The Song (Geeta)

A hollow bamboo can
turn the passing Wind
into a Sweet Song.

One filled with his Own
Sap will be mute and dumb
When all of Creation laughs
and Sings.

If the hum of life’s Sweet Song
has to be heard, empty. Empty
yourself of yourself.

The Sweetness, the Melody, and the Fragrance
of the Divine Song shall be You.
When you let yourself be absorbed
into the Master’s Will.

Love and Grace,

Sadhguru

Chopper

The can that flies

carries me through

the space above my 

mother and my bond — Terra (BHUMAA)

leaving me in a state of

utter freedom and danger

leaving me free to court

Life, Love, or Death. 

-Sadhguru

Yesterday at iii began with a live address by Sadhguru to all of the Sathsangs (monthly gatherings of meditators) across the country. Volunteers and visitors gathered in Mahima, and Sadhguru was also able to interact live with video and questions from meditators in Detroit, which will be hosting the next Sadhguru-led Inner Engineering 3-day Program in October!

During the Sathsang, Sadhguru spoke about experiencing one’s life as a Song:

“When I say a song…People have always thought that only if you sing a lyric, it is a song.  No, if you listen carefully enough, if you are willing to put all of you – everything that you are into your listening, and if there is nothing left in you…if your listening becomes everything, you will see everything is a song. Not because you’re listening, simply because you have put yourself out — everything becomes a song.  

So if one has to know the song of the divine — if one has to hear the divine, if one has to feel the divine, above all if one has to become the divine,  what is needed is — Do something, just about anything, which is not about you, and do it in such a way like this is the last moment of action.  Do it in such a way that you throw your everything into what you’re doing.  You will see life will become a song.   What is a toil for somebody will become divine melody for you.  If only you’re willing to put everything that you are into whatever you’re doing right now.”

-Sadhguru

One question about the fear of dying and of family members’ death prompted Sadhguru to recount the harrowing story of his near-death experience in India earlier this year, when the landing gear failed in a small plane in which he was a passenger, nearly causing a disastrous crash. You can read the full story here.

After the morning Sathsang, iii also hosted several local visitors for an Open House, seen here enjoying a hike to one of the waterfalls.

Another guest stopped by as well, a large terrapin which gained some attention in the courtyard both from the visitors and from the resident squirrels.

Perhaps he was drawn by the hum of activity across the campus as volunteers prepare for the upcoming Bhava Spandana (BSP) program – the largest in the US so far!

Below, some of the participants share their experience of the program:

“Though I am skeptical by training and experience, the pure force of his life-observations is undeniably powerful. Sadhguru’s moral ethic, practicing ecological sanity, humaneness, compassion, and peace, is a recipe the world needs to follow. I challenge anyone to spend a similar weekend with Sadhguru, no matter how broken, dispirited, or agnostic, and not come away feeling they have been in the presence of utter Truth.”
Robert McGlasson, attorney and founder of the University of Texas Law School Capital Punishment Clinic

“I like how simple and straight forward it is. No mumbo jumbo! Even more, I was excited about the people around me, and the connection that we share.”
Bradley Olson, a stone mason from Houston

“The Inner Engineering Program created an assistance for inward reflection allowing realizations to bring out the possibilities of what could be possible within us all. It’s a nurturing program for inner growth if you allow it. If you are willing to allow more, it will happen this way. The extended possibility of what can happen in this program is what is indescribable, I guess a new heightened sense of awareness of it all is what I experienced — ‘Seeing the bigger picture’. ”
Rosie S. , Colorado

“ The workshop on ‘Inner Engineering’ showed me the scientific technique of transformation.  For me, this event was the most powerful experience of my life which I had never had in the past even after attending and participating in hundreds and thousands of scientific and spiritual conferences and Sathsang given by other Gurus.  I have become so light and free, as if, I have dropped my lifelong held baggage of thoughts and karmas.  I experienced and became- Shunya in the true sense.  During the practice, I felt that I lost my physical entity and became wide and enormous in my inner feelings which cannot be described in words.  It was a state of bliss for me.  My heart started crying when Sadhguru was about to conclude the program.  Tears started flowing continuously and I forgot to say even ‘good bye’ to my new friends I had made during this program.  The Inner Engineering has changed my perception of life in a very different way.  I am on the path of overcoming my ‘animal extinct’ and moving towards human being and understanding the purpose of human life.

Also, I will be doing injustice if I did not say a few words about Isha Volunteers.  In spite of such a large gathering, they were running the program so smoothly, swiftly, cordially, respectfully and as scheduled.  What a commendable job they did.  May Sadhguru continue teaching the technique of transformation through Inner Engineering to all human beings.”
Dr. Sen Pathak

“The weekend with Sadhguru – It’s indeed a great feeling to experience the journey of one’s life beyond body and mind.

What many of us achieved so far in this materialistic life is to learn things (family, job, raising kids, maintain plus or minus bank balances, etc.) that are needed for survival only. We are still pursuing the same with a feeling of insecurity and greediness and always we are afraid that we may get to the misery or survival state again.

