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Extract from pages 67 & 68 of Sadhguru's authorised biography, Sadhguru: More Than a Life:

The lessons he learnt from life were invariably based on practical experience, rather than garnered secondhand. He recalls killing a monkey with his bare hands at the age of seventeen on his terrace. The provocation? The fact that the monkey had attacked him. ‘It was in my mother’s family home in Chikkaballapur. I was on the terrace and this monkey was sitting on a lamp post. He made a face at me. I made a face back. The next thing I knew the creature was in the air, coming straight at me. It was a direct attack. I caught him by the throat and held him tight until my thumb went right in. I stayed like that until he lost all resistance. Later I buried him in the garden.’ There were murmurs in the family about the boy having killed Hanuman. But for Jaggi there was no ethical dilemma. He had merely done what needed to be done.

Even as a young boy of eight, when he was told to go kill a chicken for lunch at his grandfather’s house, he had no qualms about obeying. ‘In my father’s home, chicken was bought in the market. But in my grandfather’s home, the boys of the family were expected to do the killing. So I was sent out to kill one. The way it was done was simple: you waited till the animal was comfortable and then broke its neck. You did it so swiftly that the chicken probably didn’t even know it was dead!’

Source: https://archive.org/details/SadhguruMoreThanALifeArundhatiSubramaniamPenguin_201803/page/n75/mode/2up

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