Volume 6 / Issue 03 Mar 2018

Here – Yes Here

Born of bodily fluids
guaranteed of an earthly end
Promises of heaven have turned
mortal men into immortal menace.
Those who made up eternal
life will not value the bit
of life that is here and Now.

Life here distorted by promises

of hereafter. Just for you to
know, those who don’t make
it here shall not make it anywhere

It is Here and Here that

the Hereafter is hidden.

Grace & Blessings

 EDITORIAL

Dear Readers,

In this month’s Lead Article, Sadhguru addresses the question “How to Deal
with the Loss of a Loved One?” A great chance to get a broader perspective
on this universally relevant matter before life confronts us with it. In “Why Go
to Kailash,” Sadhguru points to the ultimate reality of our physical existence
while explaining how to approach this ultimate destination of pilgrimage. On
a lighter note, in this month’s In Conversation with the Mystic article, popular
actress Rakul Preet Singh proves her inquisitive nature with questions such
as “Does the Law of Attraction Really Work?”

Our Mahabharat story “Arjuna Fights the Gandharvas” could be seen

as another example of cause and effect, how intentions to harm others
eventually backfire – in this case how Duryodhana’s plan to additionally
humiliate the Pandavas eventually leads to his own humiliation. Bowing
down, but out of one’s own choice, is one of the main qualities that Sadhguru
discusses in “Adi Shankara – What Makes a Great Being,” an excerpt from
Sadhguru Spot.

The event highlights of the past weeks span from the Arabian Peninsula,
across the Indian subcontinent, to Southeast Asia. As Yaksha and
Mahashivaratri 2018 happen after our editorial deadline, we’ll give a recap
of these immensely rich and deep events in the next issue. With the arrival
of the summer, boost your energy level and sense of wellbeing by adding
some “live food” to your diet! This month’s recipe, a “Green Gram Sprout
Salad,” is a fresh and nutrient-rich option. Enjoy!

The Editorial Team

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CONTENTS
LEAD ARTICLE MAHABHARAT

How to Deal with the Loss of

a Loved One? 08 Part 40: Arjuna Fights the
Gandharvas 11
IN CONVERSATION WITH THE MYSTIC
Does the Law of Attraction Really Work? 04
Rakul Preet Singh in Conversation with the Mystic

LEAD ARTICLE
How to Deal with the Loss of a Loved One? 08

MUSINGS
Why Go to Kailash? 11

MAHABHARAT
Arjuna Fights the Gandharvas 14

NEWS & EVENTS

Sadhguru in the Emirates / Pongal Celebrations at the Isha Yoga Center 15
Bringing Devi Home / Acknowledging Adi Shankara
Sadhguru in Pune / Sadhguru in Thailand
A Super Blue Blood Moon with Adiyogi / Exploring the Core of the Human Body and Being
Spiritual Wellbeing for Armed Forces

SADHGURU SPOT
Adi Shankara – What Makes a Great Being? 18

UPCOMING PROGRAMS & EVENTS

Isha Program and Event Highlights 20

ISHA RECIPES
Green Gram Sprout Salad 21

ZEN SPEAKS
Because I’m Here 23

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 IN CONVERSATION Does the Law of Attraction
WITH THE MYSTIC
Really Work?
Rakul Preet Singh in Conversation with the Mystic

In this engaging excerpt from an “In Conversation with the Mystic” event, popular film actress Rakul
Preet Singh quizzes Sadhguru about the “the law of attraction,” how to design one’s destiny, and how to
stop complicating life and start experiencing its beauty.
Rakul Preet Singh: Now coming to intention, when way, you send out positive signals…
you give your thought out to the universe, like the
law of attraction… Sadhguru: To whom?

