The Greatest Thing is Life Itself

Depression – one of the worst enemies a person can face. Sadhguru gives us the hard truth about this "suicide in installments”, and looks at how to escape its trap.

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.

Transcript

The life within you always wants to be alive,

Always longing to hit the highest peak possible.

Life is always exuberant and effervescent.

It is only psychologically you have hit a depressive mode.

You got lost in the logical dimension of your mind.

Your intelligence says one thing,

But the logical thinking says something else altogether.

The repetitive nature of your daily life itself can be depressive.

I want you to understand this,

Moments of extreme logic are moments of suicide.

Depression means you're committing suicide in installments.

More and more you apply your logic to your life,

The less and less alive you become.

Your logic should be employed only to handle the material aspects of your life.

If you apply logic to your life itself,

You will become depressed.

If you eliminate everything that means something to you,

The birds in the sky,

The flowers in your garden,

Your child's face and dissect your life with your logic,

Depression will be the destination.

It's time you reach your life.

The most valuable thing in your life is life itself.

Where you live,

What you drive,

What you wear,

What you eat,

These are all accessories to life.

You're alive right now.

This is the biggest phenomena.

This is the greatest joy.

You need to clearly understand,

It doesn't pay to be unhappy,

Depressed or sick,

Being joyful and ecstatic pays and if it doesn't pay,

Who cares?

Once a human being becomes more and more aware of his own nature,

He understands to experience love,

To experience blissfulness,

To experience ecstasy,

Even to experience orgasmic ways of life,

You don't need anybody actually.

Thank you.

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Reviews

Perfect pick me up after a stressful morning at work

Many people aren’t understanding this. My depression stems directly from my trying to apply logic to my life. I feel like a failure even though I’m not because I cannot understand the logic of my life. This talk was very freeing and helped me take a step back from a spiral. I don’t need someone to tell me depression is an illness and that’s it’s ok that I’m sad. I need someone to tell me to snap out of it and stop overthinking and that’s exactly what this did.

I am thinking about suicide almost everyday but even if I understand that being alive is what matters, I can't get passed how tired I am to be suffering from depression. I don't know how to simply enjoy life itself.
But thanks for the reminder.

I really needed to hear this message. Words can not describe how much it helped me

Very wise. Thank you

I like the part about logically breaking your life down it to bits thinking that that analysis will be beneficial..but it's not..great stuff..

A wonderful reminder about what life is all about

I'm a big fan of this guy

I totally have lived the truth of this -- too much in my head, even trying to "understand" life. My folks are this way. All of my extended family. Too "smart" for our own good. 🙏

Thank you for that, exactly what I needed.

Powerful. I needed this today!
Thank you.

This guy is simply awesome!
I could listen to this all day long.

Wow, talk about an intense 2 minutes! This one is bookmarked as I should remind myself of this frequently!

Very informative

This is amazing and I want to hear more... I am having thoughts of ending my own life and this is what I needed to hear

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