Quotes from Sadhguru

Interestingly, scientific experiments today show that if you create an energy pattern outside a chamber in a vacuum state, virtual protons and virtual neutrons will begin to appear. That means, to put it simply, that something is taking form from nothing.

If you are compulsive, you will see that situations, experiences, thoughts, and emotions in your life will be in cycles. They keep coming back to you once every six or eighteen months, three years, or six years, depending on your degree of compulsiveness. If you just look back on your life, you will notice this. If they come once every twelve years, that means your system is in a high state of receptivity and balance.

No tradition, however time-honoured, deserves to live on as anything more than a museum piece if it has outlived its relevance.

But above all, it is an important tool that empowers human beings to break free from the compulsive patterns of their lives.

The word sadhguru, as I often point out, means an uneducated guru.

Once it happened…Four men were walking in the forest. The first was a gnana yogi, the second was a bhakti yogi, the third was a karma yogi, and the fourth was a kriya yogi.

We act in order to express our fulfillment, not to acquire it.

all that you call your past exists only as memory… all that you call future exits only as imagination… these are the only two things that you are suffering right now: your memory and your imagination. Nothing more. Both memory and imagination exist only in your mind. They are aspects of your psychological reality; they have nothing to do with the existential reality.

Of all emotions, compassion is the highest that man can experience. When someone lives in compassion, not just love, only then he is a real seeker, because very easily love becomes attachment and a bias. Love can become a great prejudice against you, somebody else, or anything.

It takes a little extra intelligence for a person to look beyond what's available in his culture.

If you keep the false conclusions at bay, truth will dawn.

kriya yoga cannot be done with people who talk "freedom" all the time. It is not for people who keep asking, "Why am I not free to eat my ice cream? Why can't I wake up whenever I feel like it? Why can't I eat, drink, or have sex with whatever, whoever, whenever I feel like?" If you take the path of kriya, a certain fundamental discipline has to be brought into all physical, psychological, and emotional processes.

you don't meditate, nothing will happen, but if you sit for meditation, so many things will start happening everywhere.

If he is a genuine seeker, anything that happens to him – even the most disastrous thing – is also a plus, because it only annihilates him a little more.

you sit for just a few hours a day with your spine erect, you will see that it will have an unmistakable effect on your life.

One fundamental requirement for anybody who wishes to grow on the spiritual path is to have an un-deviated flow of energy towards one and only one goal in life: to attain to the highest and not settle for anything less than that.

It means beginning the journey from the psychological – maya – to the existential – Shi-va. And

Yoga does not ask you to work with anything other than what you know. It simply tells you that if the physical, mental, and energy bodies are perfectly aligned, you will find access to the bliss body. But your work, as we said before, is only with the first three bodies. When

The sun is aggressive and outgoing; the moon receives and reflects.

In southern India, there was a legendary yogi named Sadashiva Brahmendra. He was a nirkaya, which literally means "bodiless yogi." He had no sense of body. Wearing clothes does not even occur to a person in such a state. He just walked around naked. Also in such a condition, there is no sense of home, property, or physical boundary.

The choice is always before you: to respond consciously to the present; or to react compulsively to it. There is a vast difference between the two. And it can make the world of a difference.

Sunlight comes into your house not because you want it. It happens because you open the windows." Sadhguru:

they are labeling their compulsions, their limitations, as their choices. If you can joyfully do whatever is needed in a given situation, this is freedom. But limiting yourself to doing only what you like is a horribly compulsive way to live.

The body is a pretty complete and self-contained instrument. If you are fascinated by machines, there isn't a better one!