94 Memorable Quotes from “Karma: A Yogi’s Guide to Crafting Your Destiny” By Sadhguru
Last updated on February 27th, 2024 at 03:19 pm
In ‘Karma book,’ Sadhguru skillfully demystifies the elusive concept of Karma, leaving readers enlightened and captivated. Through his wisdom, he emphasizes the undeniable link between our actions and their consequences, urging us to collectively contribute to building a conscious planet and fostering better societies.
The book offers a treasure of insightful quotes that will undoubtedly elevate your understanding of Karma and its profound implications on our lives.
Inaction is also karma.
– Sadhguru
Do not think of karma in terms of lifetimes. Think of it in terms of just this Living Moment. – Sadhguru
The human equation was always meant to be like this: to move from being to doing to having. – Sadhguru
The irony is that the more you try to avoid karma, the more it multiplies! – Sadhguru
However profound it is, everything that comes from memory spells karmic bondage. – Sadhguru
If I look at the tension of the karmic fiber, I can often estimate when a person was born and approximately when they are going to die. – Sadhguru
A day is but a piece of time that lets us live and die. … This day let us live and Live totally. – Sadhguru
If you avoid any experience – whether pain or pleasure, sorrow or joy – it is big karma. But if you go through the experience without resisting it, the karma dissolves. – Sadhguru
These are the only two things that you are suffering right now: your memory and your imagination. – Sadhguru
So the source of your misery is not your past actions. The source of your misery is how you’re processing the imprint of the past now. – Sadhguru
Do not try to become a franchisee for cosmic energy. And do not try to become a miracle worker. – Sadhguru
Every human being is in the process of becoming divine… Collaborating with Nature’s plan is all you need to do. – Sadhguru
We have reached a point today where authority has become the truth. But soon as we turn inward, we realize that truth is the only authority! – Sadhguru
You have pursued so much for your well-being: your home, your business, your car, your spouse, your child, your club membership. But look back now and see: have you caught the fish, or has the fish caught you? – Sadhguru
Giving up something for something else is commerce; giving up something for nothing is a sacrifice. – Sadhguru
Traditionally, yogis took a dip in the river at least twice a day at the very minimum. Flowing water can help erase runanubandha to a great extent.
– Sadhguru
If you take more karmic load now, when you are well and capable, later you will walk hands-free! – Sadhguru
There is only one way out of the spider’s web. And it is the age-old journey from unawareness to awareness, from compulsion to consciousness. – Sadhguru
Happiness is just your constant state of existence. And this is the end of suffering. – Sadhguru
As far as the laws of existence are concerned, there is no good and bad, no crime and punishment. It is just that for every action, there is a consequence. – Sadhguru
It is not about performing miracles. It is about recognizing the miracle of life that you are. – Sadhguru
Karma is the glue that makes you stick to this body-mind mechanism. If you washed away all your karma, you would exit your body this very instant! – Sadhguru
Being spiritual means you are committed to charting your own destiny. When you are on such a path, what you are essentially saying to the world is I am not windblown. I am self-propelled. – Sadhguru
Different energetically intense spaces offer different possibilities. But at the Isha Yoga Center, we ensure that the only possibility is to fast-forward karma and hasten the spiritual process. Nothing else is relevant. – Sadhguru
Both memory and imagination exist only in your mind. – Sadhguru
When you live by the memory of a single book, you are religious. When you live by the memory of several books, you are intellectual. When you live by the memory of several generations of people, you become a truly compassionate human being. But when you live beyond the memory of generations of people, you become a mystic. – Sadhguru
As a guru, I do not support siddhis. I destroy them. I am not interested in miracles. I put a halt to such capabilities right away because if a person acquires these powers, they will no longer pursue the spiritual path. – Sadhguru
As we have seen, whatever you do with your body, mind, or energy leaves a certain imprint. These imprints configure themselves into tendencies. These tendencies have been traditionally described in India by a wonderfully apt word: vasana. – Sadhguru
The yogic system gives no commandments whatsoever. It leaves you free to choose whether you want to generate positive karma for the future, distance yourself from your karmic package, or dissolve it altogether. – Sadhguru
Never look up to anyone; never look down on anyone. If people practiced this simple sadhana, they would see everything just the way it is. If you look up to someone, you will exaggerate their positive qualities; if you look down on someone, you will exaggerate their negative qualities. – Sadhguru
If you consciously accept this moment just the way it is, you arrive at a certain ease within yourself. Ease is a consequence of the relaxation of all you have created. You can, in turn, experience the whole of existence as yourself. – Sadhguru
If you find yourself oscillating between craving and aversion, love and hate, your karma is growing at a rapid pace; your bondage is intensifying. If you have strong likes and dislikes, your suffering is also more intense.