Sadhguru: You’ve been reading all these
American books!
Rakul Preet Singh: I’ve read Inner Engineering as
well. I’m just curious about things like the law
of attraction, where they say that anything that
you ask, believe, and sent out to the universe in
a constant direction, will happen. Because they
say that you design your destiny, you design
your life. Like you just happen to say that with
your conscious efforts, you can have control over
your life. I mean you are sending out a positive
signal; great.
Sadhguru: No, I did not agree with that. You made
a theory – there are lots of holes.
Rakul Preet Singh: Okay, so you do not agree. My
question is, if you want your life to be in a certain
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Rakul Preet Singh: To the universe.
Sadhguru: Which direction? Up or down?
Rakul Preet Singh: That’s what I’m asking. How
does the law of attraction really work?
Sadhguru: It doesn’t work!
Rakul Preet Singh: It doesn’t work? So what works?
How do you design your destiny?
Sadhguru: The law of attraction is something that
happens between opposites. Whether it is two
magnets, male and female, North Pole and South
Pole, this and that – it is always between two
opposites. Now you are talking about the universe
– so that means you are an alien to this universe?
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Rakul Preet Singh: Part of the universe.
Sadhguru: If you are part of the universe, what is
there to be attracted about?
Rakul Preet Singh: Well, why do they say that you
can design your own destiny?
Sadhguru: You can! You can determine your
destiny; you should – that’s what being human
means. See, if you had come here like any other
creature on this planet, they have compulsive
cycles they live by. It’s okay for them because
that’s all they are capable of. Actually, if you look
at your life, you are not doing anything greatly
different from what the other creatures are doing.
They are born – you are born. You grow up – they
grow up. They reproduce – you reproduce. They
die – you die. Nothing very different, but we can
conduct these same simple things consciously.
That is the significant thing about being human.
Let’s say you conduct your hand consciously,
now this hand will do what you want. Suppose
you conduct your thought consciously, now your
thought will do what you want. If your thought
was doing what you want, how would you keep
yourself – blissful or miserable?
Rakul Preet Singh: Blissful.
Sadhguru: If you are blissful, would you go in
search of happiness?
Rakul Preet Singh: No, if you are blissful, you are
just satisfied….
Sadhguru: If you are blissful, your life would not be
in pursuit of happiness. These things that people
think are the greatest things in their life – to be
peaceful, joyful, nonsense – wouldn’t mean a
thing to you when you are blissful. If your thought
and emotion were taking instruction from you,
would you keep yourself in the highest level of
pleasantness, whatever that is?
Rakul Preet Singh: Correct.
Sadhguru: Yes. If that happens, your entire life
process will come to a total ease. Right now, you
are like a crouching tiger – you always have to get
something. There is nothing to get. If you sit here,
your life is complete – now it’s at total ease. When
it’s in this kind of ease, it will become perceptive.
Just pursuing a profession, making money, or even
being joyful or being loving or falling in love, nothing
means anything to you, because just sitting here,
the highest level of pleasantness is happening to
you. So, what would you do with that life? Naturally,
you would explore something that is not in your
perception right now. This is how spiritual process
begins; this is how you take charge of your life.
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Now you wish for something…. I want you to know
this, for most people, at least fifty percent of what
they wish happens. It is just that they are focusing
on a few things that did not happen. In a reasonably
well settled society, even ninety percent of what
you wish happens – it is the ten percent you are
complaining about. You never enjoy the ninety
percent because this ten percent did not happen
the way you wanted.
So already, to a large extent, you are in control of
your destiny. A little is going off, but that little can
bother you. It’s like, let’s say, you have to drive a
hundred kilometers. Ninety kilometers, you went
properly where you want to go; at the ninety-first
kilometer, you crashed. That’s why people are
complaining. I’m not saying they are complaining
for nothing. Just before reaching, something
crashed. So they still suffer for that. This is because
not all situations will ever happen the way we want
it, because a situation is not just you – so many
people, so many forces are involved. All of them
need not happen my way. But if I’m happening my
way, I’m blissful. Whether the golf ball flies straight
or goes into the mountains – I’m still blissful.
Rakul Preet Singh: Right. As long as you are
playing golf.
Sadhguru: Even if I am not playing. [Laughs]
Rakul Preet Singh: Right. So now, as long as things
happen your way, and you’re on your own path and
you are blissful and…
Sadhguru: No, no, no. I’m not saying as long as
things happen your way, you will be blissful. If you
are blissful, it doesn’t matter which way it happens.
Whichever way it happens, you are blissful.
Essentially, the world has put the cart before the
horse. Right now, you are sitting here. Is it easier
to take charge of yourself or to take charge of all
these people?
Rakul Preet Singh: Myself.
Sadhguru: Yourself. You must first do that now,
which is simple and easy. If you take charge of
yourself, let us see how much cooperation you can
get from these people. When you’re in pursuit of
happiness, what this means is you want all of them
to function the way you want. When we say, “If this
happens, I will be happy. If that happens, I will be
happy,” it means the world, the universe should
respond your way.
Rakul Preet Singh: That’s not what I am saying, no.
I don’t believe in that because that’s trying to put
conditionality into everything that you know. What
I was saying was, to give a very basic example of
what you are going to do in life, let’s say someone
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wants to be an actor, or someone wants to be a
cricketer.
Sadhguru: Let’s say it did not happen. “It did not
happen” means what? People did not like your
acting; the selectors did not like your cricket –
something like this. What you wanted did not
happen. Can you still sit here blissfully? That’s the
question.
Rakul Preet Singh: Not a lot of people.
Sadhguru: That is why I am saying, when you
expect everyone should like what you are doing, in
some way, you have to take charge of their minds.
In some way, through your movies or whatever, you
are taking charge of their minds. You are doing
what appeals to them, and that’s why it’s working.
So, which is easier, taking charge of yourself or
taking charge of others? Yourself. If you take
charge of yourself, now you are not in pursuit of
your happiness; you are not tensed about anything;
there is no sword hanging over your head. You will
do everything to the fullest, to the hilt.
Whatever happens, you’ll still be fine – this much
you know. Now you’ll naturally do everything
wonderfully well, because there is absolutely
no concern, since you are not a vested interest
anymore. You will do what is needed, without any
effort. What someone else thinks is a great circus
and a feat, you will do joyfully, playfully.
Rakul Preet Singh: Right. Well, you just completely
negated the fact that there is a law of attraction.
There is nothing like that.
Sadhguru: No, there is. I’m sure a lot of people are
attracted to you.
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Rakul Preet Singh: Not that law of attraction….
I mean the one where the universe gives you what
you want.
Sadhguru: Where is the universe, I am asking!
Rakul Preet Singh: Right, we are a part of
the universe.
Sadhguru: When the seven sages, who are today
known as the Saptarishis, asked Adiyogi, “Where
does the universe begin? Where does it end? How
big is it? What is it?” Adiyogi laughed and said, “I
can pack your entire cosmos into a mustard seed.”
That’s a very efficient packing. What you think is
time and space is based on the nature of your mind.
If you transcend the limitations of your logical mind,
what is there is here; what is here is there; what is
then is now; what is now is then; everything, time
and space, get mixed up in your perception. When
this happens, you won’t be talking to the universe.
Those who are not on talking terms with their
neighbors talk to the universe. [Laughter]
A Different Level of Freedom
Rakul Preet Singh: I think anyone talking to you
or listening to your speeches or following you
feels that life is really simple and beautiful and
full of love. Everywhere, things around us exude
love; things around us have life. But how difficult
is it for people to understand that life is simple,
and why do you think the smallest things have
been complicated by human race so much – be
it relationships, be it marriages, be it love, be it
work – there are just so many superficial things,
and people are missing out on small joys of life.
They just don’t live life the way it’s supposed to be.
What is it that you would say would be step one for
everyone to at least start looking into that direction
of feeling that life is beautiful?
Sadhguru: Life is neither beautiful nor ugly nor is
it love nor hate. It is just that you can be beautiful
within yourself or you can be ugly, you can be
loving or you cannot be loving. “Everywhere, love
is exuding” – no! This will take you to a La La Land.
Rakul Preet Singh: No, I mean everyone is lovely
here; I don’t have a problem with anyone, but not
everyone is going to look at it that way.
Sadhguru: Now I must tell you something. This
happened: a young widow went to the cemetery
to visit the grave that she was dedicated to, but
she had a seven year boy. That boy, who was
just learning to read and write, ran all over the
cemetery, reading all the inscriptions. He came
back to his mother after twenty, thirty minutes and
said, “Momma, where do they bury all the horrible
people?” It is not true that everyone is beautiful –
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people can be extremely ugly. If you are beautiful,
you can transform even that ugliness to some
extent. Will everyone come your way? No, they will
not. If they don’t come your way, will you become
ugly? No. That is the important thing.
When things don’t happen your way, are you still
capable of being a beautiful human being? That
is all you have to fix. If you fix that one thing,
everything is fine. When nothing happens your way,
are you still a beautiful human being? This is the
only thing that this culture has ever worshipped.
You know, Rama is hugely worshipped. He had
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continuous problems; the worst kind of drama was
happening, a completely disastrous life, but he
remained balanced. He did his administration and
whatever work he had to do with such balance and
efficiency that after thousands of years, when we
talk about an ideal nation, we say “Rama Rajya.”
The essential thing is this: whatever happened
in his life, if just one of those things happened to
someone, most people will crack up. He was facing
serial disasters, but still he was doing everything
to the best of his ability in the given moment and
fulfilling his duties, whatever he had to do.
It is this absolute freedom he had from the drama
that was happening around him. This is mukti. As
he was alive, he was free – this is jeevan-mukti. It
is that freedom that we are bowing down to, not
his being a king or a god or whatever. Because the
man remained free of the extreme drama that was
continuously happening around him.
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 LEAD ARTICLE

