The Sadhguru Podcast - Of Mystics and Mistakes

Ancient Indian temples weren’t built for prayer. They were powerful energized spaces for human wellbeing. Sadhguru speaks about the importance of living in consecrated spaces and how every human being must reside in such a cared for space.

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Sadhguru takes the example of a game of football and looks at how activity can be a means towards involvement. But activity cannot be sustained constantly. He explains that meditation means to be involved absolutely, without activity.

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Sadhguru explains how the only two bondages are the body and mind, which breed innumerable other bondages. If we can transcend these two bondages, it is mukti.

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Sadhguru looks at how life naturally finds its ultimate nature if we stand aside and let it. He explains how people are always applying the brakes on this, and yoga is just a method to take our leg off the “brake pedal.”

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Sadhguru explains how the body is just a loan we take from the planet, and death is a process of repaying that loan. 

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Sadhguru explains how if we cultivate the body, mind, emotions and energies to a certain level of maturity, meditation blossoms.

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Sadhguru looks at how imitating anyone or following a role model limits the possibilities in our life.

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Sadhguru tells a story of three stone-cutters to illustrate that the quality of our life depends not on what we do or do not do. It is how we do that changes life.

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Most human beings are entangled in their psychological reality and are thus missing out on experiencing the existential reality.

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Sadhguru tells us a story about a South Indian king and his beloved China jars to illustrate how a person functioning from a deep sense of involvement with life, will only act compassionately.

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