By Sadhguru – Founder, Isha Foundation This is the time of the year when Shiva, the Adiyogi’s attention first fell upon the Saptarishis — the now, celebrated seven disciples. In the yogic tradition, Shiva is not worshipped as a God, but is considered the Adiyogi — the First Yogi, and as the Adiguru, the First…
Adiyogi is not of the Past, but of the Future
June 27, 2025By Sadhguru – Founder, Isha Foundation Sadhguru: Adiyogi is generally worshipped in the country as Shiva. As per various iconographic proofs, he is said to have walked this land over 15,000 years ago. If we did not forget him for 15,000 years, he must have done something significant. Though it has largely turned into worship…
Kailash – The Greatest Mystical Library
June 20, 2025Kailash Manasarovar – The Journey of a Lifetime By Sadhguru – Founder, Isha Foundation The idea of going on a trek or a mountaineering feat is always towards a sense of achievement, to make yourself bigger than who you are. But the idea of a pilgrimage is to subdue yourself. It is to become nothing…
Mind as Mirror
June 13, 2025By Sadhguru – Founder, Isha Foundation Sadhguru: There are only two kinds of people in the world — mystics and mistakes. If you perceive everything the way it is, people label you a mystic. If you don’t perceive life as it is, obviously you are a mistake. Everything that you have ever experienced has happened…
Take destiny in your hands
June 6, 2025By Sadhguru – Founder, Isha Foundation Where is the need to use our intelligence? And if everything is destined about our life, when a guru enters our life how can he change our destiny? The very first moment when you utter the word spirituality, whether you realise that or not, what you are actually saying…
Making the Spiritual Process Effortless
May 30, 2025By Sadhguru – Founder, Isha Foundation Spiritual process means a conscious self-destruction. Very few people are seeking it consciously. Generally, for most people, the spiritual process comes in the pursuit of their well-being. They are only seeking well-being, but slowly, they realise as long as their individual nature exists, there is no such thing as…
Banish depression from your system
May 23, 2025By Sadhguru – Founder, Isha Foundation We need to understand what depression is. Depression is self-created for most people — unless you are pathologically ill, which is just a small number people. Why is it that you get depressed and feel “low”? Fundamentally, you expected something to happen and it did not happen. You expected…
The ability to look without motive
May 9, 2025By Sadhguru – Founder, Isha Foundation One of the major problems in the world today is the fact that every sphere of our lives — from the intellectual to the religious — is governed by conclusions. When I speak of the spiritual journey as ‘quest’, the immediate assumption is that I am encouraging people to…
The Juice of Life
May 2, 2025By Sadhguru – Founder, Isha Foundation Questioner: Sadhguru, you were telling us how one can either come out broken or come out wiser from calamities. Can you elaborate on how sadness can be a means of growth? Sadhguru: Most people do not know what it means for misery to strike in the form of life….
Allowing the Feminine to Flow
April 25, 2025By Sadhguru – Founder, Isha Foundation Never before in the history of humanity has a woman had the opportunities she has today, simply because technology has levelled the playing field. When physical strength was determining life, naturally the masculine would dominate. Now that technology has levelled things, whether you are male or female, your physical…















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