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In the Presence of the Master: On Life's Deepest Questions
In the Presence of the Master: On Life's Deepest Questions
In the Presence of the Master: On Life's Deepest Questions
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"In the Presence of the Master" is a series of stirring and insightful discourses given by Sadhguru. In his willingness to share, Sadhguru offers glimpses of the profound wisdom that is otherwise accessible to enlightened beings only. Offering the rare possibility to go beyond all limitations, a veritable Guru takes the seeker on a mystical journey towards the ultimate liberation.


In this book, Sadhguru opens up a whole new perspective on “Why suffering?,” a question which has concerned humanity from the beginning of time. In the quest to tackle this problem, man has developed many theories, concepts and dogmata, but still, suffering is omnipresent in this world.


Abrogating the erroneous belief that it is inevitable, Sadhguru delivers insights on the very origin of suffering and discloses ways beyond.


In modern societies, enhancing the quality of our life has become one of our main objectives. In this pursuit, we tend to emphasize on enhancing external situations our job, business, family and the abounding accumulation of material things; in spite of all the efforts, our personal and professional lives are too often painfully lacking happiness and fulfilment.


In this volume, Sadhguru shifts our focus to the inside, pointing out a way to establish a true sense of inner peace and wellbeing by applying “Inner Management.”


In this book, Sadhguru simplifies the many ideas surrounding sex, dispelling the philosophies and theories supporting sex and sexual desire. Sadhguru’s eminent insight and humor takes the reader on an in-depth discussion about sex, revealing its true nature as an expression of unconscious longing to know the divine.

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Release dateOct 15, 2019
In the Presence of the Master: On Life's Deepest Questions

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In the Presence of the Master - Sadhguru Jaggi Vasudev

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Introduction

In the Presence of the Master is a series of stirring and insightful discourses given by Sadhguru. In his willingness to share, Sadhguru offers glimpses of the profound wisdom that is otherwise accessible to enlightened beings only.

In this volume, Sadhguru opens up a whole new perspective on 'Why suffering?' A question which has concerned humanity from the beginning of time. In the quest to tackle this problem, man has developed many theories, concepts and dogmata, but still, suffering is omnipresent in this world.

Abrogating the erroneous belief that it is inevitable, Sadhguru delivers insights on the very origin of suffering and discloses ways beyond.

Why Suffering

As a human being, you know suffering not because Creation gave the suffering to you. Creation just gave you the freedom to make whatever you wish to out of yourself.

Sadhguru

Questioner: Sadhguru, if Creation is perfect, and the Creator has done such a good job on us, why is there so much suffering in the world? Why do we need to depend upon somebody's compassion to exist here?

Sadhguru: (Laughs) so why is there so much misery if all Creation is a perfect job? It is such a perfect job, that it gives you the opportunity to be whichever way you wish to be. If Creation had not given you the necessary opportunity to be what you wish to be, then there would be no possibilities, isn't it? Then there would be no such thing as liberation. So why create bondage and then liberation? Why couldn't you have just been liberated? Then there would be no Creation. Only because there is Creation, now there is the possibility of going beyond that.

In animal nature and in other forms of life that you see around you, there is not much possibility. The possibility is to just survive, procreate, carry on with life and die one day. Because there is not much possibility, there is not much misery either. You don't see other creatures of the planet suffering like human beings. Their suffering is purely physical. If they are physically harmed, they're in pain. Even in pain, they do not know the kind of suffering that a human being knows.

As a human being, you know this suffering not because Creation gave the suffering to you. Creation just gave you the freedom to make whatever you wish to out of yourself. If you're making suffering out of yourself, or a large population of the world has decided to make suffering out of themselves; that is their choice. Physical realities are sometimes comfortable, and sometimes not comfortable. That is so.

We have been given the necessary intelligence to create the necessary comfort for ourselves. That's not an issue really. If we have no problems with each other, creating comfort for all the population in the world is not a big problem at all. But simply because we have inner problems, this freedom which should have been a benediction, has become a curse upon humanity. Right now, what human beings are suffering is not their bondage; they are suffering their freedom. If you suffer your bondage, it's all right, but if you suffer your freedom, that's a tragedy.

This moment you can make anything out of yourself. You can make joy or suffering out of yourself. If almost 90 percent of the people choose to make misery out of themselves, what can be done? That's not Creation's fault. Creation just gave you the freedom so that you could go beyond.

Once you have come as a human, you're not trapped anymore. Other creatures are trapped in their own instincts, beyond that they cannot think. You have instincts for survival, but still you have the possibility of going beyond these instincts. If you don't choose to go beyond, that means enough suffering has still not touched you, because unfortunately in the world, very few people transcend out of their intelligence. Most people have to be thrashed by life; only then they will transcend. Only then will they think of going beyond, otherwise no.

In India if you tell somebody that 'I'm living in an ashram', they will ask you, 'Why, what went wrong? What happened to your life?' They believe that only after something really goes wrong you will go to the ashram. Because most people's intelligence is such, they keep their brains in cold storage, thinking that they will use it in the future. So they only seek the beyond when something really goes wrong with their life. Until then, even if something goes wrong, they will only pray for a better life next time.

Now, you don't have to depend upon anybody's compassion or understanding. The whole world can live under the umbrella of your compassion and your understanding. I would like to see that you stand up that way; that the world lives under your compassion and understanding. If you have any dignity, that's how you should live. Isn't it so?

Questioner: Sadhguru, you said that suffering is of the mind, and we have the freedom to get rid of it. However, there are people who don't even have food to eat. What about their suffering?

Sadhguru: People don't have food to eat, not because there's no food in the world, but because people who are capable have grabbed everything.

Questioner: There are people without food, like the situations we have in Africa, Ethiopia, and even in India...

Sadhguru: You're telling me? (Laughs) Unfortunately, we have left a large part of the human population in physical pain. Pain of hunger, disease and injury. The way we are treating half the humanity on the planet, it looks like we are hell's angels. If you look at the world, we are not really human beings, because we have kept half the world population in hell. But still, if you don't know this, the level of suffering of people who have comfort and well-being is much deeper than of those people who are not eating properly.

Even today, that is the reality. So suffering is not necessarily always in proportion to one's physical deprivation. People who have everything, they suffer much more deeply than people who don't have anything. And just the fact that you have too much and somebody is suffering from too little, that itself will cause you immense suffering.

You may not be aware of it, it may take time for a lot of people to realize that in

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