Yogi Re!

PS: Source: https://isha.sadhguru.org/magazine/forest-flower/2026/7/what-keeps-sadhguru-here 𝐈𝐧𝐯𝐢𝐭𝐞 𝐲𝐨𝐮𝐫 𝐟𝐫𝐢𝐞𝐧𝐝𝐬 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐜𝐨𝐧𝐭𝐚𝐜𝐭𝐬 𝐭𝐨 𝐣𝐨𝐢𝐧 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐘𝐨𝐠𝐢 𝐑𝐞 𝐛𝐫𝐨𝐚𝐝𝐜𝐚𝐬𝐭 𝐜𝐡𝐚𝐧𝐧𝐞𝐥 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝐝𝐚𝐢𝐥𝐲 𝐲𝐨𝐠𝐢𝐜 𝐚𝐫𝐭𝐢𝐜𝐥𝐞𝐬/𝐮𝐩𝐝𝐚𝐭𝐞𝐬, 𝐄𝐤𝐚𝐝𝐚𝐬𝐡𝐢 𝐫𝐞𝐦𝐢𝐧𝐝𝐞𝐫𝐬, 𝐘𝐨𝐠𝐢 𝐑𝐞 𝐩𝐫𝐨𝐠𝐫𝐚𝐦𝐬, 𝐈𝐬𝐡𝐚 𝐬𝐩𝐞𝐜𝐢𝐚𝐥 𝐞𝐯𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐬, 𝐞𝐭𝐜 𝐮𝐬𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐥𝐢𝐧𝐤 𝐛𝐞𝐥𝐨𝐰- 𝐖𝐡𝐚𝐭𝐬𝐚𝐩𝐩: yogire.com/whatsapp 𝐓𝐞𝐥𝐞𝐠𝐫𝐚𝐦: yogire.com/telegram 𝐀𝐫𝐚𝐭𝐭𝐚𝐢: yogire.com/arattai

Let us say your legs are stuck in concrete. For me to wrench you out, would you be ready to leave your legs behind, or would you let go of my hand? Most people would let go of my hand. Only a few insane people would let their legs be wrenched off. So it is very important that you stand on the bedrock of love. 𝐈𝐟 𝐲𝐨𝐮 𝐥𝐞𝐚𝐫𝐧 𝐭𝐨 𝐥𝐨𝐨𝐤 𝐚𝐭 𝐞𝐯𝐞𝐫𝐲𝐭𝐡𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐰𝐢𝐭𝐡 𝐭𝐫𝐮𝐥𝐲 𝐥𝐨𝐯𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐞𝐲𝐞𝐬, 𝐈 𝐰𝐢𝐥𝐥 𝐭𝐚𝐤𝐞 𝐜𝐚𝐫𝐞 𝐨𝐟 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐫𝐞𝐬𝐭. What matters to me is who you are, not what you do. The heart behind your actions is what counts. Property or money are not important to me, but they are necessary to do things in the world. For me personally, your hearts and tears are more valuable than money. If you shed even one teardrop of love here, it is enough. The important thing is the heart behind it. If you take care of that one thing, I can take care of the rest. You know me only through the work we do. In that sense, the work is more important than me, though it came out of me. A rose plant may have a thousand thorns and only one flower, yet we still call it a rose plant because that flower, though it lasts only a few days, somehow becomes more significant than all the roots, leaves, stems, and thorns that sustain it. Similarly, it is because of the work that you see me. Without the work, if I were simply walking down the street, how many people would recognize who I am? Someone would have to tell them a story first. That story is the work. If that story does not become bigger and bigger, people will miss the whole possibility. Any number of enlightened beings have come. All were equally glorious. But not all of them were equally effective in the world, simply because they did not have the money or the muscle to move things. If you have been touched by something and you think it is wonderful, you must ensure that it reaches a million other people. If you have any love in your heart, you must make this happen. Otherwise, what is the point? For me, your hearts and tears matter most. But for this work to happen, your hands are far more important. At least one hand should go into this work. If both hands are already entangled somewhere else, then grow a third hand. 𝐈 𝐰𝐢𝐥𝐥 𝐭𝐚𝐤𝐞 𝐜𝐚𝐫𝐞 𝐨𝐟 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐬𝐩𝐢𝐫𝐢𝐭𝐮𝐚𝐥 𝐚𝐬𝐩𝐞𝐜𝐭𝐬, 𝐛𝐮𝐭 𝐲𝐨𝐮 𝐦𝐮𝐬𝐭 𝐭𝐚𝐤𝐞 𝐜𝐚𝐫𝐞 𝐨𝐟 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐰𝐨𝐫𝐤 𝐢𝐧 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐰𝐨𝐫𝐥𝐝. When you learn to keep your own ideas, emotions, thoughts, and opinions aside and do what is needed in the world, that itself is a spiritual process, because spirituality is fundamentally about keeping yourself aside. Work and activity are easy ways to dissolve yourself. Simply sitting here, being aware, and dissolving yourself may still be far away for you—but through activity, you can easily dissolve yourself. That is why there is activity. If you think this is worthwhile, while I am still around for a few more years, pitch your life into it and make it happen. If you think it is not worthwhile, that is fine with me. I am not complaining that people are not doing this or that. But if you do not do what you truly believe is worthwhile, you will waste your life, and that bothers me. If you have any sense in your head, then whatever you truly feel is worthwhile, you should devote your life to it. Otherwise, what is the point of living here. [1] Referring to Mount Kailash.

