Jaggi Vasudev (aka Sadhguru)

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I'm sure many here have heard of this guy. His videos are all over youtube. I think I've posted some of his videos in the past as well. He mostly speaks from the yogic perspective - but in a very down to earth way. Cool stuff!



“An idiot is incapable of drawing conclusions. A mystic is unwilling to draw conclusions. The rest have glorified their conclusions as knowledge.”

― Sadhguru

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Jul 22, 2018 7:00:37 GMT -5 Reefs said:

I'm sure many here have heard of this guy. His videos are all over youtube. I think I've posted some of his videos in the past as well. He mostly speaks from the yogic perspective - but in a very down to earth way. Cool stuff!



“An idiot is incapable of drawing conclusions. A mystic is unwilling to draw conclusions. The rest have glorified their conclusions as knowledge.”

― Sadhguru

I follow his instagram. My friend had a meeting with him (1:1). Long story. He was able to pick up on her health issues and advise her. Pretty cool

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I watch him as a preferred view; one strange thing though is he says he aged quickly during some kind of process.

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Music inspired by Sadhguru:



In Smita's words..... "Ishana is my offering to Sadhguru. Meeting him proved to be the turning point in my life as he is the one who set me off on this path of the divine. Needless to say that creating Ishana has been the most fulfilling project of my career".

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Transcript:

How do you recognize an enlightened being?

In a way, enlightenment means that you are unblemished life, no branding. So you brand yourself and you think you are enlightened- very sorry! So, if there are no brandings, how do you recognize? You cannot recognize… So what is it that is being referred to as enlightenment? […] Clarity came, where you see everything clearly. […]

There are only two kinds of people, mystics and mistakes. If you see things just the way they are, people will label you a mystic. So what are they? They are a mistake. They are making mistakes about basic aspects of life, that’s all. Yes, making mistakes about perception. Why are they making mistakes about perception? Their one hand is always dipped in their memory. This is why we say karma. They are mistaking memory for intelligence. That’s all the mistake they have done. Once you mistake memory for intelligence, you are messed up. […]

If you mistake memory for intelligence, we call you a ‘karma case’ (?). You are a ‘karma case’ (?) because you live out of your memory, not out of your intelligence. If you live out of your intelligence absolutely, without getting your memory and intelligence mixed up, then people say “Oh, he is enlightened!” Because whatever you bring in front of him, and he’ll say this is what it is. Simply because he doesn’t mix up memory and intelligence, that’s all. As simple as it seems, everything you are right now is memory. You are a man or a woman – this is memory. […]

So if your intelligence has to be free from memory, that means you’re free from yourself. That’s all.

Bingo!

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Sadhguru - 'Be In The Present Moment' Is A Bad Advice






07:38  are you right now in this moment
07:41  hello hello no i was thinking of new
07:45  york city so what you're thinking of new
07:47  york city in this moment only
07:49  can you think in another moment i'm
07:50  asking
07:52  your problem is you do not know the
07:55  distinction between
07:56  what is psychological drama and what is
07:59  existentially true that's all the
08:01  problem is
08:01  isn't it if drama picks up momentum
08:08  drama picks up momentum you don't know
08:10  what is real what is psychological
08:13  what is social
08:31  

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Sadhguru on How To Never Get Angry or Bothered By People






07:39  Sadhguru: So people keep coming up to me on a daily basis,
07:43  'Sadhguru, I can't work with this person, she is so horrible, I can't do it'
07:48  I tell them 'See in this world,
07:51 this is the sort of people who exist.
07:54  like this, like this, like this, like this, this is the kind of people there are.
07:59  But if you want to work with ideal people,
08:04  you must go to heaven and today.
08:10  But if you think,
08:13  what you're doing is very significant,
08:16  you must learn to work with all these horrible people.
08:20  This is how the world is.
08:22  If you think what you're doing is very significant,
08:24  you learn to work with all kinds of people.
08:26  You will see, horrible people will do wonderful things.
08:30  Yes?
08:33  But if you want to work with ideal people, you won't find any.
08:37  I haven't found one yet. (Laughter)
08:41  There're all kinds of ... mixed bags
08:44

