’t really make the same connections as you because we do agency. Right, we are people that want to make a difference and are willing to kind of have the courage to, I guess, have compassion or pity, depending on the mood we’re in. How do we do this? Because that’s something...
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Synopsis: What role can we play, when people aren’t as enlightened as the people...
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January 7, 2021
How do we bring people together? | Sadhguru at Columbia University | #3
Synopsis: Politics. In America we’re more and more divided than before and quite polarised. For me, this is something that troubles me. As someone who has some less than popular opinion sometimes, I’m conscious of how I’m received. Because of people who are passionate about these identities. How can I and others that share, I guess, my desire to bring people together in...
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Synopsis: Politics. In America we’re more and more divided than before and quite...
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January 7, 2021
How do we know what’s most important? | Sadhguru at Columbia University | #2
Synopsis: So, on the note of purpose, one thing that I think that I’m constantly chasing is, and I would say I don’t know when I’ve reached it, the pursuit of happiness. I think everyone in this room at some point, maybe now you’re asking yourself, or if you ask yourself like have you reached your pursuit of happiness in kind of understanding why it can be elusive? For...
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Synopsis: So, on the note of purpose, one thing that I think that I’m constantly...
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January 7, 2021
How do we find purpose? | Sadhguru at Columbia University | #1
Synopsis: When it comes to purpose, what has defined what your purpose is in this world? As it has led to you being here at Columbia Business School in the youth and truth program. But, as well as if you have any words for other people in the audience or just me, would be fine as well. Around, how do we find purpose in this world?
Synopsis: When it comes to purpose, what has defined what your purpose is in this...
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January 7, 2021
Is the universe a dichotomy? | Sadhguru in Conversation with Ranveer Singh | #8
Synopsis: This is not my time of the day. It’s really early in the morning, you know it’s my time to be plugged into the matrix, to be in the rat race, achieve, achieve, acquire, acquire. And then something happens to me after midnight, when the day is over I become very relaxed. And then I have these existential thoughts and I start thinking about other things. And this thing...
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Synopsis: This is not my time of the day. It’s really early in the morning, you...
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January 6, 2021
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...
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January 6, 2021
What is the role of technology? | Sadhguru in Conversation with Ranveer Singh | #6
Synopsis: I feel technology is constantly evolving. And I have a feeling that mobile phones have really changed the way we are. You know it’s having a huge bearing on pretty much everything. It’s permeating everything. Social media, mobile phones, this kind of technology. Like sometimes I wonder, were human beings ever meant to communicate like this? Like I could be hanging...
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Synopsis: I feel technology is constantly evolving. And I have a feeling that mobile...
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January 6, 2021
What does sensing the future mean? | Sadhguru in Conversation with Ranveer Singh | #5
Synopsis: So today we are here essentially to sense the future. Now what is this? Why have we given this title to this session? Sensing the future. Now I’ve heard you before, saying, the moment right now is eternity. This time travel, past, future, is all nothing. Everything is now.
Synopsis: So today we are here essentially to sense the future. Now what is this?...
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January 6, 2021
What is success? | Sadhguru in Conversation with Ranveer Singh | #4
Synopsis: You mentioned success. You know, and everybody, you know I’ve noticed everybody is trying to define success. Along the way, I came across a meaning that I really liked. It was, success is the magnitude of the beneficial footprint that you can leave on the society, i like that definition. One of the definitions of success that I liked. But what is your take on this...
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Synopsis: You mentioned success. You know, and everybody, you know I’ve noticed...
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January 6, 2021
Is sports all about winning? | Sadhguru in Conversation with Ranveer Singh | #3
Synopsis: You thoroughly enjoyed watching the football. But what do you think about, what is your take on sports? It’s competition, it’s, isn’t it based on one-upmanship? Aren't you telling young kids that it’s about winning, you know? As a child, I didn’t get any kick from winning. It was very minimal for me. I used to really just enjoy playing cricket, playing football....
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Synopsis: You thoroughly enjoyed watching the football. But what do you think about,...
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January 6, 2021
Sadhguru, you went for the world cup? | Sadhguru in Conversation with Ranveer Singh | #2
Synopsis: You went for the world cup?
