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https://www.instagram.com/p/DaVJm6YE9be/ 𝘼𝙗𝙝𝙮𝙖𝙨𝙖 𝙊𝙣𝙡𝙞𝙣𝙚 𝙋𝙧𝙤𝙜𝙧𝙖𝙢 - 𝙎𝙝𝙖𝙧𝙞𝙣𝙜𝙨! Curious about what it's like to be part of Abhyāsa online program? Hear it directly from those who experienced the journey. PS: 🌄🍃 𝗔𝗯𝗵𝘆ā𝘀𝗮 𝗢𝗻𝗹𝗶𝗻𝗲, 𝗦𝘁𝗮𝗿𝘁𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗝𝘂𝗹𝘆 𝟲𝘁𝗵 A live online Sadhana support program designed to help you build 𝗰𝗼𝗻𝘀𝗶𝘀𝘁𝗲𝗻𝗰𝘆, 𝗯𝗮𝗹𝗮𝗻𝗰𝗲, and 𝗶𝗻𝗻𝗲𝗿 𝘁𝗿𝗮𝗻𝘀𝗳𝗼𝗿𝗺𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻 through a steady daily commitment. Whether you are looking to establish a regular sadhana, deepen your involvement with yogic practices, or simply benefit from the support of a committed Sangha, 𝗔𝗯𝗵𝘆ā𝘀𝗮 𝗢𝗻𝗹𝗶𝗻𝗲 offers a simple and supportive way to stay on track. 🌿 𝗪𝗵𝗮𝘁 𝘁𝗵𝗲𝘀𝗲 𝘀𝗲𝘀𝘀𝗶𝗼𝗻𝘀 𝗶𝗻𝗰𝗹𝘂𝗱𝗲: • 🧘 Guided Meditations • 🕉️ Yogic Practices structured by Sadhguru • 🎥 Sadhguru's insights on yoga, food, lifestyle, and inner wellbeing • 🤝 A supportive Sangha to help you stay committed 📅 𝗦𝘁𝗮𝗿𝘁𝗶𝗻𝗴: 𝗝𝘂𝗹𝘆 𝟲𝘁𝗵, 𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟲 ⏰ 𝗦𝗲𝘀𝘀𝗶𝗼𝗻𝘀: 𝗠𝗼𝗻𝗱𝗮𝘆 𝘁𝗼 𝗙𝗿𝗶𝗱𝗮𝘆 | 𝗦𝗲𝘀𝘀𝗶𝗼𝗻 𝗱𝘂𝗿𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻: 𝟰𝟱 𝗺𝗶𝗻𝘀 🌅 Batch 1: 5:30 AM (IST / EDT) 🌄 Batch 2: 7:00 AM (IST / EDT) 🌇 Batch 3: 7:00 PM (IST / EDT) 🌐 Register: yogire.com 📲 Enquiries: WhatsApp +91 82174 81232 ✨ A simple daily commitment can bring a profound shift within.