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Feb 3, 2021 22:45:17 GMT -5 inavalan said:

Sadhguru - 'Be In The Present Moment' Is A Bad Advice






07:38  are you right now in this moment
07:41  hello hello no i was thinking of new
07:45  york city so what you're thinking of new
07:47  york city in this moment only
07:49  can you think in another moment i'm
07:50  asking
07:52  your problem is you do not know the
07:55  distinction between
07:56  what is psychological drama and what is
07:59  existentially true that's all the
08:01  problem is
08:01  isn't it if drama picks up momentum
08:08  drama picks up momentum you don't know
08:10  what is real what is psychological
08:13  what is social
08:31  

Nondualists pointing to the "present moment" aren't referring to a short interval of time, but rather, eternity, which is timeless, as in, completely sideways to any notion or sense of time.

Sometimes, advice is given to people who might be new to this idea of "getting present" that is time bound. This is because the common consensus trance is to be constantly fixated on either the past or the future. It is quite possible for anyone who wants to try to be able to practice the art of keeping attention from wandering to a past or future that is only imagined by the minds eye. There are all sorts of potential benefits to this.

But, ultimately, eternity is limitless. This limitlessness is ineffable, so it defies any sort of theoretical explanation, and (again) ultimately, that's what underlies the advice to get "present", and what the present is pointing to.

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Four Idiots - The Yogic Way (1)

It happened once. Four men were walking in the forest. The first was a gnana yogi, the second was a bhakti yogi, the third was a karma yogi, and the fourth was a kriya yogi.

Usually, these four people can never be together. The gnana yogi has total disdain for every other type of yoga. His is the yoga of intelligence, and normally, an intellectual has complete disdain for everybody else, particularly these bhakti types, who look upward and chant God’s name all the time. They look like a bunch of idiots to him.

But a bhakti yogi, a devotee, thinks all this gnana, karma and kriya yoga is a waste of time. He pities the others who don’t see that when God is here, all you need to do is hold His hand and walk. All this mind-splitting philosophy, this bone-bending yoga, is not needed; God is here, because God is everywhere.

Then there is the karma yogi, the man of action. He thinks all the other types of yogis, with their fancy philosophies, are just lazy.

But a kriya yogi is the most disdainful of all. He laughs at everyone. Don’t they know that all of existence is energy? If you don’t transform your energy, whether you long for God or you long for anything else, nothing is going to happen. There will be no transformation.

These four people customarily can’t get along. But today they happened to be walking together in the forest and a storm broke out. It grew very intense and began raining heavily. They started running, looking for shelter.

The bhakti yogi, the devotion man, said, ‘In this direction there is an ancient temple. Let’s go there.’ (He’s a devotee; he knows the geography of temples very well!)

They all ran in that direction. They came to an ancient temple; all the walls had crumbled long ago; just the roof and four columns remained. They rushed into the temple; not out of love for God, but just to escape the rain.

There was a deity in the centre. They ran towards it. The rain was lashing down from every direction. There was no other place to go, so they moved closer and closer. Finally, there was no alternative. They just hugged the deity and sat down.
The moment these four people hugged the idol, there was a huge fifth presence. Suddenly, God appeared.

In all their four minds the same question arose: Why now? They wondered, ‘We expounded so many philosophies, did so many pujas, served so many people, did so much body-breaking sadhana (spiritual practice), but you didn’t come. Now when we’re just escaping the rain, you turn up. Why?’

God said, ‘At last you four idiots got together!’


Sadhguru, Three Truths of Well Being

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Four Idiots - The Yogic Way (2)

If these dimensions – body, mind (which includes both your thoughts and emotions) and energy – don’t walk together, human beings will be one big mess. Right now, for most people, these three dimensions are aligned in different directions. Your mind is thinking and feeling one way; your physical body is going another way; your energy another way. Yoga is simply the science of aligning these three dimensions.

