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ON THE RECORD

Sadhguru Jaggi Vasudev

‘I have not read the Vedas or the Upanishads. I confess I haven’t read the Gita’

Posted online: Monday, March 10, 2008 at 0018 hrs Print Email

He has been described as the ‘Monk on a Motorcycle’ and is known to play Frisbee and dance at discos. Sadhguru Jaggi Vasudev, who has a wide following in India and abroad, is equally enthusiastic about spreading the word on how to use yoga and inner sciences for self-transformation in the contemporary world. In an interview with The Indian Express Editor-in-Chief Shekhar Gupta on NDTV 24x7’s Walk the Talk, Sadhguru Vasudev speaks about how he learnt what he knows through mystic experience and not through reading the scriptures. He also talks about how it is possible for people to be spiritual even as they attend to the demands of modern life

 

I have been doing it right since my childhood. Now about driving a Land Rover, it’s because the terrain is bad that I drive a Land Rover.

Tell us about this place, which has such a wonderful pool, and is a calm, free place.

Here, what you see here is solidified mercury, called a lingam, which means an ellipsoid and the dissolution also happens in an ellipsoid. It is seen as a doorway to the beyond. According to modern chemistry, you can solidify mercury only at -32 degree Centigrade. Here, at room temperature, it has become solid and it is pure mercury.

And how does that happen? Is it a miracle?

It is not a miracle; there’s a subjective science that can make it happen. Anything that you don’t understand, you call a miracle. As your understanding deepens, nothing is a miracle for you.

How did you make this happen? Is it a kind of alchemy?

It is alchemy, Indian alchemy, but modern chemistry doesn’t believe in that.

And you believe in that.

There is nothing to believe. It’s there for you to see.

It was wonderful to chat with you. I hope we can talk for many hours and delve into more complex issues.

Come and walk sometime, no talking. We could walk in the mountains.

editor@expressindia.com

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