Sadhguru Jaggi Vasudev of Isha foundation needs no introduction, as he is well known in the US as a renowned yoga master with profound insights on health, wellness, self-mastery and human values. He is an international speaker, author and peace advocate who founded the Isha Foundation, a non-profit organization advancing physical, mental and spiritual health through yogic science. Sadhguru has initiated hundreds and thousands of meditators worldwide into the spiritual journey of evolving into their ultimate nature through the life transforming science of Yoga. Aided by over 100,000 volunteers, Isha Foundation also conducts grassroots humanitarian initiatives around the world, including Action for Rural Rejuvenation, a revitalization program targeting 13,000 impoverished villages in rural India. Isha foundation received many accolades from many quarters for their Tsunami rehabilitation and the restoration of livelihood related tasks by building houses for those whose houses were either damaged or destroyed and by supplying boats, nets and engines to the affected families for all the adopted villages. 

A common theme of Sadhguru’s lectures is the modern struggle for fulfillment and associated mental suffering, which he points to as the only real obstacle to experiencing happiness. Happiness, he insists, is not a reward we should have to strive for; it is as fundamental to life as the air we breathe. Sadhguru describes the ancient methods of yoga as powerful tools to help us step back into that natural state of being. His program is composed of powerful techniques that are designed to transform physical, mental and spiritual levels.

Inner dimensions of life give energy, passion and boundless joy
As a prelude to this 5-day intensive training, earlier this week on Monday, Jan 09 Sadhguru delivered a lecture on “ global health solutions through Inner Engineering” at Whitehead Biomedical Research Building Auditorium of Emory University. In the fully packed auditorium where scientists, doctors and other professionals were present, Sadhguru stressed the need to integrate physical body, mental body and energy body. He said yoga is a simple way of aligning the three physical dimensions. If you align them properly the inner dimension finds expression. Once it finds expression you will be blissful by your own nature. You don’t need to do any thing to be happy, he noted. Right now every thing we do in our life is in the pursuit of happiness. Whole effort of humanity in this planet is in the pursuit of happiness. Tremendous things we have done especially for the last hundred years with the use of science and technology. We have changed the face of this planet in the pursuit of human happiness. We are definitely more comfortable. Much convenience has come to us. Are we happier than what people were 100 years ago? We are definitely the most comfortable generation ever on this planet. Never before another generation of people has ever known these kinds of comforts and conveniences. Bur definitely we are not the most joyful generation or peaceful generation, he added.

Sadhguru said these things would not happen by fixing the outside. Some thing has to be done to the interiority. We engineer the out side world in many ways for our comforts and convenience. Comfort definitely has come. But joy and peace has not come. We will truly feel well only when we are joyful by our own nature. In pursuit of human happiness so much has happened. But we have not moved an inch towards it, Sadhguru said. Even physical happiness will not come unless the person is truly joyful. If one is joyful the whole system works at its best. Health means fundamentally all our health system to work at its best. Though we take medicine we should know that all medicine that we take ultimately to support the system function better. Health cannot be created from out side. It only can happen with in. Experientially every one knows when we are happy our physical and body function at its best. It is with in us and he said it is with in you to get started. It is time to put your happiness on self-start. The sacred science of yoga is a powerful possibility to experience the inner dimensions of life that give us the energy, passion and insights for a state of boundless joy.