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Suffering From Lack Of Self-Confidence?

by Sadhguru Jaggi

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Listen to this interesting response from Sadhguru to a question on whether he has a superiority complex because of the reverence he receives everywhere. Take your time to listen for the message that is waiting to help you. #Sadhguru Yogi, mystic and visionary, Sadhguru is a spiritual master with a difference. An arresting blend of profundity and pragmatism, his life and work serves as a reminder that yoga is a contemporary science, vitally relevant to our times.

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So,

Sadhguru,

You are so reverent and you are so cherished.

Do you ever get a superiority complex?

Right now,

Yes.

See,

The question is not about superiority complex,

Inferiority complex,

Poverty complex or wealthy complex.

That you have a complex is a serious problem,

Isn't it?

Whatever kind it is.

What a complex means is,

You have assumed something about yourself and you have concretized that assumption.

In such a way,

You make a bloody fool of yourself wherever you go.

Do I look like that?

Hello?

Do I look like I'm making a bloody fool of myself with you?

No.

So,

No complex of any kind.

Questioner 1 But then our confidence fluctuates every day,

So what do you have to say about that?

Sadhguru Because I don't have any confidence about anything.

I just have clarity.

People think I have knowledge.

No,

My head is empty.

That's why to make it little look… look little substantial,

I have a turban.

It's totally empty always.

But I have clarity.

Clarity means what?

You see things the way they are.

Knowledge means what?

You have fixed information about everything.

If things have changed,

You will not see it the way it is.

That's as good as being blind.

See,

People think owls are blind.

It's not true.

Their vision is far more sensitive than yours.

But because of sunlight,

They are blinded because it's too much.

When light goes down,

He sees very clearly.

Not because he's blind,

Because his eyes are super sensitive.

So it's important that you bring clarity to your life,

Not knowledge.

Because knowledge is conclusions that you gather.

Knowledge is okay when you're trying to do something physical,

Material in the world,

But not with life.

Is it true what you thought was absolute at the age of twelve today is not true?

Yes or no?

Are you sure that whatever you think is this is it right now will be this is it in another three years' time?

Participant – Of course not.

Sadhguru – You know that.

So you know you're wrong.

Yes or no?

So you know anyway you're wrong.

So why assert the wrong things?

Well,

Right now we are wrong,

At least let's manage with little… little more conscience.

If you know you're wrong,

You will walk carefully,

Isn't it?

Hello?

But you… you think you're absolutely correct,

Then you will do stupid things and you blunder around the world.

If you know you're not seeing properly,

Will you walk carefully or no?

If I ask you to walk through a dark room,

Suppose we turn off all the lights and close it down,

Everything pitch dark,

If I ask you to walk,

Suddenly will you become super alert and conscious as to how you walk?

But when the lights are on,

You're just going unconsciously bumping into everybody.

So if you learn to walk every moment like there are no lights and you're looking at everything absolutely carefully,

Then what you see clearly you go through it,

What you don't see clearly you hesitate,

Some places you take a little bit of chance.

But if you are just confident,

You will blunder through life,

We don't know where you will get in.

And what you will get trapped into.

Most people are trapped into their professions,

Their family situations,

Their social situations in such a way,

They all became like this.

Yes?

Already I'm seeing,

Not just older people,

Youth have become like this.

What will happen to me at the end of my life,

What will happen to me at the end of my life,

I've already revealed the secret,

You will die.

But Sadhguru,

If this happens,

What to do?

If that happens,

What to do?

All those things will happen.

It's not that everything will happen in your life the way you like it,

Things will happen in the way you don't like it.

It once happened,

Shankaran Pillai got fired from his job simply because he asked a question,

Smoking or not smoke,

Non-smoking?

How can you get fired for asking such a simple question?

Smoking or non-smoking,

He asked and he got fired.

Because what he was supposed to ask was cremation or burial?

So many times what you do,

Thinking I'm right,

May be irrelevant to the situation in which you exist.

So the most important aspect of your life is you're relevant,

Not right.

You're just relevant to the existing situation,

You're relevant.

I am right,

I am right,

I am right.

This is confidence.

You being right,

Nobody cares.

