For a few months after Sadhguru’s brain surgery, occasional audio recordings were all that Isha meditators could latch upon for updates from their beloved Guru. So naturally, the excitement knew no bounds when a Darshan was announced for Sadhguru’s Enlightenment Day on 23 September 2024. Finally, we would be able to behold him again, in person or on livestream. Naturally, everyone’s burning question was simple yet profound: How has Sadhguru been? Here’s what he shared.
Questioner: Namaskaram Sadhguru. This is the most popular question, both online and in person. How are you doing? How are you feeling? They want to know everything about how you have been over the last few months.
Sadhguru: The result seems to be good.
Physically, it has been painful, but I made myself like this: nothing really puts me down. In the last few months, because of certain things that happened and certain things I said and did, a whole hospital full of people – doctors, nurses, staff – all have become huge followers.
Physically, it has been tough, but I did not make it tough for myself. There were moments when the doctors thought they lost me, but here I am. It is not easy to kill me.
Well, we did a few reckless things, but we have always been doing this. I have always been throwing my life out here and there and risking it. This time, unfortunately, it became too much of a public spectacle where just about everyone knows, which is embarrassing.
Let me tell you the good part of it. Probably for four, five months continuously, I have been eating on time. That has not happened since I was 18 or 20 years of age. Since then, I have always been a “hungry cat.”
I know a lot of people who, when they eat, already plan the next meal. I do not plan my life around food. I just do what I want to do. Sometimes food comes, sometimes it does not, though in the last few years, people strive to make sure I have something. Earlier, food did not come, but it never mattered.
But I have seen it is quite nice to eat on time every day, which had not happened for nearly fifty years.
Another thing, certain medication and stuff, which is all off now, made me a bit drowsy. When I asked some of the experts, “What’s the best thing to do?” Since they opened a window in my head, I do not know how much brain they took off. So when we asked them, they said, “Sadhguru, there’s only one treatment – sleep, sleep, and sleep.”
In the morning, I woke up, walked, ate something, and slept. Again I woke up, walked, ate something, and slept. Again, in the evening, I walked, ate something, walked, and slept. An “ideal life.” There were a couple of books to work upon, and I was looking at them.
Otherwise, many, many people around me – both here and in India – are dedicating their lives to making sure everything happens right. And people like me when I am a little helpless. Right from my daughter to everyone else, they say, “No, this is the way you do it. You must sleep now.”
“What? When did you become the boss?”
I see the rest of the things in the foundation are happening better without me. So it is good.
It went a little out of control. I had planned to be here around the 17th of March and had kept a month free to fix myself without any surgery. But it got a little delayed. Too many things kept adding up, and it went out of control.
They say in English, “All is well that ends well.” So here we are.
I was very close, almost crossed. Of course, in terms of the foundation and various things we are doing, it would have been a hit if I had gone.
As far as I am concerned, and the core part of my work is concerned, there is no difference. Here I am in Shiva’s lap; there also I am in Shiva’s lap. Here I do the same thing; there also I do the same thing. In that context, there is no difference.
Spiritually, there would be no difference for me or for you. But other things, like the golf course, may not get shaped well when I am not there. I am concerned about that.
