• What did you study, Sadhguru, and where?

Not much. I went to the University of Mysore. Not really. I didn’t do much education.

• Tell us a little bit about your early days.

One thing about me was, since I was three or four months of age, my memory was such that somehow it set me apart: I carried information which other children probably would not. What colour sari my mother was wearing. What she was talking about to somebody. My being in a crib. I remember all those events even today.Either I never was a child or I never grew up. I started looking at life in a different way. I was a sceptic: nothing ever made sense to me. I never entered a temple. My family was never religious, but once in a while, they’d go to a temple. When I was five, I had questions, and if they couldn’t answer those questions, I wouldn’t enter a temple. They never got around to answering those questions. One thing is that I never let myself be identified either with a family or with the culture or the religious process that was happening around me — or anything, for that matter, which kept me looking in a certain way. When I was 11, by a simple process, I happened to learn yoga and I kept the practice up. I finished university, got into business, and was doing well for myself. To be peaceful and happy was never an issue.

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