Snapshot · The School of Greatness
Creating even a small experiential distance between yourself and your body and mind is, according to Sadhguru, the end of all suffering and the end of identity-based karma.
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At 46:34 · 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. [1] — Sadhguru "75%+ of people lose childhood exuberance by 30: Sadhguru estimates that over 75% of people who were joyful and exuberant at age 5 or 6 have…" 48:17
Sadhguru estimates that over 75% of people who were joyful and exuberant at age 5 or 6 have become dulled and diminished by the time they reach adulthood.
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