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The Sadhguru Podcast - Of Mystics and Mistakes

#1373 - Yoga: A Solution for Discrimination?

The Sadhguru Podcast - Of Mystics and Mistakes

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Mental Health, Education, Spirituality, Religion, Hinduism, Religion & Spirituality, Society & Culture, Science, Life Sciences, How To, Health & Fitness, Self-improvement

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🗓️ 29 August 2025

⏱️ 10 minutes

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Summary

Former Minister of Finance, South Africa, Mr. Pravin Gordhan questions Sadhguru on finding solutions for the problem of discrimination. When you experience everything as part of yourself, says Sadhguru, no one will have to tell you how to treat others. 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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0:00.0

Welcome to the podcast, Sadguru of Mystics and Mistakes.

0:14.0

We are a 22-year-old young nation, and with a legacy of issues which come from our past, some of it we create

0:25.4

ourselves in present, but amongst the things that our past systems were based on is race.

0:31.7

So a very tropical issue in South Africa today is whether we are non-racial or whether we

0:36.7

racer. So how do we become non-racial or whether we race it. So how do we become a non-racial and create the state of mind where we see all human beings

0:44.3

regardless of color as our equals and extend our respect to them?

0:50.3

Secondly, we are trying to bind ourselves into the single nationhood.

0:59.0

And I think most of us, usually when there's big events like the FIFA World Cup in 2010,

1:06.0

we all suddenly become unanimously South Africa.

1:10.0

We forget it for a while. We need more football.

1:12.6

Well, some picket games that we can win against India.

1:17.6

We'll come back to them.

1:22.6

So in this use of what you call the technology of yoga and inner well-being,

1:30.3

how do we get and overcome, get rid of and overcome,

1:34.3

some of which don't tendons which we've learned and perhaps are endemic in our system,

1:41.3

and leaf-prok if you like to what might sound like an idyllic state of non-racialism,

1:50.0

of spiritual recognition of each other as equal human beings and as builders of this common nationhood.

2:00.0

The word yoga literally means union.

2:03.6

What union means?

2:05.6

There are many, many ways to look at it.

2:08.6

There are poetic ways to look at it.

2:10.6

There are philosophical ways of looking at it.

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