Within India’s complex tapestry of spirituality, numerous revered gurus (spiritual teachers) and babas (father figures) stand out, their teachings resonating far beyond the confines of their ashrams (temples) and devotees.
Sad guru: I make a lot of money. lol
Boasting millions of followers worldwide, these spiritual leaders have amassed substantial wealth and wield immense influence, molding the country’s spiritual terrain.
Let’s delve into the lives of the seven wealthiest and most influential spiritual gurus and babas, starting with "Sadhguru."
Renowned for his flippantly pragmatic outlook on spirituality and yoga, Sadhguru ("true guru") Jaggi Vasudev, the founder of the Isha Foundation, stands as a prominent spiritual figure.
With a global following numbering in the millions, his estimated net worth, according to the Times of India, stands at Rs 18 crore [1 Rs crore = ten million rupees, so he had 180 million rupees], as of 2023. [His fortune has increased since then].
Sadhguru’s influence extends across yoga centers, educational institutions, and ecological projects within his financial empire. Through his teachings, he imparts "wisdom" on inner engineering and holistic living principles. More
The Christian and Jewish Bibles have so little to say about masturbation that in a mindboggling reach, Church officials (guilty Catholics or officious Protestants or killjoy Jews) could only come up with the story of Onan and the awkward, inapplicable synonymous term "onanism." Nothing could be less connected to masturbation.
A Jewish man's brother dies, leaving his wife without a child. By Jewish custom and (levirate) law, he has to impregnate her in his absence. But just as he finishes the fun part his duty, he thinks better of it, reflecting on how troublesome another child and/or wife will be for him and not wanting to be burdened by those responsibilities, he withdraws as he finishes. God is so p'd off, we're told, that He smites (murders) him on the spot for "spilling his seed" on the ground rather than the fertile woman. Voila! Masturbation. Which as we all know involves having procreative sex with a partner but then changing your mind, right? 🙄
Buddhism and sexuality In Buddhism, prohibitions against masturbation apply to monastics. By extension lay people may undertake to avoid them, and that is healthy and good, but one can no more find a "commandment" against it for ordinary people in Buddhist texts as one could locate one in Christian texts. Inciting lust, particularly through porn, is terribly harmful, and the Buddha did say something to the effect that it would be better to swallow a red-hot iron ball. But even that is in reference to being an "immoral monastic" swallowing food offered as alms by laypeople. If one insists on having sex (or fornicating, which means doing it without being married), go Tantric.
A man nudged his wife for some nookie in front of their child. She asked him, "What?" - "How about we, you know?" - "What, are you crazy? You're going to ask me for that in front of our baby?!" - "Well, what do you want me to do?" - "Next time you want some whoopie, ask me to do 'a load of laundry.'" - "Oh, O.K." - Later that night, the wife primps and preps and makes a dramatic entrance in the bedroom. But the husband rolls over, turning his back to her. She pokes him and angrily and says, "I thought you wanted me to do a load of laundry!?" - "Oh, that's O.K. It was a small load. I did it by hand."
Fortunately, Wiki has this caveat: The word onanism is not based on the biblical story of Onan itself but on an interpretation of that biblical story. For the word onanism is not found in any form in biblical texts. Thus, the etymological connection of onanism (as masturbation) with Onan's name is religiously misleading" [62][47]. More
Total lunar eclipse happens tonight and Friday morning
Strange cloudy weather may conceal eclipse
(FOX Weather)
March 13th, 2025: FOX Weather Meteorologist Stephen Morgan explains the timing of the Blood Moon total lunar eclipse tonight and Friday morning. All you need to see the eclipse is to step outside and look up, but millions may have cloudy sky blocking their view.
Harken, it's time to awaken, deluded Earth Man. O, Moon Goddess, I was having a wild dream.
An Uposatha (Sanskrit Upavasatha) day is a Buddhist day of observance, in existence since before the Buddha's time (600 BCE) and still being kept today by Buddhist practitioners as he advised [1, 2].
The Buddha taught that the Uposatha Day is for "the cleansing of the defiled mind/heart," resulting in inner calm and joy [3].
On this day, both lay and ordained members of the sangha (spiritual community) intensify their practice, deepen their knowledge of the Teachings, and express communal commitment through millennia-old acts of lay-monastic reciprocity.
