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CONTENTSMain Article

Blessing or Curse – Your Choice

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Sadhguru on Living Life Sensibly

A Time for Grace

Money – Means or End?

Namaskar – Just a Cultural Thing?

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Sadhguru on Shifting Perspective on Life Situations

Sadhguru on Monetary Matters

Shekhar Kapur in Conversation with Sadhguru

Krishna Embarks to Retrieve His Guru’s Son – 4

Leela Series

Special Feature

The path of the playful – Part XXIII:

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Freed from the Claws of the Serpent Women

Inner Engineering Online with Sadhguru

News & Happenings

Sharing Experiences

A Day of Devotional ChantingThe 12th Anniversary of the Dhyanalinga Consecration

Sadhguru at Yoga Festival in Berlin

A Mystic amongst ‘Diehards’

Isha KriyaAn ancient technology, now yours

Technologies for wellbeing



SADHGURU

ost of the time, people determine the course and

nature of their lives by what they like and dislike.

“I like this, so I do this.” The question is not about

what you like. The question is, does everything

positive or in negative ways, but it distorts life. So

what you like is not important. Have you made

yourself in such a way that not just people, but just

everything likes you, every creature around you

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want, it is things that people aspire for, things that

they work for, strive to have in their lives, which

turn into curses in their lives – their work, their

property, their relationships, their own body, their

own mind, which is the cancer of their life. It neverrains misery. It is just that things that you like have

become a source of misery.

So spiritual process is not about pursuing what you

like – it is about striving to make yourself in such

a way that even the birds like you, the squirrels

like you, the insects like you, the mosquitoes loveyou. [Laughter] Otherwise, the very water that you

drink, the air that you breathe, the food that you

eat, can turn into poison in the system. All of it

can become nectar, only if they like you. Making

yourself in such a way that the creation and the

Creator cannot help liking you, that is the striving.

It is not about fullling your likes or destroyingyour dislikes. It is about making yourself in such

a way that every atom in this existence likes you,

wants to yield to you. If existence does not yield to

you, you may do what you want, but nothing will

work in the real sense. You may do something, you

may become something, you may earn a living, butyou will just go through a cycle without anything

tremendous touching your life.

I want you to learn to stand, walk, sit, and breathe

in such a way that even the stones around you like

you. “How do I know whether they like me or not?”

You will know for sure. If you are sensitive aboutbeing like that, you will also be sensitive enough to

distinctly know that. There are some plants here,

the touch-me-nots, that are clearly telling you, “We

don’t like you.” [Laughs] Others are also telling you

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bigger than your nonsense will happen to you. If

there is no such thing as ‘myself,’ if you simply sit

here, the whole existence will dance within you;

you will become an instrument of the Creator.

Otherwise, you will only be a bundle of thoughts,emotions, prejudices, and rubbish.

This is the choice every human being has – either to

exist here as a limb of the Creator, as an Ishanga, as

we call them these days, [laughs] or to exist here as

a bundle of thoughts, emotions, and nonsense that

you have gathered. This choice is available to youevery moment of your life. If this striving is there, it

will deliver you to a different place of gracefulness,

where every stone, every pebble, every rock, every

tree, every atom in the existence speaks to you

in a language that you can know. Otherwise, you

are alone in this vast existence, constantly feeling

insecure, unstable, psychologically challenged. Itis not a gift, it is a choice. If one makes the right

choice, the right things will happen; if one makes

the wrong choice, wrong things will happen. It is

a very fair and just existence, I want you to know.

It is not like a social structure where some people

can get away with wrong things. In this existence,it doesn’t matter who you are, if you jump off the

roof, the earth will break your leg – no exemptions;

nobody is spared. You are high caste, you are low

caste; you are this rubbish, you are that rubbish –

nobody is barred. For anybody who is willing, the

possibility is open. For everybody, the stick is also

there. You make the right choices, everything isopen; you make the wrong choices, everything will

knead you in a different way.

