The Sadhguru Podcast - Of Mystics and Mistakes #1373 - Yoga: A Solution for Discrimination?
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Aug 29, 2025 Pravin Gordhan and Sadhguru tackle the deep-rooted issues of discrimination and race in South Africa. Sadhguru offers a powerful perspective on using yoga as a tool for personal empowerment and collective identity. The discussion highlights how yoga fosters unity and enhances sensory perception, breaking down barriers of discrimination. By experiencing life as interconnected, listeners learn to treat others with compassion and joy. This conversation blends profound insights with practical applications to inspire individual and societal transformation.
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Union Through Expanded Sensation
- Sadhguru defines yoga as expanding your sensory body until you experience everything as part of yourself.
- When your sensory boundaries include others, discrimination loses its experiential basis and ceases to arise.
Touch And Ingestion Demonstration
- Sadhguru invites listeners to touch their hands and objects to notice sensation-based self-definition.
- He uses drinking water and bodily growth as examples of how we incorporate what was once external.
Self Is Defined By Sensory Boundaries
- Sadhguru shows 'me' versus 'not me' arises from sensation boundaries that shift with ingestion and experience.
- Our sense of self grows by incorporating what we sense, so identity is fluid, not fixed.