The person that we are is also the result of our connection to one another, to the world around us and to our history as humans. “Karma is the residual impressions of all the actions we perform, physically, mentally, emotionally and energetically.”įrom the moment we are born till this moment, he explains, all that we have seen, all that we have heard, every thought or emotion we have experienced and action we have performed or not performed – inaction matters too – has a consequence on the person that we have become. “People dumb it down to a simple reward and punishment… But karma is neither good nor bad,” Sadhguru says.
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So, I suspended my disbelief and listened as he explained that karma is often misunderstood, especially in the Western world.įor example, we often talk about good karma and bad karma, as if there’s someone sitting on their throne in the sky pointing their finger at each of the 7.8 billion of us and doling out rewards or punishments for our thoughts and actions.
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The humility of it made me excuse moments where the book goes beyond the limitations of my ordinary Western brain, like when he writes about sitting in a cave and perceiving the energy of a dead monk whose left leg was amputated nineteen hundred years earlier. This was a long way from Osho, the “Rolls Royce guru” or Bikram with his fleet of Bentleys. When I spoke with Sadhguru he was in a camper van in El Paso, Texas, trucking around the United States on his book tour. “So the idea of having a master becomes critically important… because they have achieved this state and they can guide you.” “It’s one of the most difficult things to achieve as a human being,” he says. This is because they “tap into this deep wisdom” that is passed down over millennia from teacher to teacher.ĭr Sat Bir Singh Khalsa, an assistant professor of medicine at Harvard Medical School, adds that surpassing the limits of ordinary human experience through transcendence requires a teacher. Lisa Allwell, from Yoga Australia, says that in a world where we’re more digitally connected than ever but often disconnected in real life, gurus like Sadhguru are gaining larger followings. What is it about this guru that has made him so revered in the West and what does he have to say about karma, an Eastern concept that has captured the imagination of Westerners so fully that is has become part of our lexicon? Robbins called the book a “must-read”, Chopra said it was “invaluable” and Brady gushed that it will “put you back in charge of your own life”.