Valuetainment - April 16, 2026


“The Fear Of FAILURE” - Sadhguru UNCOVERS The Mind Games KILLING Your Potential


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00:00:30.000 Who do you think you are?
00:00:31.800 If the mirror is put in front of you,
00:00:34.280 who do you think Sadhguru is?
00:00:37.220 Just pure life.
00:00:39.740 No mess up with anything.
00:00:43.220 No philosophy, no ideology, no belief system, no nothing.
00:00:47.940 I have not been messed by the world in which I live.
00:00:50.700 I'm just the way the Creator intended life to be.
00:00:55.740 A lot of siblings?
00:00:57.260 A lot of siblings, brothers, sisters, or no?
00:00:59.780 Brother one, two sisters, one passed away.
00:01:02.920 And where are you at in the...
00:01:04.620 Sorry to hear about one of your sisters, but...
00:01:06.520 I'm the last one, so...
00:01:07.820 You're the youngest.
00:01:08.660 Yes.
00:01:09.420 Which makes sense.
00:01:10.720 Have you ever seen these videos when it's four kids
00:01:13.040 and the youngest one is the most vibrant, craziest one out of all of them?
00:01:18.380 We have four kids.
00:01:19.600 And our youngest one is very different than the other three.
00:01:24.580 Do you think there's something there where you kind of watch your siblings or no?
00:01:27.800 No.
00:01:29.480 I didn't pay attention to them.
00:01:32.140 I knew them very well, but close, but…
00:01:37.040 I was close, very close to the family and friends, but I was aloof too, very aloof.
00:01:42.160 I just spent a lot of time in the jungles, forest areas around the city.
00:01:49.540 If I found ten rupees at that time, I bought two loaves of bread and a couple of eggs and
00:01:55.100 I disappeared into the jungle.
00:01:56.100 When I ran out of food after three days, four days, I came back.
00:02:00.000 So there would be searches all over, police complaints and everything.
00:02:04.920 But after some time, they realized wherever he goes, he comes back.
00:02:10.060 Even till today?
00:02:11.180 Even till today you find yourself going back home?
00:02:15.020 Now there are too many homes all over.
00:02:16.900 So wherever I go, I say it's my home.
00:02:19.260 So no problem.
00:02:21.980 That's interesting.
00:02:22.840 What would you say, you know, for someone like you,
00:02:24.880 I'm curious how you would answer this.
00:02:26.360 What do you think is your biggest accomplishment in life?
00:02:30.700 I have no accomplishments.
00:02:34.100 You said you don't have any accomplishments?
00:02:36.140 No, I don't think so.
00:02:36.820 I'm just doing my best.
00:02:37.960 That's about it.
00:02:39.360 I don't make a big deal about what's happened.
00:02:42.740 Because I know, in my perception,
00:02:48.320 I'm not even doing 2% of what I can do.
00:02:51.000 Because to create situations which are conducive, to create what you can do, is very difficult
00:02:58.960 in the world.
00:02:59.960 Why?
00:03:00.960 Because to convince everybody that this is possible, to make them see this is possible
00:03:06.080 to do this.
00:03:07.080 I told you, I thought I will get everybody blissed out in two and a half years time .
00:03:12.460 But everybody is so invested in their miseries, you can't get them out of it, though they
00:03:16.740 want to be blissful.
00:03:17.740 It's not that they don't want.
00:03:19.760 They want to be, but they can't make up their mind.
00:03:23.640 That's interesting.
00:03:26.580 What's been the most difficult thing you dealt with, even today?
00:03:30.820 Do you have challenges with anything in your life that you have a hard time with?
00:03:35.000 There are many, many challenges every day.
00:03:38.800 There's no day without challenges.
00:03:42.400 And I don't have a hard time with it.
00:03:45.800 I don't give myself a hard time.
00:03:48.660 And I have not given this freedom to anybody that they can give me a hard time.
00:03:54.820 So you don't give people the freedom to give you a hard time?
00:03:58.320 No.
00:03:59.320 Okay.
00:04:00.440 So how does one do that?
