Sadhguru Quotes

Jaggi Vasudev

Sadhguru is an Indian yoga guru and a proponent of spirituality. He has been teaching yoga since 1982. He is the author of several books and a frequent speaker. (Sadhguru Quotes)

“A human is not a being; he is a becoming. He is an ongoing process – a possibility. For this possibility to be made use of, there is a whole system of understanding the mechanics of how this life functions and what we can do with it, which we refer to as yoga.”
Sadhguru
Body the Greatest Gadget

“A human is not a being; he is a becoming. He is an ongoing process, nothing is fixed.”
Sadhguru
Body the Greatest Gadget

“Affluence has not brought misery. The money did not stay in your pocket; it got into your head. Only then misery came to you. Having lots of money in your pocket is good. But if it enters your head, it becomes misery, because that is not its place.”
Sadhguru
Pebbles of Wisdom

“Another thing is that one should not cook or eat near a dead body. The very nature of food will draw that energy in that direction. So if you are cooking or eating near a dead body where the life energies are still exiting, you will be eating your own relative in some way. This may sound very extreme, but it is so because food will draw these energies. This is why, traditionally, people don’t cook in the house where death has occurred for a period of fourteen days. People bring food from outside, for the people there. But it is not good to eat there either.”
Sadhguru
Death; An Inside Story

“Anybody who does not know how to manage his own body, his own mind, his own emotion and his energies, if he is managing outside situations, he is only managing them by accident, not by intent the way he wants it. When you manage situations by accident, you exist as an accident. When you exist as an accident, you are a potential calamity. When you exist as a potential calamity, being anxious all the time becomes a natural part of life.”
Sadhguru
Inner Management

“As far as the laws of existence are concerned, there is no good and bad, no crime and punishment. It is just that for every action, there is a consequence.”
Sadhguru
Karma

“As life recedes in you, you will see nothing fantastic can ever happen. Only if life is happening exuberantly within, can it carry you to higher possibilities.”
Sadhguru
Mind is your Business

“As long as one is in pursuit of something or the other, it is an endless process. As long as we are getting identified and attached to different situations we get into, however beautiful the situation may be, the moment you think “this is it,” you are trying to freeze yourself into a certain state of ignorance.”
Sadhguru
Life and Death in One Breath

“As long as the personality is important, it simply means the previous moment is important. This present moment is not important, because the personality belongs to the past.”
Sadhguru
Mystic’s Musings

“As long as you are alive, it is important that you see how to contribute to the living because other than doing a few rituals within the stipulated time, there is nothing that you can do about the dead.”
Sadhguru
Death; An Inside Story

“As people get richer and older, you will see, they start doing more desperate things to be happy.”
Sadhguru
Mind is your Business

“At every stage you think ‘this is it’, but life always strikes back again and again, isn’t it? Life strikes back not because there is something wrong with creation, but because you’re not in tune with your own basic existence, because you have got identified with petty things that you gathered. You have become an accumulation, you have no existence of your own.”
Sadhguru
JOY 24X7

“Being spiritual means you are committed to charting your own destiny. When you are on such a path, what you are essentially saying to the world is “I am not windblown. I am self-propelled.”
Sadhguru
Karma

“Breaking through the cyclical laws of physical nature is the basis of the spiritual process that Adiyogi explored.”
Sadhguru
Adiyogi

“By consciously getting your body into a certain posture, you can also elevate your consciousness, you can change the very way you feel, think, understand, and experience life simply by sitting in a particular way.”
Sadhguru
Body the Greatest Gadget

“By just watching the sunset I become blissful, is that true bliss? When I am saying my prayers if I become blissful, is that true bliss? When I am meditating and have become blissful, is that true bliss?” How you become blissful, it doesn’t matter. Somehow you become blissful. That is all that matters.”
Sadhguru
Encounter the Enlightened

“Children only come through you, you don’t create them. It is a privilege that they have happened through you. Enjoy the privilege; don’t think of it as an authority. Just enjoy the privilege that another life chose to come through you into this world.”
Sadhguru
Pebbles of Wisdom

“Compassion is definitely a more liberating emotion than love.”
Sadhguru
Himalayan Lust

“Confusion is a good state to be in. It means you are looking, constantly looking. People ask me, “Why do you confuse us like this?” I want you to understand, if you can be confused by anybody, it means you do not know. If you are fanatical, you cannot be confused. Or if you are realized, you cannot be confused. Between ignorance and enlightenment is a very thin line. But they are worlds apart.”
Sadhguru
Of Mystics & Mistakes

“Creator is just pure intelligence. Intelligence beyond logic is Creator, or what you are referring to as God.” (Sadhguru Quotes)
Sadhguru
Mind is your Business

“Death is a fiction created by people who live their lives in total unawareness. There is only life, life and life alone, moving from one dimension to another, another dimension to another.”
Sadhguru
Life and Death in One Breath

“Death is not something that will happen suddenly; it builds up over time. Many a time, the body is setting forth the process. The person may not be fully conscious of it – the mind may not be alert enough to grasp it, but the body speaks it in many ways.”
Sadhguru
Death; An Inside Story

“Depression, grief and joy are all infectious. You have to make up your mind as to what you want to infect the world with.”
Sadhguru
Death; An Inside Story

“Divinity never forces itself upon you. If you are willing, it is always there for you. If you are not willing, it is not there for you. So all you need to do is create the right kind of willingness and receptivity. Just to bow down and not have a will of your own is the biggest receptivity. It is the easiest way to receive.”
Sadhguru
Of Mystics & Mistakes

“Do not think of karma in terms of lifetimes. Think of it in terms of just this Living Moment.”
Sadhguru
Karma

“Do you understand? Man needs entertainment simply to hide his madness. If he was perfectly sane, he would not need entertainment. He could just sit and watch this bamboo grow. He does not really need entertainment.”
Sadhguru
Mystic’s Musings

“Don’t think of this as your first step or last step. Just be here as a piece of life. That is the best way to be. You are not a young man; you are not an old man. You are just a piece of life.”
Sadhguru
Life and Death in One Breath

“Elemental Memory and Atomic Memory together constitute.”
Sadhguru
Death; An Inside Story

“Even if I say something, do not believe this nonsense, but do not disbelieve it either. Just see, “Someone is willing to sit in front of so many people and talk absolute nonsense, something that is totally absurd. Let me see what this is about.” If you keep that much openness, the possibility is alive in your life. If you believe it, you will kill it. If you disbelieve it, you will kill it.”
Sadhguru
Life and Death in One Breath

“Even on a daily basis, one can make this awareness a part of one’s life. When you are hungry and want to eat, just postpone it by ten minutes. Be conscious of your hunger, do not get busy with some other activity. Consciously postpone your meal and wait.”
Sadhguru
Death; An Inside Story

