Relationships

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Is a mother’s love truly unconditional?

As a mother, I have a lot of expectations from myself. And at the same time with Mother Earth also, there is a lot of expectation, and we keep thinking that it will keep giving us unconditional love. I wanted to know your thoughts on that. ...

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How to end a relationship gracefully?

Namaskaram Sadhguru. Why is there so much pain when a relationship breaks? I'm not able to move on because it has left a vacuum in me. ...

#4 of 74

10 min Watch / Listen • 7 min Read

How to deal with an unfaithful partner?

If somebody cheats on you, is it wrong to punish that person, or to believe they will be punished one day? ...

#5 of 74

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One simple way to avoid friction with people

One simple thing you can do to reduce friction is, I’ve told you many times but you’ve not done this is - whatever you’re saying in a day, or in an hour, or in a minute - how many words per minute are you uttering? Bring it down to 50%. ...

#6 of 74

3 min Watch / Listen • 3 min Read

When to ‘break up’?

Romance means, that you are looking at the beautiful side of life. Human relationships are still need based. Physical needs, psychological needs, emotional needs, social needs, financial needs, variety of needs are there. To fulfil those needs, people come together. Now whether ...

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8 min Watch / Listen • 6 min Read

Is it ok to use ‘dating apps’?

Namaskaram Sadhguru. My name is Kshitij. And, in this big jigsaw puzzle that we are navigating, a small part of it is our dating life, and our relationships. And, that's what we as a company help the youth, let's say from 18-40, 45 years of age. Help them navigate. And, one of ...

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Have you taken charge of your life?

Everyone deserves a pleasant experience of life. The best gift you can give anyone is to offer them the tools to engineer themselves into joyful human beings. We must understand, never ever will life and the world will happen 100% the way you want it. The only thing that can ...

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What is boundless love?

Once you experience all life forms as a part of yourself, you cannot help but fall in love with everything around you. It is only by generating this profound sense of love in millions of people, can we genuinely transform this world. Love not born out of personal relationship, ...

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Be Inspired / Relationships / Wisdom For Seekers

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How to handle conflict?

It is the limited identities of race, religion, nationality which breed conflict and violence. Our attachment to boundaries, the source of it is in our attachment to our physical form, that is our body. So, it’s important that every human being should have this experience of ...

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What is the root cause of Envy & Jealousy

The fundamental nature of jealousy and envy is a feeling of inadequacy. If you were really blissful, you would not be envious of anyone. Your only idea of life is in comparison with others. Your only idea of life is about being better than somebody. That is your idea of success. ...

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Relationships / Wisdom For Seekers

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How do I know if I found my true love?

If it's really genuine true love, what it means is, you have made your emotions very pleasant. Whether a man is here, or a woman is here, or a tree is here, ant is here, elephant is here, is not the point. You've just made your emotions pleasant. Everything that you behold, you ...

#13 of 74

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How to deal with someone’s ego?

It is just that we tend to attribute all our 'bad' behaviour to Mr. Ego. There is no ego. There is just you. Sometimes pleasant, sometimes unpleasant, sometimes beautiful, sometimes horrible. Only once someone realises this, they can move towards being pleasant, and the moments ...

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Relationships / Wisdom For Seekers

9 min Watch / Listen • 6 min Read

My partner is not interested in spirituality

Questioner: Namaskaram Sadhguru. I am in a relationship with very bitter person, who is not interested in spirituality. How can I handle my relationship without losing my way on the spiritual path? ...

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7 min Watch / Listen • 6 min Read

What really is true Love?

You know, it's like a button these days that you get to meet someone, you fall in love and then you say, "No, this is not the right person," and now you fall with the person or other. So, what exactly is true love, and can real love really happen twice, thrice? So, I was really ...

#16 of 74

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How to deal with nasty people?

Recognise people around you for the best that you have seen in them. In recognising the best, instead of the worst, you will kindle, nurture, and receive the best of everyone. Well, when you live in this world, when you’re active, so many people will say and do variety of nasty ...

