Purple Magazine
— The Brain Issue #33 S/S 2020

sadhguru

interview with SADHGURU 

portraits by MARCELO KRASILCIC
interview by OLIVIER ZAHM

 

a spiritual-master success story:
the self-realized yogi and sadhguru
touches the lives of millions worldwide
through the mental training he calls “inner engineering”

OLIVIER ZAHM — The brain can be a positive or a negative force: is it something we have to domesticate or control?
SADHGURU — No, the mind should be liberated. Why should it be controlled?

“Everybody is a psychological creature, wanting to assign meaning to everything. Seeking is not about looking for something. It is about enhancing your perception, your very faculty of seeing it.”

OLIVIER ZAHM — What do you mean by liberated”?
SADHGURU —
To become free from all compulsiveness. What makes people suffer isn’t the brain — they’re suffering from their compulsiveness. People develop compulsive habits. And because it becomes cyclical, it hurts. Right now, intelligence is the only…

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