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Lewis HowesEVERYTHING You've Been Taught About Manifesting Abundance IS WRONG! | Sadhguru & Lewis Howes
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CHAPTERS
- 0:00 – 5:40
Karma as Memory, Not Fear or Guilt
Lewis asks Sadhguru to define karma. Sadhguru says it is not about fear or guilt but about liberation, and describes the person as a composite of evolutionary, genetic and karmic memory, which he calls vasana.
- •Fear and guilt have long been used to control people, and Sadhguru says karma is not about either
- •Conscious memory is less than 1% of the actual memory a person carries
- •Vasana means smell, and personality is the smell of what a person has gathered
- •The mind only adds and multiplies, so what you try to forget stays foremost
- 5:40 – 11:16
Turning Waste into Manure: Choice, Cellular Memory and Mind
Sadhguru says past karma is not a choice but what you do now is. He compares memory to manure and says memory is held in every cell, so mind is spread across the whole body rather than sitting in the brain.
- •Unpleasant experiences can become manure for blossoming or filth smeared on yourself
- •Every cell carries far more memory than the brain
- •Mind is a combination of memory and intelligence spread across the body
- •Intellect works only with the data gathered and is compared to a knife
- 11:16 – 16:54
Education, Unhappiness and Where Experience Comes From
Lewis and Sadhguru discuss why educated people seem less happy than people in simpler settings. Sadhguru says human experience comes from within and that advertising and school competition feed a need to be better than others.
- •Lewis describes happy children in Guatemalan villages
- •A sharpened intellect without awareness cuts the person who holds it
- •Arrangements outside facilitate activity but do not make anyone happy or unhappy
- •Car advertising sells neighbor's envy, and being number one makes others losers
- 16:54 – 29:17
Limited Identity as the Root of Crime
Sadhguru says the only evil is limited identity and that how much harm someone does depends on their competence. He explains why he called family a crime and describes the yogic practice of giving children a cosmic identity.
- •Competence combined with a limited identity becomes a curse
- •Identities of family, race, religion and nation have driven great violence
- •Yoga means union, not twisting and turning the body
- •Experiencing everything as part of yourself removes the need for commandments
- 29:17 – 36:28
Raising Children and Loosening Borders
Lewis asks what parents should do differently. Sadhguru says people should nurture children rather than raise them like cattle, teach that national and religious identities are not absolute, and consider a global anthem, with open borders needing economic parity.
- •Humans are a possibility to be nurtured, not raised in a fixed shape
- •Prayers and national anthems are fine if children know they are not absolute
- •Europe's open borders after the world wars are an example of evolving consciousness
- •Lewis describes hosting seven exchange students as a child
- •Sadhguru says limited surroundings breed unnoticed prejudice
- 36:28 – 50:47
Standing Above Karma and the Space Between You and Your Mind
Lewis asks where karma fits for people who harm others. Sadhguru says identity is built from memory and that karma can be a platform to stand on or quicksand, and that creating distance from body and mind ends karmic influence.
- •Racists and terrorists are described as victims of their memory
- •Memory in the body can cause psychosomatic illness and loss of vibrancy
- •The body is a heap of food and the mind a heap of impressions, so neither is you
- •Sadhguru says the Inner Engineering process, including Shambhavi, creates that distance
- •Past cannot be changed, the present is experienced, the future is created
- 50:47 – 57:36
Love, Joy and Not Depending on Others for Inner Experience
Lewis asks why conscious love is so hard in intimate relationships. Sadhguru says people chase the fruit rather than the root, that love is the sweetness of your own emotions, and that letting someone else determine your inner state is slavery.
- •Love is a quality you become, not something squeezed from another person
- •Sadhguru says sexuality, ambition and love are all attempts to include more in oneself
- •Success needs others' cooperation, but inner wellbeing is entirely your own business
- •Needing a partner is compared to an emotional crutch
- 57:36 – 1:09:32
Rethinking Abundance as Fulfillment of Life
Asked how to use karma to create financial, health and relationship abundance, Sadhguru says the goals are wrong. He says to think of fulfillment and to nurture the root like a tree does, rather than chase abundance or compare yourself to others.
