IE Gurgaon
Upcoming Sathsang In April
“Once you are on an inward process, you are in nobody’s way. There is no room for disharmony. Harmony is the only way you can be.” - Sadhguru
Come on an empty stomach and practice your kriyas with fellow meditators and under the guidance of the more experienced. There will be a short volunteers meet after the Sathsang.
Noida: Saturday 4 April
Time: 6:00 pm – 8:15 pm
Venue: “Aerobics Hall”, Noida Stadium, Sector 21 A,
Entry from Gate 4, near PVR Spice, Noida.Gurgaon: Sunday 5 April
Time: 6:00 pm – 8.15 pm
Venue: R5A Windsor Court, DLF Phase IV.
Contact: 9810027189, 9810888234
New Delhi : Sunday 5 April
Time: 8:00 am – 10:15 am
Venue: Lok Kala Manch, Behind Sai Mandir, 20 Lodhi Road Institutional Area.
Faridabad: Sunday 12 April
Time: 9:00 am – 11:15 am
Venue: Henna Industries Pvt. Ltd. Plot 45, Sector 27A.
Dwarka: Sunday 12 April
Time: 6:30 pm – 8: 45 pm
Venue: “Sai Mandir”, Adjoining Church, Sector 9,
Behind Azad Hind Apartments, Dwarka.Contact: 9868128910
Upcoming 7 Day Inner Engineering Programmes
“I want you to know the power, the liberation of another kind of science, the inner science, the yogic science, through which you can become the master of your own destiny.” – Sadhguru
Gurgaon: 15 – 21 Apr 2009
Location: 126 B South City I,Near Signature Towers, Gurgaon
Contact: 9818646666, 9811755123
Noida: 29 Apr – 5 May 2009
Location: Noida Stadium, Sector – 21 A,Entry from gate no 4,Opp PVR Spice, Noida, India
Contact (0120) 2518485
Dwarka: 6 – 12 May 2009. Introduction, Sunday 3rd May 6.30 pm – 8.00 pm
Location: Sai Mandir, Sector-9, Adjoining Church (Behind Azad Hind apartments), Dwarka
Contact: 9868128910, 9868250202
Delhi: 27 May – 2 June 2009
Location: Lok Kala Munch, Lodhi Road, Behind Sai Baba Mandir
Contact: 9971800069
Class format
The class begins on Wednesday and ends on Tuesday.
Introductory talk (Open to All) is on Wednesday: 6:30- 7:45pm (except Dwarka class on Sunday) .
Registration can be done in the break after the introductory session. Regular class follows: 8:00 pm – 9:30 pm.
On subsequent days, class is for three hours, 6-9am OR 10am – 1pm OR 6:30-9:30pm. You can choose any of these session timings, with Sunday being a full day session.
The classes will be held in English.
Upcoming BSP Dates
“Bhava Spandana is like making a person jump and look beyond the wall. He sees beyond his limitation experientially. Once he sees that, he knows that he must go over the wall one day to see what is on the other side.” -Sadhguru
Ladies, English: 27-30 April 09.
Gents, English: 23-26 May 09.
Venue: Isha Yoga Centre, Coimbatore.
Bhava Spandana Program(BSP) is a four-day, three-night residential program offered to those who have completed any one of the introductory programs – Inner Engineering, Isha Yoga (Tamil) or Wholeness. For registration and more information you can contact Sumit at 9811309576.
Isha Shoppe
Isha Shoppe have released new products in various categories of – Bags, Gift Packs, Body Care products, Metal Art and Stone art. Please visit www.ishashoppe.com.
SMS
Receive Delhi / NCR weekly updates on sathsangs, programs, Sadhguru quotes and media appearance etc. through SMS at Rs.100/ for 3 years. Register with Arunava 9811487009.
You can also register for Sadhguru’s Daily SMS, Isha news and events at the Ashram, Ekadashi/ Amavasya/ Pournami reminders and many more @ 32.50 per month. Subscrption for 6 months/ 1 year available. For online registrations – http://www.ishafoundation.org/component/option,com_sms/Itemid,322/
Isha Center in Delhi
#4, Osho Drive, Gadaipur, Mandi Gaon Road, Mehrauli. (3km from Andheria More).
Isha now has its own space in Delhi. The Center is open to meditators and non-meditators on Saturdays and Sundays from 5pm to 7pm. The evening schedule starts with Guru Pooja, followed by Sadhguru’s discourses on video, Presence and chanting.
Come and bask in the Presence of the Master. All are welcome.
Pranams,
Isha Volunteers
Kailash Mansaravor Sojourn
“I have been to many truly powerful places, I have seen many powerful beings. When I bow down to them, I am genuine, but I bow down to them a little less than I would bow down to my Guru. When I bow down to Kailash, I bow down to it the same way I would bow down to my Guru.” - Sadhguru
Last date for Registration is March 31st, confirmation will be on first come first served basis. Places are filling up fast and are limited.
