Sadhguru

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My whole work is to enhance people's perception. I have no teaching. I have no philosophy. I have no religion. I have no belief system. All I have is methods to enhance people's perception, because only what you perceive, you know.

Sadhguru Jaggi Vasudev is an enlightened Indian mystic and humanitarian. He is the founder of Isha Foundation which administers yoga centers around the world, including India and the United States.

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Encounter the Enlightened (2001)

ISBN: 818668560X

• The spiritual process is just to create the right kind of chemistry, where you are naturally peaceful, naturally joyous. When you are joyous by your very own nature, when you don't have to do anything to be happy, then the very dimension of your life, the very way you perceive and express yourself in the world will change. The very way you experience your life will change.

• When you are seeking happiness through your action, you are always enslaved to the external situation. As long as you are enslaved to the external situation, you will always be in some level of suffering because the outside situation is never going to be hundred percent in your control.

• There is something else which needs to be looked at beyond the dimension of the body and mind. If that dimension is not experienced, once you have come in the human form, if you do not experience yourself beyond the limitations of this body and mind, I would say this human form has been wasted upon you. Because to eat, sleep, reproduce and die one day, you don't need this kind of a body, you don't need this kind of intelligence. Every worm, every insect, every bird, every animal does these things very efficiently - eating, sleeping, reproducing and dying.

Joy 24x7

ISBN-13: 978-8179929148

• Your joy keeps crashing down repeatedly. It doesn't matter how many times you think 'This is it', it keeps falling down simply because you don't understand the mechanics of it.

• If you are joyful, whatever you do you will do it to the hilt because you have nothing to hold back, nothing to fear, isn't it?

• If you use any external activity to create an inner situation, you naturally get enslaved to that external activity, and that becomes the condition for your joy. That's the basis of your slavery and bondage; unless you change that, you will never know joy as a way of being.

• Your intelligence is so deeply entangled with the social identification that you have taken on, your brains are not working in line with the life within you; it is working against your own life. That is the source of misery.

Pebbles of Wisdom

ISBN 978-81-7992-952-0

• This life for me is an endeavor to help people manifest their divinity.

• True compassion is not about giving or taking. True compassion is doing just what is needed.

• Awareness is aliveness.
• How aware you are is how alive you are.

• Memory creates a hallucination of the past, desire creates a hallucination of the future.

• As many colors of the rainbow are an outcome of one pure light, the many religions of the world are an expression of one divine source.

• Most of the time you are thinking about life, not living life.

External Links

• www.sadhguru.org
• www.ishafoundation.org