Jaggi Vasudev aka Sadhguru has occupied my Facebook timeline for weeks. It started with a few friends posting videos that I happened to look at. Then, the algorithm took over, serving up a string of sponsored sermons. Whether from masochism or a desire to interrupt habit, I watched the videos rather than ignoring or blocking them, and sought out further material on YouTube and Vasudev’s Isha Foundation website. (Jaggi Vasudev Sadhguru)
I expected a couple of green shoots of insight amidst a desert of tiresome platitudes.
Charles Darwin
His paraphrase of Charles Darwin’s ideas (after the obligatory monkey jokes) goes like this: “Nature is catering for a chimpanzee to become a person's being. I'm just catering to the human longing to evolve into something else. it's life’s concept everything should evolve… Darwin tried to elucidate it in his own way, which became the idea of evolution, but essentially what he's telling you is that if you check out the entire thing – from a single-celled animal to yourself – together with the large life process, it's longing to urge somewhere.”(Jaggi Vasudev Sadhguru)
Darwin himself emphasized the purposelessness of the method, and took pains to undermine the notion that life was driven by “a longing to urge somewhere”. To misinterpret Darwin as Vasudev does is to misconstrue the foundational concept of recent biology. (Jaggi Vasudev Sadhguru)
The Darwin story features a Hindutva twist also. “The evolutionary theory isn't Darwin’s, Adiyogi propounded this fifteen thousand years ago.”(Jaggi Vasudev Sadhguru)
Life after death
Vasudev tends to regurgitate popular myths and concrete legends in explicating Hindu religious practices. He holds that rites associated with death last as long as they are doing because the body is really partly alive throughout that period. (Jaggi Vasudev Sadhguru)
Actually, the expansion of fingernails and hair ceases soon after the guts stop, and only appears to continue because other parts of the body shrink and pull back through dehydration.
Based on this false physical evidence, Vasudev recasts Hindu rituals as ways of helping the body die faster, because, “dying slowly is often torturous”. “If you are doing not tie the toes together”, he says, “from the lower end of the body it'll start imbibing life… Because all the cells within the body aren't dead.”(Jaggi Vasudev Sadhguru)
Vasudev takes the thought of persistent life even further, into a magical realm. He would have us believe that Tantric “scientists” can revive the dead because they're not fully dead. He illustrates this concept of revivification by telling a story that introduces the Hindutva element within the sort of an evil Muslim king (unnamed, of course) who tried to force a tantric to bring the king’s dead son back to life and indulged during a little bit of idol smashing permanently measure. (Jaggi Vasudev Sadhguru)
I have no objections to spiritual ceremonies. it's the prerogative of believers to conduct them. What I protest against is Vasudev’s interpretation of these rites, and his extension of that misguided premise to thoroughly unfounded claims about raising the dead. (Jaggi Vasudev Sadhguru)
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