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CONTENTS

Lead Article

A Sense of WonderSadhguru on a Fresh Approach to Life 4

Musings

How to Make This Your Last Lifetime? Sadhguru on How to Create a Supportive Situation for Growth 7

Information Overrides All ElseSadhguru on the Thread That Runs from One Lifetime to the Next 9

Leela Series The path of the playful part XLVI:

Bhima and the Aghori 11

In Conversation with the Mystic

Youth and Education in IndiaSadhguru in Conversation with Actor Siddharth 13

News & Happenings

Sadhguru at the Aditya Birla Financial Services Group 14

First 21-Day Isha Hata Yoga Program Concluded 15

Fourteen Years of Dhyanalinga 16

Isha Kriya Meditation Camp for Sanitation Workers 17


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The following is an excerpt from a talkby Sadhguru during a 3 Sathsang

for meditators at the iii, McMinnville,

Tennessee, on 25 April 2013.

You should see how men in rural India

squat. One thing is, if you are sitting out in

nature, there are ants, bugs, ticks, snakes,

and other crawling creatures. Any bite

will get more serious when it goes beyond

the limbs. Another thing is, he just sits and

wonders about everything. I would like

you to try this. Just sit outside at sunset and

wonder. Forget about all these things theytold you, that the Earth rotates and that is

why the Sun disappears below the horizon,

what the distance between the Earth and the

Sun is and all that. They say it is 93 million

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in your ears and the phone screen in front of you

all the time, you think you are the universe. You

are moving away from reality and exploration

everything is set. If you simply sat there, who could

not wonder what this is all about? Where does itcome from? How does it happen? Even a half-brain

would wonder about it.

When people wonder and wonder, when they strive

to know, a few of them break through. Everyone

looks, but these two eyes show you only that

which is physical, and not even that just the wayit is. These two eyes are largely functioning based

on the memory that you have gathered. If you

wipe out your memory, your ability to see will be

considerably reduced. Lets say you go out on the

street, a thousand people are standing there and

among them, there is someone you know well; youwill see that one persons face more clearly than the

rest of the faces. That is because there is memory.

To at least 3040%, your vision depends on your

memory. In that sense, it is a cultivated vision.

Thought and emotion are constantly playing

through it. People say, and it is true, your eyes area window to your thoughts and emotions. If you

want to size up people, you have to look into their

eyes. If you hate them, you have to look into their

eyes. If you fall in love, you must look into their

eyes. Especially if you think you are falling in love

with them, you denitely want to know what ishappening with the other person. You want to see

their thoughts and emotions, so you look into their

eyes because to some extent, these are the windows

to their thoughts and emotions.

a conspiracy to bullshit you? I am not saying it is

so supposeit is so.

Modern science exists only for the last few hundred

years, but religion as you know it is at least 2000years old. With the advent of science, what people

believed for over 1500 years suddenly sounded

ridiculous. What is the guarantee for you that what

you celebrate right now as science will not look

ridiculous in a few hundred years? Science has

produced technology; we can do so many things.

People who used to believe what you think isridiculous right now also did a lot of things.

The Third Eye is signicant because it is a thoughtless

eye, not glazed by the past. Only an eye that is not

glazed by the past can perceive the present and

conjure up the future without delusions. You can

never grapple with the realities of existence with

these two eyes. It is because of this that when people

looked and looked, and they saw these two eyes are

insufcient, they strived inward to evolve another

dimension of seeing.

Wherever that dimension evolved, tools werecreated that led people to knowing. Wherever that

dimension did not evolve, wherever only muscle

evolved, force was the way. There, they insisted

that you must believe what they say; to wonder was

a crime. If you wonder, you will question. If you

question, someone must have an answer. If someone

asks a question and the other one doesnt have an

answer, the questioner though the question

is coming from ignorance seems to be more

intelligent than the one who cannot answer it.


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everything old and buy everything new. She is

trying to be American. How can you be a citizen of

the United States if you dont shop at least twice a

week? Even the government encourages everyone

to shop, because otherwise the economy will go

down. So she takes to this policy and wants to spend.

