interview with SADHGURU
portraits by MARCELO KRASILCIC
interview by OLIVIER ZAHM
a spiritual-master success story:
the self-realized yogi and sadhguru
touches the lives of millions worldwide
through the mental training he calls “inner engineering”
OLIVIER ZAHM — The brain can be a positive or a negative force: is it something we have to domesticate or control?
SADHGURU — No, the mind should be liberated. Why should it be controlled?
“Everybody is a psychological creature, wanting to assign meaning to everything. Seeking is not about looking for something. It is about enhancing your perception, your very faculty of seeing it.”
OLIVIER ZAHM — What do you mean by “liberated”?
SADHGURU — To become free from all compulsiveness. What makes people suffer isn’t the brain — they’re suffering from their compulsiveness. People develop compulsive habits. And because it becomes cyclical, it hurts. Right now, intelligence is the only…