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On a clip from the Adiyogi fan page, Sadhguru explains Krishna’s curse on Ashwatthama as a teaching about guilt. After the great war, he says, bitterness drove the warrior to cut the throats of sleeping children. Krishna did not answer with death. He answered that the man must go on living inside that guilt. When Krishna says me, Sadhguru hears a quality of awareness, so the curse falls on a pattern, not only on one body. Remaining for ages after everyone else is gone is, for him, worse than dying. What continues is the suffering, even into another birth, not a prize of endless life. He warns that some inner fastenings must not be loosened, and he tells of a nervous visitor in Moscow who unscrews a plate under a hotel bed and drops a chandelier on a dining room. A later stretch adds the epic frame: Drona’s son, a night raid, and a long wandering with wounds that do not heal.
Key points
- Sadhguru says Ashwatthama killed sleeping children after the war was already over.
- Krishna’s answer, in this talk, is a life that cannot escape that guilt.
- The curse is aimed at a kind of awareness, so the suffering can outlast one body.
- Endless life is treated as a punishment, not as a blessing.
- A Moscow joke warns that loosening the wrong fastening brings the ceiling down.
- The clip’s closing notes add Drona’s son, the night raid, and a long wounded exile.
Short quotes
Krishna did not curse him with death he said I curse you with immortality
Sadhguru, Sadhguru on Ashwatthama
Sadhguru states the curse as unending life rather than execution. Watch at 1:56
Heroes fell good people died bad people died all kinds of people died
Sadhguru, Sadhguru on Ashwatthama
He sets the massacre against a war in which every sort of fighter had already fallen. Watch at 4:48
Krishna is saying don't touch certain screws if you touch those screws things will crash upon you for good
Sadhguru, Sadhguru on Ashwatthama
The chandelier joke becomes his warning about acts that cannot be undone. Watch at 9:08
Video by Adiyogi (Fan Page). Watch on YouTube.