https://www.instagram.com/p/DcFlNZPMsVj/ 𝗪𝗵𝗮𝘁 𝗞𝗲𝗲𝗽𝘀 𝗦𝗮𝗱𝗵𝗴𝘂𝗿𝘂 𝗛𝗲𝗿𝗲 𝘖𝘯 𝘎𝘶𝘳𝘶 𝘗𝘶𝘳𝘯𝘪𝘮𝘢, 29 𝘑𝘶𝘭𝘺 2007, 𝘢 𝘨𝘳𝘰𝘶𝘱 𝘰𝘧 𝘴𝘦𝘦𝘬𝘦𝘳𝘴 𝘨𝘢𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘳𝘦𝘥 𝘧𝘰𝘳 𝘴𝘢𝘵𝘴𝘢𝘯𝘨 𝘸𝘪𝘵𝘩 𝘚𝘢𝘥𝘩𝘨𝘶𝘳𝘶 𝘯𝘦𝘢𝘳 𝘔𝘢𝘯𝘢𝘴𝘢𝘳𝘰𝘷𝘢𝘳 𝘓𝘢𝘬𝘦 𝘥𝘶𝘳𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘴𝘦𝘤𝘰𝘯𝘥-𝘦𝘷𝘦𝘳 𝘒𝘢𝘪𝘭𝘢𝘴𝘩 𝘔𝘢𝘯𝘢𝘴𝘢𝘳𝘰𝘷𝘢𝘳 𝘚𝘢𝘤𝘳𝘦𝘥 𝘞𝘢𝘭𝘬𝘴. 𝘛𝘩𝘦𝘺 𝘩𝘢𝘥 𝘤𝘳𝘰𝘴𝘴𝘦𝘥 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘣𝘳𝘦𝘢𝘵𝘩𝘵𝘢𝘬𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘷𝘢𝘴𝘵𝘯𝘦𝘴𝘴 𝘰𝘧 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘛𝘪𝘣𝘦𝘵𝘢𝘯 𝘗𝘭𝘢𝘵𝘦𝘢𝘶 𝘵𝘰 𝘳𝘦𝘢𝘤𝘩 𝘵𝘩𝘪𝘴 𝘭𝘢𝘬𝘦 𝘰𝘧 𝘢𝘭𝘮𝘰𝘴𝘵 𝘰𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘳𝘸𝘰𝘳𝘭𝘥𝘭𝘺 𝘣𝘦𝘢𝘶𝘵𝘺. 𝘔𝘰𝘶𝘯𝘵 𝘒𝘢𝘪𝘭𝘢𝘴𝘩 𝘳𝘰𝘴𝘦 𝘪𝘯 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘥𝘪𝘴𝘵𝘢𝘯𝘤𝘦. 𝘛𝘩𝘦 𝘮𝘰𝘴𝘵 𝘴𝘢𝘤𝘳𝘦𝘥 𝘥𝘢𝘺 𝘢 𝘴𝘦𝘦𝘬𝘦𝘳 𝘤𝘰𝘶𝘭𝘥 𝘴𝘱𝘦𝘯𝘥 𝘸𝘪𝘵𝘩 𝘢 𝘎𝘶𝘳𝘶 𝘸𝘢𝘴 𝘶𝘱𝘰𝘯 𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘮. 𝘚𝘢𝘥𝘩𝘨𝘶𝘳𝘶 𝘴𝘱𝘰𝘬𝘦 𝘢𝘣𝘰𝘶𝘵 𝘭𝘰𝘷𝘦, 𝘢𝘣𝘰𝘶𝘵 𝘩𝘪𝘴 𝘰𝘸𝘯 𝘎𝘶𝘳𝘶, 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘢𝘣𝘰𝘶𝘵 𝘩𝘪𝘴 𝘴𝘦𝘯𝘴𝘦 𝘵𝘩𝘢𝘵 𝘚𝘩𝘪𝘷𝘢—𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘰𝘯𝘦 𝘩𝘦 𝘤𝘢𝘭𝘭𝘴 𝘩𝘪𝘴 𝘱𝘢𝘳𝘵𝘯𝘦𝘳—𝘸𝘢𝘴 𝘯𝘰𝘵 𝘰𝘧 𝘵𝘩𝘪𝘴 𝘸𝘰𝘳𝘭𝘥. 𝙎𝙖𝙙𝙝𝙜𝙪𝙧𝙪: In the spiritual traditions of the East, Guru Purnima has been revered across Yogic, Hindu, Buddhist, and Jain traditions alike. All of them have held it as a deeply valuable day. I never had the privilege of doing a Guru Pooja for my Guru. For the last 12 to 15 hours, I have been in a bit of a daze as I slowly look at this: more and more things point toward my partner being an alien. Shiva is my 50-percent partner—not because he does anything. He does nothing. I do 100 percent of the work. He only signals which way to turn. Just for that simple direction, he gets 50 percent. The driving is all mine, but he has been wonderful with me. Shiva’s presence has been a living reality for me in everything I do in my life. I have always lived, experienced, and understood myself as just a small extension of him. So am I an alien? For every other being we speak of—Rama, Krishna, or any other—we know their childhood