Kailash Yatra - Q & A session Namaskaram All, If you missed attending the Kailash Yatra Q & A live session yesterday and would like to go through it, please join the WhatsApp group using link below and request for the video 👇🏼 bit.ly/kailashsep2026 Many important aspects related to the Yatra and orientation, preparation were covered and you may find answers to some of your most pressing questions. Even if you are planning to go next year, this can help you get clarity about the preparation you need to put in. Pranam

*Kailash Yatra - Q & A session* Namaskaram All, If you missed attending the Kailash Yatra Q & A live session yesterday and would like to go through it, please join the WhatsApp group using link below and request for the video 👇🏼 bit.ly/kailashsep2026 Many important aspects related to the Yatra and orientation, preparation were covered and you may find answers to some of your most pressing questions. Even if you are planning to go next year, this can help you get clarity about the preparation you need to put in. Pranam

P.S: Source: https://isha.sadhguru.org/karma/articles/karma-on-record 🌄🍃 𝗔𝗯𝗵𝘆ā𝘀𝗮 𝗢𝗻𝗹𝗶𝗻𝗲 🌄🍃 A live online Sadhana support program designed to help you build 𝗰𝗼𝗻𝘀𝗶𝘀𝘁𝗲𝗻𝗰𝘆, 𝗯𝗮𝗹𝗮𝗻𝗰𝗲, and 𝗶𝗻𝗻𝗲𝗿 𝘁𝗿𝗮𝗻𝘀𝗳𝗼𝗿𝗺𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻 through a steady daily commitment. Whether you are looking to establish a regular sadhana, deepen your involvement with yogic practices, or simply benefit from the support of a committed Sangha, 𝗔𝗯𝗵𝘆ā𝘀𝗮 𝗢𝗻𝗹𝗶𝗻𝗲 offers a simple and supportive way to stay on track. 🌿 𝗪𝗵𝗮𝘁 𝘁𝗵𝗲𝘀𝗲 𝘀𝗲𝘀𝘀𝗶𝗼𝗻𝘀 𝗶𝗻𝗰𝗹𝘂𝗱𝗲: • 🧘 Guided Meditations • 🕉️ Yogic Practices structured by Sadhguru • 🎥 Sadhguru's insights on yoga, food, lifestyle, and inner wellbeing • 🤝 A supportive Sangha to help you stay committed 📅 𝗦𝘁𝗮𝗿𝘁𝗶𝗻𝗴: 𝗝𝘂𝗹𝘆 𝟲𝘁𝗵, 𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟲 ⏰ 𝗦𝗲𝘀𝘀𝗶𝗼𝗻𝘀: 𝗠𝗼𝗻𝗱𝗮𝘆 𝘁𝗼 𝗙𝗿𝗶𝗱𝗮𝘆 | 𝗦𝗲𝘀𝘀𝗶𝗼𝗻 𝗱𝘂𝗿𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻: 𝟰𝟱 𝗺𝗶𝗻𝘀 🌅 Batch 1: 5:30 AM (IST / EDT) 🌄 Batch 2: 7:00 AM (IST / EDT) 🌇 Batch 3: 7:00 PM (IST / EDT) 🌐 Register: yogire.com 📲 Enquiries: WhatsApp +91 82174 81232 ✨ A simple daily commitment can bring a profound shift within.

Why spend a lifetime to understand life step by step and in the end die feeling like a fool? This is the time to look at it. Your idea of freedom is boundlessness. Your being will not settle for anything less than boundlessness. That is clear if you look at yourself. If you want to become unbounded, breaking physical barriers is not going to make you unbounded because the physical is never going to be unbounded. Only if you transcend the limitations of physical reality, if you go beyond the physical existence itself, there is a possibility of boundlessness. 𝐋𝐢𝐯𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐛𝐲 𝐂𝐡𝐨𝐢𝐜𝐞 Karma is that which roots you in the physical. Without it, there is no way to be rooted. So nature is ensuring, or the creator is ensuring that you have a base to work with. Without holding to the body there is no seeking. A disembodied being cannot seek by choice. He can only seek by tendencies, never by choice, unless he is evolved to a certain point. But for an embodied being, every moment is choice, actually. If you are conscious in your life, every moment is by choice. Brahmacharya or sanyasa means that you are living by choice. Now to make this process of choice into a living reality, we have devised many things in yoga. In the morning, you like to roll in your bed. That is the natural tendency of the body, but now you do asanas in the morning. You can roll in the bed unconsciously, but you cannot do asana in the morning unconsciously. Naturally the whole process of body movement becomes conscious. You want to bring that aspect of conscious action into your life - conscious thought, conscious emotion, conscious way of existing here. The very life energy is becoming conscious because only if you become conscious, your life happens by choice. Otherwise your life will happen by compulsions. The difference between freedom and bondage right now is, either you are functioning compulsively or by choice. Various types of karmas are there for human beings. The fruit of that is always there, but what you make out of it moment to moment is always yours - it is in your hands. It does not matter what kind of karma you have - this moment’s karma is always in your hands. In this moment, to be joyous or miserable is 100% by choice if you are willing to be conscious. So, karma being recorded, or you using three mechanisms to record me is not a problem because I am never going to go back on my words. So what is my problem? Use 300 recorders if you like. The same thing you will record. Nature is recording in a million ways. What is your problem? You can only go ahead. You cannot go back on it. So, let them record. Let the angels, the devils, and everybody record. Let the trees and the animals and insects record your karma. What is your problem?

