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The Sadhguru Podcast - Of Mystics and Mistakes

#1411 - Loneliness#1 Overcoming Loneliness

The Sadhguru Podcast - Of Mystics and Mistakes

Sadhguru Official

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

4.81.2K Ratings

🗓️ 18 November 2025

⏱️ 9 minutes

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Summary

A student at SRCC asks Sadhguru how to deal with loneliness and the feeling of not belonging, not being accepted and not being loved. 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,

0:09.0

Sadguru of Mistakes and Mistakes.

0:14.0

Despite being surrounded by so many people,

0:18.0

we still lack that feeling of belonging to somebody, being accepted by somebody,

0:23.6

being loved by somebody. How should we deal with that discontent and loneliness?

0:29.6

On one level, many questions are aimed towards, how can I be free from this and that?

0:34.6

Another level you are asking, how can I bind myself to something or somebody?

0:39.3

You must decide. What is the highest value in your life? Freedom or bondage?

0:47.3

Please, I would like to hear that word. Oh, freedom. But if you are free you feel lost if some if you go into the

1:02.8

mountains and you're totally free that is nobody around nothing around you

1:09.7

just in the empty space of the mountains,

1:13.6

you don't feel free, you think you're lost.

1:16.6

So to handle freedom, it needs a certain clarity and strength.

1:21.6

Most people cannot handle freedom.

1:24.6

They are always trying to bind myself, bind themselves, but only

1:30.3

talking, mouthing freedom all the time. If you really set them free, they will suffer immensely.

1:37.3

So this is a evolutionary issue. In the sense, human beings are right now like this. A caged bird, if you keep a bird caged for a long period of time, and then one day you took off the door of the cage, still the bird won't fly. From inside it will protest that it's not free, but it will not fly.

2:01.6

Human condition is just that.

2:04.6

For all other creatures, nature has drawn two lines,

2:08.6

within which they have to live and die, and that's what they do.

2:12.6

But only for human beings, there's only bottom line, there's no top line, and that's what they're

2:19.7

suffering. If their life was also fixed, like every other creature's life, they wouldn't

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