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CONTENTS
Main Article
Kshetra Sanyasa Soaked in a Space of Grace 4
Musings
No Disasters, Just Situations Sadhguru on How to Face Lifes Challenges 7
Navaratri Make Use of Natures Support 10
In Conversation with the Mystic
Democracy and Integrity Sadhguru in Conversation with Dr. Jayaprakash Narayan Part 3 12
Leela Series
The path of the playful part XXXVI:
Dharma and Karma The Difference between Liberating and Entangling Action 15
News & Happenings
Shambhavi Mahamudra with Sadhguru in Australia 16
Sadhguru in Malaysia and Singapore 17Sadhguru Conducts Inner Engineering in Chennai 17
Sharing Experiences
My Journey to Kailash with Sadhguru
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Excerpted from Sadhgurus talk on 3 Sep 2012 on
occasion of his birthday
It has been 30 years since I realized the meaning and
purpose of who I am and what I could do. When
I look back, in my experience, 30 years ago seems
like day before yesterday because time has gone so
rapidly. The rst 12 years of my life, I barely spoke;
all kinds of things were cooking in my head. From
12 yoga became a part of my life I became more
within myself. I was so angry with the way the
world functions how much deception, how much
injustice, how many uncaring ways of functioning,
how human beings treat each other, and how
human beings treat every other creature on thisplanet. Fortunately, my anger nding expression
limited itself to attending revolutionary meetings
and sticking posters in the university. I did not go to
the extent of picking up the gun.
SADHGURU
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is. If that dimension had not opened up for me,
whatever expression my anger would have found,
I can assure you one thing I would have been
efcient, and that would not have been good.
That is why the spiritual process is so vital forour existence. Either you have to be insensitive or
spiritual otherwise, you will only be angry.
If you really look at the cosmic picture of existence,
the way human beings conduct themselves is
nothing but one big joke. It takes a certain level
of ignorance or enlightenment to manage lifeon this planet. If you are absolutely ignorant, it is
quite ne. If you are enlightened, it is fantastic. In
between I have been there is not a good place
to be. So, what does it take? The spiritual process
has always been associated with renunciation
again one badly misunderstood word. People thinkto renounce means to give up everything. No.
You renounced your mothers womb to become
an infant; you renounced your infancy to become
a child; you renounced your childhood to become
a youth; you renounced youth to become middle-
aged; you renounce your middle age to become
old-aged; you renounce old age to become a grave.
[Laughter] You will do that anyway. If you do it
consciously, gracefully, it is renunciation otherwise
it is entanglement. If constantly, something smaller
is falling away and something larger is becoming
apparent to you, this is renunciation. Renunciation
means you continuously give up petty things andmove on to bigger things.
So sanyasThe word sanyas creates lots of negative
reactions in the society today because sanyasis
he had gathered hundreds such a man turned
around and became a sage. We know that today,
many who are trapped in the prisons have turned
into real sages in their own right. It has been an
absolutely incredible journey to constantly seethe kind of transformation in people in a matter
of seven days or three days teachers who are
teaching Isha Yoga or Inner Engineering programs
know what it means. In terms of doing something
in the world, there is no better joy than that, the
way people blossom right there in those few days.
So, I know 100% that whatever kind of people
you bring, if you keep them in the right kind of
atmosphere, the right kind of energy, the right
kind of inuence, they can be transformed into
something absolutely incredible and beautiful.
Particularly in the last one-and-half years, I havebeen thinking about how to bring sanyas forth to
people on a larger scale. Right now, somebody rst
has to be a brahmachari for many years, and that
is not going to happen to everybody at least your
wives, your husbands, and your life situations will
not allow it.
Sanyas does not mean that you have to go away
somewhere sanyas means you are soaked in a
constant longing to grow. If you grow, you are always
discarding or renouncing something. Only those
who are stagnant can live without renunciation;
those who are growing always renounce something.If you do not renounce one thing, you will not have
the next this is the nature of life. So, an active
sanyas where people can participate in different
ways will open up in the next year or so. Wherever
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beautiful things are around you, they
will not enter you.