“Every fluctuation on the level of the mind has a chemical reaction in the body, and every chemical reaction in the body in turn generates a fluctuation on the level of the mind.”
Sadhguru
Death; An Inside Story

“Every human being is born with the same possibility, but all of them do not make themselves into the same things even if they are given the same opportunities – because it is conscious, you can make yourself what you want.”
Sadhguru
Mind is your Business

“Every human being is in the process of becoming divine….Collaborating with Nature’s plan is all you need to do.”
Sadhguru
Karma

“Every human being is longing for involvement. Not for touch, not for a kiss, not for sex, not for anything else; one is basically longing for a deep sense of involvement.”
Sadhguru
Pebbles of Wisdom

“Every kind of misery that human beings are going through is manufactured in their minds.”
Sadhguru
Mind is your Business

“Every moment of your life, every step, no matter how many places you think you are going, whether you are going to your office, your home or on a vacation, the body doesn’t know all that – it is walking straight to the grave. Every moment, it is going nowhere else. Right now because you are young, because of the play of hormones, you have forgotten this. But slowly, as time passes, it will become more and more apparent that the body is walking towards the grave.”
Sadhguru
Mind is your Business

“Every opinion you have about anything can be a limiting identity.”
Sadhguru
Midnights with the Mystic

“Every seed goes through the tremendous struggle of losing itself – losing its safety and integrity and becoming vulnerable to every outside force that’s around. But without that vulnerability, without the breaking, without the shedding of the shell, life won’t sprout.”
Sadhguru
Pebbles of Wisdom

“Everybody thinks they need to do God’s work. If God is almighty, do you have to do his work? No. You just mind your business.”
Sadhguru
Emotion is the juice of life

“Everything, every cell, every atom in the existence can be a doorway to the beyond if you go steadily at it. But the problem is, people keep shifting and shifting and shifting. That is the biggest problem with today’s world, like never before. People think it is a virtue for them to say, “Our attention spans are very short.” If you keep shifting, nothing happens. Which way you want to go, I am not deciding that – go wherever you want to go, but steadily. Not every day altering it, altering it, altering it.”
Sadhguru
Life and Death in One Breath

“For most people, what happened yesterday is more real than what is happening right now. That is their experience of life. They live by memory. When you live by memory, you live with one foot in the land of death and another in the land of life. That is torture!”
Sadhguru
Death; An Inside Story

“Fundamentally management is your ability to inspire people to do their best and that is all you can do. If everybody around you is doing his best, that is the best possible management that can happen.”
Sadhguru
Inner Management

“Fundamentally, death means you are shedding what you have gathered in this life in terms of physical content and psychological content. You may think many things about yourself as a person, but as far as the planet is concerned, it is just recycling itself. It pops you up and pulls you back. In that pop-up, you have an opportunity to transcend this whole cycle.”
Sadhguru
Death; An Inside Story

“Fundamentally, the basis of yoga is just this: to initiate a process of self-creation where the nature of your body, your emotion, your mind, your energy is consciously created by you. This is what Adiyogi did. He crafted his life in its entirety.”
Sadhguru
Adiyogi

“Generally, the smartest people on the planet – those people who think they are really smart – tend to have the most horrible relationships.”
Sadhguru
Life and Death in One Breath

“God loves you’ is not significant. If you are in such a way that everybody around you cannot help but fall in love with you – now, that is great!”
Sadhguru
Pebbles of Wisdom

“Good and bad are always according to your ego requirements. If you go by this, you enslave yourself to the dualities of life; you divide the existence. So the question of turning spiritual never arises.”
Sadhguru
Mystic’s Musings

“Having an aversion to something and an attraction towards something else is the basis of identification. Whatever you are averse to dominates your mind. The nature of your mind is such that if you say, “I do not want something,” only that thing keeps happening in your mind. There is no subtraction or division in the mind, there is only addition and multiplication.”
Sadhguru
Mind is your Business

“How the human system is happening, in the same way the universe has happened. In the same way that the micro is happening, that is how the macro has happened. If you look at the micro and perceive it, you will also know existence.”
Sadhguru
Of Mystics & Mistakes

“However profound it is, everything that comes from memory spells karmic bondage.”
Sadhguru
Karma

“Human beings suffer much more than other creatures because we have a discretionary intellect. Most of a human being’s suffering is mental, and mental suffering is self-created. A human being is an expert at creating suffering for himself and for others. This is because he has a discretionary mind – he can choose to be any way he wants right now. He can make himself joyful or make himself miserable.”
Sadhguru
Mind is your Business

“I always say, in life, one should have passion towards the highest, compassion for all and dispassion towards oneself.”
Sadhguru
Death; An Inside Story

“I am not here to speak the Truth. I am here just to give you a method to perceive it.”
Sadhguru
Of Mystics & Mistakes

“I learned to create a little more space between my thoughts and actions—actually between my feelings and reactions. This is extremely important; without it, life can be a real roller coaster ride.” (Sadhguru Quotes)
Sadhguru
Midnights with the Mystic

“If a knife has to cut through anything effortlessly and well, it is extremely important that whatever it cuts through does not stick to it. If the residue keeps sticking to the knife, after some time this knife becomes useless.”
Sadhguru
Mind is your Business

“If even for a moment, you experience everything around you as a part of yourself, after that do I have to teach you morality – ‘Be good to this person, don’t harm this person, don’t kill this peron.’ Anything that you know as ‘myself’, with that you are in harmony, with that there is no conflict, there is no problem. It is the other which is the problem.”
Sadhguru
Mind is your Business/Body the Greatest Gadget

“If one has mastery over one’s vyana, one can leave one’s body at will.”
Sadhguru
Death; An Inside Story

“If this solar system, in which we are, evaporates tomorrow morning, no one will even notice it in this Cosmos. It is that small, just a speck. In this speck of a solar system, Planet Earth is a micro speck. In that micro speck, the city you live in is a super-micro speck. In that, you are a big man.”
Sadhguru
Death; An Inside Story

“If you are capable of creating one moment the way you want it, are you not capable of creating one more moment the way you want it? One more and one more and one more? After all the whole life is just that, it is one moment at a time, fortunately. Moments are not coming and battering you in bunches, they are coming only one at a time. If you just know how to be joyful in this moment, you are joyful for eternity. If you do not know how, then you are lost forever.”
Sadhguru
JOY 24X7

“If you are forming relationships to seek happiness – you trying to squeeze happiness out of someone and that person trying to squeeze happiness out of you – this is going to be a painful relationship after some time.”
Sadhguru
Life and Death in One Breath

“If you are joyful by your own nature – not because of what is happening around you – then if you really want to have a tag of a good human being, you can take it, but I would say it is better you are a joyful human being, not a good human being.”
Sadhguru
Life and Death in One Breath

“If you are not using your mind for self-torture, why would you think of peace?”
Sadhguru
Of Mystics & Mistakes

