Inner Engineering: A Yogi's Guide to Joy

by Sadhguru

It is like a link between the two. It is not in your current level of experience, because your experienc...

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There is also a fifth sheath, the anandamayakosha, which is beyond the physical entirely. Ananda means “bliss.” It

When we are in touch with that aspect beyond the physical, we become blissful.

But bliss is not a goal in itself. Once you touch this dimension of nonexistence, blissfulness is guaranteed.

When you touch this dimension beyond definition, the impact of time and space is obliterated.

Yoga does not ask you to work with anything other than what you know. It simply tells you that if the physical, mental, and energy bodies are perfectly aligned, you will find access to the bliss body. But your work, as we said before, is only with the first three bodies.

Once you master certain basic yogic technologies of inner well-being, your journey through life becomes absolutely effortless.

The problem is that religious nuts around the world have exported everything that is beautiful about a human being to the other world.

There is so much talk of God and heaven mainly because human beings have not realized the immensity of being human. It is obvious that the very source of life is throbbing within you in some way. The source of your life is also the source of every other life and the source of all creation. This dimension of intelligence or consciousness exists in every one of us. The deliverance of every human being lies in finding access to this deathless dimension.

To be joyful and peaceful within yourself every moment of your life, to be able to perceive life beyond its physical limitations—these are not superhuman qualities. These are human possibilities.

The body is a pretty complete and self-contained instrument. If you are fascinated by machines, there isn’t a better one! This is the most sophisticated piece of machinery on this planet—it embodies the highest level of mechanics, the highest level of electronics, the most sophisticated electrical circuitry you can imagine.

Though you have the compulsiveness of the physical, you also have the consciousness of being more than just physical.

There are two basic forces within you. Most people see them as being in conflict. One is the instinct of self-preservation, which compels you to build walls around yourself to protect yourself. The other is the constant desire to expand, to become boundless. These two longings—to preserve and to expand—are not opposing forces,

though they may seem to be. They are related to two different aspects of your life. One force helps you root yourself well on thi...

It is not creation’s unwillingness that you are struggling with. You are struggling with the walls of resistance that you have built around yourself.

You have no work with existence. You only have work with the existence that you have created.

Whatever kind of spiritual practice you do, ultimately, you are just working toward making yourself available to grace.

The sense perceptions are absolutely wonderful instruments for human survival. They

But if you are seeking something more than survival, they are not enough. They give you a distorted impression of reality because they are entirely relative in their perception.

If you are really interested in knowing life in all its depth and dimension, it is imperative that you look inward, not out. Why? Because the essential nature of life does not lie in the physical or psychological expression of body and mind, but in their source.

The human predicament is just this: the very seat of your experience is

within you, but your perception is entirely outward bound.

The only reason it has been inaccessible is that you are either busy or preoccupied with what is happening outside or far too engaged in your own psychological drama. It is just a lack of attention which has denied people the possibility of discovering what lies within.

Enhancing your perception means enhancing your ability to receive life, just as it is.

dedicate just a few minutes of your life to this every day, you would see the change.

For every different level of consciousness, or psychological state, your body naturally tends to assume certain postures.

The converse of this is the science of asanas. If you consciously get your

body into different postures, you can elevate you...

Learning to listen is the essence of intelligent living.

Dedicating a certain amount of effort and time to see that the body does not become a barrier is important.

it is important that it does not become the whole of you. Asanas help level the physical body down to its natural place.

Only a person who knows what it is to work understands rest. Paradoxically, those who are always resting know no rest; they only sink into dullness and lethargy. This is the way of life.

but the key to freedom is your limited persona. If you pull the plug, it just falls apart and you are free. If you know how to pull yourself out, life’s complexity collapses and everything settles. The

Your physical body is just an accumulation of food.

Are you preparing this body to run as swiftly as a cheetah? Or are you preparing this body to carry two hundred pounds? Or are you preparing this body so that it becomes conducive for higher meditative possibilities?

You need to eat the right kind of food depending on your inclination and what you want out of your life.

The way you eat not only decides your physical health, but the very way you think, f...

Trying to eat intelligently means understanding what kind of fuel this body is designed for and accordingly supplying it,...

Let us say you bought a gasoline car, but pumped diesel into it. It might still move around, but it would not function at its optimal capacity, and its lif...

If you eat certain foods, the body becomes happy. If you eat certain other foods, the body turns dull and lethargic, and your sleep quota increases.

You eat food for energy, but if you eat a big meal, do you feel energetic or lethargic?

The body has to process all this food just to get a small quota

energy for its daily activity.

If we ate foods with the necessary enzymes, the system would be functioning at a completely different level of efficiency and the conversion ratio o...

Eating natural foods, in their uncooked condition, when the cells are still alive, will bring an enormous sense of h...

Ask the body what kind of food it is most comfortable with, not your tongue.

The kind of food your body feels most comfortable with is always the ideal food to eat.

You must learn to listen to...