Synopsis: You went for the world cup?
January 6, 2021
Sadhguru, do you dance? | Sadhguru in Conversation with Ranveer Singh | #1
Synopsis: Do you dance?
Synopsis: Do you dance?
January 6, 2021
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...
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January 4, 2021
How to expand one’s horizon? | Sadhguru at University of Michigan | #5
Synopsis: So the summary of that will be that, as people, we choose to learn those things that we think have value in it, not things that transform them. Correct? So how do you suggest that one can expand his or her horizon to see beyond what his/her logic tells them to do or not do?
Synopsis: So the summary of that will be that, as people, we choose to learn those...
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January 4, 2021
Should you do what you love, or love what you do? | Sadhguru at University of Michigan | #4
Synopsis: As we graduate from school and leave university, and go into the corporate world. A lot of people follow their passion and take an unconventional path. My question is, should you do what you love, or should you love what you do?
Synopsis: As we graduate from school and leave university, and go into the corporate...
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January 4, 2021
How do you define the clarity of purpose in life? | Sadhguru at University of Michigan | #3
Synopsis: So, one of the questions that keeps popping up in everyone’s mind is, how do you define the clarity of purpose in your life? And that’s something that you’ve probably been asked multiple times before. But this is something that we still struggle with. And we easily get influenced by people around us, and we get distracted from what we truly are passionate about....
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Synopsis: So, one of the questions that keeps popping up in everyone’s mind is,...
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January 4, 2021
Is human being a lifelong learning machine? | Sadhguru at University of Michigan | #2
Synopsis: I tend to follow the same thing, that you mentioned that the education system needs to be changed. So on the same note, that the education system needs to be changed. It’s more to say that learning and adapting, it’s anyone’s life’s integral part. You need to adapt with how it’s happening around you. Also, Charlie Munger said that human being needs to be a...
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Synopsis: I tend to follow the same thing, that you mentioned that the education...
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January 4, 2021
How should we adapt to the changes in the world? | Sadhguru at University of Michigan | #1
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Synopsis: In the past couple of years we’ve seen that change is coming in multiple...
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January 4, 2021
Sadhguru, what has had the most profound impact on you? | Sadhguru in Conversation with Matthew Hayden | #14
Synopsis: What event, decision, experience, or period, has had the most profound impact on your life?
Synopsis: What event, decision, experience, or period, has had the most profound...
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January 2, 2021
How to cope with negativity around you? | Sadhguru in Conversation with Matthew Hayden | #13
Synopsis: Sometimes, we’re in a situation where we’re surrounded by people who have a very high expectation of us. And when you can’t fulfil their expectation, you start feeling a very terrible feeling of guilt. And, it’s okay when it’s your mother-in-law, I’m kind of cool with that. But, sometimes it’s your parents, for example. Sometimes it’s the people who are...
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Synopsis: Sometimes, we’re in a situation where we’re surrounded by people...
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January 2, 2021
How to think positively? | Sadhguru in Conversation with Matthew Hayden | #12
Synopsis: How do you think positively in circumstances or, you know, external factors that are very negative?
Synopsis: How do you think positively in circumstances or, you know, external factors...
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January 2, 2021
Is there a false expectation? | Sadhguru in Conversation with Matthew Hayden | #4
Synopsis: Expectation. We were talking about, before we came on the stage, in a cricket context. T20 cricket is, you know, something that people love. They love the sixes, they love the fours. But using that metaphorically, converting that into a conversation around humanity. Is there a false expectation? Is that what’s also setting up humanity for the positive aspects but also...
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Synopsis: Expectation. We were talking about, before we came on the stage, in a...
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January 2, 2021
What is the spirit of collaboration? | Sadhguru in Conversation with Matthew Hayden | #2
Synopsis: Let’s focus for a second on collaboration, because as an individual, I can take it that the Isha Foundation is something which is now a global movement. So talk to me about the spirit of collaboration. I mean, how you’ve developed, built these organisms like a human body that. You might describe yourself as, maybe a platelet within the human body. You know, there’s...
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Synopsis: Let’s focus for a second on collaboration, because as an individual,...
