Quote · The Shawn Ryan Show
#315 Sadhguru - Stop Letting Your Mind DESTROY You
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Identity, Conflict, and the Cosmic Identity Mantra
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Tying the reforestation and yoga threads back to the earlier framework, Sadhguru returns to Ahankara — the identity that wields the knife of intellect. In ancient India, before any formal education began (starting at age 12, not three as today), children were given the mantra 'Aham Brahmasmi': my identity is cosmic, all-inclusive. This was not religion — it was engineering: if you are about to empower someone, make their identity as large as possible first, or the empowerment will be weaponised against whoever is outside that identity. Educated people, he notes, cause maximum damage on the planet because they have the empowerment of knowledge without the identity to hold it wisely. He tells Shawn that their conversation with Shawn's wife the previous night was a perfect example of identity dynamics playing out at the most intimate scale. All crime, all war, all social conflict reduces to limited identity — 'I don't care what happens to you because my identity is this.'
