Ishanga

Sadhguru explains it well here, topics discussed: - Don't fall into the trap of weekend Enlightenment retreats, then being declared Enlightened by someone else, You won't miss it if it happens to You! - Psychedelic usage and experience, it can give one a glimpse of Oneness, Absolute and the Reality, but it fades away after, this is not Enlightenment, Enlightenment is not a Doing, its a Realization that happens once the atmosphere is set up so that it flowers and blossoms naturally, that is where the work/sadhana is, in setting up the Environment. - there are 4 types of Yoga, Jnana Yoga (Yoga of Intellect), Bhakti Yoga (Yoga of Devotion/Emotion), Karma Yoga (Yoga of Action),. Kriya Yoga (Yoga of Internal Energies), each participant of each of these disciplines thinks the others are rubbish, but once You realize that these are just 4 aspects of who You are, Head, Heart, Body and Energy and they all come together and are aligned with one another, then things line up and Enlightenment is a natural consequence!

You'll find that there are many video's where he explains what Enlightenment is, none of them are of the same message, so my take away is not to define it in strict terms.. For me Enlightenment is when in Embodied form, You realize and experience life beyond this Embodiment, beyond this Body/Mind/Ego complex that brings about a sense of Individuality and Exclusiveness, You realize everything is Inclusive, One, Complete, via that a Great Sense of Bliss is with You always, You feel pain still, cry when loved ones are hurt or die, but You are still in Bliss, Bliss is not an Emotion, but one of the Greatest Experiences one can have within themselves, so Bliss is a fundamental aspect of Enlightenment, as is Truth and Consciousness... Sat Chit Ananda!!!

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I don't know who he thinks is Enlightened, I don't think he thinks there are many... All he says about himself is that he knows the ultimate nature of this Human Mechanism, from its origins to its end, and via that he can relate it to others since they are the same sort of life as he is.. I don't think he has directly claimed to be enlightened, all he says in that regard is why are you concerned about what is happening with him, and to not judge him as either this or that, and to not look up or down upon anyone, just see them and recognize them as they are now.. As to what he is sharing, if You use it and it works great, if it doesn't work then drop it and move on to something else, I think this is a great way to look at it and is good advice! For sure he has something going on that is not the norm, that cannot be denied, he's proven it on a physical level (decades of endless work, travel, not missing meeting and events, putting his life at risk (see save soil and other events over the years), and millions of testimonies that he is the real deal), so if that is not enough credibility then what is?? Alot of this has to do with Credibility, one can say so and so is not Enlightened, or is Enlightened, but what credibility do they have? Sadhguru has more Credibility than most anyone on the planet when it comes to Spiritual matters, so it doesn't matter what anyone one individual thinks of him, he doesn't care, will go on doing what he is doing regardless...

AUM is the only sounds without using the Tongue, and its a Root word for many other religious words like AMEN.. SJV describes it here quite well!

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Everything is a cult, this thing here is a cult and within it are sub cults, there are the pure ones that do no psychedelics and go via the sadhana way, there are others that don't do that and do the psychedelics only and try to find realization, and then there the non dualists, and such, it goes on and on, everyone is their own cult of sorts, so Osho didn't really have a cult, the ppl there made it that way, same with Sadhguru and all the others, no matter what You do, unless you do it totally solo, they are cults sooner or later...

@Someone here Good Stuff! I've been preaching the first BE then DO then HAVE modus operandi for awhile now, having natural Happiness/Bliss is what BEINGNESS is, from this standpoint then You go out and/or DO then HAVE, or HAVE then DO, it makes it all that more worthwhile and easier and fun, which is the basic point of life right, go out, fail or succeed, do things, don't do things, learn/unlearn, make friends, lose friends and loved ones and all that stuff, if You suffer it all along the way you'll be stopped at point A and never go all the way, so when Your established in Your BEING then you can go full stride as Sadhguru says, not 2 steps forward, 1 step back as most are doing:)

@Someone here Agree, Happiness, Like Bliss and Ecstasy (which are just more intense Experiences, Ecstasy being the Highest Intense Positive Experience we can have, Peace being the lowest of the Positive, anything below Peace is not living Human Potential) are not Emotions I would say... Pleasure is a shadow of Happiness, it comes then goes and is mostly based on 5 sense organ stimulation, Happiness is not this, its a naturally occurring experience once You create the appropriate atmosphere within Yourself, usually via Sadhana of some sort, some have it more naturally, others not so much, this is due to their individual Karmic makeup, but a Quality Sadhana can fix all of that, the Sadhana does not produce the Happiness/Bliss or Ecstasy, it just fixes the Atmosphere within You to allow it too naturally flow, we are meant to always Experience these feelings, it enhances are natural abilities on all fronts and allows Life to open up and new Potentials to become available to You:)

Most ppl the reach enlightenment, which is defined as a state of being that is permanent, dissolve at the same moment they say, for many it happens at the moment of physical death.. The Guru's, Rishis, Teachers that are enlightened stay on because 1) they know how to consciously create Karma to stay here to do certain work or 2) They know the mechanics of Life, can consciously manipulate it to do some work here as well.. all others dissolve, their individuality is gone, they merge with the Absolute, like a drop of the ocean being put back into the ocean, its no longer a drop.. So those that are Enlightened and here functioning, consciously create their ego for a certain purpose, whereas most of us are unaware of our ego, we live by accident and it controls us via our belief that it is us..

