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Under pouring rain, India's golden relay quartet watches the national flag rise to the highest pole as years of sacrifice turn into pure glory.

On September 29, 2026, the Indian women's 4×400m relay team comprising Kiran Pahal, Machettira Poovamma, Prachi Choudhary, and Vithya Ramraj,clinched the Gold medal at the 20th Asian Games held in Aichi-Nagoya, Japan. Standing atop the podium in heavy rain as the Indian Tricolour was unfurled to the national anthem, the quartet delivered an emotional, historic victory, clocking 3:29.69 to reclaim India's continental supremacy in the event for the first time

Sadhguru: The young unmarried woman used to go to his house to clean. One day, when she heard the news of her pregnancy, her father became furious. "Who is responsible for this?" he asked. Seeing her father's anger, she feared that if she told the truth, she would suffer great misfortune, so she thought of escaping by telling the name of her guru. So she lied and said, "Guru Lao is responsible for this." Hearing this, the people of the village became furious.

The woman's father, taking the villagers with him, came to Guru Lao. "She says you are the cause of this. What do you say?" her father asked. "Oh, is that so?" he replied, smiling.

We thought you were good. We thought you were a great saint. We thought you were a great teacher. But they criticized you for doing such a bad deed. The people broke into his house. They shouted at him. "You are not enlightened, you are a fool!" they said.

Lao Tzu said, "Really?"

They persecuted the monks there and drove them out. Even though all the monks had left, Laozi continued to live there. The child also began to grow in the woman's womb.

The truth began to dawn on her. She had mentioned the Guru's name, thinking that if she mentioned his name, everyone would not do anything to him because of the respect he held in his name. She lied because of the circumstances, and with no way to calm her mind, she told her father the truth.

"Father! This is not because of Lao," she said. The pregnancy was growing and she was nearing the time of delivery. Her father, who was very shocked, said, "I cannot tell this to the villagers now. I have done a great harm to that guru. He remained silent while enduring all this. If I think about what I have done to him and now find out that he is innocent, the villagers will cut off my head.

By then, her time of delivery was near. She gave birth to a beautiful baby. The baby also grew up. All the people of the village said, "This is Lao's baby! So give it to Lao," and they snatched the baby from her and told Lao, "This is your baby. You must raise it." Lao said without any hesitation, "Really? Okay!

She raised the child. The child grew up happily under her care. Time passed like this. The woman, who had seen all these things, could not bear it. She told the whole village the truth of what had happened. "The child's father is not Guru Lao Tzu. He is the one at the fish market!" she exclaimed.

The villagers, remorseful for their mistake, fell at his feet and apologized. "Master, this is not your child. We have insulted you," they said. Lao, still unperturbed, said, "Really? Okay," and sent the child back to them and continued his life as usual.

Lao Tzu faced very difficult situations in his life. He was accused of committing a crime he did not commit. Despite all these incidents, he remained calm and did not react. The villagers began to realize his noble spirit. Then the community accepred him as a great man and a wise man. In later years, his fame spread throughout the country.

In the final days of his life, at the age of 84, when he was on his deathbed, his disciples came to him to hear his final message. In the Zen and Thai guru-disciple traditions, it is customary to go to the guru's side at his last moments to hear his final message.

"You have faced very difficult situations in your life? But we have always seen you as happy. What is the secret of your happiness?" Lao said: "Oh, there is no secret. I ask myself this question every morning when I wake up. Am I going to be happy today? Or am I going to be sad? Up to now, I have chosen happiness every day, that is all!"

Ordinary people cannot understand a wise man. Those who understand cannot leave him.

“The first line that made me put my phone down and actually read.”

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“Once you are in the sphere of the Dhyanalinga, the seed of spiritual liberation is sown into you.” -Sadhguru
Even if you return from the Dhyanalinga at Isha Yoga Center, Coimbatore, you are not quite the same person who went in.

I first visited in September 2006. At that time, I knew nothing about such things. Inside the Dhyanalinga, there is a small cave-like space just big enough for one person to sit. Most people walk around the Linga and leave, but I sat in that tiny chamber.

