DHYAN FOUNDATION

             Sadhana is a private affair between you and your Guru. No one can interfere in this relationship. There are two kinds of sadhana. The first is performed for show and emotional satisfaction. Here you are taken to beautiful places, you meet nice people who shower praises upon you, you are repeatedly told how good you are and, a fee is charged to pay for the services you are getting. The other kind of sadhana is where you have complete desire to achieve in the spiritual world. You are told of your shortcomings. What you pay here is your dedication and sacrifice of physical things. In the former, you have teachers and masters. In the latter, you have a Guru . The former takes you in circles and the latter evolves you out of the human body. In the former, you sing and dance and enjoy the beauty of the world. The praises that are showered upon you are directly proportional to your position in the society. In the latter, you are ...

I was fortunate to have managed to take an early morning dip at the Kumbh the last time it took place in Haridwar. A group of Italian journalists had come to cover the event and were staying at my hotel. They were excited to meet people who had achieved or were on the path of salvation. When the group returned to the hotel in the evening, I noticed that some of them had bandages on their heads, one had a swollen eye, another a plastered arm. I knew what had happened, but out of politeness, I asked them. One of them said, “A sadhu hit me. Why would he do that?” I inquired if he had met a specific kind of man and was told not to click his picture, but he still did. His reply was a yes.  I explained to him that real sadhus do not meet or talk about their experiences to people, least of all to journalists. It is only wannabes (people like me, at that time) who want to show off their half-baked knowledge or the ones who have no idea about yog but want to sell their disto...