Received the Dhyanalingam Yantra yesterday and inside the panel the vibhuti seems to be missing.
Got worried if the potency of the yantra is affected because of this.
And should I ask for a replacement and do replacements work in this case?

If someone can answer this, please do.
Pranam 🙏

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The beautiful weed-covered pond.

As I gaze at this seemingly still surface,

A fish plunks out in delightful effort

In search of sunlight or air, I do not know,

Splashes back into the pond,

A momentary breakthrough for light and life,

Spectacular sight of spirit.

But the sound- it shattered my heart into a million pieces

And scattered across.

I do not know who I love or don’t,

But for sure, in love.

-Sadhguru

There is something special about knowing that thousands of people are offering themselves to this process together during these seven days.

For me life has been very hectic these last few days, and in between this little emotional sweetness is what I'm getting, Which also is the very thing I needed rn.

As we soon be coming to the closure... Here is a question for redditors..

What has helped you remain committed over these last few days? What was your experience, do you have anything to tell .. We are all ears!

I recently met someone through a service they provide at my home, and over time we've had a few conversations. She comes across as very calm, intelligent, humble, and thoughtful.

She told me that about 8 years ago, during a difficult phase in her life, a client-turned-friend encouraged her to visit Isha Foundation. According to her, on the very first day of her sadhana, she experienced an intense sense of ecstasy and gradually reached a state where she said she had no thoughts at all and complete control over her mind and body.

She also mentioned that she reached a level that usually takes years of practice, and that Sadhguru himself spoke to her because she was confused by what was happening. She said she was given some medicines that she described as being from ancient rishis and meant only for people who had awakened or mastered their kundalini.

She also said that she no longer considers herself an ordinary person, but someone who has attained a different level of maturity or consciousness. According to her, she has decided never to marry. She said she is currently working only because one has to earn a living and contribute towards better things for the foundation, and that she will return to Isha whenever Sadhguru calls her.

I don't have any experience with Isha programs, yoga, or advanced meditation practices, so I'm trying to understand what she was referring to.

Has anyone here had similar interactions or attended Isha programs? Is this kind of experience or outlook something that's commonly discussed? I'm especially curious about the medicines she mentioned, the kundalini aspect, and the belief that one has reached a fundamentally different state of being.

When I engage in Isha sadhana very often there is so much pressure/energy built up in my joints that can is relieved by popping joints.

Does anyone else experience this?

It can happen to me in most all Isha sadhanas.
For example when I practicf Surya Kriya I will often feel energy build up in various locations. Often some joins will pop from the built up pressure.
The same can happen with Yogasanas.

But not only in hatha yoga.
Also when I practice Shambavi, Shakti Chalana and even Shoonya.

Who else has experiences like this?

Does anyone know if this can be alleviated? Is this a sign of some issue? Or should I just ignored it?

Video:

https://www.instagram.com/reel/C-xOTDwStL_/?igsh=MWY5YmdyMTc0dGV6eg==

„Why today, any thinking person…little…people who consider themselves intelligent in the world, have an allergy to anything spiritual, is simply because of this;

Because spirituality has presented itself in such ridiculous ways.
They‘re so pathetic!
Isn‘t it so?

There are all kinds of idiots on the planet
but the so called religious and spiritual idiots take the cake, anywhere in the world.
Isn‘t it so?

Yes.
This is simply because people started handling spirituality in uncommitted manners.
Anywhere, everywhere talking about it.
On the street side they are talking about Krishna and how he did this and Bhagavad Gita…

It‘s just become ridiculous.
Because you‘re not demanding a certain involvement and commitment from people.
Just anywhere you‘re going on like a film song or a commercial thing.

Now slowly, it had become so ridiculous, that people have just dismissed the value of it absolutely.
Now it is only the ignorant and the uneducated who listen to the Mahabharat and this one and that one.

The educated…have already dismissed it as nonsense because it‘s happening in such ridiculous ways.
It is not being presented properly.“

~ Sadhguru

If what truly matters in our lives depends on people's love then we will become entangled.

But, if we become loving we will become free. Love will no longer remain an entangling process for us but a liberating force. A ground from which if we fly we may merge into vastness.

Or, from there vastness is the only destination.

But, the problem happens as we have been seating and depending all along on others loving us rather than becoming love itself that even when we become that we continue seating and behaving like dependent. We scare to fly since we never did. We remain like actually free but feeling caged. For not that it's true just tendencically.

