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SADHGURU |
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| Author Name: |
ARUNDHATI SUBRAMANIAM |
| Publisher Name: |
PENGUIN ANANDA |
| ISBN: |
9780670085125 |
| Edition: |
HARDBACK |
| Language: |
ENGLISH |
| Pages: |
256pp with 16 pp b/w pics |
| Publication Date: |
DEC 2010 |
| Price: |
 499.00 |
| List Price: |
399.00 |
| You Save: |
100 |
| Availablity: |
Yes |
| Shipping Time: |
3 - 4 DAYS |
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| About Book |
‘The thirst to be boundless is not created by you; it is just life longing for
itself.’—Sadhguru
This is the extraordinary story of Sadhguru—a young agnostic who turned
yogi, a wild motorcyclist who turned mystic, a sceptic who turned spiritual
guide. The book seeks to re-create the life journey of a man who combines
rationality with mysticism, irreverence with compassion, ancient wisdom
with a provocatively contemporary outlook and a deep knowledge of the
self with a contagious love of life. Satguru is equally at home in a satsangh
in rural Tamil Nadu as at the World Economic Forum in Davos.
In his early years, Jaggi Vasudev (or Sadhguru as he is now known) was
a chronic truant, a boisterous prankster, and later a lover of motorbikes
and fast cars. It is evident that the same urgency, passion and vitality
echo in his spiritual pursuits to this day, from his creation of the historic
Dhyanalinga—the mission of three lifetimes—to his approach as a guru.
In Sadhguru’s view, faith and reason, spirituality and science, the sacred
and the material, cannot be divided into easy binaries. He sees people as
‘spiritual beings dabbling with the material rather than the reverse’, and
liberation as the fundamental longing in every form of life. Truth for him is
a living experience instead of a destination, a conclusion, or a matter of
metaphysical speculation.
Drawing upon extended conversations with Sadhguru, interviews with
Isha colleagues and fellow meditators, poet Arundhathi Subramaniam
presents an evocative portrait of a contemporary mystic and guru—a man
who seems to |
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