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Sadhguru Jaggi Vasudev is an Indian yogi and
mystic. He is the founder of Isha Foundation which administers yoga centres
around the world, including India and the United States.
Jagadish Vasudev was born in Mysore, Karnataka and claims that he had a deep
spiritual experience at the age of twenty-five. Sadhguru developed a series of
programs called Isha Yoga Programs and started the Isha Yoga Centre and Ashram
near Coimbatore in 1992, dedicated to that purpose. The Centre also houses the
Isha Foundation which conducts yoga programs to people ranging from corporates
to prisoners. This centre also has the Isha Home School, which educates children
in an interactive manner similar to the Montessori method.
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“ "Education is about making
the child grow with an uncluttered intelligence. An intelligence that is not
identified and entangled in culture, religion, ideology, or prejudice will
naturally lead to ultimate blossoming of the individual." ”
Jaggi Vasudev is also a published poet.
He was a delegate to the United Nations Millennium World Peace Summit and a
participant at the World Economic Forum in 2006 as well as 2007.
Jaggi Vasudev is a practitioner of the ancient yogic science of Temple
building and consecration. The Dhyanalinga Multi-religious temple building
and consecration was carried out under his guidance. The consecration
process used viz., Prana prathista is different from Mantra prathista
process prevalent in Kumbabishekam rituals in practiced through the modern
times.Ancient Indian alchemical processes were used extensively in the
temple building and consecration, for instance, solidification of mercury at
room temperature was done using traditional alchemy.
About the Guru
Describing a person like Sadhguru, who is exuberantly multi-faceted and
intensely passionate about every aspect of life is truly a complex
challenge. So, Who is Sadhguru Jaggi Vasudev? is the question we try to
address here. In doing this, rather than douse the question with scanty
answers or drown it with marathon lectures, we decided to use a sprinkling
of modern technology on the World Wide Web to present a plethora of flashes
and glimpses of person, leaving the privilege of an answer or an opinion
open...
As we began rummaging through the rickety, old archives of the Foundation,
looking for more and more missing information, we realized that the most
significant and the most valuable aspect of what Sadhguru is, is archived
not in buildings, but in people, people whose life Sadhguru has in one way
or the other touched and transformed. Now, searching through this is a
completely different kind of task altogether.
So, we did a paradigm shift and decided to outsource quite a bit. We brought
in collective authorship and collaborative research, inviting
private-public-partnership between the readers and the webmaster to meet the
challenges of the future, and invited widespread invitation to create this
portal.
"A Guru, A Mystic, A Master, A Kriya Yogi.... the descriptions are endless"
As contributions began trickling in , we set-up filters to separate out
experiences from adoration and adulation; impressions and opinions from
facts and details, and a careful cleaning of the stench of personal
charisma, as one writer called it, to present glimpses of Sadhguru, as
uncluttered and undistorted as possible. |
Sadhguru, a very rare being, who
dares not to conform to the accepted ambiguous norms just because the majority
or the so-called spiritual dictum conforms to it. His teachings are but an
outpouring of his inner being, which has risen from inner awakening and not
derived from textual scriptures. He is one who cares little for scholarly views
and who embraces Truth and stands by it. No one single description can provide
an accurate picture of this realized being whose teachings are simple and
pristine. What can happen in this person’s presence, his energy field, is
difficult to perceive for those who are confined to just their sense
perceptions.
From eons of spoon-feeding by elders, society, and religion, most people have
become insensitive to tasting life firsthand. Fear of ostracism by society if
their authority, their rituals and their dogmas are rejected, the fear of
standing alone, and the fear of having the respectability tag stripped off has
bound humanity today in many ways. An individual reared in today’s reality,
never seems to know when or where he got his opinions, nor does he seem to care
as long as they are approved of.
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