1 in 3 teenage girls depressed
Sadhguru cited statistics showing that one in three teenage girls in America has gone through at least a few episodes of depression requiring medication.
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#315 Sadhguru - Stop Letting Your Mind DESTROY You
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Jun 22, 2026
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Karma by Volition: What Killing in War Means vs. Killing in Hatred
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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 Volition, Not Action — And Soldiers Should Know This
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.
Inner Engineering Free for All US Veterans
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.
Inner Engineering free for veterans
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.
1 in 2 Americans feel lonely
The US Surgeon General told Sadhguru that one in two Americans — 50% of the population — are feeling lonely, a condition he calls 'the incubation period for psychological ailments.'
US healthcare spending $5.25 trillion
America's healthcare spending has crossed $5.25 trillion — larger than the entire economy of India — yet mental and physical health outcomes continue to worsen.
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