Ishanga

Yes, the need to look outside of Yourself for Happiness, Pleasure and Fulfillment is killing the planet, and eventually us and every other life too. The crazier part is that it is not working lol, in the pursuit for Happiness and such, ppl are not even happier today than ever before, their more depressed, sad, lonely and anxious.. Hey if it worked and we were happier because of it then okay that is fine, but when the opposite is true and the planet is paying the price for it, this is massive Insanity to its highest limits!!

Yes exactly, sooner or later You have to deal with your Karma and to first stop creating more karma in daily life (by living now, not reacting to situations, but responding, accepting life as it is, etc...) and to deal with the alotted karma given for this life, that can't be done via psychedelic experiences, it gives you the oneness experience, great sense of Love/belonging and insights, but it doesn't allow you to deal with your shit that you have to deal with...Yoga does in the long run...especially with a living Guru to help you..

For sure Shambhavi is Kundalini kryia, but he toned it down for the masses, made it a bit duller and slower process, no siddhis should arise unless its a long time period after initiation... I did the Bahava Spanda course, it was fun but I'm not the super emotional type, it was worthwhile to go thru, but it didn't have great affects for me personally, many others felt it more strongly, I really liked being in his presence for the 3+days though, observed him allot... Yes he has lots of practices that are not too public, and I agree, most ppl in today's general state of awareness and mental distress could not handle it, even on the physical level ppl are too weak to handle real Kryia Yoga as he would like to teach it, he has too tone down most everything he does, even when in his presence he can blow you away, but he tones it down because of overall craziness and lack of substance that ppl of today have...

Try Float device, where your in a chamber, floating on body temp water and epsom salts, total darkness and silence for the most part, that will get You in the mood anyways...

From my research of the masters over millennia of time, if You are in Bliss at the moment of physical death, this will be with You in the inbetween stages, You keep the Energy/Etheric and Bliss Sheaths, the earth and mental shealth drop off, but Your Karmic substance which is what keeps it all together is captured in those shealths, so it goes with You when you get another body...but your in Bliss, feeling a sort of Bliss trance dream state while all of this is happening, ghosts are real to put it in simple terms..If the opposite happens, your in fear and miserable at time of death that is your inner state when disembodied, its a Hell of sorts... To find another suitable body it could be days or 100's of years, time means nothing in this place..the more conscious You are when death happens, the more choice You have in choosing the next body... obviously if Your Enlightened you may not come back unless You have mastery over the mechanics of life and can consciously create Karma at will... Of course all of this is just a story, don't believe it, don't disbelieve it, just get curious about it, if Your conscious enough about Life while alive, you will know everything about Death too..

Ego is just a tool, like a hand or foot, it allows us to function within a Tribe/Society, it includes a personality and traits handed down thru families for survival purposes.. When they say that we are Social People, that we need others and to be around others, this is mostly for Survival purposes as well, its easier in many ways to survive when a group of ppl are developing better ways to live and doing it all as a unit, helping one another, but at times living alone (off grid) is wise too, it depends on the situations around us and technology... Life is Leala, a play/game of sorts, that is why we are here, to have Experiences, the deal with others that in some ways are separate from ourselves via the Body and Mind, and to deal with Karma, residual impressions from past actions in the 4 areas of your life...There is layers to Life, there is the Ultimate aspect, Oneness, Completeness, Bliss, Clarity and such, then there is community, giving/taking, physical death and rebirth, family and such things...

NIce Sharing!! I think like anything it can affect ppl differently, some have good trips on 5 meo, others don't, but with Sadhguru and Isha Your Initiated into it, and the IE preliminary work is awesome it opens you up in a way so that when you learn the practice it gets inside of You and then it happens..He said in one of the videos that it works on the pranamaya kosha sheath which is the Energy body, once that is taken care of and is clean and intense then the sky is the limit, but I know he doesn't want ppl to necessarily get enlightened and then disappear, first its not a good look for the organization (Isha) and he wants "Undercover Yogi's" here on Earth to make this place a better place to be, so he holds ppl back a bit for this purpose...

