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The Sadhguru Podcast - Of Mystics and Mistakes

#1145 - How Shiva Overcame Lust | Mahashivratri

The Sadhguru Podcast - Of Mystics and Mistakes

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🗓️ 6 March 2024

⏱️ 7 minutes

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Summary

Sadhguru explains the symbolism of Shiva’s third eye and narrates a story related to how Shiva burnt Kama with his third eye. Conscious Planet: https://www.consciousplanet.org Sadhguru App (Download): https://onelink.to/sadhguru__app Official Sadhguru Website: https://isha.sadhguru.org Sadhguru Exclusive: https://isha.sadhguru.org/in/en/sadhguru-exclusive Inner Engineering Link: isha.co/ieo-podcast Yogi, mystic and visionary, Sadhguru is a spiritual master with a difference. An arresting blend of profundity and pragmatism, his life and work serves as a reminder that yoga is a contemporary science, vitally relevant to our times. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

Welcome to the podcast, SOTOMAYOR of Mystics and mistakes. Sad Guru, how to overcome lust?

0:19.0

When we say Shiva, the word Shiva has become synonymous with the third eye.

0:26.8

The third eye is what it means is these two eyes are to look outside. These two eyes are capable of showing you the

0:38.7

physicality of the existence. These two eyes can only perceive that which is physical.

0:45.0

The third eye is an inward focused eye.

0:49.0

It's not going to open up upon your forehead. The third eye is an inward looking eye. But you have

0:58.0

heard stories, Shiva opened his eyes and he burnt Kama.

1:10.0

In India, there is a god of love and lust called Kama.

1:27.0

Kama means lusts which you don't like to face it So he hides some aesthetic to it.

1:30.0

So he hides behind a tree and shoots an arrow and she was hot.

1:40.0

Tuckett hits him and Shiva gets a little disturbed.

1:44.0

Then he sees its kama.

1:48.0

That is, his own lust coming up.

1:52.0

Then he opened up his third eye, a fiery eye, and burnt, common.

1:58.0

He was hiding behind the tree, but he was burnt into ashes.

2:04.0

Then... but he was burnt into ashes. Then Shiva took the ashes of this burnt comma, smeared himself.

2:11.0

That I have put these things to rest for good. That is the general story told to the people, but you tell me your lust arises within you or behind the tree.

2:24.0

No, you may go behind the tree, that's another matter. But where does it arise within you? Desire is not.

2:35.0

But where does it arise within you? Within you desire is not hanging outside. It is not because a beautiful woman or a beautiful man is sitting there, your desire comes.

2:53.4

Because the desire, the karma is within you.

2:56.6

So he opened his third eye and burnt the kama within himself,

3:00.9

not the one who is standing outside because he never ever stood outside please look at

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