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How to inspire your child to do yoga?

How to inspire your child to do yoga?

Sadhguru, in line with the yoga question, I remember for last year we concentrated on children. So, my question is what types of yoga can children do, and what are the benefits, specific benefits and how to inspire them? ...

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Why Children Must Also Learn Native Language

Why Children Must Also Learn Native Language

During an education conference, someone asks Sadhguru - "What is your opinion of teaching in native language vs teaching in English?". Sadhguru says, English has benefits in terms of simplicity and ease of use of modern technology - so learning English language is a must. But ...

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What is the root cause of fear?

What is the root cause of fear?

Mixing up memory and imagination is the root cause of fear. Sadhguru tells us that the modern education system is one of the reasons for this. ...

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What is research, especially in social science?

What is research, especially in social science?

Sadhguru, let us move from politics to research. So, JNU is well known for research. And there are 8,000 students on this campus. More than 50% of the students are into research. Sadhguru, a question has been bothering me for many years. And since ...

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How to tell your parents what you want to do in life?

How to tell your parents what you want to do in life?

Also speaking of schooling, and parents, and careers. Right now, we’re in an age where there’s so many different offbeat careers coming up. As youtubers, we get this question all the time. You know, how did you talk to your parents about it? ...

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Is education the cause for a varied perception of tolerance and intolerance?

Is education the cause for a varied perception of tolerance and intolerance?

Pranam Sadhguru. I’m Srinavas. Everybody is aware about the debate on tolerance and intolerance. The concept of intolerance is growing mostly among the public or the well-educated, that too from well known institutes. I never find the concept ...

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What are the key things we need to teach this young generation?

What are the key things we need to teach this young generation?

And looking at the society we’re living in, and the children that we’re bringing up. It’s so dynamic. If they’re looking for positive information out there, they will find what they’re looking for. If they’re looking for negative information, ...

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How much knowledge should we attain?

How much knowledge should we attain?

Sadhguru, namaskar. How much knowledge should we attain? In India, in the education system, we see that the stress is upon imparting knowledge. Whether the person understands it or implements it is invalid. So how can we change that? ...

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How can today’s children retain a sense of wonder?

How can today’s children retain a sense of wonder?

I grew up in a lower middle class family, small town. As a child, I had a great sense of wonder about everything. Till today, I have a great sense of wonder. I'm very happy to be talking to you. I don't see that in today's children. I don't see a sense of wonder in today's children. ...

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We must stop fear based education

We must stop fear based education

We are bringing up children with this fear, “If you don’t pass, you know what will happen to you?” Continuously fear-based education. That if you don’t get these many marks, you’re finished. ...

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How important is spirituality in school education?

How important is spirituality in school education?

How important is spiritual and yogic thinking in school education? How to implement it? ...

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Competition is good

Competition is good

Namaskaram Sadhguru. So, I’m saying that the idea of competition is so much ingrained in our minds - not even at the school level, but even at the postgraduate level, or any aspect of our lives - that it creates a lot of unnecessary stress, so what can be really done about this? ...

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Does language impact intelligence?

Does language impact intelligence?

The phonetic range that is there in Indian languages is such, it stimulates every aspect of who you are. English language has a very narrow fanatic range. So this ability to use sounds to stimulate and trigger one’s intelligence, and energy within ourselves is something that ...

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Should students remain neutral and not identify with any political ideology?

Should students remain neutral and not identify with any political ideology?

Sadhguru, next question is, you know JNU is a very politically vibrant campus. And it is impossible, or impractical to be apolitical in this campus. One way, or other way, we are labelled to a particular ideology, right, left, center. I give you an example - when I came to this ...

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What is an ideal education system?

What is an ideal education system?

Sadhguru, my question is regarding the education system, which is followed everywhere, especially in India. So Sadhguru, my question is, what exactly is the ideal education system that we should have in our country so that we can explore every dimension of life, keeping intact ...

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Should university students be involved in politics?

Should university students be involved in politics?

Sadhguru, we would like to little further this question here. Though, it is a dangerous question to be asked here in this campus. So, when I entered the campus as a student, I used to think, why to enter in politics? Just make my career and leave the university. So I had this ...

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How can we expand our identities to help less privileged people?

How can we expand our identities to help less privileged people?

Thank you so much for having this event. My name is Prem. I am a sophomore student studying History. And, my question is about this idea of cosmic or global identity. I think its no secret that many of us here, no matter where we came from before this, we now have a certain level ...

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How can I learn about myself?

How can I learn about myself?

So, my question is that, we learned that we are sophisticated machinery, and that we must learn how that sophisticated machinery works. But how do we approach that? How do we go about learning how this sophisticated machinery works?   ...

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I find no purpose in studying. What else to do?

I find no purpose in studying. What else to do?

And, the next question is - I am sure many of my friends will relate to this question. We find no purpose in what we are studying, and we feel we’re studying just for the sake of marks. And, we feel, most of the time, we regret the decisions we have made. We feel trapped sitting ...

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How to become a lifelong learner?

How to become a lifelong learner?

I tend to follow the same thing, that you mentioned that the education system needs to be changed to adapt. So on the same note, that the education system needs to be changed. And it’s more to say that learning and adapting is anyone’s life’s ...