https://www.instagram.com/p/DaUMHQREzRt/ 𝗞𝗮𝗿𝗺𝗮 𝗢𝗻 𝗥𝗲𝗰𝗼𝗿𝗱 𝙌: Sadhguru, the other day when you were speaking about karma, you said that life has many back up processes for recording karma into a person; the mind, the body, and the energy also. Even if the mind is gone, it’s still engraved in the body and the energy. This sounds like a very elaborate and wicked ploy to keep everything in suffering. Why is this? 𝙎𝙖𝙙𝙝𝙜𝙪𝙧𝙪: See, whenever I speak, you have got three recorders to record my karma, a wicked ploy to ensure that I can never go back on my word. In an unguarded moment if I make a promise, you have got three recordings to ensure that I cannot go back on it. Now karma is not as you understand. There is nothing wicked about it. You are who you are only because of your karma. From the moment you were born until this moment, everything that you have done, thought, felt and experienced, that is your karma. That is what makes you who are right now. That is what has brought you to this place. So karma is not a wicked ploy. Yes, it is a bondage, but karma is also the protection. Karma is the very basis of your physical existence right now. If there is no karmic substance, there is no way to bind yourself to this body. Karma is the cement which has bound you to this body. If we take away all your karma, this moment you will shed your body, and we do not want that on our hands right now. So, the recordings are happening to ensure that, on the level of your body, your mind, your sensation, and your energy, nothing of you is ever lost. The most basic instinct in you is self-preservation. To preserve yourself, you built a wall around yourself, and you enjoyed this wall and the protection it gave you for a certain period of time. But there is another part of you which is always longing to expand in an unlimited way. Now, that dimension of you suddenly starts telling you this wall is a prison. It wants to break the wall and go. But there is another part of you which is struggling for self-preservation which wants to strengthen the wall. It wants to make the wall thicker and thicker. If you look at a human being, even if we go by Charles Darwin, your history is animal nature; but there is something in you which is constantly longing for expansion. If you look at this longing, you will see it is not going to end at any point. It will not be satisfied unless it becomes unbounded. 𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐊𝐚𝐫𝐦𝐚 𝐌𝐚𝐧𝐬𝐢𝐨𝐧 Your history is animal. Your future is divinity. Right now you are hanging like a pendulum, swinging between the two. One part of you, the strongest instinct in you, is self-preservation. Another part of you is longing to break all limitations. Karma is the wall of self-preservation. You built it at one point with great care, but now you feel self-imprisoned. Karma is a mansion of self-imprisonment. You cannot do with it; you cannot do without it. That is the problem. So now you try to expand the size of your prison, but suppose we lock you up in a 5 x 5 little cell. We kept you locked there completely, not by your choice - then you will be longing for freedom. Your idea of freedom will be the walls of the ashram, you know, the fence. If we let you out of it, it feels like enormous freedom, but within three days you will look at the mountains, look at the sky and look at the gate, and your idea of freedom will expand from the gate of the ashram to something else. We will say, okay you can go up to Thanikandi and come. That looks like wonderful freedom for some time, but then you want to go to Coimbatore. If you make sufficient trips to Coimbatore, then you feel Coimbatore is not enough. Some of you who are too influenced by traditional spirituality want to go to Himalayas. Otherwise, you want to go to a bigger city or something, you know. So your idea of imprisonment is constantly changing. Your idea of freedom also is constantly evolving.

