I have made a few posts here on Sadhguru, the Indian mystic, and posted a few of his speeches and commentaries. Today I’ll do a summary of his latest book from 2021, Karma: A Yogi’s Guide to crafting your destiny. Needless to say the book is recommended reading. Sadhguru’s speeches are widely available worldwide; listen to them and gain the most precious gift of life: wisdom.
Sadhguru touches on a concept foreign and misunderstood in the West, the concept of “joy”. Pleasantness or “sweetness” of life is a strange concept to the rigorous, practical mind of the Western-European societies. Sadhguru is a deep thinker and a master story-teller.
What is Samadhi ?
“A mirror simply reflects everything. Nothing sticks to it; no residue is left upon it, and it never makes any judgement about what it reflects. It does not discriminate between pleasant and unpleasant, beautiful and ugly. When your mind becomes like this, you are in a state of samadhi.”
Karma, by sadhguru
“If you function unconsciously, your karma rules you absolutely. “
If you are willing to be absolutely conscious, the past has no impact on you. On this blog, I advanced the concept there is no such thing as time (and got 25,000 haters in 2019 for saying it).
Sadhguru says that, aside from bathing and showers, simply standing in the wind can be effective as a cleansing process. Sadhguru gives you a simple “do it when waking up” movement to make sure you’re fully awake and alive; for obvious reasons I won’t describe it here- we do want you to buy his book and read it.
The key takeaway from the book, the tl;dr also found in his talks and interviews is to perform each action with total involvement and intensity: absolute involvement: no tinkering, no half-way jobs. Not bothered by the result. That’s your release from karma.
“Be equally involved with everything without any distinction.”
Karma, A yogi’s journey
I will tip my hat to this old Indian sage, and urge you to get his books, listen to his talks and discover your truth.
Until next time,
Your Man,
Max Cantor
Sadhguru:
“When We Say Somebody Is Motivated, It Means They Have An Agenda Of Their Own. Life Has No Agenda, It’s For You To Be A Full-Fledged Life. A Grasshopper Is Trying To Be A Full-Fledged Grasshopper, Earthworm Is Trying To Be A Full-Fledged Earthworm, A Bird Is Trying To Be A Full-Fledged Bird, A Tree Is Trying To Be A Full-Fledged Tree. A Human Being Should Strive To Become A Full-Fledged Human Being.
This Is All Our Business Is, But Each One Of Us Start Creating Our Own Agendas And Doing All Kinds Of Things. No, No, You’re Just A Piece Of Life, Don’t Take Yourself Too Seriously.