So if pain comes, if suffering comes, if misery

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every other aspect as well? If you are miserable,

something else or somebody else need not be xed,

only this one [refers to oneself] needs to be xed.

Just to understand this simple fact, people take

lifetimes. [Laughs] They think something else has tobe xed. It happened one day. I might have told you

this before but let me tell you again because anyway

you miss the point many times. [Laughter]

On a certain day, Shankaran Pillai went drinking

with his friends. Yogis and drunkards both are

timeless, you know. They don’t know the passageof time. He intended to go back home at 8 o’clock,

but drink after drink, he became unconscious of

time. When he looked at the watch, it was 2:30 a.m.

He thought it’s really late, and he wanted to get

back home quickly, so he took a short cut. As he

was walking through the shortcut on his unsteady

legs, he fell into a thorny bush. His whole face got

scratched up. In this condition, he went home, and

he tried to nd the keyhole – that took another half-

an-hour. [Laughter] He nally opened the door,

went inside, went into the bathroom and looked at

himself in the mirror; he was bleeding all over the

face. So he opened the medicine chest, xed himselfwhichever way he could, quietly crawled into bed

and slept. Morning 8 o’clock, his wife took a bucket

of cold water and threw it in his face; he got up. She

said, “You idiot, once again drinking?” He said, “No

honey, I haven’t touched a drop. Since I promised it

six months ago, I haven’t touched a drop.” She held

him by the shirt, dragged him into the bathroom and

showed him, the band-aid was all over the mirror.

[Laughter/applause]

It doesn’t work like that. Only somebody who is

completely unconscious will do such things. If it

is hurting here and you x it there, it is because

you are completely unconscious or inebriated.

Whenever you are miserable, you want to x that

one and that one and that one; no – this one [refersto oneself] needs to be xed. If you put band-aid

on the mirror, it doesn’t heal your wounds. You

have to attend to your wounds. Both your miseries

and joys are caused from inside. So it needs to

be attended here, not somewhere else. The sooner

you learn this, the more graceful and wonderful

your life will become. If you take a lifetime to

understand this, life will have its ways. Life is very

cruel to idiots. It doesn’t spare anybody. Life deals

with stupidity very brutally.

– Excerpted from a talk by Sadhguru

Bring the Devi’s Grace into Your Home!“One who ears the Grace of Bhairavi neither has tolive in concer or fear of life or death of pover or of



his is the time of year when the Adi Yogi’s attention

rst fell upon the seven now celebrated disciples.

We are in the month when an ascetic and yogi, who

is completely uninvolved with what is around him,

is beginning to get involved. Slowly, the intention

of sharing his experience is beginning to blossom.From the last full moon day to the coming one,

which is referred to as Guru Pournami 1, Shiva could

not take his attention off the Sapta Rishis , who

prepared for 84 long years without even a moment

of attention from him. And now, his attention upon

his disciples was undivided.

This month is seen as one where even a completely

heartless ascetic could not ignore the intensity

of longing to blossom in the seven disciples and

he became compassionate. Somebody who had

hardened himself in such a way that the world

could never touch him, loosened up, became

compassionate and was compelled to become ateacher or a Guru, for which he had no intention

at all.

So this month is seen as the best time to receive the

Grace of the Guru. This is a good time to seek Grace.

This is a good time to make yourself receptive.

“What should I do?” is always the question. If you

don’t do anything of your own, if you are less of

yourself, that is the best way to be receptive. The

sadhana is always structured like this: it absorbs you

into activity in such a way that in the daily process

‘For that, why should I come here? I can do that at

home!’

‘But if you are sweeping the oor at home, it’s your

own oor. You will not sweep the neighbor’s oor

if it is dirty – you will not. Chopping the wood and

cooking would be for your own use and for those

who you consider as yours. Right now, you are

using every activity to enhance who you are instead

of using every activity to dissolve who you are.’

