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The Sadhguru Podcast - Of Mystics and Mistakes

#1356 - Why Should We Celebrate Guru Purnima?

The Sadhguru Podcast - Of Mystics and Mistakes

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🗓️ 8 July 2025

⏱️ 7 minutes

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Summary

Dr. Mahesh Sharma, Union Minister of Culture, Tourism & Civil Aviation, asks Sadhguru a question during the 2015 Guru Purnima sathsang at Isha Yoga Center. Dr. Sharma asks why though the Guru is held very highly in Indian tradition, Guru Purnima is no longer widely celebrated in the nation. Set the context for a joyful, exuberant day with a short, powerful message from Sadhguru. Explore a range of subjects with Sadhguru, discover how every aspect of life can be a stepping stone, and learn to make the most of the potential that a human being embodies.  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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0:33.3

Welcome to the podcast, Sudguru, of Mystics and Mistakes.

0:40.3

Thank you, Sadguru, you me an opportunity to have this celebration of Guru

0:56.5

Purnimovsa with this much big presents over here. But a big question comes to my mind

1:03.2

that we keep, and especially the Indians, keep after the God and the parents, Guru at the highest esteem, but we have not been able to

1:14.6

make Guru Purnima celebration Uthasa in the same spirit of high spirit as we respect the gurus.

1:24.6

The reason why Guru Pornima and so many other things which were of great

1:30.9

spiritual importance in this country have slid back into the background of our lives is

1:38.5

because we have been an occupied nation for a period of time and whatever the framework

1:49.0

that the occupying forces set for us when we got our independence we should have looked at what kind of framework we want for our nation

2:00.0

we did not do that.

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