Sadhguru: Thousands of years ago, there was a Yogi named Sunira who lived and worked in the mountains in present-day Nepal. They say that Sunira was the next generation right after the Saptarishis. He saw that human consciousness could be evolved if one produced a perfect human being who could render the spiritual process to all sorts of people.
He came from the tradition of Shiva. So his dream was to build a living Shiva – a perfect, multi-dimensional teacher for the world. He wanted to create a living being who could explore human consciousness and the human body in every possible way, just like Shiva did.
Many ambitious Yogis picked up the project that Sunira had started and tried to reconstruct the energy body of a perfect teacher who could transform human consciousness.
Sunira started building the energy body for that kind of being, and then wanted to build a physical body on top of that and let him loose in the world. This being was supposed to have a lifespan of a few hundred years so that he would have enough time to transform the whole world. Sunira started this project, but he died unfulfilled.
The Idea of a Perfect Being Who Can Transform the World
Here and there, over these thousands of years, many ambitious Yogis picked up the project that Sunira had started and tried to reconstruct the energy body of a perfect teacher who could transform human consciousness. They called him Maitreya, which means “friend.” This being would be a true friend to humanity who would change humanity – the world teacher.
This idea has always been there in the yogic lore, but in the last century, it became known when the theosophists Annie Besant, Charles Leadbeater, and Madame Blavatsky took up this project. They amassed a vast amount of occult knowledge and tried to locate this being in a modern way. They had the knowledge, but they did not have the capability.
A Glorious but Impossible Project?
In a parallel line, there was also a certain set of Yogis in the last few millennia who were aware of Sunira’s glorious, but quite impossible project. They started working upon a similar force, to create a similar possibility, but with a completely different understanding of the same. They wanted to create a perfect being but not in human form because the human system has the capabilities but not the necessary integrity of boundary to hold it.
There have been many attempts to create Dhyanalingas in different places. Any number of projects were started in the last 2000–3000 years and abandoned halfway because of some problem or the other.
The Tragic Failure of the Linga in Bhojpur
In Bhojpur, they attempted to consecrate a Dhyanalinga a little more than a thousand years ago. The project was supported and funded by a local king, and they started building a magnificent temple. They had a grand plan and a beautiful setting, but they could only half complete it because of certain issues. There were no drawing boards at that time, so they flattened a rock, and they carved an elaborate plan of the temple with all the architectural details on it.
There was one Yogi who started this whole process. In over two years, he produced 14 people – 7 men and 7 women – of extraordinary accomplishment, and they worked on consecrating the linga for more than three years. The linga was almost 95% done, but then, an invasion happened. The invaders found these people in certain states that looked freakish to them, and they attacked.
Building such structures has been the want of many Yogis, to create tools for enlightenment.
In the attack, the Yogi’s left foot was chopped off. Because of this damage in the body, he could not continue; so he decided to merge into the linga to complete the work. He trained another Yogi to lock the energy, and he left his body and merged into the linga. But the other Yogi who was supposed to do this was so overwhelmed by the situation that he could not lock it, and the linga cracked. Even now you can see a straight crack in the linga. The archeological department has patched it up with lime, but it is cracked.
Building such structures has been the want of many Yogis, to create tools for enlightenment, not just teachings or practices that one can do, but living tools that can impact and transform people.
How Sadhguru Was Bestowed With the Responsibility to Consecrate the Dhyanalinga
One Yogi who had such a desire fixed me up for the job. My physical proximity with him only lasted a few minutes. In these few moments, this fabulous, crafty man enslaved me for his project. Everything I did was around it because it was my Guru’s dream, and it was his vision to establish the Dhyanalinga. This is my Guru’s will and grace.
I must tell you something about the madness I come from. I did two lifetimes of very intense, truly heartbreaking sadhana. In these two lifetimes, I was referred to by people as Shiva Yogi. And when it was needed and my Guru appeared, he touched me with his stick, and everything that needs to be realized was realized. I was at the very peak of anything that one can be.
Sadhguru Sri Brahma: An Accomplished Being Without Social Support
This being who was referred to as Shiva Yogi tried to fulfill the mission that was put into him, but it did not work. He came back again as Sadhguru Sri Brahma, tried very hard, was almost successful, but he could not establish the necessary goodwill in society because the intensity of who he was could not be understood in these social circumstances.
He prepared a few people and decided to go up the mountain. He checked himself, why did he fail? He knew he did not lack the competence – it was just that he did not garner the needed social support. Before he went up the mountain, a few of his disciples gathered at the foothills, and said, “What now?” He said, “Evan thirruppi varuvan,” which means “This one will be back again.” Then he went up the mountain for the last time.
He left his body through all the seven chakras. You can experience this phenomenal energy on the Seventh Hill.
He did a rare thing – he left his body through all the seven chakras at the same time. He was just checking to see if he was good enough or not. So he left his body through all the seven chakras. You can experience this phenomenal energy on the Seventh Hill. It is distinctly different from anything you can find anywhere else. With that done, he knew the problem was that he did not handle the circumstances properly.
The Recipe for Ultimate Success: Bringing It All Together
This time around, we had planned everything to a point where we had decided for a few people that I needed how and where they were born. Everything was planned, and it went accordingly.
I placed people who were needed for the consecration in the right kind of places so that everything came together at the right time. In spite of that, it took 18 years of preparation in this life to put it together, to put the people together, to remind them of their past, and to get them there. This may sound too fairytale-ish, but it is a living reality for us.
The consecration process itself took 3 ½ years. It was a very intense process. For people who witnessed it, their lives will never be the same again. They witnessed things that they had not imagined in their wildest dreams, and they still cannot believe that it actually happened in their presence.
Dhyanalinga is like a living Guru.
Yogi Sunira worked throughout his life, and towards the end of his life, when this dream of creating a perfect being remained unfulfilled, he made a prophecy that, “A long time from now, this work will find fulfillment and reverberate, not here but in the green hills of the South.” Our hills are green, and we are in the South. Sunira’s prophecy has come true, but not the way he thought it would.
Dhyanalinga is like a living Guru. The role of a Guru in a spiritual seeker’s life is not just about giving teachings and guidance. The most fundamental thing why a spiritual seeker seeks a Guru is because a Guru can ignite his energies into a different dimension. That aspect of a Guru’s role in a spiritual seeker’s life is very well fulfilled by the Dhyanalinga. Once a person is in the sphere of Dhyanalinga, he cannot escape the sowing of the spiritual seed of liberation within himself.