– Sadhguru
In losing awareness of self is the trap of karma. The hunter becomes the hunted, the architect becomes the bonded laborer, the creator becomes creation. A spider trapped in a web of its own making is a tragedy. – Sadhguru
In maintaining distance from your thought and emotion, you can become available to the grace of the greatest beings of the past. – Sadhguru
In today’s world, where information is available everywhere, a school should shift away from propagating information to becoming an inspirational place, which builds beautiful human beings. – Sadhguru
Instead of being the finest creatures on this planet, we have turned into the worst. We kill for pleasure, for love, for hatred, for identity, for God, for just about anything. Which other animal has unleashed so much wanton cruelty, animosity, and bloodshed on this planet? – Sadhguru
Interestingly, scientific experiments today show that if you create an energy pattern outside a chamber in a vacuum state, virtual protons and virtual neutrons will begin to appear. That means, to put it simply, that something is taking form from nothing. – Sadhguru
It is important to see that whatever seems determined in your life has been determined by you unconsciously. – Sadhguru
Becoming a karma yogi does not mean you have to give up whatever you are doing right now. It means you do it with wholehearted involvement and, in the process, help create a more joyful world wherever you go. – Sadhguru
Live consciously, and you will see that this moment cannot be fragmented into past and future, into now and then. All that ever was in this creation is only in this moment, and all that will ever be is only in this moment. – Sadhguru
Karma is about becoming the source of one’s own creation. In shifting responsibility from heaven to oneself, one becomes the very maker of one’s destiny. – Sadhguru
Karma is action on three levels: body, mind, and energy. Whatever you do on these three levels leaves a certain residue or imprint upon you. – Sadhguru
Karma is like old software that you have written for yourself unconsciously…. Based on the information from the past, certain memory patterns keep recurring. Now your life turns habitual, repetitive, and cyclical.
– Sadhguru
Karma is the natural basis of all existence. It is not a law that is imposed from above. It does not allow us to outsource our responsibility anywhere else; it does not allow us to blame our parents, our teachers, our countries, our politicians, our gods, or our fates. It makes each one of us squarely responsible for our own destinies and, above all, the nature of our experience of life. – Sadhguru
Karma is one big noise. If you cannot hear it, it is simply because right now you are accustomed to listening to the outer world. But once you learn to listen to your interiority, you hear the karmic din loud and clear. The decibel levels are so high, there’s no missing it! – Sadhguru
Karma simply means we have created the blueprint for our lives. It means we are the makers of our own fate. When we say this is my karma, we are actually saying I am responsible for my life. – Sadhguru
Karma yoga is not about being busy. It is not about being in constant doer mode. It is instead about engaging in the kind of activity that frees you, about performing the kind of action that leads you to your own higher nature, toward your freedom. – Sadhguru
Living totally does not mean just having a good time. It means experiencing anything that comes your way fully and intensely. The very process of life is the dissolution of karma. If you live every moment of your life totally, you dissolve an enormous volume of karma. – Sadhguru
Once memory enters, action is enslaving. Without memory, however, you can operate consciously. When your action is unsullied by past impressions, it is liberating. – Sadhguru
Pain is produced whenever there is any injury to the body. Pain is the body’s way of alerting you that something is wrong, that action must be taken. Pain is useful. – Sadhguru
People think memory means only mind. But that is not the case. The volume of memory that the body carries is a billion times more than the volume of memory your mind is capable of carrying. – Sadhguru
Right now, you are like a bubble that says, “The air that I hold in my lungs is my air. You still have to exhale!”
– Sadhguru
Seeing your life as self-created, rather than as an accidental phenomenon—this is the basis of karma. This is an empowered life that will naturally move toward liberation. – Sadhguru
Since enlightened beings no longer have a karmic footprint, it is very difficult for them to retain a physical form. Yogis have various tricks to accomplish this. One option is to perform conscious karma to retain the body. Many mystics down the ages have done this. – Sadhguru
So the very way in which you experience life—whether you see it as sweet or sour, beautiful or ugly, pleasant or unpleasant—is your responsibility, as your ability to respond is what determines the nature of your experience. – Sadhguru
So, socially, if we create a situation that does not set up discrimination or an atmosphere that is not overly dripping with sentimental pity, there would be no problem. – Sadhguru
The basis of karma is simple: you are the source of all your baggage. – Sadhguru
The fundamental difference between a human being and a machine is perception. – Sadhguru
The goal for every freedom seeker is the same: to attend to your karma now rather than wait for life to throw it at you. – Sadhguru
The intellect, which is based on memory, is a wonderful tool. However, it can only inform; it cannot transform. – Sadhguru
The karmic mechanism is ceaseless. Every mental fluctuation in you creates a chemical reaction, which then proceeds to provoke a physical sensation. This sensation, in turn, reinforces the chemical reaction, which then strengthens the mental fluctuation. Over time, your very chemistry is determined by a series of unconscious reactions to sensory and mental stimuli. – Sadhguru
The present is your only address. The here and now is your only abode. – Sadhguru
The reason why human beings keep generating karma is that they want to leave a footprint. They are seeking some continuation of their individual identity. – Sadhguru