This is all the difference between making our

activity, or our karma, either into a bondage or intoa process of liberation. Either you are acquiring

karma, or your karma is becoming yoga. Either you

aredoing your activity to enhance yourself or you

are doing your activity to dissolve yourself. That is

all the difference is.

Just sweeping the oor, cooking food and plantinga tree – not on your property, not for you and your

children to sit under its shade – simply planting it

so that anybody, even your enemy, may sit under

its shade and enjoy it – is it okay? If you plant a

mango tree, your enemy and his children may eat

the mangoes. Now this activity becomes a process

of dissolution. Otherwise, every activity is a way ofimprisoning yourself.

It is activity which is entangling people. Human

ability to do things, unfortunately, is being used to

imprison oneself. Human intelligence is being used

to cause misery to oneself. Once you start doing

this, you will unknowingly become an enemy ofany kind of capability. That is a bad position to take.

If you are against all capability and intelligence,

you are asking for regression. You are not asking

for progress. You are not asking to evolve. You are

A Time for Grace

Excerpted from Darshan

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Interviewer: Sadhguru, nowadays, everybody wants

to have money. How do you see the role of money

in our lives?

Sadhguru: Nobody is aspiring for money. When Isay this, it looks ridiculous but what I mean is, it is

not the money that they want. It is just that money

has become the means for what they consider as a

better life or a good life or whatever. Actually, it isnot about the money. Everybody wants their lives

to be pleasant. When we say pleasant, pleasantness

happens in ve different ways – if your body becomespleasant, we call it health; if your body becomes very

pleasant, we call it pleasure. If your mind becomespleasant, we call it peace; if it becomes very pleasant,

we call it joy. If your emotions become pleasant, we

call it love; if they become very pleasant we call it

get that, my life will be pleasant” – which is partially

correct.

So, people are actually looking for pleasantness,

not for money. How much pleasantness comesto you through money depends on what kind of

atmospheres you exist in. If you carry ten lakh

rupees in your pocket and walk around Isha, you

won’t get any more pleasantness than you anywayget. Maa1 has nothing in her pockets; she will get

more in Isha than you will get with ten lakhs. So

here, the currency has changed.But in a lot of places, how much pleasantness you

can have is determined by the money; money has

become a means for that. But money can only

create external pleasantness; it cannot create inner

Money – Means or End?

Sadhguru on

Monetary Matters



isn’t it so? So does it mean to say you should not

have money? No. But what is the priority? Which

should come rst? If these four things are very

pleasant within you, and if you also have money,you can make the outside also pleasant.

There is nothing right or wrong about money – it

is a certain means. If you just have your priorities

right, what is the problem with money? It is just

a tool for you; one more aspect of your life. Rightnow, I don’t have any personal money with me.

Not having personal money but having created a

situation where it is there, is actually much morecomfortable than carrying bundles of money in your

pocket. We handled life like this in the past. Peoplelived in a joint family with 300 to 400 people. Most

of them never handled money, but everybody had

everything. But those things only worked when

there was a certain sense of inclusiveness in people,

when you did not see others as different fromyourself.

So, money is just a tool that we created; otherwise

we would be dealing with barter system. Now we

have a more effective mechanism, but money is on

the way out, because credit cards and debit cards aredoing the job.

Interviewer: You know, there are people who start

making money early in their lives. By twenty to

twenty-one, they are earning one lakh rupees orsomething in big companies. Then, after some time,

they feel that something is lacking in their lives;

there is an empty feeling. There are many people

like this nowadays.

Sadhguru: What usually happened to a lot of people

when they were sixty, is happening to them when

they are twenty-ve. They must be glad. [Laughter]

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anything. It is a good thing that people are realizing

it early, isn’t it so?

Interviewer: So at that point of time, what do they

have to do? What path to take?

