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How to deal with confusion

How to deal with confusion

Confused mind is good. If you know how to organise your confusion, if you know how to handle your confusion, if you know how to increase the enormity of your confusion consciously, if you can handle your confusion consciously – mind is a very productive instrument. If you are ...

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Secrets of the dead

Secrets of the dead

Why are disembodied beings (ghosts) drawn to a tamarind tree, or a yogi or to cobra? Can possession by disembodied beings be nullified? If yes, then how? What really is heaven and hell? How is it determined whether one will go to heaven or hell? What happens when one consciously ...

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Number 108: What is it’s significance?

Number 108: What is it’s significance?

Today Neuroscientists are telling us that, because of physical laws, human brain cannot evolve further. Adiyogi told this 15,000 years ago, that your physical evolution is complete, and unless drastic changes happen in the solar system - physically, you can not further evolve. ...

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Sadhguru discovers a Linga in Europe

Sadhguru discovers a Linga in Europe

I was in Turkey just two weeks ago. You've heard of Konya? So we were just walking through, and there in the garden, I found about four and a half feet or more about four feet nine inches kind of Linga. Properly created Linga. An ellipsoid stone. Wow! And, when we looked at the ...

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How to become master of your own destiny?

How to become master of your own destiny?

'Destiny' a simple escape from all the nonsense you have done to your life. For all the nonsense that you have done to your life, destiny is a simple escape. Oh! It’s my destiny, that’s why I’m like this. Now whatever you call as your destiny is also self-created. You 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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The power of imagination

The power of imagination

To make mental process just like a physical process is what tantra is trying to do. To make imagination so strong that after some time it is like physical. You actually create a ghost or you create a god, both are possible. Both are possible – any kind of form you want, you ...

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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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Positive Thinking: How to remove negative thoughts?

Positive Thinking: How to remove negative thoughts?

There is nothing like negative thought, or positive thought. Can you forcefully remove any thought from your mind. The nature of the mind is such that it can only add and multiply. So, what one should work towards is to distance oneself from the mind, rather than trying to forcefully ...

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Can we chant Mantras without knowing the meaning?

Can we chant Mantras without knowing the meaning?

What chanting a mantra can do to you? Is it ok to chant a mantra without knowing the meaning? ...

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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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From where does life enter the body?

From where does life enter the body?

If you have a newborn baby in your home, you would see a certain part of the skull is not formed. Have you noticed this? So the child has to be handled gently. That part is just skin, there is no bone. So this part, in the yogic terminology is referred to as Brahmarandhra. Randhra ...

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Can Indian classical music activate the chakras?

Can Indian classical music activate the chakras?

The whole existence is a reverberation of energy, which is sound. Human beings can listen to a limited range of frequency. With Sadhana, in a state of Rithambra Pragna, a human being can listen to sounds beyond the normal range. Indian classical music is not just for entertainment, ...

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Why do we burn incense?

Why do we burn incense?

Question: Namaskaram Sadhguru. Incense has been used for thousands of years in almost every culture, to invoke Gods, support meditation, and for healing and medicinal purposes. Burning herbs and resins has especially been a big part of both Indian history, as ...

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Rithambra Pragna: Mantra & Yantra Demystified

Rithambra Pragna: Mantra & Yantra Demystified

Pragna means 'perception'. For every sound there is a form. Sadhguru explains the relationship between Mantra (arrangement of sounds), and Yantra (the associated form). ...

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Can Classical Music Heal?

Can Classical Music Heal?

What is the difference between Sound and Music? What is the difference between Words and Sound? Words are of the mind, psychological reality, whereas Sounds are of existential reality. With the right sounds, it is very much possible to heal! ...

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Can one remain aware in Sleep?

Can one remain aware in Sleep?

I'd just like to ask a question about awareness. For example, when I sleep I'm not aware of that or when I dream, I'm not aware that I'm dreaming, and I think it's real. So I wanted to ask you what happens to you when you sleep? ...

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How to overcome emotional & physiological cycles?

How to overcome emotional & physiological cycles?

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? ...

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What is the purpose of life?

What is the purpose of life?

Does soul exist? And one more, what is the purpose of life? ...

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The mystical birth of Ganesha

The mystical birth of Ganesha

Whenever Shiva went away, which was often, and mostly always for 12 years, Parvati came down to #Manasarovar. This is where #Ganesha was born, through Parvati's tantrik powers. Sadhguru tells the story of how Shiva took off Ganesha's head, and put a 'Gana's' head, making him ...

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How to die gracefully?

How to die gracefully?

Sadhguru tells us that the one certainty in our lives is that one day we will die! Though it is the only certainty, still we don't come to terms with it. Sadhguru tells how snakes, particularly cobras, when they know they are going to die, they will find a perch, and go there ...

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How to harness the full capabilities of your mind ?

How to harness the full capabilities of your mind ?

Why humans dominate this planet is because of our ability to use mind. But are you harnessing your capability to the fullest? There are 5 major points of receptivity in one's mind - centres of memory, imagination, perception, perversion and sleep.  There are people (called Avadhanis) ...

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If you live past 84 years, you will not be reborn

If you live past 84 years, you will not be reborn

'May you have a long life' is a much sought after blessing in the Indian tradition and not without a reason. If one has witnessed 1008 full moons (84 years), something miraculous happens in the human energy system freeing oneself from the cycles of birth and death. ...

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The man who wanted supernatural powers

The man who wanted supernatural powers

Is there a secret mantra to end all your miseries and bring permanent bliss? Sadhguru narrates an interesting story about a man from South India in search of a Mantra to gain magical powers, who traveled all the way to Tibet. What did the wise, old #Buddhist Monk tell him? Did ...

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How to become thoughtless?

How to become thoughtless?

Sadhguru, I wanted to know that when we are silent, still we feel that mind chattering, which always bothers us. And our thought always shifts back to past and future imaginations, which will not be any of output. How to get rid of it? ...

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Akash – Enhance your perception

Akash – Enhance your perception

Sadhguru tells us that for one to explore mystical dimensions, enhancing akash is a very vital and necessary aspect. For those on spiritual path, or those who want to enhance their perception, the most important element is akash. If one wants to perceive vigyan, that ...

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Water: How to handle for better health?

Water: How to handle for better health?

Today, scientific experiments show that water has tremendous memory. Just with emotion, and the way one touches it, it's molecular structure changes. If we want to be healthy, well, successful and prosperous, we must learn to treat water well. Sadhguru explains the right way ...

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The 5 fundamental elements explained

The 5 fundamental elements explained

How well organized the five elements are in your system decides how firm and stable and organically strong this body is. 72% of the body is just Water, 12% is Earth, 6% is Air, 4% is Fire and the remaining 6% is Space. ...

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How to manifest what you want?

How to manifest what you want?

If you organise your mind to a certain level of organisation, it in turns organises the system, your body, your emotion, your energy - everything gets organised in that direction." Once all these four aspects get aligned, then anything that you wish will manifest. ...

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What’s in a name!

What’s in a name!

What is the importance of naming a baby, based on the time of birth and place of birth? ...