SHIVANGA SADHANA A TOOL TO RISE

RANKED AMONGST THE FIFTY MOST INFLUENTIAL PEOPLE IN INDIA, SADHGURU IS A YOGI, MYSTIC, VISIONARY AND A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLING AUTHOR SADHGURU HAS BEEN CONFERRED THE PADMA VIBHUSHAN BY THE GOVERNMENT OF INDIA IN 2017, THE HIGHEST ANNUAL CIVILIAN AWARD, ACCORDED FOR EXCEPTIONAL AND DISTINGUISHED SERVICE.

- SADHGURU ISHA 

Sadhguru: Many of you have started the 21day sadhana till Dhanya Pournami, which is generally known as Thaipoosam in Tamil Nadu. The significance of such periods of sadhana is unfortunately being lost in so-called modern societies. Today, it is only the uneducated and the rural people who do these sadhanas. Once you become educated, you are not supposed to do anything right. You are supposed to be confused about everything!

The moment you get educated, you are supposed to get confused about all the most basic aspects that human beings have been doing for thousands of years about your body, your mind, your relationships, the world around you about everything. That is the quality of the educated. So we can imagine the quality of education that we are rendering to the world.

Education is no longer about making human beings, it is creating scattered human beings. They feel they are superior to everyone, but they are confused about every little thing. They do not know what an illiterate peasant knows, but they think are superior. They are definitely a superior level of confusion.

The significance of a sadhana period like this is to bring an organic intelligence to your system, a different dimension of intelligence which makes life effortless. You do not imagine that creation is a problem that you have to solve. Creation is not a problem. Creation is a tremendous phenomenon. You can either ride it, or you can be crushed by it. The choice is yours. If you ride it, it is a phenomenon beyond anyone’s imagination. If you are crushed by it, it is a horrible thing.

Riding the Wave