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January 2, 2021
What’s the force that strung us all together? | Sadhguru in Conversation with Matthew Hayden | #1
Synopsis: Is there a specific reason why we’re gathered here in your opinion? What’s the force that strung us all together?
Synopsis: Is there a specific reason why we’re gathered here in your opinion?...
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January 2, 2021
How to learn to accept the truth? | Sadhguru at Christ University | #13
Synopsis: How to learn to accept the truth? Because most of the time, truth is bitter and it is a hard path. So I always tend to make few adjustments and assumptions, which will make my life little easy, but I’m far from the truth. So how do I start learning to accept the truth?
Synopsis: How to learn to accept the truth? Because most of the time, truth is...
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January 1, 2021
How will I know if my decision is right or wrong? | Sadhguru at Christ University | #12
Synopsis: There’s always the right or wrong decision. Whether the decision is right or wrong, is only eventually realized. How will I know if I’m taking the right decision or wrong decision?
Synopsis: There’s always the right or wrong decision. Whether the decision is...
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January 1, 2021
Is it alright to be ordinary? | Sadhguru at Christ University | #9
Synopsis: Is it alright to be ordinary? Or should I be special in something?
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January 1, 2021
How to help those who are unwilling to do yoga? | Sadhguru at Christ University | #5
Synopsis: In helplessness, many youngsters start thinking about taking the extreme step of ending their life. On this topic, many questions were asked. One of them is, many of my close friends are suicidal. What could I do to help my friends to get rid of this thought? And, they don’t want to do yoga.
Synopsis: In helplessness, many youngsters start thinking about taking the extreme...
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January 1, 2021
How can we get back our interest and enthusiasm in life? | Sadhguru at Christ University | #4
Synopsis: There are times when you feel worn out. It might be because of the external pressure, or emotional trauma that we’re going through. Or because of the lack of inner strength. In such a situation, or such a circumstance, what do you think would help us get back our interest and enthusiasm in life?
Synopsis: There are times when you feel worn out. It might be because of the external...
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January 1, 2021
How to build self-esteem? | Sadhguru at Christ University | #2
Synopsis: I often find myself in a situation where I’m not happy with myself. I compare my abilities, achievements, and even my appearance, with that of others. Also, I think since I’m a humanities student, people around me constantly compare me with my other friends who have taken up medicine or engineering. And that really puts me off. And I think that’s one reason for...
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Synopsis: I often find myself in a situation where I’m not happy with myself....
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January 1, 2021
What is the relationship between work that I need to do within myself and work that I need to do outside? | Sadhguru at Harvard University | #2
Synopsis: Taking forward the theme, Sadhguru, about the process inside and work outside. When we look around the country today, we see so many problems affecting our fellow Indians. Poverty, discrimination on the basis of religion and caste, and inequality. And of course, when I look inside myself also there are problems. I’m very far from having a good process, I’m definitely...
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Synopsis: Taking forward the theme, Sadhguru, about the process inside and work...
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December 31, 2020
How do we put in effort without being attached to the results? | Sadhguru at Harvard University | #1
Synopsis: In the Bhagavad Gita, Lord Krishna advises us to keep putting in effort without being attached to the results. But, I find it incredibly hard to keep working and not obsess over the results. And, I would love to know how we can better practice putting in effort while being detached to the results.
Synopsis: In the Bhagavad Gita, Lord Krishna advises us to keep putting in effort...
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December 31, 2020
How can we fix the problem of water crisis? | Sadhguru at Shiva Nadar College | #4
Synopsis: So Sadhguru, speaking of Chennai and change. All of us here are undergoing one of the biggest changes in our lives. Because up until now, we haven’t really faced the shortage of a basic necessity, that is like, water, or food, or shelter. But now Chennai is facing one of the biggest water crises, I think in history. Where they predict in 10 years the city’s going...
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Synopsis: So Sadhguru, speaking of Chennai and change. All of us here are undergoing...
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December 31, 2020
Suppose humanity makes it past this tumultuous phase, what would we do? | Sadhguru at Shiva Nadar College | #2
Synopsis: It feels like at every point in human history, for society, there’s always been this one challenge or one recurring. For instance, for most of human history, a society’s main issue would have been to protect itself from outsiders. In my opinion, right now, humanity’s or society’s issue is climate change or nuclear war. So, it feels like solving this has been...