To create an opportunity for people to be
constantly in a space of grace, to be soaked
with this energy, we will open up Kshetra
Sanyasa, which means you take a vow
never to leave the energy space. Three
dimensions of Kshetra Sanyasa of different
levels of intensity will be set up in the
coming year. If you sensitize yourself
by constantly being in the space, in thepresence of a certain energy, you will see
transformation is guaranteed.
Celebration is not frivolous partying
celebration means your life should
become a party. Every day, something
new should happen to you.
Birthdays are milestones to tell us
that we are mortal. Whenever you
look at the watch, it is not time that
is ticking away, it is your life that is
ticking away. Today is a milestone
for everyone because today is not
going to come back tomorrow. Either
you move to bigger possibilities
in your life or you stagnate in astate of comfort. There is comfort
in stagnation but there is death in
stagnation, and there is also comfort
in death There is no comfort in
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The following is an excerpt from a meditator
sathsang with Sadhguru in Australia on
9 October 2011.
Questioner: Sadhguru, I had a big disaster in my
life, several months ago. I lost my life savings
about half a million dollars and it left me destitute.
I almost thought that God had deserted me. Id like
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Questioner:No.
Sadhguru: So you are capable of being happy
without all this stuff. All this stuff is just frills of life.
Hundreds of thousands of people on this planet
did not wake up to see this morning, so isnt
it a fortune that you did? You are still alive
isnt this fantastic? You could be gone the next
Sadhguru on How to Face Lifes Challenges
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This is not a philosophy, this is a reality. Will you
realize the value of life only when it is about to go
away? Will that be the only time? Unfortunately,
for most people on the planet, that is the only
time. All their life, they complain. When theyhave to give up life, they cling to it. People who
are constantly complaining about their life, if you
point a gun to their head, they will cling; they will
be terried. Why? Shouldnt they be extremely
happy that all their troubles are going to go away
in one shot?
What are you complaining about? You have not
really looked at your life yet. You are just looking
at all kinds of silly things around you that is
the problem. Oh, thats okay, Sadhguru its easy
for you to say this. But my money is gone. My
partner died. My husband died. My wife died.
Yes, I know I am not saying you should not
value them. You must value them when you have
them. The moment it is over, it is over. That is
all it is.
When you have them, you complain, All my
miseries are because this man or this woman is like
this. If they fall dead, you also complain because
you have nobody else to blame for your miseries
anymore. If they are not there anymore and you
are more miserable than when they were there,
who is the problem? If you understand this, you
will x yourself.
There are only situations in life there are no
disasters. There are no great moments, there are
no disasters, there is no suffering there are only
your life happen in a way that you could not even
imagine. If only your dreams come true What
is your ability to dream? If you had ten dollars
yesterday, you will dream of a million dollars and
nothing else. Your dreams are just enlarged andexaggerated versions of what you have tasted. Is
that all you want the same rubbish in larger
proportions? Something beyond your imagination
should touch your life.
Unexpected things are happening to you. Every
situation is an opportunity. Either you can use it
for your wellbeing or you can make suffering out
of it. Let me tell you an extreme example. Maybe
I have told you this in some form earlier, but you
must listen carefully now.
This happened in 1940 or 41. There was a Jewishfamily in Austria. One morning, soldiers just
walked in and vandalized the house. The two
children, a thirteen-year-old girl and an eight-
year-old boy, were taken away in one direction;
the parents and other adults were taken away in a
different direction. The children were brought to
a railway station. It was winter in Europe, cold.
For three days, they were on the railway platform,
waiting for a train to come. Children are children
the boys were kicking something around, playing
soccer. Suddenly, the train came. Soldiers came
with guns and said, Everybody get in. Everybody
rushed into the cargo train.