How to Deal with the Loss

of a Loved One?
Questioner: Sadhguru, I lost my wife five weeks
ago. She was such a good person. Why did this
have to happen to her?
Sadhguru: When we lose someone who is dear
to us – either by death, disease, or desertion –
whichever way we lose them, the biggest problem is
that they leave an empty space, the space that they
had occupied in our lives. We need to understand
the very nature of life is such that you and your
loved ones have to die at some point. Who will die
first is the only question. This may sound brutal,
but that is not the intention. It is very important
to come to terms with these things. Otherwise,
we will tell ourselves pretty things that will solace
us for today, and tomorrow morning, reality will
torment us again. Again and again, we will do the
same thing.
It is important for us to know that we and those
around us are not going to be here forever. Nobody
is going to be here forever. When we are here, we
must show everyone our best face. Because all
of them are dying. The problem is only if a doctor
tells you that you are going to die tomorrow, then
everyone comes and shows you their best face. If
you say, “I’m going to die after fifty years,” most
people won’t care. But we don’t know whether it
will be in fifty years or tomorrow. You know you will
die and they will die. You just don’t know when.
So, shouldn’t you show your best face to them?
I’m showing my best face to you because I know
you will die. Sometimes, I know when you will die.
Many times, I don’t know when you will die. I’m just
making sure I show my best face to you because
you are a dying person.
This is true for every human being. This is true for
every life. Who knows when the tree outside your
house will die. Or when you will die. You don’t know.
So, when people dear to us pass away, one thing is
they are dear to us because they have enhanced
our lives in some way, maybe in many ways. If
people around us have enhanced our lives and we
cherish them, we must cherish them joyfully – we
should not rue their exit. We should value them for
the enhancement they have brought to our lives;
for the sweetness and tenderness they may have
shared with us. In some way, at least sometimes,