𝐒𝐫𝐢𝐬𝐡𝐭𝐢 𝐎𝐧𝐥𝐢𝐧𝐞 𝐏𝐫𝐨𝐠𝐫𝐚𝐦 𝐬𝐭𝐚𝐫𝐭𝐬 𝐨𝐧 𝗝𝘂𝗹𝘆 𝟭𝟮! 𝗩𝗮𝗿𝗻𝗮 𝗳𝗿𝗼𝗺 𝗦𝗼𝘂𝘁𝗵 𝗖𝗮𝗿𝗼𝗹𝗶𝗻𝗮, 𝗨𝗦𝗔 𝘀𝗵𝗮𝗿𝗲𝘀 𝗵𝗲𝗿 𝗦𝗿𝗶𝘀𝗵𝘁𝗶 𝗢𝗻𝗹𝗶𝗻𝗲 𝗲𝘅𝗽𝗲𝗿𝗶𝗲𝗻𝗰𝗲! 𝐖𝐢𝐭𝐡 𝐒𝐫𝐢𝐬𝐡𝐭𝐢 𝐎𝐧𝐥𝐢𝐧𝐞, 𝐝𝐢𝐬𝐭𝐚𝐧𝐜𝐞 𝐢𝐬 𝐧𝐨 𝐦𝐨𝐫𝐞 𝐚𝐧 𝐢𝐬𝐬𝐮𝐞 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐰𝐞 𝐜𝐚𝐧 𝐫𝐞𝐚𝐜𝐡 𝐲𝐨𝐮 𝐰𝐡𝐞𝐫𝐞𝐯𝐞𝐫 𝐲𝐨𝐮 𝐚𝐫𝐞! PS: 🌿 𝐔𝐩𝐜𝐨𝐦𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐒𝐫𝐢𝐬𝐡𝐭𝐢 𝐎𝐧𝐥𝐢𝐧𝐞 𝐏𝐫𝐨𝐠𝐫𝐚𝐦 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝐂𝐡𝐢𝐥𝐝𝐫𝐞𝐧 & 𝐓𝐞𝐞𝐧𝐬! 🧒🌱 🌿 𝐒𝐫𝐢𝐬𝐡𝐭𝐢 𝐎𝐧𝐥𝐢𝐧𝐞 is an opportunity to soak in 𝐲𝐨𝐠𝐚, 𝐧𝐚𝐭𝐮𝐫𝐞, 𝐟𝐨𝐨𝐝 & 𝐩𝐥𝐚𝐲! Participants will learn 𝐲𝐨𝐠𝐢𝐜 𝐩𝐫𝐚𝐜𝐭𝐢𝐜𝐞𝐬 structured by Sadhguru, about 𝐲𝐨𝐠𝐢𝐜 𝐝𝐢𝐞𝐭, how to be in touch with 𝐧𝐚𝐭𝐮𝐫𝐞 and to be involved in whatever they do. 🍃 ✨ 𝐏𝐫𝐨𝐠𝐫𝐚𝐦 𝐃𝐞𝐭𝐚𝐢𝐥𝐬: 📅 𝐃𝐚𝐭𝐞𝐬: July 12 ~ 16, 2026 🕖 𝐓𝐢𝐦𝐢𝐧𝐠𝐬: 🌅 Batch-1: 𝟕:𝟎𝟎 𝐭𝐨 𝟖:𝟑𝟎 𝐀𝐌 𝐈𝐒𝐓 🌇 Batch-2: 𝟓:𝟎𝟎 𝐭𝐨 𝟔:𝟑𝟎 𝐏𝐌 𝐈𝐒𝐓 👦👧 𝐀𝐠𝐞: 7 to 16 years 🔗 𝐅𝐨𝐫 𝐩𝐫𝐨𝐠𝐫𝐚𝐦 𝐝𝐞𝐭𝐚𝐢𝐥𝐬, 𝐩𝐥𝐞𝐚𝐬𝐞 𝐯𝐢𝐬𝐢𝐭: yogire.com 📞 𝐄𝐧𝐪𝐮𝐢𝐫𝐢𝐞𝐬: 𝐖𝐡𝐚𝐭𝐬𝐀𝐩𝐩: +91 8217481232

*Gentle reminder - the Kailash Q & A session begins at 6 PM IST today!* Date - July 2 Time - 6 to 7.30 PM IST We will have the organiser team during this live session to answer all the above and any other questions that you may have about the Yatra. Meeting agenda - https://www.instagram.com/p/DaQhSRqO4gr/ Even if you plan to go next year, this session can help you to understand clearly what’s required. If you have a longing to make it to the Yatra but unable to decide or are curious to know more about this Yatra, the live session can help you get more clarity and make an informed choice Please do feel free to invite your friends and family for this live information session. Please join the Whatsapp group using link below ⬇️ and we will be sharing the Zoom login details on the group bit.ly/kailashsep2026

🪷 *Registrations Open* 🪷 *"Samyama is a state where you become fully aware that you are not the body, you are not the mind, you are not the world around."* — Sadhguru 🧘‍♂️ *Samyama* is conducted as an 8-day residential program at the Isha Yoga Center. 👣 Participants spend 8 days in complete silence with intense meditation processes in the presence of Sadhguru. Upcoming Dates: * 📅 29 Dec 2026 – 5 Jan 2027 📅 27 Jan 2027 – 3 Feb 2027 📡 *Live Translation:* Hindi and Tamil *(available only for the December program).* 🔗 To participate, register: https://isha.co/samyama 🔁 Registrations are also open for those who wish to repeat *Samyama*. Please visit the website for more details. 📩For any queries: samyama.sadhguru.org *Ashram Program Team* Pranam 🙏🌸

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If you are chained right now and if freedom has to come someday, the first and foremost thing to see is that you are chained. If you refuse to see that you are chained, the question of liberating yourself never arises. When you realize that you are chained, there will be pain and suffering, there will be struggle and confusion. Old memories will say, “I was better off before.” This is the way of your mind. When you were in high school, your mind told you, “Oh, kindergarten was so fantastic.” You know how you went to kindergarten! When you went to college you said, “Oh, my high school days were so wonderful,” but we know how you went through high school also. When you were done with your education, you said, “My university days were the most blissful days!” We know how you