The School of Greatness

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Sadhguru: How to Turn Pain Into Wisdom, Not Wounds

Explore episode Jul 1, 2026

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Karma, Victims of Memory, and How to Stand Above Your Past

At 48:17 · chapter starts 43:55

Lewis Howes returns to the practical question of karma and social harm. Sadhguru makes the connection explicit: every identity you hold — American, Christian, husband, rival — exists only because you remember it. Erase the memory and the identity dissolves. A racist is not fundamentally different from anyone else; they are simply someone whose feet have sunk into the quicksand of memory rather than standing on top of it. The same is true of a suicide bomber: a person who once had no memory of the ideology they now die for, who was, at some earlier moment, a fine and ordinary human being. Sadhguru's goal for the yogic process is not to eliminate memory — memory is the richness, the manure, the raw material — but to transform one's relationship to it so that it becomes a platform for conscious action today rather than a prison of the past. More than 75% of people who were exuberant children become progressively dimmer by adulthood simply because their memory is working on them without their awareness.

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