By Sadhguru – Founder, Isha Foundation Setting the necessary psychological ambience for sadhana is important otherwise it will only create health benefits, no transformation. Q: If our thoughts reflect our karmic structure, can changing our thought pattern impact our karmic structure? And how can we become free from it? Sadhguru: There is a difference between…
Deepavali: Beating the Inertia
October 17, 2025By Sadhguru – Founder, Isha Foundation Sadhguru: The culture of celebrating Deepavali goes back 12,000 – 15,000 years. People realised how, during this time of the year, life hits a point of inertia and does not happen at the normal pace. For the northern hemisphere of the planet, due to the position of the sun,…
Rising mental illness: A fallout of broken support systems
October 10, 2025Sadhguru: Being mentally ill is not a joke. It is the most painful thing. If you have physical ailments, you will get everyone’s compassion, but when you have a mental ailment, you will get laughter, unfortunately. This is because it is very difficult to make out when somebody is sick and when somebody is being…
Live beyond your dreams
October 3, 2025By Sadhguru – Founder, Isha Foundation Sadhguru: People keep asking me to bless them that something that they want must happen in their life: “Sadhguru, please bless me, this should happen, that should happen.” I tell them, “My blessing is, may all your dreams not come true.” They get shocked — “Sadhguru, why?” I want…
Dussehra – A time for Devi
September 26, 2025By Sadhguru – Founder, Isha Foundation In the yogic culture, the summer solstice, which falls in the month of June, marks the beginning of Dakshinayana. This means, in the Earth’s sky, the Sun begins to trace a southward movement in the northern hemisphere of the planet. Similarly, the winter solstice which falls in the month…
Navaratri: Making Place for the Feminine
September 19, 2025By Sadhguru – Founder, Isha Foundation Navaratri is about approaching life through the feminine nature of the Divine and nurturing reverence for all aspects of life and creation. The nine-day festival is classified according to the three basic qualities of existence — tamas, rajas and sattva. The first three days are tamas or inertia, where…
Youth & Truth
September 12, 2025By Sadhguru – Founder, Isha Foundation Sadhguru: Youth is life that is still in the making. It is still in a state where it is not too conceited and lost. Youth is a life that suggests hope, seeking and the longing to know the truth about life. The word “truth” has been used in many…
Begging – A tool for growth
September 5, 2025By Sadhguru – Founder, Isha Foundation Begging in India was a part of the spiritual tradition. One aspect of this was, you did not select your food, you begged and ate whatever people gave you. It was considered a great privilege when a person on the spiritual path stood in front of your house and…
Celebrating Ganesh Chaturthi The Intelligent Way
August 26, 2025By Sadhguru – Founder, Isha Foundation Sadhguru: For thousands of years, Ganesh Chaturthi has lived on, and Ganapati has become one of the most popular gods in India. He is the one who assimilated all the knowledge that was in the nation. He grasped and wrote down everything. He was supposed to be a brilliant…
Enlightenment: A Celebration of Ignorance
August 22, 2025By Sadhguru – Founder, Isha Foundation Sadhguru: By the time I was eight years old, I already had a cloud of a billion questions around me. I could never find anyone who answered a single question without quoting someone else. I knew that the authority they invoked invariably quoted some other authority. When that authority…















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