Sadhguru More Than A Life
About the Book
Sadhguru: More than a Life is the extraordinary story of Sadhguru - a young agnostic who turned yogi, a wild motorcyclist who turned mystic, a skeptic who turned spiritual guide. Pulsating with his razor-sharp intelligence, bracing wit, and modern-day vocabulary, the book empowers you to explore your spiritual self and could well change your life.
It seeks to re-create the life journey of a man who combines rationality with mysticism, irreverence with compassion, ancient wisdom with a provocatively contemporary outlook and a deep knowledge of the self with a contagious love of life.
Drawing upon extended conversations with Sadhguru, interviews with Isha colleagues and fellow meditators, poet Arundhathi Subramaniam presents an evocative portrait of a contemporary mystic and guru - a man who seems to pack the intensity and adventure of several lifetimes into a single one.
Excerpt
“Sadhguru rarely says any more than this about that afternoon on Chamundi Hill. There were no words to describe the experience. There are still none. On being pressed, however, he has alluded to the experience in oblique ways. ‘It’s like being drunk all the time without ingesting a drop of alcohol,’ he once remarked. On another occasion, he said, ‘Life is all there is. There is no mountain, no flower, no cloud, nothing. It’s just energy—a raw pulsating mass of energy. You can call that the Creator, or creation, or you can call it yourself. It doesn’t matter.’ Another time he declared, ‘Enlightenment is not an achievement. It’s more like a homecoming. An absolute coming home —that’s enlightenment.’...
Like all those before him who have crossed that mysterious threshold between the temporal and the transcendent, finding a logical idiom to describe the experience seems to have been impossible. Besides, at the time of his awakening, Jaggi was unsure of how to explain it even to himself. Only one thing was clear to the young man who descended the mountain: life would never be the same again.” - Arundhathi Subramaniam, Sadhguru: More than a Life
