Sadhguru, Aug. 22 -- By Sadhguru - Founder, Isha Foundation

By the time I was eight years old, I already had a cloud of a billion questions around me. I could never find anyone who answered a single question without quoting someone else. I knew that the authority they invoked invariably quoted some other authority.

When that authority was from another time zone, it was sanctified as ancient scriptural authority! This made no sense to me. So, I brooded endlessly, and wrote poems that always ended with questions. I could never accept authority as truth. Truth was for me the only authority.

Conventionally speaking, my irreverence should have made me the unlikeliest candidate for spirituality. This is why I tell people: outsourcing your re...