- •A tree just tries to be the best tree it can be
- •Numbers like a billionaire's wealth are socially relevant but meaningless to the individual
- •Chasing abundance is what destroyed the planet, in his view, and electric cars do not fix the thinking
- •Being as joyful as you were at five is the test of a fulfilled life
- •Nurture the root and not the fruit
- 1:09:32 – 1:16:29
Ease, Personal Fear and Being in the Moment
Lewis asks about Sadhguru's fears and how he responds to chaos and hate. Sadhguru says only what he wants happens within him, that hate is empowering, and that being in the moment as commonly taught asks people not to use their intelligence.
- •Sadhguru says he knows fear only from other people's experience
- •He acts as a situation needs, whether admired or hated
- •Hate propels people into action more than love, he says
- •Intelligence is a solution that people turn into a problem without a stable platform
- 1:16:29 – 1:23:08
Closing Thoughts, Conscious Planet and the Three Truths
Lewis thanks Sadhguru and promotes the karma book and InnerEngineering.com. Sadhguru says he wants to live among joyful people and asks Lewis to join a conscious planet effort, then answers the three truths question with shut up, look and listen and defines greatness as being without boundaries.
- •Sadhguru says his work is not a service but rearranging humanity so he can live among joyful people
- •He wants influencers to help create a conscious planet
- •Three truths: shut up, look, listen, inside and out
- •Greatness cannot be defined because definition implies boundaries
- 1:23:08 – 1:28:29
Second Interview: Taking Individual Existence Too Seriously and Death
Lewis plays an earlier interview in which he asks why adults forget how to play. Sadhguru says people take their individual existence too seriously, and discusses his book on death and how awareness of limited time helps prioritize life.
- •Individual experience is a gift, but people treat themselves as the center of the universe
- •Adult degeneration comes from taking personality and form too seriously
- •Sadhguru says he released a book on death published by Penguin India
- •Death reminds us of a limited lease of time and energy
- 1:28:29 – 1:49:04
Rest, Perception, Mistakes and Suffering
Sadhguru discusses restfulness and low sleep needs, the cobra test, why perception is more reliable than intellectual knowledge, and America's unresolved history. He says he does not see life as a series of mistakes and that human suffering is memory and imagination turned against us.
- •Wakefulness should be restful, and running at ease reduces sleep needs
- •Perception through the five senses is the data that lets people function
- •He prefers learning from others' experience rather than from your own mistakes
- •Suffering comes from vivid memory and imagination without a stable platform
- •Dulling perception with substances lowers efficiency of life
- 1:49:04 – 2:12:58
Anger, Responsibility and the Intellect as a Knife
Sadhguru says anger, misery and joy are created from within and that letting others decide your inner state is slavery. He recounts being angry from age 11 to about 24, argues righteous anger cannot be sustained, and says responsibility must come here rather than from above.
- •Anger and misery are created from within, not done to us
- •Thoughts and emotions that torment you are compared to an ailment
- •He was angry about injustice until his mid-twenties
- •Anger propels action but cannot be kept up forever
- •The movement is from religion to responsibility
- 2:12:58 – 2:26:10
Seeking, Immunity Tips and Defining Greatness
In the closing part of the second interview, Sadhguru answers the three truths question by talking about seeking, describes Inner Engineering and immunity practices, and says greatness means breaking the boundaries of one's persona.
- •Beliefs block the human tendency to seek, and his work is to unblock it
- •Inner Engineering is at innerengineering.com, with an added immunity session
- •Suggested immunity measures: time barefoot in a garden, turmeric in warm water with honey, Simha Kriya
- •Great people are those who broke the limits of their persona
