- Tuesday, April 23, 2024
SPIRITUAL leader Sadhguru was discharged from a private hospital in New Delhi on Wednesday (27), days after he underwent an emergency brain surgery after suffering "life-threatening" bleeding in the skull, the Isha Foundation said. The foundation issued a statement that quoted joint managing director of the Apollo Hospitals Group, Sangita…
SPIRITUAL leader Sadhguru, who underwent an emergency brain surgery at a private hospital in New Delhi after suffering “life-threatening” bleeding in the skull, is recovering well and making steady progress, Isha foundation said on Thursday (21). In an Instagram story posted on Wednesday (20), Sadhguru’s daughter Radhe Jaggi wrote, “For…
DEVOTION is about making emotions so sweet, that the life experience becomes beautiful. But right now, what is passing off as devotion is just deception. People’s idea of devotion is, “God, I broke a coconut for you, what are you going to give me tomorrow?” This is not devotion; this…
THERE is a lot of talk about “detachment” these days, essentially because there is a fear of involvement with life. Actually, the fear is not about involvement; the fear is about entanglement. Because people do not know the distinction between involvement and entanglement, they talk about detachment. If you know…
In her first performance in India, pop star Rihanna set the stage on fire on day one of the lavish pre-wedding event of billionaire Mukesh Ambani's son Anant and his fiancee Radhika Merchant. The international music sensation, who belted out hit songs such as "Diamonds", "Where Have You Been", "Rude…
WHEN we make an attempt to cross the threshold of where we are right now and move into other dimensions of experience, a few things get mixed up. If you do not develop the necessary discrimination and balance within yourself, handling this mix-up can lead to lots of confusion. You…
Jennifer Lopez and Ben Affleck on Tuesday attended the world premiere of her film This Is Me...Now: A Love Story at the Dolby Theatre in Los Angeles. Jay Shetty, who features in the film, was also in attendance at the premiere, along with Fat Joe, Neil DeGrasse Tyson, Tony Bellissimo,…
QUESTIONS such as “What is the purpose of life?” and “Why did god put us here?” keep coming up again and again. Fundamentally, what you are asking is: why creation? The same question keeps coming up in so many different ways. When it comes to creation, you never ask why,…
Jay Shetty and Sadhguru are set to appear in Jennifer Lopez’s upcoming musical film This Is Me…Now: A Love Story. The American singer and actress recently released the trailer for This Is Me…Now: A Love Story. The trailer has the Hustlers star journeying through dreamscapes and real-world hurdles in search…
TODAY, there is much talk about water scarcity and other ecological challenges that humanity is facing. Human beings are at the root of all these issues. If any other species had perpetrated the kind of damage we have done to the planet, we would have found a way to deal…
IF ONE has to become a leader, he has to transform himself into a larger possibility. What was essentially an individual concern becomes, in some sense, a little larger concern. A leader is expected to possess a unique vision that surpasses the perspectives of others. They needn’t possess superhuman capabilities…
THERE is really no such thing as creativity. Everything that human beings have created is only an imitation and modification of what is already there. It doesn’t matter what kind of machine you create - the finest mechanical and electronic systems and the most complex chemical factories are there in…
INDIA has always been a land of absolute freedom when it comes to matters beyond material. It is in this context that the culture evolved. This is a culture with a multiplicity of thoughts, beliefs and pursuits. We call this sanatana dharma, which means an eternal religion that will always…
QUESTION: What is the role of god in the spiritual process? Sadhguru: If you don’t have something to look up to, you could get easily lost, isn’t it? Whatever you consider as god is just the highest of human values. At different times in history, whatever they thought was the…
DO NOT try to put up a recipe for your success. For example, 25 years ago, everyone wanted to become a doctor. If you want to study, the first choice was medicine. Let us say you became a doctor, but then everyone came to a yoga programme and stopped having…
Q: SADHGURU, I read in Mystic’s Musings that during the consecration of the Dhyanalinga, you clapped, which formed a crack in the linga. Can you explain the significance behind this? And is it sound or something else that caused the crack? Sadhguru: It is not because of the sound. In…