and their end. Only with Shiva, we know neither his childhood nor his end. When people first saw him, he was a youth. No childhood, no old age. We say he is a swayambhu—self-created. Even his abode, Kailash, is a completely different space. The mountain is merely his summer residence. After the completion of Dhyanalinga, I had planned to leave. My plans went wrong because I have always been a fool for love. I always told myself that I would never go soft in my head. In the heart I have always been soft, but not in the head. Yet there were certain moments in my life when I did. What was planned in a previous lifetime and executed with perfection in this lifetime involved not just my life, but many lives around me—people involved with me and people against me. I planned all their lives: where they should be born, in which womb, how they should be, and what they should do. Everything was planned and executed perfectly. At the last moment, I screwed up the plan because I became a little soft in my head. If you think that is a boon for you, wonderful. I am not suffering it either, so there is no problem. I have set up my system in such a way that after I leave my physical body, I will still be around for another 80 years. Unless you do your Yoga too well and live to be 160, there is a possibility that I will not be around at the last moment of your life. But I believe that after I leave, within 80 years, all of you will be dead. I will make sure of it. People’s tears and words are wonderful, but they must translate into every aspect of your life—not just with one person or another, but with every creature and even with inanimate things. How you touch a rock is very important. Even Shiva chose a rock for his abode[1]. If you can look at everything with truly loving eyes, you stand on solid ground. Love itself will not take you there—but if you stand on the bedrock of love, you can very easily be taken to the ultimate. If you are stuck in the quagmire of prejudice, it becomes very hard.

