Dhyanalinga, a yogic temple at Coimbatore, Tamil Nadu, India, with all seven chakras energised, consecrated by Sadhguru
Dhyanalinga
The Legend of Yogi Sunira
A long time ago, when the Earth breathed with sacred rhythm and silence echoed louder than words, there lived an exalted yogi by the name of Sunira. He probably came just about after the time Shiva left with his Sapt Rishis, his first seven disciples.
He was not known to the masses. No scripture bears his name. No monument marks his presence. But in his heart, he wanted to recreate a living, breathing Shiva once again.
In the stillness of the Himalayan womb, he carved his legacy, not in stone, but in energy form.
Sunira was not merely a seeker of truth. He was Truth made flesh, forged in tapasya, sculpted in silence. He understood the science of the subtle, the geometry of the unseen, and in his depths, he conceived a possibility few could even imagine.
A body, not of flesh and bone, but of pure energy. A body not born of the womb, but of will. This was no ghost, no spirit. Yogi Sunira also wished to give this being a physical body and release him into the world so that, by the time his time was done, everyone on the planet would be enlightened. It was a carefully constructed mechanism of consciousness, pulsating with the intent of liberation.
This legend has come to us through Sadhguru, a profound mystic of our times. Sadhguru speaks of Yogi Sunira as an ancient yogi who sought to create a perfect being, drawing inspiration from Shiva, with the aim of spreading enlightenment. Sunira's vision involved creating a multi-dimensional, living guru, a being capable of guiding others towards self-realization. Sadhguru connects Sunira's prophecy to the Dhyanalinga, a yogic temple, suggesting it fulfills Sunira's vision in a way he didn't anticipate.
The Dhyanalinga Connection:
Sadhguru links Sunira's prophecy to the Dhyanalinga, a yogic temple consecrated by him to its highest energy peak, suggesting that the temple embodies all seven chakras and the fulfillment of Sunira's vision in a way that transcends the limitations of a single human form.
Beyond Teachings:
Sadhguru emphasizes that the role of a guru, especially one like Sunira envisioned, is not just about imparting teachings but about igniting the spiritual energies of seekers.
Fulfillment of Prophecy:
Sadhguru mentions that Sunira's prophecy, stating his work would be fulfilled in the green hills of the South, came to fruition with the consecration of the Dhyanalinga, even though Sunira may not have envisioned it in that particular form.
Sadhguru's perspective on Yogi Sunira highlights the continuity of spiritual aspiration across vast stretches of time and the idea that profound visions can manifest in unexpected ways.
When the time came, Yogi Sunira did not die.
He simply dissolved into this energy body, a being without name, without face, without end; and then…he let it loose upon the Earth. Many other yogis have put their inputs into this being; Gautama, the Buddha, talks about this, and he also put his energies into this; Krishna, too, worked on this being. The Buddha predicted that somewhere around 2500 to 3000 years from his time, this being will mature and find a body in the world, and he will be the ultimate teacher in the creation.
Some say this being still walks among us, silent, watchful, untouched by time. Its purpose is not to intervene but to ignite, to touch those who are ready, to awaken the ancient fire in sleeping souls, and to whisper into the ears of mystics, monks, and seekers.
Many who walk the path today, guided by unknown grace, have felt this touch, not knowing its source, not knowing that somewhere in the subtle ether, Yogi Sunira still breathes.
In the early 19th century CE, many European seekers of mysticism came to India, following in the footsteps of Madame Blavatsky, including figures like Henry Steel Olcott, William Quan Judge, and later, figures like Rudolf Steiner and G.I. Gurdjieff. These individuals were part of the Theosophical movement and other esoteric traditions, exploring Eastern philosophies, spiritualism, and occultism.
Helena Petrovna Blavatsky:
A Russian occultist, philosopher, and writer, she co-founded the Theosophical Society in 1875 with Henry Steel Olcott and William Quan Judge. Blavatsky's work, particularly "Isis Unveiled" and "The Secret Doctrine," explored Eastern religions, occultism, and theosophy, influencing many subsequent esoteric thinkers.
Henry Steel Olcott:
An American lawyer and co-founder of the Theosophical Society. He served as its first president and played a key role in establishing its international headquarters at Adyar in the southern state of Tamil Nadu, India.
William Quan Judge:
An Irish-American Theosophist and co-founder of the Theosophical Society. He also helped establish the American Theosophical Society.