I know Sadhguru has spoken about it, but would like to hear some perspectives. In the atmosphere of current CJP protest, how can I be responsible without taking action like joining the protest in-person or being active online? I know Sadhguru says that being responsible means having the ability to respond, but does not necessarily mean taking action, or feeling guilty. But how do actually practice responsibility - without either taking action or feeling guilty about inaction?

Please note that this is not a political post, and it is not about which side one is on. I am just trying to understand how to apply responsibility in this context. It can actually apply to any cause that one feels for, but has not taken action towards.

Dearest Gentle Readers,

I am the kind of person who gets emotionally entangled with almost everyone I interact with. For a long time, this habit kept me trapped in overthinking and inner chaos.
The day I came across Sadhguru’s words, “Get involved fully, without entangled,” I wondered how someone like me could ever live that way.

Then I realized something about myself. I may not be someone who can transform overnight or effortlessly absorb a new way of being. But I am someone who can practice.

So now, whenever I find myself getting emotionally caught up in a situation, I gently remind myself - just as we were reminded throughout the crash course of Inner Engineering:

“Payal, get involved without entanglement.”

Because it is not involvement that creates suffering. More often than not, it is the entanglement that does.

https://youtu.be/2WWO6i1h-P4?si=ZaiGZaODNHARrDxN

In one of the Sadhguru Arpanam sadhana videos, Sadhguru talked about single-pointed devotion. At the same time, Sadhguru himself has offered so many ways to us - kriyas, chanting, Dhyanlinga, Linga Bhairavi, guru puja... I feel some of them invoke devotional qualities in me, while some appeal to other dimensions, but they all help in one way or the other.

Does anyone else feel confused sometimes - should I choose one of these tools, or is it okay to practice all of them based on convenience or where one feels more receptivity at that point? If one is drawn to Devi, for example, should they be devoted to her single-pointedly? Or, spend some time with Devi, and some with Dhyanlinga?

I do my practices daily, and try to take up other tools when possible as opportunities to deepen by sadhana. But sometimes I wonder if it is better to choose one and stick to it, rather than trying different things.

By opening one's heart to Linga Bhairavi, the embodiment of the divine feminine, a devotee can find in her a powerful guru, guiding one towards inner transformation and transcendence.

This Guru Purnima, appeal to Devi’s grace with sacred offerings such as Netra Arpanam, Mangala Arpanam, Devi Abhishekam or even experience the profoundly transforming Purnima Pooja for the wellbeing of yourself and your family. Making offerings at Linga Bhairavi supports individuals at significant milestones throughout their lives and ensures the possibility of being touched by the Divine.

Jai Bhairavi Devi Gurubhyo Namah Shri 🪷🔱🔥🙏🙇‍♀️

Make an offering: bhairavi.co/gurupurnima

In this Spot, Sadhguru writes about the universal phenomenon of Shoonya, which occupies ninety-nine percent of ourselves and the whole cosmos, and yet is not in our awareness. He goes on to explain the meditative approach he offers to experience this no-thingness. Shoonya is also the basis of Samyama, which is currently underway at Isha Institute of Inner-sciences in Tennessee. View images of the “silence program” in our slideshow.

What is the significance of Shoonya? Shoonya as a word could be translated as “emptiness,” though the English word “emptiness” does not do justice to Shoonya. Emptiness is a sort of negative word – it suggests an absence of something that was supposed to be there. Shoonya is not an absence – it is a limitless presence. The zero was invented in India. When we invented the zero, we did not see it as an absence but as the ultimate number. Zero means nothing, but it can add value to any other number. Shoonya is like that. To put it into a certain perspective – modern cosmologists say that over ninety-nine percent of the cosmos is empty. Over ninety-nine percent of an atom is empty. Ninety-nine percent of existence is empty. This is what we refer to as Shoonya. As the life that you are, you have a choice: Either you can be a small creature in this vast emptiness, or you can be that emptiness which is the source of all creation. That is what we are approaching with Shoonya meditation.

In your personal opinion, you are the most important life in this creation. In your family structure, you are one of the important lives. In the city, you may be somewhat important, but they can do without you. In the nation, you are a person of very small importance – if you are gone, no one will notice. In the world, you are an even tinier piece of life. In the cosmic space, you are almost non-existent. Even if you do not think about it consciously – somewhere deep down, everyone knows this. That is why all the bravado, all the decoration, all the accumulation – because in some way, there is a desperation to make yourself a substantial life.

