Inner Engineering: A Yogi's Guide to Joy

by Sadhguru

As your body awareness evolves, you will know exactly what a certain...

The pranic value of all seeds is tremendous, because they represent concentrated life.

What you call a nut is essentially just a seed, and a seed is a wonderful possibility.

A single seed is capable of making the enti...

Consequently, consuming anyth...

form can greatly enhance human health o...

soak the nuts that you intend to consume in water for six to eight hours, especia...

In yoga, there is absolutely nothing religious, philosophical, spiritual, or moral about the food that we eat. It is only a question of whether the food is compatible with the kind of body that we own.

Depending on your aspiration, you will accordingly have to manage your diet.

it is important that you eat consciously, and are led not by the compulsion of the tongue but by the essential design of your body.

If mastication happens properly, close to fifty percent of your digestive process would be finished in the mouth.

So, every individual must arrive at his or her own balance of diet, not by taking vows, but by observation and awareness.

clarified butter without sugar can cleanse, heal, and lubricate the alimentary canal.

What kind of food you eat, how much you eat, how you eat, turning it from a compulsive pattern into a conscious process: this is the essence of fasting.

fifty percent raw food, fifty percent cooked food. This is ideal for most people, who wish to be active

day. Remember, if you

eat cooked food, it may take you fifteen minutes to eat a meal. If you eat raw food, you take a little more time to eat the same quantum of food, because you have to chew a little more. But the nature of the body is such that after fifteen minutes the body will tell you that your meal is over. So people tend to eat much less and...

It is our compulsive reaction to the situations in which we are placed that causes stress. Stress is a certain level of internal friction.

One can easily lubricate the inner

mechanism with some amount of inner work ...

Maybe physically you get exhausted, but it need not stress you in any way.

What the body needs is not sleep but restfulness. If you keep the body very relaxed through the day, your sleep quota will go down naturally.

Don’t battle with life.

You are not anti-life; you are life. Just get in tune with it and you will see that you will pass through it easily.

All the various manifestations that you see as life today are fundamentally rooted in duality.

When you want to break your mental boundaries you may long to have a serious conversation or read a book, drink alcohol, take a drug, or do something freaky.

“feminine,” are always trying to come together. At the same time, except for this longing to be together, they are opposites. They are lovers and enemies at the same time. If they look for similarities, there seems to be little common ground, but the attraction of the opposite is always there.

Sex is natural; it is there in the body.

It has no business with your mind. Sex is a small aspect of you,

If you know how to live it without elevating it or making it ugly, it has a beauty of its own.

remember that the grossness and sanctity of something is largely decided by your unwillingness and unconsciousness, or your willingness and consciousness.

Every breath, every step, every simple act, thought, and emotion can acquire the stance of the sacred if conducted recognizing the sanctity of the other involved—whether

compulsions take over, you grow more and more miserable. There is something within you that is unwilling to be a slave.

Why has this miraculous instrument become such a misery-manufacturing machine?

If you were in charge, for sure you would not manufacture misery for yourself. A

fundamental freedom you have is to think whatever you want.

Whatever pedal you hit, the mind only accelerates its speed. But if you don’t pay any attention to it, thoughts will slowly subside, leaving you in a rich and vibrant silence.

You can “be,” and still choose to think or not think. The most beautiful moments in your life—what you might consider moments of bliss, joy, ecstasy, or utter peace—were moments when you were not thinking about anything at all. You were just being. Even without your thoughts, existence is.

If you want to know the experiential dimensions of life, you will never know them with the petty process of thought.

Even if you have the brain of an Einstein, your thought process is still outclassed because thought cannot be bigger than life.

This is the fundamental choice you have: either you learn to live with creation, or you manufacture your own creation in your head.

Once you are no longer identified with your mind, you are free to experience life beyond limitations.

Being a Buddha means that you have become a witness to your own intellect.

is your identity that manages and determines your intellect.

Once you unleash the intellect, it splits everything it encounters; it does not allow you to be with anything totally. Although it is a wonderful instrument for survival, it is also at the same time a terrible barrier that stands between you and your experience of the oneness of life.

The more people become

engrossed in thought, the more joyless they become.

You can pitch your awareness up to different levels. As you notch it up further and further, whole new dimensions of existence open up in your experience.

This means that once you distance yourself from the compulsiveness of your own genetic and karmic information, life becomes unburdened, flexible, incredibly effortless.

This is the intelligence of existence itself, in which life always happens exactly the way it should, with absolute and unfaltering ease.