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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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Sadhguru on a Fresh Approach to Life
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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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Hw Mk T Y L L?Sadhguru on Creating a Supportive Situation for Growth
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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
magic to kill the three of you.
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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
6 i h i i h A N h Shi
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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I Ky M Cp S WkI Ky M Cp S Wk
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
T H Cly Uk
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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Place the tomatoes in a pan and pour just enough water to cover them. Bring to a boil and cook
for 1 to 2 minutes. Drain off water; cool the tomatoes, remove the skin, and chop them. Place inthe jar of a blender and blend to a smooth paste.
Heat 1 tablespoon of sesame oil in a pan.
Add the tomato puree and saut till it thickens a little.
4 medium Tomatoes
1 tablespoon + to fry Sesame oil
2 teaspoons Pav bhaji masala
teaspoon Sugar
Salt to taste
2 medium Potatoes cup Fresh mint leaves
23 sprigs Fresh coriander leaves
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