When your body and mind are in a relaxed state and at a certain level of blissfulness, you can be free of so many nagging ailments. Yoga is simply the technology of creating inner situations the way you want them. When you fine-tune yourself to such a point where everything functions beautifully within you, naturally, the best of your abilities will simply flow out of you. Yoga is the science of activating your inner energies in such a way that your body and mind function at their highest potential.

You may believe many things about yourself, about who you are, but fundamentally you are just a certain amount of life energy. Modern science says that the whole existence is just energy manifesting itself in different ways. If this is so, then you are also just a little bit of energy functioning in a particular way. Science is telling you that this same energy which you call ‘myself’ can sit here as a rock, lie there as mud, stand up as a tree, bark as a dog, or sit here as you.

Sadhguru, Three Truths of Well Being

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Four Idiots - The Yogic Way (3)

The cosmos is one big organism. Your life is not independent of the universe. You cannot live without the world around you because every moment there is a transaction, a very deep relationship between the two. What you exhale, the trees around you inhale; what they exhale, you inhale. The problem is just that we have subjugated our intelligence to our individuality. This loss of organic existence is the reason why human beings are experiencing such high levels of conflict, distress and disease in their lives.

Although everything in the universe is the same energy, it functions at different levels of capability, in different forms. Similarly, while all human beings are made of the same energy, we still do not function at the same level of capability. Capability or creative talent – your ability to do things in the world and to experience life – is just a certain way your energy functions. This energy functions in one plant to create rose flowers; in another plant it functions to create jasmine. If you gain a little bit of mastery over your own energies, you will see that things that you never imagined possible, you will be able to do, simply and naturally.

With the same material that we build huge buildings today, initially people were building little huts. We thought we could only dig mud and make pots or bricks out of it. Now we dig the earth and make computers, cars, and even spacecrafts out of it. It is the same material; we have just started using it for higher and higher possibilities. Our inner energies are similar. There is a whole technology of how to use this energy for higher possibilities. Every human being must explore and know this. Otherwise, our lives become very limited and accidental.

Once you start activating your inner energies, your capabilities emerge in a different sphere altogether. Yoga is a tool to find this ultimate expression to life.

Sadhguru, Three Truths of Well Being

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Four Idiots - The Yogic Way (4)

So, yoga does not mean twisting your body, tying your limbs into knots or holding your breath or performing some other circus. The word ‘yoga’ means, in your experience, everything has become one. Yoga means union.

What is this union? What can unite with what?

Right now, there is something called ‘me’ and there is something called the ‘other’. This ‘me’ and the ‘other’ can get extended to groups of people, communities and nations, but fundamentally, ‘me’ and the ‘other’ is the basis of conflict in the universe.

What is ‘me’, and what is not ‘me’? In your experience, right now, what are the things which you call ‘myself’?

What you call ‘myself’ are your body, your mind (which includes your thought and your emotion) and your energies. Your energies may not be in your experience, but you can easily infer that if your body and mind function as they do, there must be some kind of energy empowering them. These three realities are what you can work with: body, mind and energy.
The whole point of yoga, or the spiritual process, is to bring you to an experience that if you sit here, there is no such thing as ‘you’ and ‘me’. It is all me – or all you. Anything that leads to this union, whichever way you get there, is called yoga.

How many ways are there to reach this ultimate union? You can only work with what you have. If you talk about something that you do not know, you have a choice: either to believe it or disbelieve it. Suppose I start talking about a particular god, you either have to believe my god or disbelieve my god. Either way, this will only take you into fanciful imagination, not growth. Realizing where you are right now existentially and then taking the next step is growth. The whole process of yoga is to take you from something that you know to the next step, into the unknown.

If you employ your body and try to reach your ultimate nature, we call this karma yoga, yoga of action. If you employ your intelligence and try to reach your ultimate nature, we call this gnana yoga, yoga of intelligence. If you employ your emotion and try to reach your ultimate nature, we call this bhakti yoga, yoga of devotion or emotion. If you transform your energies and try to reach your ultimate nature, we call this kriya yoga, yoga of transforming energies.

