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No Room for Boredom

Sadhguru's Columns
The Navhind Times
06-Sep-2009
Boredom, that's the worst thing that can possibly happen. If you're willing to open up to the phenomena of Life, how you can get bored?

Sports Day

News Articles
The Hindu
22-Sep-2009
Isha Home School Sports Day was held on September 16. According to a release, track and field events were held and all the students participated in either one.

Meeting the Mystic behind the Book

Isha Happenings
21-Sep-2009
Joyful excitement filled the air as participants from all over the USA and some even from as far as Turkey and Africa came together on 10 September 2009 at Fairmont Hotel in Santa Monica, California for an Inner Engineering Intensive with Sadhguru. For many of them, Midnights with the Mystic had been the inspiration to attend the program.

Death and Spirituality

Sadhguru's Columns
The Navhind Times
27-Sep-2009
The moment you reject death, you also reject life. Death is not something that is going to happen to you in the future. When birth happened, half of death happened. It's only the other half that is yet to happen and one day it is going to be complete.

Seven Billion People, Seven Billion Religions

Sadhguru's Columns
The Navhind Times
20-Sep-2009
Who is a religious fanatic? The man that other people call a fanatic is the same man who is hugely valued within the structure of his religion because he enforces and helps his religion expand around the world. Once religions take this stance of conquest, they get into the process of conquering rather than serving humanity.

How Anger Can Become Love

Sadhguru's Columns
Eve's Times
01-Oct-2009
A day will come when even if you are placed in the most extreme situation, your energies will remain very calm. It doesn't matter how much people preach 'don't get angry', when certain situations arise you will get angry. I want you to understand this. It does not matter what kind of human being you become, even if you become a super human being, you will never have absolute control over the external world. Whether it is you institution or your family or the world, you will never have total control over the external situation.

Does Spiritual path make me special?

Sadhguru's Columns
Eve's Times
16-Sep-2009
For many people why a spiritual path seems to be a struggle is because their culture and their social situations have always taught them to be special. Their whole effort in life is to become special. To be special means to have something that others don't have. Your desire to possess something that others don't have is not a specialty -it is a perversion.

Sadhguru on floods in Andhra Pradesh and Karnataka

Isha Happenings
08-Oct-2009
After the recent floods in Andhra Pradesh and Karnataka, wherever I go, one question I'm repeatedly asked is: "Such a great calamity; what can we do? Are the gods angry with us? Is there some spiritual process that we can do to avoid cyclones and floods in this country? Can we do some yaga or yagna for this?"

Isha Home School Annual Sports Meet -
Sep 09

Isha Happenings
16-Sep-2009
Isha Home School celebrated its fifth Annual Sports Meet with a two week sport extravaganza in the usual atmosphere of celebration and gaiety. As has been the culture since the school's inception, sport at Isha Home School is an opportunity for students, teachers and all those associated with the school to come together in the true spirit of sportsmanship.

The Only Way Out Is In, So Look Deep Within

Sadhguru's Columns
The Times of India
29-Sep-2009
We constantly seek a deeper experience of life, one way or the other. Whatever one may seek God, alcohol, drugs, meditation or any thing that one feels will provide relief, give pleasure or fulfillment you are only seeking to have a larger slice of life . The intention is always the same, somehow to have a deeper experience, to extract a little more out of life, to find access to that which is not yet for you.

Isha Dussehra 2009

Isha Happenings
27-Sep-2009

Isha Yoga Center celebrated Dussehra festival in a grand and colourful way on 27.09.2009 with over 3000 people from all over Tamil Nadu. The celebrations began with the traditional Kolu and Rangoli competitions, with both men and women taking part with equal enthusiasm.

Scary Yatra

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The New Indian Express
29-Jun-2009
Among the few good options available for pilgrims is the Kailash-Manasarovar yatra organised by the Kovai-based Isha Foundation. In total contrast to the erratic arrangements by many tour operators, Isha's planning is meticulous. In fact, it handles one of the largest groups of yatris in Nepal. This year, 514 pilgrims from 21 countries, including India, will undertake the pilgrimage in different batches beginning July 4. Isha has quite some experience under its belt as this is the fourth year of its tour operations.

Humanity or Morality

Sadhguru's Columns
Eve's Times
01-Sep-2009
The essential nature of 'humanity' has been suppressed and destroyed in many ways, so the substitute of 'morality' has been brought in to bring some order and sanity to your life. Right now, if you take away morality, a lot of people will behave like animals for some time. This has happened because we have not done anything to keep our humanity awake and alive all the time.

Yoga originated from THE ADI YOGI

Sadhguru's Columns
Rotary News
Sep 2009
In ancient times.India did not exist as one country, but still it was considered as one entity which they called as Bharat Varsha. By race, by language they were not same; by religion they did not worship the same Gods; politically they were never one, but still the land south of Himalayas was referred to as Bharat Varsha.

Idol Worship

Sadhguru's Columns
The Navhind Times
30-Aug-2009
Let us say a child sleeps with the mother. It knows the comfort of the mother's body. As it grows up you want the child to sleep separately, which is very essential for the growth of the child. If you suddenly put him in a separate bed he will feel uncomfortable. So what do you do? Usually you give him a toy- a doll or a teddy bear to hold onto.