He did mention in the video that they have similar type things happening in India and for Years, but he didn't get specific, I think he likes to keep on point when answering questions... He spent allot of time alone in the jungles of India, before and after his enlightenment, so who knows what happened during those times... The main point is that using psychedelics as a primary way to find Enlightenment is not so good, I agree, as well as using it as a first off way to find truth and Enlightenment... As others have said in this thread, he shares very powerful tools, methods, kriyas that bring ppl to profound experiences, I've used some of them and stand by that statement, most here that are the nay sayers don't know about these practices, they are not the same as the Yoga you see out there as not all Yoga practices and teachers are the same or equal, with a Living Guru the practices are much more powerful and effective..

Don't ask Why, why creation, why am I here, just bring Yourself to your Highest potential, and what is that? Bare minimum is are You Peaceful naturally throughout the day, no matter what is happening around You, start there, then let life open up. Its the profoundness of Your Experience that matters, everything is happening within You, you only ask why because Your profoundness is not yet intense enough for You to experience that You are Life, if that was the case, you wouldn't ask Why, you would bask in the experience of it...

People here honestly believe they are God, and the only one, nothing else but them exists, that they know everything, but continue to argue about things that make no sense or cannot be talked about in logical ways, and it repeats itself over and over again, I call that dumb. Someone with great understanding of Human Nature answering a question based on his Experience (which no one here knows for sure) and Perception which is great, I don't call that person a clown, its their perspective and sharing wisdom is good for Us. I just wonder why a young guy, that has a huge following on Youtube, but has taken allot of psychedelics has health problems and needs a break all of a sudden, things that make me go Hmmm, sort of proves the point of what he is saying in the video...

Forget about this sort of stuff, its a huge distraction when on the Spiritual Path, just make Yourself Happy and Healthy, that is the most empowering thing You can do for Yourself and Others in this world, make Health/Happiness a natural state of Being, establish Your Being first, then go out to perform Action (Physical, Mental, Emotional, Energy action), then Have the fruit of Your Labor and Experience of Life:)

Anything that is Disempowering to Life, War, Famine, Climate Change since it is not only about Humans, its about killing other life forms too, Rape, Murder (killing itself is neither right or wrong, sometimes one may have to Kill, its the Intention behind the action that matters, but murder for profit or revenge or personal gain is disempowering towards Life), Slavery, Repression of the Masses, Over Killing of Wildlife and Plant/Tree Life, insects too. If all the worms were to die tomorrow all life would be doomed, if all Humans died tomorrow the world would be just fine...

Just think about what you say here, if he took up all the challenges he gets from everyone, he wouldn't have time to do anything else, would You if You were in his position, travelling all the time, commitments all over the world, some dummy says "Hey I dare you to try this hit of LSD (would you even trust that it is LSD??) and see what happens".. This is a joke!!

Nothing as serious as lots here have, but it goes both ways, have I had blown out outer body experiences, no, but I've had continued Peace and Harmony mentally and health wise, with periods of great Bliss, I will compare that with anyone that has had on/off experiences of Oneness and Completeness, thinking they are God, then coming back down to reality, plus this is not about Me... For the record I'm not against psychedelics myself, I want to try it out, but I think it has to come at the right time and place, and in union with a serious Yoga practice, but I think when one has had that practice and its given them lots of stability, a trip might help them along the way, but to use it as a primary practice in finding Truth and Reality is a no no in my book!

No..When I first saw his video's they for sure intrigued me, and I did tons of research on him, as well as listened to many others, then I decided to try his Isha Free Kryia, which works very well, then did the online Inner Engineering course and did it live as well in Detroit in 2012. it blew me away for sure,, the way he can explain Truth and Reality is like no other, that is for sure, he simplifies it so its easily understandable, and as others have said the 21 min Practice of Shambhavi Mahamudra is very powerful, had me blissed out within 2 weeks time of practicing it, and they've done studies on it and how it changes the chemistry in your body, so yes I really appreicate the man for sure, but the practices he shares are what I really am into...

