Sadhguru - Meditazione Isha Kriya FAQ

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What is Isha Kriya?

Today, for most people, the word Yoga usually conjures up images of twisting the body into impossible

postures. The physical aspect of Yoga is only one facet of this multi-dimensional science. Yoga is a

technology to bring the body and mind to the peak of their capabilities allowing one to lie life to thefullest.

!t is the ision of "adhguru a reali#ed yogi and $aster to offer %one drop of spirituality& to eery

indiidual. Through !sha 'riya, the possibilities of a spiritual process, which were once aailable only to

yogis and ascetics, are now being offered to eery human being in the comfort of their own home.

(ooted in the timeless wisdom of the yogic sciences, !sha 'riya is a simple yet potent practice created by

"adhguru. !sha refers to that which is the source of creation) kriya literally means internal action.

The purpose of !sha 'riya is to help an indiidual get in touch with the source of his e*istence, to create

life according to his own wish and ision. +aily practice of !sha 'riya brings health, dynamism, peace and

wellbeing. !t is a powerful tool to cope with the hectic pace of modern life.

!sha 'riya is free, simple, and easy to practice. ailable as a guided meditation with an instructional

ideo and downloadable instructions, it has the potential to transform the life of anyone who is willing to

inest just a few minutes a day.

bout Sadhguru

isit Sadhguru.org

isit IshaFoundation.org

"adhguru, a yogi, mystic, poet and isionary humanitarian, is a spiritual master with a difference. is life

and work are a possibility for each indiidual to e*perience the peace and joy that perades the core of

eery human being. !t is "adhguru&s ision that eery one receies %one-drop of spirituality/, allowing themto transform their lies and take their destiny into their hands.

Technologies for WellbeingFrequently asked questions:

What is the benefit of this meditation?

Sadhguru:0here is the need to meditate, first of all1 "tarting the process of life was not your

conscious choice, it happened to you. 0hen you were born your body was so small, and now it has

grown. "o obiously, the body is something that you gathered. !t is an accumulation. 0hat you call as my

body is an accumulation of food. "imilarly, what you call as my mind is an accumulation of

impressions.


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0hateer you accumulate can be yours, but it can neer be you. The ery fact you accumulated it means

that you gathered it from somewhere else. Today you could gather a 23 kg body, but you can decide to

make it a 43 kg body. You don&t go looking for that 53 kg, because that was an accumulation. 6nce you

drop it, it is gone. "imilarly, your mind is an accumulation of impressions.

The moment you are identified in your e*perience, the moment you are identified with something that

you are not, your perception gets distorted. The moment you start e*periencing this body, which you

gathered from outside, as myself, the moment you start e*periencing the impressions that you hae in

your mind as myself, you cannot perceie life the way it is. You will only perceie life the way it is

necessary for your surial and not the way it really is.

6nce you hae come as a human being, surial is ery important, but it is not enough. !f you had come

here like any other creature on this planet, stomach full life would be settled. 7ut once you come here

as a human being, life does not end with surial. ctually, for a human being, life begins only after

surial is fulfilled.

$editation gies you an e*perience, an inner state, where what is you and what is yours is separated.

There is a little distance, there is a little space between what is you and what you hae accumulated. 8or

now we can understand this as meditation.

0hat is the use of doing this1 !t brings an absolute clarity of perception. You see life just the way it is no

distortions about it. (ight now, your ability to go through this world is only to the e*tent that you clearly

see it. !f ! hae no clarity of ision but confidence and ! try to go through this world, ! am going to be a

bumbling idiot. 0heneer there is no perception, people try to oercome that by building confidence in

themseles. 9eople are trying to make up for the lack of clarity with other kinds of substitutes. There is

no substitute for clarity.

6nce you understand this, you naturally become meditatie) you want to clear up eerything and just look

at life the way it is, because you want to walk through life with the least amount of friction, without

stumbling on this or that. What exactly does this meditation do?

Sadhguru:This kriya will create a certain space between you and your body, between you and

your mind. !f at all there is any struggle in your life, it is because you identify yourself with these

limited aspects of yourself.