Coming from a traditional Indian background,

Shankaran Pillai wants to save. In India, we always

look at our savings; here you look at your credit

rating. So Shankaran Pillai says, No, this is not the

way to go. This is it; you cannot spend anymore.

You have shopped enough. She ared up and said,

You dont even have the courage of the bureaucratsand the politicians.

Once you are infected by memory, you are a slave

ofkarma. This is what karma means that the past

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of creation, is most important; otherwise, life is

cyclical. There is nothing wrong with that; it is just

a trap. Whats wrong with a trap? Actually, traps are

much safer. If you trap a coon or a coot, he is much

safer than if he crosses the highway. The highway

is not the only thing that could kill him; there are

so many predators. If he steps out into the jungle,

he may not last the night. If you trap him and keep

him here, he is denitely safer. But give him all the

food that he wants, still the rst opportunity he gets,

he wants to chew through your cage and get away,

no matter if he puts himself to risk. The coots and

the coons have this much intelligence whats theproblem with you?

Only human beings with so-called evolved

intelligence prefer the trap. This evolved intelligence

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Hw Mk T Y L L?Sadhguru on Creating a Supportive Situation for Growth

The following is an excerpt from a Q&A session with

Sadhguru during a 3 Sathsang for meditators at

the iii, McMinnville, Tennessee, on 27 April 2013.

Meditator: Sadhguru, you said that if we have a

certain seeking within us, we do not necessarily

have to come to the ashram. How far does your

connection with seekers like us go? And how to

make sure that this is our last birth?

Sadhguru: So the question is, Will you guarantee

my liberation?

This brings me to a very nasty joke. A man got a

notice from the IRS1

that he has to come to the

ofce for some enquiry. IRS agents are trained to

turn your brain inside out; it is like an inquisition.

He was very nervous. He went to his accountant and

asked, What do you think, how should I go? The

accountant advised him, Go to the Salvation Army

counter, buy a really old suit that is frayed at the

collar and crumpled, to make you look poor. Also

get a pair of old shoes with different colored laces.

Dont take your Mercedes; take a taxi; then walk up.

When they see you so poor, they will for sure know

that you are not a rich guy dodging taxes, and let

you go. He got the frayed suit. He got old shoes and

changed the laces. He prepared everything.

Still he was nervous. So he went to his lawyer and

Now he got confused. From a frayed coat and worn

out shoes to an Armani suit and a Ferrari. Not

knowing what to do, he went to his rabbi and

said, I went to my accountant; this is what he told

me. I went to my lawyer; this is what he told me.

I just dont know how to go now. The rabbi said,

Listen to me. There was a nice Catholic girl. Her

name was Mary. Mary was getting married and

her mother advised her that for the wedding night,

she must buy a nighty that is all buttoned up,

full sleeved, puffs on the shoulder, well below the

ankle; because she must present herself as a good

wife to her new husband. But her school timefriend came and gave her a red-colored negligee.

That means it is negligible; the kind of thing where

the neckline is below the navel. Mary got confused

and came to me.

The man said, Why are you telling me about this

Catholic girl? I have to go to the IRS; I am not

getting married. Just listen. So I told Mary, It

doesnt matter what the hell you wear; on day one,

anyway you are going to get the works. So if you

go to the IRS, anyway you will get the works, no

matter what you wear; whether you drive a Ferrari

or you go there walking.

Liberation does not require physical proximity; it

can be done in so many ways. Physical proximity

is for constant guidance to go deeper. This does

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People who live in such energy spaces are trying to

mature into a situation where they dont have to be

anxious about what will happen, because that is not

the way to approach it. Even if the end is assured,

dont you want the journey to be beautiful andmiraculous? If you want the journey to be magical,

you have to be in a certain space that allows magic

in terms of social structures, energy structures, and

people around. Unfortunately, most places were not

created for something beyond the logical to happen.