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they made you feel complete; they made your life
feel complete. Let their memory always bring tears
of joy and love to you, not of grief.
They mattered to you because in some way, they
were wonderful to you. Let the memory of them
bring back those wonderful aspects to you, rather
than drive you into grief and depression. Driving
yourself into grief and depression means you have
not come to terms with the most fundamental
aspect of life – mortality. Whether they are good
or bad, they all will die. This is not to ridicule your
loss. I understand what your deceased loved ones
mean to you. But I want you to remember them
for all the wonderful things that they were. Not for
making yourself feel terrible about their exit. If you
had died before them, you would have left them in a
bad place – so, please stand up as a human being.
Whatever wonderful things that happened to you
in some way, have to find expression. If they have
done wonderful things to you, if they have meant
many wonderful things to you, please express that
to those who are still living around you. This is how
life goes on. When I say “life,” I’m talking about life
per se, not what you do. You generally think life is
your family, your work, your business, your wealth,
whatever else you possess. But these are all
accessories of life. You brought in money, wealth,
relationships, children, thinking it will enhance
your lives in some way. You gathered so many
accessories, and you got so involved, attached,
and identified with these accessories that you
never experienced this life that you are.
Most people believe life is the collage of things that
they have gathered. When a piece of the collage
falls off, you suddenly feel as if life is gone, which is
not true. Even before certain people came into your
life, you were alive, you laughed, you knew joy. You
added people believing it will enhance your life, or
maybe there was some need to fulfill – all that is
okay. But now, because of your identifications, you
think a piece of life is gone when a certain person
is gone. The reality is the piece of life that you
are is still there – the accessories are falling off
over time. As you age, your grandfather will die,
your father will die; sometimes, your spouse will
die. Some people will lose their hair. Some people
will even lose their head – this is not a joke. Some
people will lose parts of their bodies. Some people
will lose relationships. Some people will lose
things, power, position, or money.
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This is all in preparation for your exit. Your load
gets reduced a bit, so that when you go, you will
go more easily. This is not some philosophy –
this is the way life is happening. Because you
refuse to look life in the face, you make up your
own images in your mind. And you want to make
these psychological pictures into a reality. The
psychological drama you create will never become
reality. You have to draw the curtain someday.
The sooner you are disillusioned, the better. You
may come to your senses, or you may become
depressed. That’s your choice.
When life disillusions you, you may sit up
and become enlightened, or you may become
depressed. If all the illusions go away, that is
called self-realization. Right now, you are hanging
on to illusions, valuing them and being identified
with them so much that you are fighting to keep
them. This is maya – it goes on as if it is real, until
suddenly, it is gone. In a way, you always knew it.
From the moment you were born, your clock has
been ticking, and one day, it will stop.
Driving yourself into grief and depression
means you have not come to terms with the
most fundamental aspect of life – mortality.
Well, we try to stretch it. We try to slow it down. We
try to make best use of the time we have. We try to
make it as profound as possible. It is very important
that life touches you. If life should touch you on a
deeper level, you have to put down the world that
you have made up in your mind. If you don’t put
down your illusions, the most profound dimensions
of life will never touch you. Only drama will go on.
This is not only a question about somebody’s
death – this is about your fundamental ignorance
about life. It’s time you come to your senses.
If all your illusions break right now, if you are
absolutely disillusioned, you are also enlightened.
But you do not allow yourself to be disillusioned.
If one illusion breaks, you make up the next one.
There is a story about Narada. One day it happened,
Krishna and Narada were walking. They had just
passed a village. In the jungle, Krishna sat down
and said, “Narada, I’m feeling very thirsty. Why
don’t you get me a glass of water?” Immediately
Narada said, “No problem. I’ll just go to the village
and get you one.” He went back to the village and
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 knocked at the door of the first house. The door
Then he clung onto his life. Out of sheer desperation,
opened, and a very pretty looking young woman
having lost everybody, he screamed, “Krishna!”
opened the door. Narada looked at her, and it hit
Krishna said, “Where’s my glass of water?” Then
him like a thunderbolt. He fell head over heels
Narada woke up and said, “But what happened to
for her. He asked the girl’s father for her hand in
me?” Krishna said, “This is maya.” Maya means
marriage. The father agreed. Narada married her.
you weave so many illusions in your mind that they
become more real than the real. What is happening
Once he got married, he had to build a small home in your mind, what is happening in your emotions
for himself and his wife, and he started plowing becomes far more real than the real itself. It is
the land. Then obviously, children came – one, like a cinema theater – lights turned off; you are
two, three, four, five. The children grew up, got watching. It is a two dimensional light and sound
married, and they themselves had children. Cute play. But you love the cinema stars more than the
little grandchildren were running all over the place. people you have lived with for twenty-five years.
Everything was going great. Just then, the river You have never even seen them in real life, but they
changed its course, and a flood came and literally are larger than life.
took the village. Narada with his wife, children,
and the little babies, climbed onto a tree and
What is happening in your mind is just like that – it
hung onto the tree. But the flood rose and rose.
is larger than life. But the lights will come on one
The cute grandchildren got washed away in the
day. Will it be the lights of enlightenment, or will
water. Narada cried bitterly. Then, one-by-one,
it be the lighting of your cremation fire – that’s
his children, their wives, all of them went away. He
your choice.
clung onto his dear wife. But after some time, she
also went.

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 MUSINGS

Why Go to Kailash?
At the foot of Kailash, in Darchen, Tibet, in August 2017, Sadhguru addressed participants of
the Kailash Manasarovar Sacred Walks, in order to make it clear to them what a pilgrimage to
Kailash really means, and how to make best use of this most profound possibility. The following
is an excerpt of what he said.

This is not a tour. This is not an adventure trek.
This is a pilgrimage. If you are a trekker, you wear
the mountain path a little more than it already is.
If you are a pilgrim, you don’t go there to wear the
mountain path – you go there to wear yourself
down. In some way, you must become less than
who you think you are. Only then, there is a
pilgrimage. Otherwise, it is a silly trek, because
this is not much of a trek anyway. If you want to
be a pilgrim, not a tourist, one thing is you must
control your cellphone use. If you wanted to see
Kailash on your cellphone, I would have sent you a
picture. Why should you come all the way to take a
picture? We will send you one hundred spectacular
images of Manasarovar and Kailash, taken with the
best cameras, by the best photographers. I don’t
want you to pull out your silly cellphone and keep
shooting Kailash. That is not the way of a pilgrim.
You come to Kailash for transformation, not for
accumulation.
You know, people have bucket lists. They think they
have to do a few more stupid things before they
die. They must go to Antarctica; they must see Taj
Mahal; they must go on a safari in Africa; they must
go to Vegas without their family, and they must go
to Kailash with Sadhguru. We are not taking the
trouble and the risk of bringing you here to fulfill
your bucket list. I have seen how just one moment
with Kailash has transformed thousands of people,
right in front of my eyes. That is why you are here.
Keep your cellphone turned off. There is no need to
talk to your husband, your wife, or your business
every few minutes – they are glad you are gone.
Please allow them some freedom.