"o the essence of meditation is that it creates a space, a distance between you and what you refer to as

your mind. ll the suffering you go through is manufactured in your mind. !f you distance yourself from

the mind, can there be suffering in you1 This is the end of suffering.

:ow while you are meditating, there is a distance between you and your mind, and you do feel peaceful.

The problem is that the moment you open your eyes, you are again stuck with your mind.

!f you meditate eery day, a day will come when you open your eyes, and you can still e*perience that the

mind is there and you are here. This is the end of suffering. 0hen you are no longer identified with your

body and mind, you will be in touch with the source of creation within you. 6nce this happens, ;race

happens.

That means your whole karmic bag your past or unconscious mind has been kept aside. !t cannot hae

any influence oer you. 6nce the past has no influence oer you, life becomes a huge potential.

ust sitting here, ! am bursting with ecstasy.

0hat&s the big deal1 ! am going to make the whole word ecstatic.& !t has been almost thirty years now,


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and ! became like this ?Refers to his beard@ but people hae not gien up their misery. 0e hae touched a

few million people, but that&s not the whole world. $y idea of the world is seen billion people.

(ight now societies are getting freakier by the day because eerything that one could do materially has

been done. :ow they don&t know what to do. ll you can do is cut your hair or tattoo your body from head

to toe. 0hat other new thing can you do1 9eople will start doing more and more life negatie things, just

because they want to do something new.

"o society is oerripe for spiritual process) it is oerripe. !f you don&t proide it now, it&ll burst. You hae

to proide a large scale, non-religious spiritual process which does not ascribe to any particular

philosophy or ideology- just a simple process, which will turn them inward. Till now, maybe in small

patches here and there, people hae been touched, but it has not happened on a large-scale. Today with

the technology aailable, we can make this happen.

This will be the most important thing that we as a generation of people can do. To hae the priilege to

do something large-scale for human consciousness.

!f you do too much of e*ternal engineering, we will not hae a planet left. !t is time that human energies

are turned inward so that they can engineer themseles and not cause any damage to the outside. There

is lot of work to do inside. !f we don/t open that dimension on a large scale to the efferescent, ery

industrious societies on the planet, their industry will destroy the planet.

What is the importance of the breath? Is there more to breathing well than positive healtheffects?

Sadhguru:7reath is the thread which ties you to the body. !f ! take away your breath, you and

your body will fall apart. !t is the breath that has tied you to the body. 0hat you call as your body and

what you call as me hae been tied together with breath. nd this breath decides many aspects of who

you are right now.

8or different leels of thought and emotion that you go through, your breath takes on different types of

patterns. !f you are angry, you will breathe one way. You are peaceful, you breathe another way. You arehappy, you breathe another way. You are sad, you will breathe another way. ae you noticed this1

7ased on this, conersely, is the science of pranayama and kriyaA by consciously breathing in a particular

way, the ery way you think, feel, understand and e*perience life can be changed.

This breath can be used in so many ways as a tool to do other things with the body and the mind. You will

see with the !sha 'riya, we are using a simple process of breath, but the kriya itself is not in the breath.

The breath is just a tool. The breath is an induction, but what happens is not about the breath.

0hicheer way you breathe, that is the way you think. 0hicheer way you think, that is the way you

breathe. Your whole life, your whole unconscious mind is written into your breath. !f you just read your

breath, your past, present and future is written there, in the way you breathe.

6nce you reali#e this, life becomes ery different. !t needs to be known e*perientially) it is not something

that you can propound. !f you know the bliss of simply sitting here, the blissfulness of just being able to

simply sit here, not thinking anything, not doing anything, simply sitting here, just being life, then life

would be ery different.

!n a way, what this means isB Today, there is scientific proof that without taking a drop of alcohol,

without taking any substance you can simply sit here and get drugged or stoned or drunk by yourself no

hangoer. !f you are aware in a certain way, you can actiate the system in such a way that if you sit

here, it is an enormous pleasure. 6nce simply sitting and breathing is such a great pleasure, you will

become ery genial, fle*ible, wonderful because all the time you are in a great state within yourself.

