Sadhguru

Sadhguru was born on 3 September 1957(68 years old) in India. Sadhguru is Self-Help Author, Zodiac sign - Virgo. More detail about Sadhguru given below.

Sadhguru Timeline

• 1957
  

  Jaggi Vasudev was born on 3 September 1957 in Mysore, Karnataka, India to a Telugu speaking family. He was the youngest of four children u2013 two boys and two girls. His mother was a housewife and his father an ophthalmologist with Indian Railways. Due to the nature of his fatheru0027s job, the family moved frequently.

• 1982
  

  Aged thirteen, Yasudev took yoga lessons from Malladihalli Raghavendra, and kept practicing asanas and pranayama daily throughout his youth, albeit without spiritual aspirations. At the age of 25, on 23 September 1982, he went up Chamundi Hill and sat on a rock, where he had a u0027spiritual experienceu0027. Six weeks afterwards, he left his business to his friend and travelled extensively in an effort to gain insight into his mystical experience. After about a year of meditation and travel, he decided to teach yoga to share his inner experience.

• 1983
  

  In 1983, he taught his first yoga class with seven participants in Mysore. Over time, he began conducting yoga classes across Karnataka and Hyderabad travelling on his motorcycle, subsisting on the produce of his poultry farm rental and donating the collections received from his students to a local charity on the last day of the class.

• 1992
  

  Located on the foothills of the Velliangiri Mountains, forty kilometres from the city of Coimbatore in the state of Tamil Nadu, South India, Isha Foundation was established as a non-profit organisation by Jaggi Vasudev in 1992. Its social initiatives have been awarded with the Rashtriya Khel Protsahan Puraskar.

• 1994
  

  After the establishment of the ashram, Vasudev began conducting yoga programmes on the premises of the newly established Isha Yoga Centre in 1994, including a course for the Indian Hockey team in 1996. In 1997, he began conducting classes in the United States and from 1998 onwards, for life-term prisoners in Tamil Nadu prisons.

• 1997
  

  Jaggi Vasudev was married to Vijaya Kumari, known by her nickname Vijji. This was Kumariu0027s second marriage. Prior to marrying Vasudev she worked in a bank, a position she retained until early 1996. The couple had a daughter named Radhe. Kumari died on 23 December 1997. At that time her father alleged that Vasudev had murdered her; Vasudev asserted that she had attained mahasamadhi and claimed she had told him about it nine months before her death. The police investigation found no fault in him.

• 1998
  

  The Dhyanalinga (composed of the terms dhyu0101na and linga) is a consecrated sculptural stone structure standing 4.3 metres (13 feet 9 inches) tall. Its creation and consecration, according to Vasudev, was his lifeu0027s mission entrusted to him by his guru, Palani Swami. In 1998, the structure of the Dhyanalinga was ordered and arrived at the ashram, where the Dhyanalinga Yogic Temple was being built to hold it. After three years of work, the temple was completed on 23 June 1999 and opened to the public on 23 November.

• 2004
  

  Project GreenHands (PGH) was established in 2004 as an environmental organisation. Its activity is largely focused on Tamil Nadu. The organisation received the Indira Gandhi Paryavaran Puraskar, the Government of Indiau0027s environmental award in 2010. The organisationu0027s activities include agroforestry, plant nurseries in schools, and tree-planting in urban centres such as Tiruchirappalli and Tiruppur.

• 2007
  

  Vasudev is a frequent public speaker who has been invited to address many prestigious forums and conferences across the globe, such as the United Nationu0027s Millennium World Peace Summit, the House of Lords, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and the International Institute for Management Development. He has also spoken at the annual World Economic Forum in 2007, 2017 and 2020.

• 2013
  

  Every year at the Isha Yoga Centre, Vasudev celebrates an all-night Mahashivarathri, the annual Hindu festival in honour of Shiva. It is estimated that these celebrations were attended by as many as 800,000 people in 2013. He has also established a Linga Bhairavi temple in Coimbatore where women conduct the rituals.

• 2014
  

  Vasudevu0027s daughter Radhe Jaggi, born 1990, is a trained bharatanatyam dancer. She married Chennai-based classical vocalist Sandeep Narayan in 2014.

• 2017
  

  Vasudev received the Padma Vibhushan, the second-highest civilian award from the Government of India in 2017 in recognition of his contribution to the field of spirituality. He stood 92nd in The Indian Expressu0027 list of 100 most powerful Indians, in 2012 and stood 40th in India Todayu0027s list of 50 most powerful Indians, in 2019.

• 2020
  

  However, environmentalists and public intellectuals allege that the program presents a simplistic view of river conservation, sidesteps social issues, and has the potential to harm tributaries and wildlife habitats. A Public Interest litigation has also been filed in the Karnataka High Court questioning the legality of the fundraising practices for the initiative, and the usage of government owned land for a private purpose without supporting study. In January 2020, the High Court ruled that the Foundation needed to disclose details of its fundraising practices relating to the initiative.