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For over twelve thousand years, devotees have
been coming from India to Kailash. Today, you are
all coming by bus. Imagine how one, two, or three
thousand years ago, someone from Tamil Nadu
decided to go to Kailash – Tamil men who did
not know anything below thirty degrees Celsius.
In Chennai, if the temperature drops to twenty-
five degrees, everyone is wearing earmuffs.
These people walked all the way to Kailash. No
down jackets, no North Face1, no South Butt; no
equipment – barefoot, maybe with a woolen rug,
at the most. Imagine the journey – 3600 miles,
across the Himalayas, not knowing the terrain, not
knowing whether they will ever come back or not.
I want you to understand the spirit behind it. What
kind of people would make this journey? It is not
for a living, not to do business, not to earn money,
not to conquer land – just to earn Grace.
Today, you fly in and drive. I have seen people
coming to the spectacular Manasarovar, from
where you can see the south face of Kailash, and
they were all sleeping on the bus! It was not one
of our groups, fortunately. Such people are unfit to
be pilgrims. This is a crime. If you come to Kailash
and you go up and down the mountain like the
mules and the yaks, what is the point? You must
show some sign of being human. Being human
means there is a longing to transform. Every other
creature can only adapt if situations change. Over
a thousand years, they may evolve. Only a human
being is capable of aspiring to transform. That is
why these places of Grace became so popular, and
for thousands of years, people have been coming,
in spite of all the difficulties.
When I came to Kailash for the first time, eleven
years ago, it was a different situation. Even just six
or seven years ago, there were no roads here. Just
to drive and find our own way was a completely
different thing. It was an adventurous drive – one of
the most fabulous drives you could have. But now
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that is gone. Now you are going on the highway, by
bus. Just because it has become comfortable, you
should not miss the point. If people took so much
effort, thousands of years ago, obviously, it was
that worthwhile. Today, it is easy for you. Comfort
should not make you constipated in the head. You
must make use of the comfort. You do not have
to worry about physical aspects – now you can
focus on what you need to do. We will give you a
simple process to make use of as you go up. Every
step, every breath, you must use it. This is not the
time for social gatherings. Three days, just you and
Kailash. If you are like this, I will walk every step of
this journey with you.
If you are a tourist, I have nothing to do with you. I’m
also getting old; I’m getting a little impatient with
idiots. This is a new phenomenon with Sadhguru.
Sadhguru has been meeting every kind of idiot with
enormous patience. But I’m putting my patience on
hold from now on. Only the deserving – otherwise,
let them find their way on their own. Too much time
is simply being wasted on stupid things. I want you
to make use of these three days. There is only one
thing – you and Kailash. My reputation is that I
have brought the maximum number of people to
Kailash. This year, fifteen percent of pilgrims going
to Kailash are from Isha, and everyone will come
back. I won’t let you die. But you must go like you
want to die into Kailash; nothing else matters.
Then things will happen for you.
Many people who came with us have shared that
what happened to them in those three days at
Kailash was most incredible. It is my wish and
my blessing that you experience this. You may
not be able to decipher Kailash. But no one can
miss the power of what it is. If you go with a little
openness, with the necessary attention, without
conclusions, you cannot come untouched. You will
be profoundly touched. And after you come back,
this much you must do: every day in the morning,
before you start your day, just close your eyes and
whichever way you saw Kailash, without looking at
a picture, bring the image back in your mind for three
minutes. There will be a different level of power
to your existence. The only thing that ultimately
matters for a human being is the profoundness of
your experience.
Anything that anyone is pursuing in the world –
whether someone is going to the bar and getting
drunk, or going to the temple, or meditating, or
using drugs, or getting married, or making money,
or going to Kailash – it is because you want to
enhance your life. Drunkard or pilgrim, both are
trying to enhance their lives. The question is
only will it work or not. If you do the right thing,
it works. If you don’t do the right thing, it doesn’t
work. That’s all. But everyone wants to enhance
their lives. This is a profound opportunity to come
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back in an enhanced way. Enhancement does not
mean accumulation. When I came here for the first
time with a group of Tamil people, the first thing
they started doing was gathering small stones at
Kailash, because they want take it back to Tamil
Nadu, piece by piece. You know the story how
Ravana came to Kailash a long time ago, wanting
to take the entire Kailash to Sri Lanka.
If you want, you can collect water. Do not pick up
pebbles and stones. If you do this, in a hundred
years’ time, Kailash will be spread all over Tamil
Nadu. A pilgrimage is not about gathering things.
You can gather money, wealth, knowledge,
relationships, but your life will not be enhanced.
Whatever you gather is relevant only when you
are in a social situation. Let’s say you have a PhD
– what does the PhD mean to you when you are
walking alone in these mountains? Or let’s say you
have one hundred kilograms of gold at home. When
you are lost in the mountains, what does the gold
mean to you? If you have to die tomorrow, the only
thing that matters is how enhanced and profound
your life is.
You must not forget that you are mortal. When
I use the word “mortality,” do not think only of
dying people. You and I will die. I will bless you
with a long life, but you will die. Suppose today is
that day, what is it that you would want for your
life? Initially, you may think of this and that, but if
you really let it sink in that you are going to die,
the only thing that will matter is how profound
your life has been. This is a fantastic opportunity
to enhance the profoundness of who you are.
Pilgrimage is about that. Pilgrimage is not about
taking pictures. Pilgrimage is not about collecting
rocks. Pilgrimage is not about telling other people
how you went to Kailash. This is about enhancing
this life that you are, because that is all you have.
The rest is all your illusion. This is all you have:
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you are alive. How alive, how brilliantly alive, how
profoundly alive, that is all there is.
This is what Shiva means. When Shiva told the
Sapta Rishis to go to distant lands and spread the
message, before they were leaving, they asked him,
“Suppose we are in difficulty, will you be there for
us?” Shiva looked at them incredulously and said,
“If you are in difficulty, I will sleep.” So, he will not
lift a little finger for you. Then why should you go to
Kailash? If you are looking for gifts, you must go to
a shopping mall; there will be some discount sale.
What no one else wants will be available for you at
fifty percent; you can get that. But if you want this
life to be enhanced in such a way that just sitting
here is a full-fledged experience of life, nothing else
needs to happen. If you just sit here, this life will be
super enhanced. If you want to know the power of
existing like that, then you seek Shiva. If you are
going there to ask, “Will my daughter get a medical
seat, Shiva,” she is not going to get it, for sure.
Don’t seek the Divine to get a salary increase.
Those things must happen with the four limbs
and a few brain cells that you have. You must
take care of these things with your body and your
brains – that is why they have been given to you.
Don’t seek the Divine to get a little more money, a
little more of something else. Seek the Divine only
because you want to be much more than who you
are right now. If you want something more to enter,
