“Your Bloodline ISN’T Your Legacy” - Sadhguru CHALLENGES The Purpose Of Having Children
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🗓️ 16 April 2026
⏱️ 4 minutes
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Sadhguru tells PBD that having children isn’t a true accomplishment and challenges the idea of legacy through bloodlines. He argues that “children of your spirit” matter more and warns that humanity’s obsession with growth is driving environmental collapse and overpopulation.
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| 0:00.0 | Why one kid? |
| 0:01.0 | I said, only one mistake I make, I never repeat my mistakes. |
| 0:04.0 | Is that really why? |
| 0:05.0 | Actually, I never wanted to have children, but my wife said, she felt that she may feel |
| 0:12.0 | that she has missed that experience of having a child. |
| 0:15.0 | So I said, okay. |
| 0:17.0 | Now my daughter decided not to have children. |
| 0:19.0 | Why didn't she want children? Why didn't she want children? |
| 0:22.5 | Why didn't you want children? |
| 0:25.4 | I had a lot to do on everybody's mind. |
| 0:29.3 | All the people who are with me, they are more than my children. |
| 0:32.1 | But you didn't want to have more kids? |
| 0:34.0 | You don't want to have five, ten kids? |
| 0:35.6 | I have millions of them. |
| 0:39.0 | But your own blood, that didn't do anything for you as a man man grown up that you wanted more kids? It's up to you whether you have children of your blood or of your |
| 0:43.6 | spirit. For me, children who are of my spirit are more important than blood. Tell me why. |
| 0:52.8 | Because it's more significant. Children of your spirit are more important and the children of your blood is more significant? |
| 1:00.0 | It is. |
| 1:01.0 | So you're saying you could have a child of your blood that is not of your spirit. |
| 1:05.0 | No, no, no. It can be of your spirit also. |
| 1:09.0 | But for that, you don't have to be of your blood. |
| 1:13.4 | So what do you think is the biggest accomplishment in a man's life? |
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