In an intimate satsang with brahmacharis, Sadhguru tackles the complex topic of consecration. With characteristic directness, he explains why human beings – theoretically the ideal “consecration material” – also prove to be the most challenging. Sadhguru delves into the science of raising the energy pitch, the mechanics of various consecrated forms, the essential qualities required, and the inner workings of the process.
Question: Namaskaram Sadhguru. What exactly is consecration, and how do you do it?
Sadhguru: In a way, your sadhana is about trying to maintain a consecration. Consecrating living human beings would be the best thing to do if only they knew how to handle their minds properly, so they do not keep flipping. Otherwise, why should we consecrate rocks when there are living human beings?
When we consecrate rocks, they stay that way. Human beings are all over the place. If human beings are stable, they are the best material to consecrate. It is relatively simple; somewhat taxing, but not like consecrating a rock or a space.
Consecrating living human beings would be the best thing to do if only they knew how to handle their minds properly.
Consecrating an empty space takes an enormous effort in terms of life energies. Consecrating living human beings would be easiest if their brain did not get in the way. The brain is the most significant part of our body, but people do not keep it well; they are keeping it like their colon, full of shit. They do not know how to keep it clean.
Consecration essentially means raising the pitch of what is there. It is like heating water: just by raising the temperature, it feels and impacts the body differently. Similarly, you can raise the pitch of any substance in many ways.
To heat water, you can put it on a stove or fire, or into a microwave. These are all ways to raise the pitch or temperature. But if you take the water away from these heating sources, it will slowly cool down.
If we consecrate this water, we want to raise the pitch in such a way that it remains that way as long as possible. But water, being liquid, lacks the integrity to maintain this pitch for an extended period of time. Without continuous influence, it will slowly go back to its original state. In contrast, a metal or stone, due to its sheer density, stays for a very long time.
A human being is the most complex and sophisticated composite on this planet, even though they are made from the same basic materials as trees, birds, animals, air, and water. Consequently, the human body would be the best material to consecrate if only people knew how to handle their brain.
While some of the consecrations we have done were simply to raise the pitch of reverberation, others involved consecrating energy forms with a mind of their own. The lingas in the Suryakund and Chandrakund are simply reverberating.
Only because the Suryakund was consecrated in a specific way, its reverberations affect females differently, which may not be beneficial for them. Otherwise, the lingas simply reverberate, changing the quality of the water, regardless of who comes.
Dhyanalinga is very subtle. It behaves differently with each person because it has a mind of its own. Devi also has a mind of her own, but in a much simpler way compared to Dhyanalinga. Dhyanalinga works at 360 degrees; that is why it is placed at the center, not in the corner or at the end like other deities.
Dhyanalinga is very subtle. It behaves differently with each person because it has a mind of its own.
If Dhyanalinga is 360 degrees, we could say Devi has a latitude of 45 degrees. Because of this, we built the Devi shrine at 30 degrees so that it is loaded inside. For the sake of understanding, imagine we drew a line every 3 degrees within those 30 degrees, resulting in 10 lines. Since there are 10 lines, people experience the energies more powerfully because they impact them in a focused way.
In contrast, Dhyanalinga is 360 degrees, and each degree is further divided into 60. Because it is so expansive, there is no distinct hit; it slowly absorbs you without you knowing what is happening.
Each of the Linga Bhairavi Yantras is specific to the individual. Consecrating them is one part; calibrating them to work uniquely for a specific person is more taxing. Dhyanalinga has specific functions; it is not calibrated toward specific people.
So, consecration can be done in many different ways. Do you want to know how to qualify? You need to bring a certain malleability to your energies. Right now, my energy is in this human form. If I could pull it in a certain way and leave it, then we could do something else with it. If it is stuck to this one shape, it can live but it cannot do more than that.
To make your energies malleable, they need to be kneaded. This process is called Hatha Yoga. With proper kneading, your energies become malleable enough to stretch or reshape them as needed for them to stay that way for some time before they slowly return to their original shape. That is the kind of stress placed on the life that we are.
To make your energies malleable, they need to be kneaded. This process is called Hatha Yoga.
When we change the shape of who we are energy-wise for a specific purpose, it takes some time to regain our normal form and function. Generally, those who do these kinds of consecrations do not get involved in any other activities.
But our life has been like this: we complete a consecration one day, then immediately travel and speak somewhere in the afternoon, have a dinner talk in the evening, and the next day morning, a program starts. This is not good.
After a consecration, there should be a period where you eat well, sit in one place, allow things to settle down, do the needed sadhana, and regain your shape. Otherwise, it takes a toll. Repeatedly, we have tried to create support, but that support keeps flying away.
