Inner Engineering

Lesson 1. When Sadhguru Lost His Sense.

Those in search of well being should understand the depth in the four-letter-word 'guru'. Guru literally means 'dispeller of darkness'. Sadhguru says, we often generalize the function of a guru is to teach, indoctrinate and convert. On the contrary, guru exists to throw light on the dimensions of life that are beyond our perceptions. The role of a guru is to enlighten us about the mysterious nature of human existence. 

Through this book we get to know how the author was never the teary kind and yet he found himself exploding into a different dimension of existence by crying at Chamundi Hill. He grew up in the sixties - in the era of the Beatles and blue jeans. He read his fair share of the European literature and philosophy starting from Dostoyevsky and ending with Kafka. 

At that very moment, he could think about nothing else except for the fact that he might be going off the rocker. But the view from the hill was so beautiful that he did not want to lose it. On that day what he experienced can not be put into words. According to him, he went up and never came down.

He recalls his childhood days. School bored him so he would simply spend his days roaming the forests, catching snakes, fishing, trekking, and climbing trees. He found the classroom dull but he has always been curious about everything else. The process by which the world is created, the physical terrain of the land, the way people live has always infused curiosity in him. He enjoyed making mental maps of the places he travelled and this is what drew him to the world of Thomas Hardy. He was in love with the English landscapes described by Hardy.

He describes himself to be a diehard sceptic when he was young. Even at the age of five, he started asking theological questions such as Who is God? Where is he? Up there? Where is up?.

His scepticism kept increasing throughout the years and no one ever managed to answer these complicated questions. And so, he never entered the temple. He had a realization at a very early point in his life that he knew nothing about anything.

Lesson 2. Getting into Yoga.

Sadhguru realized that language is nothing but a conspiracy devised by human beings. He realized that when someone is speaking they are just making random sounds and the interlocutor is