Rudolf Steiner:
An Austrian philosopher, social reformer, architect, and esotericist. He developed Anthroposophy, which has roots in Theosophy but also includes his own interpretations of spiritual and philosophical concepts.
G.I. Gurdjieff:
An Armenian mystic, spiritual teacher, composer, and writer. He developed the Gurdjieffian method, which involves self-awareness, movement exercises, and exploring esoteric knowledge.
These individuals, along with others like Max Mueller, contributed to the spread of esoteric and mystical ideas in Europe and beyond, influencing various philosophical, religious, and artistic movements. In their libraries, they gathered a whole lot of occult and mystical material.
Annie Besant and Leadbeater came to India in search of a world teacher. Somehow, in all their travels and reading, they unearthed the mystery of Sunira and became determined to find the Ultimate World Teacher.
Jiddu Krishnamurti (JK) was "found" by Charles Leadbeater in 1909 at the society’s beach at the Theosophical Society headquarters in Adyar, Tamil Nadu, India. Leadbeater encountered the fourteen-year-old Krishnamurti and believed him to be a suitable "vehicle" for the World Teacher, a messianic figure.
They began grooming the young man, JK, and put him through very intense meditative states. They were reading books and trying experiments on him, without any inner experience of their own.
JK attained and became a wonderful human being; he was like a flower, whose fragrance could not be missed.
When JK was about 26, or 27 years of age, the Theosophists presented him on the world stage and announced—The World Teacher has come.
JK went on the podium and said, “ I am not a world teacher,” and he left to carve out his own separate way; the greatest legacy of the 20th Century CE.
Poof! went the Theosophists’ dream!
The Order of the Star in the East was founded by the Theosophical Society in 1911 to proclaim the coming of the World Teacher. Krishnamurti was made Head of the Order. On August 3, 1929, the opening day of the annual Star Camp in Ommen, Holland, Krishnamurti dissolved the Order before 3000 members. Below is the full text of the talk he gave on that occasion.
The full speech dissolving the Order of the Star is given in the end. The excerpted highlights are:
In his speech dissolving the Order of the Star in the East, J. Krishnamurti declared that Truth is a pathless land, and that it cannot be reached through any organization, creed, or system. He emphasized that his sole purpose was to set man free from all "cages," including the ones created by religions, sects, and philosophical systems, and not to create new ones. He rejected the idea of a guru or a following, asserting that each individual must find truth for themselves through self-understanding and direct experience, not through external authority or dogma.
Here's a more detailed breakdown:
Pathless Land:
Krishnamurti famously stated, "Truth is a pathless land." This core idea rejected the notion that there is a specific path or method, whether religious, philosophical, or organizational, that leads to truth.
Rejection of Authority:
He explicitly rejected the idea of being a guru or leader and emphasized that individuals should not follow him or any other authority figure.
Focus on Individual Freedom:
His primary concern was the liberation of the individual mind from all forms of conditioning, fear, and control, rather than establishing a new group or system.
Self-Discovery:
He encouraged people to look within themselves, understand their own minds, and discover truth through observation and self-inquiry, rather than through external teachings or structures.
Dissolution of the Order:
The dissolution of the Order of the Star in the East was a concrete action demonstrating his commitment to these principles and his rejection of theosophical structures built around him.
Dissolution Speech Oomen, Holland
3 August 1929
We are going to discuss this morning the dissolution of the Order of the Star. Many people will be delighted, and others will be rather sad. It is a question neither for rejoicing nor for sadness, because it is inevitable, as I am going to explain. You may remember the story of how the devil and a friend of his were walking down the street, when they saw ahead of them a man stoop down and pick up something from the ground, look at it, and put it away in his pocket. The friend said to the devil, ‘What did that man pick up?’ He picked up a piece of Truth,’ said the devil. ‘That is a very bad business for you, then,’ said his friend. ‘Oh, not at all,’ the devil replied, ‘I am going to let him organize it.’
I maintain that Truth is a pathless land, and you cannot approach it by any path whatsoever, by any religion, by any sect. That is my point of view, and I adhere to that absolutely and unconditionally.
Truth, being limitless, unconditioned, and unapproachable by any path whatsoever, cannot be organized; nor should any organization be formed to lead or to coerce people along any particular path. If you first understand that, then you will see how impossible it is to organize a belief. A belief is purely an individual matter, and you cannot and must not organize it. If you do, it becomes dead, crystallized; it becomes a creed, a sect, a religion, to be imposed on others. This is what everyone throughout the world is attempting to do. Truth is narrowed down and made a plaything for those who are weak, for those who are only momentarily discontented. Truth cannot be brought down, rather the individual must make the effort to ascend to it. You cannot bring the mountain-top to the valley. If you would attain to the mountain-top you must pass through the valley, climb the steeps, unafraid of the dangerous precipices.
