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What is the solution to life?

What is the solution to life?

I’m stuck here and I want you to please guide me. Tell me in a child’s language, what is the answer and what is the solution. I don’t want to give importance to my own thoughts and emotions, tell me how. Just make me understand. ...

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Where do I learn disciplined yoga that will help me achieve my goals?

Where do I learn disciplined yoga that will help me achieve my goals?

So my question is, I would like to space dive. It’s basically going all the way up to space and diving from there. And the thing is, I’ve knocked on a 100 doors only to be turned down every single time. Even ISRO turned me down saying they ...

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Is there an end to need?

Is there an end to need?

Fundamentally, there is always a need. A need for so many things, even when you’re in your professional process. Or where you garner wealth, or income. And you keep going. There’s a need to constantly get more than what you have. There’s ...

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Benefits of walking barefoot

Benefits of walking barefoot

Questioner: Namaskaram Sadhguru. What is the significance of walking barefoot. Also, is there any additional physical and spiritual benefits of walking barefoot on Amavasya, and Shivaratri days? ...

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Is there a positive role of our traditions?

Is there a positive role of our traditions?

Can I ask your thoughts on this? In many ways we are the inheritors of our traditions. And they do influence us and shape us. Is there a positive role for the traditions from when we come? For example, if I’m going to try to inner engineer my ...

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The inner life and the outer life

The inner life and the outer life

Let’s talk about the inner life and the outer life. One thing that strikes me as so powerful about your mission in the world is that you seem to successfully broker both of those worlds. You successfully pursue both of those worlds, if you will. ...

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What does ‘Inner Engineering: A Yogi’s Guide to Joy’ mean?

What does ‘Inner Engineering: A Yogi’s Guide to Joy’ mean?

So, I was really interested in the title of your book. ‘Inner Engineering: A Yogi’s Guide to Joy’. And, those are some words that you don’t usually see often so close together. I’m thinking about engineering and joy. And a yogi. Right. ...

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How to develop an appetite for knowledge?

How to develop an appetite for knowledge?

Pranam Sadhguru. My name is Ashok. In the beginning you mentioned that we can bring chemical balance, if not mental balance, through intellectual and spiritual education. I would just like to mention that years ago, I heard one of your discourses ...

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Intensity versus dhyana

Intensity versus dhyana

Sadhguru, in one of your videos, you say that the problem with the world is that most people lack the intensity. Most people lack the necessary intensity. And then you say the way is dhyana. So intensity is more associated with fierceness and personality ...

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Where is the human being’s user manual?

Where is the human being’s user manual?

Pranam Sadhguru, You’ve been saying this for a while and I’ve been listening to you for a long time. The eye is more powerful than the iPhone. And the iPhone in the box comes with a user’s manual. And you’ve also said a lot of times that ...

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What is the right material for incense?

What is the right material for incense?

Incense burning is about the atmosphere, not about you. Because different spaces, indoors especially - in different spaces there are different kinds of - one thing is smells. There’s also different kinds of energy structures which will happen. Different shapes and sizes kind ...

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How to touch the peak of my life constantly?

How to touch the peak of my life constantly?

Sometimes my longing for enlightenment, or to touch the peak of life, it bubbles up sometimes. It goes too high, I get tears in my eyes, and then it shuts down. My question is how to keep that longing constantly high so that I can touch the peak ...

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Step 1 for everyone to start feeling that life is beautiful

Step 1 for everyone to start feeling that life is beautiful

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 ...

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What does ‘aesthetics of life’ mean?

What does ‘aesthetics of life’ mean?

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How to live consciously?

How to live consciously?

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.   ...

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How to become loving?

How to become loving?

Sadhguru, you said something about health. And you said, you do certain things for yourself. One, you’re given health, and then it is how you maintain it is, you eat well, you exercise, and then you remain healthy. Now, to be loving, maybe in ...

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Sadhguru, how was your childhood?

Sadhguru, how was your childhood?