there must be some space. If you are too full of
yourself, what is the point? By the time you reach
Kailash, you should not even know who you are.
Your money, your education, your family – leave all
that in the little town before you go to Kailash. You
must simply go there as life. If you go there as life, I
promise you, you will come back in such a way that
if people look at you, they will want to touch your
feet. Please make it happen for yourself.
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 MAHABHARAT
SERIES
Life went on in the forest for the Pandavas.
Duryodhana was very frustrated that his father
had cancelled the hunt. Then Karna told him, “See,
they’re already vanquished – we don’t have to go
and kill them. If you kill them, you will spare them
the suffering. When a man is defeated, the worst
thing that can happen to him is that the victor gets
to strut around him. So let’s go and strut around.
Let’s enjoy our victory; let them suffer their defeat.
Let’s just go visit them, express our sympathies for
them, and let’s enjoy it. Why go and kill them.” So
they came up with another plan.
Duryodhana went to his father and said, “Father,
I think it’s time we count our cows.” It’s part of
pastoral societies, because the greatest wealth
that they have is their cattle. “We have millions
of heads of cattle, so it obviously can’t be kept in
one place. So once in a way, we have to go out and
count our cattle to see how much wealth we have.”
No one had any objection against cow counting.
So Duryodhana, Karna, Shakuni, and Dusshasana,
along with their wives and a whole retinue prepared
to camp somewhere and count the cows. It was an
outing for the whole family – work and pleasure.
But of course, they wanted to count cows close to
the forest.
They went and camped not far from where the
Pandavas were, with a full retinue. They had
everything with them – cooks were cooking,
women and children were there, they had music; all
kinds of things were going on. Nakula, who was out
in the forest, heard noises, came to the edge of the
forest and looked at the Kaurava camp. He went
back and reported what he had seen. Immediately,
Bhima and Arjuna picked up their arms. They
said, “They have not come just for fun. They have
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Mahabharat
PART 40: Arjuna
Fights
the Gandharvas
What has happened so far: The Pandavas are in a
forest exile for twelve plus one years. Duryodhana
and Karna wanted to go on a hunt to chase them
down, but, upon Vidura’s pleading, Dhritarashtra
did not allow this. Then Duryodhana tried to
engineer a situation where Durvasa would curse
the Pandavas and Draupadi, but this attempt
failed too.
come to harm us. We have to be alert. Or the best
thing is we take the offensive – we go finish them
first.” Yudhishthira said, “That is not our dharma.
We have accepted to stay in the forest for twelve
years – we will just do that. Our brothers might
not have come to attack us. They have not done
anything. Why should we assume that they
will do this?”
In the evening, a Gandharva whose name was
Chitrasena came with his retinue to the camp of
the Kauravas, and a kind of altercation happened
between the Kauravas and the Gandharvas. The
Gandharvas disarmed the Kauravas in no time,
and bundled up Duryodhana, Karna, Dusshasana,
and Shakuni. They killed a few soldiers and roped
up the rest of them and everyone else, except the
women. The news about this event went to the
Pandavas. Immediately, four of the brothers burst
into celebration. “I’m sure they came with evil
intent. They had something on their minds. They
got it – that’s good.” But Yudhishthira said, “We
cannot allow this. They are our brothers. We must
go and fight these Gandharvas, because they have
shamed our brothers.”
Bhima was furious. “You’re talking about shame?
Do you know what shame is? Do you have anything
like that in you?” Big arguments, but as an elder
brother, Yudhishthira said, “No, go and release the
Kauravas. Whoever the Gandharva may be – fight
him.” Bhima resisted vehemently; Arjuna also was
not willing to go. Then Yudhishthira said, “What
greater pleasure is there for a man than being
magnanimous to his enemy? Go enjoy yourself!
Why are you guys resisting what I am telling you.”
Then they suddenly realized, “Yes, this is a great
chance. We going and liberating them is going to
be good.”
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They went to save the Kauravas. As they got there,
they found Duryodhana, Dusshasana, Karna,
Shakuni, and many others, lying on the ground,
with their hands and legs bound. The Gandharvas
were having fun, eating their food, and kicking
them around. They had no respect for Kshatriyas,
because they did not belong to this land. Arjuna set
out to fight with the Gandharvas and got into action
in such a way that Chitrasena was defeated. Later
on, Chitrasena would become Arjuna’s music and
dance teacher at Indra’s palace. Since Chitrasena
lost the fight, before he went away, he gave
Arjuna gifts.
The Pandavas freed the Kauravas, cutting the
bonds on their hands and feet, looking at them
with magnanimity. This was the most horrible
moment for Duryodhana. After the Pandavas left,
he cried bitterly. He said to Karna, “I don’t want
to live anymore! I want to die.” Then he called
Dusshasana and urged him, “My brother, go
back to Hastinapura. Become king in my place.
Rule wisely, with Karna and Shakuni beside you.
Always provide a sanctuary to your friends and be
generous to your brahmins. Mix justice with mercy
when you judge a crime. There is no one better to
teach you discernment than our uncle Vidura. You
go. I’m not coming. I’m done with this. I cannot
live with this shame that my hands and legs were
Event Highlights
Sadhguru in the Emirates
Dubai, 12 Jan: Sadhguru’s recent Mystic Eye event
in Dubai drew an impressive number of 6000 United
Arab Emirates residents. The faces of the audience
that packed the Dubai Festival Arena reflected the
ethnical and cultural diversity of a country where
foreign nationals make up over three quarters of
the population, with over two fifths being of Indian
nationality.
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bound, and the Pandavas had to come and release
me.” Whatever they said, he refused to go back to
Hastinapur. He asked all of them to leave, and he
stayed back alone on the bank of a lake.
Duryodhana acted like a madman. For more than
a month, he rage around in the forest, screaming,
yelling, wanting to die, not knowing how. Then he
decided he wanted to leave his body. Whatever
little sadhana he had learnt, he crossed his legs
and sat down praying. After a few days – his body
started decimating – a demon appeared. She was
taller than the palm trees, and said in a booming
voice, “Narakasura’s spirit has entered Karna, so
don’t bother. Whichever way, one day, Karna will
kill Arjuna.” Once Duryodhana heard this, suddenly,
enthusiasm to live entered him again. He sent
word for people to come, and then he went back
to Hastinapur.
In the fight with the Gandharvas, as always, Arjuna
had been pure action. The way the Mahabharat
described him is that when Arjuna went into action,
when he took the bow and arrow into his hands,
he became like a blur. You could not see what his
hands were doing – his action was so fast and so
perfect. That was the only fulfillment he knew in
life, when he was using his arms. Otherwise, Arjuna
was a quiet man.
NEWS AND
EVENTS
Abu Dhabi, 13 Jan: An interactive session with
Sadhguru at the Indian Embassy in Abu Dhabi was
attended by dignitaries of the UAE government,
including H.E. Dr. Thani Ahmed Al Zeyoudi, Minister
of Climate Change and Environment for the United
Arab Emirates, diplomats, and leading members of
the Indian community.
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 Pongal Celebrations at the Isha
Yoga Center
Isha Yoga Center, 16 Jan: This year’s Pongal
celebrations in front of Adiyogi saw an exposition
of various indigenous cattle breeds, who all live at
the Isha Yoga Center’s Maatu Man (cow shelter).
Sadhguru explained in a Spot post why preserving
the last surviving indigenous cattle breeds is vital,
saying, “In terms of health, in terms of cancer
prevention, and above all, for our children to grow
up well, and to fertilize the land, these indigenous
breeds are very important.”

