Sadhguru’s 2026 Prediction: Why Manifestation Isn’t Working

29:41I thought we would be here for three months. That was eight years ago. So we were en route. the route was deviated. Then it's time to put up an image of Cumbria.

29:57I live in a place where my backyard is 10 ,000 square miles of rainforest in India. In the United States, our property is about 23 ,000 acres of land, fully forested, with full-size river, waterfall, everything. You want to call that manifestation? No. A plan, an execution. Okay. Now, why? Of course, everything that human beings have created, they've manifested in some way. But now I'm kind of not refusing to give in to that because this unhealthy thing has come, that without doing anything, you're heading in the wrong direction. and still something will happen for you. See, once human mind is focused on something, it will naturally start creating that, knowingly and knowingly.

30:52So in that sense, is it important to hold what we want to create? Yes, of course. Otherwise, how will you create something? But this modern idea of manifestation is dangerous. Without doing anything, think everything will happen? No. People have created things in this world because they worked for it, isn't it? Yes. That is also manifestation. Come to India. Yes. Our mountains are also called Nilgiri, which means blue mountain. Oh, blue mountain? Ah. Oh, wow. Really blue. Wow. With the mist? Yes. You grow coffee beans there as well. Mm-hmm. Yeah, wow. Beautiful. Coffee and tea in the area. And tea, beautiful.

31:37So for manifestation, this modern, and I think I've fallen into this modern trap of not actually putting the plan in place. It's better to call it a pipe dream. A pipe dream, wow.

31:56Oh my goodness.

32:01Oh my goodness. Okay, so this is a pipe dream. No, I'm not saying it is such a difficult thing. you want to go to Jamaica, you can go to Jamaica. Yes. But what I see is when you come to London, I see you don't really want to go to Jamaica. It's just a little... Yes, you're right. You're right. So then what is manifestation? See, things are working out well for you here. Blue mountains are fading. If things didn't work for you in London, then blue mountains would come in your dream every day. You're right. Let's be straight about that. That's straight. No, you're right. You're right. But so then, because what you said is 100 % correct, should I then not be managed?

32:49I've created a certain meditation called chit-shakti. Chit-shakti means the power of that aspect of your intelligence which doesn't have an iota of memory is called chit. Okay. So using that to manifest. But this doesn't mean you won't create. Why it is that deep inside your software, you're putting a certain item. Now, once it's embedded in your software, everything that you do will be in that direction. You don't have to be everyday thinking, blue mountain, blue mountain. Everything that you do will be in that direction, because you have programmed deep inside that this is what I want to go, this is the place I want to go.

33:39So naturally, everything that you do will move you in that direction. if you want to call that manifestation you can call it we call it chit-chakti the power of intelligence so I'm curious about your opinion because I've read where you've if you read three books you can become a school teacher and mess up future generations of people with all your respect to them because they taught me ABC if you read ten books you can become a professor and bore people to sleep. If you just read one book, you can become an agent of God. Only one book. If I read nothing, I read nothing, people accuse me that I'm a mystic.

34:33It's a strange world. But how can you... You keep saying that you've read nothing. Have you read... You've read books. I've read literature, not spirituality. Never. Never. Never. Never.

34:53I might have read somebody's biography to know about their life, but never in search of spirituality because my own clarity has never failed me. Why will I read something? See, it is about this life. To know about this life, why do I read that damn book when I'm here? if I die, then you can read about me.

35:16If you wish. But, I mean, so I read to try to better understand the perspective of that individual, because I love biographies. So I would read your biography, for example, so I can understand your life, understand your perspective. See, it's a story, all right? You will understand nothing. You will know a new story. If you are a certain kind, you will believe the story and have a positive image. If you disbelieve the story, you will have a negative image. Both ways you know nothing about me. You don't know the reality of it, isn't it? Yeah, this is true. It's true. So the important thing is this.

36:03Information memory is okay. it facilitates a few things but it doesn't fulfill you we already told you even if you put all the libraries into your head it doesn't become full it doesn't emptiness is complete it always is I'm listening ignorance is boundless oh my god genuinely I can't remember a time when the lead up to the holidays hasn't been busier. I mean, I've got the school activities for the boys. They also have sports activities. Then there's the holiday shopping for not only the family, but the wife. Then I have the podcast and filming a few TV shows. I mean, things are busy. I drink our sponsor, Huel, throughout the year, but I gotta say, I really appreciate their products the most in December.