When the train started moving and the doors were
closed, the boy realized he had left his shoes on
the platform. No shoes in winter could mean many
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After the war ended in 1945, this girl, then a little
over 17, came out of the camp and discovered
that her whole family had evaporated, including
this little boy. She never saw them again. When
she realized that she was never going to see her
brother again, what bothered her most was how
she treated him when they were together for the
last time, how she abused him. So she made a
commitment to herself, Whoever I meet in my
life, suppose this happens to be the last time that
I see them, I should not have to look back inregret. Just this one simple thing transformed her
life tremendously. In 2004 or 05, she died. She
lived such an inspired life. You meet people, right
now we are here, and you do not know whether
this is the last time we see each other. Since this
could be the last time, we should not say or doanything that we will later regret.
It does not matter what life throws at you, what
you make out of it is still yours. If you throw lth
at a mango tree, it will make sweetness out of it.
So if life throws lth at you, if you are alive to
it, you can blossom into a fragrant ower. If youdo agriculture or gardening, you will know lth
is good. Only if you have a very sanitized mind,
you think lth is bad. Believe me, lth is good. If
somebody throws lth into your house, you can
make owers out of it.
In yoga, we always use the symbol of a lotus ower
just for this reason. A lotus grows best wherever
the slush is thick the lthier it is, the better. It
is the same lth which blossoms into a beautiful
and fragrant ower. Have you seen these symbolic
images of yogis sitting in lotus posture, sitting
upon lotuses, or with lotus owers blossoming out
of their heads? This is to show you, a lot of lth
was thrown at them and they made owers out of
it. Do not carry a load of lth on your head. Life
has thrown enough lth at you it is time youlearn to cure it into manure.
Do not carry the experience of life as a wound. Let
it become wisdom. This is a choice you have. Out
of every experience of life, you can make a wound
or you can make wisdom out of it. The harder life
has been upon you, the sooner you should become
wise.
INSIGHT: THE DNA OF SUCCESS
OFFERED UNDER THE AEGIS OF ISHA EDUCATION
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Excerpted from a darshan with Sadhguru on
8 October 2010 (Navaratri) at Isha Yoga Center
This is the rst night of Navaratri. This night and
the coming days and nights are dedicated to the
feminine nature of the Divine. Durga, Laxmi,
and Saraswati are symbols of three dimensions ofthe feminine. They also represent the three basic
qualities of existence tamas, rajas and satva.Tamas
means inertia. Rajas means activity, passion. Satva,
in a way, is the breaking of boundaries, dissolution,
melting and merging. Among the three celestial
objects with which the very making of our bodies
is very deeply connected the Earth, the Sun, andthe Moon Mother Earth is considered tamas. The
Sun is rajas. The Moon is satva. Those who aspire for
power, for immortality, for strength, will worship
those forms of the feminine which are referred to as
l k l h h h h
from the Earth that we arise. And we could live an
active life which is rajas the second nature of Devi.
The third nature of Devi may or may not come your
way if you want to bring her down into you, you
will have to strive. Kali is on the ground. Laxmi is
sitting on a ower. Saraswati is riding a peacock. So
these are three dimensions of the Divine Feminine.
Linga Bhairavi has been consecrated with three
basic chakras to represent these three dimensions
of tamas, rajas and satva. Tamas is the nature of
the Earth, and she is the one who gives birth. The
gestation period that we spend in the womb is tamas;
it is a state which is almost like hibernation but we
are growing. So tamas is the nature of the Earth and
of your birth. The moment you come out, you start
activity rajas begins. And if you are aware enough
or fortunate enough satva will touch you
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Now you are sitting on the earth; you must learn
to simply be one with her. You are anyway a part
of her. Only when she wishes, she throws you out;
when she wishes, she sucks you back in. So what was
absolute inertia [earth] has become dynamic rajas[a human being] and may transcend, or may again
go back to the same thing [inertia or earth]. Durga,
Laxmi; Durga, Laxmi; Durga, Laxmi Saraswati
never happened. That means you are in the cycle,
in the trap of life and death transcendence is yet
to come.
These two aspects of tamas or inertia and rajas or
activity will anyway happen. What is in a state of
inertia will get into a state of activity, again fall back
and become inertia for a certain period of time, and
again get back into activity. This is happening to
you as an individual, this is happening to the planet,
this is happening to the galaxy, this is happening to
the whole cosmos it goes into a state of inertia and
then becomes dynamic and again goes back into a
state of inertia. But the important thing is, this one
[a human being] has the capability to break the
cycle and transcend.
