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    Sitting Cross-Legged Science Or Superstition?

    Sadhguru decodes the science behind sitting cross-legged in consecrated spaces and while eating food. He explains how a cross-legged posture closes the lower part of the body and enables one to receive energies from higher dimensions of life.

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    Feb 10, 2021


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