Jaggi Vasudev in The Dock

By Sumit Paul, New Age Islam 3 October 2024 The Madras High Court has raised questions about why spiritual leader Sadhguru Jaggi Vasudev, who arranged the marriage of his own daughter, is encouraging young women to shave their heads and renounce worldly life to live as hermits. The court's inquiry follows a petition by a retired professor, S Kamaraj, who claimed that his two highly educated daughters were "brainwashed" into staying permanently at the Isha Yoga Centre. Sadhguru Jaggi Vasudev ----- The petition sought the personal appearance of the two women, aged 42 and 39, in the court. On Monday, both women confirmed that they were staying at the Isha Foundation of their own free will and had not been detained. Similar statements had been made earlier during the decade-old legal case, in which the parents argued that their lives had become "hell" since their daughters "abandoned" them. Much more than this Jaggi Vasudev and a plethora of Babas and gurus, fools who prostrate before these mountebanks are to be blamed. Have you noticed a very interesting trend in India? Here, one can choose a baba as per his / her social standing and status. Uneducated and rustic people opt for equally uncouth Babas like Nirmal baba, Asaram and Ram Rahim, slightly better and upper class followers will genuflect before Brahma Kumaris and uber-refined, sophisticated, English-speaking creme de la creme will go to listen to elite and 'enlightened' spiritual gurus like Ravi Shankar and this Jaggi whose rank nonsense sounds wisdom to the affluent disciples and devotees. Like Osho Rajnish, these gurus are fond of sybaritic lifestyle but they urge their followers to renounce this world for the purification of soul! They preach water but drink wine. Their credulous followers, like a herd of sheep, dare not question. Jaggi does some ' inner engineering ' and hoodwink the gullible people. He runs a dubious foundation which's embroiled in many legal cases. Yet, he's a living god to a very large number of imbeciles that include corporate mandarins, celebrities, glitterati and media barons. It's time to banish all these gurus and Babas to St. Helena or Robben Island, nay, to Amazon rain forests or Sahara Desert because they don't deserve to stay at the isolated but hallowed places like St. Helena and Robben Island that were once graced by the greats like the French emperor Napoleon Bonaparte and Dr Nelson Mandela respectively. ---- A regular columnist for New Age Islam, Sumit Paul is a researcher in comparative religions, with special reference to Islam. He has contributed articles to the world's premier publications in several languages including Persian. URL: https://www.newageislam.com/current-affairs/sadhguru-jaggi-vasudev-dock-baba/d/133346 New Age Islam, Islam Online, Islamic Website, African Muslim News, Arab World News, South Asia News, Indian Muslim News, World Muslim News, Women in Islam, Islamic Feminism, Arab Women, Women In Arab, Islamophobia in America, Muslim Women in West, Islam Women and Feminism