For Registration Contact :
Swami Nati
Kailash Manasarovar Sojourn
5/8, Ground Floor, 3rd Street, Kothari LayoutSinganallur, Coimbatore – 641 005
Ph: + 91 422 6553324, 094425 43331
Email: yatra@ishafoundation.org
Travel Dates:
Group A: 4 – 9 July 2009
Group B: 7 – 22 July 2009
Group C: 9 – 24 July 2009
You would need to go through payment process and registration to book a place.
Registration form and details of the program have been attached with this email or visit http://www.ishafoundation.org/eflyers/Kailash.isa
“A pilgrimage is not an achievement but an opportunity to subdue the sense of who you are and an access to the beyond”- Sadhguru
Pranams,
Isha Volunteers
Pancha Bhutha Aradhana
Upcoming date: 23rd April (will happen on Shivarathri day of every month)
Timings: 5.40 pm and 6.10 pm (open to all)
All the participants are required to report at temple reception by 4.00 pm on that day.
For Registrations, please contact Swami Abhipada (details given below)
The basis of all creation, including the physical body, are the five elements. The wellbeing of the body, and whether the body is the stepping stone or a hurdle towards one’s ultimate wellbeing, can be determined by purifying the five elements within the system. There is a whole system of yoga called bhutha shuddhi, meaning purification of the elements.
The presiding deity for such pursuit being Bhuteshwara, another element of Shiva. Pancha Bhutha Aradhana is an effort to bring down that dimension of grace of the Dhyanalinga upon the seeker. 14th day of every lunar month will be an opportunity to experience Pancha Bhutha Aradhana between 5:40 pm and 6:10 pm.
This will be particularly beneficial for those who experience weak and unstable constitutions, psychological instabilities, disturbed sleep, a constant sense of fear, and will also be supportive for the fulfillment one’s ambitions. This offering will include an initiation with Abhaya Sutra, a consecrated thread.
Donation for Pancha Bhutha Aradhana Rs. 500/-
Linga Snanam will also happen that night. This is an unique opportunity for everyone to be in the sanctum sanctorium of Dhyanalinga and participate in this process.
Donation for Linga Snanam Rs. 100/-
Offering of milk and water will happen on the Amavasya day which usually follows the Shivarathri .
Contact: Swami Abhipada
Dhyanalinga Temple reception
Phone: (0422) 2515426, (0422) 2515345
Email: IYC@ishafoundation.org
Website: www.ishafoundation.org
“To reach out beyond your present levels of perception is the only way to touch the Divine.
And to touch the Divine is to know the Bliss of your existence.”
– Sadhguru
Pranams,
Isha Volunteers
Dear All,
Upcoming Nature Awareness Programme
Age Group: 9-15 years
Program Date: May 13 to 17 (Batch 1)
May 18 to 22 (Batch 2)
About the Programme: Nature is exciting, inspiring, refreshing and constantly changing. It is full of mysteries to be marveled at and beauty to be admired.
However, today’s children rarely have an opportunity to explore their connection with nature. Isha Nature Awareness Program is a fun-filled four and a half day residential summer camp for boys and girls in the age group 9-15 years. The program instills love of Nature and the power of yogic practices in growing children.
Living at the Isha Yoga Center and spending time in nature, children learn to appreciate simple treasures like gentle mountain breeze, musical chirping of birds, miracle of diversity in nature. These and other learning experiences bring an intimacy with nature in children and enhance their sense of well being. The program is an opportunity for children to get acquainted with numerous life forms, heighten their sensitivity to life and create an understanding and appreciation of interdependence amongst life forms.
Program Timings: Participants are required to arrive at the venue by 4 pm of starting day and will be able to leave by 5 pm of last day of the program.
Course Donation: Rs. 7,500/- per person
For more information http://www.ishafoundation.org/component/option,com_program/program_id,2050/task,details/
Please find registration form and program details as an attachment.
Contact: V.S.Raghavan ( For registrations and payment )
203, Behind Radha Rani Theatre, Kothari Nagar, Singanallur, Coimbatore – 641 005.
Phone: 98944 18089, 98478 95042
Email: raghsri@gmail.com
Pranams,
Isha Volunteers
Beyond the limitations of experience: SadhguruJaggi Vasudev
Gurus and godmen can be notoriously secretive about their past, but Jaggi Vasudev is happy nattering about his childhood. We have just teed off and Vasudev, armed with a neo-modern Nike Sumo driver that propels the ball with a metallic tink, has hit a giant slice that heads unerringly into the bushes. It seems impolite not to offer the Sadhguru a second shot, particularly one that has played only “21 rounds of golf precisely” in his entire life.