𝙏𝙝𝙚 𝙐𝙡𝙩𝙞𝙢𝙖𝙩𝙚 𝙎𝙡𝙖𝙫𝙚𝙧𝙮 PS: 𝐈𝐧𝐯𝐢𝐭𝐞 𝐲𝐨𝐮𝐫 𝐟𝐫𝐢𝐞𝐧𝐝𝐬 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐜𝐨𝐧𝐭𝐚𝐜𝐭𝐬 𝐭𝐨 𝐣𝐨𝐢𝐧 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐘𝐨𝐠𝐢 𝐑𝐞 𝐛𝐫𝐨𝐚𝐝𝐜𝐚𝐬𝐭 𝐜𝐡𝐚𝐧𝐧𝐞𝐥 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝐝𝐚𝐢𝐥𝐲 𝐲𝐨𝐠𝐢𝐜 𝐚𝐫𝐭𝐢𝐜𝐥𝐞𝐬/𝐮𝐩𝐝𝐚𝐭𝐞𝐬, 𝐄𝐤𝐚𝐝𝐚𝐬𝐡𝐢 𝐫𝐞𝐦𝐢𝐧𝐝𝐞𝐫𝐬, 𝐘𝐨𝐠𝐢 𝐑𝐞 𝐩𝐫𝐨𝐠𝐫𝐚𝐦𝐬, 𝐈𝐬𝐡𝐚 𝐬𝐩𝐞𝐜𝐢𝐚𝐥 𝐞𝐯𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐬, 𝐞𝐭𝐜 𝐮𝐬𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐥𝐢𝐧𝐤 𝐛𝐞𝐥𝐨𝐰- 𝐖𝐡𝐚𝐭𝐬𝐚𝐩𝐩: yogire.com/whatsapp 𝐓𝐞𝐥𝐞𝐠𝐫𝐚𝐦: yogire.com/telegram 𝐀𝐫𝐚𝐭𝐭𝐚𝐢: yogire.com/arattai

PS: Source: https://isha.sadhguru.org/en/wisdom/article/bharat-the-power-of-a-name 𝐈𝐧𝐯𝐢𝐭𝐞 𝐲𝐨𝐮𝐫 𝐟𝐫𝐢𝐞𝐧𝐝𝐬 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐜𝐨𝐧𝐭𝐚𝐜𝐭𝐬 𝐭𝐨 𝐣𝐨𝐢𝐧 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐘𝐨𝐠𝐢 𝐑𝐞 𝐛𝐫𝐨𝐚𝐝𝐜𝐚𝐬𝐭 𝐜𝐡𝐚𝐧𝐧𝐞𝐥 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝐝𝐚𝐢𝐥𝐲 𝐲𝐨𝐠𝐢𝐜 𝐚𝐫𝐭𝐢𝐜𝐥𝐞𝐬/𝐮𝐩𝐝𝐚𝐭𝐞𝐬, 𝐄𝐤𝐚𝐝𝐚𝐬𝐡𝐢 𝐫𝐞𝐦𝐢𝐧𝐝𝐞𝐫𝐬, 𝐘𝐨𝐠𝐢 𝐑𝐞 𝐩𝐫𝐨𝐠𝐫𝐚𝐦𝐬, 𝐈𝐬𝐡𝐚 𝐬𝐩𝐞𝐜𝐢𝐚𝐥 𝐞𝐯𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐬, 𝐞𝐭𝐜 𝐮𝐬𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐥𝐢𝐧𝐤 𝐛𝐞𝐥𝐨𝐰- 𝐖𝐡𝐚𝐭𝐬𝐚𝐩𝐩: yogire.com/whatsapp 𝐓𝐞𝐥𝐞𝐠𝐫𝐚𝐦: yogire.com/telegram 𝐀𝐫𝐚𝐭𝐭𝐚𝐢: yogire.com/arattai

So food and water must be secured 100%. After that industrial development, IT, etc., – these things will happen anyway. But whatever food we eat in this land of Bharat must be generated here. We have land that produces food 12 months of the year, which is a phenomenon. Very few countries in the world can do that. And we must ensure that this happens, or somebody will trip us very easily. I have said that there are two major problems in the country – poverty and corruption. Corruption is humiliating, but poverty is debilitating. First poverty, let people eat. Then we can talk to them about ethics and values. 𝙋𝙖𝙧𝙩𝙞𝙘𝙞𝙥𝙖𝙣𝙩: What would be your advice to our leaders regarding Sampurna Bharat? 𝙎𝙖𝙙𝙝𝙜𝙪𝙧𝙪: In Tamil there is a saying. When it comes to selecting a king, do you want a good man or a capable man? If you want to get married, you choose a good man. If you want a king, someone who rules the nation, then you want a capable man. One aspect of capability is strategy. Whether you want to run a small organization or a nation, one very important aspect of managing something successfully – towards a certain direction – is strategy. A strategy works best when it is handled with a certain level of secrecy, a certain discretion as to what everyone should know, and what they should not know. Even if you have a family of two children, you don’t tell them everything. There is some strategy as to what you should tell the child today, tomorrow and the day after. They must be led on. If you tell the people of this country right now what the ultimate aspiration is, nobody will go there. Everybody will give up right here. You must tell them, “Just this one step right now.” If they walk that step successfully, they are energized and then you give them the next step and the next step. So let us not talk about Sampurna Bharat right now. I would like to talk to the people who manage the country about Sampurna Bharat, but not the people. The people must be led one step at a time. Otherwise, they won’t go. Building a great nation on one level means building great people, great institutions and an atmosphere which allows people to express their greatness. Right now we have created a situation with an ambiguous and unnecessarily complex rulebook which does not allow an ordinary citizen to be able to fulfill his daily activity without breaking rules in some way. Or in other words, we are making criminals of people who have no intention to be that. Simple and unambiguous rules to conduct economic, social and other activity is the most important need of today. This is something which needs the best minds in the country to work upon – simple rules with minimum loopholes. Bharat Mata Ki Jai!