On these days, lay followers make a conscious effort to keep the Eight Precepts or (as the tradition suggests) Ten Precepts of intensive practice, over the ordinary Five Precepts observed all of the rest of the time. It is a day specially set aside for practicing the Buddha's Teachings and engaging in meditation. More
Miss Venus, Mr. Mars, Pluto Jr., another Ms. Luna (Earth's new 'mini-moon' will orbit our planet for the next 2 moonths), the Twelfth PlanetNibiru? (Twelfth? One or more was obliterated in a collision that led to the Khyber Belt debris field, according to Zecharia Sitchin). There's another body that gets even less respect than Pluto, and that rascal RAHU, downgraded from planet to a "node." A node? But it is this celestial body that is credited with earth's eclipses, lunar and solar, in Buddhist, Vedic/Hindu, and Jain cosmologies.
Tonight's lunar eclipse is only partial, so Rahu will only take a chunk out of Soma then release.
Tom Brady is a big fan of Jaggi Sadhguru
The ancient Vedas ("Knowledge Books" of India) have much to tell us, particularly the Ayurveda on the topic of health (important in yoga). Here modern Hindu showman Sadhguru ("true guru") claims that in two hours under the eclipse things like food, which is our body post-consumption, will age and rot. So it is better to fast today, not to eat, to bathe away negativity, and never to watch the eclipse directly as so many space-loving Americans are fond of doing. Everyone in India knows to go indoors and be away from the shadow of the eclipses. It is not just Sadhguru warning people. Of course, his method of "dowsing" with (mala beads or any pendulum like device the hand can unconsciously twitch to move in one direction or another, which is good for divining what the mind knows subconsciously better than what is present objectively) the food for the presence of deterioration, aging, fermenting, rotting, and putrefying is a little suspect. But the claim is that this is subtle and therefore it would be hard to substantiate the claim otherwise. Of course, one imagines the food should spoil, rot, grow fungus and black mats of bacteria in two to three hours if it were the case that the body/food are aging 28 days in just the two to three hours of the eclipse. But be that as it may, we are forewarned and can take the appropriate steps if we wish. It is ancient Vedic knowledge. The Buddha did not accept the Vedas nor regard them as ultimate authorities on spirituality, but that is not to say that they are not valuable sacred scriptures. Many truths must be found within their pages, many things the Brahmins memorizing and chanting in Sanskrit thought worthy of preserving from the heavens (akasha loka) from which they were handed down or composed by seers (rishis) capable of discerning subtle truths our world is usually blind to.
Many health communities view white (stripped of everything but its starch) rice as an unhealthy option.
It’s highly processed and stripped of its hull (protective coating), bran (outer layer fiber), and germ (nutrient-rich core). Brown rice has only had its hull removed.
For this reason, brown rice has many vitamins and minerals absent from white rice.
There are some instances where white rice is a better option than brown, as for the sick who cannot digest food. Pranam, Yogini Shlloka, Isha Hatha Yoga teacher (facebook.com/shlloka, instagram.com/shlloka), student of sad Guru Sadhguru. #eatingrice #ayurveda #yogiclife
There are sattvic, rajasic, and tamasic foods, just as there are three body types (or doshas, of vata, pitta, and kapha or air, fire, and water). These are the basics of Ayurvedic eating for health and longevity.
Avoid harmful foods
(Sadhguru Ji Yogic Life) Premiered Aug. 7, 2023, In modern terms, there are positive-, negative-, and zero-pranic foods. Prana is our invisible lifeforce energy, the spiritus (holy spirit), breath, or unseen animating energy that makes life possible. We could think of it as chi.
Yogini Shlloka explains that in Yoga (with its traditional Eight Limbs or Ashtanga that form a complete ancient science) we do not look at foods in terms of proteins, vitamins, or minerals as is focused on in the West.
Ayurveda (the "Science of Life") categorizes food in three ways:
positive pranic food
negative pranic food
zero pranic food.
Positive substances, when consumed, add prana to the human system. Prana, the vital energy in the body, will increase.
If we consume negative pranic substances, they take prana away from the system. They stimulate the nervous system but take away vital energy.
Zero pranic food neither adds nor takes away energy. It is only eaten for taste.
Negative pranic substances:
Garlic is a powerful medicine if used properly. But if we put it into everyday food and eat it, it causes much damage.
Onion is similar. The body does not prefer it. It shows this dislike by irritation the eye feels when we chop it.
Asafoetida (a plant that acts as an onion substitute) is also a negative pranic item but is generally used in small quantities for taste.