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Synopsis: It feels like at every point in human history, for society, there’s...
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December 31, 2020
Don’t suppress your desires – it is natural to be greedy
Transcript: We must look at this. All life on this planet, anything that you take. A worm, an insect, a bird, an animal, a tree, or a human being. The only thing that every life is aspiring for is, it is trying to become a full-fledged life. An earthworm is trying to be a full-fledged earthworm. A grasshopper is trying to be a full-fledged grasshopper. A mango tree is trying to be a full-fledged mango tree. So...
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Transcript: We must look at this. All life on this planet, anything that you take. A worm, an insect, a bird, an...
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December 31, 2020
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...
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Transcript: The simplest and the most fundamental thing that you can do in your life is, that you're life always....
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December 30, 2020
Why should I believe you Sadhguru?
Transcript: What is a good student and what is a good guru or mentor? How would you define a really good student, bad student, good guru, bad guru? You have already claimed the mantle of being a good student. So I think I am free to claim the mantle of being a good guru. For a good student there is no problem. Wherever he goes, he will learn. Whatever he meets, he will learn. A good guru is one who doesn't teach...
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Transcript: What is a good student and what is a good guru or mentor? How would you define a really good student,...
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December 29, 2020
How can I go through my life effortlessly?
Transcript: The most important thing, the most important aspect of my life is I never identified anything as small or big. Even today, I pay the same level of attention to everything. I have no, anything small or big. I have to kind of encapsulate that I can say this. You know, my daughter has been traveling with me since she was three and a half months of age. So that was a time when I was driving across India,...
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Transcript: The most important thing, the most important aspect of my life is I never identified anything as small...
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December 26, 2020
An Individual human being is the only reality – society, nation, world are just words
Transcript: Essentially a long spell of peaceful, civilized life, a long spell. You must understand this. The reason why we got this long spell is, in the North, we were protected by the Himalayan ranges. In the South, by the Indian Ocean. So this is Himalaya, the Indian Ocean that we call today as Indian Ocean, at that time was called as Indusagara. This is why we took the identity, he and du. Hindu. Hindu is...
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Transcript: Essentially a long spell of peaceful, civilized life, a long spell. You must understand this. The reason...
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December 24, 2020
Did you know – The human brain is always looking for intoxication!
Transcript: You must understand, whatever stimulants, whatever stimulus you may take from outside, essentially human experience of all kinds is caused only from within. The question is only are you on push-start, or are you on self-start. Which is better, technologically? Self-start. So if I teach you, suppose I teach you that you can simply sit here and be totally blissed out, more stoned than anybody on the...
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Transcript: You must understand, whatever stimulants, whatever stimulus you may take from outside, essentially human...
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December 24, 2020
Living Consciously – The only real solution in life
Transcript: This is a fantastic planet, has nurtured not one or two life forms, millions of life forms. The sheer variety of life of animals, birds, plants, insects and worms that we have on this planet is mind-boggling. Our ability to gobble up the resources on the planet is too much. We exploited the land, we exploited the oceans, our idea of life has become exploitation. From an atom to anything, we are seeing...
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Transcript: This is a fantastic planet, has nurtured not one or two life forms, millions of life forms. The sheer...
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December 23, 2020
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...
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Transcript: See we are always thinking of changing the system. I'm not saying it should not, it should. But, within...
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December 22, 2020
Storytelling – Sadhguru on Gautama Buddha’s enlightenment
Transcript: Gautama went to every known master of the time. He was intellectually so brilliant and his longing so great, if he went to a place, what normally somebody would pick it up in years, he would do it in weeks. The eight types of Samadhis, he achieved all eight of them but still he knew this is not fullness of life. Still longing. When nothing else worked, he took to an extreme path which is called a Samanas....
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Transcript: Gautama went to every known master of the time. He was intellectually so brilliant and his longing so...
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December 21, 2020
Can you become a mother to the world? Try it to experience boundless joy!
