FEATURE STORY

The Heat Is On. What Could Our Lives Look Like in the Coming Years?

Pandemic, war, economic disruption, soil extinction – many of us around the world are suddenly faced with an unprecedented level of uncertainty. Sadhguru points to a major disruptive influence on planet Earth, and how we can make use of it to create our future.


Q: Namaskar, Sadhguru. My question is, what is divine intervention, and how does it work?

Sadhguru: For how many minutes or hours of this day have you been breathing? The whole time. That means divine intervention is always on. It is just that it needs to work in your favor. In the last couple of years, the solar flare activity in the Sun’s atmosphere has gone up significantly, and it is going to go up further. When the solar flares increase, it has a significant impact on the magnetic field of the planet and the amount of radiation that occurs. When there is such an impact on planet Earth, all life is affected.

These solar flares seriously impact your autonomic nervous system, your digestive system and absorption, your pulmonary system and breathing – everything.

Today we have come to a place in the world where unless you believe you understand, you cannot accept anything. This is a very crippling, unfortunate state. When I say “you believe you understand” – do you really understand how this planet is spinning, how it is going around the Sun, how it is all working, and how it is impacting your body? And how you are living, how your breath is happening – do you really understand? Essentially, for most people, except for a few top-notch scientists maybe, science is like religion – they just believe it.


These solar flares seriously impact your autonomic nervous system, your digestive system and absorption, your pulmonary system and breathing – everything. The solar flares will be at a very high pitch in the next few years, the kind of pitch that we have not seen since records began in 1755.

Disaster or Transformation?

I did not predict that there would be a pandemic, but I knew some turmoil would be happening to people. These solar flares which started about two and a half years ago are increasing in activity, and that could go on for another few years. In this time, it is in the hands of us human beings to either bring disaster upon ourselves, or realization and transformation. This is why the Conscious Planet movement becomes super significant.

In this time, it is in the hands of us human beings to either bring disaster upon ourselves, or realization and transformation.

In the Indian traditions and scriptures, it has been said that when the solar activity rises like that, there could be a lot of death, disease, wars, and psychological imbalances. There could be a lot of turmoil in human life and every life on the planet. Are the solar flares causing harm to us? No. It is like this: Suppose you want to fly an airplane. If you go into the wind, without much effort or fuel, you will take off[1]. But if you try to go with the wind, your airplane may crash. So the wind is a boon for someone who knows how to use it, and a curse for someone else who does not know how to use it. This is true with every force in the universe, including the solar flares.

Solar flares can alter your heart rate variability. The geomagnetic field variation that will happen can either raise your energy or get it confused. If you are conscious, this is a fantastic time. In the summer, when the Sun is hot, plants really burst out. They know how to make use of the Sun’s energy. For a spiritual seeker who wants to transform his energy, these solar flares are a time when everything is cooking really well. I want to make sure to finish all the consecrations I want to do within this next three and a half years, because the Sun is with me.

[1] When taking off against the wind, the air will move faster under the airplane’s wings, resulting in more lift.

What Are Your Ultimate Goals in Life?

Do you want to just enhance your health, wealth, power, peace, sexuality, or do you want the realization of truth, and the power to go through every aspect of life and death joyfully? If you want to become meditative, certain other things need to settle. The only reason why human beings have not naturally become meditative is they are not at ease. They are in some kind of tension all the time. This is the instinct of survival. As long as the instinct of survival is on, you are in a certain stress and tension. You may not be going completely crazy, but you are not at ease.

I want you to come to your senses because the next few years are going to be a charged-up time on this planet.

Probably by mid-2025, this solar activity will rise to its peak. At that time, will we bring realization to the world, or will we bring disasters? Will nations start shooting at each other? I would like to see something very positive and wonderful happening. But I am just one man. In ancient times, certain Yogis have been described as Sahasranga. That means a Yogi with thousand arms. Someone said I have an “army.” An army takes commands. I do not want a “yes, sir” from you. I want you to come to your senses because the next few years are going to be a charged-up time on this planet.

Are we going to use this charge for transformation, realization, or are we going to kill each other because some stimulus is happening in our body? If we do not have equanimity, we will cause damage to each other. This is where we are. These solar flares have been marked in the yogic calendar in the past. Whenever solar flares rose to a certain pitch, great Yogis rose in that culture. At the same time, battles, disastrous events, sometimes earthquakes happened because the Earth’s magnetic forces and the thermal forces in the core of the planet are all being influenced by the solar flares.

Turning the Situation to Our Advantage

If you had a gallery view of a volcano erupting full-on, what a fantastic sight. You would not want to miss it. Only if you are at the foot of the volcano, and you are about to become part of the molten rock, then it is not a good thing. Every force in the world is like that. So, when something like this is happening, human populations should have the wisdom to get themselves to the right place so that this extra force which is being exerted upon this planet can work to our advantage.

This is why addressing every aspect of your life becomes super important. Otherwise, there will be pain, death, and many problems. But even changing the whole world should not be impossible with today’s level of communication and technologies. Using these technologies and the solar flares, we can make the next three and a half years a tremendous time for humanity. Those who make use of it could rise. We do not know how it will go for those who do not make use of it.

Using these technologies and the solar flares, we can make these next three and a half years a tremendous time for humanity.

It is not like some kind of sweeping disaster, earthquake, or flood will happen. But there is an extra stimulus on all the energies that work upon this planet, the geomagnetic forces, nuclear radiations, the magnetic tail behind the Earth, and the way the Moon relates to the planet, and how it redirects the energies of the flares toward the Earth.

When extra stimulus happens, you can do things which you cannot do without the necessary power. When this extra stimulus on the planet rises, we can either break our bones, or we can rise. It is my wish that everyone should rise. Whatever we can do, we should do to see that humanity rises because there is a kind of energy that is very difficult to generate by ourselves, and the entire planet is being influenced by that.

Getting Yourself Unstuck

The problem with many people is they do not pay enough attention. If you are genuinely attentive, you can use your energies in so many ways. But the problem with most human beings is their memory and their imagination are mixed up. They do not know when they are remembering the past, when they are experiencing the present, and when they are imagining the future.

People are suffering the past right now and completely missing the present. If you want an active, dynamic, growth-oriented life, you need to craft it. For you to craft it, you must understand that the past can only be remembered – it cannot be lived. The present can only be experienced – you cannot do anything about it. The future has to be crafted.

If you want an active, dynamic, growth-oriented life, you need to craft it.

If you want to craft your future, one important aspect is access. It could be social access, it could be financial access, it could be political access, or energetic access. You need access. Without access, it is like having a car but no gas. There are two fundamental forces constantly at work within you. One is your instinct of self-preservation, which is essential for your physical preservation. Another is the longing to expand. This longing to expand largely gets crimped because the instinct of self-preservation acquires greater significance.

As you have a few painful experiences in your life, your instinct of self-preservation becomes bigger than your longing to expand. It is not just about spirituality but about every aspect of your life. You keep wondering, why is it not working? Simply because your instinct of self-preservation has become stronger than the longing to expand. That is why nothing new will happen. You may want this or that, but it will not happen because you have built a wall, and then you are trying to go out. It will not work like that. If you cross the instinct of self-preservation, then every cell in your body will come to ease.