Sadhguru is a great mystic and a spiritual teacher who is transforming the lives of millions of people. He was born in India as a child. He hated going to school so much that often he wouldn’t even enter the building, but instead, he would run away and explore nature.
1. Sadhguru’s Early Life
He became so impressed with life that he would spend his days walking in the forest. Looked at the flowers climbed up the trees and sat on the branches just observing, but when his parents found out that Sadhguru was keeping school, they were not impressed, even though sitting in the classroom was very boring for him, he was fascinated with everything else: how the world was, created why everything is the way it is. He would hop on his bike and ride for at least 35 kilometers a day and he would come home at night covered in mud and dust when he was 4 years old.
He realized that in reality, we don’t know anything about anything. So if someone would give him a glass of water, he would look at the water for hours. If he found a leaf, he would stare at that leaf for five or six hours. Just questioning everything his father, a doctor, really thought that something was wrong with his son. This boy was staring at something all the time that can’t be normal. What, if he’s losing his mind, so he started thinking that his son might need psychiatric evaluation when he was 12 years old Sadhguru began practicing yoga, even though he had very strange and unique habits.
2. Sadhguru started Teaching Yoga
The one thing that he was always disciplined about was practicing yoga when he graduated from high school. He began studying by himself he loved spending time in the library reading. He was the first one to arrive and the last one to leave to please his mother’s wishes. He went to college and same as always he spent most of his time outside of the classroom. His father would complain all the time about how other people his age are becoming engineers, doctors, and lawyers, and his son was wasting his time doing nothing.
Everyone would say to Sadhguru: oh we thought you would do something with your life, but you’re just wasting your time. So he became a partner with his friend and went into the construction business and in five years they became very successful. But at the age of 25 he went up on a hill sat on a rock and had a spiritual experience soon after he left his business to a friend after about a year of meditation and travel, he decided to teach yoga and share his inner experience.
3. Sadhguru founded Isha Foundation
Sadhguru became one of the most famous spiritual gurus in the world as a founder of the isha foundation and one of the best-selling authors as a yogi and a mystic. He has spoken a lot about life, love, success, and happiness, touching the lives of millions of people. He said that happiness does not only come from achievement when you were a child.
You are simply happy. That is your nature. If you go against your nature to be happy, you will never get anywhere. The first and most fundamental responsibility for a human being is to become a joyous being it does not matter what you’re pursuing in your life, whether it is business, power, education, or service you are doing so because, somewhere deep inside, you are a feeling that this will bring you happiness all those people who depend on external situations to be happy will never know true joy in their lives.
4. Money Does Not Bring Happiness
The source of joy is within you. You can take charge of it when you’re, fundamentally joyous when you do not have to do anything to be happy, then every dimension of your life, the way you perceive and express yourself and the world will change.
You will no longer have vested interests, because, whether you do something or you do not do something, whether you get something or do not get something, whether something happens or does not happen. You will be joyous by your nature when you’re joyous by your nature, your actions will rise to a completely different level. Remember something happiness starts with you, not with your money, not with your relationship, not with your job, but with you.