Kamiya Jani: I want to know about your daily routine.
Sadhguru: What is a routine?
Kamiya Jani: There’s no routine that you have? [Sadhguru laughs]
Sadhguru: Every day I’m in a different place, and what I will be doing is anyone’s guess. So, there’s no such thing as a routine in my life.
Kamiya Jani: But there must be few practices that you make sure to do on a daily basis.
Sadhguru: I do one practice where I reorganize my energies before I start my day. When I wake up, I sit up for a minimum of twenty seconds in bed, and I’m ready for the day.
Kamiya Jani: You don’t make a to-do list?
Sadhguru: No. [Both laugh]
Kamiya Jani: Does it help in organizing the day or anything to just go with the flow?
Sadhguru: No, it is not a policy. It is a conscious response to everything that’s happening around you. If you make a policy, you will be out of time and out of space.
If I came prepared with what I wanted to say, and you asked me something, I would say something else because I would already have it in my head. So, I am walking around absolutely blank in my head, without a thought or an emotion, simply looking at and absorbing everything. I respond to what comes. I don’t prepare anything.
Kamiya Jani: We’ll play one fun game, which is this or that. I’ll give you choice... Masala dosa or idli sambar?
Sadhguru: You’re from Maharashtra, or further up? What is a masala dosa or an idli in your mind is different from what it is on my tongue. My experience of idlis is that from how it is in the south. As you go up north, they slowly keep getting harder. In Delhi, you can bounce it like a golf ball. [Both laugh] Masala dosa, from something that should melt in your mouth, as you go north, it becomes like parchment. You’ll have to chew it like a chapati. [Kamiya laughs] So, I won’t choose like that; it depends who is making it and how. [Both laugh]
Kamiya Jani: What do you like to start your day with, tea or coffee?
Sadhguru: Coffee, of course. Do I look like tea? Come on. [Kamiya laughs]
Kamiya Jani: Mysore or Coimbatore?
Sadhguru: For what?
Kamiya Jani: You have to choose one, your birthplace or the place where you are settled.
Sadhguru: I have chosen Coimbatore to live, but Mysore is a place to go. [Both laugh]
Kamiya Jani: You are enthusiastic about both these things, biking and playing golf – choose one. If you have only one hour, you have to choose one.
Sadhguru: I’ll ride to the golf course. [Kamiya laughs]
Kamiya Jani: Meditation or public speeches?
Sadhguru: This happened in one of the ashrams in the Himalayan region. Two young friends from Mumbai, regular boys, went there to do spiritual sadhana. After three days, one of the guys was sitting in the garden, totally dejected. The other guy went to him and said, “Hey, what’s happening here? I would like to smoke, man.” That guy replied, “Even me; I’m really down because I can’t smoke.” Then they said, “What’s the problem? Let’s go and ask the Guru if we can smoke.” They went to him.
Then the next day, one guy was sitting there, again dejected. The other guy came, smoking. The first guy said, “Hey, you’re smoking! What happened? I asked the master, ‘Can I smoke when I’m meditating?’ He said, ‘No.’ How come you’re smoking? You’re not following the instructions?” The other guy said, “That’s your problem. I asked him, ‘Can I meditate when I’m smoking?’ He said, ‘Yes.’” So, public speaking and meditation are not two different things for me. [Both laugh]
Kamiya Jani: Okay, beaches or mountains?
Sadhguru: I love beaches too, but mountains – I have an addiction to mountains.
Kamiya Jani: Chamundi Hills or Velliangiri Hills?
Sadhguru: Hmm... The Velliangiri Hills are far richer. Chamundi, as beautiful as it is, and as significant as it is in my life, it’s a small hill, not really a mountain. Velliangiri is a mountain. [Laughs]
Kamiya Jani: Chamundi is the place where you had a different spiritual experience.
Sadhguru: Yes.
Kamiya Jani: But is that a place that you visit often? Do you go there or not?
Sadhguru: No, not really. Other people go. They’ve marked out a spot where I sat and people go there. What’s there for me to go?
Kamiya Jani: Yeah, okay. Are you a calling person or a texting person? Mobile phone.
Sadhguru: Hmm. Almost all work these days is being done on text. Largely, except a few calls. There was a time when I sometimes had hundreds of calls in a day. Now, it’s largely text; I don’t know how many texts they are sending me per day. [Both laugh]
Kamiya Jani: Thank you, Sadhguru.