His second shot is a huge hook to the left, but it will do. The son of a physician father with a transferable job, Vasudev suggests he had a regular middle class kind of childhood. “I loved to hang-glide and race mobikes,” he says of his time in Mysore . When he graduated in English literature, he was occupied with such things as music, sports, trekking and taking his Yezdi (and later a Yamaha 350) for long trips.
Since they reach out to today’s urban middle class, new age gurus cannot afford to appear too unbending and orthodox. But the Frisbee-throwing, Beatles-loving, Davos-visiting, Kafka-quoting Vasudev pushes the definition of cool well into uber.
In some ways, he positions himself as an anti-guru. He is telling me that he is not into religious texts (“reading a couple of chapters of the Gita can’t qualify you as a guru”) and has never learnt formal meditation, when he is spotted by a group of women — ground staff who maintain the fairways and greens at the golf course. “I knew it was you,” cries one of them, clearly overwhelmed, as she prostrates before him.
Others, sobbing loudly and looking adoringly, follow suit, dispelling my belief that he is a wholly middle class phenomenon. “Didn’t think they would recognise me,” he says. In dark glasses, a floppy hat, olive green shirt and sneakers, it does take some doing. Or does it? “Must be the beard,” I suggest tentatively. He smiles sportingly as he runs his fingers through the forest of curls.
Having consumed more strokes than I care to remember to reach the 10th green, the Sadhguru proceeds to make an astonishingly good putt. “Very good,” I congratulate him. “This is different. This [putting] is only a mind game,” implying — not inaccurately — that while the golf swing involves the science of mechanics, putting is all in the mind. Science and the mind will occupy a fair bit of our discussion and we walk down the fairways, rummage through the rough, and consume masala dosas at the golf hut.
Around 10 years ago, he says he was subjected to a scientific experiment, had electrodes put on his body, and asked to meditate. He told them he didn’t know how to meditate, but can sit still, which he did for some 20 minutes. “Then, they started pulling out the electrodes, knocking on my knees and elbows and looking at me weirdly. “What’s up?” I asked them. “‘Our machines say either you are dead or your brain is,’ they said”. He pauses before chortling, “I replied I prefer the first possibility. The second is too insulting.” The story is intended to emphasise the limitations of science and how life cannot be “contained in a few physical parameters.”
Seeing anew
His message, he suggests, is not derived from a body of religious or cultural work. It is basically to take his own experience — born out of a sudden, unexpected and life-changing mystical revelation atop a rock in the Chamundi hills — and to present it as a “science” after stripping it of the influence of such things as culture, language and religion.
So, he’s not a Hindu guru? Hindu, he replies, is a cultural and geographical identity rather than a religious one. “Anyone born in the land of the Indus is a Hindu.” He goes on to add: “This is the only culture on the planet which is a godless one, one in which there is no concretised idea of god. We worship whatever we feel like — a tree, a rock, a cow, a snake, a mother. One survey says there are 13 million gods and goddesses in this country.”
Pointing to an object, he continues: “You can worship that stone on the golf course and nobody will think that is absurd. Being reverential is important, not what you are reverential about. It’s about how to take a human being to his full potential, that’s all.”
Sada, the golf course’s coach, has recognised the Sadhguru and chooses to walk along, providing him with impromptu lessons. He tweaks his grip, adjusts his stance, modifies his backswing and although Vasudev says he will “never be able to hit the ball this way”, he is soon making better contact than ever before.
While he seems to enjoy being taught, he doesn’t like referring to his discourses as teaching. “Yes, I have no teaching, no philosophy. All I have is methods, which you can call a technology. If you ask me to say in one sentence what my central message is, I would say, ‘Do not settle for the limitations of your experience. Try to break it and move to the next level. If you do that, you will know there are many levels of reality outside and within yourself. Don’t settle for who you are right now.”
But why not? He throws the question back at me. “Don’t you want to play golf a little better tomorrow?” We all want a little more of what we know best — money, love, power, knowledge. “There is something within us which does not like boundaries. If we find unconscious expression of this, we call it materialism. If it is conscious, we call it a spiritual process. You can either walk with your eyes open or closed. I am saying why not keep them open.”
Talk of materialism makes me wonder about Davos, where Vasudev has addressed the World Economic Forum for four successive years. What’s a Sadhguru doing in a gathering of the business elite? “See, the 2,000 people who come there control 80 per cent of the world’s economy. If I can influence them even 10 per cent, problems such as the lack of nourishment and education can be solved. We have the resources, capability, technology to address every human problem on the planet. The only thing missing is the lack of inclusiveness.”
