Beyond Logic, Within Reason

Sadhguru: To establish spiritual sciences in such a way that they exist within the realm of logic while at the same time being well beyond it is a subtle process. We have spent the last 44 years striving to establish that without allowing the spiritual process to slip into something that right-thinking people would be suspicious of.

This does not mean that anything beyond logic is inherently suspect. It need not be. But there is so much room for misuse, and there are certain elements in society that will fill it and make it ugly.

We have worked to establish a spiritual process where, even if something genuinely beyond logic happens to people, we downplay it—not because we think it is untrue, but because it is not good for the larger wellbeing of the spiritual process for humanity.

Just as we address our external needs through science and technology, inner wellbeing can also be addressed through inner sciences and technologies.

The time has come, for a variety of reasons, to ramp this up. As part of this, we are doing many things, and in the next few years you will see a great deal happening.

One aspect of this is what we are calling “Adiyogi Everywhere.” Why Adiyogi? We want to use the iconic image of Adiyogi as an inspiration for people to pursue inner wellbeing in a scientific manner. For a long time, human beings have addressed their inner wellbeing through belief systems, hope for miracles, elaborate philosophies, ideologies, or simply sheer hope.

A Science of Inner Wellbeing

The possibility of addressing inner wellbeing in a logically correct and scientific way is more than 15,000 years old. But until now, generations of people never had the large-scale capacity to approach it logically. People have always thought that anything concerning inner nature must go beyond logic. If it is a step-by-step process, they consider that external science.

Only if something happens that they cannot understand do they think it is worthwhile. This is exactly what we have been trying to eliminate. Step by step, people can understand what is happening—perhaps not entirely, but to a large extent.

The goal has been to offer a scientifically and logically sound process from which certain technologies for inner wellbeing emerge. Just as we address our external needs through science and technology, inner wellbeing can also be addressed through inner sciences and technologies. In many ways, we have already touched the world in this sense.

In 2025, the combined footfall at the Isha Yoga Center Coimbatore and the Bengaluru center was over two crore people. Our video views have crossed 6.1 billion. This shows the immense thirst humanity has for this. People simply do not want to be led into something that may become unpleasant at some point.

Providing that assurance—offering a clean slate where people can walk the spiritual path without fearing, “What will happen to me?”—is extremely important. People should not feel that something will be done to them, that they will be taken away, or that something else will happen. Every one of you has the responsibility to maintain that trust so people can walk the spiritual path safely.

The Vision Takes Shape

In many ways, we have built that trust, but much more still needs to be done. As part of this effort, we are launching “Adiyogi Everywhere” because we need an inspiring face.

Major centers will come up in different parts of the country and the world. One will come up in Hyderabad—the land process is almost complete. Another center will come up around Delhi. In Kolkata, Guwahati, and Odisha, the land process is underway. Between Ahmedabad and Baroda, there should also be a center. Work is also going on in Mumbai, though land seems to be a challenge there. There will also be one in Canada, and maybe in some more places.

My real estate is in the hearts and minds of people.

Most of these centers will feature a 112-foot Adiyogi. Near Delhi, there will be a 216-foot Adiyogi because we want Adiyogi’s face to become the face of Bharat.

This will require enormous work. The Isha Yoga Center in Coimbatore has taken 36 years to build. Many people you see here are now in their fifties; they came here when they were eighteen or twenty years old. Given the political situations in this state in the past, it has been an everyday challenge. Their entire lives have gone into creating this center. I want you to understand and appreciate that.

This needs to happen in other places as well. I am not a real estate person. My real estate is in the hearts and minds of people. But I see that building spiritual infrastructure has become an urgent necessity in the world, especially in this country.

The Generation That Won’t Buy Tickets to Heaven

Among the two crore people who visited in one year, over 60 percent were below 35 years of age. We are not a spiritual institution that only older people who have nowhere else to go come to. Young people are coming, and that is most important.

Worldwide, our demographic is very young. This matters because future generations will not subscribe to anything unless it is logically sound. I clearly see that within another 60 to 70 years, nearly 80 percent of the world’s population will identify as having “no religion.” Most religions are managing things by selling tickets to heaven.

Future generations will refuse to buy those tickets because what is being offered in heaven is no longer attractive to them. For too long, this has continued. Only the Yogic sciences have answers for every question a human being can raise—either a direct answer or a process. This will be the way of the world if we present it properly.

Drugs and Human Capability

A couple in Florida was selling golden tickets to heaven. They were arrested because the gold was fake. If it had been about selling tickets to heaven, a large number of people would have to be arrested. 

These two people said that if they had made enough money, they would have bought a ticket to another planet—a planet made of hallucinatory or recreational drugs. They wanted to go there, not to regular heaven. That drug planet may not be somewhere else. This may become a drug planet. We are heading in that direction.

When I speak about drugs, I am not approaching the subject as a moral issue. Drugs destroy human capability, intelligence, competence, and capacity. That is the problem. It goes against the evolutionary process itself.

The Disaster We Can Still Avert

This movement will continue, and we want all of you to participate in whatever way you can. As I have said before, if you have big hands, we need you. If you have a big head, we need you. If you have a big heart, we need you. If you have a big pocket, we need you.

Future generations will not subscribe to anything unless it is logically sound.

If we do not fulfill this responsibility, there will be consequences. In the next 25 years, this generation will go through an amount of change that would normally take five generations.

Most people will lose their minds because they will not be able to handle that level of change. Without spiritual sciences and spiritual processes in their lives, it will become a disaster. But it is possible to avert it. So please be a part of this in whichever way you can, because it is important for future generations and for yourself.

Adiyogi Everywhere.

 

This article is based on a talk by Sadhguru during the In the Lap of the Master program at the Isha Yoga Center on 7 September 2026.