Sadhguru: What path? There are no two paths;

there is only life. If you feel life is supercial, it

means you are living supercially, isn’t it so? You

just have to go a little deeper into life. Is there some

other way? “No, I want to die.” “To be or not to be.”Death is also a part of your life, isn’t it so? There is

nothing else you can do here except life. The onlychoice you have is either to do it supercially or in

a profound manner. Choose. [Laughs] What other

choice is there?

Interviewer: But here comes another question: How

to choose the right Guru? A lot of people don’t know

whom to believe.

Sadhguru: Don’t believe anybody. Now you

have come here; I’ll give you something simple.Work with it. If it works, take the next step. Or if

something explodes, then I don’t have to tell you

anything; anyway you will do what you have to do.

Till then, you just go one step at a time. If somethinghappens, you stay on and take many more steps. Ifnothing happens to you, you go.

Do you see you are living with certain limitations?So the only goal is to become free from that, isn’t it

so? What you do on the way is according to your

capability. Maybe you will sweep the oor or manage

something or run a nation or whatever – that’s just

on the way. This is the signicance of being in India:Whether you are a king or an illiterate peasant or a

great scholar, all of us are aspiring only for the same

goal – mukti. So, someone is not superior because he



Shekhar Kapur: The gesture1 you just did, is it just a

cultural thing or is there more to it?

Sadhguru: There are many aspects to this.

This Namaste or Namaskar is the greeting in India.

The reason why you do this when you see a person,

is because… If I look at your body, I may like you

or dislike you; if I look at your mind, again I may

like you or dislike you; if I look at your emotional

structure, I may like you or dislike you. When I meeta person, I do not want to get entangled with these

likes and dislikes. I do not want to get entangled

with that being. The only intention of meeting a

human being is, either you can enhance his life or

he can enhance your life. Or both of us can enhance

each other’s lives.

If you can enhance another human being’s life or

benet from another human being’s life in some

way, it is worth meeting. Otherwise, it is better

people are by themselves. They don’t need to meet.

company, obviously you are in bad company –

isn’t it so? That is why you are looking for a better

company. [Laughs]

Another aspect to this gesture is, today we know

that there are lots of nerve endings in your palms.

Actually, your hands speak more than your tongue

and your voice. So, there is a whole science of

mudras in yoga. Just by holding your hand in certain

ways, you can make your whole system function in

different ways.

Namaskar –

Just aCultural Thing?

Shekhar Kapur in Conversation

with Sadhguru



Freed from the Clawsof the Serpent Women

Krishna Embarks to Retrieve His Guru’s Son – 4

hat happened so far: Krishna embarks on the

endeavor to bring back Punardatta, the son of his

Guru Sandipani. Punardatta had been captured and

sold by pirates. Krishna and his brother get onto the pirate ship, and fnally reach the destination where

they hope to fnd Punardatta.

They approached the island where a completely

different kind of culture existed It was a matriarchal

In the meantime, the situation on the ship had

changed completely. Krishna went through the

whole ship and found large amounts of stolen

treasure. He took charge of it, classied it, and keptit under lock. He released a very generous quota of

food to all the crew. He even gave them new sets

of loin cloths. All the punishments were abolished.

Hullu and Hukku became the guards of the ship,

minus the whips The whole crew was eager to work

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they met the crown princess, Larika, her sister

Asika, and a ne young man who was the prince.

On the way, Krishna had been warned, “When you

go there, offer your respects only to the woman.

She is the one who matters.” The normal greetingsand things happened. The crown princess was an

exquisitely built woman, and her sister was more

slender and equally beautiful. Most of the armed

soldiers who were guarding the place were also

women. There were also men soldiers who stood

much further behind. There was a jetty with a few

shing boats; it was tied to the shore. Krishna took

note of all the arrangements including security and

everything because people had told him that those

who get off on the island never come back again.

He had also been told, “Even before you arrived, the

queen had divined that you would come here. She

is able to see the future. She knows your name, your

details, where you come from and on which day

you would come. She has the power of our sages.”