00:04:02.160 See, because this is possible because I am not a vested interest in any way.
00:04:09.280 Right now I get hundred people together and start doing this.
00:04:13.580 If fifty people in that just go the wrong way or don't do it, drop it halfway, I will
00:04:21.520 try to inspire them, get it done.
00:04:25.140 But whether that's done or not done is not of any consequence to me personally.
00:04:31.300 It's useful to people.
00:04:32.800 If it happens, it's good for the world.
00:04:34.580 Well, if you are the world, if you don't want to do it, that's about it.
00:04:40.760 So, wherever I see any possibility, I start something.
00:04:44.540 People are always scared, Sadhguru, if it doesn't work, what to do?
00:04:48.140 I said, if it doesn't work, what?
00:04:49.720 What's the problem if it doesn't work?
00:04:51.220 We made an attempt, it didn't work.
00:04:53.940 So, just about anything, whether it's agriculture, environment, health, education, you name it,
00:05:00.380 in every field I'm there, now many things have come to such a scale that we have become
00:05:05.460 global leaders in some of those things.
00:05:08.380 But many other things have not worked, but I don't think they are failures.
00:05:12.980 At least we made an attempt, maybe somebody else will carry it on tomorrow.
00:05:16.940 But the important thing as a human being, if you do not do what you cannot do, no problem.
00:05:23.680 But if you do not do what you can do, you're a disastrous life in my perception.
00:05:28.340 I don't want myself or anybody around me to be that kind of disasters, because this is
00:05:33.460 the problem with most human beings.
00:05:35.360 they're not even doing what they can do, because they have fear of failure.
00:05:42.160 What is failure in this life? You'll die one day, hello?
00:05:46.080 Everything that you think must happen, you attempt. It may happen, it may not happen.
00:05:51.080 Because for anything to happen, the situations have to be conducive, world has to receive you.
00:05:57.000 World may reject some things that you say.
00:06:00.680 Well, big people, well, Gautam Buddha was poisoned, Manzoor was poisoned, Jesus was
00:06:07.640 nailed.
00:06:08.640 Well, you can say they're failure.
00:06:11.480 They're not failure, they did what they could do.
00:06:14.840 People were who they were, around them.
00:06:18.120 Do you read a lot?
00:06:20.320 Are you a big reader or no?
00:06:22.020 One time, way back.
00:06:24.600 But I don't get much time to read anymore.
00:06:26.520 One time way back.
00:06:27.680 See, what I did was after I finished my high school, I took a year's break because I decided
00:06:34.920 I'll educate myself.
00:06:36.300 I don't want to go through the education because it was quite silly for me to go sit in a classroom
00:06:41.780 and they're talking some stupid stuff for one hour, which is in five minutes you could
00:06:46.880 know this.
00:06:48.680 So I took a break and this was a time when my family who… in India, education is valued
00:06:56.360 as the most sacred thing, you know, in that generation.
00:06:59.640 In a big way.
00:07:00.800 Huge way.
00:07:01.520 In a big way.
00:07:02.080 I mean, you know, you guys got IIT, you guys got, the whole culture is about education.
00:07:06.940 Especially if your father is a physician, you have to become a physician, it's compulsory.
00:07:11.700 Did any of the kids become any of the siblings?
00:07:13.280 No.
00:07:14.180 All three failed, they didn't go.
00:07:16.300 So everything came on me.
00:07:18.540 Wow.
00:07:19.280 So my father is like academically very top guy in his time.
00:07:25.220 He studied with a lot of hardship and he has preserved his textbooks, medical textbooks,
00:07:31.440 his notes, handwritten notes, piles and piles of notes.
00:07:36.180 He someday wants his children to take up all this stuff.
00:07:39.340 So, he's telling me all this.
00:07:41.720 I said, see, see, I'm not going to be a doctor, that's for sure, don't pin this on me.
00:07:47.960 I said, I'll educate myself, I don't want to go to college anymore.
00:07:51.980 I'll finish my high school and then I decided I'll go spend time in the library.
00:07:58.120 Masjid University had a fantastic library, it still has I think.
