Spirit of Eastern Wisdom: The Intelligence Within | Sadhguru

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The Dharma Foundation strives to preserve Eastern wisdom rooted in inner experiences, transcending intellect and offering a unique perspective on life. Sadhguru underscores the importance of using one's intelligence positively, striving for self-realization, and cultivating inner joy to create a world united in spiritual fulfillment.

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Eastern wisdom, rooted in profound inner experiences rather than intellect, offers a unique perspective on life, transcending human limitations and providing a deeper understanding of existence.
Sadhguru stresses the importance of using one's intelligence for positive actions, cultivating inner pleasantness to exude positivity, and emphasizing the need for self-realization over external fixes to achieve clarity and beauty in life.

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What is the significance of Eastern wisdom?
Eastern wisdom offers a unique perspective on life.
How does the intellect impact individuals?
The intellect can lead to inner emptiness when unbalanced.
What is the concept of Samsara?
Samsara refers to a cyclical life without progress.
How does Sadhguru view the role of intellect?
Sadhguru emphasizes using intellect for positive actions.
What is Sadhguru's mission?
Sadhguru aims to enhance inner life for fulfillment.

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Preserving Eastern Wisdom: A Deeper Understanding

The Dharma Foundation has taken up a commendable cause to preserve wisdom that has existed for thousands of years without organized support.
The significance of preserving Eastern wisdom is highlighted by renowned figures like Thoreau and Mark Twain, who praised its depth and vastness.
Eastern wisdom is distinct as it originates from profound inner experiences rather than human intellect, offering a unique perspective on life.
The wisdom of the East transcends human intellect and sense perception, allowing for a deeper understanding of existence.
The East emphasizes a different way of perceiving life, focusing on inner experiences and intelligence beyond the limitations of the five sense organs.
The mind in yogic culture is divided into sixteen parts, with four key aspects - buddhi (intellect), ahankara (identity), manas, and chitta.
The intellect, driven by the modern world, enhances external comforts but can lead to inner emptiness and loneliness when not balanced.
Ahankara, or identity, influences the intellect to protect and uphold one's sense of self, leading to prejudices and suffering.
The intellect is likened to a sharp knife, with identity being the hand that holds it, causing much of the suffering experienced internally.
The internal struggles and suffering faced by individuals are often self-inflicted by the intellect working against them, rather than external factors.

20:37

"Unlocking Memory and Intelligence for Transcendence"

Manas is a memory bank with eight dimensions of memory, including conscious, subconscious, genetic, and evolutionary memory.
The body holds trillion times more memory than the mind, known as manomayakosha, spread throughout the system.
Chitta is a dimension of intelligence untouched by memory, allowing one to transcend cyclical life influenced by memory.
Chitta is significant as it is pure intelligence beyond species, form, gender, culture, and memory's influence.
Samsara refers to a cyclical life where one doesn't progress, akin to running on a treadmill without moving forward.
To transcend cyclical existence, one must access chitta, a dimension of intelligence beyond individual identity and memory.
Sanathan dharma signifies the ultimate law of nature, not Hindu religion, offering eternal wisdom from chitta.
A story of a Bishop seeking a real yogi in India illustrates the essence of life being created from within, not outside.
The experience of life is internal, determined by oneself, leading to blissfulness and freedom from fear of suffering.
Eastern wisdom emphasizes determining one's experience to explore human consciousness fully and touch universal dimensions.

37:39

"Intellect, Joy, and Self-Realization"

Sadhguru emphasizes that intellect is not the source of problems for hungry individuals but rather for those who are well-fed and bulging in various ways.
He highlights the need for those who are well-off to reach out and address the world's problems, as there is enough food produced for all.
Sadhguru stresses that personal reactions to external situations lead to stress and anxiety, urging individuals to empower themselves rather than incapacitate.
He emphasizes the importance of using one's intelligence for positive actions and helping those in need, rather than turning it against oneself.
Sadhguru explains that being joyful leads to doing the best things, emphasizing the need to cultivate inner pleasantness to naturally exude positivity.
A questioner seeks to acquire Sadhguru's clarity and honesty, prompting him to discuss the need for striving to understand oneself and the importance of self-realization.
Sadhguru criticizes the focus on fixing external factors rather than paying attention to one's inner self, using humor to illustrate the point.
He compares the human mechanism to a sophisticated machine and encourages individuals to read the "user's manual" to understand how to use it effectively.
Sadhguru explains that striving is necessary for anything beyond survival, using the example of learning to write the alphabet to highlight the importance of effort in acquiring knowledge.
He emphasizes the need for individuals to pay attention to themselves and strive to know their inner selves, rather than focusing on external fixes or distractions.

54:44

Sadhguru's Journey to Self-Realization

Fixing oneself is crucial for clarity and beauty in life.
To tap into chitta, list all identities and create distance from them before sleep.
Sadhguru's journey of self-realization began at a young age.
He realized the limitations of knowledge and questioned everything.
Schooling was challenging as he focused on deeper questions rather than academics.
Sadhguru's intense focus on sounds and meanings led to a unique perspective.
A turning point occurred when a teacher's comment confused his self-perception.
Sitting in meditation for days, he experienced a profound shift in consciousness.
The boundary between self and surroundings blurred, leading to ecstasy.
Sadhguru's mission is to share the ecstasy of being alive and enhance inner life for true fulfillment.

01:11:17

"Joyful Living and Unity in Dharma Foundation"

Participants choose to live and work with joyful individuals over miserable ones. Sadhguru emphasizes the importance of being joyful, highlighting the desire for a world filled with blissful people. He praises the Dharma Foundation for their efforts in nurturing future generations in a spiritual manner, aiming to create a world that is deeply spiritual but not divided by religions, emphasizing the dangers of religious divides and the need for unity.

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