Sadhguru on how to come to terms with layoff and make a fresh start: 'You have not lost everything'
Facing a job loss can be quite challenging, not just financially, but mentally as well. The most difficult part is coming to terms with it and accepting the quantum loss, which will affect the family’s future as well. Amid the rising layoffs, have you recently lost your job and found it very difficult to come to terms with it? Here’s an interesting piece of advice by Sadhguru that can help you in difficult times.
Sadhguru’s advice
Sadhuguru offered an interesting spin on the layoff. In a video, while addressing the job loss-related anxiety during the pandemic, he shared his perspective. Instead of looking at it as a loss, he urges everyone to take a step back and realise that after years of rigorous hard work and labour, an employee has been released, and it needs to be celebrated. But before you jump to the next question, “What about my salary, my money, my bills, rent, children’s school fees, etc?, to this Sadhguru offers a different perspective to view your situation.
He shared that while your personal problems certainly do exist, he referred to the suffering of people during the world wars, famines, earthquakes, cyclones and other large-scale disasters. However, it is during these tough times that its impact would depend on how one reacts to it.
Alignment will happen
Referring to the suffering people endured during world wars, famines, cyclones, earthquakes, and other large-scale disasters, he said the pandemic was comparatively a softer challenge because its impact would depend largely on how individuals responded to it. In many past crises, ordinary people had no control and simply became victims of decisions made by others. By contrast, today’s economic troubles, whether linked to a pandemic, stock market collapse, or recession, are part of a larger system driven by a constant desire for more. He reassures, “Somewhere, some alignment will happen.”
Cutting down living costs
He further elaborated that this advice may sound very cruel, especially when one has just lost a job, but in comparison to previous generations, we have a lot more. So, if you have to cut down your living costs by 10-20 %, “let’s not cry too much”. He continued how life for our father and forefathers may have been tough physically, but they did not live a bad life and were living a good life in their own way. So, if one has to roll back a little bit, one has to understand that slowing down could cause a lot of pain and adjustments, but it has to be done.
How to manage school fees, bank loans?
Now, if one is still worried about how the children will go to school, how they will manage the household expenses, or pay off the bank loan, he stated that he does not deny that there are problems. But, one has to count their blessings, which is- “You are alive, your family is alive.” He calls it the most “precious thing” and warns not to get into a self-pitying mode of, “Oh, I've lost my job, I've lost everything.” He reminds, “You have not lost everything.” He continued that the one thing that is of immense value is one’s own life, while some accessories may get lost, but one day one may realise a new talent of that without going to the office, one can still make your livelihood.
Sadhguru’s advice
Sadhuguru offered an interesting spin on the layoff. In a video, while addressing the job loss-related anxiety during the pandemic, he shared his perspective. Instead of looking at it as a loss, he urges everyone to take a step back and realise that after years of rigorous hard work and labour, an employee has been released, and it needs to be celebrated. But before you jump to the next question, “What about my salary, my money, my bills, rent, children’s school fees, etc?, to this Sadhguru offers a different perspective to view your situation.
He shared that while your personal problems certainly do exist, he referred to the suffering of people during the world wars, famines, earthquakes, cyclones and other large-scale disasters. However, it is during these tough times that its impact would depend on how one reacts to it.
Alignment will happen
Referring to the suffering people endured during world wars, famines, cyclones, earthquakes, and other large-scale disasters, he said the pandemic was comparatively a softer challenge because its impact would depend largely on how individuals responded to it. In many past crises, ordinary people had no control and simply became victims of decisions made by others. By contrast, today’s economic troubles, whether linked to a pandemic, stock market collapse, or recession, are part of a larger system driven by a constant desire for more. He reassures, “Somewhere, some alignment will happen.”
Cutting down living costs
He further elaborated that this advice may sound very cruel, especially when one has just lost a job, but in comparison to previous generations, we have a lot more. So, if you have to cut down your living costs by 10-20 %, “let’s not cry too much”. He continued how life for our father and forefathers may have been tough physically, but they did not live a bad life and were living a good life in their own way. So, if one has to roll back a little bit, one has to understand that slowing down could cause a lot of pain and adjustments, but it has to be done.
How to manage school fees, bank loans?
Now, if one is still worried about how the children will go to school, how they will manage the household expenses, or pay off the bank loan, he stated that he does not deny that there are problems. But, one has to count their blessings, which is- “You are alive, your family is alive.” He calls it the most “precious thing” and warns not to get into a self-pitying mode of, “Oh, I've lost my job, I've lost everything.” He reminds, “You have not lost everything.” He continued that the one thing that is of immense value is one’s own life, while some accessories may get lost, but one day one may realise a new talent of that without going to the office, one can still make your livelihood.
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