While doing so, we are ignoring the very purpose of our existence of being a Human. We may miss the boat in this life time unless we take this as our top priority — moving from survival state to the state of exploring enormous possibilities this life could offer.

To keep this into perspective, if we could commit 10% of efforts of our daily activities to Yoga and practice it daily, very soon we would experience the next dimension of understanding untapped energies within us. Unless we take out the garbage of our mind we will not be able to experience what’s beyond waiting on us.

Congratulations to Isha volunteers for doing such a meticulous job where there’s discipline with a smile on their face and eagerness to work and share with one and all for all the three days.

The next challenge is to see that all who have taken the course will practice it daily. I’m sure Sathsang will help in achieving this goal. This is one of the many ways that we can help our friends, near and dear.

Those who’ve not taken the course, come and join our journey and experience the reality of your existence through Yoga. At the end of the day, at the minimum you’ll have achieved being physically and mentally well, with the ability to prioritize tasks and make decisions for yourself.”
Bangar Reddy

“I wanted to share with you my experience at the Inner Engineering Program. As a result of this event I will be attending the Bhava Spandana Program at the end of May in Tennessee.

This was the first program that I have ever attended from the Isha Institute for Inner-Sciences.  I want to thank everyone who organized this event.  The organization of the event was outstanding.  The volunteers were courteous, knowledgeable, and intuitive to our needs.   I have never attended a program that was as well planned and carried out as this event.

I went to the Inner Engineering program with no expectations, just wanting to be in the presence of Sadhguru.  However, what took place over the next 3 days was life transforming for me.

I among 1,000 other attendees sat and listened to offerings of truth from Sadhguru.  As I listened I could sense the compassion that Sadhguru has for life and the importance that this science has to offer humankind.

I emerged from the Inner Engineering program 3 days later free of false beliefs that kept me stuck in behaviors that do not serve me well.  I feel more grounded, focused, and real than I have ever felt before.

For those that are seeking truth and freedom I highly recommend the Inner Engineering program; this program is for everyone.”
Indu Massey

At the program’s conclusion, many more participants expressed their impressions and experience of the weekend with Sadhguru. Some comments included:

“Beautiful, Super-effective due to the authenticity, destroys all doubts again and again.”

” The program is like an upgrade from a normal TV to a HDTV – a lot more clarity in my vision now.”

” What a mother or father cannot give even to his or her child, this program gave me.”

“I feel as though I may be on the cusp of an amazing life experience and I’m curious to see what unfolds.”

“After years of trying to change the world on my own I finally found a family. Thank you for the spark. I will shine to the best of my ability.”

Sadhguru writes:

“Dear USA is once again heading for an Election. When the nation is in need of some steady nurturing, when the people of the nation need to work as one, it is being put through throes of an election campaign – pains of democracy. USA is a classic story of the making of a great nation; of course there is a dark side to it. But ultimately one has to weigh the positives and the negatives, the positives of this great nation fortunately outweigh the negatives. No one has built anything of great value and enormity without relentless and ruthless action. Unfortunate that this is the only way it will work at the present level of consciousness. If someday we have to make a nation out of love and joy, an enormous task of large scale awakening of human consciousness needs to be done.

India as a nation was brought to life largely peacefully, thanks to the political genius of Mahatma Gandhi. But immediately after the birth of independent India, large scale violence broke out and led to the assassination of the apostle of peace. The violence of partition times still simmers on in terms of periodic wars, terror and riots. The wheels of human history till date have always been fed by blood. Will we make the future different is the big question that stares in our face.

Just arrived at the Ashram in Tennessee after a long drive from Houston of nearly a thousand miles in a day. Kind of symbolic as we just concluded an Inner Engineering programme with 964 participants, the largest for USA till date. A wonderful group of people and an outstanding level of organization; hats off to our teachers and volunteers. They have been working for this for the last two months. This effort to conduct Mega Programmes is a serious attempt to ignite a silent revolution of self-realization. The technological empowerment of the human being that leaves us in the physical status of being like super humans is a dangerous possibility if there is no inclusive consciousness. Now one man can do what a thousand could not a hundred years ago, which makes it an express need that humans are not driven by compulsive action. Raising of human consciousness is the most important action that the world needs. This must be done now before it is too late.

Isha-USA will go into an overdrive in the coming year – Buckle up.”

Love and Grace,

Sadhguru

Houston will never be the same again, as the wave of bliss from George R. Brown Center spreads throughout the city, and over to the state, country and the world.

These pictures are from our morning session.

Some had questions which Sadhguru answered in detail for the seekers.

Some quotes during the program:

“Problem is not with the content of your life. You have simply missed the context of your life!” – Sadhguru

“Intuition is a different dimension of Computing and not a different dimension of perception.

When something you want doesn’t happen, it makes you miserable, isn’t it? Desire seems to be the source of misery. At the same time, if you compromise the desire, in some way, you compromise your life process. Why is it like this? It seems to be the basis of your life and the basis of your misery which some conclude: life is misery. Life is not misery, nor is it joy. You can be joy or misery, yes or no? Life is simply there. Either you can experience it joyfully or miserably.”