These three dimensions of Devi are enshrined in the
form of Linga Bhairavi. On these three days, you
must draw upon these three dimensions of existence
and sustenance for yourself because you need
all these three. The rst two are needed for your
survival and well-being. The third is an aspiration
to go beyond.
Navaratri not only starts off with this fabulous
symbolism, it is also true energy-wise. But not just
once in a year every month, the rst three days1
through a certain integration within themselves.
The next day is in a placid, inertia state; on the
following day, energy-wise, it gets active; on the
third day, there is room for transcendence. The
third days moon is held as very important becausethe possibility of transcendence opens up. What was
in a state of inertia and then in a state of activity
and entanglement, now opens up a possibility of
transcendence. This happens every month, but in
this particular month, it is a little more pronounced
because this amavasya is more pronounced than the
rest of the amavasyas. Of all the twelve or sometimesthirteen amavasyas in a year, this particular one,
being close to the equinox, is the strongest one.
On Navaratri, there are certain things happening in
the Linga Bhairavi Temple. Enjoy the Navaratri and
spend some time with Devi. It is good to make use
of the support that nature offers.
Navaratri will be celebrated at the
Linga Bhairavi Temple from
1523 October 2012 with Devi
processions, cultural program, freeprasadam, and elaborate abhishekam.
Among the various rituals available
to receive Devis Grace is a special
Vilakku Seva, an offering of 1008
ghee lamps.
For more information and
registration for offerings and rituals,
please contact: 94438 35000 or
94433 65631.
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Sadhguru in Conversation with Dr. Jayaprakash Narayan Par 3Democracy and Integrity
In the most recent episode of the In Conversation with the Mystic series, which took placeon 16 June 2012 in Hyderabad, Sadhguru and Dr. Jayaprakash Narayan discuss subjects from
morality to politics and corruption, to nation and society, to the spiritual and temporal. Thefollowing is the third part of their conversation.
Dr. Jayaprakash Narayan:Sadhguru, as a parochial
aside, I wish Isha Foundation was in Andhra Pradesh
so that we would have got the benet of the tree
planting. I hope these seeds will truly spread. Thatbrings me to the question of ensuring how the moral
conduct is actually upheld. While spiritual gurus,
religion itself and society norms have a value, they
dont seem to be sufcient. In India, whenever the
subject of corruption or of some other misconduct
in public life or private life comes up, we just talk of
morality and values rather than enforcing a certain
code of conduct. That is something that troubles
people like me.
If values can indeed be internalized without any
external compulsion and guide the behavior of
every single human being, they probably also guidethe behavior of a large majority of people. If there
is peace in this country, if all of us are going to
go back home after this session with a reasonable
degree of certainty that there will not be any
may sometimes actually become an excuse for doing
nothing to build institutions. It is a bit like the water
in this glass. The water is obviously the one that is
giving life; without it, we cannot quench our thirst.But without the glass, without the container, the
water is not useable. The institutions are what make
the values useable. So my appeal to you is, give us
your views. And if you broadly think that this is the
right approach, what institutional mechanisms do
we need in your opinion to build higher levels of
public integrity, higher levels of civic conduct?
Sadhguru: One important thing that India
needs to do is to simplify the laws in a way that
everybody understands them. Right now, they are
so complex and so ambiguous that nobody really
knows what the law is. And because there is somuch ambiguity, it creates so many grey areas,
which breed corruption endlessly. If there was no
ambiguity, nobody could just come and ask money
out of you so that some work gets done. But there
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this because the law is so ambiguous. This may be
good to control foreign nations that you occupy,
but not good for our nation to move ahead. To
give an example, in real estate in Tamil Nadu, it
normally takes 12 to 14 months to get approvalfor a building. Many things may have changed in
14 months time by then, you may not even be
interested anymore in building it.
