Sadhguru's Blog, page 13

Empowering Yourself by Seeing Things as They Are

Many of us may have encountered people in different walks of life who have a certain ease about them in the way they live. Can we call it “effortless living” to the outside observer? On the other side, we see people who live their life in a more laborious way with a lot of emotional ups and downs. What differentiates these two groups of people? Granted, life situations play some part in the quality of our lives, but even a critic would agree that there’s more to it than that. A person’s way of ...

Putting an End to Bullying

Unfortunately, in today’s world, bullying is all too common. Many may picture bullying as something that happens in schools or online, but bullying can take many forms, such as a powerful community bullying a disadvantaged one, a business mistreating its workers and customers, or a company polluting the earth. In all these situations, an individual or group is harming something else that they perceive to be weaker than themselves or separate from themselves. Many believe that some amount of bul...

The Playboy Who Turned into a Sage

Most people have experience observing the ways that masculinity and femininity influence and organize our experiences in the world and shape our personalities and the social roles we’re expected to play. What fewer people understand well, however, are the ways that the masculine and feminine as spiritual principles influence and shape the very nature of life itself. We may be familiar with notions that the masculine spiritual principle, often represented by the sun, relates to reason, active pu...

What’s the Significance of the Number 108?

Are we done evolving? Has the human race reached its utmost potential, in terms of physical evolution? Are there other types of evolution available to us beyond just the physical? If so, what might those be, and can we take deliberate steps to make our own evolution happen in those ways? And how, if at all, does the possibility of human evolution relate to the intriguing repetition of the number 108 throughout numerous mathematical relationships in our solar system and within our own bodies?

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The Role of Soil in Holistic Well-Being

Many of us have grown all too used to thinking of soil as simply dirt, just the stuff beneath our feet or the stuff we want to avoid tracking into the house. But did you know that in fact soil plays numerous important roles in our physical and mental health and even, potentially, in our spiritual growth? But how can that be? How can soil, such a seemingly innocuous and inert substance, have such tremendous power? In fact, what really is soil, and what might its specific benefits be? What does i...

Becoming Free from Karma

The word “karma” is almost certainly familiar to most spiritual seekers, but unfortunately, for many complex reasons, the word remains widely misunderstood. And even if we have an accurate understanding of the word and some of the profound spiritual truths to which it refers, chances are that many questions remain. For instance, are there good ways and bad ways, or good times and bad times, to finally and completely free ourselves of karma? What might be the consequence of attempting to do so a...

A Journey to Save Soil

Sadhguru’s Motorcycle Journey to Save Soil Reaches Nearly Four Billion People

On March 23rd 2022, Sadhguru embarked on a 100 day motorcycle journey from the iconic Trafalgar Square in London, kicking off the Save Soil movement on the global front. The 30,000 kilometer ride took him through the UK, Europe, the Middle East and the Indian subcontinent as he engaged with world leaders, the media and leading experts from various disciplines the world over to raise the issue of the ongoing soil crisi...

Should (and Can) Education Be Joyful?

When you reflect back on your education, what do you remember? Are your memories mostly positive, joyful even, or are they largely neutral or even negative? Unfortunately for many people, their education was delivered in a way that did not manage to inspire our natural, human, innate curiosity for new information. What characteristics make the difference between those positive experiences and those that were less joyful or inspiring?

On another hand, some might raise the question of whether edu...

Ending Violence

Conflict is as old as humanity. We can’t pick up a newspaper or look at social media these days without being reminded of all the conflict and violence in the world. We may wonder why, when all humans basically want the same things for themselves and their loved ones, there is still so much violence and strife. Clearly conflict happens on many levels – within the individual, within the family, in our neighborhoods, in our country, and between nations. We may agonize about the losses of life. We...

Soil, Food, and Nutrition

Soil is a source of life on this planet. For all land dwelling plants and animals, the primary source of nutrients is the soil. If our soil is not nutrient rich and does not have the proper amount of organic content, then the food it produces will also be lacking. Without access to nutritious food, which is the very basis of our bodies, no human can live a vital and productive life. It would seem to be common sense to preserve and protect this vital source of life, yet our soil is dying. The UN...