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The Sadhguru Podcast - Of Mystics and Mistakes

An Invaluable Lesson From The Bhagavad Gita For Your Life | Sadhguru

The Sadhguru Podcast - Of Mystics and Mistakes

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4.8 • 1.2K Ratings

🗓️ 10 September 2022

⏱️ 10 minutes

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Summary

As part of the Youth and Truth movement, Harvard University’s Harvard Kennedy School hosted Sadhguru in February 2019. Students sought clarity on a wide range of subjects from Sadhguru. Watch Sadhguru’s insightful response to a question about Krishna’s teaching that emphasizes the importance of being involved in the process of what one is doing. 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 Sadhguru is a Yogi, mystic and visionary, 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. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

A man who's working with such intensity and commitment is not working for not producing results.

0:04.8

The problem is, you heard what Krishna said through the words of a king servant.

0:13.7

Whatever you wish to do in your life, you have goals.

0:17.1

Whether it's art, music, spirituality, politics, business, you think you will do anything significant.

0:23.4

That's all he's saying.

0:31.0

In the Bhagavad Gita, Lord Krishna advises us to keep putting an effort without being attached to the results.

0:43.0

But I find it incredibly hard to keep working and not obsess over the results.

0:50.0

And I would love to know how we can better practice effort, putting an effort while being detached to the results.

1:01.0

Well, I am not in any way well studied about any scripture.

1:17.0

It's unfortunate, but I have to say I have not even read the Gita.

1:26.0

But we know the life of Krishna, that people think Krishna means butter, girls and flute.

1:44.0

But you need to understand this.

1:47.0

All these things happen only till he was sixteen years of age.

1:51.0

So, after sixteen, he lived an extremely committed life.

1:57.0

His commitment was to marry the political process of the day with the spiritual process.

2:05.0

Because he saw, unless those who will power, or essentially in their experience have a larger sense of life,

2:18.0

and an inclusive sense of identity, not my family, my children, my husband, my wife, this stuff,

2:26.0

you have a larger sense of identity.

2:29.0

Only then you must wield power.

2:31.0

Otherwise, it will lead to corruption.

2:34.0

People say, power is corruption.

2:36.0

Power is not corruption.

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