सद्गुरु Sadhguru
Jaggi Vasudev was born in Mysore in 1957. A spiritual experience on Chamundi Hill in 1982 turned him from business to teaching yoga. He founded the Isha Foundation in 1992 and built its centre at the foot of the Velliangiri Mountains near Coimbatore. He has led mass campaigns for trees, rivers and soil. India awarded him the Padma Vibhushan in 2017.
Curated by Nikhil Sharma: a Mysore businessman who walked away at 25 after an experience on Chamundi Hill. He built the Isha Foundation and raised the 112-foot Adiyogi in the Velliangiri foothills. He rode 30,000 km to save soil. He sells yoga to the world as a technology for joy and not a belief.
- 1992 Isha Foundation: Founded in Coimbatore and run mostly by volunteers
- 112 ft Adiyogi: Guinness World Records’ largest bust. Unveiled in February 2017
- 30,000 km Journey to Save Soil: A 100-day solo motorcycle ride from London to India in 2022
- 2017 Padma Vibhushan: India’s second-highest civilian honour
The facts
- Born
- 3 September 1957 in Mysore. Youngest of five children of an ophthalmologist (Wikipedia: Sadhguru)
- Education
- English literature at the University of Mysore (Wikipedia: Sadhguru)
- Founded
- The Isha Foundation in 1992. He remains its head (Wikipedia: Sadhguru)
- Base
- Isha Yoga Center at the foot of the Velliangiri Mountains. About 40 km from Coimbatore (Isha Foundation: Isha Yoga Center)
- Honours
- Padma Vibhushan (2017) in the field of spiritualism (IBTimes India: Padma awards 2017 full list)
- Books
- More than thirty. Inner Engineering, Death and Karma are listed as New York Times bestsellers (Wikipedia: Sadhguru)
- Rankings
- 92nd in The Indian Express list of most powerful Indians (2012). 40th in India Today’s list (2019) (Wikipedia: Sadhguru)
- Family
- Married Vijaykumari in 1984. She died in 1997. Their daughter Radhe was born in 1990 (Wikipedia: Sadhguru)
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