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Sadhguru
Sadhguru-Jaggi-Vasudev.jpg
Born
Jagadish Vasudev

(1957-09-03) 3 September 1957 (age 64)
Mysore, Mysore State, India
Alma materUniversity of Mysore (BA)
OrganizationIsha Foundation
Notable work
  • Inner Engineering
  • Dhyanalinga
  • Rally for Rivers
  • Linga Bhairavi
  • Adiyogi: The Source of Yoga
  • Mystic's Musings
  • Cauvery Calling
Spouse(s)
Vijaya Kumari
​
​
(m. 1984; died 1997)​
[1]
Children1
HonorsPadma Vibhushan (2017)
Indira Gandhi Paryavaran Puraskar
Websiteisha.sadhguru.org

Jagadish "Jaggi" Vasudev (born 3 September 1957), known by the honorific title Sadhguru,[a] is an Indian yoga guru and proponent of spirituality.

He has been teaching yoga in southern India since 1982. In 1992 he established the Isha Foundation near Coimbatore, which operates an ashram and yoga centre that carry out educational activities.

Vasudev is the author of several books and a frequent speaker at international forums.

In 2017, he received the Padma Vibhushan, India's second-highest civilian award, for his contributions to social welfare.

Early life

Jagadish Vasudev was born on 3 September 1957 in Mysore, Karnataka, India. He is the youngest of the five children[5] of Susheela Vasudev, a homemaker and B.V. Vasudev, a physician at the Mysuru Railway Hospital.[6] His paternal great-grandmother was Kuntamma, who he says had built a temple.[7] His grandfather was a wealthy man with a large ancestral home.

Jaggi Vasudev in his youtuhful days

Aged thirteen, Vasudev took yoga lessons from Malladihalli Raghavendra[8] daily throughout his youth, albeit without spiritual aspirations.[9]

Vasudev studied at Demonstration School, Mysore and Mahajana Pre-University College. He graduated from the University of Mysore with a bachelor's degree in English.[10].

Career

His first business was a poultry farm in a remote part of Mysore[11] that he set up with borrowed money.[12] In the process of constructing his farm, he also entered into construction business with a company named Buildaids.[12]

At the age of 25, he rented his businesses to his friend and travelled for about a year.[13] According to Vasudev, his main motive in starting a business was to fund his urge to travel and explore.[14]

In 1983, he taught his first yoga class in Mysore. Over time, he began conducting yoga classes across Karnataka and Hyderabad travelling on his motorcycle, subsisting on the produce of his poultry farm rental and donating the collections received from his students.[13]

Jaggi Vasudev travelling piligrim places

Isha Foundation

Main article: Isha Foundation

In 1992, Vasudev established the Isha Foundation, an organisation headquartered near the city of Coimbatore,[15] as a platform for his spiritual and educational activities.[16] He remains its head until now. The organisation offers yoga programmes under the name "Isha Yoga" and is run "almost entirely" by volunteers.[17][18]

Speeches and writings

Vasudev authored several books, including Inner Engineering: A Yogi's Guide to Joy[19] and Karma: A Yogi's Guide to Crafting Your Destiny; both have made it to The New York Times Best Seller list.[20][21][22][23] Vasudev is also the author of Mystic's Musings[24] and Death: An Inside Story.[25][26]

Vasudev is a frequent public speaker who has been invited to address many prestigious forums and conferences across the globe, such as the United Nation's Millennium World Peace Summit, the British House of Lords, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and the International Institute for Management Development.[27] He has also spoken at the annual World Economic Forum in 2007,[28] 2017 and 2020.[29][30]

Family

Per his recollections, he met Vijaya Kumari in 1984 in Mysuru. The two married [7]: 89  and a daughter was born in 1990.[7]: 105  On 22 January 1997, Kumari died at the Isha Yoga Center. A police complaint against Vasudev was filed by her parents alleging dowry harassement.[7]: 173 

His daughter, Radhe Jaggi is a bharatanatyam dancer.[31] She married Chennai-based classical vocalist Sandeep Narayan in 2014.[32]

Honours and awards

Pranab Mukherjee presenting the Padma Vibhushan to Vasudev at the Rashtrapati Bhavan in New Delhi on 13 April 2017

Vasudev received the Padma Vibhushan, the second-highest civilian award from the Government of India in 2017 in recognition of his contribution to the field of spirituality.[33][34] He stood 92nd in The Indian Express' list of 100 most powerful Indians, in 2012 and stood 40th in India Today's list of 50 most powerful Indians in 2019.[35][36]

Reception

Critics say that Jaggi Vasudev shares the ideology of Bharatiya Janata Party's Hindu nationalism (Hindutva),[37][38][39][40] and that he takes an "intolerant nationalist" stance in his media appearances.[37] He advocates for a total ban on cow slaughter and characterises the era of Muslim Rule in India as an "oppressive occupation" that was far worse than the British Raj. Vasudev has also spoken in favour of the 2019 Balakot airstrike, the introduction of a comprehensive GST, and the Citizenship (Amendment) Act, 2019, while denouncing the Thoothukudi protests as a peril to industry.[41][42][43] Vasudev accuses leftist liberals of aiding and abetting militancy in Kashmir, and has suggested that Kanhaiya Kumar and Umar Khalid, known for their involvement in the JNU sedition row, should be put behind bars.[44] His understanding of politics and history has been repeatedly questioned.[37][42]