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14 min Watch / Listen • 7 min Read

Why do breakups lead to suicide?

Namaskaram Sadhguru. There are many young people who end their life because of failed relationships. Why does it happen and what can be done about this disturbing situation? ...

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Relationships / Success

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How to handle expectations and dejections?

How does one handle expectations and dejections towards oneself from others? ...

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What is my duty towards my parents?

I always wanted to be a musician. But my father sent me for B.Tech in Andhra Pradesh. I ran away from hostel. I came back to Delhi, he put me into law, I quit that.. Now I want to volunteer for Rally for Rivers. My father has asked - "what is my responsibility as a son for my ...

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Unconditional Love – Does it Exist?

Is what we think as love a mere arrangement and relationship? What really is love? Sadhguru tells us that love can only be unconditional, because it is not dependent on the other person. It something you experience within yourself. ...

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Relationships / Yogic Physiology

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The Power of Love

Love should always be a liberating process. Not an entangling one. Unless you're trying to use love as a way of extracting something from someone. Unless you're using love as a transactional process. There is no way love can be entangling. ...

#22 of 74

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How does synchronicity happen between two people?

My question is this - In my friend's circles, there are a lot of us experiencing, what we've coined - you know, synchronicities, or God's winks. A lot of us are seeing - like repeating numbers... 2-2-2, 11-11, 3-3-3, 4-4-4, 10-10, 12-12, you know. It's beyond just the numbers. ...

#23 of 74

4:56 min Watch

Should we have low expectations from everything?

Well that brings me to I think, I believe the mother of a virus that plagues a large part of humanity, is expectation. I have a simple theory that I try to expect less because then I feel that I’ll be disappointed less. And I feel that to curtail ...

Sadhguru in conversation with Karan Johar

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12:43 min Watch

Is there a limit to love?

Is there a ceiling to extremity? To extreme emotion. Like, love. When you love something. Is there a time you have to stop? Is there any such thing as stopping the extent of your extreme emotion? And I feel that about even the negative emotions. ...

Sadhguru in conversation with Karan Johar

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Be Inspired / Relationships / Success

7:47 min Watch

How do we break away from a negative pattern and attract a positive one?

My question is that we often tend to attract patterns in our life. The pattern can be good or bad. It can be abusive relationships, it can be successes, it can be failures. So how do we break away from a negative pattern and attract a positive ...

Sadhguru in conversation with Kangana Ranaut

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7:23 min Watch

What advice would you give to young people courting?

So, I’m bringing us back, for a moment, to family Sadhguru. And one of the things that is happening in Kenya, with much of our young society, is that we have a lot of single families. How many single parent families? How many people are aware ...

Sadhguru in conversation with Julie Gichuru

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6:30 min Watch

Why is it that today many youngsters don’t want to get married?

Today, many youngsters don’t want to marry. And few of them who marry, there are occasions where they are getting divorced. So, would you like to throw some light on this situation? ...

Sadhguru in conversation with Juhi Chawla

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3:38 min Watch

How can we reinforce the real feeling of love?

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Sadhguru in conversation with Juhi Chawla

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6:52 min Watch

Where do we draw a line between loving unconditionally and becoming a doormat?

Where and how do we draw a line between loving unconditionally and becoming a doormat? ...

Sadhguru in conversation with Juhi Chawla

#30 of 74

5:32 min Watch

Is love inclusiveness?

Is love inclusiveness? I can’t understand how I can love everybody in this room. So how do you include everybody in your love? ...

Sadhguru in conversation with Juhi Chawla

#31 of 74

5:56 min Watch

Should love be unconditional or conditional?

Sadhguru, you just mentioned love. And today it is about life and love. And I would like to know, for us it is, maybe love your family members, whoever it could be. Why I ask you this is, because there’s so many versions of this and I really ...

Sadhguru in conversation with Juhi Chawla

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