If you do something which is not logical, you will

have ashing lights and sirens in front of your house

this is generally the situation in todays world. But

if you go to places like Nepal, Bali, or Kashi, the

whole space is geared for the magical. If you walk

in Bhaktapur, every two steps, there is a temple;

every two steps, there is a deity reminding you of

something of the beyond.

Today, people are walking around there like tourists,

but there was a time where for every step, there

was a mantra; there was a certain kind of worship;

there was a certain attitude. In India, inside a temple

complex, apart from the main temple, there will be

ten other temples. When people go to the maindeity lets say it is Shiva they will be one way.

Outside, there is Ganapati; they will be in a different

way. Their mantra is different; their attitude is

different; their emotions are different. When they

move on, there is Devi, and for her again, everything

is different. It is incredible to see how these simplepeople come and change from place to place, from

god to god. How they approach them is so inbuilt

into their systems that it simply happens.

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society is structured based on the familiar. If there is

anything unfamiliar, they want to shoot it.

In that context, living in a space that supports you

is good. But you do not necessarily have to go to a

certain place; you can create such a space in your

home. You can be a little unreasonable. You can

create a situation in your home that is not based on

the familiar, where people need not be the way you

expect them to be. They can be whichever way, but

you go about your way. If anyone in my home

either my parents or later on my wife and mydaughter had expected the familiar, they would

have gone bonkers. I could be completely different

from moment to moment, from day to day. It is very

difcult to live with a person who is wonderful at

one moment; next moment, you dont even know

who the hell he is. But if they had tried to restrictthe unfamiliar, I wouldnt have been there as

simple as that. It is simply not possible for me to be

just one way.

It is not that intentionally, you are being

unreasonable. It is like the weather. It depends on

what I am doing within myself on that day. It isnot that I ever announce, Today, I am in silence.

Today, I am doing mantra. Today, I am preparing

for something. Today, I am working something up

within me. There are days when I am extremely

talkative; we talk, we discuss, we do things, we play,

we dance, we sing. Next day, you may expect the

same thing, but that is not going to happen. Not that

I am trying to freak you out. If I am doing something

else within myself, I may not utter a word for the

next three days. I may not look at you. I may not

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I Ov All ElSadhguru on the Thread That Runs from One Lifetime to the Next

I Ov All ElSadhguru on the Thread That Runs from One Lifetime to the Next

The following is an excerpt from a Q&A session withSadhguru during a 3 Sathsang for meditators at

the iii, McMinnville, Tennessee, on 27 April 2013.

Meditator: Ive been hearing people say things like,

I want this to be my last lifetime. Can you explain

the concept of lifetimes?

Sadhguru: This is an Indian problem. They have

all been around for 100,000 years. [Laughter] They

talk about having lived for many lifetimes without

having any experience of it. We are seeing if we

in small intricacies, but you know its generally thesame thing. You would like to see whats next.

To put it simply: you know you are alive right now

and you are going to die one day. Essentially, the

body is something that you gathered. Though you

have eaten food from American soil, you still look

African. If I eat American food for 50 years, I willstill look Indian. Why?

Meditator: Genetics?


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It is a certain type of memory structure. Food and

all other inputs may come from New York City,

but your skin, your nose, your eyes, and your

body are still African. There is a certain element

of information in you before you are born. Thatinformation determines how you look, how you

think, how you walk, how you move everything.

Do you think there is only information that is

connected with the body, no other information?

If you go into a maternity hospital and look at the

just born, each one of them behaves differently. The

information is not just about the body; there is other

information that goes beyond that.

Dont believe all this talk about lifetimes, but

this much is very clear: you gathered your body

from American soil, but the information is from

somewhere else. You build this kind of body

because the information is overriding the material

that you gather.

This body is an accumulation of the food that you

have eaten. If the food is grown in Tennessee and

eaten by you, you are in some way consuming the

Tennessee soil. This area used to be Cherokee land.The Cherokees lived here for thousands of years;

they ate from this land and looked a particular way.

People who lived in Africa for many thousands

of years looked a certain way. Before people

could travel, intermingle, and mix, people looked

distinctly different in different parts of the world.

