Valuetainment - April 16, 2026


“Thinking Is A WASTE Of Time” - Sadhguru Explains How Your Mind Is Holding You Back


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7 minutes

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1,135

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116

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00:00:00.000 From your experience, having dealt with as many people as you have,
00:00:02.800 what do we waste most of our lives thinking about that we shouldn't be?
00:00:11.580 Thinking itself is a waste of time.
00:00:16.220 Tell me more.
00:00:17.800 See, a human being has intelligence and intellect.
00:00:26.940 Intelligent and intellect?
00:00:28.020 Yes. There is intelligence. There is intellect.
00:00:32.940 What did you have for lunch or breakfast today?
00:00:37.240 Alper, my Turkish chef, made me some Turkish food.
00:00:40.800 It was good salad, good soup, and whatever the meat was, it was tender.
00:00:45.800 It was good.
00:00:47.340 Somebody died for you.
00:00:48.740 That's all I can tell you.
00:00:51.040 So whatever you eat, whatever that is, plant, animal, this, that,
00:00:58.020 Are you using your intellect and digesting it?
00:01:01.500 Or there's a deeper intelligence which is doing all this and making this into human
00:01:04.840 body?
00:01:05.840 I'm now using intellect.
00:01:09.700 There's a deeper intelligence which is doing that.
00:01:12.520 Sure.
00:01:13.520 Yeah, for sure.
00:01:14.520 So there is intelligence and there is intellect.
00:01:17.480 Intellect works only with the limited data that you have gathered, yes or no?
00:01:23.980 Can you think of something that you've never encountered?
00:01:27.460 Can I think of something I've never encountered?
00:01:29.700 Never encountered, never heard of.
00:01:31.260 You were not conscious of it.
00:01:32.800 Can you think about that?
00:01:34.680 Can I think of something?
00:01:35.820 Can I imagine a life I've never encountered?
00:01:38.660 Yes.
00:01:38.940 Can I think of something I've never encountered?
00:01:40.860 No.
00:01:41.040 No, you cannot imagine.
00:01:42.320 You will imagine something which is an exaggeration of what you already know.
00:01:49.320 Okay.
00:01:50.480 You cannot think of something for which there's no data inside.
00:01:55.260 Well, maybe I got to find the mushrooms you took 40 years ago.
00:01:58.280 I didn't take the mushrooms.
00:01:59.880 I know, you were telling me you thought you were on mushrooms.
00:02:03.120 Others thought I was on mushrooms.
00:02:05.740 Your intellect works only on data.
00:02:09.520 Your intelligence is not of that sort.
00:02:12.680 Your intelligence is life itself.
00:02:15.420 Life is an intelligent process.
00:02:17.880 So instead of being that intelligence,
00:02:19.860 you're given too much value to this intellect.
00:02:22.680 This entire thing has happened because, I don't know, people may think it's controversial.
00:02:31.580 But this human thought has become very important only because of European influence on the
00:02:38.600 world.
00:02:39.600 Otherwise, in India, we don't attach any importance to what you think. 0.98
00:02:44.160 You can think whatever you want because we know you can't think anything beyond your
00:02:47.620 data.
00:02:49.620 Can your computer operate beyond its data?
00:02:53.900 No.
00:02:54.900 Then why are people so insecure about AI?
00:02:58.900 Because they know it'll handle data better than them.
00:03:02.180 It's a fear.
00:03:04.820 Some people are fearing that.
00:03:05.820 Yes, because it'll handle data better than them.
00:03:08.380 Sure.
00:03:09.380 See, we have created a world where if you read three books, you can become a schoolteacher
00:03:13.360 and screw up the next generation of people.
00:03:15.620 You read ten books, you become a professor and bore the hell out of people .
00:03:20.740 You read just one book and you become an agent of God.
00:03:24.900 I read nothing and people accuse me that I'm a mystic.
00:03:28.060 This is strange world.
00:03:30.060 So with little data, people have been running businesses for a long time.