Transcript: The beauty of motherhood is not in reproduction. The beauty of motherhood is in inclusion. Yes? It's not because your mother reproduced you, that's not why a mother is precious. Because in many ways she saw you as a part of herself, it's because of that. Suppose your mother delivered you and never bothered about you, she will be your worst enemy, isn't it? The willingness to include another life as...
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Transcript: The beauty of motherhood is not in reproduction. The beauty of motherhood is in inclusion. Yes? It's...
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December 20, 2020
Have you done an audit of your life? Learn how you can do one
Transcript: People always kept account of money and things that they have. But, very few people kept accounts of how they are, or they're progressing, or regressing, or what is happening. People have taken on this mode, if small things go wrong in their life, they'll find one little person down there and say it's because of him. I'm talking about the husband. If big things go wrong, it's because of him, the big...
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Transcript: People always kept account of money and things that they have. But, very few people kept accounts of...
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December 19, 2020
Is it a problem or a possibility – A simple way to know the difference
Transcript: Not every situation which seems like a solution is actually a solution. And not every situation which seems like a problem is a problem. So what is a problem? What is a possibility? It's like this, there was a little bird in Michigan, United States. And winter was just sitting in. This is the time he has to move South to warmer climes. But he was a little too happy and tweeting around, you know. He...
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Transcript: Not every situation which seems like a solution is actually a solution. And not every situation which...
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December 18, 2020
Don’t become a rich beggar
Transcript: Raise the bar of survival, keep on raising it. What was your idea of survival 25 years ago? What was your idea of survival 15 years ago? What is your idea of survival today? It's raising the bar, isn't it? Two meals a day was survival when you didn't have anything, if you have known such a state, it's good to know those things. But now maybe mercedes is survival. In every different segment of society,...
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Transcript: Raise the bar of survival, keep on raising it. What was your idea of survival 25 years ago? What was...
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December 14, 2020
Is common sense more important than intelligence?
Transcript: There's common sense, there is sense and there's something beyond sense. With common sense your survival process gets handled. You don't have to be brilliant, you just have common sense. You will survive pretty good. You could turn out quite street smart actually. If somebody very intelligent is walking down the street, let's say Albert Einstein is walking down the street, a street urchin can easily...
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Transcript: There's common sense, there is sense and there's something beyond sense. With common sense your survival...
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December 13, 2020
Just make this one distinction and your life will be completely transformed
Transcript: You must clearly evaluate in your life. How much of your life is happening from outside, around you? How much of it is just your psychological structure? This is something, distinctly, you must draw a line on this. What is, right now we're sitting here, what's happening here? What am I doing within myself? This distinct line, if you sit up what is happening in my mind? What is happening around me?...
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Transcript: You must clearly evaluate in your life. How much of your life is happening from outside, around you?...
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December 11, 2020
Don’t do things that you like!
Transcript: There is a very big difference between doing what I like and doing what is needed. When you start doing what is needed, there is no such thing as what is it that I like and what is it that I do not like. If you just transcend this one thing, that I like something, I dislike something. If you just transcend this one thing, 90% of your spiritual work is over. That's all. Because the karma generating...
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Transcript: There is a very big difference between doing what I like and doing what is needed. When you start doing...
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December 9, 2020
The extraordinary powers of Sadhguru’s grandmother
Transcript: You know my great grandmother. People used to say, she's a devil of a woman. When I saw her, she was over 100 years of age. They called her a devil of a woman not because she ever did any harm to anybody, but she had a laugh. If she laughed, the entire street shook. Like that she laughed. She lived to be 113, 113 years of age. She was married into a very rich family, a big land-holding family. When...
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Transcript: You know my great grandmother. People used to say, she's a devil of a woman. When I saw her, she was...
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December 5, 2020
The significance of dancing and singing
Transcript: So in terms of dance, see, I must tell you this. We come from a culture where all our gods dance. Everywhere else god is a serious guy, a very serious guy. But in India, if he doesn't dance, we won't treat him as a god. All Indian gods, male and female, always dance because if they can't dance, he can't be god. Because dance essentially means that life is happening, see dancing in a particular style...
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Transcript: So in terms of dance, see, I must tell you this. We come from a culture where all our gods dance. Everywhere...
