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WHEN
ALEXAN
CHASED
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Sadhguru tells us a story about Alexand
about the most fundamental factor in o
SADHGURU: The fear of death has
always made people do crazy things.
For ages, whenever people become
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greatest emperors always looked for
immortality. The mummies in Egypt
are an example of this. When people
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everything but life still had not happened
to them – this is the experience of
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immortality. Every king, every powerful
person on the planet always sought to
be immortal somehow. But that would be
the worst curse for anyone. If you really
want to curse someone, do not wish
them death; wish them endless life. Just
imagine, after ten thousand years, still
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walking the same p
do the same stupid
be. What a curse it
about Alexander the
why he is called “G
about the man? Fro
till he was thirty-two
sixteen years non-s
killing thousands of
he never knew. He
a new country, kill t
“I have conquered.”
that is of any conse
to any other human
done of any conseq
to himself? He lived
and died a miserab
“Alexander the Gre
last name – it shoul
Great Idiot.”
ALEXANDER AN
Alexander, as he so
idiotic things in his l
immortality because
conquer the whole
In a most brutal wa
half of the known w
he was becoming d
now he saw that he
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to become immorta
immortality, he natu
India because so m
reached Greece an
about Indian yogis.
that many of these