In Lebanon, there is a temple in Baalbek which is over 4,000 years old. Children in Lebanon schools study that Indian labor, elephants, sculptors and yogis constructed this. It is a massive temple. Some of the foundation stones weigh three hundred tons. Sculptures of lotus flowers are hanging from the ceiling. Obviously, there are no lotuses in Lebanon; it was sculptured by Indians. Every Lebanese child knows this. Has any Indian child heard about it? Over a thousand years ago, Tamil kings went to Cambodia and built Angkor Wat and Angkor Thom. If you see the work that has been done there, you will feel proud of being human. The Angkor Wat is the largest religious building on the planet. Does any Tamil child in Tamil Nadu up to twelfth standard read a line about it in his textbook? When you don’t feel pride, how do you build a nation? If you are not proud of who you are, why the hell should you stay here? Right now, if Western countries open up their visa policy, eighty percent of Indians will swim across the ocean and go away. That means you are holding them back by force – it is a prison. People should want to be here, but everybody wants to go away and we are holding them. That is not the way to run a nation. 𝐁𝐡𝐚𝐫𝐚𝐭 𝐨𝐫 𝐈𝐧𝐝𝐢𝐚? 𝙆𝙞𝙧𝙖𝙣 𝘽𝙚𝙙𝙞: Did we make a mistake in converting our name from Bharat to India? 𝙎𝙖𝙙𝙝𝙜𝙪𝙧𝙪: A serious mistake. Whenever somebody occupies a nation, the first thing they will do is change your name. This is the technology of dominance; this is the technology of enslaving. If you look at African–American history, when the African people were brought to America, the first thing they did was took their African name away and gave them some silly name. That is what has been done to us – Thiruvananthapuram is “Trivandrum.” Chennai is “Madras.” Like this – “India.” What does it mean? It does not mean anything. If I give you a meaningless name, you will become a meaningless, stupid person in front of me because I have a meaningful name. I have a tradition, I have a culture – you have nothing. So in that context, we have become “India.” The concept of a nation must sink into everybody’s mind because a nation is just an idea. When this idea burns through your mind and sinks into your heart, and your passion rises, you have a real nation. Otherwise, “nation” is just on paper. This is the unfortunate reality for us right now. When the British left in 1947, the first thing we should have done is change the name in such a way that it resonates in everybody’s mind. You are using an English name for an Indian nation. Hardly a few percent of us can speak English properly in this country. The remaining are essentially left out. One thing I would like to request of the present Prime Minister is that we rename this country in a way that reverberates in everybody’s heart. I know a whole lot of the intellectual crowd will say, “What is in a name?” When you utter your name, you must understand there is sound. The meaning is only psychological and social. The sound is existential and has a power. “Bharat” has power. This power has to reverberate through everybody’s hearts in this country. And the idea of what it means to be an Indian must get across to every human being because if everyone’s aspiration is not the same as the national aspiration, then you don’t have a nation. 𝐀 𝐯𝐢𝐬𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝐁𝐡𝐚𝐫𝐚𝐭 𝙆𝙞𝙧𝙖𝙣 𝘽𝙚𝙙𝙞: What is your dream and vision of India in 2020? 𝙎𝙖𝙙𝙝𝙜𝙪𝙧𝙪: One of the most important things is food security, which we are losing out on because we are yielding to certain forces in the world. India has to ensure food and water are taken care of for our people. By 2020, we must be 100% on the ball with food and water. Otherwise, other nations will not attack you with bombs – they will control your food and you will fall at their feet. Right now, seeds are coming from outside the country. If in a certain year, they don’t send seeds, you must see what will happen. Millions of people will go, just like that!

