The Capitalist Meets the Guru
The Wharton School of Business hosted an event, “The Capitalist Meets the Guru.” A prestigious school, having an event of this nature, is exactly the point. A deep ‘Ahha’ is happening when cornerstones of society realize the gauge for a successful life is not increasing with the latest upgrade. Capitalists, particularly in the coming generation, are craving answers beyond a Google search. They want a guru. On this day at Wharton, they met Sadhguru, a yogi, mystic and visionary.
The audience of students asked of Sadhguru a stream of impatient questions. “How to be a leader?” “How do you start?” “How do you influence people?” Sadhguru answered, “A leader is an individual you become, not what you do.” “A leader has a vision for something beyond what others can see.” “You must be in love with your people and they will be in love with you.”
Sadhguru, with his genuine warmth toward the audience, exemplified being a leader on that afternoon. While he fielded questions for over an hour, Sadhguru shared his vision, a mission none of us could have imagined. Sadhguru is using the technology of today to bring global harmony to our world by raising human consciousness through individual transformation. How to do this? The teachings, practices and experiences offered by Sadhguru are the means to follow a journey inward to integrate the body, mind, emotions and energies of our Selves. Sadhguru tells us, “In is the only way out.” His succinct reply is an about face from our current culture.
The Western World embraces Self as the hub with spokes, the categories of our life, job, friends, family, spiritual quest and even a vacation each reaching out to the world not in to our Selves. Spokes never touch and so we live with single tracks of disparate information with each category, a separate entity, needing support. Dubbed “the rat race” we exhaust our energy racing out and back on each spoke. Taking a break is just another spoke called “disconnect.”
Sadhguru is revealing a new operating platform that creates a life of ease and wellbeing but we are wary. Like our cave dwelling ancestors who first believed that fire was a shaman’s magic trick, Sadhguru reassures us this is not superhuman. He smiles and reminds us, “Being human is meant to be super.”
Sadhguru, bridging us to our own inner journey, shows us how to weave the spokes of our lives together. Going ‘in’ we hear the clarion call and we raise our consciousness. With this transformation, fulfilling our human potential, we will find our way ‘out.’
Fire, and the paradigm shift it caused, will pale in comparison to the shift that is coming; enlightenment.