OF THE four major forces in the world – politics, military, religion and economics – that decide the quality of people’s lives to a large extent, I see the economic force as the biggest possibility for bringing about some unification and sensible action. In the next ten to fifteen years,…
SADHGURU: The body needs rest, not sleep. In most people’s experience, sleep is the deepest form of restfulness they know, so they talk about sleep. But, essentially, the body is not asking for sleep, it is looking for restfulness. Your mornings would be pretty bad if your nights were not…
A GROUP of students were once raising funds for some community work and they happened to knock on a particular door in the neighborhood. An 88-year-old lady opened the door. She asked them in and they explained the work they were doing for the community. They told her the different…
ONCE you step into the world, there’s going to be a lot of filth. There is corruption and there is so much nonsense happening everywhere. There is a set of people who will develop an allergy for this filth. They usually run to the Himalayas. They want everything pure. But…
THE very fundamentals of spiritual longing are to transcend the limitations of the physical. The most intimate part of physical creation for an individual being is their own body. So the very basis of a spiritual process is to explore the possibilities and go beyond the limitations of the body.…
QUESTION: How can I change the way I think? How can I consciously create thoughts and emotions? Sadhguru: The mind is essentially talking about a certain bank of memory. It is this complex web of memory which gives you a certain character. This memory is being gathered every moment of…
QUESTION: Sadhguru, why should we keep our eyes closed in most asanas? Sadhguru: If you close your eyes, the world disappears – unless you have your own false world in your head. Right now, I am looking at you. If I close my eyes, you are gone for me. Unless…
The globally acclaimed yoga instructor, Sadhguru, has a staggering online following of over 10 million devoted followers. With an optimistic outlook, he envisions an unlimited potential for the growth of his followers in the years to come. "I think in 25 years you will have probably 60 to 70 percent…
SADHGURU: Youth is life that is still in the making. It is still in a state where it is not too conceited and lost. Youth is a life that suggests hope, seeking and the longing to know the truth about life. The word “truth” has been used in many ways…
QUESTION: Should I stick to my culture or follow somebody else’s culture? Sadhguru: First, you need to understand that what somebody did yesterday is today’s culture and the mess you create today is tomorrow’s culture. Cultures were not engineered towards a purpose. It generally happened according to the requirements of…
QUESTIONER: If we want to succeed in life, what plays a major role – fate, God, effort or luck? Sadhguru: Fate, God, luck, effort – maybe all of them, but in what proportion? When you say fate, obviously it is something you cannot do anything about. When you say luck,…
Actor Anupam Kher recently attended the 'Global Kashmiri Pandit Conclave' in New Delhi where he spoke at length about the ordeals of Kashmiri Pandits and how his film The Kashmir Files highlighted them. He cited the atrocities that were meted out to the Kashmiri Pandits and urged the audience to…
Four-time National Film Award-winning Bollywood actress Kangana Ranaut took to Instagram and shared a video of popular spiritual leader Sadhguru. In the four-minute video, Sadhguru is seen answering a question on how a person can overcome laziness and stay motivated in life. Discussing the impact of love on a person…
POLITICIANS, faith and community leaders paid tribute to Parvatiben Solanki, the cofounder of the Asian Media Gr oup (AMG), publishers of Eastern Eye and Garavi Gujarat. Mrs Solanki passed away in London last Thursday (8). She was 86. Along with her husband, the late Ramniklal Solanki CBE, Mrs Solanki played…
External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar on Tuesday said that Prime Minister Narendra Modi's determination that he would not allow cross-border terrorism to be normalised has helped in shaping India's Pakistan policy since 2014. Speaking at an event at Delhi University, S Jaishankar noted that Prime Minister Modi is perceived abroad…
