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Darshan with Sadhguru

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O f all the things in the world, of all the things thata human being can do, why yoga?Everything that human beings can do is essentially an

expression of who they are. Somebody sings a song,

somebody dances, somebody writes a book, somebody

paints a picture. Whatever else you do is an expression

of who you are. You may be conscious enough, but

still, everything that you say, everything you do,

everything that comes out of you is essentially an

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expression of who you are. Yoga, in that way, is

diametrically opposite to this because it is not an

expression of who you are it is about determining as

to who you are. It is about determining what you

want to be, changing the very fundamentals of ones

existence. Today, there is substantial medical and

scientific evidence to show that the very fundamentals

of your brain activity, your chemistry, even your

genetic content can be changed by practicing different

systems of yoga. This needed no confirmation because

we have always witnessed this, but today there is

scientific data to prove this.

So, yoga is not an expression of who you are, it is

about determining the nature of who you wish to be.

Changing the fundamental ingredients which have

made you who you are. Yoga as a system needs much

more involvement than any other things that we do,

which are merely expressions of who we are. If you

find full expression through any particular activity, it

may also leave you somewhat transformed. If you

cook with all your heart, some transformation may

happen. If you sing with all your heart, some

transformation may happen. If you dance with all


your heart, some transformation may happen. But

that is only a certain impact, because of absolute

involvement in a particular activity. But essentially,

that activity by nature is an expression of who you

are, it is not determining the nature of who you are.

When we transform our activity, not as an expression

of who we are because who wants to find expression

like this in the morning? (Gestures an asana, bending

forward) Definitely not, isnt it? So, it is not an

expression. It is a method. It is a means, it is a

technology through which you can change the shape

of who you are literally also, otherwise also, you can

change the very shape of who you really are right

now. That can be transformed because who you are

right now as a person is a combination of things

genetic material, and before that the karmic substance

that you carry because of that you chose a certain

womb. And since the moment that you are born,

whatever kind of impressions that have gone into you

in the form of a variety of experiences, situations,

thoughts, emotions, relationships, associations,

whatever else you have imbibed, all these things make


you a certain kind of person.

When you say I am a certain kind of person, what

you are saying is I have this kind of compulsion.

When you say I am this kind of person, what you

are saying is, this is the kind of compulsion that I

identify myself with, so I am this kind of a person.

People say I am a morning person, I am an evening

person. What they mean is, I cannot wake up in the

morning, that means I am an evening person. I

cannot stay awake in the evening, so I am a morning

person. Not only that, it is going far. Some are

Blackberry people, some are Apple people; the world is

getting divided in so many ways. They are not just

instruments that you use and keep down, you keep

getting identified with them. There are chapathi

people, there are rice people, there are dosa people,

there are idli people all kinds.

What kind you are is essentially a certain type of

compulsion. So, you set yourself into the process of

yoga because you do not want to be this kind or that

kind; you will be the kind that you are required to be


in a particular moment. If it is morning, you are a

morning person, if it is evening, you are an evening

person. If you are not required to be a person, you are

not a person. That is, you become flexible. This

flexibility, to start with, you start working with your

body. Afterwards, it should come to every aspect of

your life your physical structure, your psychological

structures, your emotional structure, your karmic

structure. Everything should become flexible, that it

can be whatever it is required to be, it is not stuck

being this way or that way.

Yoga as a process, method, technology and science is

essentially to break the limitations of a certain

concretization that happens which we call

personality. To evolve from being a person to a

presence. If you are a person, that means you have

made a shell out of yourself. You formed a shell,

within that shell only you can operate. If you break

this shell, you will no more be a person but simply a

presence as life is, as God is, just a presence. If it can

be encased in a shell, it becomes a person. Yoga means

you are slowly working on making the shell thinner

and thinner, more and more porous, that one day you


can exist without a shell.

Essentially, in your experience, yoga means morning

why is the sadhana the way it is? All aspects of

physicality are cyclical in the universe. Planets are

going around the sun, the solar system is moving.

Everything in the galaxy, in the cosmos, is cyclical.

The more you are identified with your physical

system, the more and more cyclical you are also. Your

experiences are cyclical, the process of life is cyclical, if

you watch carefully enough, even the situations that

you face in life come in cycles.