He was therefore a little wary of dealing with this

woman.

Krishna went to pay his respects and was taken to

the queen. When he entered the palace and went

into the inner parts of the court, a very dignied

looking man who was introduced as the king came

and took them along to the queen. There was a

re burning. When they went and stood there

near the re, suddenly the ames grew taller than

a man’s height and the queen emerged from thereand welcomed them. Krishna did not understand

their language, nor did they understand the Aryan

language that Krishna spoke. But the prince was

translating everything with perfect understanding

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She just hung onto him, and within two days,

she was deeply in love with him. Krishna had

a hard time keeping her off because these were

Nagakanyas, serpent women. All these women just

wore a simple golden girdle around their waist to

cover their nakedness, and either ruby or sapphire

carved cobra hoods on their heads to indicate their

status. They were of a different nature altogether.

They were bred and brought up in such a way that

from their childhood, they had been taught about

the pleasures of the esh, how a woman should be.

This was a way of enslaving people who came there.Plus they had other tricks for which people had no

answers at all. Krishna was very wary of this girl

and tried to keep her away.

He got Punardatta, his Guru’s son, who had become

the prince of this place, aside and told him, “I have

come here to take you home. Your father has notspent a single day without thinking about you.

He is eating his heart out. You must come back.”

Punardatta said, “I was living in the comfort that

my father would have forgotten me by now. Now

you have come and disturbed me. But there is no

way I can come back. If I make an attempt, I will be

dead.” Krishna said, “Don’t worry about that – justcome with me. I will see to it that you are taken out

of this place.” Then Punardatta said, “It is not only

that I cannot leave this place. I do not want to leave

this place.” Krishna asked, “Why?” Punardatta said,

“You do not know the ways of the Nagakanyas, in

how many ways they enslave a man. I am so deeply

enslaved that there is no way I can leave. At thesame time, I constantly live with the mortal fear

of being killed because the tradition of this place is

that if a new man comes, they will have a festival

of choice. Festival of choice means, the prince has



the Mother of the Universe into herself at certain

moments, is very powerful. Just by her thought, she

rules us. There is no way I can leave this place.”

Krishna tried to remind him of his father, of his

commitment to his culture and his dharma andduties to be fullled back home. Punardatta wept

but said, “I cannot come.” In the meantime, this

girl was in many ways trying to get Krishna. She

wouldn’t leave him for a moment. After a few days,

a mandate was passed that Krishna should marry the

girl. He was just seeing how to use this situation to

escape with Punardatta. But when the mother saw

that Krishna was planning to take away Punardatta,

she passed a new mandate. She said, “Krishna

will not marry Asika; he has to marry Larika who

already has Punardatta as her husband. So he has to

ght Punardatta. One of them should die.” Krishna

called Punardatta and said, “I cannot ght you. Youare my Guru’s son. You are my spiritual brother. I

am not going to kill you. Nor can you kill me. This

is the time to break away from this. Enough.” But

there was no way to get Punardatta out of it; he was

in a kind of hypnotized state.

So Punardatta and Krishna actually had to ght andone of them would have to die. The one who would

survive would have to take the crown princess as

a wife and live there to face the next man who

would come. Before the ght, Krishna made certain

arrangements. He placed Hukku and Hullu, the big

men who were used to whipping people, at strategic

points. He had a few other men from the ship placedat certain other places to cut the jetty and let it oat

into the ocean when the time came.

Punardatta and Krishna got into the arena. A

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forever, so he hit Punardatta’s sword in such a way

that it fell off his hand. He also dropped his, as if by

the shock of the stroke, his sword had also fallen

out of his hand, and they got into bahuyuddha or

body combat. Again they wrestled and wrestled,

both of them throwing each other down and up,

but nobody was getting anywhere. Again the crowd

started booing and asked for blood. Then, while

wrestling, Krishna took Punardatta to the edge of

the ring, picked him up and threw him out of the

ring. Hukku and Hullu were waiting there. They

just grabbed Punardatta, ran with him to the jettyand threw him into the boat.