You have to go through some 16 departments and
you have to get people to follow the le every
day, and of course there is a xed fee beyondthe ofcial fee. If you do all that, still it takes
14 months. In the end, you have spent so much
money and time, that with a vengeance, you will
break the law. If he said 10,000 sq. ft., you will
want to build 15,000 sq. ft. Anyway I paid you,
so what is the big deal? It comes to that. So, alllaws are outed without any problem.
In the United States, we are currently building a big
center. There, they have a building code book. Your
architect anyway has to be certied; he must know
the codes. Apart from that, a code book of about
250 pages is given to you. You better read it. No
approvals you build whatever you want, but before
occupation, someone will come for an inspection.
If the building is by the code, it is ne. If it is not
by the code, your building goes down and you go
in simple. That way, the amount of government
machinery that is needed to sanction a building iscut down to a few people rather than these various
departments that we have here.
If I am a citizen of this country, why do they assume
give a bribe and your work gets done. In Andhra
Pradesh, you give a bribe and still you are being
harassed. Before we go into the issue of politics
and corruption because all of us love to hate
politicians
Sadhguru: I wouldnt allow that because it has
become a fashion and almost a compulsion that
wherever you go, from a tea shop to an ofce or
wherever else, people are talking about how horrible
the politicians are whether these people really
know something about it or not. Democracy means,it is the peoples government. These politicians did
not land from the sky. They are one among you who
stood up to do something. Now for whatever reasons,
they have become the way they have become. You
do not know how many have become like that, how
many have not. We are generalizing because wehave a certain pleasure in painting everything very
bleak and black. If your nation is important to you,
and if you believe that you have handed over your
nation to a bunch of crooks, and you are just sitting
there and it is entertainment for you, I think it is
you who needs to be punished.
Democracy cannot be a spectator sport, it
is a participatory process. But most peoples
understanding of participatory is that they vote
once in ve years and their responsibility is over.
No democracy has various mechanisms through
which you can participate on a daily basis in thegovernance of your country, your state, your city,
and your street. Oh, I dont know. Why do you
not know? You have not educated yourself to know
because you do not care, because the idea of the
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his four children. This person actually, genuinely
said, What is wrong with that? Our father loves
us. [Laughter] I was amazed and shocked I didnt
know what to say.
Dr. Jayaprakash Narayan: Its my birthright.
[Laughs]
Sadhguru:Yes. What we need to understand is, we
as a nation are moving from a feudalistic existence to
a democratic existence. The system has changed, but
our minds have not changed we are still feudalistic.I have been interacting with people on all levels and
I know a lot of them are not really complaining
about corruption. Their complaint is only that they
did not get the chance to be corrupt. It is just they
have to pay and others are taking. They would like
to be on the other side.
If you want to test it out, remove all the police
from the city and see how many people will stop at
the red light if there is no policeman. I would say
90% wont stop. Only some fools like me will stop.
When I am driving in Coimbatore or wherever else,
I stop at the red light, and everybody is going nextto me and they are looking at me like, Who is this
fool who is blocking the trafc? No police whats
wrong with you?
So essentially, our integrity has gone down. It
is not even a question of integrity, it is just
that within ourselves, we are still very feudalistic
but we are trying to be democratic. Democracy
in India still needs a lot more evolution. Not
enough has been done to educate people as to
what democracy is. It has not been brought into
our education systems. Social organizations, the
government itself should have taken it up in a bigway to educate people about why democracy.
The moment we vote for our religion, or caste
or creed or even family, there is no democracy
anymore. There is only feudalism. [Applause]
Democracy will be functional only when you go and
vote and you dont know whom your wife votes for,
whom your husband votes for, and you dont want
to know. Only if you have this kind of integrity,
democracy will work. If you tell your whole family
to vote for a particular person, this is not democracy.
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The following is an excerpt from a Q & A withSadhguru during Leela,the path of the playful,a unique exploration into the mystical realm ofKrishna that took place at Isha Yoga Center in
September 2005.
Participant:Sadhguru, my question is about verse47 in chapter 2. It is considered to be the most
quoted verse and a central teaching of the Gita. It is
about action without expectation of its result.