Bringing Devi Home

Isha Yoga Center, 16 Jan: On the night of
16 January, which was an Amavasya (new moon),
a few hundred devotees from India and other parts
of the world participated in a Yantra Ceremony,
which allowed them to receive a personalized
Linga Bhairavi Yantra from Sadhguru and create a
consecrated space in their homes and offices.

Acknowledging Adi Shankara

Omkareshar, 22 Jan: Sadhguru was invited to
speak at the culmination of the Ekatm Yatra at
Omkareshwar. The yatra, which aimed at collecting
metal pieces for an Adi Shankara statue, started
on 19 December 2017 in Indore and went across
Madhya Pradesh, covering over 2000 km. In his talk,
Sadhguru described what Adi Shankara stands for
and why this is still relevant for the nation and the
world today. To find out more of what Sadhguru
said, check out the excerpt from Sadhguru Spot on
page 18–19.

Sadhguru in Pune
Pune, 28 Jan: The Mystic Eye session at the
Balewadi Stadium in Pune afforded participants
the chance to spend three hours in the presence of
the mystic, ask their most burning questions, and
get a taste of meditation.

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Sadhguru in Thailand
Bangkok, 29 Jan: For the first time in Thailand, Sadhguru offered An Evening with the Mystic in the capital
of the Southeast Asian kingdom, where ultramodern skyscrapers and iconic temples and palaces can be
found side by side.

A Super Blue Blood Moon with

Adiyogi
Isha Yoga Center, 31 Jan: This year’s Thaipusam
coincided with a super moon (a full moon that
appears to be larger than usual), a blue moon (the
second full moon of the month), and a blood moon
(a lunar eclipse). Isha brahmacharis, ashramites,
volunteers, and guests had the precious chance
to not only witness this rare celestial phenomenon
but be guided through it in the presence of Adiyogi
and Sadhguru. Sadhguru stated the relevance of
such astronomical occurrences in the Sadhguru
Spot of 7 Feb 2018 with the following words: “The
nature of life is such that the earth, the sun, and the
moon have a significant impact on the system. If
you are conscious of their ways, you can ride these
natural forces and make your life effortless and
easy. If you are not conscious, these same cycles
could crush you – everything will be a struggle.”

Exploring the Core of the Human

Body and Being
Visakhapatnam, 2 Feb: Sadhguru delivered the
keynote address of IACTSCON 2018, the 64th
Annual Conference of the Indian Association of
Cardiovascular and Thoracic Surgeons (IACTS).
Leading specialists from India and around the
world had come together in a beautiful coastal
location of Visakhapatnam to not only exchange
and advance knowledge in their field but also
enjoy Sadhguru’s insights into the science
of yoga.

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Spiritual Wellbeing for Armed Forces
Daman, 3 Feb: Sadhguru spoke at the 41st anniversary of the Indian Coast Guard in Daman and
acknowledged the service of these Armed Forces for the country in the following tweet: “Indian Coast
Guard have the ardent task of protecting one of the world’s longest coastlines. Their well-being should
be of paramount importance. –Sg.”

SADHGURU Adi Shankara –

SPOT
What Makes a Great Being?