struggled to write your assessments, to find the book that you wanted in the library, how you suffered all those classes and those professors; but now that it’s over, you claim it was fantastic. As a part of your survival technique, memory has a way of erasing certain unpleasant things and making the past always more pleasant than what is there right now. This is a trick of survival. Otherwise, psychologically, you will crack up. You always have something to fall back on and say, “Oh, it was wonderful.” 𝐂𝐨𝐧𝐟𝐮𝐬𝐞𝐝 𝐂𝐥𝐚𝐫𝐢𝐭𝐲 But now there is a confused clarity. Isn’t that good? You are confused and still clear. On a certain day, a farmer with a truck full of animals is on his way to the market for auctioning. He comes upon a hitchhiker and gives the man a lift. On the way to town, the farmer starts sipping on some home brew, swerves off the road and crashes in a big ditch. The hitchhiker is thrown out of the truck and into the ditch, with shattered ribs, a busted leg and a smashed arm – he’s totally in pieces. The farm animals are also seriously messed up. The farmer is the only one with only a few cuts and bruises. He gets out of the truck and inspects his animals. The chickens have broken legs and wings, and can barely move. “These chickens are useless now,” the farmer explodes. “Nobody will buy them!” He grabs his shotgun from the truck and shoots the chickens. Next, he sees that the pigs are all busted and bleeding. “These pigs are worthless too!” So he reloads the gun and shoots them, too. The farmer then looks at the sheep in the same state as the chickens and the pigs, and screams, “Worthless sheep!” He reloads his shotgun and blows away the sheep. The injured hitchhiker witnesses all this carnage in great horror. The farmer then moves over to the ditch, peers inside, and shouts, “Are you okay, down there?” Instantly the hitchhiker, crawling up really fast, says, “SURE, I’VE NEVER FELT BETTER IN MY WHOLE LIFE!” That means even if we throw you into hell, it doesn’t matter, you will be clear. I am not interested in sending people to heaven. I am interested in making people in such a way that even if they go to hell, nobody can make them suffer. That’s freedom. “I want to go to heaven,” is a huge bondage. Suppose you land in the wrong place? Suppose someone hijacked your airplane on the way to heaven. He didn’t crash it, he just landed it in the wrong place – you are finished. You are always living with something that can be taken away from you by somebody or something. True liberation is when nobody can take away anything from you, and that which can’t be taken away from you is your blissfulness, your inability to suffer. “I want to go to heaven,” means you are still capable of suffering. That’s why you want to go to a good place. Gautama repeatedly said, “I don’t want to go to heaven. I want to go to hell.” People thought he was crazy, but that’s how a liberated man will be. “What’s my problem with hell? Anyway they can’t make me suffer, so I will go to hell.” This man is free. So if you are confused and clear, that’s good. “When will all my confusions go away? When will absolute clarity come?” I don’t want to fix a date, but I bless you, let it be today. Why tomorrow? There is a lot of time left today. Let it be today.