“If you believe that the person you are grieving for has enriched your life, show that enrichment in how you live. If you are going to cry for the rest of your life, then it means this person is now the biggest problem in your life, isn’t it?”
Sadhguru
Death; An Inside Story

“If you detach yourself from life, you are avoiding life. You are here to experience life, not to avoid life.”
Sadhguru
Mind is your Business

“If you don’t know how to keep yourself as a joyous, peaceful and loving human being, what can you do for your child? Your child will only imbibe your tensions, anger, anxiety and every other nonsense. If you are really concerned about your child, first you must be willing to transform yourself.”
Sadhguru
Encounter the Enlightened

“If you eat just twenty-four morsels in your morning meal, you will definitely not feel sleepy until dinnertime. After one-and-a-half to two hours, you will be hungry, and that is the best way to be. Just because the stomach is empty, you do not have to put food. Just drink water and you will stay alert and energetic throughout the day. Your system will learn to use the food you have eaten well, rather than simply wasting it. Economically and ecologically it is good for the world, and good for your health – you may never fall sick if you eat like this.”
Sadhguru
Body the Greatest Gadget

“If you experience this moment just once, you will never be able to fall out of it.”
Sadhguru
Karma

“If you manage a situation, not just things happening there, people should feel elevated just being in that space. Above all, you must feel wonderful being there.”
Sadhguru
Inner Management

“If you notice, whatever you do with life, no matter how much you do with life, there is still something more you can do with it. Life needs all your attention and efforts. Death does not need your support. It will anyway happen and it will happen with absolute efficiency.”
Sadhguru
Death; An Inside Story

“If you take more karmic load now, when you are well and capable, later you will walk “hands-free”!”
Sadhguru
Karma

“If you think hundred percent logically, there is really no possibility of life.”
Sadhguru
Mind is your Business

“If you think you are big, you become small. If you know you are nothing, you become unlimited. That’s the beauty of being a human being.”
Sadhguru
Pebbles of Wisdom

“If you try to make the limited unlimited, you will suffer.”
Sadhguru
Mind is your Business

“If you understand there is nothing to lose, because anyway you came with nothing and there is nothing to lose, the fear of death will not be relevant.”
Sadhguru
Death; An Inside Story

“If you want God as a tranquilizer, it is okay as an idea, but if you want the Divine to be an awakening process in your life, an idea is not good enough.”
Sadhguru
Of Mystics & Mistakes

“If you want to become life sensitive, a simple process that you do is this: make whatever you think and whatever you feel less important. Try and see for one day. Suddenly you will feel the breeze, the rain, the flowers and the people, everything in a completely different way. Suddenly the life in you becomes much more active and alive for your experience.”
Sadhguru
Of Mystics & Mistakes

“If you want to know life in its immensity, you need something more than your thoughts, your logic, or your intellect”
Sadhguru
Mind is your Business

“If your body goes in search of a relationship, we call this sexuality. If your mind goes in search of relationships, we call this companionship. If your emotion goes in search of relationships, we call this love. If your energies go in search of relationship, we call this yoga.”
Sadhguru
Life and Death in One Breath

“If your body, if your mind, if your emotions, if your energies are not functioning the way you want them to, then this is the worst kind of slavery, because somebody else decides what should happen within you. If somebody else decides what should happen around you, that itself you call as slavery. But if someone decides what should happen within you, is it not a more horrible way of being a slave? But please see, the whole world is in this slavery. The only consolation is everybody is like this.”
Sadhguru
Inner Management

“If your sadness is reminding you that you are incomplete, it is good. Make use of your sadness to grow. When sadness sets in, if you become more compassionate, more caring, and more loving, you have some sense in you.”
Sadhguru
Emotion is the juice of life

“Imagination can do miraculous things. If you have enough control over your life energies and can empower your imagination, it will become a reality. There are many yogis who live in their own worlds with their own kind of planets, earth, everything. They live in a cave, but they have used their imagination and their life energies to create a whole new dimension of life. He lives there happily. A universe is contained inside the cave.”
Sadhguru
Mind is your Business

“In a way, death is a fiction created by ignorant people. Death is the creation of the unaware, because if you are aware, it is life, life and life alone – moving from one dimension of Existence to another.”
Sadhguru
Death; An Inside Story

“In a way, everyone is a ghost. Whether you are a ghost with the body or without a body is the only question.”
Sadhguru
Death; An Inside Story

“In losing awareness of self is the trap of karma. The hunter becomes the hunted, the architect becomes the bonded laborer, the creator becomes creation. A spider trapped in a web of its own making is a tragedy.”
Sadhguru
Karma

“In maintaining distance from your thought and emotion, you can become available to the grace of the greatest beings of the past.”
Sadhguru
Karma

“In reality, death is not the end because there is no such thing as death. Death exists only to one who has no awareness of life. There is only life, life and life alone.”
Sadhguru
Death; An Inside Story

“In the process of creating what we want, in pursuit of our happiness, we are just destroying the very source of our life, this planet; we are making a bonfire out of it. But still we are not satisfied, nor are we any more joyful than what people were five hundred years ago.”
Sadhguru
Inner Management

“In the spiritual lore, the human body is considered supremely sacred, as this is the only mechanism that can take a being from the limited identification of the self to the unlimited, from a bounded existence to the realm of the unbounded, to the final plunge into the vastness of the Infinite.”
Sadhguru
Mystic’s Musings

“In western societies people understand falling at somebody’s feet as a kind of subjugation or slavery. In the yogic tradition, we never thought feet were any less than the hands. It was never seen that one part of the body is less than the other.” (Sadhguru Quotes)
Sadhguru
Body the Greatest Gadget

“Incredible things can be done simply because we are committed that we want it to happen, that’s all.”
Sadhguru
Inner Management

“Intuition is not a different dimension of perception, as people usually try to make out. Intuition is just a quicker way of arriving at the same answer. Intuition is just a way of making use of the data and jumping the steps.”
Sadhguru
Of Mystics & Mistakes

“Involvement is not an act, it is a certain willingness towards life – you have become willing to the process of life. If you get identified, you are becoming unwilling to the process of life – you are only willing in selection, you are not willing with the rest of life. It is this unwillingness which is scaling down the aliveness in a human being.”
Sadhguru
Mind is your Business

“Is this the only goal of our life? Joy is not the goal; it is the square one of your life.”
Sadhguru
JOY 24X7

“It is not about performing miracles. It is about recognizing the miracle of life that you are.”
Sadhguru
Karma

“It is time to let go of the past. Live consciously, and you will see that this moment cannot be fragmented into past and future, into now and then. All that ever was in this creation is only in this moment, and all that will ever be is only in this moment.”
Sadhguru
Karma

“It is unfortunate that we have moved from intuition to information.”
Sadhguru
Death; An Inside Story

“It takes a little extra intelligence for a person to look beyond what’s available in his culture.”
Sadhguru
Mystic’s Musings