When I came out, something had shifted. A strange kind of peace and energy stayed with me. It didn’t last forever, but my family noticed immediately. I wasn’t reacting the way I used to even when poked or provoked. My wife began to wonder: “Something is wrong with this person.”

my next step was to send her to the Inner Engineering program in Mumbai, followed by a visit to the ashram and that same sitting space inside the Dhyanalinga. She, too, was transformed “boomed,” as I like to say. Now the real trouble began for our neighbours and relatives! Slowly, we started talking to friends and family. Many of them joined the basic yoga class, Inner Engineering.

None of them really came back the same.

Later, both my daughters and my son also took up the program.

If you haven’t visited the place yet, let me say this gently: be careful. You may not return as the very same person.

Inside the ashram, there are full-time volunteers part of so called the “lost group.” You can meet them, talk to them. Almost everyone has a beautiful story of being “lost” in the presence of the Dhyanalinga.

So, does this mean they get enlightened or something closer? I don’t know.

What I do know is that lakhs of people visit the ashram every week, carrying back a seed within themselves. The Dhyanalinga is not tied to any one religion. It is a multi-religious shrine, consecrated purely for meditation. For me, words cannot express what it has given me. Some things are better left unsaid , and simply experienced.

If you are part of this “lost group,” I’d love to hear your story. Share it in the comments.

have found my guru. However he is, whoever he is, he is my guru. Have you found yours, or are you still searching?

My search ended in 2006, at The Times of India building/Stock Exchange in South Mumbai India, when I met Sadhguru Jaggi Vasudev along with Swami Udhwa (a Brahmachari we lovingly call Swamiji) from the Isha Foundation, and an Isha teacher named Namat. That day, the quest for a guru was over for me.

Since then, life has not been perfect. Many times I have not followed my simple yoga practices. I live a family life. I even drink socially. Yet, deep within, I carry a quiet certainty, I have a guru. I know him. Perhaps he knows me personally, perhaps not, but I am sure he is with me.

I don’t always speak about him. But I am biased toward my guru. Wherever I see something said against him, a loose talk, an unpleasant remark, I instinctively jump in to defend. I know my guru does not need my defense, or anyone’s. Still, it happens, unknowingly, from a place of love and loyalty.

With self-satisfaction, I know this truth in my heart, I have my personal Guru. And that is enough.

𝙎𝙖𝙙𝙝𝙜𝙪𝙧𝙪: Ganesha is a god with an elephant face. His face is not supposed to be that of an elephant, it is supposed to be a gana. He is called Ganapati, which means the chief of ganas. Unfortunately, down the millennia, some artist made a mistake and it became an elephant.

In India, in the months of August and September, we celebrate the Ganesh Chaturthi festival. We make an image of Ganesh with unburnt clay and worship him. Huge festivals happen around him. Some of the Ganesh images are immense , over a hundred feet tall. But after that period of one week to fifteen days is over , different times in different places ,we immerse it in the lake or ocean, so that God dissolves.

They create a God, create a frenzy around him and make him their entire life. For those fifteen days or one month, there is nothing else but Ganesh. We eat what he eats, we only like what he likes, everything is about him. But then, one day, we dissolve him. Once he is dissolved, he is done. This is the only culture which is still conscious that God is our making.

Ganesh is the symbol of intellectual activity. He is the one who wrote down the Mahabharata. Ganesh’s challenge for Vyasa ,the sage who dictated the Mahabharata to him ' was that Vyasa should not pause in his dictation. It was a test for the sage, whether what he was speaking was really a fountainhead of his being or something scholarly that he made up in his head. So Ganesh said, “I will write only if it is uninterrupted dictation. If you pause somewhere, once I keep my pen down, I will not write again.”

So sage Vyasa spoke uninterrupted. It went on for months on end. Ganesh wrote without missing a single word. He was the best stenographer you can have,

He is the symbol of human intellect. This is symbolically very appropriate because this is the nature of your intellect. You can use it to consciously imagine something. And dissolving him is the symbol that if you use your intellect right, you can dissolve the world. Once you dissolve the world with your imagination, dissolving the activity of your intellect, switching off the imagination is not a big problem.

The Shakti Chalana Kriya is a phenomenal practice. We have taught it to a few million people over the years. If all of them had kept it up and grown with it, the world would have changed by now. Growing with it means - if your practice was initially only forty minutes, over time, you extend it to one-and-a-half to two hours. If, let us say, at least one hundred thousand people were doing Shakti Chalana Kriya the way it should be done, it would already change the atmosphere in the world. Sadhguru

At least sixty percent of the process of Shakti Chalana Kriya that we teach is aimed towards prana vayu. We focus on this element because the quality of the air that we breathe and how we breathe largely determines people’s surface experience of life.