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37:41All right, if you've made it this far, I know you're loving the conversation. So please do me one small favor, hit that bell icon, join our community. Thank you. So let me ask you, this is completely off script, but I have to ask you because I see that you talk very direct, which I love. Which, by the way, I also was curious if you would show up this way. Because the way that I see you presented online, you're followed by millions of people. Sometimes I'm seeing you with the A-list celebrity, a CEO, you know, whoever, a sports figure. And I see that you show up the same with all of them. You're consistent.

38:23Really? I feel like you are, consistently. Consistent with what? With not playing up or a role with any one of those individuals. Why should I? Yeah, and you seem this way right now, which I love. But I think this is something that a lot of us have a challenge around, is showing up as our authentic self consistently. Because too many made-up things. You know, just a few days ago when I was in the U.S., Somebody comes and tells me, Sadhguru, you are so intelligent, so competent. Any kind of question you answer. I said, don't say all this because it doesn't take any competence to tell the truth.

39:11To tell a lie, you need a lot of talent. I don't have those talents. To tell the truth, all it takes is courage. It doesn't take competence. I just say it as I see it. I don't make up anything in my head. You make up things in your head because you made yourself up to be something other than what you are. I'm asking you right now, are you a piece of life? Yes. You are. Have you been to somebody's funeral? Yes. People, somebody else, dead man. Absolutely. The guy is like this. Best dressed on that day. Yes. I appreciate that. the last thing you do you must do it in style so he's like this go tell him you won the British lottery 38.2 million pounds that's a number it's flashed everywhere yes you see it you see it and you tell him you've won the lottery the guy's not interested you tell him we found the largest diamond thousand ex of Kohenor in your backyard.

40:27Not interested? Not interested. You tell him whatever romantic nonsense, he's not interested. What happened to this guy? Just yesterday he was hopping around for all these things. Only thing he lost is life. How come everything else is gone? Because the only and only thing that you have is life. Rest is all made up in your head, your imagination. If you do not know the difference between your imagination and reality, you will suffer and you must suffer. What can we do? But a lot of us, I think, are not courageous enough to speak truth to power because we want to preserve our life. For example, you'll have certain people that will say, I'm not going to talk about how I feel politically because I know that could hurt me at my job.

41:20That's okay. That's okay. That's being judicious. Okay. You can't, even with your own father, you can't go tell straight in his face, this is what I did. You wait for some time, you turn 18, then he thinks it's okay, you did this. That's being judicious. Judicious, yes. So, okay. You mentioned karma earlier. 44 % of British people say that there is such a thing as good and bad karma. According to a UK survey of people who believe in karma, they believe that it's more prevalent than belief in the creator or heaven. That's a very positive development. Because essentially, let's understand this properly.

42:05I'm so glad that 44 % you say that. 44 % believe that there's such a thing as good or bad karma. There are 44 % very sensible English people. So that's a great percentage, man, for any country. Yes.

42:24So, karma means this.

42:29Something happens to me, let's say something unpleasant happens to me. Unpleasant things happen in the world. Yes. Something unpleasant happens. I think you did it. Now I want to kill you. I see whatever happens, this is my karma. Now I'm seeing how to fix it. In which situation do you act more sensibly, more intelligently, more humanly? When I see it's my karma. Yes. Karma means action. Whose action? My action. So when this is the case, if anything happens to you, you think God did it. Because you can't figure. If you're driving unconsciously, you hit many things. Right now, with one percent awareness, how much is conscious action in this life?

43:25If you make it ten percent conscious, that you're conscious of ten percent of your karma, people will think you've become godlike. You understand? Yes. So karma means essentially moving the responsibility from heaven to myself. My life is my responsibility means the way I am right now. Leave the other things that we do. Right now I am joyful. This is my responsibility. Right now I am miserable. This is also my responsibility. If you knew this, would you make yourself miserable? Never. If you genuinely know that my misery is my responsibility, no, I'm miserable because this guy, you know, he doesn't have hair on his head.