I have no doubt that the DMT experience is super intense...Even Sadhguru calls what he does publicly a Circus, that it is not the real thing, its just a way to gain interest and curiosity, it is not what he is about or the aim of his reason for here being here.. Life is Lela, a game of sorts, if You play Life too seriously it will cause a certain effect, live it like a game and that will cause a certain effect, I'd rather do the game version than take it too seriously:) Its interesting as well how he has been doing this for over 30yrs, day in day out, he sleeps maybe 4 hrs a night, with no end in sight, very few breaks, and others that try to do the same need breaks, I wonder why?

Sleep is practice for Death, for you in your experience when in Deep Sleep the world does not exist, so essentially it is a sort of Death, death of all your survival senses in a conscious way, even though they are still on recording everything. A good practice is too try to be Aware at the moment You fall asleep, if you can do this, then at the moment of physical death this sort of Awareness will help you in the inbetween stages before you gather another body and life span, in fundamental essence you have chosen this life, and all the lives you have been through, just the choice has been done unconsciously, if do this practice and bring more consciousness to your life then this will allow you more choice in all your life and beyond...

I anticipated that ppl would say most exactly this, that he has no clue what he is talking about, I think this is a huge error in judgement, first you don't know what he knows, so your just assuming, which means little, second he has so much experience with tons of ppl, you don't think he's never met a student that had psychedelic experiences before? Third he has great insight, obvious siddhi powers, read his autobiography, he can read your karmic imprint almost immediately when in his presence, this is what Guru's do, that is why they are so important, they see things you can't see about yourself so that Liberation happens within this lifetime... I think many are jealous, he has the experience they search for via psychedelics naturally, they don't, so a sort of resentment arises unconsciously...

They say that whatever Your Lacking is what You want to most, lots of lonely people out there they say, and Love songs have been around forever... God is not Love, God is Ultimate Intelligence, Love is not the highest, Ecstasy is the highest experience..Devotion (being Devoid of Self) is a higher intensity Emotion than Love imo...

People compare to much, they see the lifestyles of the Rich and Famous, and think they want that but are not rich and famous and still have to continue to work to make a living, if they didn't compare (I wanna be like the Jones) none of this would be happening...

I think these sorts of things are too complex to exactly define as to why someone ends up in one situation vs another situation. Success as I define is outside of Your inner nature and experience, it is pleasantness that is in your surroundings, home, work, and such places.. So called Successful ppl are not the happiest or healthiest, so imo it is not something that one should aspire too, I would not want to trade places with Elon Musk, Taylor Swift, Donald Trump, or even ppl I like like Sly Stallone, because they are not really free ppl, i am not free either in many ways, I'm a slave to the dollar, they are not, they are slaves to others opinions and loyalty, but they have tons of money, fame, travel, they work in the field of their choice, and are creatives, but they suffer like anyone else. Human Beings can suffer their success as much as they can suffer their failures, so they are all in the same boat if they are not evoking their Free Will via raising the Consciousness level within themselves.. Some ppl are more plan and goal orientated, they can focus better, and have discipline to achieve their goals, so on the surface they get somewhere faster, others don't have this so they drift around and end up with lower paying jobs and such lifestyles, its really as simple as that. D Trump was born to be the way he is and has what he has from it, I don't envy him at all...

Yes, this is like a Sangha or sorts, we discuss things over, try not to take it personally, and have fun and maybe learn a bit too along the way...in one way it makes us have to look at another's POV and try to understand it better, it only gets crazy when one becomes an absolutist.. In essence I don't really know anything other than some survival skills, some hacks on getting peaceful and how to grow old with some grace and wisdom lol...

I don't but its the same for the ppl talking on the video, and your posts as well, there is no exact proof, we are just discussing and theorising, which is all we can do here on a forum like this, all of this is conceptual, no matter what someone says, it may be their truth, but when they communicate it with everyone else its just a story for us,,,