The queen’s husband, the king, was known as the

Lord of Death. Any execution that the queen ordered

was always conducted by the king as a ritual process.

When the queen saw what happened, she ordered,

“Execute the man.” So the king came with his swordand Krishna picked up his sword too. As they were

ghting, Krishna pretended to be pushed back and

slowly went towards the jetty. His men cut the jetty

and they were just oating away on it. At that time,

the younger girl came running and hugged Krishna.

So Krishna decided to take her too. They all got into

the boat and started rowing away to the ship.

Some of the soldiers, both men and women, tried

to swim to the boat. Whoever came near the boat,

met his fate. They got onto the ship and when they

were just about to set the sails, the Queen Mother

came and stood near where the jetty had been. She

just looked towards the boat and said, “Asika, comeback.” Suddenly, this girl who had been all in love

with Krishna went into a trance-like situation and

just jumped overboard and started swimming back

to the island. Krishna’s brother said, “You could

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A Day of Devotional Chanting

s the sun’s rays peeked through the clouds atdawn, the baritone chants of ‘Aum Namah Shivaya’

from a small band of Brahmacharis pervaded the

crisp morning air, heralding the 12th anniversary

of the Dhyanalinga consecration. Their chanting

served as an invitation to one and all to gather in

the Dhyanalinga Temple on this momentous day.

While the temple resounded from within with

the intensity of the chant, the love and devotion

of everyone in the ashram was markedly felt. The

residents had beautifully decorated the temple

premises with intricately designed malas and

owers.

A seemingly endless stream of guests owed

into the temple all through the day, many of

them sitting for long periods, clearly touched by

what they were witnessing. From ‘Aum Namah

with a rendition by the Samskriti children. This wasfollowed by a video with rare footage of the ashram’s

early days, the temple construction, and Sadhguru

consecrating the Dhyanalinga. The day concluded

bettingly with a musical offering by Padma Shri

Vikku Vinayakram on the ghatam1 and his son

Mahesh who won the hearts of the audience with

their sincere devotion, playfulness, and virtuosity.The accomplished musicians even joined Sounds

of Isha for a grand nale that brought everyone to

their feet, clapping and dancing.

The temple remained open until 1:00 a.m. for

everyone to make use of this sacred space and

conclude the day in silence.

“As the spirital longing and thirst arises in

human beings, wherever they may be, irespective

of time and space the energies of Dhyanalinga will

The 12 th Anniversary of the Dhyanalinga Consecration

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25 June 2011 – it was a bright and clear day at

Berlin’s annual Yoga Festival. A charming old stone

manor with a spectacular view over the wide green

banks of river Havel, surrounded by meadows andwild woodland, was hosting a rather unusual event.

Tents and booths had been set up around the house,

turning the area into a lively festival space.

Right in the middle of this, quiet excitement and

joyful anticipation was building up among the group

of Isha volunteers, meditators and friends around

the Isha stalls. We were happy to inform everyone

that indeed tonight, a Mystic would come, a Master,

a Guru, a living possibility.

had been shouting and screaming around the tent

throughout his talk, fell silent, or so it seemed.

When Sadhguru closed the event with an invitation

for all to come and visit the Isha Yoga Center, manyof us were left dazzled, inspired, and eager for more.

Deven, a volunteer from Germany, shares: “My

heart exploded when I saw him standing there [on

the stage], his arms wide open like a large old tree

spreading his loving presence over everybody, his

feet rooted on this planet. He is soooo big, here and

now. I closed my eyes; I couldn’t believe I am part of

this, part of him. Everyone in the tent must have felt

his greatness. Tears were running down my cheeks,

overwhelmed by the beauty that surrounded me

A Mystic amongst ‘Diehards’Sadhguru at Yoga Festival Berlin





Isha Kriya An ancient technology, now yours

The new Isha Kriya website has been launched!