Spiritual guru Sadhguru Jaggi Vasudev whose fondness for motorcycles is well-known recently completed 100 days of solo biking, traversing 27 nations as part of his 'Save Soil' campaign.The 64-year-old is aiming to cover a distance of over 30,000-km in the journey that he began in the United Kingdom. Sadhguru hopped…
Founder of Isha Foundation Sadhguru Jaggi Vasudev said that there is a "lot of heat" in television studios, which is being exaggerated to suggest that there is rising religious intolerance in the country while underlining that the last one decade has been free of major communal violence. In an exclusive…
EXPRESSING concern over soil health deterioration, Isha Foundation founder Sadhguru Jaggi Vasudev Friday (3) said countries should make long-term policies to deal with the crisis. He said a food crisis is impending and collective efforts are needed to address the situation "The world is moving in the direction of a…
In an interview with India Today, the Isha Foundation founder has urged India's Hindu and Muslim communities to sit together work out which two-three sites are iconic and should settle all disputes. "The two communities should sit together and work out which two-three sites are iconic and settle it. Instead of…
LONDON'S Parliament Square was the flag-off point for Indian spiritual leader Sadhguru's 30,000-km motorbike tour on Monday (21), as he set off on his Save Soil awareness campaign across Europe and the Middle East en route to India.The yoga guru, 64, donned his biking gear for the 100-day tour, which…
QUESTION: How do we become more open to spiritual possibilities? Sadhguru: Before we look at how to become open, we must look at what is it that closes you up? There are four dimensions which, for so many reasons, could have closed. Your mind could be closed because of the…
IF YOU look at yourself as a machine, you have brains, you have body, you have everything. What you call as ‘grace’ is the lubrication. Without the lubrication, you have a great engine, but you get stuck at every point. Any number of people like this are there on the…
IN YOGIC culture, there are two aspects to Shiva. The word ‘Shiva’ literally means ‘that which is not’. Everything that is has come from ‘that which is not’. If you look up at the sky, you will see many stars and celestial objects, but still the biggest presence out there…
WHAT is gratitude? If we peel our eyes properly and look around at the way life is happening to us, if you are able to clearly see all that is involved to make your life happen, you cannot help being grateful. Let us say a plateful of food appears in…
'One is man's essential nature while the other is imposed to bring sanity' THE essential nature of “humanity” has been suppressed and destroyed in many ways, and the substitute of “morality” has been brought in to bring some order and sanity to our lives. Right now, if you take away…
'By dedicating 30 hours one can create a vehicle to turn inward' WHAT is the way to proceed if we are looking to know ourselves? Sadhguru: The only gateway for you to know anything in this universe is yourself. Anything you can experience can only happen within you. So, turning…
Q: I HAVE a choice between working in a high-paying job, and another one that I really like, but where the pay is not so great. How do I choose between the two? Sadhguru: How much you are worth need not be seen just in terms of how much you…
‘Intimacy without commitment will increase confusion and insecurity' FOR thousands of years, in almost every society in the world, though people have lived in various kinds of conditions, almost every society settled with some kind of arrangement for marriage. Whether it was one wife and one husband or many wives…
SOMEBODY has become your boss because he is in some way more qualified than you. You may believe that you are better than him, but he has gotten to that position because of some qualification, some capability, some influence – something has delivered him there. Even if he has gotten…
SADHGURU: Devotion is like a love affair with creation. Generally, people’s idea of love is discrimination. You love one person, not the other. If you look at one person, you are full of sweet emotions. If you look at the next person, you are full of negative emotions. This is…
WITH all the faculties bestowed upon human beings, you would think human beings are the most harmonious beings on earth. But if you look at history until now, the world has never really been peaceful. People have been fighting for food, wealth, faith and belief systems and over boundaries –…