If you find the right rhythm, you are a fantastic human being. If you miss the rhythm, you get crushed by the process of life. We called this nation Bha-ra-ta, and one of the great kings of the past was Bharata. People say the country is named after him, but actually, he was named after the country. There are so many Bharats and Bharatis in this country – they are named after this nation. King Bharata had nine sons, but when the time to hand over the empire came, he gave it to Bhumanyu, who was the son of the sage Bharadwaj. This boy grew up in the forest. When he came to the court one day, the king looked at him and said, “This boy must become the king – not my sons.” People were shocked because the emperor’s sons, nine of them, were waiting in a queue – probably fighting with each other over who would become the king. People argued, “Who is he? He has grown up in the forest.” Bharata said, “I see an enormous intelligence in his eyes and a raging fire in his heart. He is able-bodied and stable. He should be the king.” This was the first demonstration of democracy in this nation, thousands of years ago. I hope we follow this example today. 𝙆𝙞𝙧𝙖𝙣 𝘽𝙚𝙙𝙞: I have a question. If we had continued to call India “Bharata,” would a woman have felt more secure than in India today? You know what is happening with women, particularly in the rural and weaker sections of society. 𝙎𝙖𝙙𝙝𝙜𝙪𝙧𝙪: It is not that the name will do everything, but the name has to inspire passion for the nation. Right now, they only have hormonal passions – there is no passion for the nation. That is why these things are happening to women. A nation is important because you expand the scope of your passion, involvement, and concern beyond your own likes and dislikes. “Why can’t we think about the whole world?” As a spiritual being, I am not a nationalistic person. I would like to look at every human being and every creature on the planet in the same way – that is how I am. But A nation is the largest piece of humanity that you are able to be committed to right now. When you are committed to this nation and its wellbeing, if not to 7.2 billion people, at least you are committed to 1.2 billion people, which is a great step forward from being committed to your own personal wellbeing. 𝐖𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐦𝐚𝐤𝐞𝐬 𝐁𝐡𝐚𝐫𝐚𝐭 𝐚 𝐧𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝙆𝙞𝙧𝙖𝙣 𝘽𝙚𝙙𝙞: I think in the last ten days (referring to change in government in 2014), Hindi has returned much more. We might hear “bharatvasi” (one who lives in Bharat) and “bharatiya” (of or relating to Bharat) much more. 𝙎𝙖𝙙𝙝𝙜𝙪𝙧𝙪: You are leaving us out – we are from the South. 𝙆𝙞𝙧𝙖𝙣 𝘽𝙚𝙙𝙞: You learn a little bit of Hindi then. 𝙎𝙖𝙙𝙝𝙜𝙪𝙧𝙪: No, we won’t. 𝙆𝙞𝙧𝙖𝙣 𝘽𝙚𝙙𝙞: Why? 𝙎𝙖𝙙𝙝𝙜𝙪𝙧𝙪: Because it is not the sameness that holds us together. We are different people, but we are fine together. That is the nature of this country. That is what has to be encouraged. Don’t try to teach everyone Hindi. Don’t try to teach everyone Tamil. I speak Tamil – you speak Hindi. You eat paratha – I eat idli. I think this is the best thing – you think that is the best thing. Still we have no issues. In the same family, five people can worship five different gods in the same room – no problem. 𝙆𝙞𝙧𝙖𝙣 𝘽𝙚𝙙𝙞: What is needed to build a successful nation? 𝙎𝙖𝙙𝙝𝙜𝙪𝙧𝙪: A nation will be successful only when people’s aspirations are kept alive. They must see that their life is a possibility. If people lose their aspiration, it is a finished nation. It is important to nurture an aspiration and create the possibility within one’s lifespan. We also need to make people’s aspirations into the nation’s aspirations, and the nation’s aspirations into people’s aspirations. For example, we have been trading with the rest of the world for over ten thousand years. In Syria and many parts of Arabia, there are stories of Indian traders. Aleppo City, which was one of the most beautiful cities, was at one time built on taxes paid by Indian traders.

