Sadhguru's Blog, page 15

Should We Pursue Happiness?

It’s probably safe to assume that everyone everywhere wants to be happy. What exactly “happiness” entails, however, is a bit murkier. Does happiness mean a large paycheck twice a month, a big house with nice cars, 2.3 children and a couple of pets, all encircled by a white picket fence? Should we throw in a boat and an RV for that occasional weekend trip to the lake? We do seem to get cultural messages that the accumulation of stuff should eventually lead to happiness, if only we can find the r...

Sadhguru’s Skydiving Adventure

When most people picture a yogi, they will likely think of someone sitting alone in a faraway cave, meditating all day and night. But did you know that yogis can have fun too? Yoga does not necessarily mean one must become an ascetic. What if, instead, yoga is meant to help us live every moment joyfully and with involvement?

In terms of what one should do with their life, one may find little direct guidance in yogic teachings. However, for the question of how one should live their life, there i...

Is Heartbreak Healthy?

Heartbreak has been the focus of many songs, books, films and everyday dialogue. The larger narrative prevalent in popular culture is that heartbreaks are a part of life. However, at what cost do we put our inner climate on the line? As Sadhguru points out in this candid video, our intelligence is hijacked by our hormones at a certain age and thereafter our very way of looking at life changes. For example, the physical differences between the genders, which seldom bothered us prior to our teena...

Save Soil: A Movement

Save Our Soil

Soil extinction is the clear and present danger of our time, and six Carribean nations–governments of Antigua & Barbuda, Dominica, St Lucia, St Kitts & Nevis, Guyana and Barbados–are leading the way towards arresting this catastrophic trend by being the first nations to sign an MOU with the global Save Soil movement initiated by Sadhguru, visionary yogi and founder of Isha Foundation.

We come from it, feed off its bounty, and return to it when we die. But few of us are aware of ou...

Our Planet, Our Life

Did you know that humans and animals are not the only life forms that can communicate with each other? Recent scientific research has shown that plants and trees are capable of exchanging information and resources with each other through sophisticated and complex processes. For example, it has been discovered that trees “talk” to each other, communicate their needs and exchange information and nutrients through a  network of fungi buried deep in the soil. When you walk in the woods a vast under...

How Does Eating Local Food Transform Your Health?

Have you ever wondered if there is a relationship between the place that a person is from and the particular qualities that they land up developing? 

Could the celestial geometry of a particular location influence the larger  human system of each person?

Perhaps you have simply noticed that the place where you grew up holds a particular importance to you, beyond the ties of the relationships and possessions. Or that when you travel to different cities in the world, you just seem to feel differe...

Understanding the Effects of Place on Human Wellbeing

Have you ever wondered if there is a relationship between the place that a person is from and the particular qualities that they land up developing? 

Could the celestial geometry of a particular location influence the deeper human system of a human being?

Perhaps you have simply noticed that the place where you grew up holds a particular importance to you, beyond the ties of the relationships and possessions. Or that when you travel to different cities in the world, you just seem to feel differ...

What Is the Meaning of True Love?

In today’s world, there is almost no subject as talked about as Love. There are countless articles, books, movies, television shows, songs, and much more all dedicated to that simple four-letter word. But, if we look at all these different sources, it is common to find big disagreements on even the simplest questions, such as, what is love? Why do we fall in love? How can we make a loving relationship work? 

So, the question remains, what is the nature of love? And how does it work? Most will s...

The Four Stages of Life

Some may have heard of the yogic tradition’s four traditional stages of life, which gave general guidance about what an individual should be focused on during different parts of their life. While such a system is quite different from the way most people live in today’s world, is there any wisdom to be gleaned from the 4 traditional life stages? How can this wisdom be applied to modern life? 

The idea of four life stages highlights the fact that people change over the course of their life in man...

Living with Ease

Have you noticed that everything in nature is designed in a deeply interconnected fashion though it may seem chaotic on the surface? A great example of this is a forest where every animal and plant species plays a role in keeping the symbiotic cycle of the jungle alive.There is a seamless interaction between living organisms and resources like water, sunlight, living spaces. Surely the design is too intricate for it to be all happening by chance. One wonders what holds everything together in th...