DESPITE being afflicted with polio from a young age, Arun Patel was undeterred by the disability; rather, he chose to take life head on. In his new book, In Out of My Way, Polio! - Patel narrates his life story, which was full of challenges, starting from meeting the expectations…
SADHGURU: Guru pooja is not about offering a flower, fruit and a coconut – this is a subtle process to create an invitation to the divine. There is a difference between meditation and a ritual. Meditation is all your own stuff; it is exclusive. But if we actively participate in…
In India, various kinds of gods and especially goddesses have been created. Certain yogis and mystics created particular forms for specific purposes. Some of these forms are pleasant, some fierce, some are very vibrant. There are forms of various kinds, which are meant to be used for specific dimensions of…
QUESTIONER: What role does sport play in community building or community harmony? Sadhguru: India is a country where we had 365 different festivals for 365 days of the year; that means the whole culture was in a state of celebration. Everything was a celebration. If today is ploughing day, it…
Q: EVEN if the global community decided to dismantle all their weaponry, how can we make sure that there won’t be another Adolf Hitler who will spread violence, death and destruction? Sadhguru: Adolf Hitler, by himself, was a powerless man. People empowered him, isn’t it? Unfortunately, for ages (not now),…
Memory without insight can block the spontaneity of creativity HUMAN memory is the very basis of civilisation. It is the fundamental ingredient responsible for all science, technology and culture on the planet. But this source of empowerment can also become a source of enslavement. Memory is like a doorway. Doors…
'The simplest physical postures can lead to a profound understanding of life's experiences' ONE of the fundamentals of hatha yoga is to change the definition of what is tough. In yoga, toughness means to be in a state of acceptance, to be able to absorb everything without reacting to anything.…
THE moment man became religious it should have been the end of all conflict. Unfortunately, everywhere in the world, religion has become the main source of conflict. This has taken the maximum number of lives and caused the maximum amount of pain on the planet for thousands of years. This…
THERE is a wonderful true-life story which happened during the second World War in the ill-famed German concentration camp in Auschwitz. Every day numbers were called out, and people were led to the extermination area, because the camp became full. If a person’s number was called, it meant they were…
DEVOTION is about you making your emotions so sweet that your life experience becomes beautiful. But right now, what is passing off as devotion is just deception. People’s idea of devotion is, “God, I broke a coconut for you, what are you going to give me tomorrow?” This is not…
'If the energy in one's system is balanced, outside factors will not affect the body' THE word ‘health’ originates from the root word ‘whole.’ Human beings are healthy when they ‘feel complete in body, mind and energy’. Many people are medically healthy, but do not experience a sense of inner…
WHEN I first landed in the United States a few years ago, one term I heard everywhere was “stress management”. Why would anybody want to manage their stress? I can understand if you want to manage your money, your business, your family, your property. But why would anybody want to…
Logically, somebody who never put an effort into anything should be the master of effortlessness. But it is not so. If you want to know effortlessness, you need to know effort. When you reach the peak of effort, you become effortless. Only a person who knows what it is to…
STAGNATION is a certain disease. It is anti-life. Stillness is a tremendous amount of life not manifesting itself in any way. It is just there – potent. That is God. God is stillness, not stagnation. The mind is stagnation. Sadhana (spiritual practice) is a force which moves you from stagnation…
PEOPLE often ask me about the role of surrender on the spiritual path. I tell them they cannot achieve it. Surrender is not an act. Surrender is a certain quality. If you try to surrender to someone, you will only become a slave. You will not become free. I have…
'Success is determined by how one applies the mind and body' FOR any activity to be a success, there is a process and a method, but there is also a genius. Leaders probably cannot articulate their genius; they can only articulate the methods they have employed. Because genius is not…