It is an anthropological fact that the weather, the

land, the atmosphere everything shaped people

in a particular way. Now, even if I shift from India

to Tennessee and eat as much Tennessee food as I

want I will still not resemble a Native American

it is very obvious we can see what kind of skin

you have, what kind of nose you have and things

like that. The other information is not so obvious,

but it is denitely there. Even in a just born child,

you can see from one child to another, they carrydifferent information that makes them behave

differently. Mothers who have more than one child

clearly know their children dont behave the same

way, though the genetics are the same.

From the day they were born, even children of

the same parents display completely differentcharacteristics. Obviously, they are carrying

information that is beyond what you transmitted in

the form of body. Genetic information is being passed

on in the form of body, but the other information is

way bigger than that. To realize that takes a little

more attention. To understand the nature of it, how

it is stacked up, what we can do with it, is a different

aspect altogether.

Spiritual process is interested in this information

because if it has such an overriding power, you better

look at it. It has the power to override whatever

atmosphere you live in. It may be overriding allyour intentions. You are sitting here and trying to

meditate, but it may be doing its own thing. It is.

If you do not look at how to in some way loosen

this information, if you do not look at how to keep

this information aside, if you do not look at how to

transcend this information, transformation is just

empty talk. It is not going to happen because this

information will override everything. Unless you

distance yourself from that information, do what

you want, it keeps on making you do the same things

over and over again In the yogic system everything


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In another edition of the In Conversation with the Mystic series, Sadhguru met with youngactor Siddharth on 10 January 2013 in Hyderabad under the theme Youth and Truth. Hereis the fth part of their conversation.

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Siddharth: You said something like, If you are

out of rage, you are one of us. At the same time

you said, if the police fail to protect people, people

need to get a gun to protect themselves. If someone

is out of rage, how can he own a weapon that can

potentially harm people?

Sadhguru: One basic test that is supposed to be

required to get a weapon license in India is, you

must be psychologically balanced. When you are in

rage, are you in psychological balance? No. When

you get angry, you say, I am mad. Thats the

correct expression you are mad. If you are mad,you shouldnt have a gun. Only if you are calm and

alert, and you will use it with absolute discretion,

only when its absolutely necessary, then its all

right for you to carry a gun. I am not saying you

must carry a gun; there should be people to protect

the society. If there are no people to protect the

society, people will have to protect themselves, one

way or the other; whether you like it, whether you

pass a law or not.

The most important thing is to create sufcient

Siddharth: To take the discussion to a different

subject, Ive heard wonderful things about Isha

Home School and I am looking forward to coming

and seeing the school. Education is a very important

concern for a lot of my friends and me, and weve

constantly been debating where the next revelationin education is going to happen in this country

Sadhguru: The Home School is at the foothills of a

mountain.

Siddharth: I hope to have a revelation when I visit.

But where do you see the next sea change or the nextquantum leap or the next revelation that is required

to take education in India, especially primary

education, to a level that is more respectable and

representative for the kind of country that we are?

Sadhguru: If we want to educate 1.2 billion people,

our idea of education has to change. Over 50% ofthe population are below 30 years of age. Youth

means humanity in the making. A country full of

youth means a nation in the making. If you do not

skill India, you will kill India. Skilling India needs to


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Telugu; Im not even talking about English. They

cannot add up ve plus four. At about 14 or 15 years

of age, the only thing they got to do is wear pants

unlike their fathers. They never went to the farm,

nor did they learn carpentry or blacksmithing orwhatever else their fathers profession is. At age 15,

they have no education; they have no physical body

to go back to the farm.

We are producing millions of youth like this across

the country, who have no skill, but they have the

attitude of the educated. They are looking for awhite-collar job, but they dont have the skills. Even

out of those who passed twelfth standard, even after

graduation, many are completely unemployable

because we are trying to educate a mass of 1.2 billion

people with the measly infrastructure that we have.

Why can we not look at this? When a ve-year-oldboy went to the farm with his father, it was not child

labor alone; it was education. This is the way skills

were transferred. Or if the father was a carpenter,

the boy hung around his fathers carpentry shop and

learned carpentry. By the time he was 15, he had a

skill.