44:10That's why I'm miserable. Something we'll find. Right. You're right. We're always pointing the finger. Always. Yes. I'm saying we have handled human well-being with all kinds of stories, philosophies, ideologies. Stop that nonsense. If you want human well-being, in is the only way out. There is simply no other way. Yes. Okay. Okay. I hear you. I hear you. If we can just, can I go back to meditation? Because I truly want to meditate. And I think, I feel like this is going to be a gateway to becoming more aware of myself. My challenge around meditation, because for various years I started. You're laughing at me already.

44:58But okay, outside of the noise of the world, I always felt like I was distracted. So I would start in the morning. I would try to find a quiet place. I always felt like I was distracted. I'm thinking of just everything. It's like this. When you meditate, you definitely don't want your heart to stop. You want your liver function to stop at least. Kidneys. No. Not even the spleen. No, it must be to keep going. So you want all these things to be working. Only your brain should not work. Why is this prejudice against the brain? Because your problem is you have misunderstood your thoughts and emotions as real.

45:47You are misunderstanding psychological drama as existential reality. That is the problem. without sorting that problem, you try to meditate, you will go nuts. Meditation, let's put this into context.

46:09See, the English word meditation doesn't say anything specific. It's just a goof-up word. Well, okay. In Sanskrit language, there are various things to describe inner states. There is japa, tapa, dharana, dhyana, samadhi, shunya, like this, many things. But in the Western societies, largely, when I say Western, I'm not saying geographically Western. Western, in context, contextually, urban cities in India are more west than west, far beyond England there. Good point. Good point. So, in this society, people have assumed there is something called as meditation that you can do. You cannot do meditation.

47:06You can become meditative because it's a quality. you're misunderstanding a quality which is a consequence of being in a certain way to some kind of action it's not action it's a consequential it's like see there's a mango fruit have you eaten a mango? oh my I love mango Indian mango have you eaten? you know I have had Indian mango is very good I've had honey mango from India oh that's okay if you come to southern India there are 125 varieties of mango Mango season, God disappears, only mango lives. Okay, everything goes away. So anyway, if you want a mango, say you want a mango, mango, mango, mango.

47:55Mango won't come like that. You take us little sapling, plant it, manure, water, sunlight, the more you take care of this, none of them look like mangoes. But if you take care of all this, one day mango will fall on your head. If you sit and do mango, mango manifestation, people, do… You didn't plant the seed, but you… mango meditation, you're doing. Well, you can hallucinate. That's why I said it's a pipe dream. Right, right. So, instead of handling the process, you're trying to handle the consequence. You can never handle the consequence. You can only handle the process well so that the consequence will come.

48:47So if this has to happen, if meditation or meditativeness has to happen to you, if you cultivate the body, if you cultivate your mind, your energies and your emotions to a certain level of maturity, you will become meditative. That'll be the fragrance that you will carry always. If that is not there, you get the thoughts out of my head. Why don't you say heart should stop, liver should stop, only brain should stop. What's your problem with the brain? Yes. So the whole purpose of meditativeness is to transcend this limitation. That is, if you sit here, your body is here, your psychological activity is somewhere here, you're little away from that.

49:34Once you're a little away from that, you have a clear look at what is the nature of your body, what is the nature of your mind. You can use both these tools with utmost freedom. Otherwise, you are entangled in it. You won't even know it's like this. Let's say you're driving to the airport and there's a lot of traffic jam and now you're getting excited, you may miss the plane and da-da-da-da-da. You're getting worked up, you're sitting in your dream car and suffering. All right. Yep, in your dream car and suffering. Good one. Then somehow you got there and you got onto the plane and the plane took off.

50:16The traffic jam has gotten worse. But you look down some 200 feet above or 500 feet above. The traffic jam looks so pretty. All those white lights and red lights. Have you seen? Yes, absolutely. How nice they are. Yes. But when you are in it, what was your experience? When you're above it, what's your experience? This is all. If you sit here, you are little space between you and your body and you and your mind. This is the end of suffering because you know only two kinds of suffering, physical suffering and mental suffering. Do you know any other kind of suffering? Well, no. If you create a little space, this is the end of suffering.