I would say almost ninety-nine percent of the people today are only concerned about how to navigate their way through the world in a reasonably pleasant and successful manner. There are very few who seek to become perceptive to another dimension of life. That means the practice of Shakti Chalana Kriya can leave you a little smarter. Your emotions get a little more stable, organized, and sweet. And you can do some physical activity better than you used to. For most people, these three aspects are all they want in life.

The impact of the air that we breathe is very immediate. You can go without food for eight to ten days without causing damage to the system. You can go without water for up to three-and-a-half days without causing damage to the system. But most people can go without air for only three-and-a-half to five minutes. With some practice, you can stay without air for longer periods, but this involves a little bit of cheating. If you manage to keep your metabolic activity very low, you do not need to breathe through your nostrils but you breathe through your skin. As there is perspiration, there is also respiration, or movement of air through the skin. If you substantially activate the prana vayu, you can survive for a longer period of time without breathing through your nostrils.

So, what can we do with air? We can pollute it. We can purify it. Above all, we can use air as a force of transformation in our lives. There is a certain immediacy about air or vayu, which makes it very responsive and gives it the ability to transform or to bring about changes very quickly. And of all the elements, wind is the one that can generate maximum force. That is true both in the outside atmosphere and within the human system. If you learn to activate it, it will make you phenomenally strong , not necessarily in terms of muscular strength but in terms of life. A certain amount of sadhana is needed to activate the prana vayu. The standard is that generally, if you do 1,008 days of Shakti Chalana Kriya without a break, then your prana reaches a certain level of activity. The sheer energy that you carry will set you apart.

You will seem to have a limitless amount of energy. There is no such thing as limitless energy, though ,only in other people’s perception, it appears like that. If your prana vayu is really active, you will be able to manage your time well. Life is a combination of time and energy. If you keep your energy or the prana vayu very intense, you will seem to have more time. Activity will happen out of the effervescence of your energy, not out of effort. If you keep up the Shakti Chalana Kriya, your ability to be active will increase immensely.

Today, an increasing number of people need to take longer breaks from their work, in the sense of sabbaticals and the like. This need arises when you do not manage your prana vayu well, and there are many reasons to it. One thing is - if you eat food that generates gas or air in the lower belly, below the navel or manipuraka, it disturbs the movement of air or vayu from the navel to the pit of the throat. The area between the navel and the pit of the throat is the main activity zone of prana. When you eat bad food and have gas, you will experience a great lack of energy in the system, because the prana vayu will not function well. You have gotten the air in the wrong place. It should move between the navel and the pit of the throat – in this area, it is powerful.

If the prana vayu moves below the navel, the effervescence in life is gone. The body feels like a sack of potatoes. By the way , potatoes literally cause inertia in the system because they lower the prana vayu.This includes food that you buy in the supermarket, which is stored for long periods of time, and has no pranic value. Even if it is not yet beyond the expiration date, it is slowly moving towards putrefaction. In the yogic culture, one important aspect of managing the prana vayu is to eat food within an hour-and-a-half, or a maximum of four hours after cooking. Certain substances must be eaten even more quickly, or else they will create gas in the system. Once there is gas in your system, you cannot master your prana vayu.

Not only yogic practices - even the way you keep yourself, the way you breathe, walk, sit, and stand can help you gain a certain amount of control over prana vayu. Every human being has some control over the five elements – otherwise, you would not be alive. For life to move to a higher possibility, having mastery over the elements is important. Vayu or air is the best dimension to work with for part-time yogis, because it is relatively easy to master. Yogic practices that focus on vayu give instant results – especially on the level of your mind and emotions. By increasing the prana vayu, you can solve mental problems. The mind will get much more organized. But even if you master the element of air, your karmic mill will still keep rolling. Generally, it will move even faster than before, because it has a clear run now. That means your karma is getting worked out faster ,but you may have a more eventful life.

The idea of taking charge of the element of air is to bring about health and an instant sense of wellbeing. If you activate vayu and it reaches a certain peak, naturally agni or the fire element will follow.

