By Sadhguru – Founder, Isha Foundation Most adults assume that as soon as a child is born, it is time to become teachers. When a child enters your house, it is not the time to become a teacher, it is time to learn, because if you look at yourself and your child, your child is…
Anger to Compassion
July 18, 2025Mystic’s Musings By Sadhguru – Founder, Isha Foundation People keep asking me about how they can control their anger. It does not matter how much people preach “don’t get angry,” when certain situations arise, you do get angry. Emotional states that you call anger, hate, lust, compassion or love — from the lowest to the…
Guru Pournami: Receiving the Guru’s Grace
July 4, 2025By 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…
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 Question of Gender
May 16, 2025By Sadhguru – Founder, Isha Foundation Today, as societies become modern, cultures are becoming completely “body cultures.” The body has become the most dominant part. As we evolve, other aspects should become more significant but unfortunately, the body has become more important than anything else. It is all about the body. The way society is…
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…















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