Adiyogi: The Source of Yoga

by Sadhguru

the concepts of chaos and order as complementary rather than contrary.

What Shiva dissolves are your delusions.

To seek to measure the immeasurable is an act which only the human intellect with its irrepressible imperialist impulse is capable.

The spiritual journey is a journey towards clarity, but never towards certainty. When you draw conclusions about beginnings and endings, you are a believer. When you accept that you really do not know anything, you become a seeker.

chitta – the deepest dimension of the mind, intelligence unsullied by memory, which connects you to the very basis of creation.

Knowledge is intellectual accumulation; it is information gathered and processed in bits and pieces. Knowing, on the other hand, is neither intellectual nor accumulative.

It is just that if you clear space within yourself, if you dismantle your personality, you will discover that which is called Shiva as the fundamental basis of your being. The logic is simple: if you do the right things, the right things will happen to you even without your intent.

Life has no use at all, declared Adiyogi. It is simply a phenomenon. Little acts have purpose. But life is not framed within the narrow grid of utility. It is beyond frames. It is beyond grids. It is beyond utility. If you have a taste of this existence beyond purpose, of life beyond sense, you are enlightened.

The human energy system, said Adiyogi, is a microcosm that mirrors the way the entire cosmos is organized. This is a fundamental yogic insight: the geometry of the individual and the universe are identical.

earth, water, fire, air and akash (often translated as ether, essentially the subtlest dimension of physicality).

exuberantly confused rather than dogmatically certain.

The Adiyogi story is not meant to lead us to conclusions. It is meant to lead us to a state that is alive, exploratory and responsive to the deepening mysteries of existence. It is an invitation from certainty to consciousness, from religiosity to responsibility, from the rigidity of logic to the roaring ecstasy of life itself.

Here Nataraja’s dance represents the yogic ideal. It is seen as a spellbinding confluence of effervescence and stillness, exuberance and equanimity.

This is the combination that Nataraja embodies – intensity and relaxation, exuberance and equanimity, dynamism and stillness, creation and dissolution, ecstatic movement and supreme awareness, samadhi and pragna, in flawless and unerring equipoise.

existential Shiva, a metaphysical Shiva, an anthropomorphic

If you can see in the dark, why would you feel the need for light at all?’