• We are in Velliangiri Hills, the foothills on the outskirts of Coimbatore, and my guest this week is Sadhguru Jaggi Vasudev, sometimes described as a Monk on a Motorcycle, but today the Monk in a Land Rover.

It’s no more a Land Rover; it’s a

Tata now.

• But you are an unusual mystic.

I think every mystic has been unusual, always. If he is usual, why will he be a mystic?

• But when you describe yourself as an unusual mystic, and an unusual among all mystics, in that case, what makes you unusual?

The usual belongs to people who imitate. Only if you imitate somebody do you become usual.

• But by definition, do mystics imitate?

No, but if scholars could imitate, sadhus and sanyasis could imitate too, because they are followers of a certain order. A mystic is someone who is coming from his inner understanding and inner experience, so there is no question of imitation, so he looks unusual while actually he is just natural. Because people are used to so much of repetitiveness in everything, if somebody just comes out from his own nature, people think he is unusual.

• So what makes you different? What is it that sets you apart?

See, I don’t come from any scholarship. I have not read the Vedas or the Upanishads. I just confess I have not read the Gita.

• It’s not a confession many in the business would want to make.

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