What has happened now is, you destroyed the

traditional system and you didnt establish a modern

system to compensate for that. We are producing

millions of youth without any skill. The way many

of them even pass exams is, the teacher is reading

the answers and the students are writing them

down. That way, it doesnt take much to get 35 or

40. A very meager kind of education.

Siddharth: How to change this systemic problem of

unnecessary higher education and lack of primary

This was the aspiration; this was education. In the

education process, the boy also worked, which is

not a wrong thing.

Now we think all the farmers have to go toAgricultural University. Are there enough

universities for all of them? Can they leave farming

for three years and become great farmers after

they get their degree? We have no practical sense

about what is needed. What we need is skills, not

only education. In any society, only 1520% of the

people are actually suitable for academic pursuit.Others need skills to earn a living. The nation will

throb with economic prosperity only when there

are skills. Today in India, you can nd a nuclear

scientist, but you cannot nd a carpenter, because

the traditional skill transfer has been destroyed.

The idea of doing things in a more organized way

is perfectly ne. But just making an idea into a law

without knowing how to execute it is not going to

work. Im not saying its a wrong idea its a good

idea gone bad. For a good idea to work, you must

give it legs so that it can walk. Now it is up there;

everyone is aspiring for it; no one can touch it.With the present infrastructure of education, even

in another 25 to 30 years, we are still not going to

educate the whole mass.

Its very important that some barefoot teachers are

left loose who will go to the villages. Half a day, you

teach the child about farming; another half a day, he

works with his father. That way, you will produce

good farmers. Bring in some scientic knowledge

about farming; improve the implements that are

available all this can be brought forth But instead


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Leela Series

The path of the playful

Part XLVI

Bhima and the Aghori

The following is an excerpt from Leela, the path of the playful, a unique exploration with Sadhguru

into the mystical realm of Krishna, which took place at the Isha Yoga Center in September 2005.

What happened so far: Duryodhana was upset about losing at Draupadis Swayamvara and ponderedon what to do next. When his wife Banumathi suggested asking Krishna, he ew into a rage and

banned her from contacting or meeting Krishna ever again. Deeply distressed about this because shewanted to get Krishnas blessings for her soon-to-be-born child, she asked her sister Jalandhara forhelp. Jalandhara arranged a secret meeting with Bhima to get access to Krishna.

Jalandhara told Bhima that Banumathi wanted

to meet Krishna, but Duryodhana had barred

her from doing so. She was also quick to express

that she [Jalandhara] appreciates the attention

that Bhima had been paying her. He softened up.

She continued to say, If you are there on mySwayamvara, I will only garland you and no one

else but you. He melted completely and said, I

will do anything for you. I will meet Krishna

and arrange this for you. Jalandhara and her

maid came out. If people came to know that she,

a princess, had come to the gymnasium to meet

a man in secrecy, her position would be ruined.

Therefore, Bhima let them go rst and walked

at a distance behind them, along with a friend.

Then he noticed that a man was standing behind a

said, I dont know who she is, but from the way she

is dressed and her bearing, and the fact that there

is a maid with her, she must be someone from the

palace. Thats why I was following her.

Bhima continued thrashing him. What else do

you know? Fearing for his life, the man said,

Shakuni and Dhushasana are planning to kill

Bhishma, you, and Krishna. By next Amavasya,

all three of you will be dead. Bhima thrashed

him a little more. Details. The man said, Across

the river, there is a sage whose name is Maha

Aghori. Aghora is an extreme, occult system ofyoga. Shakuni and Dhushasana are sitting with

Maha Aghori right now and are performing black

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has always been standing in our way. Krishna also

has to go, and then Bhima. He is their main strength.

If we destroy him, we will break the Pandavas.

Maha Aghori did a process to call in the Mother

Goddess. Suddenly, a terrifying voice started to

speak and referred to Maha Aghori as my child.

