This article was originally shared on Reddit by an Isha devotee.
There is this weird meditation where one imagines eating Sadhguru’s flesh! Many Isha folks are not aware of it. Maybe it was offered to a select few. Anyways, it shows the creepy side of Sadhguru. It is a hint to people that this guy has a hidden side! He calls it Tantric but I feel he just manipulates people to do crazy things in the name of spirituality!
This is how the user “paulpembroke” describes it in his 2012 post on the Guruphiliac forum!
Poornami / 6:20 / Flesh eating meditation:
The initiation took place at of the July full moon in at the conclusion of a 7 day program wherein the shakti chalana kriya and shoonya meditation had been taught. I believe it was Columbus, but, maybe it was Dayton. I’m pretty sure it was Columbus.
There was a meeting that afternoon before the night of the initiation, for everyone who wanted to take the initiation. Nothing was said about what the initiation involved or what would be required afterward, if anything. It was typical isha ambiguity. During the meeting jaggi warned us that if we took drugs or drank alcohol or lied, for any reasons, or engaged in other similar kinds of behavior that we should not take the initiation because it might very well destroy us. Some people left at this point. For those that stayed and were still interested in taking the initiation we were given a number / tag or something similar before we left. If we didn’t take it when we left then we would not be allowed to be initiated that evening. If we took the token it held a place for us but did not obligate us to take the initiation.
I took the token / number and went back to my hotel. In preparation for the initiation we were told to take a shower shortly before the initiation, I think it was about a half hour, and leave our hair wet when we arrived back. Women were told not to wear a bra because the metal would interfere with the energy.
We gathered again that evening around . I think there were about 100 or more of us. I did sukha pranayam for about 1/2 hour – 45 minutes, per instructions, waiting for the initiation to begin. Jaggi came out and immediately many people went into their stuff – wailing, crying, laughing, etc.
He gave instructions for us to sit cross legged and for women to put their open left hand on their left thigh, palm up and put their open right hand on their upper abdomen with the top of their right thumb touching the soft spot just below the sternum (jaggi refers to this spot as anahata chakra). Men were instructed to do just the opposite – put their right open right hand on their right thigh palm up and their left hand on the abdomen with the tip of the thumb touching the soft spot below the sternum.
Then we were told to take in short quick breaths through our slightly open mouth, like sipping coffee or a drink and then chew the air we sipped into our mouths and then swallow. When we sipped the air into our mouths we were to imagine that we were taking jaggi’s flesh into our mouths and chewing it. We were to imagine that it was his actual flesh that we were chewing and swallowing. When he gave those instructions everyone went wild. It was at least as crazy as a samyama, maybe more so.
So, we did this sipping and chewing and swallowing of his flesh for sometime during the initation. Then at the end jaggi told us that we had to do this practice every day at 6:20 a.m. without fail. Practice Instructions were to begin the process at 6:20 with 3 minutes of sukha pranayam and then do the sipping, chewing and swallowing of jaggi’s flesh for approximately 7- 10 minutes. We were now part of him and he part of us and this would greatly accelerate our spiritual progress.
Weird, huh?
(Original link – https://www.tapatalk.com/groups/guruphiliac/sadhguru-and-the-isha-foundation-t2073569-s2700.html#p3518)
