#1490 - Born of Ash: The Story of Gorakhnath

The Sadhguru Podcast - Of Mystics and Mistakes

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🗓️ 27 May 2026

⏱️ 9 minutes

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Sadhguru narrates the lesser-known story of Gorakhnath's miraculous birth from ash and his life as an intense seeker. He also speaks about the importance of staying on the spiritual path with integrity and intensity of purpose. 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	Attention all passengers.
0:04.1	The Uber ride for Jeff's rugby team will depart in five minutes from Platform 15.
0:09.7	Your ride comes with six toilets and a refreshments carriage that you'll empty within five minutes.
0:16.5	Thank you for booking your tickets on Uber.
0:20.3	Trains on Uber. Trains on Uber.
0:22.9	Welcome to the podcast,
0:25.1	Sadguru, of mystics and mistakes.
0:30.6	Sadguru, can you tell us more about the yogi Gorochnat?
0:33.5	You know, it's Gouraknath.
0:35.2	You must understand these parables in the right context. Don't literally imagine these things.
0:40.3	Machindranath, his guru.
0:43.3	Machindranath is considered...
0:46.3	People saw him as an incarnation of Shiva.
0:50.3	Because he was such a grand human being.
0:53.3	Only loincloth. nothing else, but grand.
0:58.0	Can't imagine a man in a loincloth how he can be grand, but he is grand, a grand human being, a yogi of the highest order.
1:07.0	So one day, in that region, he came and stood in front of a home for arms because that's the only way you get food,
1:17.6	because they don't want to invest their life in survival.
1:21.6	Just go and ask somebody, whatever they give you eat, and that part is done.
1:25.6	So he came and stood in front of a reasonably wealthy home and said, Alak.
1:33.3	It's Alak Niranjan, but he is short form.
1:39.3	He said, Alak. The lady of the house came and gave him some food.
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