INTERESTING GYAN

It is not people who hurt you. It is your own foolishness, your own mind, your own vulnerability and your own emotions that entangle you, and make you feel hurt. Do you think people have no other business, that they want to come and hurt you? What can hurt you? Somebody’s words, somebody’s selfishness, somebody not caring for you. You love somebody and you think they don’t care for you, or you have helped somebody and they do not talk to you, and that hurts. My dear, wake up and see, is there an intention in them to hurt you? You need to see things from the other side as well. Place yourself in their position. Many times it happens that you never intended to hurt someone, yet they felt hurt by your action. What do you tell these people who feel that you have hurt them?  You say, ‘I did not mean it, something happened through me. I did not mean to hurt you, but an incident or event happened that gave you an idea that I hurt you’. Now if you really intended to hurt someb...

Dr. Jayaprakash Narayan’s insightful questions are answered with unfailing clarity: “Right now nobody has any right to think about justice. We must become a law-abiding society first; after that the luxury of justice will come... Right now we have no order, where is the question of justice?”  There is no such thing as justice on the planet. What is justice for you will be injustice for someone else. Usually the word “justice” is used to enforce revenge on someone – whether it’s legal revenge or illegal revenge. If somebody does a killing, he thinks he has delivered what someone deserved. That’s why they do it. So let’s not go by justice. Let us simplify the laws and enforce the law. Right now nobody has any right to think about justice. We must become a law-abiding society first; after that the luxury of justice will come. Sometimes when the law itself is cruel, we can break the law and deliver justice. Right now the way we are in this country, there is no luxury like that. Her...

Tackling a Slowdown Vivek Law:  Let me begin with you, Sadhguru.  You wrote that  “If you have money in your pocket, it is great. Only if it enters your head, it becomes a perversion.” Right now, there is a real fear that the money is not even coming into the pocket. What do we do in times like these? Sadhguru:  The money is still going into someone’s pocket, though maybe not into a kind of pocket that will use it to create wellbeing and wealth for humanity at large. When there is a certain slowdown, times hurt because you have prepared yourself in terms of man, material, everything, for a certain speed. Suddenly,  when there is slowdown , you have excess capacity and not enough to do. When such a thing happens, normally, most companies in the world go for retrenchment. They want to cut down their staff. There is a difference between cutting down on your stocks of material and cutting down on people who work for you. Modern management tends to treat both...

Sadhguru:  Sometime ago, someone brought a man to me. He was depressed and broken and wanted to commit suicide. Why? Because about five years ago, he was worth three thousand crores. Then he played in the stock market and things went a little wrong, and his worth dived a little bit. When he came to me, he was worth  only  two hundred and fifty crores. So he wanted to commit  suicide . Most people in India, if you give them that much money and tell them, “Do you want the money or do you want to go to heaven,” they will ask for the money. But this man is broken! If you keep money in your pocket, it is great. But if it enters your head, it becomes misery because that is not its place. What we need in the world is not just “wealth creation.” We need to create  wellbeing . Wealth is just one of the tools towards human wellbeing, not the whole of it. Wealth means making the outside pleasant for ourselves. But right now, people are going at it like it is a religion...

#1 Take Two “Heartfuls” of Love The English expression, “ Falling in love ,” is significant because you don’t rise in love, you don’t fly in love, you don’t walk in love, you don’t stand in love. You fall in love, because something of who you are has to go. It essentially means someone else has become far more important than yourself. Only if you don’t think too much of yourself, you can be in love. When what you consider as “me” falls, a deep experience of love can happen within you. #2 Add a Liberal Dose of Understanding The closer the  relationship  with someone is, the more effort you should make to understand them. Someone becomes closer and dearer to you only as you understand them better. If they understand you, they enjoy the closeness of the relationship. If you understand them better, then you enjoy the closeness. If you are expecting the other to understand and comply with you all the time while you don’t understand the limitations, possibilities, needs and...

Frequency of Breath Questioner:   For both   Surya Kriya   and asanas, the instruction is to breathe slightly deeper than normal. What is the idea behind that? Sadhguru:   Generally, most human beings are breathing somewhere between 12 to 15 times per minute. They use less than 20% of their lung capacity during normal breathing. If your lung capacity expands, the number of breaths per minute during normal breathing naturally comes down, without you controlling it. If you stick to the   classical form of yoga , over a period of time, your breath will become slow. There are very poetic expressions for this. They say, if your breath becomes 11 per minute, you understand the language of every animal and bird around you. If your breath becomes nine, you understand the very language that the Earth is speaking. If your breath becomes seven, you know everything that is worth knowing in existence. That means your body becomes so stable that there is no static, no...

Explanation from mythology: Why people voted for Modi, Brexit and Trump – and against Arab Spring Modern society works on the philosophy of equality. These verdicts are a vote for diversity. Modern liberalism believes in equality as well as diversity. And that is the problem, for equality is the very opposite of diversity. When Indian, British and American voters are choosing Narendra Modi, Brexit and Donald Trump, many commentators feel the voters are rejecting the virtue of equality that informs the Idea of India, the European Union and the US Constitution and are seeking to return to old inequalities. But what the voters are simply rejecting is homogeneity, the dark side of equality. The same is true when the Arab Spring fails. For the doctrine of equality in the global village threatens tribal identities. The fight for tribal identity, the right to be either caste Hindu, British national, white heterosexual male, or orthodox Muslim, even a woman, or queer person, invariably u...