'Spirituality is an inner process and not just about knowledge' THE Vedas are among the most ancient scriptures on this planet and yet the most comprehensive in content. Vedas are not books, and the content of the Vedas is not something that someone invented; it is not a moral code…
Sadhguru: Actions driven by blind impulses are impediments to freedom Questioner: Can people in what is considered normal life have a foothold in spirituality or is celibacy the only way? Sadhguru: The whole dimension of spirituality is to grow beyond the physical, to taste something beyond the physical. If your…
Sadhguru says yoga can help create internal stability IT'S uncertain and that’s what makes it challenging. Uncertainty means things are changing; in other words, there is no limbo. If you are walking fast, every step is new terrain. This new terrain is what you are calling “uncertainty” right now. For…
'Humanity is focusing on survival and not on love' THE reason why the male, or the masculine, has been more important than the feminine on this planet is because for all these thousands of years of human existence, our core focus has been survival. It is only in the last…
THE Hinduja Foundation, philanthropic arm of Hinduja Group, is organising a virtual global summit on May 21 to promote the importance of mental health during the Covid-19 pandemic. The #NeverAloneSummit will be held in association with the Chopra Foundation, the John W Brick Mental Health Foundation, and CG Creatives. It…
Yoga guru and spiritual leader Jaggi Vasudev, also known as Sadhguru, has said that hockey was 'more exciting' than cricket in college days, though he was ‘an all-rounder in school’. He revealed this to cricketer Ravichandran Ashwin during ‘In Conversation with the Mystic’ online chat. They talked about cricket, Covid-19,…
THE father of renowned spiritual guru Sadhguru passed away at his home in Mysuru in south India on Friday (8) at the age of 95. BV Vasudev died due to age-related illness. Born in Bengaluru, in southern India, Vasudev was a doctor by profession. He retired as the Divisional Medical…
Kangana Ranaut is one actress who has always supported social and environmental initiatives. The actress has been associated with Isha Foundation and has spoken about how Sadhguru's teachings have transformed her. From the past few days, Kangana has been spreading the message of Cauvery Calling by urging people to grow…
It was around her birthday this year when Kangana Ranaut had gone for a yoga camp in Coimbatore. The actress has finally spoken up about her experience there and calls it life-changing. Recently, her team took to Instagram to share a picture of Kangana from the yoga camp and they…
Q: How does one balance work and life and especially family and children? Sadhguru: Your work has to be lived, and your life has to be worked at. And there is no such thing as work and life, it is life and life. If your work is not life, I…
They are two of India's best known Yoga gurus and they both showed their love for speed as Baba Ramdev joined Sadhguru Jaggi Vasudev for a motorbike ride near the latter's ashram near Coimbatore. Sadhguru the biker got Baba Ramdev in his favourite Ducati. https://youtu.be/s3Q166nhEbY
SADHGURU ON WHAT THE ROLE ENTAILS AND WHY IT IS SO IMPORTANT LEADERSHIP is not dominance, it is a certain sacrifice. Leadership is not about ruling someone, it is about making someone’s life. Leadership essentially means that you are capable of creating the necessary atmosphere for people to go beyond the limitations they have…
CREATING AN AURA OR UNIVERSAL CHANT CAN COMPLETE PROCESS EVERYWHERE in the world, people talk about dying peacefully; they want to recede gently. One simple thing that can be done is to have a lamp – preferably with ghee but you can also use butter – burning constantly, 24 hours of…
HOW BOTH GROUPS CAN LIVE IN HARMONY WITHOUT CLASHING QUESTION: The older generation and the younger generation seem at odds today. How do we make sure that the experience of age and energy of youth work together? Sadhguru: They have always been at odds, not just today. The real problem is,…
WHAT ARE THE RIGHT REASONS FOR BRINGING A PERSON INTO THE WORLD? TODAY, casually having a child is quite irresponsible because though people think there are many problems in the world, essentially, the fundamental problem is too many human beings on the planet. Seven point three billion people is the highest…
THE LONGING FOR KNOWING WILL NOT HAPPEN UNLESS THERE IS A HUNGER: SADHGURU THERE are so many things that one can do in this world – you can walk, you can swim, you can dance, gossip, love, drink, do drugs. And yet, for ages, why is it that human beings have longed…