“It takes a lot of intelligence to see “I am stupid.” The difference between a stupid person and an intelligent one is that an intelligent person knows he is stupid, but an idiot does not. Look at it in terms of existence and you. If you look at with what organization, capability and certainty a simple ant is conducting its life, you will see that you are quite stupid. Have you seen, even a simple ant – such a tiny thing – is dead sure of what he wants with his life. He knows what to eat, what not to eat, what is nourishing for him, what is not. He does not read that micro-print on the back of the package. He just knows what he wants.”
Sadhguru
Mind is your Business

“It’s considered totally obscene to make any request to God, because if he doesn’t know, what’s the point asking him?”
Sadhguru
Himalayan Lust

“Joy is not the end of the world. I am talking about Joy as the square one of your life, as a solid foundation for your life to flower upon.”
Sadhguru
JOY 24X7

“Joy will not happen if you change the Content of your life, it will only happen if you change the Context of your life”
Sadhguru
JOY 24X7

“Karma can be compared to a seed. Before the rains, the whole land is barren. There would be nothing. It rains; suddenly all kinds of vegetation will sprout up. The seeds are already there; they’re just waiting for the right kind of atmosphere.”
Sadhguru
Mystic’s Musings

“Karma is about becoming the source of one’s own creation. In shifting responsibility from heaven to oneself, one becomes the very maker of one’s destiny.”
Sadhguru
Karma

“Karma is not a question of sin and virtue; it’s just a consequence, and the residual element of your physical, mental and emotional activity. Take charge of your life.”
Sadhguru
Karma

“Karma is the natural basis of all existence. It is not a law that is imposed from above. It does not allow us to outsource our responsibility anywhere else; it does not allow us to blame our parents, our teachers, our countries, our politicians, our gods, or our fates. It makes each one of us squarely responsible for our own destinies and, above all, the nature of our experience of life.”
Sadhguru
Karma

“Karma means that you can change your destiny, not simply be ruled by it.”
Sadhguru
Karma

“Krishna says in the Gita, “The worst crime in the world is indecision.”
Sadhguru
Mystic’s Musings

“Learning is a natural human trait. When you learn something that you did not know, it should make you joyful. But if learning is making children miserable, then we have not understood how to impart learning.”
Sadhguru
Pebbles of Wisdom

“Life and death live in me at once Never held one above the other When one stands far, life I offer In closeness, only death I deal In death of the limited Will the deathless be”
Sadhguru
Death; An Inside Story

“Life cannot be experienced unless there is involvement – the deeper the involvement, the deeper the experience of life.”
Sadhguru
Mind is your Business

“Life has no use at all, declared Adiyogi. It is simply a phenomenon. Little acts have purpose. But life is not framed within the narrow grid of utility. It is beyond frames. It is beyond grids. It is beyond utility. If you have a taste of this existence beyond purpose, of life beyond sense, you are enlightened.”
Sadhguru
Adiyogi

“Life is a circus when your intellect and your body alone are involved. Life is a dance, when the intelligence begins to play its role.”
Sadhguru
Mind is your Business

“Life is one kind of sound. Death is another kind of sound. Those who cannot hear the sound of death think death is silence. Death is not silence, it is just another kind of sound, but may not within the hearing range of a normal ear.”
Sadhguru
Life and Death in One Breath

“Living totally does not mean just having a good time. It means experiencing anything that comes your way fully and intensely.”
Sadhguru
Karma

“Lots of earthquakes and landslides and disturbances keep happening on a daily basis simply because the mountain is growing. The same is true with human life: if one is striving to grow, earthquakes and landslides keep happening in one’s life. Those who are stagnant, who don’t grow, their life seems to be stable and steady, and looks better. But it’s lifeless. For one who is striving to grow, an enormous amount of upheaval happens in his life. But all the upheavals are worth a little bit of growth that could happen within a human being.”
Sadhguru
Himalayan Lust

“Lots of people have understood management as a way of throwing their weight around.”
Sadhguru
Inner Management

“Love is your quality. Love is not what you do. Love is what you are.”
Sadhguru
Midnights with the Mystic

“Making yourself mentally open is very fundamental and very crucial, because this is something that is immediately in your hands. Your energy is not in your hands; you don’t know how to open it. Even your physical body, you don’t know how to keep it open, but your mind is something that you can consciously open.”
Sadhguru
Mystic’s Musings

“Man needs entertainment simply to hide his madness. If he was perfectly sane, he would not need entertainment. He could just sit and watch this bamboo grow. He does not really need entertainment.”
Sadhguru
Mystic’s Musings

“Mind is not in any one place. Every cell in this body has its own intelligence. The brain is sitting in your head, but mind is all over the place.”
Sadhguru
Mind is your Business

“Money is definitely needed, but how much money do we really need? If we would change our idea of a successful life to a joyful life, we would find our need for money would dramatically decrease.”
Sadhguru
Midnights with the Mystic

“Most of a human being’s suffering is mental, and mental suffering is self-created. A human being is an expert at creating suffering for himself and for others. This is because he has a discretionary mind – he can choose to be any way he wants right now. He can make himself joyful or make himself miserable. You can make anything out of your mind. This choice is there at every moment.”
Sadhguru
Mind is your Business

“Most people are investing their whole lifetime just for their material well-being. Dying to live, this is called.”
Sadhguru
Pebbles of Wisdom

“Most people are living like the dead anyway because they are unconscious of many things within themselves. If people are living unconsciously, it is as good as death. So, in a way, the whole spiritual process is about raising the dead. In that sense, raising the dead is my work.”
Sadhguru
Death; An Inside Story

“Most people will grow only with pain, not with pleasure. It’s unfortunate, but that’s the truth. Generally people only go down with pleasure. They don’t go up with pleasure. Please see, the quality of a human being is like this: when life offers more and more pleasures to a man, he doesn’t grow. He goes down. In terms of the real quality of a human being, only when suffering comes, when pain comes, does a man stand up as a human being.”
Sadhguru
Mystic’s Musings

“Mukti means you want to become free from the process of life and death, not because you are suffering. People who are suffering cannot attain mukti. You are fine, you are joyful, but you have had enough of kindergarten, you want to move on. However beautiful your school life was, don’t you want to go to college? That is all. Death means the end of the physical body; everything else continues and finds another body soon; whereas with mukti, everything comes to an end. In a way, mukti is the end of death—and birth as well.”
Sadhguru
Death; An Inside Story

“Mysticism is like pure science; it has no use. Mysticism is just the human longing to know… Occult is not science. Occult is just technology.”
Sadhguru
Of Mystics & Mistakes

“Now the need for seeking something outside will completely disappear. Once you are blissful by your own nature, your life becomes an expression of your blissfulness, not a pursuit of happiness.” (Sadhguru Quotes)
Sadhguru
Of Mystics & Mistakes