In 2011, the Harvard University dropped two economics courses taught by Indian MP Subramanian Swamy after he wrote two articles that “demonise” Islam. This was done allegedly to protect the plural nature of one of the most respected Universities in the world. In 2016, America voted as its president, Donald Trump, a man who in public forums repeatedly demonised Islam to cheering crowds. Does that mean America is no longer plural and tolerant? Does it mean America is now a land of bigotry and intolerance? Academicians and scholars often speak of how we should be wary of simplistic binaries. Yet, most academicians and scholars succumb to this simplistic binary. Plurality is described as respecting each other’s faith. But what if there is something unworthy of respect in the other’s faith. Indians have long noticed that Left Liberals of America, while free in their criticism of religion, tend to be overly protective of Islam, as compared to their criticism of Christianity, specia...

बिन काज आज महाराज लाज गयी मेरी , दुख हरौ द्वारकानाथ शरण मैं तेरी । जब सब राज - अराज ,लाभ-अलाभ , व्यर्थ के वचनों -रीतियों के मान - अमान के गुणा-गणित में मनुष्यता की आन को बेपरदा कर रहे थे ,तब वो ग्वाला जड़ मर्यादा को लाठी मार कर सड़ी हुई सामंती मानसिकता को उसकी औकात दिखाता है - द्रौपदी का मान बचाता है।  क्या चीर-वर्धन का चमत्कार हुआ होगा ?  वो ग्वाला राजसभा को रौंद कर द्रौपदी को अपनी कमली ओढ़ा गया होगा - असहाय का सहाय होने की हिम्मत तब आती है ,जब कुछ खोने का भय न हो । कृष्ण-कथा में दो प्रसंग मुझे अत्यंत मार्मिक लगते हैं-- एक द्रौपदी का चीर-हरण और दूसरा कृष्ण-सुदामा की मित्रता। सभी सभाषदों, पतियों एवं बृद्धजनों से निराश द्रौपदी का आर्तनाद मुझे अंदर तक हिला देता है। इस प्रसंग को जितनी बार पड़ता हूँ, आँखे गीली हो जाती ह ैं। गहन पीड़ा के क्षणों में आपकी पुकार सुनने वाला ही तो ईश्वर बन जाता है। चीर-वर्द्धन का जो भी मिथक रहा होगा,किन्तु अशरण का शरण बनने वाला ही ईश्वर उपनाम ग्रहण करता है। एक नारी का अपमान कितना विनाशक हो सकता है,इस प्रतीक कथा से ज्ञात होता है।

गुप्तधन !गुप्त है न ! ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ गुप्तधन कहां है ? किस जगह है ? किस रूप में है ? यह कौन बतला सकता है ? गुप्त है न ! यदि यह प्रकट हो जाय तो वह गुप्त ही किस बात का ? फिर भी यह सच है कि वह गुप्त है ! उसकी चाल ,उसकी गतिविधियां भी उसी प्रकार से गुप्त ही हैं । गुप्तधन के विरुद्ध जो अभियान चला .उसका मुहूर्त किसने निकाला ? क्यों निकाला ? यह दूसरा कौन बतला सकता है ? गुप्त है न ! इस अभियान का मूल कारण क्या है ? गुप्त है न ! इस अभियान का इतना बड़ा फैसला किस मन:स्थिति में और किस परिस्थिति के दबाव में किया गया ,यह रहस्य उनके सिवा कौन जानें ?गुप्त है न ! इस अभियान के समर्थन और विरोध में कौन किसलिये है ? किस रूप में है ?गुप्त है न ! निश्चित-रूप से यह भी गुप्त रहस्य ही है ! अन्दर ही अन्दर गुप्त-संघर्ष चल रहा है ! और हरजगह हरस्तर पर चल रहा है !गुप्त है न ! पक्ष और विपक्ष से जो भी कुछ बाहर प्रकट किया जा रहा है , बात उतनी ही नहीं है ! गुप्त है न ! इस अभियान का मूल- प्रयोजन क्या है ? यह तो व्यक्ति या कुछ व्यक्ति अवश्य जानते हैं किन्तु इसका परिणाम क्या होगा ? यह तो भविष्य...

Humans are a complicated, curious, and utterly confused. We are always looking at our neighbours, and constantly fighting the “what if I could…” dilemma. While people working for corporates are constantly eyeing and feeling jealous of their folks at startups, the startup folks are complaining about how the corporates have it easier! In all honesty, no one has it easy and you’re going to find fresh complaints even on the other side of the bridge! The startup culture does attract a lot of attention and envy for being fresh, relaxed, accommodating, energetic, young, and hence quite cool overall! But all that glitters is not gold. While none of these points are false or pretentious, the hardships startup employees face is not spoken about nearly enough! Here are a few glaring differences  which could help you choose between working for a startup versus a corporate job. Jack of all trades or master of one – all your life you have learned to master at your area of expertise. If ...

7 Reasons the Best Employees Quit, Even When They Like Their Job To win at being the best company, you must first win over your best employees. Losing a  great employee is a terrible thing . There's the expense of finding, onboarding, and training a replacement. There's the uncertainty of how a new employee will work out.  There's the hardship  on the rest of your staff until the position can be filled. Sometimes there's a solid reason-- the person was a bad fit for the team,  or moved away for personal reasons, or was offered an opportunity too great to pass up. In those cases, even if it's a difficult transition, it feels fundamentally right. But what about the rest? Keeping your best employees starts with understanding why people leave. Here are seven of the top reasons: 1. Stagnation People don't want to think they're locked into a groove and will come to the same place and do the same thing every day for the next 20 or 40 years. P...