51:02Once there is no fear of suffering, only then you will walk full stride. Otherwise, every step is a half a step, whether it's your career or your romance or your nonsense or your adventure, everything is a half a step. because what will happen? What will happen? What will happen? At the most, you will die. That will anyway happen one day. The question is when. It's not that we are trying to kill ourselves, but if you think, if you sit here and think, I don't want to die, I don't want to die, I don't want to die, the only thing that will happen is you will not live. Death will anyway happen. Yes, yes.

51:45That analogy of the flight, that resonates with me. Oh, because you boiled in your dream car.

51:55It was that part. That part got me. You said, in your dream car. But in the traffic, being miserable and then being on the flight, looking down, being removed from that. This is all. Yes. Your mental activity, whatever is happening, see, you're not scanning your liver and thinking, what's happening, what's happening, what's happening. whatever the hell is happening. We don't know whether right things are happening in your liver or not right now. Right. But we are okay, because your experience is little removed from that till it goes bad. In your mental structure, your experience is too stuck in it, because you're too identified.

52:37Whatever you identify with, you become that, isn't it? Yes. Yes. why every child is being taught this silly identity of race, religion, nationality, this, that, gender, nonsense. You're essentially a piece of life. How to make this life as to blossom into something as wonderful and as big as possible? Yes. That's all there is. So even on that, I'm a parent. Many parents watch this. how can we best be parenting our children? Don't parent them. Don't parent them. Fix yourself. Because your children are not listening to all your stupid morals and philosophies. They're observing you. So set an example in such a way that in your child's mind, you're the superstar.

53:36If you are the superstar in their eyes, you don't have to worry what they will do. They'll do the right thing. If you are not the superstar, they think you're one moral bug, then somewhere on the street corner there's one superstar for them, who will drag them in some other way. Above all, in today's world, invisible people. See, people who have no love or care for the child should never influence the child. But today, 80 % of the influence are those people through internet and social media and everything. So people who have absolutely no love or care, who are commercial forces, they're influencing the children?

54:20No, no. If you want to be the big influence, you must be a great influence, first of all. For that, you must become a great human being at least wonderful, if not great, hello? Yes. To be joyful, just make your home in such a way that your child never witnesses anger, frustration, depression, this and that, all negativity. They always are soaked in an atmosphere of joy and love. Just do that. They'll grow up well. I'm saying instead of nurturing the root, you're trying to prune it somewhere. It's not going to help what you prune grows faster. Oh, that hits me as well, is being the superstar. I'm hitting you too often today.

55:10You are definitely, definitely. The program I'm conducted yesterday is ecstasy of enlightenment. You must get five of them, whoever, randomly, people who are there, and talk to them and see. I read the comments from yesterday on your Instagram post. What are they saying? It was, their life was changed. Their life was changed. I'm glad. Yes, it was life-changing. And what I'm trying to understand is, and this connects to that is, how do we know that we're on the right path? Because I felt like what you did in so many of your events is you helped people, you helped to place them on the right path.

55:50No, no. No, no, no. Not me. But I guess the question really is how do we know that we are on the right path? There's no right path. All those 360 degrees are fine with me. It's just that whatever the hell you do, you do it well. You can only do it really well when you're inclusive, that anything that you do, you hold everything as yourself. If you hold everything as yourself, whatever you're doing, you will do it well. And you don't have to worry about what is right path, wrong path. This is all prejudice that you've set up in your mind. If you are left, even if you're a butcher, You will do it gently, isn't it?

56:42Yeah. That's all. Whatever is needed, one may do. But the most important thing is, is your humanity finding expression. Are you an embodiment of love and joy? Or are you miserable by yourself and in some contrived way you're trying to do something? What is the right thing to do? What is the right thing? People come and ask me, especially you, Sadhguru, what do you think I should do? I said do whatever the hell you want to do just do it well and you can't do it well if you're not inclusive and inclusive you're meaning with others with every life yes when you're doing something is this good for every life what I'm doing whatever it is okay I see I see I see your life changed or no then yes I do want to hear about a moment in your life that you believe was one of the most reflective.

57:50And I think that often comes from pain. But I'm curious about, I'm curious, I'm genuinely, genuinely curious about yours because you are so joyful. You know, in every image I see, in every moment today, you're very joyful. You're very playful. You're very light. There must be... I'm dead serious also sometimes. But what has been the heaviest moment for you? What have you learned from that? So I was 25. I sat down and made a plan.