00:08:02.080 So morning nine o'clock it opens, closes at eight in the evening.
00:08:05.220 At that time , I was so physically active, you know, I was like all over the place
00:08:12.000 doing all kinds of things, in the jungles, climbing mountains, all kinds of stuff.
00:08:17.680 You won't believe what all I did .
00:08:19.940 This is what age?
00:08:21.940 From the age of eleven, twelve onwards.
00:08:25.100 So now I'm eighteen and I've just cleared my high school and I don't want to go to the
00:08:31.480 university, which is unbelievable in my family that you don't want to educate yourself is
00:08:36.380 like a crime.
00:08:38.740 It's not just a simple sabbatical as it is seen today.
00:08:43.280 At that time it was, if you don't go to the university, your life is finished.
00:08:48.400 That's the understanding.
00:08:50.040 So I went and sat in the Mysore library, Mysore University library, at 9am when it opens,
00:08:56.640 I'm there.
00:08:57.640 I eat a big breakfast at home and go because I'm such a big eater at that time.
00:09:03.240 I would eat almost ten to twelve times of what I'm eating today.
00:09:06.560 Stop it.
00:09:07.560 Really.
00:09:08.560 I never put on weight because my metabolism was like that when my activity was like that.
00:09:14.660 So I'm not somebody who can bear hunger, I have to eat.
00:09:18.600 But that one year, I ate only one breakfast and came back in the night and ate dinner.
00:09:23.600 It was huge suffering physically.
00:09:26.120 But I sat there and read just anything and anything.
00:09:29.620 From Popular Mechanics to Homer, to National Geographic to this and that, literature, philosophy,
00:09:37.180 particularly geography caught my attention.
00:09:39.060 I read a lot about the world geography.
00:09:41.940 That one year, I gobbled up lots of books.
00:09:45.360 Lots.
00:09:46.360 From…
00:09:47.360 How long ago was that?
00:09:48.360 How long ago was that?
00:09:49.560 I was 18.
00:09:50.780 So you have not read anything since then?
00:09:53.120 Not much.
00:09:53.900 I read some literature because I found a taste for literature.
00:09:57.400 But in the last 20, 25 years, I hardly can even read a newspaper.
00:10:02.360 When I'm in India, I get to read newspaper.
00:10:05.080 Here, even getting a newspaper is tough.
00:10:07.320 I can't read on those iPads and all.
00:10:08.980 I don't feel like it's a real thing to read.
00:10:12.580 Do you think reading is a waste of time?
00:10:15.200 You think there's benefit in reading?
00:10:16.380 How do you view reading?
00:10:17.140 See, I'm not reading for, let's say, I never read anything spiritual, ever.
00:10:24.760 Not the Bible, not the Buddhism, none of…
00:10:27.680 None of it. 0.99
00:10:28.680 Nothing.
00:10:29.680 I read literature.
00:10:30.680 I love literature.
00:10:31.680 I read a lot of poetry.
00:10:32.680 I wrote a lot of poetry, and I also read a lot about world geography.
00:10:41.580 Why geography?
00:10:42.580 Why interest in geography?
00:10:43.580 Land always took me… you know, I cycled across South India just to see the land.
00:10:49.280 Then I crisscrossed India on my motorcycle many times over at that time.
00:10:54.720 So because for me, the land… not going anywhere in particular, simply end to end till I hit
00:11:00.100 the border, I go and again turn back and ride another direction.
00:11:04.600 Like that I rode.
00:11:06.640 Because for me, drinking up the land, even today, I just do those kind of rides.
00:11:11.980 I rode across Canada.
00:11:13.540 I rode to Tibet last year.
00:11:15.560 I know you're big on motorcycles.
00:11:16.920 You definitely like to do that.
00:11:19.440 It's not about the motorcycle, it's about the land.
00:11:22.480 It's not about the motorcycle, it's about the land.
00:11:24.060 The very many features of the land,
00:11:26.880 the way the world is.
00:11:27.840 This is the planet we live on, all right?
00:11:29.980 If you're not interested in that, then what?