Analyzing Sadhguru: The Man Behind the Mysticism

Blogger’s Note: This commentary is based on the same commentary as heard in my video on YouTube.

I started watching Indian yogi and author Sadhguru about two months ago. “Sadhguru” isn’t his name, and from my understanding, neither is it a title, but rather a description that means “uneducated guru.” This is what he’s known as, and how he’s addressed nonetheless, so that’s what I’ll go with.

He has a program called Inner Engineering. I’m still looking into it, but from what I’ve gathered so far, a lot of it involves yoga, among other internal exercises such as meditation. It’s similar to my approach in terms of improving one’s self starting internally, hence the phrase, “where change starts with the inner man or the inner being.”

For me, it’s not a catchphrase or just a saying, it’s a mentality — a way of life. Back to Sadhguru, I like what I’ve heard from him, for the most part. I mean, there’s no way you’re going to agree with every single thing someone says — that’s virtually impossible — however, I find a lot of talking points to be thought provoking and similar to my own talking points, in some instances.

He has a strong following, to say the least. He has thousands of volunteers to help carry his out vision. I’ve watched some of livestreams and it is packed. I’ve seen at least 20,000 people in his livestreams called “With Sadhguru in Troubling Times” on Sundays. That’s not to say he doesn’t have detractors. There are people from all over, even some of his own who criticize, challenge and debate his rhetoric.

He has a unique way of dealing with those who vehemently challenges his talking points. He doesn’t get visibly upset, but instead he will just laugh it off, and respond in a relaxed, composed manner. He has this way of putting people in their place without getting hostile or stooping to their level.

He has an interesting point of view on anger that I agree with. He basically says that he’s in control of himself, not anyone else. Therefore, it is your choice whether or not you allow someone to move you to the point of anger or any other emotion. Now, I agree with that, but let’s be real: there are a lot of assholes out here.

People will try you, but this is where I go back to Sadhguru’s philosophy on you having the choice on not allowing them to have power over you. You deal with/correct the problem and move on. Same thing when it comes to dealing with battles in the mind. Yes, thoughts will come, but you don’t have to engage it. You have the power and the choice whether or not to give that thought any power. I might touch on this more in another video.

As I’ve said before, this is a learning process for me as well. My attitude is to learn and grow every day. We’re in this together. Aside from using it for creative writing, I’m not into mystical things in terms of reality. To clarify that, I do have a certain belief when it comes to the universe, but I don’t pray to any idols or worship any gods or have this belief about aliens and so on. I say that because I know he has more of a spiritual, but not religious approach.

All-in-all, I like a lot of his talking points. Whether you’re spiritual, religious or otherwise, if what you’re saying makes sense to me, I’ll roll with it.

Analyzing Sadhguru: The Man Behind the Mysticism (YouTube video): https://youtu.be/luHk6kp__TI