In this Spot, Sadhguru describes what made Adi Shankara who he was, why his origin is a symbol for
the core nature and strength of this nation, and how what he stands for is relevant in the world today.
Sadhguru also draws parallels between contemporary science and what Adi Shankara said over 1200
years ago.
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Shankara was an intellectual giant, a genius of
linguistics, and, above all, a spiritual light, the pride
of India. The level of wisdom and knowledge he
showed at a very early age, he was a shining light
for humanity. How do you produce such a Being?
In the brief span of his life, he walked the length
and breadth of this nation. From the southern tip of
India, he walked to its heartland, further up north,
east and west. Where did this energy, this zest, and
this wisdom come from? One aspect which is both
important and symbolic is that Shankara came
from a village called Kaladi, which is a small town
today. Kaladi literally means “beneath the feet.” In
the South, we are at the feet of Bharat Mata, and
this has paid off for us in so many ways.
There is a beautiful story from the Mahabharat that
probably most of you will know. When Arjuna and
Duryodhana went to seek support from Krishna
for the Kurukshetra war, one of them stood at
Krishna’s head, the other chose to stand at his
feet – that decided everything. That afternoon,
when Arjuna stood at Krishna’s feet, he basically
won the war. This is the fundamental nature of
our nation and culture – because we bow down to
everything, we rise. We don’t rise by elbowing our
way – we rise by bowing down.
Bharat means we always learnt how to be at the
feet of the Divine. This is not a culture of pumped
up pomp, but a culture of natural piety. Whether it
is a god, a man, a woman, a child, an animal, a tree,
or a rock – we learnt to bow down to everything.
Just with this one aspect, we could produce great
beings. By being at the feet of the Divine, we learnt,
we evolved, we blossomed, and we became shining
lights to the rest of the world for a long time.
Thousands of years ago, well before Shankara,
right from the Adiyogi, many yogis, mystics, sages,
and saints have said this in so many ways. It is the
intellectual clarity with which he expressed it, the
zest and energy with which he spread it across the
nation, that make Shankara stand out. One aspect
that is very important in today’s world is that all
this knowledge, all this wisdom came not by faith
or belief, but by realization. Unless the spiritual
process is in some way in sync with fundamental
human logic and current scientific findings, people
will not take it. Future generations will reject
anything that does not make logical sense to them,
and that is not scientifically correct.
In this context, Shankara is very significant today.
There is some misunderstanding about what he
said. I think we owe it to him to clear at least one.
A lot of people are saying, “What is this nonsense
that he said, ‘Everything is maya.’” The way it is
being (wrongly) interpreted is – “maya means it
doesn’t exist.” Maya does not mean it does not
exist. Maya means an illusion, in the sense that
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you are not seeing it the way it is. Here you are
with this seemingly solid body, but with the food
that you eat, the water that you drink, and the air
that you breathe, the cells of your body are being
exchanged on a daily basis. The tissues and organs
in your body completely rejuvenate in a matter of a
couple of days to a few years, depending on the
type of cells. This means after some time, you have
a completely new body. But in your experience, it
looks like it is the same thing – this is maya.
This is going to be the greatest
treasure – this is going to be the future
of the nation.
Similarly, the way you perceive existence, the
way you know the world through the five senses,
is completely off the mark – this is the illusion. It
is like a mirage. If you are driving on the highway,
sometimes, far away, there seems to be water.
When you go there, definitely there is no water. This
does not mean there was nothing there. There was
some refraction of light that created this illusion.
What is one thing seems to be something else.
What you think is “me” is actually everything – this
is the maya. What you think is “the other” is actually
you. What you think is everything is nothing too.
That is the maya Shankara is talking about. He also
said that by knowing the human system, one can
know the whole universe. Modern physics is telling
you that the entire universe is fundamentally one
energy. Similarly, Shankara said that creation and
Creator are one. Today, after a long haul, modern
science has come parallel to what Shankara
and many sages of the past have stated with
utmost clarity.
This spiritual wisdom needs to come down from
the mountains into the cities, the towns, and the
villages, and, above all, into the hearts and minds
of people. It is time to bring back this culture, this
piety, this sense of humility that has paid enormous
dividend for us – to learn to bow down. This has
been our strength, this has been our way, this has
been the process and the method of our evolution
and realization. This is going to be the greatest
treasure – this is going to be the future of the
nation. If we do this one thing, the entire world will
seek guidance from us. Let us reignite the spirit of
Shankara in this country and the rest of the world.
Love & Grace,
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 ISHA RECIPE

GREEN GRAM
SPROUT SALAD

INGREDIENTS METHOD
½ cup Sprouted green gram 1. Mix the sprouts, dates, raisins, carrots, and
(moong) – washed, drained coconut together in a deep bowl.
4 Dates – seedless, chopped 2. In a separate bowl, mix lemon juice, olive oil,
2 tbsps. Raisins – chopped and honey together to make the dressing.

1–2 Carrots – peeled, grated 3. Pour the dressing over the sprouts mixture and
mix thoroughly. Serve.
1 tbsp. Coconut – grated
Lemon juice to taste
A dash of Olive oil
Honey to taste

Notes:
• Instead of lemon juice, you can use orange or pomegranate juice.
• This green gram salad can be made in numerous ways. Pineapple pieces, pomegranate, and dry fruits
can be added for a sweet salad. For a salty salad, cucumber, tomato, raw mango, or mint leaves, make
for nice options.

You can find this and many other recipes in Isha’s cookbook “A Taste of Well-Being” – available in
major bookstores as well as on Amazon, Flipkart, and Isha Shoppe.

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 March 2018
March 2018

Whatever the number of wheels

Rolling on without respite.
Don’t you be crippled by impediments
Just roll on lovingly, joyfully.