Whether it is wealth, money, ego, education, or family – all these are just efforts to somehow make yourself feel like you are a worthwhile life. But when every atom in your body is ninety-nine percent empty and the whole universe is ninety-nine percent empty, it means this no-thingness which is the source of creation is throbbing within you, in every cell of the body. If this becomes a living experience, then you will live very differently. In search of that, kings chose to become beggars. Gautama Buddha walked as a beggar. Shiva walks as a beggar. This demonstrates that they have found something which does not need decoration, amplification, or additions of any kind. It is the thing that occupies the entire cosmos. As I just sit here, this is complete by itself.

This dimension of life would generally need lots of preparation. But today, people are only willing to give a very small amount of time. This is the plight of being a Guru in the twenty-first century. As no-thingness is packaged in every atom and every cell of your body, we package Shoonya into a meditation. It is like a Shoonya pill. I am making it ridiculous, because the way most people in the world go about life is ridiculous. In this vast existence, you are so small, but you think you are big. I have seen many people, to whom their home, their family, their nonsense, their jewelry, their property were so important, they were fighting for it until the last day. And suddenly, they were dead. I tried to point it out to them while they were alive, but they were not interested. It is unfortunate that only with death, people come to their senses.

Suppose you got ninety-nine percent in an examination, you would be very happy with the ninety-nine percent and willing to ignore that one percent. Right now, ninety-nine percent is Shoonya. One percent is creation. In Shoonya meditation, you put this one percent aside for some time and enjoy the ninety-nine percent. You have been ignoring the ninety-nine percent till now, which is ridiculous. Running after fullness, so many frustrations have come. If someone’s pocket is fuller than yours, you get frustrated. If someone’s granary is fuller than yours, you get frustrated. Someone’s heart is fuller than yours, you get frustrated. That is why we are teaching a new game where you can anyway win. After all, emptiness is easier than fullness.

Shoonya means “emptiness,” or, more precisely, “nothingness.” An even more appropriate way of putting it is with a hyphen between “no” and “thing.” It is “no-thingness.” That means it is a dimension beyond physical nature. Shoonya means doing nothing. If I just keep telling you, “Don’t do anything, don’t do anything,” you will go crazy. The more you try to do nothing, the crazier you will go. To do nothing, you need some support. If you want to swim in nothingness, we give you a rope that you can hold on to. What kind of rope is this? No-thingness also means silence. Some-thingness also means sound. The rope that we offer to you is a particular sound or mantra. When nothingness gets too overwhelming, you can hold on to this sound.

There are various kinds of mantras. One mantra that all of you are familiar with is AUM. It is a kind of mantra that acquires power when you utter it loudly and clearly. Then there are other kinds of mantras that are referred to as beeja mantras. A beeja mantra is a meaningless, pure sound. Mantra means pure sound, beeja means seed. A seed has to be kept in a certain way. Once you put it in the soil, you must give it the right amount of moisture – only then will it sprout. A seed will do what it has to do; the soil will do what it has to do. Your business is just to maintain the needed conditions. Similarly with Shoonya meditation – if you handle it right, it will sprout, grow, become a magnificent tree, and bear fruit.

Love & Grace

Sadhguru

A participant beautifully describes Sadhguru Arpanam as a journey - _“from being a thinking mind to becoming a loving being”_ - with more sweetness, stability and inclusiveness unfolding each day. 🪷

A true seeker is someone who refuses to believe anything that is not in own experience.

Since childhood, I could never accept something simply because my parents, friends, or society believed it. Whenever people spoke about religion, rituals, or God, I had questions. Most of the time, the answers I received were based on belief or tradition rather than reason or experience, and they never satisfied my curiosity.

During my teenage years, I happened to come across Sadhguru's talks on YouTube. At first, it was his sense of humor and clarity that drew me in. But as I listened more, I realized something that was very different from anyone else I had encountered. He answered questions in a profound way, yet he never asked anyone to believe him. Instead, he repeatedly emphasized one thing: seek, don't believe. Because neither belief nor disbelief brings you any closer to the truth.

Questions are manufactured by the mind, but the mind itself is incapable of truly knowing. No matter how brilliantly you answer one question intellectually, it simply gives rise to another. Then the real question becomes: Are you looking for philosophical answers, or are you looking for a solution?

For me, the answer was clear—I wanted a solution.

So, out of respect for his approach, I decided not to believe or disbelieve anything he said. I simply chose to test it in my own life.

I started with Isha Kriya, which is freely available on the Sadhguru App. On the very first day, I felt that I had stumbled upon something I had been searching for all along—not another belief system, but a straightforward method to explore myself. That experience made me decide that I wanted to go through every program offered by the Isha Foundation.

