Mystic’s Musings By Sadhguru – Founder, Isha Foundation

June 24 marks the anniversary of the day when the consecration of the Dhyanalinga was finally complete.

Sadhguru: Dhyanalinga is not a place of worship. It is a place of meditation. Meditation is not an act, it is not something that you do. It is something that you can become. Meditation will not happen because you make an effort. If you cultivate the body, mind, emotion and energies to a certain point of maturity, you will naturally become meditative.

So, for those who are coming to the Dhyanalinga, we are setting up simple procedures. The steps are designed such that when someone presses the soles of their feet on the steps, it activates the system in a certain way. Another thing is that when you are trying to go to the next step, when you raise your leg beyond a certain point and press down and push your weight up, your muladhara opens up — it gets the necessary stimulation.

The next time you climb something high, just notice how the whole area around the muladhara gets stimulated by pressing down the feet in a particular way, which is very important if one wants to become meditative.

If you came to a yoga programme, you would have done this with various practices. But most people who come to Dhyanalinga have not been instructed into any kind of meditation. But when they simply go and sit there, they think they are going to sit there for five minutes but they end up sitting there for hours.

Dhyanalinga has the possibility that without instruction, it can make you meditative. But some preparation and receptivity is needed in the body. The whole structure of the Dhyanalinga space is made such that in many ways, it prepares your system to become meditative.

Dhyanalinga is a living being because it has come with all the seven chakras. It is just that there is no physical body. Dhyanalinga is like the energy body of the highest kind of being possible, like a yogi sitting there. Or to put it in traditional terms, we created Shiva himself. The idea is that people have a live guru forever.

To do your sadhana in the intimacy of a guru is very different from doing your sadhana by yourself. Very few people get that opportunity because it is physically impossible to provide that all the time. But with Dhyanalinga, everyone has that opportunity. Even if you don’t know anything about meditation, if you just sit there for a few minutes, you will become meditative without a single instruction because the very nature of the energy is such.

Skeptics will suffer from this idea, but in theory, it is possible to create a physical body over this subtle body. We can create a huge, fantastic human being. But it is too elaborate a process to attempt. Right now he is fine without the physical body — he reverberates very powerfully. Once you build a physical body, he comes with all the limitations of the physical body. If there is no physical body, there is no problem of time span. A nonphysical super human being is better than a physical super human being because he stays for thousands of years.

[Sadhguru, a yogi, is a visionary, humanitarian and a prominent spiritual leader. An author, poet and internationally-renowned speaker, Sadhguru’s wit and piercing logic provoke and widen our perception of life. www.ishafoundation.org]