https://www.instagram.com/p/DcC_w9EMMWJ/ 𝗛𝗮𝗽𝗽𝘆 𝗜𝗻𝗱𝗲𝗽𝗲𝗻𝗱𝗲𝗻𝗰𝗲 𝗗𝗮𝘆! 🇮🇳 𝗕𝗵𝗮𝗿𝗮𝘁 – 𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝗣𝗼𝘄𝗲𝗿 𝗼𝗳 𝗮 𝗡𝗮𝗺𝗲 Sadhguru explores the science behind Bharat, India’s original name, and look at how the culture in this nation was carefully crafted for ultimate wellbeing. 𝙆𝙞𝙧𝙖𝙣 𝘽𝙚𝙙𝙞: Why do we call our country Mataram, not Patram? Why is it “motherland,” not “fatherland,” or both? 𝙎𝙖𝙙𝙝𝙜𝙪𝙧𝙪: Because though essentially a nation is the people, the boundaries and the definition of a nation come from a land. We have always seen land or earth as a mother, because if we sow a seed, life grows. Almost everywhere in the world, except in certain very martial cultures, a nation has always been seen as a woman or a mother, because in a certain sense, a nation is defined by an aspect of geography. 𝙆𝙞𝙧𝙖𝙣 𝘽𝙚𝙙𝙞: Is that the only reason? When did it begin? 𝙎𝙖𝙙𝙝𝙜𝙪𝙧𝙪: I would say it began with this nation because this is the oldest nation on the planet. It defies today’s concept of a nation. Modern nations are made based on language, religion, race, ethnicity, maybe ideology – essentially, it is the sameness of people that makes a nation. But in this nation, which we have known as Bharatvarsh for thousands of years – we have never defined ourselves by sameness. If you drive 50 kilometers, people look different, wear different clothes, eat differently, speak different languages – everything is different. When the Europeans came here, they did not understand how this could be one nation if there is nothing binding it. But for over thousands of years, within this subcontinent and also in the remaining part of the known world of those days, people referred to this as one nation, though at some points, we were over 200 political entities. What is it that makes this nation? This is something that the leadership and the people of this country must really look at. It is not language. It is not religion. It is not race. Nationhood predates all religion. When there was no religion, this nation was. We called the land between Himalayas and the Indu Sarovar (Indian Ocean) Hindustan only as a geographical description – not to represent a particular religion. This is not a religious identity – this is a geographical and cultural identity. What kept us together longer than any other nation on the planet is that essentially, we have always been a land of seekers – seekers of truth and liberation. In this seeking, we found oneness. When we look for sameness, we try to become a land of believers. This seeking is not something that we invented. It is the nature of human intelligence to want to know, realize, and liberate itself. This nation was based on this foundation that we are seekers. As a seeker, you are not aligned to a particular thing on the outside but to the life process within you, and that never goes wrong. No matter how badly you contaminate human beings with belief systems and brainwash them, once their survival is taken care of, they always want to know the nature of their existence and of everything around them. Whether you call it science, spiritual process, inquiry, or quest, essentially, human intelligence wants to transcend its present limitations, wants to liberate itself from the fetters in which we exist right now. We built our nation on this longing, this seeking. Our nationhood cannot be destroyed as long as we keep this seeking alive. If we do not try to transform ourselves towards sameness, we will always be one. 𝐖𝐡𝐲 "𝐁𝐡𝐚𝐫𝐚𝐭" 𝐦𝐚𝐭𝐭𝐞𝐫𝐬 𝙆𝙞𝙧𝙖𝙣 𝘽𝙚𝙙𝙞: Earlier, it was known as Bharat? 𝙎𝙖𝙙𝙝𝙜𝙪𝙧𝙪: Yes. Bharat comes from bha – ra – ta. Bhava means sensation. Seeing, hearing, smelling, tasting, and touching are different types of sensations. Your whole experience of life is sensory right now. Or in other words, sensations are the basis of your experience. Bha means sensation, out of which emotion arises. Ra means raga or the tune. The tune is not yours – existence has already set it. Now you have to find the rhythm, which is the tala.

