Valuetainment - April 16, 2026


“Your Thoughts AREN’T Reality” - Sadhguru SHATTERS The Illusions Controlling Your Life


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8 minutes

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1,459

Sentence count

136

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Misogyny

1

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Toxicity

5

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Hate speech

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Summary

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In this episode, I talk about my journey to becoming a mystic, and how meditation changed my life. I hope you enjoy listening to this episode and share it with a friend or family member who is struggling with a similar situation.

Transcript

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00:00:00.000 My mother sent me to school .
00:00:04.720 My mother said, you don't stare here and there, pay attention to the teacher.
00:00:10.380 I went and paid attention to the teacher, the kind of attention they would have never
00:00:14.680 received in their life .
00:00:20.100 So initially they're talking something.
00:00:23.660 I kind of understood what they're trying to say.
00:00:26.640 Even after some time I realized they're just making noises, I'm making up the meanings
00:00:31.560 in my head.
00:00:32.560 See, if I start speaking in any of the South Indian languages right now, it'll be just
00:00:37.080 sounds for you, isn't it?
00:00:38.760 Or if you can speak Farsi, it's just sound for me. 0.87
00:00:45.240 Language is a conspiracy between both of us. 0.96
00:00:46.960 I make one sound, you make up the meaning.
00:00:49.960 So when I realized I was just four and a half, I realized they're just making sounds.
00:00:54.760 I'm the one who's making meanings in my head.
00:00:57.760 Hour after hour, different teachers come, they make noises, noises and go.
00:01:01.880 So I decided not to make meanings out of it, just listen to it, full attention.
00:01:06.640 I'm listening, listening, listening, the funny sounds they're making, making, making.
00:01:10.760 It was so amusing that a big smile spread on my face.
00:01:16.080 But they were not amused .
00:01:19.280 So my schooling went like this.
00:01:21.140 Most of the time I got lost on the way.
00:01:23.800 I went when they caught me, otherwise mostly I got lost.
00:01:29.740 And about seventeen, seventeen, eighteen years ago I think, this school where I studied
00:01:35.580 over fifty-five years ago, they came and said that it is their hundred and twenty-fifth
00:01:42.120 anniversary and I must come.
00:01:44.200 I said, please, the trustees had come, said, see, I'm not a good example for you students.
00:01:50.700 I'm not just a not good student.
00:01:52.460 I was not even a student.
00:01:55.940 I only came there when it was absolutely necessary.
00:01:59.440 Otherwise, I never came there.
00:02:00.800 Why me?
00:02:01.860 Then they said, our school has produced federal ministers,
00:02:05.700 our school has produced film stars.
00:02:08.320 So you went to a very good school.
00:02:10.000 It was a good private school.
00:02:11.420 It was reasonably, yes.
00:02:13.600 Okay.
00:02:14.000 I don't know whether it's good or not.
00:02:15.980 I was not a judge of that school.
00:02:18.400 It produced you, federal ministers, so it's like…
00:02:20.460 Federal ministers, film stars, cricketing staff.
00:02:23.000 Private school.
00:02:23.780 Yeah, private school.
00:02:24.420 Okay.
00:02:24.900 How many students total?
00:02:26.860 That school must have been 1,500.
00:02:28.580 Okay, so it's a good-sized school.
00:02:29.860 Yeah.
00:02:30.160 Okay.
00:02:30.840 So, you are the only mystic.
00:02:33.120 You must come.
00:02:34.900 I said, okay, and I went there.
00:02:37.740 So, the same quarter angle, the same oppressive buildings all around you, I just looked around.
00:02:43.280 A couple of big trees which was there when I was a student there.
00:02:46.080 That was also gone there and built something else up there.
00:02:48.580 Then I looked around, what to say to these people.
00:02:53.580 Then I saw this classroom and I suddenly remembered.
00:02:56.600 I was twelve years of age.
00:02:58.900 One afternoon the teacher is asking me some question.
00:03:03.360 By then I have come to a place, if I look at you, I know your past, present and future,
00:03:08.160 but I don't hear what you're saying.
00:03:11.000 I can see so many things, but you know, my attention is such that the sounds that you
00:03:17.520 a terror just going somewhere, but I know everything about other things that are happening
00:03:21.820 within you."
00:03:22.820 So the teacher is asking some question.
00:03:26.020 I'm full attention, I'm not distracted, full attention, but I don't hear what he says.