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December 1, 2020
The missed opportunity of MJ and Elvis’s genius
Transcript: See, Michael Jackson had the power to inspire a whole generation of people. What he did was so unique and eye-catching anywhere in the world. I'm telling you, in the remotest part of India, in some village where there is no nothing, they know Michael Jackson. I mean that's a level of inspiration he brought in. A whole lot of youth dancing like him in India. In imitation of him. So that was a powerful...
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Transcript: See, Michael Jackson had the power to inspire a whole generation of people. What he did was so unique...
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November 30, 2020
Not finding time for yoga?
Transcript: So my question, it's a little personal, based on where I live. So I live in Montana. Much of Montana is very rural, they're only about 900, 000 people in the whole state. There are more cows than people in Montana. But there's a lot of poverty in Montana, people really struggle to earn a living there. So people often are working 2-3 jobs, very busy, not such great access to fresh food or good food,...
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Transcript: So my question, it's a little personal, based on where I live. So I live in Montana. Much of Montana...
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November 28, 2020
How to deal with a bad day?
Transcript: Why are you trying to label a day as a bad day, or a good day? It is only human beings who, in their experience, they do these things to themselves. Why they do these things to themselves is, see today there was a glorious sunrise. Millions of flowers blossomed across the planet, so many wonderful things are happening, even the stars are twinkling right now, the moon is full today, everything is fantastic....
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Transcript: Why are you trying to label a day as a bad day, or a good day? It is only human beings who, in their...
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November 25, 2020
Misconception – those on the spiritual path should withdraw from society
Transcript: Whether you're political, or spiritual, or you're in a commercial venture, or you're doing nothing, you're a citizen of this nation. You have rights and responsibilities of being in this country. Each person, according to his understanding of his rights and responsibility, and his intelligence and capability, should act to better everything around us, because we are all benefiting from the platform...
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Transcript: Whether you're political, or spiritual, or you're in a commercial venture, or you're doing nothing, you're...
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November 23, 2020
What does the word ‘Sadhguru’ mean?
Transcript: Are your thinkings rooted in religion, meaning traditional Hindu practice, Shivaism or is it rooted in the practice you mention of yoga? Which is, of course, a practice which is secular but still related to traditional Indian thinking. I mean how will you describe your relationship to Indian traditional thinking and religion? See, for me, when people refer to me as a Sadhguru, what they are saying...
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Transcript: Are your thinkings rooted in religion, meaning traditional Hindu practice, Shivaism or is it rooted in...
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November 22, 2020
Whats in a name – Bharat or India?
Transcript: The name India is given to us. It's an English name. This is the technology of dominance. You must see this, when they imported slaves from Africa, the first thing they did in the port was to change their name. To call you Cucu, Tobo, Nono, Pupo, something like this. If I call you Padmanaban, now you're standing like this. I call you Cucu, you're. First thing is to give a meaningless name which has...
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Transcript: The name India is given to us. It's an English name. This is the technology of dominance. You must see...
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November 21, 2020
What is ‘good’ and what is ‘bad’ – how to find out?
Transcript: I'm trying to equate this to like, polarity. I mean we have, we have light and dark, we have hot and cold, do we have an evil and not evil if you will? Or a good and bad? See, good and bad is not in terms of your belief, or your idea. Anything that sustains and enhances life is what life should be looking for. See, don't look at yourself as a person, don't look at yourself as a man, don't look at yourself...
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Transcript: I'm trying to equate this to like, polarity. I mean we have, we have light and dark, we have hot and...
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November 19, 2020
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...
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Transcript: I wanted to know basically, how to control excitement? If you could give me an easy or simple way, which...
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November 16, 2020
Listen to the birds for a better weather forecast than meteorologist
Transcript: One thing that we can know from birds, probably better than any meteorological instruments is, if we listen to them carefully, we would know the meteorological conditions, or the weather patterns very well. Many studies have observed this, on the banks of Ganga and also Narmada river, certain birds, which nest very close to the water, by looking at where they build the nest at what height, people know...
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Transcript: One thing that we can know from birds, probably better than any meteorological instruments is, if we...
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November 13, 2020
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