Maha Aghori said, These people want Bhishma, the

son of Ganga, to be dead by next Amavasya. The

voice said, Bhishma was given the boon to choose

the time of his death, so I cannot do anything about

him. What else? He said, Krishna Vasudeva mustgo. The Mother Goddess laughed and said, Hes

divine. We cannot touch him. Then they said,

Bhima, the son of Pandu, should go. The Mother

replied, Do the necessary offering. We will see.

Maha Aghori was about to conduct the next part of

the ritual to have Bhima dead within one months

time. This denitely would have happened if things

had been done right. But just at that moment, Bhima

pushed the thatched roof into the re. The whole

hut caught re, Maha Aghoris long beard and

hair too, and then his whole body. He simply sat

there without uttering a sound. When his body wastotally on re, he just said, Mother, I am coming.

No screams, no pain, nothing. Aghoris go through

a whole lot of discipline. Maha Aghori, whom the

Mother Goddess treated as her own child, went

into a fury of energy, an energy that was crackling

with tremendous sound and vibrance. Terried,

Dhushasana and Shakuni ran to the river, jumped

into the water, and swam across. Bhima withdrew.

His job was done. He broke the spys neck becauseotherwise, he would have talked.

People who are on the Atharva marg [the path of

the occult] see, hear, smell, and taste things that you

have never imagined. In terms of life, so much is

happening. These mountains here [Velliangiri] have

seen many siddhas, yogis, and seers. The energiesthey left can never be killed; they are always on.

If you create the right situation, they will become

full force. Otherwise, they are simply there. It was

Krishna Dvaipayana in collaboration with Maha

Atharvan who made the Atharva Veda a part of the

Vedas, saying that it is t to be included. Though

people tend to misuse it, there is nothing wrong

with the science itself. Its the way you use it. You

dont have to ban the science because a few people

misused it. With that understanding, Krishna

Dvaipayana or Vyasa [as he is also known], along

with Parashara, made sure that the Atharva Veda

was given the same status as the other three Vedas,which were already established as sacred books.

To be continued

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The rst 21-day Isha Hata Yoga program, conducted

within the powerful space of the Adiyogi Alayam

at the Isha Yoga Center, concluded on 1 June 2013.

The 315 participants were initiated into several

practices including Bhuta Shuddhi, Surya Kriya,

Angamardana, Asanas, and Upayoga. Many of theparticipants shared that they were deeply touched

by the way the practices were taught and that they

never knew that Hata Yoga is such a profound and

intense process.

Marie, one of the participants, describes how these

21 days brought about a dramatic improvement inher health and a shift in her experience of yoga:

The symptoms of lupus, an auto-immune disease

that results in severe joint infammations and

ten years, disappeared as if by magic, telling me that

there was much more to yield from this program.

The gentleness of the teachers instructions helped

to open a great sense of willingness within me and

changed my mindset from Ill do it only if I think

I can to Lets try everything. I was able to break

my limitations so easily that a feeling of joy has

blossomed from within.

Through these 21 days, I became so receptive that

this program is without any doubt the deepest

experience I have had since I have been with Isha.I am well aware of having received a wonderful gift

and I am committed to explore it in depth.

For more information about Isha Hata Yoga,

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F Y DylConsecration Anniversary and Interfaith Deliberations

F Y DylConsecration Anniversary and Interfaith Deliberations

The 14thanniversary of the Dhyanalinga consecration

was celebrated on 23 June at the Isha Yoga Center,

with thousands of people visiting Dhyanalinga. The

multi-religious character of the celebrations not

only found expression through the offering of chantsfrom various faiths at Dhyanalinga; this year, for the

rst time, there was also a public conference with

leading representatives of different religious and

spiritual traditions themed Interfaith Deliberations

on the Universality of Religions. Events of the day

were webstreamed live.