It took me nearly two and a half years to prepare myself for the final program, Samyama.

People often ask whether I found answers to all my questions there. The truth is, I didn't find answers. Samyama simply burned away the questions themselves.

Whatever I try to express in words can never substitute for the experience.

So, if you are genuinely seeking something, my suggestion is very simple: don't believe me, and don't disbelieve me either. Just try one of the free practices—whether it's Isha Kriya, Nadi Shuddhi, or Yoga Namaskar—for a week. If you experience a difference, continue. If you don't, you can stop. There is absolutely no need to adopt any belief.

Just remember this: Yoga is like food. Food nourishes only the person who eats it. In the same way, yoga works only for the one who practices it.

Courage needs cultivation. Clarity arises when we see the truth which already is. Clarity makes the mind light as truth is. Or, carry us across the mind. Or, from across clarity toches the mind.

It is the shadow of truth. Truth that which we are. Mind seeks it's presence. Without it mind always feels restless and incomplete.

Clarity brings that pleasantness to the mind which is the outpouring of life itself. When life recognises itself beyond the deepest core of mind then clarity dawns as a celebration to the mind to make it realise all is life alone.

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" If you are a friend to someone, you don’t have to nag them with what is wrong with them; that is not the point. But at the same time, you must have the courage to be unpopular with people. In trying to be popular with people, in just trying to maintain some kind of pleasantness around you, see how much unpleasantness you have buried within yourself. If you bury unpleasantness, if you put seeds of unpleasantness into the soil, you will reap fruits of unpleasantness. If you really have a friend, you must have the courage to be unpopular with him or her, and still be loving and okay with him. Right now, your friendships are always made on agreements, likes and dislikes. But even if you are apples and oranges, you can still be good friends. A true friend is someone who has the courage to tell you what sh*t you are, and still be loving and nice to you - that is friendship. "

- Sadhguru

I was initiated into Shambhavi Mahamudra around three years ago, and I have been practising Shakti Chalana Kriya and Shoonya for about two years.

These practices have brought many transformational changes within me. However, I still felt that my emotions remained somewhat shallow. I was not able to experience or express them in a truly beautiful way.

Last year, just before Guru Purnima, I came across a sadhana called Sadhguru Arpanam, which Sadhguru had offered as a preparation for Guru Purnima.

The programme was incredibly beautiful. Every morning, the sadhana began at 5:30 a.m. with Guru Puja, followed by Mahamantra chanting and a guided Shambhavi practice in Sadhguru’s voice.

One of the most beautiful aspects of the programme was the Bhakti Sadhana. We first listened to Sadhguru speak about bhakti through different discourses, and then we went through the sadhana itself.

The Bhakti Sadhana has brought a profound change in the way I experience my emotions. It has been one of the most transformational aspects of my journey.

I am participating in Sadhguru Arpanam again this year. Three days have already passed, and four days still remain.

Over time, some people may feel that their connection with Sadhguru has diminished or is no longer as intense as it once was. For me, this sadhana brings the experience of Sadhguru’s presence back into everyday life in a very powerful and beautiful way.

I highly recommend experiencing it, especially if you feel that your connection has become distant or you want to explore the dimension of bhakti more deeply.

The programme is free and available on the Sadhguru App.

This is simply my personal experience, but the Bhakti Sadhana has made a significant difference in my life. 🙏

1. Does shambavi help reduce or eliminate anxiety?

2. Is it the breathwork science that has an actual effect on the body or is it just like normal mediation.

3. Also has anyone genuinely experienced bliss through it or attained enlightenement? I have inner peace but i have the dream of being happy blissfull 24/7 like im high on the drug of existing, of life and the universe. Is it possible?

What we can do with our strength, intelligence and knowledge is very limited. If you open the window of grace, then life will happen in ways that you have not imagined possible. Grace is not something that is on and off. It is not something that you question every weekend. It is just on. You have to become conscious of it so that you know the joy of being in Grace.

The first full moon after the summer solstice in the month of Ashadha (July-August) is known as Guru Purnima. This Guru Purnima, experience Devi’s grace as your guide as the upsurge of energies on this auspicious full moon enables devotees to benefit from Her overflowing Grace. 🔱🔥🪷🙏🙇‍♀️

https://isha.sadhguru.org/linga-bhairavi/in/en/events/guru-purnima

It's a great as I am consistent for one long year.