My Life @ Isha Yoga Center

Owing to the increasingly polarised social situation in India and in the world too, I am now writing this third (final?) piece on this matter. Also over the years, the negative administrative experiences I had at Isha Yoga Center in 2007-08 when I stayed there as a full time volunteer, are pretty much cleared for me. But the positive part of the experience, the spiritual foundation and sadhana that I picked up from there remains. My life has unfolded in amazing ways and I am grateful for the spiritual centre that was created within me after my time spent at Isha Foundation.

I want to make this distinction clear, because it lies at the crux of lot of the issues people have with the organisation. Through this blog post a lot of people facing bizarre administrative gaps have contacted me. And I am explaining here what I explain to them.

You may come across serious administrative issues with Isha Foundation in terms of communications, logistics and so on. However, these type of issues are fairly common in spiritual (& non-spiritual) organisations across India (& probably the world). In fact even in a large family meetup we find that often all sorts of issues keep cropping up because people have different ideas and sensibilities. Inevitably this is the level of human evolution currently in the world.

As a spiritual organisation and considering Sadhguru as an enlightened person we of course have a lot more expectations. But if we delve deeper into the stories of ancient great beings like Buddha, Mahavira and such. We will find that there are many stories of defections and inappropriate behaviour in their followers. These stories help us understand and accept humanity in its current state.

These issues are at the end of day, separate from the spiritual tools being offered. And in this matter Isha Foundation is genuine, I have not had any reason to think otherwise. Everything said and done, this is the most important aspect to consider and as I have now seen in my life, the spiritual impact is always the most long lasting and hence invaluable.

Let’s continue being awesome!