It is Sadhguru’s wish and vision that every human being on this planet should have at leastone drop of spirituality in their lives. Through Isha Kriya, we have the opportunity to offer theancient science of yoga to large numbers of people.

Q: What exactly does this meditation do?

Sadhguru: This kriya will create a certain space between you and your body, between you

and your mind. If at all there is any struggle in your life, it is because you identify yourself

with these limited aspects of yourself. So the essence of meditation is that it creates a space, a

distance between you and what you refer to as your ‘mind.’ All the suffering you go through is

manufactured in your mind. If you distance yourself from the mind, can there be suffering in

you? This is the end of suffering.

Now while you are meditating, there is a distance between you and your mind, and you do feel

peaceful. The problem is that the moment you open your eyes, you are again stuck with your

mind. If you meditate every day, a day will come when you open your eyes, and you can still

experience that the mind is there and you are here. When you are no longer identied with yourbody and mind, you will be in touch with the source of creation within you. Once this happens,

Grace happens.

That means your whole karmic bag – your past or unconscious mind –

h b k id I h i O h

“This will be the most imporant thing that we as a

generation of people can do – to have the privilege to

do something large-scale for human consciousness.”– Sadhgr



nner Engineering Online (IEO), Isha Yoga’s rst

online program which was launched in August/

September 2010, has been extremely well received.

Participants from 35 different countries, aged 15-

80 have completed IEO so far. IEO is comprised of

seven 90-minute online classes that offer the samepractical wisdom immediately relevant to your life

as presented in the in-person Inner Engineering

programs, except that these are received in the

comfort of your home, one-on-one with Sadhguru,

via the internet. With IEO, Inner Engineering is now

offered as a two-part process: IEO and an optional

1-or-2-day in-person Shambhavi MahamudraProgram, wherein the 21-minute Shambhavi

Mahamudra practice is imparted.

As volunteers, teachers, and even Sadhguru himself

have observed, participants who arrive for the

Shambhavi Mahamudra Program after completing

IEO, come with a particularly deep level of interest,

commitment and receptivity. Participants relate

that the online classes felt like an intimate dialogue

with Sadhguru, and that they shed inexplicable

tears, or found themselves smiling throughout the

classes. Upon arrival to the Shambhavi Mahamudra

Program, many share that they have “fallen in

love with Sadhguru!” People from all age groups

and backgrounds sat enraptured and engaged

throughout. Tears of joy and love washed the faces

of the participants and volunteers as the program

d d ith th l l S d f I h ’ i

Inner Engineering works. Whether online or

in-person, it powerfully impacts, benets and

transforms the lives of those it touches. Sadhguru

has often said that he wants everyone to have at

least ‘one drop of spirituality’ within them. The fact

that IEO is accessible to anyone at any time is a hugepossibility to bring spirituality to the world, right

into people’s homes.

You can become a part of this endeavor by

sharing Inner Engineering Online (http://www.

innerengineering.com) with your family, friendsand community. Let’s make it happen, together!

Ways to Share Inner Engineering Online:

Visit, ‘Like’ and Post on the Inner Engineering

Facebook page

http://www.facebook.com/InnerEngineering

Take IEO and experience it yourself, so you

can more easily share the benets

Schedule Intro Talks in your home,

community or work place

Join the IEO Volunteer Googlegroup to assist

with IEO promotions;

email: [email protected]

Share your personal Inner Engineering story

and benets on personal-growth- and yoga-

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could never have imagined that my life would

change in such a way that I couldn’t fnd words

to describe the experience. It all began when

I typed “yoga” into my Google search engine.

I’ve always been the person that aspired to the

saying, “When the student is ready, the teacherwill appear.” Mysteriously, the Indian Mystic,

Sadhguru, and his online Inner Engineering

program came to my attention.

