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Turn Your Pain Into Power, Not Poison | Sadhguru

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Intellect as a Knife — How Education Is Making You Miserable

Turn Your Pain Into Power, Not Poison | Sadhguru · Jul 1, 2026 Education

A knife is superb for dissecting, catastrophic for sewing. That is exactly what people are doing with their education: sharpening one instrument and then trying to stitch together every aspect of life with it. Uneducated villagers are often happier than the highly educated — not because ignorance is bliss, but because education without inner development is a weapon turned inward.

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