00:03:35.940 Now a simple machine, your phone can carry a million times more data than your brains.
00:03:43.240 so people are feeling insecure.
00:03:45.700 Okay, when I sell my business,
00:03:48.180 I want the best tax and investment advice.
00:03:50.360 I want to help my kids,
00:03:51.520 and I want to give back to the community.
00:03:53.520 Ooh, then it's the vacation of a lifetime.
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00:04:41.560 Do you think there's any benefit to math?
00:04:51.000 To mathematics?
00:04:52.020 Mathematics.
00:04:53.020 Well, that's the only thing which human beings have kind of come to,
00:04:59.800 which can connect with the physical realities of the existence
00:05:02.460 if you take it to a certain level.
00:05:05.400 Is there a benefit to it?
00:05:06.720 Because you're saying don't think.
00:05:07.860 So if you're saying you're in school, you're not listening to the teacher,
00:05:10.480 do we need math?
00:05:12.200 Do we not need math?
00:05:13.980 Mathematics is not because of your thinking,
00:05:16.000 because of observation.
00:05:19.520 This ten fingers are there
00:05:21.180 because you're thinking you have ten
00:05:22.540 or because it is there?
00:05:24.000 It is there.
00:05:24.660 It is there.
00:05:25.520 Right.
00:05:25.980 So we just learn to count it in a certain way.
00:05:28.420 Right.
00:05:29.420 But it is already there, isn't it?
00:05:32.260 Sure.
00:05:33.040 Yes.
00:05:33.720 So we didn't invent it.
00:05:35.520 It is there, we observed it.
00:05:39.200 Right.
00:05:39.640 But you are taught mathematics, as if you're saying at 25, you had a half a dozen businesses.
00:05:44.720 You had to be good in numbers, no?
00:05:47.580 Of course.
00:05:49.320 Because I had 10 fingers too.
00:05:50.920 But I hope you made more than $10.
00:05:53.040 A lot more.
00:05:54.020 Okay, so then you don't have a million fingers.
00:05:56.520 I know you've done well.
00:05:58.020 It's just, see, we're Indians.
00:06:00.780 We invented the zero.
00:06:02.380 We know how to add zero to 10.
00:06:05.460 Sure.
00:06:06.040 How many zeros is the question?
00:06:07.640 That's all, right?
00:06:08.340 Right.
00:06:08.580 Right. But when you say the idea of not needing to learn...
00:06:15.540 No, no. No, I'm not saying there's no need to learn.
00:06:18.520 All I'm saying is there is no distinction between intelligence and intellect.
00:06:25.260 Intellect, let's say intellect is in one part of your head and it's like your phone.
00:06:31.860 There are a lot of people who are addicted to the phone.
00:06:33.980 They can't keep it down. They're going into rehabilitation.
00:06:36.520 Sure.
00:06:37.360 So this is the same condition.
00:06:39.080 You don't know how to keep your intellect aside
00:06:41.320 and just employ the other aspects of your life.
00:06:44.720 All the time it's on.
00:06:46.600 From what?
00:06:47.440 From the limited data that you have.
00:06:49.380 Same things it's repeating in permutations and combinations.
00:06:53.060 It cannot come up with anything new.
00:06:55.340 But your intelligence is not like that.
00:06:57.600 If you give it necessary focus,
00:06:59.600 it will penetrate into anything and open doors in the universe.
00:07:03.920 You said something to your daughter.
00:07:05.300 You said, I won't teach anyone unsolicited.
00:07:11.480 Why is that?
00:07:12.540 Why is that a...
00:07:13.820 Because it won't work.
00:07:16.620 Because it's like the whole concept of when the student is ready.
00:07:19.560 Unless one is receptive.
00:07:20.960 Sure.
00:07:21.500 What is the point pouring things on them?
00:07:24.760 You go and pour water on a rock, will a tree grow out of it?
00:07:28.440 No.
00:07:28.840 No, you have to wait for it to melt down to become soil.
00:07:32.400 When do you know that the student's ready?
00:07:34.000 Huh?
00:07:34.500 When do you know the students ready?
00:07:36.040 I can see the eagerness in their face .
00:07:38.040 Purely based on the eagerness.
00:07:39.040 The people ask me, Sadhguru, how long will you live?
00:07:42.100 I said, the day I see any boredom in your faces, I'll be gone.
00:07:46.380 If I don't see thirst in your faces, I'll be gone.