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ARE CRUCIAL FOR HUMANITY
RANKED AMONGST THE FIFTY MOST INFLUENTIAL PEOPLE IN INDIA, SADHGURU IS A YOGI, MYSTIC, VISIONARY AND A NEW YORK
TIMES BESTSELLING AUTHOR SADHGURU HAS BEEN CONFERRED THE PADMA VIBHUSHAN BY THE GOVERNMENT OF INDIA IN 2017,
THE HIGHEST ANNUAL CIVILIAN AWARD, ACCORDED FOR EXCEPTIONAL AND DISTINGUISHED SERVICE
- SADHGURU ISHA FOUNDATION
sitting here, you can experience a trillion
times more than with any activity, and it is
just fantastic. Yoga means to obliterate your
boundaries.
Desperate Attempts
SADHGURU: As human beings, we can do
so many different activities. But whatever
the nature of our activity, in today’s world,
even hard-nosed businessmen are talking
about impact, not profi t. “Impact” is a crude
way of saying, “We want to touch someone’s
life.” Whether business people are talking
about impact, or you are forming a personal
relationship with someone, essentially,
somewhere, you want to break the boundaries
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with someone for some time.
To be a yogi means to be determined to
obliterate the boundaries of your individuality.
In some way, you want to erase the lines that
separate you from the rest of the universe. Yoga
means to approach it in a scientifi c way. You
do not have to do any great amount of activity;
you do not have to indulge in sexuality; you
do not have to get entangled in anything. If
you consciously erase your boundaries, simply
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All the human nonsense that you see on
the planet is only because of concretized
boundaries. They have concretized their
boundaries so rigidly that if two people meet,
they will clash. Yoga does not mean twisting
and turning; it is not a weight loss program or
stress relief program. It means you understood
the stupidity of “me versus the universe.” It
is absolutely idiotic to be in competition with
that which is the source of your life. When you
realize that, you are moving towards yoga.
It does not matter how you do it. You can
call it impact, you can call it service, you can
call it whatever you want. Essentially, when
you realize this me vs. the rest of the universe
is a stupid competition to get into, you start
relaxing your boundaries – this is yoga. That
means approaching it in a fail-safe way.
When two people fall in love or get married,
they think they are in yoga, they broke their
boundaries, but after some time, you will see
it is not fail-safe.
Because you broke the boundaries for
a period of time, revenge will come. Not
necessarily do two people have to turn against
each other after some time. Maybe comfort
will happen. In rare moments, they might have
erased boundaries. The rest of the time, it is
a mutual benefi t scheme. Whatever form it
is, yoga essentially means this: the fi rst thing
is you are interested in erasing your own
boundaries. And if you know the joy of what it
means, then you want it to happen all around
you.
The Irony of Life
The fundamental irony of life is – the very
instruments of life turn against us. Without
this body, we do not know how to live here.
Without this mind, we do not know how to live
here. Body and mind are the two most basic
instruments of life, but it is these two which
have turned against people. You can call it
suffering, misery, disease, or any number of