Why Trying to Forget Something Only Makes It Stronger | Sadhguru

The Daily Motivation

Lewis Howes

Self-improvement, Education

4.8 • 963 Ratings

🗓️ 8 July 2026

⏱️ 7 minutes

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On this episode of The Daily Motivation Show, Lewis Howes sits down with world-renowned yogi and mystic Sadhguru to unpack what karma actually means once you strip away the fear and guilt that religion built around it. Sadhguru reveals why your mind can only add memories and never subtract them, and how understanding that one idea changes how you carry your past.

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0:00.0	Hi, my name is Lewis Howes and welcome to the Daily Motivation Show.
0:11.0	Can you define karma for the uneducated person like myself on what karma truly?
0:17.0	I thought that was my title. You stealing that from me.
0:21.6	Uneducated guru is what people say, and now you're saying you're uneducated...
0:27.6	Human.
0:28.6	...interviewer.
0:30.6	Anyway, about...
0:33.6	If you do bad things, bad things will come for you.
0:38.3	This has been the way of the world.
0:40.3	You don't need the word karma for that.
0:43.3	Because people have been trying to control people, either with fear or guilt.
0:49.3	This has been the basis of a whole lot of things happening in the world.
0:53.3	If you do this, you will go to hell. If you do this, you will go to hell.
0:55.5	If you do that, you will go to heaven.
0:57.0	Otherwise, here itself, it will happen to you.
0:59.0	Whatever.
1:00.0	Or there is somebody up there with a stick waiting and they will vac you.
1:04.0	All these kind of things.
1:05.5	Essentially, you're trying to manage humanity, control humanity,
1:10.0	with fear or guilt.
1:13.6	Yeah. Fear and guilt I see particularly in the Western world is like enormous.
1:20.6	It is in the psyche of people in such a big way.
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