I have always been attracted to India and all her

wonderful spiritual diversity. It has always amazed

me that so many different viewpoints of spiritualitycan exist in one place and have such respect for one

another. We cannot even master that in America, in

my opinion. We have a tendency to have to be right

over the others in our society if it doesn’t sound

was a challenge because I had to discern that he was

asking me to give up my “driver’s seat.” That had

been the test in every religion I had investigated in

this country led by men; soooo, was this going to be

one more disappointment for me from my favored

country, India? I decided not to pass a judgment

until I looked upon his request with fresh eyes andexperienced what he was saying. After taking a ride

on this bus for a moment through the program, I’m

beginning to relinquish my driver’s seat long enough

to see things from different viewpoints; however,

the driver’s seat is the best advantage point from my

experience to see the “Big Picture.”

After the online program with Sadhguru, I decided

to go to the Isha Institute of Inner Sciences in

McMinnville, Tennessee. There was another

program offered that I wanted to take at Isha. When

I arrived on this beautiful mountain top of the

spectacular Cumberland Plateau with its setting of1200 acres of beautiful forest land, I had to take a

step back to catch my breath. It was unbelievable

that my whole life had come to this point...on this

mountain top. From this point, everything takes

on a different perspective. To come to a different

perspective would not come from this trip; this was

only the beginning. This was just my initiation intoyoga and to learn that it was much more than an

exercise, which is what I got from the American

perspective. It was not until my next visit at Isha in

Tennessee on 23 January 2011, when I personally

Then the Whole World Shifted An Inner Engineering Online Participant Shares

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Program Highlights

Date Program Place Contact

2 - 21 Aug 2011

(Three 15-day

batches)

Kailash Manasarovar

SojournNepal, Tibet

9488 111 777

[email protected]

3 - 9 Aug 2011Inner Engineering

the peak of wellbeing

Begumpet,

Hyderabad, India

9948875588, 040-64583753

[email protected]

11 - 14 Aug 2011

Inner Engineering

Retreat

Residential Program

Isha Yoga Center,

Coimbatore, India

0422-2515421

[email protected]

16 - 18 Aug 2011Hata Yoga

Residential Program

Isha Yoga Center,

Coimbatore, India

0422-2515300

[email protected]

17 - 23 Aug 2011Inner Engineering

the peak of wellbeing

Visakhapatnam,

India

99856 72092, 94402 78683

[email protected]

18 - 21 Aug 2011 Inner EngineeringRetreat

Residential Program

IIIS, USA [email protected]

20 - 23 Aug 2011Shoonya Intensive

Residential Program

Isha Yoga Center,

Coimbatore, India

0422-2515300

[email protected]

24 - 30 Aug 2011 Inner Engineeringthe peak of wellbeing

Kukatpally,Hyderabad, India

9948875588, 040-64583753 [email protected]

25 - 28 Aug 2011

Inner Engineering

Retreat

R id i l P

Isha Yoga Center,

Coimbatore, India

0422-2515421

[email protected]



Isha RecipesFor Healthy Living

Ingredients:

1 cup Jamun / Jambul / Naval fruit2 cups Yogurt (curd)

¼ cup Natural (unrened) brown sugar

A pinch of salt

JAMUN YOGURT SMOOTHIE

Method:

Cut the jamuns, discarding the seeds.

Put the cut fruit into the jar of a mixer, add the brown sugar and blend well.

Add the yogurt and the salt to this blend and mix till smooth.

Pour into glasses and serve chilled.

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Tip:

Diabetics can skip the sugar.

For additional flavor, add a spoon of honey, or a pinch of chili or pepper powder and¼ teaspoon roasted cumin powder.

Jamun is the fruit of a tall and sturdy, evergreen tree that is indigenous to India. The fruit has a

unique aromatic avor that is slightly sweet sour and astringent at the same time Jamun fruits





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