Offering of Chants

The daylong chanting at Dhyanalinga began at

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Interfaith Deliberations

The celebrations included a session of Interfaith

Deliberations on the Universality of Religions

where eminent speakers from various faiths and

traditions addressed the gathering. The dignitariesincluded the Gyalwang Drukpa Drukpa Order,

Ladakh; Fr. Dr. Dominic Emmanuel Director and

Spokesperson of Delhi Catholic Arch Diocese, New

Delhi; Imam Umer Ahmed Ilyasi President, All

India Organization of Imams and Mosques; Illaya

Pattam Thava Thiru Maruthachala Adigalar PerurAdheenam, Perur; Thava Thiru Kumaraguru Para

Swamigal Sri Kaumara Mutt, Coimbatore; Swami

Muktidananda Ramakrishna Mutt, Mysore; Geshe

Ngawang Jugney Sera Lachi Buddhist Monastery,


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is nothing but energy. More specially, we can say

spirituality is a balance of male and female energy.

Imam Umer Ahmed Ilyasis spokesperson quoted

the Imam as follows: The Lord is not the Lord of

Muslims or Hindus or Christians or Jains or Jews.

The Lord is Divinity and Divinity belongs to all.

Harjeet Singh Wahan opened with the traditionalSikh greeting, Waheguru Ji Ka Khalsa, Waheguru

Ji Ki Fateh, which he interpreted as We are

all children of God, and we must greet God. He

recounted how his little grandson asked him, You

keep on telling me that there is only one God. Then

why are there so many religions?

Sadhguru rounded up the event with a pointed

talk, saying that all our differences come only from

our beliefs and opinions; in actuality, there are no

differences. He mentioned that even modern science

says that the universe is just one energy manifesting

in different ways. When one experientially sees

this, we say he is in yoga, Sadhguru said. He spoke

of the importance of moving from dogma and

beliefs to experience. The Divine should not be an

aspiration; it should be your companion, he said.


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Sadhguru SpotMusings from the Master

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Excerpted from Sadhguru Spot of 3 July 2013

In Uttarakhand, people are yet to realize the

immensity of what has happened. At one time,

continuously every year, I was in the Himalayas.

It has only been the last four to six years that I

have stopped my trips to this region, which is one

of the most fantastic parts of India. One thing is,the Himalayas are the youngest mountains on the

planet. If you have traveled in the Himalayas, you

will see, the mountain is almost like piled-up debris.

Once you cut roads into it the rivers themselves

blame this tragedy on any particular organization

or government because in one day, they received

340mm of rain. In the local parlance they said,

Aasman gir gaya the sky fell on them, literally.

Cloudbursts, landslips, these are all natural processes

in the mountain. It is a tragedy only because we arein the way; otherwise, it is just a natural process

of the mountain growing. What is unstable has to

come down and stabilize itself; this is a millions-of-

years process. So it is not a natural calamity, it is a


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as traditional strengths and traditional weaknesses.

You will only see this if success is the benchmark.Right now, success is not the benchmark. Somehow

keeping it going for ve years is the benchmark. So

we have to set this success is a benchmark.

What is this, Sadhguru? This is a very emotional,

ecological disaster and you are answering this way?

Yes, I am telling you this because now they will

pass some absurd ecological laws. That is not the

way to go about it. Emotional reactions to disasters

that happen are not the answer. Already people are

talking on the news channels, It must be declared

an eco-sensitive zone; no pilgrim should be allowed.

Why are all these people going there? Cant they goto the local temple? You will come out with absurd

laws in reaction, and anyway after a few years,

nobody is going to follow those laws. Once all this

is forgotten, things will be back to normal. We have

70 dams across the Ganga. Even if a man is dying in

this country, he wants two drops of Ganga water,but we have to tell him now the two drops that he

is taking in have gone through some 150 turbines

before they fall into his mouth.

It is a certain human emotion which holds a nation

together. Different nations have a different ethos.

For India, Ganga, Himalayas, are very important

binding factors. If you destroy them, you will have

great difculty holding this diverse population

together as a nation after some time. People are

already pulling in different directions. Gradually,

over a period of time, everybody starts thinking

separately, and one day, they will wonder, Whyare we together? It is not far away. When I say

not far away, in the life of a nation, 50 years is

not too much time.


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Delhi India

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Coimbatore India0422-2515300

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