Sadhguru: Having acquired the state of a warrior,
you are now eligible to act in whatever way the
stature of a warrior demands out of you. But youare not entitled to any benets resulting from your
actions. At the same time, you are not entitled to
a state of not acting at all. Thus you should act
according to your stature without any hope of
enjoying the fruits of your action.
Action is inevitable. Even if you wish, you are not
in a state to withdraw from action. Action is not
just physical action. You act physically, you act
mentally, you act emotionally, and you can act on
action is not for a benet that you get, if you are just
doing it because it is needed, it becomes dharma.
Dharma has been translated here as duty. It is not
necessarily duty. The word duty is too limited.Dharma encompasses much more than duty.
The difference between dharma and karma is just
this: dharma is a liberating force karma is an
entangling force. So action is inevitable. Anyway
you have to perform action. Even when you are
physically resting, still you are performing action inyour mind or your emotion. So, are you performing
action to entangle yourself or are you performing
action to liberate yourself?
So here, Krishna just gives you a simple tool to use
action as a process of liberation. The reason why
it is the most quoted verse may be because this is
the greatest afiction in the world people cannot
be still for a moment. People are ill only because
they do not know how to be still. If you can just
make yourself absolutely still, there will be no such
thing as illness. But stillness is out of question
activity is inevitably happening every moment of
your life. Awake or asleep, still activity is going on.
Everything else is on and off, but your activity is
24 hours. So denitely, more attention has been paid
to this verse And it is appropriate to pay attention
Leela SeriesThe path of the playful
Part XXXVIDharma and Karma
The Difference between Liberating
and Entangling Action
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A much-awaited weekend with Sadhguru happened
on 11 and 12 August in Melbourne, Australia.
The 233 participants had completed the Inner
Engineering Online and were now awaiting the
initiation into Shambhavi Mahamudra, which was
to be the rst one on this continent. After all thesedays of seeing Sadhguru on the computer screen,
they were eagerly looking forward to seeing him
in person. There were participants as young as 14
and as old as 80, with people coming from various
cultures, professional backgrounds, and countries
including such faraway countries as Norway and
Uganda!
Participants opened up and received
everything that Sadhguru was offering
them during the day with a great sense
possible right now, in this moment. In response
to a question about what we could learn from the
Australian aboriginal culture, Sadhguru also noted
that their way of life ensured that the planet was left
unaffected by their presence.
Participants were moved to tears as Sadhguru closed
the session, unwilling to believe that the weekend
with Sadhguru had drawn to a close. They appeared
to carry everything Sadhguru had offered with a
promise to treasure it and deepen the seeking for the
rest of their life.
Shmbhvi Mhmd wih Sdhg
in Ali
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During his recent Malaysia and Singapore visit
between 16 and 18 August, Sadhguru gave a public
talk and conducted a meditator sathsang in Malaysia,followed by a meditator sathsang in Singapore.
For the public talk in Malaysia titled An Evening
with Sadhguru, over 2500 people ocked into
the hall. The evening started off with acclaimed
Odissi dancer Ramli Ibrahim giving a short surprise
performance as a loving offering to Sadhguru, who
then took to the dais. His blend of wit, fact, precision,
and clarity simply took over those present. When
Sadhguru offered the Isha Kriya to the audience,
you could have heard a pin drop.
A volunteer from Malaysia said about their precious
time with Sadhguru: I trust this could very well
be the winds of change here, and I have no doubts
that it has set into motion a certain urgency and
restlessness amongst the volunteers a longing
to spread the word of Isha to every corner of our
beautiful country. No matter what we strive for, it
still seems a minuscule offering, compared to what
Sadhguru has gifted us.
About the meditator sathsang in Singapore, a local
volunteer shares: The entire sathsang was a very
enlightening one as Sadhguru spoke about the
body, what it is made of, what it can do and the
immense possibility we have whilst we reside in this
body. He taught us the importance of taking care
of it and how we can take care of it. He also spoke
about evolution and how we can support our loved
ones in their spiritual journey. He emphasized the
importance of taking time out for oneself because
when people take time out to be by themselves, they
work on themselves which will in turn benet the
people around them.