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On his 69th birthday (3 Sep 2026), Sadhguru did not release a long public speech, but simple teaching,

Its 03 Sep, Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath’s birthday greetings to Sadhguru Jaggi Vasudev on his 69th birthday reflect the mutual respect between public leadership and spiritual guidance. Sadhguru is widely known for his work in yoga, meditation, environmental and the upliftment of human consciousness, while Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath is a famous CM for good governance, public welfare, and the promotion of Indian cultural values, Both share a deep respect for India’s spiritual heritage and national welfare.

On this special occasion, we wish Sadhguru good health, long life, and continued strength to guide and serve humanity

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Not all obstacles are meant to finish you, some are meant to make you stronger..

Sadhguru (Jaggi Vasudev) has called for a five‑nation Himalayan Board, India, China, Pakistan, Nepal and Bhutan,

Himalayas must transcend borders

Sadhguru seeks joint disaster response

India-China-Pak-Nepal-Bhutan body propose

The proposal came during Sadhguru’s first public appearance after devastating flash floods along the Nepal- Tibet border that killed over 900 people and left many missing, including members of the Isha Foundation. At a “In Solidarity With Nepal” event in Kathmandu,

We are here today, and we may be gone tomorrow.

Mysticism offers no clear explanation of life and death, and no one knows what the next moment of life will bring.

He further explained that it is karma alone; life and death are not in anybody’s control. Sadhguru

A Microsoft engineer crowned Ms Universe USA 2026, proving brilliance shines on every stage…

Siddhata Patil’s achievement is a shining example of how determination and talent can transcend boundaries. From her humble beginnings in Bhandup, Mumbai to becoming a Microsoft engineer in the U.S. and ultimately being crowned Ms Universe USA 2026, her journey radiates inspiration. She embodies the perfect blend of intellect, grace, and social responsibility, proving that women can excel in both technology and uplifting communities through,.

Carandas plum, or karonda, is one of India’s well-known monsoon fruits. It grows abundantly in the wild in many places, especially along roadsides, field edges, near ponds and rivers, and in the foothill regions. The fruit is small, tangy, and widely used for pickles, chutneys, and other traditional preparations, making it a familiar seasonal fruit in many Indian homes,

Join Sadhguru for "In Solidarity with Nepal" - an event to support the resilience and spirit of the people of Nepal, and express unity and solidarity with the Kailash pilgrims and all those affected by this tragedy.

📺 Livestream: *Today (30 Aug 2026) at 4:45 PM IST*

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नेपाल में हाल ही में आई बाढ़ का कारण संभवतः ऊपरी पहाड़ी क्षेत्र में ग्लेशियर से जुड़े किसी घटना के कारण अचानक पानी का बहाव बढ़ना बताया जा रहा है। जब ग्लेशियर, बर्फ या ग्लेशियल झील अस्थिर हो जाती है, तो भारी मात्रा में पानी और मलबा नीचे की ओर बह सकता है। इससे अचानक बाढ़ आ सकती है, जिससे घरों, सड़कों और लोगों की जान-माल को भारी नुकसान होता है। यह घटना पहाड़ी क्षेत्रों की नाजुक स्थिति और मौसम तथा जलवायु परिवर्तन के प्रभाव को दर्शाती है।

I walked 18 km from Ringus to Khatu Shyam during the monsoon , and the road felt less like a highway and more like a moving garden. Every bend brought a new surprise of wild blooms, colours, and the quiet joy of a secret pilgrimage.

It was a sudden, extremely powerful flood that came down with mud and debris, giving people very little time to escape. That is why the loss of life and damage became so severe ,

Sadhguru said 72 pilgrims from an Isha Foundation S-3 Batch, Kailash group were at an immigration office in Tibet’s Gyirong when the flood struck, and he added that there was no official information yet on their condition or where about at the time of the statement,

The current status is that they are still unaccounted for.

He said the group was at an immigration centre in Tibet’s Gyirong when the flood hit, the building,

The casualty and missing-person figures were still changing across reports, which is typical of a live disaster update,

The event broke on Wednesday, August 25, 2026, and the latest coverage continued through 26 August 2026

Location: india UP, Meerut

Is this lizard ? Look like reptile, with a long body, four short legs, a tail, and scaly skin