The mind becomes sharper than eer before.

Why should my face be slightly upturned?


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Sadhguru:"itting with your head slightly upturned is not because you want to see something floating in

the sky or imagine something. You keep your head upturned because when your system looks upward, it

becomes receptie. !t is like opening a window. This is about becoming receptie to ;race. 0hen you

become willing and receptie, your body naturally arches up.

What effect does uttering the sound Aa have on me? Sadhguru:0hen you utter the sound a ?as in the CahC in 8ather@, the maintenance center in

your body gets actiated. This is the manipuraka chakra, or the nael center. The manipuraka is just

three-fourths of an inch below your nael. 0hen you were in your mother&s womb, the maintenance

pipe was connected there. :ow the tube is gone, but the maintenance center is still in your nael.

s there is a physical body, there is a whole energy bodyB This energy that we generally refer to as either

prana or shakti, flows through the body in certain established patterns) it is not moing randomly. There

are 2D,333 different ways in which it moes. !n other words, there are 2D,333 pathways in the system

through which it is flowing. "o nadis are pathways or channels in the system. They do not hae a physical

manifestation) if you cut the body and look inside, you will not find these nadis. 7ut as you become more

and more aware, you will notice the energy is not moing at random) it is moing in established pathways.

"ound a is the only ibration which spreads right across the body because the manipuraka is the onlyplace where the 2D,333 nadis meet and redistribute themseles. 0hen you utter the sound a, you will

see the ibration will start about three-fourths of an inch below the nael and spread right across the

body. This ibration can assist greatly in energi#ing your maintenance center. ctiating this center will

bring health, dynamism, prosperity and wellbeing.

Is the empty stomach condition applicable to isha kriya?n empty stomach condition is not necessary. There is no need to leae any gap after eating, but with a

full stomach you may tend to fall asleep.

What should the time gap be between our food and this meditation process?

Should one meditate for a certain time or it should be done every day for the rest of one!s life?$editation is a process that can become as much a part of your life as anything else that you are doing. !t

is just like brushing your teeth - initially someone had to insist that you do it - but once you understand

the alue of it, then it simply happens without any thought. !t/s the same thing with meditation, once you

understand the alue of it, then naturally it will become a daily part of your life without much effort.

oweer, in order for this to happen, initially it needs some perseerance, which is why we are insisting

the practice be done twice a day for the first EF days.

I have already undergone the Inner "ngineering course and am doing it daily# Is it necessaryfor me to do Isha $riya along with daily Sambhavi %ahamudra kriya? If I do both together will itbe advantageous for me?You can do both practices, there is no problem with this. s you do the practices, you will definitely see

the benefits.

I feel really good and vibrant after uttering the Ahh sound# &an I utter this mantra more than 'times or repeat this as a separate meditation?You can do !sha 'riya a couple of times more if you want. oweer, if you want to utter the $antra for a

longer duration, um would be more appropriate. !f you come to the Yoga Genter, you can be initiated

into this mantra, which takes place eery day from 5D.5Ham to 5.I3pm. lternatiely, you can attend the

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Yes, you can sit cross legged on the chair and do it.

Where should I do this meditation? I am living in a noisy environment do I need a separateplace to do this?You can do this meditation anywhere, just be sure you are not disturbed for the duration of the 'riya.

Juiet place would be good, but it is not a prereJuisite. !f there is no alternatie, you can just do it

whereer you are. The important thing is to continue the practice.

I learned Isha $riya online and was practicing regularly but for some reasons the continuetybroke# I want to restart the practice again# *o I have to take a class online again or +ustcontinue to do what I!ve learned previously?You can just continue to do what you hae already learned, proided you remember the instructions.

6therwise you can learn it once again online.

What is the proper time to do Isha $riya?6ther than midnight, you can do it at any time that is conenient for you.

,ow many times in a day can I practice Isha $riya?!deally twice a day - once in the morning and once in the eening. oweer if you want to practice the

'riya for more number of times, you can.

Why should we do this meditation for -. days?EF days is a period of time which is generally known as a mandala.

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