All these aspects have to function together; only then you get somewhere. Everyone is a unique combination of these, because these ingredients come together in different ways in every person.

So, to know well-being all you need is just a little mastery over these dimensions: your body, your mind and your energy. Being successful in the world just depends on your ability to harness these three dimensions in an appropriate manner, according to the situations in which you exist and the activity that you want to do.

The problem is that religious nuts around the world have exported everything that is beautiful about a human being to the other world. If you talk of love, they speak of divine love. If you talk of bliss, they speak of divine bliss; peace, divine peace. We have forgotten that these are all human qualities. A human being is fully capable of joy, of love, of peace. Why do you want to export these to heaven?

There is so much talk of God and heaven mainly because human beings have not realized the immensity of being human. To be joyful and peaceful within yourself every moment of your life, to be able to perceive life beyond its physical limitations – these are not superhuman qualities. These are human possibilities.

This yoga is not about being superhuman; this is about realizing that being human is super.

Awesome!

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Jul 9, 2022 10:06:29 GMT -5 Reefs said:

Four Idiots - The Yogic Way (4)

So, yoga does not mean twisting your body, tying your limbs into knots or holding your breath or performing some other circus. The word ‘yoga’ means, in your experience, everything has become one. Yoga means union.

What is this union? What can unite with what?

Right now, there is something called ‘me’ and there is something called the ‘other’. This ‘me’ and the ‘other’ can get extended to groups of people, communities and nations, but fundamentally, ‘me’ and the ‘other’ is the basis of conflict in the universe.

What is ‘me’, and what is not ‘me’? In your experience, right now, what are the things which you call ‘myself’?

What you call ‘myself’ are your body, your mind (which includes your thought and your emotion) and your energies. Your energies may not be in your experience, but you can easily infer that if your body and mind function as they do, there must be some kind of energy empowering them. These three realities are what you can work with: body, mind and energy.
The whole point of yoga, or the spiritual process, is to bring you to an experience that if you sit here, there is no such thing as ‘you’ and ‘me’. It is all me – or all you. Anything that leads to this union, whichever way you get there, is called yoga.

How many ways are there to reach this ultimate union? You can only work with what you have. If you talk about something that you do not know, you have a choice: either to believe it or disbelieve it. Suppose I start talking about a particular god, you either have to believe my god or disbelieve my god. Either way, this will only take you into fanciful imagination, not growth. Realizing where you are right now existentially and then taking the next step is growth. The whole process of yoga is to take you from something that you know to the next step, into the unknown.

If you employ your body and try to reach your ultimate nature, we call this karma yoga, yoga of action. If you employ your intelligence and try to reach your ultimate nature, we call this gnana yoga, yoga of intelligence. If you employ your emotion and try to reach your ultimate nature, we call this bhakti yoga, yoga of devotion or emotion. If you transform your energies and try to reach your ultimate nature, we call this kriya yoga, yoga of transforming energies.

All these aspects have to function together; only then you get somewhere. Everyone is a unique combination of these, because these ingredients come together in different ways in every person.

So, to know well-being all you need is just a little mastery over these dimensions: your body, your mind and your energy. Being successful in the world just depends on your ability to harness these three dimensions in an appropriate manner, according to the situations in which you exist and the activity that you want to do.

The problem is that religious nuts around the world have exported everything that is beautiful about a human being to the other world. If you talk of love, they speak of divine love. If you talk of bliss, they speak of divine bliss; peace, divine peace. We have forgotten that these are all human qualities. A human being is fully capable of joy, of love, of peace. Why do you want to export these to heaven?

There is so much talk of God and heaven mainly because human beings have not realized the immensity of being human. To be joyful and peaceful within yourself every moment of your life, to be able to perceive life beyond its physical limitations – these are not superhuman qualities. These are human possibilities.

This yoga is not about being superhuman; this is about realizing that being human is super.

Awesome!

People sometimes ask if I believe in miracles. I'll flip it and ask them, "Well, I don't know. What's not a miracle?"