GREAT QUOTES FROM
& EVENTS AT ISHA
(09-06-2012)
Readers will find below some of the
latest Quotable Quotes of Sadhguru Jaggi Vasudev. Some of the key words in each quotation (the action part) are highlighted in Red.
This time, below the quotes,
I have also given, very briefly, some of the interesting events at Isha and the major
activities of Sadhguru in particular. For readers’ benefit, I have also given the
relevant URL Nos. so that, they can see the full details themselves.
Please do enjoy the same. I will be grateful for your suggestions, comments (& criticism).
1. Irrespective of what the nature of
their immediate business may be, in reality there is only one business – the
business of human wellbeing. Whatever you are doing, fundamentally, you are
doing it for human wellbeing, it is just everyone’s scale and scope that is different.
For one person, human wellbeing means their wellbeing alone. For another
person, it includes their family; for another, it includes their community,
nation or race. For another, it includes everyone and everything on the planet.
2.
With
what you get, you can make a living. Only with what you give, you can make a life
3. A decision should not be in terms of
what you like and what
you do not like, it should be in terms of what works.
you do not like, it should be in terms of what works.
4. If we are serious about saving the
environment, we need to adjust our population growth to the natural
resources that we have
5. "Trees are our closest
relatives. What we exhale, they inhale. This is a constant relationship that no one can afford
to live without.
6. Every society needs individuals who go on planting
mango trees without thinking whether they would get to eat the fruit
or not.
7. If no matter what is given to you,
you can make
something
beautiful out of it, that is intelligence.
beautiful out of it, that is intelligence.
8. If you think one thing is sacred but
you cannot stand the other, if you love the creator but hate the creation, that is
vulgarity.
9. The essence of Isha Yoga is to make every aspect
of your life a
stepping stone for a higher possibility.
stepping stone for a higher possibility.
10.
Your
personality is something that you created. Once you are
aware of that, you could create it whichever way you want.
aware of that, you could create it whichever way you want.
11.
When
you came into this world, you came without a single
investment. So whatever happens in your life, anyway you are in
profit.
investment. So whatever happens in your life, anyway you are in
profit.
12.
Destiny is the result of all your actions
and the impressions that
you have taken in.
you have taken in.
13.
Fear
has essentially come into human life because of lack of
clarity. Wherever there is clarity, there is no fear.
clarity. Wherever there is clarity, there is no fear.
14.
Meditation
means to know life beyond the sphere of the physical; to know and experience life
not just at the surface but at the source.
15.
The
most beautiful moments in life are moments when you are
expressing your joy, not when you are seeking it.
expressing your joy, not when you are seeking it.
16.
Problem is not with the content of your
life. You have simply missed the context of your life!
SOME
NOTABLE ACTIVITIES AT ISHA
(I)
May
29th, a group of 75 business owners, entrepreneurs, investors and managers with
a wide variety of skills and talents came together at iii, to explore a new
method of supporting Isha’s mission of creating wellbeing through raising human
consciousness. Key projects were discussed that would support Isha’s objectives
while also allowing the entrepreneur, investor and business professional to
achieve the right returns for their effort and investment. (See Details at : http://blog.ishafoundation.org/happenings/the-business-of-wellbeing-the-first-invest-in-consciousness-meet-at-iii/)
(II)
After
Houston been a blitz of activity including Bhava Spandana, Sathsang in Atlanta
and of course the Federal Aviation Authority certification that included cross
country tests and a check ride. Well, now I can fly by myself without an
instructor – at least in the USA. There are a few more hurdles to be crossed in
India.-Says Sadhguru (6th June 2012)- (see :
http://blog.ishafoundation.org/sadhguru-spot/now-flying-solo/. )
(III)
Indian Politician Dr.
Jayaprakash Narayan, Member of the Andhra Pradesh Legislative Assembly and
President of the Lok Satta Party, in
conversation with the Mystic Sadhguru Vasudev, Saturday, June 16, 2012 at 8:00 PM (GMT+0530)-Readers
can register for the event. (see details at :
http://jpnarayan.eventbrite.com/)
(IV) for the householders, generally, the
full moon is considered more suitable to do anything spiritual because it is
gentle on them. And generally, what is gentle is also slow. Amavasya is for the
ascetic, for those who are in a rush, for those who don’t have much time…… The idea of becoming a householder is to
organize your survival, so that you don’t worry and struggle with it on a daily
basis.- Sadhguru talks beautifully about
the householder or the Grihastha :
(V)
Once
you are identified with something that you are not, the mind is an express
train that you can’t stop. Do what you want, it won’t stop. So you put the mind
on full steam and you want to apply brakes – it doesn’t work like that. You
must take your leg off the throttle first, before you brake any vehicle….says
Sadhguru, examining whether the Mind is a friend or enemy (see at : http://blog.ishafoundation.org/masters-words/is-my-mind-really-against-me/)
(VI) A hollow bamboo can
turn the passing Wind
into a Sweet Song.
turn the passing Wind
into a Sweet Song.
– this is
the part of a beautiful poem by Sadhguru (see it in full at : http://blog.ishafoundation.org/sadhguru-spot/poem-the-song-geeta/)
(VII) If you look at it closely enough,
there isn’t one thing in creation, without which you can exist. So I want you
to look upon everything as a mother. Today is the tree-mother’s day, tomorrow
is the mountain-mother’s day, next day is your biological mother’s day.- says
Sadhguru, examining the concept of mother’s day (see at :
(VIII) we just concluded an Inner
Engineering programme with 964 participants, the largest for USA till date. A
wonderful group of people and an outstanding level of organization; hats off to
our teachers and volunteers. They have been working for this for the last two
months. This effort to conduct Mega Programmes is a serious attempt to ignite a
silent revolution of self-realization. –says Sadhguru on 09th,May,2012
(see at : http://blog.ishafoundation.org/sadhguru-spot/isha-usa-going-into-overdrive/)
More details
of the program are at :
(IX) What is Good & what is Bad-why
are good people suffering (enjoy sudhguru’s talk on this at :
(X)
Indian
Express releases a new list of the 100 most powerful Indians each
year, reflecting the social, economic and political change in India.
Included in the list for the third straight year, Sadhguru was named last week
to the Indian Express Most Powerful Indians List for 2012. ( details at :
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