Why Acceptance Is Freedom

Sadhguru speaks about how acceptance facilitates a free flow of life. He dares us to try total acceptance, at least for twenty-four hours. Are you up for the challenge?

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

If you look into your own mind,

If you look into your own persona of what you consider yourself to be,

Normally what you call as a personality is essentially different levels of constipation.

I don't like this,

I can't stand this,

I can't do this,

I can't do that,

I only like this,

I cannot like that.

Different levels of constipation.

What causes this constipation?

Constipation in its physiological sense means constriction of a tract.

Here it's constriction of one's mind and consciousness that it's held.

There's no free flow of life.

It's restricted because your ability to experience your life is only through the instruments of your body and your mind.

Either your body or your mind in some way constricted means your ability to experience life also gets constipated.

This happens in many ways.

You will be surprised,

Many of you think you've grown out of those things,

But when you're ten years of age,

Your mama,

Your uncle,

I mean,

Your mama said something,

He called you an idiot.

Ah,

Now you're fifty,

But still forty years ago he called you an idiot,

It still bothers you.

When you see his face,

He called me an idiot.

Like this it goes on.

The more concretized your persona is or your personality is,

The more nicks and wounds you carry upon yourself.

And these are not physiological wounds to heal because they're self-inflicted wounds.

These are being carried as badges of life's experience,

So they don't go.

Because of this,

I like this guy,

I don't like this guy,

I love this person,

I hate this person,

I can't stand this person,

All this has happened.

Next twenty-four hours,

You must do this.

All these mamas,

Friends,

Enemies,

Nonsense,

You don't have to tell them,

I love you,

Not necessary.

Within yourself,

You must come to a total sense of acceptance of everything.

So,

Somebody said something,

Somebody did something,

Somebody stepped on your food,

Somebody stepped on your head.

Twenty-four hours,

Tch,

It's a small prescription.

Only for twenty-four hours,

Come to an absolute acceptance of everything.

Your mental things,

Your emotional things,

Your bodily things,

Every damn thing,

And the social things,

Just simply accepting it as it is.

You don't have to do anything with anybody,

Just within yourself.

If you just do this,

Life will happen on a larger scale.

Reviews

Thank you. It also coincided with a perspective from A.A. Acceptance, is the ANSWER to all of our Prayers!

Great talk, memorable analogy, and challenge accepted. Thank you. 🙏🏼

So wise, so practical. So much to accept, and this my first thing to accept.

I appreciate your messages and your humor—so much more useful than stuck-up affirmations!

Super Trouper💚🌹 thank you🙏 you're an amazing teacher🧘‍♀️

I can accept that. Thank you

Nobelprize for Peace for SADHGURUJI

so true, thank you 🙏🏼

Thought-provoking. I feel much more relaxed viewing life this way.

Thank you! I will make this my no.1 practice until managed to master it 🙏🌺

Something I needed to hear.

Sadhguru’s pearls of wisdom are worthy of our FULLest attention. “Acceptance” is eloquently described in the first FULL paragraph on page 417 (fourth edition, www.aa.org) of the Alcoholics Anonymous Big Book (AABB), a spiritual development guide by the RECOVERED 100 and Sadhguru’s wisdom also encourages our spiritual development which leads to our intellectual then emotional then physical alignment w/ well BEing, living in the zone of compassion (www.compassioncourse.org) as each of us recognize that LIFE (Living Integrated, FULLy Embodied, www.living-compassion.org) is LOVE, all else is simply confusion. In blissful gratitude, ahimsa

Sahdguru! You have given me much insight as to how to exact revenge upon my oppressors who i relinquished control of my life because at a very young age i was told I would always be disabled mentally and physically. My revenge will be to free myself and pity them for the manipulations and Live for my own desires I abandoned as a child! The best revenge is to thrive, family is not for everyone. Moving on and forgiving them and their small minds are my key to Freedom, my new Family will come when I learn to accept and dismiss what insults my soul. Many thanks. Move on, as they are what keeps me subjegated. Blessings my sweet Guru. I suffer with total impoverishment, abuse and starvation, in cancer recovery, alone. Friends from Insight Timer, send me your strength, peace and resolve! And most importantly Love. We are one! Love to you all! And gracious thanks! 🙇💪💚✊

Sadhguru you are substantially helping me to live a better, happier and more compassionate life. Thank you. I think I will listen to this speech everyday.

Sadhguru addresses the topics, all topics, with the power of bringing answers always at the ultimate level of humanism felt and real personal, reinforced with the charm of its expression.
All topics.
It is an insight and a priviledge to receive this gift

Merci.

Thank you. Very good. ❤️🙏🏼

Always intuitively speaking truth.

Another gem of wisdom and truth! AND funny. Thank you. We accept the challenge—24 hours of acceptance!

Many thanks Namaste

I’ll give it a shot😊🙏🏻