Eggplant (brinjal) is a vegetable that has some poison in it [as part of the deadly nightshade family, that also includes tomatoes, potatoes, tobacco, etc., similar to toxic cashews] There is a certain enzyme in eggplant that is capable of damaging the hypothalamus. Children should avoid this vegetable.
Chili peppers can be experimented with. However, if we abstain from them for some time and then take them, the body will reject them with a strong reaction.
Coffee
Tea (Camellia sinensis which, like coffee, contains caffeine) are very powerful nervous system stimulants. Constant abuse of such common stimulants destroys stamina in the long run.
Tobacco
These stimulants reduce our ability to store energy and our ability to do things. They make old age very difficult. Needless to say, all stimulant drugs and other nervous aggravators are negative pranic items.
Emotional stability very much depends on the foods we eat. If we refrain from foods with negative pranic substances, we find that it becomes easy to maintain our emotional balance. These seven items are negative pranic foods; the rest are positive.
Timestamps👇
00:00 - Introduction
00:18 - Pranic foods in Ayurveda
04:42 - Outro
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00:00 - Introduction
00:05 - Ayurvedic Medicines
07:00 - Outro
Ayurvedic medicines for common health ailments
◆ 01:00 - Laxmi Vilas Ras
◆ 01:13 - Septlin Tablets
◆ 01:29 - Guduchi Tablets
◆ 01:38 - Godanchi Bhasma
◆ 01:56 - Mahasundarshanavati
◆ 02:15 - Haridrakhanda
◆ 02:30 - Lavangadi Vati
◆ 03:02 - Pranadhara
◆ 03:24 - Shirashula Vajradi Ras
◆ 03:51 - Hingavashthaka Churna
◆ 04:05 - Himcospas
◆ 04:13 - Mahashankha Vati
◆ 04:34 - Pravala Pashti
◆ 04:47 - Kamadhura Ras
◆ 05:13 - Yograj Guggulu
◆ 05:27 - Dashamulariahta
◆ 05:58 - Lakshadi Guggulu
◆ 06:13 - Abhraloha
Ayurveda, a natural system of health maintenance, originated in India more than 3,000 years ago. The Sanskrit term Ayurveda is derived from the words ayur ("life") and veda ("knowledge" or "science").
Ayurveda translates to "Knowledge of Life." Based on the idea that disease is due to an imbalance or stress and strain on a person's consciousness, Ayurveda encourages certain lifestyle interventions and natural therapies to regain balance between body, mind, spirit (prana), and the environment.
Sadhguru - Isha Foundation 👉 Sadhguru 3 Negative Pranic Foods to Stay Away From
(Mystics of India) 👉 WARNING: Brain-Damaging Food: Never Eat This Harmful Food Again | Negative Pranic - Sadhguru
"I'm not a prude," insists Sadhguru at a "Youth and Truth" mass conference in India, pandering to an audience of mostly pro-LGBTQIA... young people.
India has been subject to the same propaganda the West has as LGBT+ plans go worldwide. Is it a natural (grassroots) groundswell or an imposed agenda by the powers-that-be?
Pope, how are Catholics to believe and act?
Hey, look at me. I'm cool. Just ask Tom Bray.
It hardly seems to be coming from people in general so much as people in charge. It isn't the trans kid and allies shoving it down everyone's throat so much as the principal of the school and the administrators. Who or what is motivating them, a sudden spark of compassion or a mandate, laws, and orders from above sent to them in no uncertain terms? It seems to be the latter, "isn't it"? We want flowers, Sadhguru. How can we get them -- by thinking about them?
Pedophilia pride? MAPs="minor attracted persons"
Are trans men to be included in women's spaces?
Can any guru shed light on this matter?
(Sadhguru Talks) June 23, 2020. ["Pandering," did someone say "pandering"? Does Sadhguru operate with a profit motive? Ya think?] Sadhguru wants everyone to register for the Inner Engineering Online program. How about a 50% discount? isha.co/IEO-YT "FREE for COVID Warriors." Donate to Beat The Virus (ishaoutreach.org/BeatTheVirus).
Guru Piers Morgan presents nominal liberal view
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White guy mansplains Islam's view: "Zero percent of
the UK Muslims think homosexuality is acceptable."
You're so cool, Mr. Sadhguru. All the kids say so.