Yoga means, on one level, to break the cycle of life;

what is a circle right now we want to open it up and

make it a straight line. If I say you are going in circles,

what does it mean to you? You are not going

anywhere. It just gives you an impression that you are

going somewhere, but you are not really going

anywhere, you are going through the same thing

again and again. Yoga means to open up the circle

and stretch it out like a straight line, that if you follow

the line you go somewhere you are not going

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around and around.

Many of you may have already experimented and

noticed. If you have not, do not experiment because I

will give you the results of the experiment right now.

You might have been doing sadhana for two years,

three years, five years. Stop your sadhana for three

months, suddenly you will see so many compulsions

that you never imagined were a part of you, which

were long-time gone, suddenly they will all become

part of you. A simple thing in the ashram is there are

two meals, ten oclock and seven oclock. At least 90

percent of the people stick to this, there are another

ten percent their hands at least pick the worms and

eat them up something, a cockroach or whatever.

Something crunchy they must eat. But those who are

doing their sadhana properly, they eat in the morning

and they do not think of food until evening. It does not

occur because it is no more a compulsion.

You eat, it is conscious,

otherwise no. You stop

your sadhana for three


But thosewho are

doing theirsadhanaproperly,

they eat inthe morningand they donot think offood untilevening. Itdoes not

occurbecause it isno more a

compulsion.

months and see; your

hands will grab just

about anything and put

it in your mouth. These

compulsions will

suddenly come back if

you just break the

sadhana because nature

is not going to release

you so simply. You

have to work at it and

work at it. Otherwise,

you must be happy

doing the circle.

A circle can also be

described as a circus. If

you become conscious,

the whole thing looks

like a circus. If you are

not conscious, you can

only see three feet in

front of you; then it is all real. If you can see the

whole circle of your life, suddenly it becomes like a


You may also like

circus. Once you realize it is a circus, you do not want

to go through the circus again and again. Only if your

vision is too limited, you can see only three feet in

front of you, everything is real for you. If you open up

and see the whole circle, the way you are going, it

looks like a circus and definitely you do not want it to

continue forever. You want to do something about it.

Love & Grace,

Excerpted from Darshan with Sadhguru at the Isha YogaCenter, 30 October 2012


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Ram Siva 3 years ago

The major difference im feeling is the freshness i feel when i go to work morning remains same untill end of officehours.(..im in a petrochemical plant)Not meddling with my handphone while travelling..just enjoying the outside world.. No unnecessary talks from mymouth..But still struggling with thoughts..hope will overcome soon..Yes..my back pain no more..Used to stretch my arms and legs often as like octopus..Thanks Isha to reverse me to human form...

PRANAM...Ram

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Aditya Naidu 3 years ago

Wow...

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Rajeshree Nandy 3 years ago

I have been doing my practices since almost 3years now.In the initial days when I tried to stick to pranic foods it wasso difficult,as I felt I am depriving myself and my cravings increased.Then at some point I stopped thinking aboutit.Surprisingly now I find that not only has the cravings gone down but I don't feel comfortable when I take negativepranic foods and tend to avoid them most often.

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M 3 years ago> Rajeshree NandyWhat are the pranic food?

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Rajeshree nandy 3 years ago> MNegetive pranic foods are-onion,garlic,asafetida (hing),tea,coffee,brinjal ,chillies(red peppers).Zeropranic foods are potatoes and tomatoes.The rest are positive pranic foods.Negative pranic foods areharmful and should be avoided. And for meditation it is best if you can avoid rice and non-vegfoods(eggs,chicken,meat,mutton).

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Sudha Anand 3 years ago> Mcoconut milk,jaggery,honey,ginger,pepper,lemon,all vegetables (leaving onions,garlic n brinjal),allfruits, sprouted grains,soaked groundnuts etc.,

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stefan 3 years ago> Mraw food (fruits, vegetables...)

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sudhakar 3 years ago

this is really wonderful

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Dev Thiruvengadam 3 years ago

This is wonderful. success or failure, it comes in turns. i.e. cycles. People around us always existed, now exist andwill exist. They continue to affect us by their acts. if at one point ot time A was the cause for misery, at another pointof time B could become the cause of misery. The only way to overcome these is that to understand that it happensall the time and to everybody in cycles. Doing Sadhana helps in distancing the effects of misery over us. when weare not immersed in the effects of misery it is easy to find a solution to the same. The time will come when we canbreak the circle of "cause and effect" i.e Karma, nothing could be more successful. Never leave the practice andbeing / doing with other practitioners helps. Let others also be inspired by our actions.pranams Shanba, Hyderabad

