Beyond limits: how Jagadish Vasudev became Sadhguru

“For the first time, I did not know which is me and which is not me; the equation of time and space was suddenly not applicable for me… it was one, majestic chaos – but utterly beautiful.”

In this TED talk from 2009, we learn the inspiring story of how Jagadish Vasudev became the figure we know today as the yogi and mystic Sadhguru, and how his path changed from disillusionment with the world, into an astonishing and immensely joyful awareness of the interconnectedness of all life.

In particular, he recalls how, at the age of 25, in his birth town of Mysore, he went up Chamundi Hill and, in his words “never came down”.

There, he experienced the enlightenment that led him to realise with utmost clarity: what we perceive as our limited, sensory self can be expanded, infinitely, to include everything within its consciousness.

More such episodes occurred, until he knew he had to do something… except he didn’t know what.

“All I knew was the blissfulness that was simply bursting within me; and I knew it could happen in every human being. Every human being has the same inner ingredient. This is possible for every human being.”

Yet the die had been cast, and thereafter, the man who would found the Isha Foundation set about creating the methods and systems through which every other human being could “access that intelligence and capability within the system” that he himself had experienced.

Ultimately, he realised teaching others to access this state would serve not only to elevate their spiritual progress, but also had the capacity, over time, to utterly transform and elevate humankind’s collective fate.

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