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Introduction to Isha Kriya - Free Guided Meditation with Sadhguru

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    Isha Kriya
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    A powerful spiritual process for everyday practice
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    Isha Kriya is part of a movement
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    to offer at least one drop of
    spirituality
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    to every human being on the planet.
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    Do not underestimate the size of the
    drop.
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    A drop is an ocean by itself.
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    This is a powerful tool of empowerment.
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    We hope that you allow it to touch and
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    transform your life
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    and share it with as many as you can.
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    Isha means
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    that which is the source of creation.
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    Kriya means an inward action towards that.
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    Karma means outward action, if you
    perform action with your body,
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    or your mind,
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    or your emotion, or your physical
    energies we call it karma.
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    If you perform an inward action which
    does not involve any of these
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    then we call this Kriya.
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    So Isha Kriya is
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    an extremely simple process
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    but a powerful
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    tool
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    to constantly move
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    from untruth to truth.
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    There are more complex and effective
    processes but
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    it needs preparation,
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    it needs a certain type of teaching.
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    It needs
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    a lot of training for somebody to teach
    it.
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    But this is a process..
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    generally,
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    all the processes, spiritual processes
    which move
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    a person in this direction
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    also involve physiological changes.
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    Wherever physiological changes are involved
    it's extremely important
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    that the teacher is substantially trained.
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    Otherwise
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    you will start generating the wacky
    kind of yogas that are going on
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    all over the place.
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    Which can cause more damage than
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    well-being.
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    But those aspects,
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    those processes which does not involve
    any kind of physiological change
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    but brings about a spiritual transformation,
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    which are very few,
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    those can be taught mass.
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    And we can empower almost anybody
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    who at least has a little good intention in
    his thought and emotion to teach it.
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    That much is there
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    they can teach.
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    We will do this process right now;
    you need to understand a little bit
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    about what this is.
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    Is everybody breathing here right now?
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    Please check. (audience laughter)
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    Don't take things for granted.
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    Doesn't go on forever, it'll stop some
    day, you know.
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    Are you breathing right now? You? Hmm?
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    Please check; don't just take it
    for granted. Are you really breathing?
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    You're there,okay?
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    This inhalation,
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    exhalation,
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    inhalation,
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    exhalation,
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    inhalation,
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    exhalation..
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    Next inhalation did not happen,
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    pooff (clicks fingers) you're gone.
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    See how fragile you are.
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    Just, if this one inhalation does not
    go, pooff..
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    where ever we look you won't be around.
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    At the same time,
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    so fragile human life is, at the
    same time
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    how sturdy it is; how many things a human
    being can do in this world.
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    On one level it seems to be so fragile,
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    just look at it and see.
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    It doesn't come back, pooff.
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    Too fragile isn't it?
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    You've taken it for granted, you're not
    conscious about it.
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    If you become conscious and watch it
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    it's a damn fragile life.
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    At the same time how sturdy it is,
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    how many things it can do.
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    This is the beauty of creation,
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    everything is tenderly balanced.
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    So tenderly you cannot disturb it.
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    Not easily, you know.
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    The whole creation is like this. It's
    just like that.
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    That shows
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    the mastery of the Creator.
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    It is so tenderly balanced,
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    that means..
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    that shows
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    that manifests
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    the mastery of the Creator. That which
    creates is of such mastery
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    that it can afford to keep it
    so tender.
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    So that is the audacity of the Creator,
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    one breath if you do not inhale you're gone...but,
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    that's
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    the confidence in design
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    that the Creator has.
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    So this breath is not just about
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    exchange of oxygen and carbon dioxide.
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    In yoga
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    we call this the Koorma Nadi.
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    Breath is referred to as the Koorma Nadi.
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    Now..
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    if I ask you to watch your breath,
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    which is the most common thing that people
    are doing these days.
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    You don't get to watch the breath,
    you think you're watching the breath,
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    but you're not watching the breath.
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    You're only able to notice the
    sensations caused
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    by the movement of the air.
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    If one who is sitting next to you
    touches your hand, you think
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    you know the touch of the other person
    but you do not know. You only know
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    the sensations generated within your
    body.
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    You do not know how the other feels,
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    you only know what kind of sensation
    happened in your body.
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    Yeah? Understand what I'm saying?
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    So right now
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    you do not know the breath,
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    you only know the sensations caused by
    the breath.
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    So when we say Koorma Nadi we are not
    talking about the sensations,
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    we are talking about the breath itself.
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    Koorma Nadi is referred to as a string,
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    it's like a string.
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    An unbroken string,
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    it's going on.
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    And this is the string
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    which ties you
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    with this body.
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    If I take away your breath,
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    you and your body will fall apart.
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    What you thought is one will become two,
    that is the first deception.
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    There are two,
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    behaving like one,
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    a deception is on.
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    So if I pull out the breath,
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    you and your body will fall apart.
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    We don't want it to fall apart
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    but if your consciousness travels with
    the breath.
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    If your awareness
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    travels with the passage of the breath
    keenly enough
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    then you will see..
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    distinctly see,
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    these two are not one.
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    What is you and what is your body will
    stand apart.
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    What is you and what is your mind will
    stand apart.
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    If you and your body/mind combination
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    stand away from each other
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    then suddenly you will find,
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    your ability to use your body and your
    mind
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    goes into a phenomenal scale.
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    If right now,
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    if you have to count from one to ten
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    right...the highest is ten,
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    if that is so,
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    if you're attached or if you're involved
    with this body you're less than one,
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    that's where it is.
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    If these two things come apart, suddenly
    you can rev it up all the way
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    to ten, your ability to use the
    mind and the body
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    is so greatly enhanced that
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    you almost look superhuman for
    somebody else.
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    But I'm telling you this is human. This
    is not about being
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    superhuman,
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    this is about realizing being human
    is super.
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    Yes..
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    Not a simple thing to be human.
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    Now the Isha Kriya just involves this;
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    Your thought is playing a very important
    role in your life right now
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    so let's employ that.
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    And your breath is vital,
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    so let's employ that.
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    And without your awareness you
    wouldn't know that you are even here
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    right now. Hmm?
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    If you're not aware you do not even know
    whether you're alive or dead,
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    or whether you exist or not.
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    So these three ingredients
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    your breath,
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    your thought, and your awareness, in the
    right combination, if you use them
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    you will see slowly a little bit of
    distance arises between you and
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    your body.
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    Now..
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    you're very distinctly moving from
    untruth to truth.
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Introduction to Isha Kriya - Free Guided Meditation with Sadhguru
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