“Now, every child does have the necessary intelligence. You create an atmosphere for him to grow into his intelligence rather than superimposing your rottenness on him.”
Sadhguru
Encounter the Enlightened

“Once memory enters, action is enslaving. Without memory, however, you can operate consciously. When your action is unsullied by past impressions, it is liberating.”
Sadhguru
Karma

“Once there is a deep acceptance of death, then life will happen to you in enormous proportions. It is only because you tried to keep death away, life has also stayed away from you.”
Sadhguru
Death; An Inside Story

“Once you are released from the fruit of action, the action will happen by itself. You don’t have to stop working to be released from action. Simply, it will dissolve, melt and disappear. Once the expectation of the fruit of action is completely removed from your life, the action occurs by itself. You don’t have to do anything about it.”
Sadhguru
Mystic’s Musings

“Once you have come with the human form, life has given you a certain sense of intelligence, a certain sense of awareness and freedom to choose what you want to be right now, in this moment.”
Sadhguru
Mystic’s Musings

“Once you hold somebody else as the source of who or what you are right now, that person will invariably fail you in so many different ways.”
Sadhguru
JOY 24X7

“Once you liberate your mind from being identified with anything, then mind is a miracle; mind is a spectacular circus, not a mess.”
Sadhguru
Mind is your Business

“One of the biggest human follies is to engage with death in the third person, as though it is an abstract event that happens to other people, not us.”
Sadhguru
Death; An Inside Story

“One should use information and logic as a drunkard would use a lamp post, only for support, not for illumination.”
Sadhguru
Mind is your Business

“Only he who is constantly aware of the mortal nature of his existence, who knows that the flesh and blood that he carries is nothing more than a heap of ash, is truly self-realized. In incinerating all falsehood within is the making of a yogi. This is the ultimate truth that Adiyogi embodied.”
Sadhguru
Adiyogi

“Only if you are ignorant and unaware does it seem like death will come to you someday later. If you are aware, you will see both life and death are happening every moment. If you as much as breathe a little more consciously, you will notice that with every inhalation there is life, with every exhalation there is death.”
Sadhguru
Death; An Inside Story

“Only if you know to what extent your logic should go and where it should not go, your life will be beautiful.”
Sadhguru
Mind is your Business

“Only that person who does not carry the previous moment to this moment, only that person is free from everything, and that quality will be felt everywhere.”
Sadhguru
Mystic’s Musings

“Only when a person begins to experience a dimension beyond the physical within himself, then he can play with the physical world whichever way he wants, he can do the best that he can do in the outside world, but the interiority is undisturbed. If your body, if your mind, if your emotions, if your energies are not functioning the way you want them to, then this is the worst kind of slavery, because somebody else decides what should happen within you.”
Sadhguru
Inner Management

“Only when you get dis-identified, when you are able to be involved but not entangled, only then it can stop.”
Sadhguru
Mind is your Business

“Our lives become beautiful not because of what we do, our lives becomes beautiful simply because we have included everybody around us as a part of our dream of well being.”
Sadhguru
Inner Management

“Our lives become beautiful not because we are perfect. Our lives become beautiful because we put our heart into what we are doing. It doesn’t matter what we are doing. Whether we are sweeping the floor, or managing the country, or whatever we are doing. If we are putting our heart into what we are doing, it is beautiful to be doing that activity. Living in an atmosphere where people are passionate about what they are doing itself is highly enriching.”
Sadhguru
Inner Management

“Our lives become beautiful not because we are perfect. Our lives become beautiful because we put our heart into what we are doing.”
Sadhguru
Inner Management

“Our parents gave us just a seed and that became the body. But what the Source of Creation gave us was not a seed in that sense. It gave itself. This is the reason that all the possibilities that the Source of Creation holds are kind of encapsulated in us. Whether that possibility is realized in an individual life or not is questionable, but the possibility is always there.”
Sadhguru
Death; An Inside Story

“People think nothing new should happen to them, but they want an exciting life. How is this possible? This is a no-win situation you are creating for yourself.”
Sadhguru
Death; An Inside Story

“People think that death is a tragedy. It is not. People living their entire lives without experiencing life is a tragedy.”
Sadhguru
Death; An Inside Story

“People who have failed in their lives, they are suffering their failure. People who have succeeded in their life, they are suffering their success.”
Sadhguru
Inner Management

“People who want to commit suicide need sympathy sometimes, but mostly they need a little treatment and very cautious levels of disdain.”
Sadhguru
Death; An Inside Story

“Poor villager comes and throws a plastic bag; that’s not the main issue now. The issue is with the affluent, isn’t it?”
Sadhguru
Himalayan Lust

“Pure intelligence creates memory out of itself; the rest of creation projects memory as intelligence.”
Sadhguru
Karma

“Right now, if you look at your life, everything that you are doing is in pursuit of Joy. In other words, you are a Joy industry!”
Sadhguru
JOY 24X7

“Right now, you are like a bubble that says “The air that I hold in my lungs is my air.” You still have to exhale!”
Sadhguru
Karma

“Right now, you don’t have the necessary faculties to know anything which is beyond the physical. If you recognize this, if you understand this, if you accept this absolutely, only then the other dimension opens up.”
Sadhguru
Mystic’s Musings

“Samadhi is a state of equanimity where the intellect goes beyond its normal function of discrimination. This in turn loosens one from this physical body. A space between what is you and your body is created. Death means the physical body is completely lost. There is no contact with the physical body. Samadhi means that the physical body is intact, but the contact with the physical body has become very minimal.”
Sadhguru
Death; An Inside Story

“Searching for truth is itself a big illusion because whatever we term the truth is always and everywhere. We don’t have to search for it; we don’t have to seek it; it always is. Now the only problem is your inability to experience life beyond what you call mind; or right now your capability to experience life only through the limited dimension that we call mind. That is the only problem.”
Sadhguru
Himalayan Lust

“Seeing your life as self-created, rather than as an accidental phenomenon—this is the basis of karma. This is an empowered life that will naturally move toward liberation.”
Sadhguru
Karma

“Shiva does not spell religion. Shiva spells responsibility – our ability to take our very life process in our hands.”
Sadhguru
Adiyogi

“Shiva is only meant for those whose greed is unlimited, for those who are not willing to settle for life in instalments, for those who want to become one with the very source of existence. If you go to the ultimate power in existence, you must also be going with the petition for the greatest possibility. You cannot be going with petty things to the big man! From”
Sadhguru
Adiyogi

“Shi-va is the centripetal force that holds existence together; Shakti is the centrifugal force that gives rise to the explosive diversity of existence.”
Sadhguru
Adiyogi

“Somehow in the name of divinity we have just lost our humanity. Don’t talk about divinity, let your humanity overflow. When your humanity overflows, you will touch divinity, otherwise there is no way. It is simply empty talk; it doesn’t get anybody anywhere.”
Sadhguru
Life and Death in One Breath

