Sadhguru Jagadish Vasudev

Jagadish "Jaggi" Vasudev (born 3 September 1957), known as Sadhguru, is a yogi and profound mystic and proponent of spirituality. He has been teaching yoga in southern parts of India since 1982. In 1992, he established the Isha Foundation near Coimbatore, India, which operates as an ashram and yoga center carrying out educational activities. Vasudev is the author of several books and a speaker at international forums.

Sadhguru was born in Mysore, Karnataka, India. He is the youngest of the five kids of mother Susheela Vasudev, a homemaker, and father B.V. Vasudev working as a physician at the Mysore Railway Hospital. At the age of thirteen, Vasudev took yoga lessons daily throughout his youth from Malladihalli Raghavendra, although without spiritual aspirations. Sadhguru studied at Demonstration School, Mysore, and Mahajana Pre-University College. He graduated with a bachelor's degree in English from the University of Mysore.

Sadhguru has authored several books, including Inner Engineering: A Yogi's Guide to Joy and Karma: A Yogi's Guide to Crafting Your Destiny; both have made it to The New York Times Best Seller list. He is also the author of Mystic's Musings and Death: An Inside Story. He is a public speaker who has been invited to address many prestigious forums and conferences across the globe, such as the United Nation's Millennium World Peace Summit, the British House of Lords, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, the International Institute for Management Development and at the annual World Economic Forum in 2007, 2017, and 2020.

Sadhguru is the one whose passion spills into everything he encounters. He has been named one of India's 50 most influential people, Sadhguru's work has touched the lives of millions of people worldwide through his transformational programs. Sadhguru has a unique ability to make the ascent of yogic science relevant to contemporary minds and act as a bridge to the deeper dimensions of life. His approach does not describe any belief system but offers methods for self-transformation that are both proven and powerful.

Save Soil movement was germinated from a seed that was planted 24 years ago by Sadhguru. In 1998, some environmental agencies predicted that by 2025, 60% of Tamil Nadu, India’s southernmost state will become a desert. But Sadhguru observed and experienced worse than what the agencies predicted, this led Sadhguru to launch a movement for revitalizing the world’s severely depleting soil, water, and agriculture.

Let's learn about Sadhguru's view to see the life and get inspired by them:

1. The sign of intelligence is that you are constantly wondering. Idiots are always dead sure about every damn thing they are doing in their life.

2. The most beautiful moments in life are moments when you are expressing your joy, not when you are seeking it.

3. If you resist change, you resist life.

4. If you ask a tree how he feels to know that he's spreading his fragrance and making people happy, I don't think a tree looks at it that way. I am just like that, and it is just my nature to be like this.

5. When pain, misery, or anger happen, it is time to look within you, not around you.

6. Too many people are hungry not because there is dearth of food. It is because there is dearth of love and care in human hearts.

7. The fear is simply because you are not living with life, You are living in your mind.

8. Krishna says in the Gita, “The worst crime in the world is indecision.

9. If you think you are big, you become small. If you know you are nothing, you become unlimited. That’s the beauty of being a human being.

10. People have fallen in love with words and lost the world. It’s time to regain it.

11. Learning to listen is the essence of intelligent living.

12. If you think hundred percent logically, there is really no possibility of life.

13. Mind is not in any one place. Every cell in this body has its own intelligence. The brain is sitting in your head, but mind is all over the place.