SADHGURU SAYS SOCIETY MUST CHANGE ITS OUTLOOK ON ISSUES TODAY, a handicapped person is not referred to as handicapped anymore. We are beginning to call them special children or special people. So he is special which is why you have to attend to him a little more than you attend to…
SADHGURU LOOKS AT THE SACRED UNIVERSE THAT WE LIVE IN TODAY RECENTLY, I happened to be in a presentation by a popular scientist. He has written a book called Endless Universe. It has become very popular in scientific circles. He called this particular session Beyond the Big Bang, because until recently…
SADHGURU’S VIEW ON MAKING DECISIONS AND TAKING ACTION IF YOU just remove the idea of what is right and wrong from your life, you will see everybody is handling their life the way they know it. Everybody is doing whatever they think is best at that moment. Even a criminal who…
STRENGTH COMES NOT FROM FORTUNE BUT FROM WITHIN FOR those who depend on luck, they are always looking for places, things, stones and beads – lucky shoes, lucky soaps, lucky numbers – all kinds of things. In this process of looking for luck and waiting for things to happen, things they…
HUMANS MUST LOOK BEYOND THEIR SEARCH FOR PERFECTION THIS is a fundamental problem in most human beings. They are always looking for the best person or the best thing to do in their life. There is no best person, nor is there a best thing to do on this planet. Whatever…
SADHGURU LOOKS AT THE DEEPER DIMENSIONS IN LIFE PEOPLE’S idea of purity is very convoluted. Purity is not a certain level of incapability as it is generally made out. When I say purity, do not think of whatever you call saintliness. I am not talking about purity in that sense. If…
SADHGURU ON HOW TO BENEFIT FROM THE SPIRITUAL PATH THE moment man became religious, it should have been the end of all conflict. Unfortunately, religion has become the main source of conflict everywhere in the world. It has taken the maximum number of lives and caused the maximum amount of pain on…
By Rashmita Solanki FOR those among us who want to travel in the utmost comfort to reach their destination in a happy, positive mood ready for our holiday, the only way to travel is by Qatar Airways. I experienced their service first-hand on my recent trip to Coimbatore in south…
Bollywood actor Shah Rukh Khan (R) shakes hands with Sadhguru Jaggi Vasudev, founder of Isha foundation, during a Global Business Summit in New Delhi on February 23, 2018. (MONEY SHARMA/AFP/ Getty Images)
INDIA’S vice president Venkaiah Naidu and leading spiritual leader Sadhguru presided over a 20,000-strong audience as the Rally For Rivers came to an end in New Delhi this week. A month-long water revival and conservation campaign that was conceived by Sadhguru, the Rally For Rivers began at Kanyakumari in south…
MANAGING THE WORLD IS NOT POSSIBLE WITHOUT FIRST KNOWING YOUR SELF IF WE want to live well, both externally and internally, how well we live here simply depends on how well we manage our surroundings and how well we manage ourselves. Fundamentally, life is management. The quality of your life depends…
It is natural for human intelligence to seek what is life and beyond – to look at life and to long to know. So how can you avoid spirituality? You have managed to avoid it for a long time because you are deeply attached and identified with things that you…
THIS is the time of year when the Adiyogi Shiva’s attention first fell upon the Saptarishis – the now-celebrated seven disciples. In the yogic tradition, Shiva is not worshipped as a god, but is considered the Adiyogi – the first yogi, and as the Adiguru, the first guru, from whom…
RENOWNED Indian spiritual leader Sadhguru was presented the Padma Vibhushan, one of the highest civilian honours bestowed by the country's government on accomplished citizens. In a ceremony in New Delhi, the mystic and bestselling author collected the award from India's president Pranab Mukherjee, at his official residence, Rashtrapati Bhawan today…
Sadhguru talks to Eastern Eye about his spirituality
India’s prime minister Narendra Modi urged people to embrace the age-old practice of yoga, saying that rejecting an idea because it is ancient could be “potentially harmful”. Yoga is constantly evolving, the prime minister said as he unveiled a 112-foot statue of Adiyogi, Lord Shiva, on the occasion of Mahashivratri…
Political stalwarts Murli Manohar Joshi and Sharad Pawar, former Lok Sabha speaker PA Sangma, cricketer Virat Kohli and Carnatic musician KJ Yesudas are among the 89 people chosen for this year’s Padma awards. Joshi, Pawar, Sangma and Yesudas are among seven to be awarded the Padma Vibhushan, country’s second highest…