“Someone is not stressful because of what he is doing; someone is stressful because he doesn’t know how to manage his own inner system. It is not the nature of the job which makes one stressful. You ask the top executive, he is stressful; you ask the office hand, he is also stressful. Everybody believes their job is stressful. No job is stressful. If you have no control over your own inner system, you will be stressful whether you do something or you don’t do anything.”
Sadhguru
Inner Management

“Success, prosperity, well-being happens because you have made yourself capable of creating those things.”
Sadhguru
Inner Management

“Sunlight comes into your house not because you want it. It happens because you open the windows.”
Sadhguru
Of Mystics & Mistakes

“The basic principle is that the very things that can be your downfall in life can be used to raise yourself. If you simply change your perspective, what is down can be up. What is a downward chute can be used as an upward process. Whatever draws you into compulsive nature, you use that to become conscious. You use that momentum to grow.”
Sadhguru
Adiyogi

“The body is something that we have gathered through what we eat and mind is an accumulation of impressions.”
Sadhguru
Mind is your Business

“The Creation and the Creator, life and death – are all packed one inside the other. It takes attention – a lot of attention – to see it. Otherwise, one just lives on the surface, half alive.”
Sadhguru
Death; An Inside Story

“The difference is just willingness and unwillingness. If you take away the willingness, the process of life naturally becomes a suffering.”
Sadhguru
Mind is your Business

“The essence of the spiritual process needs to be understood as a means to generate the necessary intensity to break the bubble, so that you are out of your individual nature. It is not about being good, it is not about being ethical, it is not about being moral. These things may all happen as a result, as a consequence. Once you have broken the bubble and known the freedom of experiencing everything as yourself, as a consequence you may function as a good person in society. But you have no particular intention of being good!”
Sadhguru
Of Mystics & Mistakes

“The first thing is to stand up and be sensible. To handle this body, to handle this mind, to handle these emotions, things that are within you right now, to handle them sensibly.”
Sadhguru
Encounter the Enlightened

“The goal for every freedom seeker is the same: to attend to your karma now rather than wait for life to throw it at you.”
Sadhguru
Karma

“The hardest life in the world is to be constantly putting yourself out into the world like you are joyful when you are not. When you are not happy, to show everybody that you are happy, it costs phenomenal amount of life.”
Sadhguru
Life and Death in One Breath

“The logic is simple: if you do the right things, the right things will happen to you even without your intent.” (Sadhguru Quotes)
Sadhguru
Adiyogi

“The logical aspect of your life and the experiential dimension of your life are diametrically opposite to each other.”
Sadhguru
Mind is your Business

“The main aspect of meditation is, as you become more meditative, you become the boss, your mind becomes the slave, and that is how it should always be.”
Sadhguru
Mind is your Business

“The mind has no tools to enter the unconscious dimensions. Only if you are outside of the mind you can look at everything the way it is. When you are in it, there is no way to dissect yourself. You can catch hold of somebody else and dissect them, but you cannot dissect yourself. Even if you do, you cannot see everything. If you are using any faculty of the mind you cannot truly be aware of the nature of the mind.”
Sadhguru
Of Mystics & Mistakes

“The modern societies are encouraging exclusiveness. Exclusiveness will naturally lead to depression. People are depressed like never before on this planet.”
Sadhguru
Life and Death in One Breath

“The moment you reject death, you also reject life. You think life is right and death is wrong. It is not so. Life is what it is only because death is. A river always happens between two banks.”
Sadhguru
Death; An Inside Story

“The more you try to be special, the more you get hurt. Just be, just melt and become part of the wind around you, the earth around you, become a part of everything. You’re here only for a while. At least when you’re in a place like this, where nobody is going to trample on you, let your defenses down.”
Sadhguru
Mystic’s Musings

“The most incredible thing is that you can know everything you wish to know with your eyes closed.”
Sadhguru
Of Mystics & Mistakes

“The only thing you can do is to stop attaching importance to your own ways of thinking and feeling, your thought patterns, your emotions, and your opinions. Don’t attach any importance to them. Then your limitations will become weaker and weaker and one day collapse.”
Sadhguru
Mystic’s Musings

“The past, present and future are not three different places, they are a single happening, here and now. When you live this moment profoundly, you experience time not serially but simultaneously not as three, but one. You then wake up to the fact that mystics have known since the dawn of time, that this moment is eternity.”
Sadhguru
Adiyogi

“The path is not difficult. It is very simple. If you are simple, it’s very simple. If you are all wound up, the path is very, very winding. That’s all it is.”
Sadhguru
Mystic’s Musings

“The power of ignorance is never to be underestimated. It is very powerful and the world is ruled by it most of the time. You think your knowledge, your fire, your Enlightenment will do things, but the Enlightened are always an individual, the ignorant are in masses. There is a huge power to that.”
Sadhguru
Death; An Inside Story

“The present is your only address. The here and now is your only abode.”
Sadhguru
Karma

“The purpose of the path of devotion is just dissolution.”
Sadhguru
Mystic’s Musings

“The quality of your life depends on how well you manage your body, your mind, your emotion, your situations, your home, your communities, nations, your life in general and the world.”
Sadhguru
Inner Management

“The quality of your life is decided not by what kind of clothes you wear, what kind of car you drive or what kind of home you live in, but by how peaceful and joyful you are within yourself. This is essentially the quality of your life. Everything else is done to get there. If this does not happen, everything else goes waste.”
Sadhguru
Body the Greatest Gadget

“The question is, are we using our emotions to entangle ourselves or to liberate ourselves?”
Sadhguru
Emotion is the juice of life

“The reason why human beings keep generating karma is that they want to leave a footprint. They are seeking some continuation of their individual identity.”
Sadhguru
Karma

“The significance of being a human is that you have the ability to discriminate and choose the course of your life. If you don’t employ that, then you are not much of a human being.”
Sadhguru
Death; An Inside Story

“The spiritual journey is a journey towards clarity, but never towards certainty. When you draw conclusions about beginnings and endings, you are a believer. When you accept that you really do not know anything, you become a seeker.”
Sadhguru
Adiyogi

“The technology of making this happen was what was known as tantric methods. That is, learning to use your body, your mind, and your energies just as instruments of life, so that you become available to a much higher possibility, an intelligence which is way beyond human capabilities.”
Sadhguru
Mind is your Business

“The very process of life is the dissolution of karma. If you live every moment of your life totally, you dissolve an enormous volume of karma.”
Sadhguru
Karma

“The violence of the death is not determined by what happened to the body; it depends on what happened within that person.”
Sadhguru
Death; An Inside Story

“The whole art of being a Guru is just this: to constantly puncture people’s egos and still manage to remain their friend.”
Sadhguru
Pebbles of Wisdom

“The whole idea behind fashioning such an image – that embodies life and death all at once – is to make the point that whatever you call divine is something that can never be logically understood. It can be experienced, but never grasped.”
Sadhguru
Adiyogi

