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Jaggi Vasudev , popularly known as Sadhguru, is an Indian yogi, mystic and New York Times bestselling author in the "Advice, How-To & Miscellaneous" section for one week. He founded the Isha Foundation, a non-profit organization which offers Yoga programs around the world and is involved in social outreach, education and environmental initiatives.Sadhguru was conferred the Padma Vibhushan civilian award by the Government of India in 2017 in recognition of his contribution to the field of spiritualism.

✵ 3. September 1957
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Sadhguru Quotes

“Whenever you say, "I do not know something," you are flexible.”

Sadhguru

The Times of India, 10 June 2009
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Context: Whenever you say, "I do not know something," you are flexible. Whenever you think, "I know it," you become rigid. This rigidity is not just attitude; it percolates into every aspect of your life. This rigidity is also the cause of an enormous amount of suffering in the world.

“When you say ‘I want to walk the spiritual path’ what you're saying is, ‘I want to touch something which is non-physical.”

Sadhguru

Isha Insights Magazine, Spring Edition 2009
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Context: Constantly all around us, one substance is being made into another. This transition and this transformation is happening all the time. If you make mud into food, that's called agriculture. If you make food into a human being, this is called digestion. If you make a human being into mud again, we call this cremation. If you transform the physical into the non-physical, that's called consecration. Why the need to transform the physical into non-physical? Because that's your longing. When you say ‘I want to walk the spiritual path’ what you're saying is, ‘I want to touch something which is non-physical.'–Sadhguru, Mahima Consecration, USA, Nov 7, 2008

“This project is not just aimed at improving the economic conditions of people”

Sadhguru

Isha Insights Magazine, Spring Edition 2009
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Context: This project is not just aimed at improving the economic conditions of people... It is a way of inspiring a human being to stand up for himself, to raise the human spirit. -Sadhguru (on Action for Rural Rejuvenation rural relief program)

People

“If you transform the physical into the non-physical, that's called consecration.”

Sadhguru

Isha Insights Magazine, Spring Edition 2009
Sourced from newspapers and magazines
Context: Constantly all around us, one substance is being made into another. This transition and this transformation is happening all the time. If you make mud into food, that's called agriculture. If you make food into a human being, this is called digestion. If you make a human being into mud again, we call this cremation. If you transform the physical into the non-physical, that's called consecration. Why the need to transform the physical into non-physical? Because that's your longing. When you say ‘I want to walk the spiritual path’ what you're saying is, ‘I want to touch something which is non-physical.'–Sadhguru, Mahima Consecration, USA, Nov 7, 2008

“Enlightenment never happens. It is there; it is always there.”

Sadhguru

The Times of India, March 28, 2005
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Context: Enlightenment never happens. It is there; it is always there. The sadhana that you do is just to see it is there. You are not doing sadhana to construct divinity within you. All you will construct is only ego.

“The word ‘yoga’ literally means ‘union’. When you experience everything as one in your consciousness, then you are in yoga. -Sadhguru”

Sadhguru

Isha Insights Magazine, Spring Edition 2009
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“Affluence has not brought misery…”

Sadhguru

Isha Insights Magazine, Spring Edition 2009
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Context: Affluence has not brought misery... Having a lot of money in your pocket is good, isn't it? If it enters your head it becomes misery because that's not its place. It should be in your pocket. If it's in your pocket, there are many wonderful things you can do in the world. It is a means, and it is a tremendous empowerment. -Sadhguru

“How Human beings are, that is how the society will be.”

Sadhguru

The Times of India, 10 June 2009
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Context: How Human beings are, that is how the society will be. So, creating human beings who are flexible and willing to look at everything rather than being stuck in their ideas and opinions definitely makes for a different kind of society. And the very energy that such human being carry will influence everything around them.

“The basic purpose of life and the basic purpose of education is to enhance one’s boundaries of perception.”

Sadhguru

Isha Insights Magazine, Spring Edition 2009
Sourced from newspapers and magazines
Context: The basic purpose of life and the basic purpose of education is to enhance one’s boundaries of perception. I don’t want the children to just survive after ten years of schooling here. They must blossom and flower wherever they go. -Sadhguru (on Isha Vidhya rural education project)

Life , Education

“A leader is someone who takes a chance on the destiny of a large mass of people.”

Sadhguru

Isha Insights Magazine, Spring Edition 2009
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Context: A leader is someone who takes a chance on the destiny of a large mass of people. He's a leader because he is capable of organizing and directing situations to the desired goal. But that only happens if a leader has some mastery over himself. -Sadhguru

People , Chance

“If you resist change, you resist life.”

Sadhguru
Life , Change

“If you use any external activity to create an inner situation, you naturally get enslaved to that external activity, and that becomes the condition for your joy. That's the basis of your slavery and bondage; unless you change that, you will never know joy as a way of being.”

Sadhguru

Joy 24x7

Way , Nature , Change , Joy

“Your joy keeps crashing down repeatedly. It doesn't matter how many times you think 'This is it', it keeps falling down simply because you don't understand the mechanics of it.”

Sadhguru

Joy 24x7

Understanding , Thinking , Time , Joy

“If I choose among you, you will feel hurt. But nature has its own way of choosing. Those who are not entitled to something, drop out by themselves.”

Sadhguru

Sadhguru: More Than a Life

Way , Feeling , Nature , Hurt

“As many colors of the rainbow are an outcome of one pure light, the many religions of the world are an expression of one divine source.”

Sadhguru

Pebbles of Wisdom

World , Religion , Color , Light

“Your intelligence is so deeply entangled with the social identification that you have taken on, your brains are not working in line with the life within you; it is working against your own life. That is the source of misery.”

Sadhguru

Joy 24x7

Life , Intelligence

“In the case of Isha, the process will last in a very active way for six hundred to seven hundred years. After that, it will continue in a lowered way. But the energy part of it is indestructible. Though, right now, the teaching looks like the major part, it is actually just a small part in my life. The real work that I do is not in what I am saying or doing around the world. The real work is in the “eggs” that I lay which can’t be destroyed, which will be there forever.”

Sadhguru

Sadhguru: More Than a Life

Life , World , Way , Parting

“Memory creates a hallucination of the past, desire creates a hallucination of the future.”

Sadhguru

Pebbles of Wisdom

Memory , Past , Future

“If you are wired to your memory, repetitions will happen and redundancy will come; but if you are paying attention, that changes your ability to look at things”

Sadhguru

Economic Times http://articles.economictimes.indiatimes.com/2012-12-21/news/35953428_1_human-body-indian-business-isha-foundation, 21 December 2012
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Memory , Change

“How aware you are is how alive you are.”

Sadhguru

Pebbles of Wisdom

“If you are joyful, whatever you do you will do it to the hilt because you have nothing to hold back, nothing to fear, isn't it?”

Sadhguru

Joy 24x7

Fear

“Awareness is aliveness.”

Sadhguru

Pebbles of Wisdom

“The most important aspect of my life is I never identified anything as small or big. I pay the same level of attention to everything. Without prejudice of what is big and what is small, you'll effortlessly navigate your way through life.”

Sadhguru