Vasudev has also been accused of promoting pseudoscience and misrepresenting science.[45][46][47] He propagates the claim, unsupported by science, that cooked food consumed during lunar eclipses depletes the human body's pranic energies.[48] He also perpetuates numerous myths regarding clinical depression, and opposes the potential prohibition on the use of mercury in traditional Indian medicine, despite the substance's extreme toxicity.[49][50] His views on the Higgs boson and alleged benefits of vibhuti have been rejected as unproven by science.[51][52]

Notes

  1. ^ Sadhguru, alternatively spelled sadguru,[2] means "real or true guru".[3] The term has also been translated as "senior sadhu; eminent preceptor".[4]

References

  1. ^ "Family Matters - Sadhguru Speaks About His Family". Isha Foundation. Retrieved 14 February 2018.
  2. ^ Sanghvi, Rajesh D. (2018), Going Beyond My Guru's for Human Welfare, Notion Press, p. 30, ISBN 978-1-64429-901-2
  3. ^ Cornille, Catherine (1992), The Guru in Indian Catholicism: Ambiguity of Opportunity of Inculturation?, Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing, p. 103, ISBN 978-0-8028-0566-9
  4. ^ Shantipriyadas, S. (1998). Pramukh Swami Maharaj (2nd ed.). Amdavad: Swaminarayan Aksharpith. p. 307. ISBN 81-7526-000-9.
  5. ^ Subramaniam 2013, p. 30, 31.
  6. ^ "Jaggi Vasudev's father passes away". Star of Mysore. 9 November 2019. Retrieved 28 June 2021.
  7. ^ a b c d Subramaniam, Arundhathi (2010). Sadhguru, More Than a Life. Penguin Books India. p. 72.
  8. ^ Subramaniam 2013, p. 73.
  9. ^ Subramaniam 2013, pp. 38–39.
  10. ^ Subramaniam 2013, p. 71.
  11. ^ An, Shelly; December 27, New Delhi; January 4, 2020 ISSUE DATE; December 28, 2021UPDATED; Ist, 2020 16:14. "Suddenly, I did not know what was me and what was not me: Sadhguru". India Today. Retrieved 28 May 2021.CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)
  12. ^ a b Chopra, Shaili (2014). When I Was 25: The Leaders Look Back. . ISBN 9788184006773.
  13. ^ a b Cite error: The named reference mid was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  14. ^ Subramaniam 2013, p. 72.
  15. ^ Berghella 2018, p. 69
  16. ^ "The most powerful Indians in 2009: 80–84". The Indian Express. 9 March 2009. Archived from the original on 28 January 2011. Retrieved 22 January 2020.
  17. ^ Award for Project Green Hands Archived 2011-05-21 at the Wayback Machine, The Hindu, 8 June 2010, retrieved on 8 June 2010
  18. ^ "'Special Consultative Status' for Isha Foundation". The Hindu. 12 September 2007. Archived from the original on 8 November 2012. Retrieved 23 January 2011.
  19. ^ "Don't vote as part of a tribe, Jaggi Vasudev tells Americans". Business Standard. IANS. 16 October 2016. Retrieved 20 November 2016.
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  27. ^ Hudson & Hudson 2017, p. 2
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  30. ^ "Golf with the Guru". The Hindu. 15 March 2009. ISSN 0971-751X. Retrieved 27 January 2020.
  31. ^ Naidu, Jaywant (26 November 2017). "When beauty comes to life". Deccan Chronicle. Retrieved 27 February 2020.
  32. ^ Sangeetha, P (24 October 2014). "Sadhguru's daughter gets married in Kovai". The Times of India. Retrieved 27 February 2020.
  33. ^ "Jaggi Vasudev, Mariyappan among Padma award winners". The Hindu. 26 January 2017. Retrieved 31 January 2018.
  34. ^ "Padma Vibhushan award for Sharad Pawar and Jaggi Vasudev". Deccan Chronicle. 26 January 2017. Retrieved 31 October 2018.
  35. ^ "The most powerful Indians in 2012: No. 91-100 - Indian Express". archive.indianexpress.com. Retrieved 27 January 2020.
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  41. ^ "Jaggi Vasudev's CAA Video: 22 Minutes of Half-Truths & Gaslighting". The Quint. 31 December 2019. Retrieved 3 January 2020.
  42. ^ a b "An (Un)Enlightened Sadhguru in King Modi's Court". The Wire. Retrieved 3 January 2020.
  43. ^ Scroll Staff. "Watch: Jaggi Vasudev wants students to read CAA before protesting, but hasn't read it himself". Scroll.in. Retrieved 3 January 2020.
  44. ^ Basu, Joyeeta (5 March 2019). "Fuelling peace with hatred". The Asian Age. Retrieved 2 January 2020.
  45. ^ "Jaggi Vasudeva doesn't understand science". Nirmukta.
  46. ^ "Should Sadhguru be Hosted by India's Top Colleges?". The Quint. 17 September 2018. Retrieved 31 December 2019.
  47. ^ Shahane, Girish (20 June 2019). "Opinion: The disturbing irrationalism of Jaggi Vasudev". Scroll.in. Retrieved 31 December 2019.
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  49. ^ Shaikh, Dr Sumaiya (26 February 2018). "Scientific research ascertains mercury toxicity but Sadhguru continues to endorse it for Indian traditional medicines". Alt News. Retrieved 31 December 2019.
  50. ^ Shaikh, Dr Sumaiya (19 August 2018). "Depression: The myths & falseness of Sadhguru's quotes". Alt News. Retrieved 31 December 2019.
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