“The whole spiritual process is just this: that you are willing to take the next step not knowing where it will lead you. If you are not ready for that, that means you are not ready for any new possibility.”
Sadhguru
Of Mystics & Mistakes

“The whole world itself is going through a unique kind of neurosis, which was not there in the past. This is simply because modern man has stopped using his body to a large extent.”
Sadhguru
Mystic’s Musings

“The yogic culture is not god-oriented – and this is what makes it an invaluable contribution to a world ravaged by wildly conflicting definitions of the divine.”
Sadhguru
Adiyogi

“There are many ways to understand this. One simple way to know this is: today, if you lose your mental peace totally, you will go to a doctor. He will give you a pill. If you take this pill, your system will become peaceful. Maybe this will last just for a few hours, but you become peaceful. This pill is just a little bit of chemicals. These chemicals enter your system and make you peaceful. Or in other words, what you call peace is a certain kind of chemistry within you. Similarly, what you call joy, what you call love, what you call suffering, what you call misery, what you call fear, every human experience that you go through, has a chemical basis within you. Now the spiritual process is just to create the right kind of chemistry, where you are naturally peaceful, naturally joyous. When you are joyous by your own nature, when you don’t have to do anything to be happy, then the very dimension of your life, the very way you perceive and express yourself in the world will change. The very way you experience your life will change.”
Sadhguru
Encounter the Enlightened

“There is a certain space within you which never gets disturbed, which is never in any kind of turmoil; a space which cannot be touched by outside situations.”
Sadhguru
Mind is your Business/Body the Greatest Gadget

“There is a Force within that gives you life Seek that. —Rumi”
Sadhguru
Midnights with the Mystic

“There is no subtraction or division in the mind, there is only addition and multiplication. You cannot take away anything by force from the mind.”
Sadhguru
Mind is your Business

“There is no such thing as ego; it is empty talk. The nasty part of you, you call it ego. Whenever you get nasty, you don’t want to see, “It is me who is nasty.” You want to say, “Oh, it is my ego.” This is another way of passing the buck. There is no ego. There is just you, and you, and you alone.”
Sadhguru
Pebbles of Wisdom

“There is nothing wrong in enjoying a story, but believing a story is stupidity. How long will you tell yourself fairy tales? It is time as human beings we show some evolution. You must stop the bloody stories and start looking at the truth about your existence.”
Sadhguru
Death; An Inside Story

“There is only one crime against life: to make believe that you are something other than life.”
Sadhguru
Karma

“There one exists not as an accumulation of memory and experience, not as an embodiment of love or compassion. There one simply exists in an intensity of inclusiveness.”
Sadhguru
Adiyogi

“They are certain old qualities and flavors within you. However much you may try to pretend that you’re a very nice and loving person, when deals are offered, suddenly old vasanas will take control of you. There’s an urge to bite the deal.”
Sadhguru
Mystic’s Musings

“They have been promising us for a long time — in every culture — that they are going to take us to heaven. They promise heaven because they are making a hell out of this place.”
Sadhguru
Of Mystics & Mistakes

“Things do not descend upon anything that is not ready to receive them.”
Sadhguru
Of Mystics & Mistakes

“This is the human misfortune that still there’s not enough intelligence in the world that human beings will raise to their peaks when everything is well. They wait for calamities.”
Sadhguru
Mystic’s Musings

“This moment, the quality of your life is simply decided by how peaceful and joyous you are right now within yourself. That is all that decides the quality of your life.”
Sadhguru
Encounter the Enlightened

“This path reminds you that while karma is your bondage, if you handle it right, karma can also be a stepping-stone to your liberation.”
Sadhguru
Karma

“Those who are constantly aware of the mortal and fragile nature of Existence do not want to miss even a single moment; they will naturally be aware. They cannot take anything for granted; they will live very purposefully. Only people who believe they are immortal can fight and fight to death.”
Sadhguru
Death; An Inside Story

“Those who long to leave a footprint shall never fly.”
Sadhguru
Karma

“To be enlightened is not a condition of certainty. It is to move from limited knowing to boundless unknowing, from gravitas to grace. It is to awaken to a condition of borderless ignorance, of limitless uncertainty. When you are no longer bound by the limitations of creation, you are blessed with the freedom of the Creator.” (Sadhguru Quotes)
Sadhguru
Adiyogi

“To be peaceful and joyful is not the end of life; it is the beginning of life. If you are not even peaceful, if you are caught up in your mental nonsense, you have not started living yet. Being peaceful or joyful is the most basic requirement.”
Sadhguru
Emotion is the juice of life

“To become a good human being, look at how many things you have to do. And even after doing all these things, you still do not know where you belong. Only in comparison with someone else can you say, “I am a better man,” but by yourself, you do not know where you stand.”
Sadhguru
Mind is your Business

“To claim a limited end to a limitless process, to reduce the infinite to the finite, to draw borders across the borderless, to make measurements of the unfathomable – this is the beginning of the human impulse to create certainty where none exists. It is the birth of pain, of suffering, of delusion.”
Sadhguru
Adiyogi

“To experience the ultimate you have to be willing to obliterate the self-created boundaries of individuality, you have to be willing to dissolve. That state of unbounded freedom is a state of oneness with Shiva – an unconditioned state beyond physical experience, beyond imaginative speculation, beyond all conceptual understanding.”
Sadhguru
Adiyogi

“To rise above the modifications of your mind, when you cease your mind, when you cease to be a part of your mind, that is yoga.”
Sadhguru
Mind is your Business

“Today people just go on working, working and working. Not because they are creating something fantastic, but simply because they have to work, otherwise they don’t know what to do with themselves.”
Sadhguru
Mystic’s Musings

“Truth is that dimension which is not logically explainable. It does not fit into logic because logic is always dividing; truth is always unifying. So where will this logic fit into life?”
Sadhguru
Mind is your Business

“Ultimately, life is neither suffering nor bliss. It is what you make it.”
Sadhguru
Karma

“Until we learn to respect our women, until every man learns to respect a woman, he will never know himself; there is no way, because half of him is just that.”
Sadhguru
Encounter the Enlightened

“We must decide in our lives whether we want truth that is liberating or we want fancy lies which give solace.”
Sadhguru
Death; An Inside Story

“We really do not need another nuclear explosion to annihilate life on this planet. Just a successful economy can do it quite effectively!”
Sadhguru
Adiyogi

“What is the biggest wonder of life?’ Without hesitation, Yudhishthira famously answers, ‘Hundreds and thousands of living beings meet death at every moment, yet the foolish man thinks himself deathless and does not prepare for death. This is the biggest wonder of life.”
Sadhguru
Death; An Inside Story

“What we need is not good human beings; we need sensible human beings.”
Sadhguru
Himalayan Lust