https://www.instagram.com/p/DaRuLHHiqrU/ 𝗕𝗲𝗰𝗼𝗺𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗖𝗼𝗻𝘀𝗰𝗶𝗼𝘂𝘀 𝗼𝗳 𝗬𝗼𝘂𝗿 𝗦𝘂𝗳𝗳𝗲𝗿𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝙌: The more I seek the spiritual path, the more confused I become. Yet at the same time there seems to be a kind of clarity – a confused clarity. Will a time come when there will be clarity without confusion, and if so, how do I create that? 𝙎𝙖𝙙𝙝𝙜𝙪𝙧𝙪: The more you seek the spiritual path, the more confused you are becoming. That’s a good sign, because confusion is always a better state to be in than living in stupid conclusions. With the stupid conclusions that you had made in your life, there was comfort, solace and convenience. There was a false sense of security in these. But once you step onto a spiritual path, everything becomes turmoil. All the things that you were comfortable with look stupid now. Things that you valued and cherished suddenly look so insignificant and not worthwhile. Everything has turned upside down. There’s a very beautiful Zen saying: “When you are ignorant, mountains are mountains, rivers are rivers, clouds are clouds, trees are trees. Once you enter the spiritual path, mountains are no more just mountains, rivers are no more just rivers, clouds aren’t just clouds, trees aren’t just trees. But once you arrive, once you are enlightened, once again mountains are mountains, rivers are rivers, clouds are clouds, trees are trees.” From ignorance to enlightenment, it is a full circle back to the same place, but a huge difference, a world of difference, a difference which is indescribable. 𝐁𝐞𝐜𝐨𝐦𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐂𝐨𝐧𝐬𝐜𝐢𝐨𝐮𝐬 𝐨𝐟 𝐘𝐨𝐮𝐫 𝐒𝐮𝐟𝐟𝐞𝐫𝐢𝐧𝐠 Once you enter the spiritual path, everything is in turmoil, everything is in question. You don’t know where you stand – you don’t know anything. Before knowing anything about spirituality, you were at least comfortable, self-satisfied. You ate breakfast in the morning, drank coffee, and you thought that was the ultimate. Now, nothing matters. You don’t feel like eating, like sleeping, like doing anything, because nothing is really worthwhile anymore. It never was worthwhile. You just deceived yourself into believing that it was. If it was truly worthwhile, how could it go away? If you truly knew what’s what, how could you get confused? The very fact that you are confused means you didn’t know. You had made wrong conclusions just for the sake of comfort and security. If comfort is all you are seeking, you must psych yourself up to believe you are perfect, that everything is okay with your life. “My house is good, my husband is wonderful, my life is great, my children are fantastic, even my dog is fabulous. This is it. This is life.” You must tell yourself this every day and go on with it. It will be quite good, nothing wrong with it. It’s just that it is limited, and this being will never settle for anything limited. It doesn’t matter in how many ways you try to fool yourself, somewhere there’s a longing. Carefully look at all the happiness that you have known in your life. On the surface there’s happiness, but somewhere deep inside, there is a certain suffering in everything. The suffering is just because the suppressed being is always longing. To even become conscious of this suffering, people take lifetimes. Entering the spiritual path means you have become conscious of your suffering. You were suffering unconsciously; now you have become conscious of it. Conscious suffering is always deeper than unconscious suffering, but it is good, at least you are conscious about it. As long as you don’t become conscious, the suffering will always remain. Once you have become conscious, it need not remain forever. There is a possibility, isn’t it? Entering the spiritual path is a possibility, being with a Guru is a possibility. If the possibility has to become a reality, the first thing is that you are willing to see everything the way it is. You are at least willing to recognize your limitations. If you want to hide your limitations, where is the question of liberation? You have destroyed the possibility completely.