By 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…
Dreams and Karma
August 8, 2025By Sadhguru – Founder, Isha Foundation When an individual dreams, it is called a fantasy. When a group of people dream, it becomes a society. When the universal dreams, it generally passes off as reality. A dream is a certain reality, and reality is a certain dream. The best thing about a dream is, when…
The Myth of Head versus Heart
August 1, 2025By Sadhguru – Founder, Isha Foundation Sadhguru: It is common to hear people say that their head leads them in one direction and their heart in another. In yoga, the fundamental basis we establish is this: you are a single being. There is no separation of head and heart; you are one whole. Let us…
The Art of Parenting
July 25, 2025By 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…















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