I’m fascinated and I want to know about your life. And I’d like to know, that, were you just born brilliant? Did it begin from that very moment? I’m from the movies, and I can’t help thinking, was it like it is in story books? A vulnerable ...

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Why do we apply vibhuti?

Why do we apply vibhuti?

Questioner: You've said that yogis apply vibhuti on their body in Himalayas, and all that. What is the significance of vibhuti, and does it increase one's receptivity? ...

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Why should we leave memory aside?

Why should we leave memory aside?

I’m wondering, one of the things you were asked is, as people are recovering from certain kinds of processes, maybe they’re entering different states of consciousness that science has not yet learned about. I’m wondering if that theory is ...

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When to wear black & when to wear white?

When to wear black & when to wear white?

Something looks red not because it is red. Because, of the entire spectrum of colours which exist in the white light, it holds back everything and reflects only red. Or in other words what it rejects, becomes its colour. If you move about in areas and spaces and situations, where ...

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The fundamentals of good health

The fundamentals of good health

This human system - in yoga - we look at it as 5 sheaths, or 5 layers. 5 layers of body. In the yogic system, everything is seen as body. These are called - annamayakosha, manomayakosha, pranamayakosha, vigyanmayakosha and anandamayakosha. To create health for yourself, there ...

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What are good food habits

What are good food habits

Questioner: So, my question is, should we believe in that like the qualities of vegetarianism, non-alcoholism, celibacy? Practice them, so that we make our body fit. So that, that kriya of 11 mins will be more effective. ...

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You must bathe at least twice a day

You must bathe at least twice a day

There’s any kind of interaction, any kind of mingling and mixing of whatever kind. If you’re in a crowd for too long, when you go home first thing - you shower. You must do this. If it takes three, four, five, showers in a day, it doesn’t matter. There were times when I ...

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Benefits of cold water bath

Benefits of cold water bath

It’s always best that we use water which is little cooler than the room temperature. Just a certain volume of water to flow over you, or to be immersed in a water which is cooler than room temperature. But if you’re in a colder country, if you’re in a temperate climate, ...

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The solution to travel tiredness

The solution to travel tiredness

So with movement, with faster and faster movement, aura gets frayed. So if you wear Rudraksh, it gives you a certain cocoon, it gives a certain stability to your aura. Travel, movement can be taken well. One who is constantly eating and sleeping in different places, his body ...

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The right way to bathe (when not taking a head bath)

The right way to bathe (when not taking a head bath)

In the yogic culture, a shower, there was no shower. Bath always meant dip in the river. Always went to the river, dipped, come out and do it. If you do this, your muscles will be good. So an alternate way of doing it is, usually in our homes the pail that we use to pour water ...

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How to find and energize negative energy spaces in your house

How to find and energize negative energy spaces in your house

I want all of you today - you know your house well enough, where you need to open your eyes, you open - but just walk with your eyes closed, with your left hand outstretched a little bit, and just walk, just feel and walk around the house. You will see many parts of your house ...

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Don’t stand and eat

Don’t stand and eat

But, if you sit with food, but with legs open - like many people are standing and eating. If you stand and eat, there are many negativities to this. Because, you must understand, the longing for food is not just in your mouth. Entire body is longing for it, entire body. ...

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What is the best direction for sleeping?

What is the best direction for sleeping?

Questioner: Is there an optimal direction for our head to be facing when sleeping? ...

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Lifestyle tip: Do this before sleeping

Lifestyle tip: Do this before sleeping

So, before you go to bed in the night, there are certain things that you need to take care of: #1 Eat 3-4 hours before going to bed. #2 Take a shower. #3 Light an organic oil lamp. #4 Remind yourself - "I am not this body, I am not this mind". ...

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Is there an intersection of Technology and Yoga / Meditation?

Is there an intersection of Technology and Yoga / Meditation?

So, in today’s technological world, we know that artificial intelligence and robotics are taking over. Those are the cutting-edge technologies. So what is your take on the intersection of such technologies with the ancient practices such as meditation and yoga? ...

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Is being ecstatic the best way of being?

Is being ecstatic the best way of being?

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