“The value of lifetimes of experience definitely cannot be thrown away; it’s needed. The memory of experience is the only thing which can bring wisdom to you.”
In this video, yogi and mystic Sadhguru, discusses how to break free of the Karmic compulsions that make so many lives miserable, and how the way out of them is by cultivating pleasantness and joy. Efforts in this direction, supported by the practice of yoga, lead to flexibility, he says, which in turns opens the door to rooting out and freeing oneself from compulsions.
“Don’t lose your flexibility,” the Isha Foundation head instructs, “that’s the most important thing.”
“Flexibility is not possible when you are in any state of unpleasantness, either in the mind or in the emotion,” cautions Sadhguru. “So, that’s the reason why being joyful, being loving, being happy, being peaceful is important only for this reason.”
Yogic practices then build on such flexibility to uproot and move people beyond their compulsions – expressions of a Karmic momentum built up over many lifetimes.
“If you put yourself through intense enough sadhana, you will see so many of your simple compulsions are gone,” he says.
“If you went through a real bad experience, it’s a good experience,” adds Sadhguru, “because these are invaluable.
“If you’re smart, you must remember every unpleasant experience you had – without resentment, without anger, without unpleasantness – just in your memory, always, so that you never, ever get into those situations again.”
Ultimately, Karma itself is not the problem, says the Isha Foundation leader. How we carry our Karma, can be a problem.
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