Inner Engineering: A Yogi's Guide to Joy

by Sadhguru

The guru

is here to throw light on dimensions beyond your sensory perceptions and your psychological drama, dimensions that you are currently unable to perceive.

“Be in the moment” is one of them. The assumption is that you could be somewhere else, if you wanted. How is that even possible?

The present is

the only place that you can be. If you live, you live in this moment. If you die, you die in this mom...

Right now your problem is that you suffer what happened ten years ago and you suffer what may ha...

If you can use it when you want and put it aside when you don’t, the mind can be a fantastic tool.

Self-transformation means

nothing of the old remains.

But suddenly I did not know what was me and what was not me.

I realized very early that

I knew nothing about anything.

I also saw that language was no more than a conspiracy devised by human beings. If someone

spoke, I realized they were only making sounds, and I was making up the meanings.

In the past, waking me up every morning was

a family project.

The ability to simply look without motive is missing in the world today.

People would look at me and burst into tears.

Slowly, I began to realize that

it is life that is the ultimate intelligence.

the divine, or whatever is the source of creation, is, above all, the highest intelligence that you can imagine.

Instead of trying to tap into this all-powerful intelligence

that pulsates within each of us, we opt to use our logical intellect, which is useful in certain situat...

freedom, of limitlessness cannot be denied to them unless they stand in the way of the natural effervescence of life.

It is the birthright of every human being.

But how many times in your life have you lived an entire day blissfully—without a single moment of anxiety, agitation, irritation, or stress?

not a single day has happened exactly the way they want it!

Besides, your success in the world depends

essentially on how well you harness the prowess of the body and mind. So, in order to achieve success, pleasantness has to be the fundamental quality

withi...

What’s happening in your head is your dream.

You just need to see that the source and basis of your experience is within you.

All human experience is one hundred percent self-created.

Peace and joy are the basic requirements for a life of well-being.

If you want to enjoy your dinner tonight, you must be peaceful and happy.

Peace and joy are not things you attain at the end of life.

They are the basis of your life.

An inability to be joyful by your own nature can make the simplest issues in life seem like highly complex problems.

Enlightenment is not an attainment or an achievement. It is a homecoming.

But you won’t ever see me distressed because my way of being is not in any way enslaved to what’s happening outside.

Whenever it comes to other people’s misfortunes, we have a word to explain it: destiny.

To achieve well-being the only one who needs to be fixed is you.

It simply means making yourself in such a way that,

whatever the events and situations around you, you don’t get crushed by them; you ride them.

When you pursue your own likes

and dislikes, you feel alone in this vast existence, constantly insecure, unstable, psychologically challenged.

Existence is not judgmental. It treats all of us the same way.

Reactivity is enslavement. Responsibility is freedom.

The point is that anger is rooted in your false perception that you can change the situation by losing your

temper with it.