Mystic’s Musings By Sadhguru – Founder, Isha Foundation
The nature of the divine is such, if your presence is not there, its presence also will not be there. Grace is very sensitive to your presence. It is subtle. Unless you are alert, it won’t come. This is why most people miss it, because they are mostly absent. Either your thoughts, emotions or activity is ruling you; not your presence.
This is the transformation that you are trying to bring about with a spiritual practice. Your body, mind and emotion can follow you but you want your presence to be the dominant thing. Only because you are, you have a body, a thought and an emotion. But right now, you have made your thought, emotion and body far more important than yourself. In this upside down condition you cannot feel grace.
If you reverse this condition within yourself, suddenly, ordinary becomes extraordinary. Every aspect of life is transported to a completely different experience of life. This doesn’t happen because you believe something. With belief systems, you can imagine; this is the problem with believers.
To have a solid logical base and still be open to grace is something that one has to do. If you do not get established in your logical base, you are very susceptible to fly off into imagination and think it’s grace.
Both the mystical and the logical are equally important. If your logical realm is well established, the mundane aspect of your life is well conducted. If the mystical dimension of your life is open to you, your experience of life is too fantastic, it’s indescribable.
Otherwise, if you just handle the logical, arrangements will be fine but your experience will not be good. If you ignore the logical, your experience may be great but your arrangements will be horrible.
This process of being able to establish the logical and still be open to the mystical is something that societies have not conducted well in this world. We either miss this or that. Without the two, your life will not be beautiful.
Once you have conducted your mundane pretty well, it’s time to be open to the mystical. Here, your logic will not work, it will only limit you. “How do I fight my logic?” You just shun the produce, not the logic industry.
You cannot kill the mind even if you try for 10 lifetimes, but you can ignore the produce. It generates thought, you ignore it. It generates emotion, you ignore it. It generates opinion, you ignore it. It churns up a whole ideology, ignore it.
If you do that, you will be in a natural state of devotion. Devotion does not mean adulation of someone. Devotion is that which is devoid of yourself. What you call as “myself” right now is just a bundle of thought, emotion and opinion, isn’t it?
If you rest these three things, your personality will be absent. Then the life in you will be present. If this is present, you cannot miss grace.
[Ranked amongst the fifty most influential people in India, Sadhguru is a yogi, mystic, visionary and a New York Times best-selling 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. www.ishafoundation.org]
This post was published on October 2, 2026 7:30 pm