All the idiots who think they're right,

Nobody wants to listen to them,

Nobody wants to be around them,

Isn't it?

People who always think I'm right,

I'm right,

You want to be around them?

No,

The important thing is you're relevant to the situation in which you exist.

If you have to bring relevance into your life,

You must extinguish your confidence and bring clarity.

To develop clarity,

There are many systems.

See,

To develop your muscle,

There are systems,

Isn't it?

Similarly,

To develop clarity,

There are many systems.

Unfortunately,

Our education system is dulling clarity in so many ways.

Some of the research studies in the university shows that if a child goes to kindergarten and goes through twenty years of education – I'm sorry,

I'm saying this is an educational institution – twenty years of education and comes out,

Let's say with a PhD,

They're saying seventy percent of their intelligence is irrevocably destroyed.

So you have a knowledgeable idiot.

What do you do with this?

Well you can… you can impress people by throwing information,

But this whole game of impressing people,

Throwing this information and that information around is all going to go because that Google lady is better than any of these idiots.

Hello?

You… it's really amazing,

I'm just traveling to wherever.

Let's say I'm flying to United States or Africa,

Somewhere,

I just ask,

You know,

What is the morning temperature in Entebbe?

I'm landing there.

Without batting an eyelid,

In two seconds she tells me it's fourteen degree centigrade and by afternoon it's eighteen degree centigrade,

By evening it's again twelve degree centigrade.

Who could ever say this?

Hello?

She may not be perfectly right,

But she's almost there.

So people who are carrying a basket of information on their head and feeling superior,

I want you to understand this,

In this country and everywhere else in the world,

In the… not the previous but the previous generation,

Somebody who could read a book was seen godlike because everybody else was illiterate.

And people thrived simply because they can read the Gita or the Bible or something else.

They thrived simply because they can read.

But once everybody can read,

We are ignoring those people completely.

Yes or no?

Hello?

So,

People who are carrying information and feeling superior,

They will all be made into nothing in the next fifteen to twenty years' time.

Once artificial intelligence becomes all over the place,

Information will mean nothing because it will be available everywhere.

By then you must be competent to do something beyond information.

This is why I'm with you.

Thank you.

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Recent Reviews

Karly

July 28, 2025

It could also be called, "Relevancy is wiser than intelligence". (Or something of that nature.😊) WOW! It left me with a whole new perspective at a time that is particularly relevant to my current set of life dynamics. Meaning, i gained a whole new outlook while in the midst of major life choices & direction shifts. The last few minutes really struck chords. WONDERFUL! Thank you! 🙏🏼🌺

Alice

November 15, 2024

clarity not confidence- i will take that with me 🙏🦋💙🙏🩵🦋🙏💙🙏

Liza

July 22, 2022

❤️

Mortimer

June 17, 2022

so brilliant! thanks!

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May 31, 2022

My favorite of his talks on this app so far

khanna

May 29, 2022

Excellent talk. Thank you 🙏

Meghan

May 27, 2022

He never goes where you think the topic will go. But the wisdom flows through him so insightfully. He's definitely a boddhisattva.

Sabina

May 15, 2022

Always such practical insight. Love his sense of humor. Thank you Sadguru, you are a beloved and appreciated teacher. 🙏🏼 Namaste

Martha

May 13, 2022

Brilliant! Thank you. I so appreciate his take on the world.

Virginia

May 13, 2022

Excellent & so true. Say hi to the Google lady!

Sheila

May 13, 2022

😃🤗🤗🌼

Niiraj

May 13, 2022

Sadguru is great,

Nora

May 12, 2022

Said grew you are an amazing man! Thank you for sharing your wisdom with us, making the complicated seems so simple! Much appreciated! Nora

Sabine

May 12, 2022

🙏🏼♥️💫

Eri

May 11, 2022

Love it

🌜HaileOnWheels🌛

May 10, 2022

Excellent points! Thank you 🙏

Dianne

May 10, 2022

Talk is about clarity versus knowledge; clarity wins! Loved the example about how one walks in light and in total darkness. Need more night walkers 😉.

Michelle

May 10, 2022

Thank you 🙏

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