Will to change
So poverty and backwardness are not systemic problems but arise out a lack of will? Absolutely, suggests the Sadhguru, turning anecdotal and recounting stories. One of them is about Klaus Schwab (“now a dear friend”), founder of the World Economic Forum. Schwab, the story goes, asked if there was one thing the Forum could do for him to change the world, what it would be. “I told him give me the 24 heads of state of the major nations for five days and I will solve the basic problems. That’s all it takes — we need to touch the leaders on the planet.”
There is another story about a private meeting with Bill Clinton during Hilary’s presidential campaign, during which the Sadhguru asked: “How does it matter to us who becomes President. Won’t the same games go on? You have spent $600 billion on Iraq. Every child could be nourished and educated with a fraction of that.” Apparently, Clinton’s tone changed and he agreed with Vasudev, which the latter interprets as yet another sign that the rich and the powerful are slowly beginning to understand they have the capability of changing the world.
Vasudev’s conversation is punctuated with remarks that reveal a taste for the dramatic quote. “Look at our industries,” he laments. “The biggest one is armaments, next comes pharmaceuticals and then alcohol. The first puts you on the way to death, the second pretends to pull you back, and the third gets you there for sure!”
We have already done 12 holes and it is time to go to work. But the Sadhguru, who is totally engrossed with his golf lessons, chooses to play some more. As I leave, I cannot help thinking that — as his website rather smugly declares — he is indeed “an arresting blend of profundity and pragmatism”. There is an unconventional plain-speaking side that is hard to miss. On the subject of Lord Krishna, he is quoted as saying: “If Krishna lived today, he would make you all very uncomfortable. Your wife would want to go dancing with him. So would your daughter and your 80-year-old mother.” There is also a more predictable esoteric side, which manifests itself in arcane talk of inner transformations and mastery over the mechanisms of life. As I watch him continue to chip balls on to the green, I feel there is also a very childlike side. “I don’t get to do this very often,” he says in explanation of his decision to stay on. “I’m going to make the most of it.”
The man and his vision
Jaggi Vasudev is the founder of the Isha Foundation, a not-for-profit organisation that runs yoga centres around the world. The Isha Yoga Centre and Ashram near Coimbatore was founded in 1992 and conducts self-awareness programmes for people from all walks of life.
He was the spearhead of the project Green Hands, which aims at increasing the green cover of Tamil Nadu. He has been invited as a speaker to the World Economic Forum for four successive years and served as a delegate to the United Nations Millennium Peace Summit and the World Peace Congress.
‘I have no teaching, no philosophy.
All I have is methods, which you can call a technology.’
Isha Yoga Sathsang
Dear Meditator,
Reaffirm your intention to awaken the formless divine within. It is indeed rejuvenating and supportive to attend Sathsang and rekindle your affirmation.
“Sathsang is to go beyond all duality of anger, hatred, jealousy, like, dislike – just to bask in the light of the enlightened.” -Sadhguru
The details of the upcoming Sathsangs in NCR are given below, in order to help you plan your participation. We will keep updating you regularly so you don’t miss out on this opportunity.
Please come on an empty stomach condition and practice your kriyas with fellow meditators and under the guidance of the more experienced.
Dwarka
Date: Sunday 15 March
Time: 6:00 pm – 8:15 pm
Venue: “Sai Mandir”, Adjoining Church , Sector 9 , Behind Azad Hind Apartments, Dwarka
Contact Person: 9868128910
Faridabad
Date: Sunday 15 march
Time: 9:00 am – 11:15 am
Venue: Henna Industries Pvt. Ltd. Plot 45, Sector 27A, Noida
Contact Person: 9811027222
Isha Center in Delhi
#4, Osho Drive, Gadaipur, Mandi Gaon Road, Mehrauli.
3km from Andheria More.
Isha now has its own space in Delhi. The Center is open to meditators and non-meditators on Saturdays and Sundays from 5pm to 7pm. The evening schedule starts with Guru Pooja, followed by Sadhguru’s discourses on video, Presence and chanting.
Come and bask in the Presence of the Master. All are welcome.
SMS
Information about sathsangs, programs, Sadhguru quotes and media appearance etc. is available through SMS at Rs.100/ 3years. Register with Arunava 9811487009 .
Pranams
Volunteers,
Isha Foundation
A self realized yogi, mystic and visionary, Sadhguru is a spiritual master with a difference. An astounding blend of profundity and pragmatism, his life and work serve as a reminder that yoga is not a esoteric discipline from an outdated past, but a contemporary science vitally relevant to our times.
Probing, passionate and provocative, Sadhguru’s words are deeply insightful, devastatingly logical and unfailingly witty. They cover a variety of subjects while carrying a subtle and distinct flavor of who he is.
For Enquiries, please contact
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