58:25Geographically, I made a plan. On that day, the population was 4.82 or 8.6 or something like that. in two and a half years time I'll make the whole planet, all the human beings on the planet, blissful that was your planet, 25 see, 44 years look at me so today people say I've touched over 2 billion people but that's not whole humanity population has risen to 8.4, doubled almost so I'm going I'm a confirmed failure. I will die a failure, but I'm a blissful failure.

59:12That's profound. Sadhguru, is there anything that we have not yet talked about? A whole lot of things. But that you feel is important for us to discuss? I would tell people, because you're asking what to do in 26, leaving the larger picture, the simple things that people want to do. Ask them to try, you tell them to try, miracle of mind. This is not religious. There is no philosophy attached to it. I think Christians are breathing, right? Yes. Muslims also breathing? Yes. Jews also breathing? Yes. Hindus are breathing for a long time. So it's just with your breath. You shouldn't have any problem with your breath.

59:59If you have any problem with your breath, you shouldn't be living. if you have some issues with it. This is true. So simple process, seven minutes a day. Seven minutes is a dumbed-down version. If you're a little more really interested in fulfilling yourself, you must do inner engineering, which is 30 hours. You can even do it online, or you can do it physically in London, or anywhere else, all over the world it's available. And there's a 21-minute practice. Give it a try. for 40 to 60 days, your life will be transformed, 100%. I'm going to do it. This is not a philosophy, this is not an ideology, this is not a belief system.

1:00:48This is a technology. These are technologies for well-being. See, for everything we depend on technology. But somehow inner well-being we think God should sort it out for us. I'm so glad, I'm glad to know this statistic that 44 % of the English people think it's their karma. This is a fantastic thing, I didn't know. Oh, well. So, do not misunderstand comfort and convenience as well-being. And above all, your well-being should be never pitted against anybody. I want to be happier than you. Leave this rubbish. every life is unique. If you focus on this and see how this life can blossom, this is the only way you're genuinely useful to the world.

1:01:42If I don't, if I care about people around me, the best thing I can do is I make myself into a wonderful human being. Yes or no? Yes. Do that for your family and for the society you live in and all the others who are following you. Just make that happen for yourself. Done. Thank you very much. Done. Thank you. Thank you, Sadhguru. I truly appreciate this time with you. There's one final question that everyone gets, and that is just simply, if you think back to all of the incredible conversations you've had in your life, which one stands out as the most memorable and why? What did you learn? I have no time to look at the rearview mirror.

1:02:21See, only bad drivers, slow drivers will be constantly looking at the rearview mirror. One who is going very fast never looks at the mirror because you're concerned about what's ahead of you, not what's behind you. I don't count my life like this what is my favorite talk what is my favorite food what is a favorite place there's one thing everybody even yesterday somebody asked me Sadhguru which is your favorite golf course I said the one that I'm playing today I see I see so right now this is the best conversation I'm having wow I this is the best one I'm having you know what I will say this is thank you truly Absolutely.

1:03:05Thank you for all of the lives that you touch. Thank you for speaking your truth. Thank you for... It's not my truth. It is the truth. It's the truth. The very dangerous game you're playing. It is. Thank you for speaking the truth. But also, I always walk away with something, many things from these conversations. For me, it's just simply what you said about being the superstar in our children's lives. If you don't do that, they will find some other superstar. Yes, that really. And some idiot who has no care or concern for the child. Yes, yes. That really touched me. So thank you so much. Thank you.

1:03:48Thank you. Hey, sad guru. He's hilarious. I felt like I was talking to one of my boys. So off camera, he said he doesn't watch television with the exception of news. Here, he mentioned that he pretty much doesn't read books. And I hear what he's saying. Like his standpoint is you're not going to get the exact experience, lived experience of that individual. I still feel like there's value in a good biography or autobiography. But I understand his perspective, which to me, the overarching theme was being so present in your life that you don't have the time for that. I've talked to religious leaders who have, say, a large following, like, say, a guru.

1:04:46I've talked to political leaders who have that. Talk to rock stars who have that. But he doesn't sit in any one of those categories. He sits off as a master of self and has this incredible following. It's so interesting to me because he truly is a one of one. He is in his own category.

1:05:21Thank you.