Podbit · The Shawn Ryan Show
With veteran suicides running at roughly 40 per day, Sadhguru announced that Inner Engineering — his flagship $175 program — will be offered completely free to all US veterans, available online. He argues the solution is not managing PTSD after the fact but transforming the inner chemistry before soldiers are ever deployed.
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Shawn raises one of the episode's most personal questions: is killing in war different from killing for vengeance? Sadhguru's answer is unequivocal — karma is volition, not action. He walks through three scenarios: someone who never kills but obsessively imagines it carries the deepest karmic damage, because they do it thousands of times in their mind; someone who plans and executes a murder carries less; someone who kills in the spur of the moment, least of all. Even civil law, he notes, treats these differently. The most important implication for soldiers: if you kill because the situation demanded it, not out of pleasure or hatred, the karmic residue is categorically different from killing because you regard the enemy's life as less valuable than your own. He says the best soldiers throughout history have maintained regard and respect for the enemy — fighting a fellow protector who simply met you at the wrong time. That regard is the mark of a real soldier. [1] — Sadhguru "Karma is not determined by what you do but by why you do it. Someone who imagines killing a neighbour a thousand times without acting carri…" 2:42:28
Karma is not determined by what you do but by why you do it. Someone who imagines killing a neighbour a thousand times without acting carries heavier karmic residue than a soldier who kills because the situation demanded it. Volition is the one thing every human being can always control.
Sadhguru announced that Inner Engineering — normally a $175 program — is being offered completely free to all US veterans, available online to be completed from home.
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Running from pain doesn't leave it behind — it accelerates the chase. Whatever we run from pursues us, and whatever we face transforms us. Both Kessler and Lewis Howes testify to knowing both roads firsthand.
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