The significance of karma is that it means that none of your identities—derived from beliefs, ideologies, religions, and systems of morality—are absolute. All of them are capable of constant evolution. – Sadhguru
The word Sadhguru, as I often point out, means an uneducated guru. – Sadhguru
The yogic culture personifies a certain concept, infuses drama into it, and turns it into stories. The story mode enables it to speak of dimensions that are beyond the realm of logic. – Sadhguru
There is a point of convergence in your energetic body that stretches beyond the physical body. It is approximately seventeen to nineteen inches from the point between your eyebrows. You must search for the point where the vision meets at an acute angle of eleven degrees. Finding that point of convergence boosts the akasha, or etheric element, within you. The moment the element of akasha is dominant, you will find the clarity of your perception hugely enhanced. – Sadhguru
There is only one crime against life: to make believe that you are something other than life. – Sadhguru
This path reminds you that while karma is your bondage, if you handle it right, karma can also be a stepping-stone to your liberation. – Sadhguru
Those who long to leave a footprint shall never fly. – Sadhguru
Those who work only for a livelihood often feel constrained and suffocated. But when you are deeply involved in your work on every level, you will find activity invigorates you; it does not exhaust you. – Sadhguru
Ultimately, life is neither suffering nor bliss. It is what you make it. We act in order to express our fulfillment, not to acquire it. – Sadhguru
What is happening within you and how you experience your life is entirely your making – your karma. – Sadhguru
What you call fate is just a life situation you have created for yourself unconsciously. Your destiny is what you have crafted in unawareness. If you become a hundred percent conscious, your destiny becomes a conscious creation. – Sadhguru
When some trigger compels action, how consciously you perform that action becomes important. If you do it unconsciously, that unconsciousness will generate an enormous amount of karma. And that is how karma perpetuates itself. – Sadhguru
When there is no imprint of karma in conscious experience, every action and experience becomes liberating. – Sadhguru
With a little awareness, every human being can begin to transform habit into choice, compulsion into consciousness. – Sadhguru
Yama and niyama are simple guidelines, the dos and don’ts on the spiritual path, such as nonviolence; commitment to truth; not stealing; not hoarding wealth; purity; cleanliness; practice; and so on. They create the right atmosphere for one’s spiritual evolution. – Sadhguru
You are in the moment. There is nowhere else to be. Existentially, this is the only truth. It is just that you are not available to it. – Sadhguru
You cannot own life; you can only live it. – Sadhguru
You have a sense of time and space only because you are looking at everything through the prism of your Accumulated Karma. But if you go beyond your thought, your emotion, and your body and experience this moment just once, you will never be able to fall out of it. – Sadhguru
You have the choice and ability to be any way you want in a given moment. That is the freedom and the curse. Most human beings are suffering their freedom. – Sadhguru
You may be carrying around a sackful of stinking garbage. Either you can smear yourself with it and get terribly miserable, or you can make good manure out of it and create a wonderful garden. – Sadhguru
Your body is a heap of food you have ingested over time. Your mind is a heap of impressions and ideas you have imbibed and processed over time. Both are creations of the past. Both are products of memory. So whether you identify with your body or your mind, what you call your personality is simply an accumulation of memory. The essence of everything you consider to be yourself is karmic. – Sadhguru
Your karma is not in what is happening to you; your karma is in the way you respond to what is happening to you.
– Sadhguru
If you look back on dozens of lives, you will have no urge to go through the same nonsense again and again. Once you know that the mortal way is just a repetition, you will seek another way—the eternal way. – Sadhguru
The unconscious mind is therefore a tremendous library of karmic memory. You would find this information very useful if you were approaching it consciously. The problem is that it manifests all the time, without your permission! – Sadhguru
It does not matter what volumes of karma you have, the moment you start stepping into the subtler dimensions of the etheric and bliss bodies, your karma cannot touch you. – Sadhguru
If you die in anger, in hatred, in misery or in pain, you attract one kind of karma. If you die in peace or blissfulness, you attract another kind of karma. – Sadhguru
When I meet someone who is going through an upheaval right now, it is not difficult for me to know when it is going to hit them again. I do not predict doom for them, of course. Instead, I might say “Why don’t you meditate?” Or “Why don’t you do some hatha yoga?” If you do some spiritual practice, you can handle the problem from within and minimize its impact upon you. – Sadhguru
We urgently need sensible people on this planet now—people who will do the right thing with life. People who operate on the basis of life sense. – Sadhguru
Dying in what the yogic tradition calls the samadhi state is the ultimate way to die. This means that while you are living, you walk consciously into death. – Sadhguru
Existence is not in a hurry. But if you are, you could join hands with existence and reach your goal much more quickly. – Sadhguru
Karma is not some external system of crime and punishment. It is an internal cycle generated by you.
– Sadhguru
“Karma” stands out as an essential read due to its profound teachings, empowering readers to shape their destinies and break free from the repetitive cycle of karma. – Sadhguru
By approaching each moment with mindfulness and awareness, “Karma” bestows us with the power to take control of our lives, making choices that align with our true selves. It provides a roadmap for making wiser decisions and embracing a more purposeful existence. – Sadhguru
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