By Sadhguru – Founder, Isha Foundation Question: Sadhguru, is gender equality achievable? When there are inherent differences, how can the two genders be equal? Sadhguru: I think in today’s context, we have misunderstood the word “equal.” Equal does not mean same. Equal means equal opportunity, equal regard, equal respect, but not sameness of action. If…
Annadanam: Be a Mother to the World
March 13, 2026By Sadhguru – Founder, Isha Foundation Question: Namaskaram Sadhguru. What is the significance of annadanam? Why is it glorified in our culture? Sadhguru: Hunger can be a very debilitating experience. In this life, I am very well-fed. But for a couple of lifetimes, I have known hunger like very few people. Believe me, to be…
Women: On the Path of Freedom
February 27, 2026By Sadhguru – Founder, Isha Foundation Indian spirituality has always been a rich mixture of men and women reaching the heights of their consciousness. A woman is as capable as a man when it comes to inner nature. It is only the peel, the body, which you call as a man or a woman. What…
Withdrawing from Activity
February 20, 2026By Sadhguru – Founder, Isha Foundation To seek the Divine, should you withdraw from worldly affairs? How can you withdraw from worldly affairs anyway? It all depends on what it is that you call worldly affairs. Is cooking your food a worldly affair? Yes. Is washing your clothes a worldly affair? Yes. You have to…
Mahashivarathri: An opportunity to experience the Divine
February 13, 2026By Sadhguru – Founder, Isha Foundation In the Indian culture, at one time, there used to be 365 festivals in a year. In other words, they just needed an excuse to celebrate every day of the year. These 365 days were ascribed to different reasons and different purposes of life. There were various festivals to…
The Nature of Shiva
February 6, 2026By Sadhguru – Founder, Isha Foundation Generally, in most parts of the world, anything that people refer to as divine is always referred to as good. But if you read through the Shiva Purana, you cannot identify Shiva as a good person or a bad person. He is Sundaramurthy, but he is also the ugliest….
Love is all about you
January 30, 2026Sadhguru on the mechanics of an intoxicating emotion By Sadhguru – Founder, Isha Foundation There is a lot of emotion attached to the subject of love and lots of fanciful things have been said about it, but I would like to bring it down to the mechanics of love. For example, people are saying, “God…
Integrating the Nation through Languages
January 23, 2026By Sadhguru – Founder, Isha Foundation Sadhguru: Recently, I was talking to someone important in the US State Department. I asked him, “What is your fetish with Pakistan? In spite of knowing everything that the country does, you keep providing them with more and more but you have troubled us quite a bit historically.” He…
Uttarayana: A time for harvest
January 16, 2026By Sadhguru – Founder, Isha Foundation Right now we are at the threshold of Uttarayana, when the sun’s run in relation to planet Earth will shift from the southern run to the northern run — from Dakshinayana to Uttarayana. It is not that the sun is moving anywhere. What is happening in terms of celestial…
Makar Sankranti: Welcoming the Sun
January 9, 2026By Sadhguru – Founder, Isha Foundation Sadhguru: Makar Sankranti is round the corner. “Makara” refers to the winter time or the time when the sun is at the lowest in the northern hemisphere. “Sankranti” suggests movement. We have moved from one phase on this planet to the next phase. In the yogic terminology, the time…















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