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The Sadhguru Podcast - Of Mystics and Mistakes

Are You Hampering Your Own Growth?

The Sadhguru Podcast - Of Mystics and Mistakes

Sadhguru Official

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

4.81.2K Ratings

🗓️ 12 September 2009

⏱️ 7 minutes

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Summary

Are you holding yourself back on the spiritual path? Sadhguru explains that by trying to protect your own limitations, you are unconsciously hampering your own growth. For more Sadhguru's insights, follow him on twitter and facebook. Conscious Planet: https://www.consciousplanet.org  Sadhguru App (Download): http://onelink.to/sadhguru__app Official Sadhguru Website: http://isha.sadhguru.org Sadhguru Exclusive: https://isha.sadhguru.org/in/en/sadhguru-exclusive See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

My name is Abilash. I'm an engineer. I was very curious when I first heard about Inner Engineering

0:07.2

online program because as an engineer I was taught how to engineer the outside world, but this program was talking about

0:15.8

how to engineer yourself and transform yourself. Then I was wondering how an online course can

0:21.5

transform me.

0:23.0

But as I went through the program,

0:25.0

even though it was online, I felt like I was in a session with something.

0:29.0

I could see improvement every day, every session.

0:32.0

My mind became calmer, my mental glitter went down. There are many online

0:35.9

courses to gain knowledge and upskill yourself, but this is the one program which can

0:41.8

truly transform you. In seven steps, transform your life with Sadkuru in an engineering program.

0:57.0

Register now at Sadkuru.org.

1:00.0

slash i.e. This whole thing about what we are talking of as spiritual growth is not something that you have to do.

1:20.4

It is something that will happen by itself.

1:23.0

If only you allow the necessary atmosphere,

1:27.0

if only you don't keep hampering it in a million different ways. Why would I hamper my own growth?

1:52.0

You hamper your own growth because of the many things that you think not is the reason why one would hamper their own growth. When you believe yourself to be something

2:07.4

other than who you really are, then whatever you try to do, you will only try to protect those things which you think

2:17.0

you are.

2:19.9

In this simple process of self-preservation, constant destruction of the possibility of the seed of the divine to flower is restricted in a million different ways.

2:40.0

This huge power, urge within every being, within every creature on the planet for self-preservation, there is nothing wrong with it. It is very essential.

3:00.0

It is just that once this instinct of self-preservation crosses its domain, does not know where

3:08.1

it should stay, it extends itself into all things in your life, then you start protecting things which you should not be.

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