𝗖𝗵𝗲𝗰𝗸 𝗵𝗼𝘄 𝗿𝗲𝗹𝗮𝘅𝗲𝗱 𝘆𝗼𝘂𝗿 𝘀𝘆𝘀𝘁𝗲𝗺 𝗶𝘀 PS: 𝐈𝐧𝐯𝐢𝐭𝐞 𝐲𝐨𝐮𝐫 𝐟𝐫𝐢𝐞𝐧𝐝𝐬 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐜𝐨𝐧𝐭𝐚𝐜𝐭𝐬 𝐭𝐨 𝐣𝐨𝐢𝐧 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐘𝐨𝐠𝐢 𝐑𝐞 𝐛𝐫𝐨𝐚𝐝𝐜𝐚𝐬𝐭 𝐜𝐡𝐚𝐧𝐧𝐞𝐥 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝐝𝐚𝐢𝐥𝐲 𝐲𝐨𝐠𝐢𝐜 𝐚𝐫𝐭𝐢𝐜𝐥𝐞𝐬/𝐮𝐩𝐝𝐚𝐭𝐞𝐬, 𝐄𝐤𝐚𝐝𝐚𝐬𝐡𝐢 𝐫𝐞𝐦𝐢𝐧𝐝𝐞𝐫𝐬, 𝐘𝐨𝐠𝐢 𝐑𝐞 𝐩𝐫𝐨𝐠𝐫𝐚𝐦𝐬, 𝐈𝐬𝐡𝐚 𝐬𝐩𝐞𝐜𝐢𝐚𝐥 𝐞𝐯𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐬, 𝐞𝐭𝐜 𝐮𝐬𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐥𝐢𝐧𝐤 𝐛𝐞𝐥𝐨𝐰- 𝐖𝐡𝐚𝐭𝐬𝐚𝐩𝐩: yogire.com/whatsapp 𝐓𝐞𝐥𝐞𝐠𝐫𝐚𝐦: yogire.com/telegram 𝐀𝐫𝐚𝐭𝐭𝐚𝐢: yogire.com/arattai

Namaskaram, Sadhguru sets out on a sacred journey pilgrims have undertaken for thousands of years–from Gorakhpur, through Kathmandu, to the majestic Mount Kailash. Revered by millions for centuries, Kailash has drawn countless pilgrims in search of something beyond the mundane. From 15–30 August, you are invited to be part of this pilgrimage with Sadhguru through an immersive experience on Sadhguru App. 🧘 𝗖𝗮𝘁𝗰𝗵 𝗦𝗮𝗱𝗵𝗴𝘂𝗿𝘂 𝗶𝗻 𝗿𝗲𝗮𝗹 𝘁𝗶𝗺𝗲 💬 𝗔𝘀𝗸 𝗦𝗮𝗱𝗵𝗴𝘂𝗿𝘂 𝘆𝗼𝘂𝗿 𝗾𝘂𝗲𝘀𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻𝘀. 𝗦𝗲𝗹𝗲𝗰𝘁𝗲𝗱 𝗾𝘂𝗲𝘀𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻𝘀 𝘄𝗶𝗹𝗹 𝗯𝗲 𝗮𝗻𝘀𝘄𝗲𝗿𝗲𝗱 𝗮𝗹𝗼𝗻𝗴 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝘄𝗮𝘆. 🏍️ 𝗘𝘅𝗽𝗹𝗼𝗿𝗲 𝗲𝘃𝗲𝗿𝘆 𝘀𝘁𝗼𝗽 𝘁𝗵𝗿𝗼𝘂𝗴𝗵 𝗳𝗮𝘀𝗰𝗶𝗻𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝘀𝘁𝗼𝗿𝗶𝗲𝘀, 𝘁𝗿𝗶𝘃𝗶𝗮, 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗶𝗻𝘀𝗶𝗴𝗵𝘁𝘀. Dates: 15–30 August 2026 𝙅𝙤𝙞𝙣 𝙤𝙣 𝙎𝙖𝙙𝙝𝙜𝙪𝙧𝙪 𝘼𝙥𝙥: https://isha.sadhguru.org/in/en/sadhguru-app

🇮🇳 15 August | Independence Day 🐍 17 August | Naga Panchami 🎉 15–17 August | Naga Panchami Jaatre This weekend, come with family & friends to experience the vibrant atmosphere at Sadhguru Sannidhi Bengaluru! To participate in the auspicious Naga Panchami celebrations: bhairavi.co/nagapanchami Make this long weekend a celebration of joy, togetherness and inner freedom. 🙏✨