Books and writing
Inner Engineering: A Yogi’s Guide to Joy (2016)
Spiegel & Grau. Part memoir and part manual. He tells the story of his awakening and then sets out yoga for the body, mind and energy. Each section ends with a short practice. A New York Times bestseller. It won the 2017 Crossword Book Award for popular nonfiction. Deccan Chronicle said it rewords Patanjali’s Yoga Sutra for general readers.
Wikipedia: Inner Engineering: A Yogi’s Guide to Joy · Isha Foundation: Inner Engineering book · Penguin India: Sadhguru
Adiyogi: The Source of Yoga (2017)
HarperCollins India. Presents Shiva as Adiyogi, the first yogi. It blends myth and history for a modern reader. It came out on Mahashivratri 2017, the day the Adiyogi was unveiled.
Business Standard / PTI (29 January 2017)
Emotion & Relationships (2018)
Jaico Publishing House. Two short books in one. Emotion: The Juice of Life looks at using hard emotions for growth. Relationships: Bond or Bondage asks why relationships get complicated and how to make them joyful.
Readings: Emotion & Relationships
Death: An Inside Story (2020)
Penguin Ananda. Treats death as part of life and not only a catastrophe. It offers practical guidance on preparing for one’s own death and on helping the dying and the dead. Listed as a New York Times bestseller.
Penguin India: Death: An Inside Story · Penguin India: Sadhguru · Wikipedia: Sadhguru
Karma: A Yogi’s Guide to Crafting Your Destiny (2021)
Penguin Random House. Strips karma of its fatalism and presents it as a tool for freedom. It closes with sutras as a practical guide to living. A New York Times bestseller. Its first Indian print run was planned at over 100,000 copies.
Isha Foundation: Karma to be launched in 2021 · Penguin Books Australia: Karma · Penguin India: Sadhguru · Wikipedia: Sadhguru
Eternal Echoes: A Book of Poems 1994–2021 (2021)
Penguin. Nearly 600 poems written over three decades. Themes run from yoga and Shiva to nature, love, life and death.
Free Press Journal (23 September 2021) · Penguin India: Sadhguru
Living in Enlightenment: A Guided Journal (2026)
Harmony. A journal for every day of the year. Each of its 365 entries pairs one of his teachings with a prompt and space to write.
Penguin Books Australia: Living in Enlightenment
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