00:03:34.140 So for about thirty-five minutes, he makes effort to get some response from me.
00:03:41.400 Those are times when I did not speak for days on end, because when you don't know anything,
00:03:45.760 What do you say?"
00:03:46.760 I played.
00:03:47.760 I went to the field and played every day.
00:03:50.580 But classroom I escaped, because they want me to talk this and that.
00:03:54.700 I don't want to talk something that I don't know.
00:03:58.000 So after thirty-five minutes, he got so mad with me, he held me by the shoulder, shook
00:04:03.880 me violently like this.
00:04:05.520 Teacher?
00:04:06.520 Uh-huh.
00:04:07.520 You must be either the divine or the devil.
00:04:10.940 I think you are the leader.
00:04:13.520 Till then, my problem was, what is this?
00:04:18.320 What is that?
00:04:19.320 What is…
00:04:20.320 I have a billion questions, a cloud of questions around me, because I don't know anything.
00:04:25.360 One thing I was sure of, this is me.
00:04:28.240 This guy confused me about this also.
00:04:30.280 Is this divine?
00:04:31.280 Is this devil? 0.98
00:04:32.620 What the hell is this? 0.98
00:04:35.200 Then I tried to look, stare at myself, it didn't work, so I started closing my eyes.
00:04:40.080 My journey began.
00:04:42.460 minutes, hours, days, I close my eyes, close my eyes, close my eyes. And here I am.
00:04:49.180 Got it. So meditation was a big part of your life.
00:04:52.540 I wouldn't call it meditation because the English word meditation doesn't mean anything.
00:04:57.900 It's just intensity of life.
00:05:00.460 Intensity of life.
00:05:02.620 Yep. See, all you got is just life. Rest is all made up in your head.
00:05:08.860 Have you seen, have you been to anybody's funeral?
00:05:11.340 many what happened you i'm in the insurance business we sold a lot of policies
00:05:19.580 i thought it happened in iran no no iran military insurance business you get clients that pass away
00:05:26.940 but yeah i've been too many okay have you been too many no i've been okay so if you go to a
00:05:33.180 this thing the funeral that guy is lying down there properly dressed him proper posture that
00:05:38.780 That guy never had such a good posture in his life.
00:05:41.540 Now he's proper like that.
00:05:43.680 Yeah.
00:05:44.680 You go and tell him – yesterday he was hopping around for many things – tell him,
00:05:48.760 you won the Tennessee State Lottery, hundred and thirty million dollars.
00:05:53.960 You think he's going to sit up?
00:05:54.960 No.
00:05:55.960 Why is he not interested?
00:05:58.020 You tell him, we found a huge diamond in your backyard.
00:06:01.560 Will he sit up?
00:06:02.560 No. 1.00
00:06:03.560 When you're a young man, whatever you were interested in, underclothed young woman, you 1.00
00:06:08.020 You talk about them. 0.99
00:06:09.020 Will he sit up?
00:06:10.020 No.
00:06:11.020 What happened to him?
00:06:12.200 He lost only one thing – life.
00:06:14.580 How come he's lost interest in all these things?
00:06:17.520 Because that's all you have. 0.98
00:06:19.140 Rest of it is goddamn imagination, isn't it? 0.99
00:06:21.920 You're misunderstanding your psychological activity as an existential process. 0.99
00:06:27.460 This is the biggest problem with human beings.
00:06:30.240 Your drama, you're thinking, is life.
00:06:33.380 Drama that's happening in your head in the form of thoughts and emotions.
00:06:36.980 thinking it's life itself. It's not life, it's your drama. You can conduct it whichever way you
00:06:42.440 want. Because you're such a bad director of this drama, you think life is going wrong.
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00:07:49.520 Because you're such a bad director of this drama, you think life is going wrong.
00:07:54.080 Tell me if your thoughts and emotions just happen the way you want.
00:07:57.820 Will you be blissed out every moment?
00:08:01.620 If it's the way you want.
00:08:05.440 Yes.
00:08:06.420 Why don't you do that?
00:08:08.380 That's all I did.
00:08:11.040 I've not fixed the whole world.
00:08:12.900 I've fixed myself.
00:08:14.160 Yeah.
00:08:14.780 But it's a very hard thing.
00:08:16.500 You make it seem like it's easy.
00:08:17.800 It's not easy to do for most people.
00:08:19.940 Well, tell us how simple it is.
00:08:21.240 Because, you know, 95, 99% of the world has a hard time with this.
00:08:26.960 Say, do one thing.
00:08:28.580 You are in Miami.
00:08:30.180 You see only sunrises.
00:08:31.620 probably. But you do one thing, tomorrow you face west and try to watch the sunrise,
00:08:38.820 maybe you'll break your neck, it's very hard. So if you try to do something the wrong way,
00:08:44.900 it'll be very hard. How you do things outside, if you try to do the same…
00:08:52.500 if you try to employ the same method to do the subjective thing, of course it'll be very hard.