P.S. I've never taken MDMA, so why can't ppl fight while on it, compared to Alcohol, I've of course use it and I've dealt with thousands of ppl that abused it while I did security work, its a very crazy substance that we have legalized, that most ppl cannot handle that causes tons of suffering, compared to ppl on weed, I've dealt with them too, and they are chill, laughing and hungry ppl that is it!!

I don't know about that, if You did the decade of spiritual work/sadhana who's to say You would still have the monkey mind??? I would never recommend to anyone to take psychedelics until the timing is right, for me that is when You have already laid the foundation from some sort of practice or method, You've had realizations already, are grounded in reality already, you just want a grander experience, and using dmt or something else may help in this way, but its infrequent and not too be used too much, otherwise the result is mostly disastrous I think for most ppl generally..

First BE, then DO, then HAVE, or BE then HAVE then DO, Establish Your BEING, the means You are naturally Peaceful/Blissful, You have clarity of the Reality (its all inclusive), You play this game of Life with Ease (You see how it works and can navigate it easily. like walking across a busy street with ease and consistently), You help and make others a life priority, you choose how to perform action Consciously, action is within Yourself in 4 areas, Body, Mind, Emotion, and Energy, via that you perform outwardly action appropriately, you do what is needed, not what is wanted or what You used to feel You lack, because now You feel no Lack!

yes this is true, but the problem with taking substances is that it may create subtle change, give a simple realization that there can be another way to BE within ones self, but its not Transformative generally speaking, Transformation means nothing of the old remains. So once in an Experience of Love/Bliss as a natural Experience then everything transforms, the perception of the world is transformed, and enhanced, then Life opens up, Possibility and Potentials in life become accessible, the path to Enlightenment comes closer to living reality!

yeah, its nuts,, but just the way he handles it, and the way he has done things in the physical world, he's the example of how it should be, how it works,jeez he just had brain surgery in March, he's back to normal go go go constant activity now, and how anyone can do the same (not with the same results or fame, but the internal experience of it, he's humble, honest about it, and many will say its is fanatical and crazy for those ppl to act in this way, but they realize and see what he is and are using it to bring themselves to the same state of experience, many fall and have to get up to do it all over again but at least they are trying)...

I would not say there are Two True Selves, if that is so, then one needs medical/psychological help.. There is only One You within, everything else is accumulated and gathered on top of this true one Self, this accumulation process is needed to live this Embodied Life, if is is not happening, then there is no Embodied Life and we will have no Experience and Expression possible, and that is why we are here to explore this dual, material, Experience/Expression game, so Absolute can know itself, we are the Absolute fundamentally, with a form, body/mind complex dealing with this dual material karmic world...

Keep doing what Your doing, there is allot of unpacking to do, karma that has to come up and be dealt with, a Year of consistent Sadhana/Mediation practice is not going to deal with it all, but it will over time, keep doing what Your doing and you'll realize there is no other place that is a heaven of sorts, then a place like we are living here, its all internal, its all in how Your Perceive and Experience life within Yourself, You can determine Your own Experience, is it heavenly or hellish, that is our free will and choice to decided how we want to Experience it, but is a striving of sorts...

Awareness is the wrong word to use, awareness is a life form thing, all living things/form have an Awareness, we Humans have the most capability in regards to Awareness, compared to a ant or plant, which has Awareness but its limited to Survival Processes, it may be different than ours but its limited, ours is not, we can Be Aware of things above Survival processes, like the Birth and Death of the Universe, the tiniest things within our own bodies, if one strives for it they can be Aware of many things from Gross to Subtle.. What Your talking about, in my understanding via your writings here, is Consciousness or Brahman, Absolute or Reality as an Grand Intelligence that is Creator and Creation as the sametime... We as Humans have the most capability of being intouch with this Brahman or Intelligence, Awareness of it is a part of this process!

Yes but that is what I am asking for, the environment is not as harsh as Canada, which is very large and vast as well land scale wise, and with winter harshness, the use of the land is limited, but we build railways, and other things that make it work, they haven't in Africa and they have been around in that land allot longer than we have in terms of using the land for our purposes, that is what I am saying, yes they have their issues with land usage and how to make it works for their population, all countries and continents have this issue, but Africa and Africans have had allot more time to deal with it and they haven't..we have and that is the issue...

I find it interesting a Continent like Africa, its like India as one of the oldest, if not oldest culture on the planet, and its so far behind on quality of life for its people on all levels, in comparison, a place like Canada where I live, its not as bad as it used to be, but in the winter months, which used to be almost half the year, its cold and inconvenient as hell, the harshest of environments but the quality of life here is high, very very high compared to other places and and much much higher than in Africa, but their environment is not as harsh as it is here in Canada, but we've made it work, why is this, and we are multi cultural now, very diverse now, but in my younger days, it was either Europeans (which dominated the population) or Aboriginals, which pale in comparison in population and quality of life compared to Europeans that are here...

Tolle's book New Earth, which is all about Ego, he goes indepth on it, really awakened my to my Ego and how it functions, when that happens its an awakening and You cannot go back to normal after that.. Its the Identification with Ego, a false self, mask of sorts used for social situations and communication, its Survival level stuff, not Consciousness level stuff... that is the problem, thinking/believing You are the Ego or Mask, then it is a problem, if You know You are not this mask and its a real experience then no problem with Ego...its needed in a society with many different sorts of ppl living within it..

Love or Bliss (you only want Love, Connectedness, Completeness because it gives You a great sense of Bliss) is the grease that keep things flowing smoothly, its is not a goal in and of itself, its just allows Enlightenment to happen smoothly and with Ease, why have challenges and suffering along the way when You can enjoy the ride and get there anyways!!!