“What you are calling as life, right now, is like soap bubbles being blown. The entire Yogic process or the entire spiritual process is to wear this bubble thin, so that one day when it bursts, there is absolutely nothing left and it moves from the bondage of existence to the freedom of non-existence, or Nirvana.”
Sadhguru
Death; An Inside Story

“Whatever happens naturally is always right, there is no question about it. It is just that your short-term goals and objectives may not be in tune with what is happening, so you struggle with it. But in the real sense, it cannot be wrong. It always moves in the right direction because Nature does not decide things with thoughts and emotion. It just decides things as per your tendencies. This is not a thought. With thought, you can always make a mistake”
Sadhguru
Death; An Inside Story

“Whatever is in your hands, you keep that in perfect condition; then what is beyond you will anyway happen. But people are always trying to work at what is beyond them, not taking care of what is in their hands.”
Sadhguru
Of Mystics & Mistakes

“Whatever you accumulate can be yours, but it can never be you.”
Sadhguru
Mind is your Business

“When a child enters your life, it is time to learn. It is not time to teach. Most people think it is time to teach; that is the misfortune. If a child enters your life, it is time to relearn the life that you have forgotten. That a child can laugh without reason, that he can jump around for no reason, that he can become an exuberant burst of aliveness – that’s life.”
Sadhguru
Pebbles of Wisdom

“When any being calls or really yearns, the existence answers. If the thirst within you is strong enough, God always answers.”
Sadhguru
Mystic’s Musings

“When death knocks on your door, your life will be focused, and naturally, you turn inward, because outward is of no use anymore.”
Sadhguru
Death; An Inside Story

“When I say spiritual, I am talking about you beginning to experience that which is not physical. Once this spiritual dimension is alive, once you start experiencing yourself beyond the limitations of the physical and the mental, only then there’s no such thing as fear. Fear is just the creation of an overactive and out-of-control mind.”
Sadhguru
Mystic’s Musings

“When people feel insecure they want to drink and sleep, because sleep is just a small manifestation of death.”
Sadhguru
Don’t Polish Your Ignorance It May Shine

“When there is no imprint of karma in conscious experience, every action and experience becomes liberating.”
Sadhguru
Karma

“When we talk of “exploring the mystical,” we are not trying to dig into creation, because if you dig into creation, it will only get more complex. It will not bring clarity; it will only bring more complexity. That is why the yogis looked in a different direction. We looked inward. If you look inward, a different dimension opens up. Now instead of things getting more complex, you get to clarity. It is because of this that we say that those who look inward have a third eye. They see things that others cannot see. They have brought a new clarity to life.”
Sadhguru
Of Mystics & Mistakes

“When we utter the word ‘spirituality’, what we are saying is, “I want to become all-inclusive, or all-exclusive. I want to include everything as a part of myself, or I want to just exclude everything, including myself.“ These are two ways – either include everything or exclude everything. Either become infinite, or become zero; the in-between is an endless trap.”
Sadhguru
Pebbles of Wisdom

“When you are very happy, all gods are forgotten. God is the creation of miserable people. Because there are lots of miserable people in the world, God has thrived.”
Sadhguru
Death; An Inside Story

“When you have that, you dream of this and when you have this, you dream of that. Maybe you call it romantic, but it’s just plain stupidity. It destroys life.”
Sadhguru
Essential Wisdom from a Spiritual Master

“When you were just born, it did not take immediate effect. It was waiting. As the process of growth happens, it looks for the right kind of situation and takes effect.”
Sadhguru
Mystic’s Musings

“When you’re joyful, you have absolutely no compulsions of your own anymore. Once you have no compulsions, it is not an effort for you to be the way the situation demands, isn’t it?”
Sadhguru
JOY 24X7

“Whether your mind is a misery or your mind is a miracle simply depends on whether you are allowing life to happen to you absolutely willingly or unwillingly.”
Sadhguru
Mind is your Business

“Whichever way you breathe, that is the way you think. Whichever way you think, that is the way you breathe. Your whole life, your whole unconscious mind is written into your breath. If you just read your breath, your past, present and future is written there, in the way you breathe.”
Sadhguru
Mind is your Business

“Why do we refer to the mind as a circus? A circus is not a mess; a circus is a very coordinated activity deliberately made to look like a mess. On one level it is a mess, but on another, it is a highly coordinated activity.”
Sadhguru
Mind is your Business

“Why put the head towards the north? Traditionally, in India, they tell you not to sleep with your head to the north. This is valid only when you are in the northern hemisphere. If you go to the southern hemisphere, say Australia, you should not put your head towards the south.”
Sadhguru
Death; An Inside Story

“Why should my head be slightly upturned? Sadhguru: Sitting with your face slightly upturned is not because you want to see something floating in the sky or imagine something. You keep your head upturned because when your system “looks” upward it becomes receptive. It is like opening a window. This is about becoming receptive to Grace. When you become willing and receptive, your body naturally arches up.”
Sadhguru
Mind is your Business

“Yogis are not against pleasure. It is just that they are unwilling to settle for little pleasures. They are greedy.”
Sadhguru
Of Mystics & Mistakes

“You cannot choose a Guru. Deepen your longing and the Guru will choose you.”
Sadhguru
Mystic’s Musings

“You cannot own life; you can only live it.”
Sadhguru
Karma

“You did not create life, so you have no business to take it either – whether it is yours or someone else’s. It is as simple as that. There are life situations; some are okay, some are not okay, some are horrible. Still, it does not give you the right to take a life because you are incapable of creating one.”
Sadhguru
Death; An Inside Story

“You don’t have to create Joy, if you just know how not to create misery, Joy will naturally be the only thing that will be there.”
Sadhguru
JOY 24X7

“You have the choice and ability to be any way you want in a given moment. That is the freedom and the curse. Most human beings are suffering their freedom.” (Sadhguru Quotes)
Sadhguru
Karma

“You have too much social influence upon you. You are not going by your own nature. People do so many nonsensical life-negative things because they don’t want to be left out of the scene around them.”
Sadhguru
Pebbles of Wisdom

“You must be ready for death every moment of your life. You should live your life in such a way that if you were to drop dead the next moment, you still have ended it reasonably well. You trying to deal with it at the last moment is not the way.”
Sadhguru
Death; An Inside Story

“You should know that the only safe place on the planet is your grave. Nothing happens there. There is no safety in life itself.”
Sadhguru
Death; An Inside Story

“Your aliveness is going down because you are committing suicide in installments.”
Sadhguru
Mind is your Business

“Your aliveness is going down because you are committing suicide in installments by becoming selective in your involvement. Whatever you do willingly, that is your heaven. Whatever you do unwillingly, that is your hell.”
Sadhguru
Mind is your Business

“Your body is on loan from the planet. All the countless numbers of people who have lived on this planet before you and me have all become topsoil, and so will you. This planet will collect back atom by atom what it has loaned to you.”
Sadhguru
Midnights with the Mystic