Sdhg Cnd InnEngining in Chnni
A three-day Inner Engineering program with
Sdhg in Mlyi nd SingP
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Some wishes take many lifetimes to fructify. You
instinctively know those moments when they
happen. Going to Kailash and being with Sadhguru
was one such wish. But why even go to Kailash?
What can we get there that we cant get sitting in
our house? The honest answer is that I dont know. I
dont directly understand Kailash. It is way beyond
my perceptive abilities. On the other hand, many
yogis and enlightened beings, whose perception is
far beyond physical limitations, have highly revered
Kailash. Sadhguru says about Kailash, When I bowdown to Kailash I bow down to it the same way I
would bow down to my Guru. Never before have I
done that in my whole life. If people with such an
elevated sense of perception have bowed to it with
very deep respect, then it is important that I let my
being be introduced to its energy, I felt.
It was my deepest wish to be with a being like
Sadhguru in Kailash. Through the journey, my
oxygen levels had fallen at a lot of places but I have
l b d d i d h
me. I nally was in front of my Guru with Kailash on
the other side clearly visible. I just fell at Sadhgurus
feet and started sobbing. The world had stopped for
me. I could only sense Sadhguru and me there. After
some time, I got up and stood a few feet away in
pouring rain; tears kept owing. He was joking with
people, laughing, but I could just see his face and
then his feet and then his face again. I was the only
one whose presence he didnt even acknowledge.
Except in his silence. I cant explain it and however
I put it, it seems very trite, but I know he IS Shivahimself.
In school, I had read a verse by Kabir
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(My Guru and God, both are standing. Whose feet
My Jny Kilh wih SdhgAn Isha Meditator Shares His Exerience
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Program Highlights
Date Program Place Contact
4 - 7 Oct 2012Bhava Spandana
(Gents)
Residential Program
Isha Yoga Center,
Coimbatore, India
0422-2515300
4 - 7 Oct 2012
Bhava Spandana
(Ladies)Residential Programm
Isha Yoga Center,
Coimbatore, India
0422-2515300
12 - 14 Oct 2012Inner Engineering
with Sadhguru
Detroit, Michigan,
USA
1-313-451-4742
13 Oct 2012 Pancha Bhuta Aradhana
Dhyanalinga
Yogic Temple,
Coimbatore, India
0422-2515426
18 - 21 Oct 2012
Bhava Spandana
program
with SadhguruResidential Program
Isha Institute of
Inner-sciences,
McMinnville,
Tennessee, USA
+1-931-668-1900
registration.iii@ishafoundation.
org
25 - 28 Oct 2012
Inner Engineering
RetreatResidential Program
Isha Yoga Center,
Coimbatore, India
0422-2515421
8 - 11 Nov 2012Guru Pooja TrainingResidential Program
Isha Yoga Center,
Coimbatore, India
0422-2515300
29 Nov - 2 Dec 2012
INSIGHT: The DNAof Success with Sadhguru
and Dr. Ram Charan
Isha Yoga Center,
Coimbatore, India
www.ishainsight.org
+91 94430 09000
21 - 22 Dec 2012Theerthakund
Consecration
Isha Yoga Center,
Coimbatore, India
Send an email to
theerthakundconsecration@
ishafoundation.org and you will be
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Isha Recipes For Healthy Living
SWEET BLACK RICE GRUEL
PREPARATION METHOD
Wash and soak the rice overnight in 2 cups of water.
Drain off the water and place the rice in a pan with 3 cups of fresh water. Cook it till it is done.
Meanwhile, heat the ghee in a small pan and lightly saut the cashew nuts and raisins and set
them aside.
Cool the boiled rice and grind it to a coarse paste. Transfer the paste into a pan and add the
INGREDIENTS
cup Black rice (Kavuni Arisi)2 teaspoons Ghee (claried butter)10 Cashew nuts5 Raisins1 cup Milk cup Coconut milkSugar to taste
2 pinches Green cardamom powder
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