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Guru, Hyd 3 years ago

This article itslelf has universe in it, i could relate and completely understand exactly what sadhguru actually mean(ofcourse that is what i feel :)) i could straight away relate the circles when i was high on weed once long back butnever forgot that experience. felt desperetely to come out of it at that point. it is just the circles are little larger here butif we see the complete circumference you will want to want. its all circles some big some small. lol cant stop myselflaughing

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Jaya Narayan 3 years ago

So true that once we do Sadhana regularly, it is very easy to control our need to drink or eat as soon as we get up.Only after completing the Sadhana do we think of eating. And we dont even feel we are depriving ourselves ofanything. In fact we feel enriched. Million thanks to Sadhuru to have shown us the path.

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Lathif Valiyakath 3 years ago> Jaya Narayanhi jaya,thanks for the information about sadhana, I am in dubaisince 20 years, doing yoga from 3years but I want to know more about sadhana it will be more helpful if you canhelp me .

Thanks &Regards,

Lathif valiyakath,

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Kumaravadivel Elangovan 3 years ago> Lathif ValiyakathNamaskaram Lathif, Sadhuguru is going to give an intro talk on Yoga on coming 10th November.Please go to http://www.ishayoga.org/index.... and register and participate in the event. It's a rareevent in this part of the world. Pranam

Kumar

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Smita C 4 months ago

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I read the comments here below & felt better, since i missed my practice only for 4 days,now it has become sodifficult to get back. I took "Inner Engg Prg" in Nov 14 and it took almost 4 months for me to enter into a regularpractice of "Shambhavi Mahamudra" which i started in Mar'15....so as mentioned in the above article the nature will not release you easily. And, so my compulsion & craving for acup of tea & me forcefully holding myself till i bath & complete shambahvi practice.Ohh its so difficult, while endof practice I feel happy, ....asi ll go for my tea cup :)

so its way long for meto over come this tiny compulsion. So lobg way for me to go

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kumar 6 months ago

Sir I need seven face radukash where to get it pls help me

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Shankar Ganesh 3 years ago

Sadhguru's blogspots should be published as a book, please _/\_

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Nikole 3 years ago

yoga can really change lives. this post makes us realize and see ourselves and life in

Sudha Anand 3 years ago

Namaskaaram Sadhguru!

I want to really share a truth!My husband ceased my every activities related to Isha...my volunteering,Kaatuppoo reading,facebook sharing -Isha

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articles, and my Ishanga 7% partnership, as I've immersed like anything and he thinks I may become a 100%volunteer @ Ashram!but he'll never refuse to do my Shambavi, as he has been seeing my physical healthimprovements and mental stability everything!So, even if somebody is a non-lover of Isha, he'll love the pure effects of the Sadhna!...he'll never need to say heloves Isha,as he really loves Isha!

PranamsSudha(I really thank to the moderator to choose/reject this comment(even if they reject, at least they might get myfeel..that's enough!))

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Sandra Kampczyk-Januschko 3 years ago

Dear Sadhguru, dear friends, ... Oh, yes, the best thing of being just on prana food is - you can do your sadhanaanytime spot on - no need to schedule food intake and prana practice! I noticed again a few minutes ago, when I haddates and then felt - all I really need is my Shambavi Mahamudra or Isha Kriya, as I actually wanted the dates just outof emotional imbalance... Well, reading and writing this here bridges the gap for digestion... Thank you so much,Sadhguru! Feeling your darshan... From Germany, AUMbrace Sandra

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naigma 3 years ago

I remember a time when drinking coke, watching TV, drinking coffee, browsing the internet among others werecompulsions. I can clearly tell now that these things are not binding me anymore. Not really sure I want to give upsadhana for 3 months and see what happens. One thing though is I can feel my mind over active on the daysshambavi is done in the evening (not the morning). There is certainly something to this practise. Encourage others totry it for themselves.

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AK 3 years ago> naigmaDear Naigma,

I have similar addictions like TV, internet and so on. But (almost twice a day), but havenot noticed any significant difference in me physically/mentally. How much timedid it take for you to notice the difference?

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AD 3 years ago> AKAK, it's different for different people. pls don't get trapped by comparisons.. If Shambhavi is doneregularly, with an open mind, in the right way as per the instructions, you'll know at some point.. plsdon't look at what's happening with someone else.. that won't help, in fact it's more of a hindrance.

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