Self-proclaimed yogi, mystic, and visionary, Sadhguru is an alleged "spiritual master" with a difference. [He's cool, and all the cool kids know it. *Irony*]
He describes himself (or has hired a PR firm to describe him as), "An arresting blend of profundity and pragmatism, his life and work serves as a reminder that yoga is a contemporary science, vitally relevant to our times."
Maybe Madame Blavatsky's Krishnamurti has something substantive to say
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Can Taoism (Daoism) reveal "The Standard"?
COMMENTS
(@padmam895, 2022) I felt very good hearing this, but I have to say this there is a reason for campaigning for the LGBT+ community people. It is to make others who are ashamed or scared of themselves to show that they are not alone and should love themselves just the way they are. ❤
"It's not correct there's such a thing as biological sex."
Jordan Peterson won't be forced to change his language.
What is "the Buddhist view"?
(Khenpo Sodargye's Team) Question 3: Buddhist view on homosexuality, Jan. 7, 2019. The elder lama gives his view on the Buddhist Perspective in the Era of Materialism—Q&A. Humans have very many tendencies in terms of what they are attracted to, not just genders but in terms of age and looks. Can we be inclusive and accepting of deviant sexual practices? What is "deviant" anyway? Society gets used to anything we throw at it.
(Sadhguru On) Sept. 26, 2022. Sadhguru talks about why the Autumn Navaratri Festival is celebrated and why it is feminine. What is the one thing we must know on Navaratri.
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What is the Navaratri festival?
Indian Goddess Lakshmi
(Wiki) Navaratri is an annual festival in India, one of the most revered Hindu celebrations observed in the honor of the Mother Goddess Ma Durga. It is held over nine nights (and ten days), in the early part of the year (Chaitra or March/April) and again in the fall (Sharada). It is observed for different reasons and celebrated differently in various parts of the Hindu Indian cultural sphere [2, 3]. Theoretically, there are four seasonal Navaratri but in practice, it is the post-monsoon autumn festival called Sharada Navaratri. It is celebrated during the bright half of the Hindu calendar month of Ashvin, which typically falls in September and October [2, 4]. It takes place at the same time as the Nine Emperor Gods Festival [5]. More
Ven. Ananda (a stream enterer) was the Buddha's cousin (or his son from Mrigi) not his older brother. Sadhguru Vasudev is a Hindu holyman, who like most Hindus regards "Lord Buddha" as a Hindu god, an "incarnation" of Lord Vishnu (like Jesus Christ, though no one considers Christianity a sub-tradition of universalist Hinduism).
Why did Gautama Buddha send a monk to a prostitute? Sadhguru tells a story about why Gautama the Buddha sent his monastic disciple and Shakyian (Scythian) relative to stay at a prostitute’s house published on April 30, 2018.
(Sadhguru) Non-Buddhist Hindu tries to explain Buddhism
Scientist versus Mystic: A Conversation about the Cosmos, Brain, and Reality with David Eagleman and Sadhgu4u
Dr. David Eagleman, 6, is an American neuroscientist and writer, serving as an adjunct associate professor at Stanford University in the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences. He independently serves as the director of the Center for Science and Law and is known for his work on brain plasticity, time perception, synesthesia, and neurolaw.
I used to sit for days at a time.
Sadhguru ([Hindu Guru] Jaggi Vasudev, isha.sadhguru.org), 60, is an Indian yogi, mystic, and author. He founded the Isha Foundation, a non-profit organization that offers yoga programs around the world, including India, the United States, Great Britain, Lebanon, Singapore, Canada, Malaysia, Uganda, China, Nepal, and Australia.
The Isha Foundation is also involved in various social and community-development activities, which have resulted in it being granted special consultative status with the Economic and Social Council of the United Nations.
Sadhguru Jaggi Vasudev (isha.sadhguru.org) is a real meditation master from India. Here, with Abraham Hicks (a Council of 12 disembodied spirits somewhere in space or another dimension), he talk about how to REPAIR our bodies from the inside. Do this everyday and see what happens. Twitter.com/AbrahamYt2016
Scheduled event dates run between January 21 and February 17, 2009 (www.ishafoundation.org).
The ancient masters of India taught an "inner engineering" through the eight limbs of yoga. The Buddha brought this to perfection -- going beyond samadhi (purification by the temporary suppression of mental defilements) to enlightening insight (purification by permanent transformation of the heart). Yogis like Vasudev Sadhguru teach the preliminaries to bring forth well being. Buddhism completes the process of inner transformation.
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