So that is the first reason, from my point of view, why the Order of the Star should be dissolved. In spite of this, you will probably form other Orders, you will continue to belong to other organizations searching for Truth. I do not want to belong to any organization of a spiritual kind, please understand this. I would make use of an organization which would take me to London, for example; this is quite a different kind of organization, merely mechanical, like the post or the telegraph. I would use a motor car or a steamship to travel, these are only physical mechanisms which have nothing whatever to do with spirituality. Again, I maintain that no organization can lead man to spirituality.
If an organization be created for this purpose, it becomes a crutch, a weakness, a bondage, and must cripple the individual, and prevent him from growing, from establishing his uniqueness, which lies in the discovery for himself of that absolute, unconditioned Truth. So that is another reason why I have decided, as I happen to be the Head of the Order, to dissolve it. No one has persuaded me to this decision. This is no magnificent deed, because I do not want followers, and I mean this. The moment you follow someone you cease to follow Truth. I am not concerned whether you pay attention to what I say or not. I want to do a certain thing in the world and I am going to do it with unwavering concentration. I am concerning myself with only one essential thing: to set man free. I desire to free him from all cages, from all fears, and not to found religions, new sects, nor to establish new theories and new philosophies. Then you will naturally ask me why I go the world over, continually speaking. I will tell you for what reason I do this: not because I desire a following, not because I desire a special group of special disciples. (How men love to be different from their fellow-men, however ridiculous, absurd and trivial their distinctions may be! I do not want to encourage that absurdity.) I have no disciples, no apostles, either on earth or in the realm of spirituality. Nor is it the lure of money, nor the desire to live a comfortable life, which attracts me. If I wanted to lead a comfortable life I would not come to a camp or live in a damp country! I am speaking frankly because I want this settled once and for all. I do not want these childish discussions year after year.
One newspaper reporter, who interviewed me, considered it a magnificent act to dissolve an organization in which there were thousands and thousands of members. To him it was a great act because, he said: ‘What will you do afterwards, how will you live? You will have no following, people will no longer listen to you.’ If there are only five people who will listen, who will live, who have their faces turned towards eternity, it will be sufficient. Of what use is it to have thousands who do not understand, who are fully embalmed in prejudice, who do not want the new, but would rather translate the new to suit their own sterile, stagnant selves? If I speak strongly, please do not misunderstand me, it is not through lack of compassion. If you go to a surgeon for an operation, is it not kindness on his part to operate even if he cause you pain? So, in like manner, if I speak straightly, it is not through lack of real affection–on the contrary.
As I have said, I have only one purpose: to make man free, to urge him towards freedom, to help him to break away from all limitations, for that alone will give him eternal happiness, will give him the unconditioned realization of the self.
Because I am free, unconditioned, whole–not the part, not the relative, but the whole Truth that is eternal–I desire those, who seek to understand me to be free; not to follow me, not to make out of me a cage which will become a religion, a sect. Rather should they be free from all fears–from the fear of religion, from the fear of salvation, from the fear of spirituality, from the fear of love, from the fear of death, from the fear of life itself. As an artist paints a picture because he takes delight in that painting, because it is his self-expression, his glory, his well-being, so I do this and not because I want anything from anyone. You are accustomed to authority, or to the atmosphere of authority, which you think will lead you to spirituality. You think and hope that another can, by his extraordinary powers–a miracle–transport you to this realm of eternal freedom which is Happiness. Your whole outlook on life is based on that authority.
You have listened to me for three years now, without any change taking place except in the few. Now analyze what I am saying, be critical, so that you may understand thoroughly, fundamentally. When you look for an authority to lead you to spirituality, you are bound automatically to build an organization around that authority. By the very creation of that organization, which, you think, will help this authority to lead you to spirituality, you are held in a cage.
If I talk frankly, please remember that I do so, not out of harshness, not out of cruelty, not out of the enthusiasm of my purpose, but because I want you to understand what I am saying. That is the reason why you are here, and it would be a waste of time if I did not explain clearly, decisively, my point of view. For eighteen years you have been preparing for this event, for the Coming of the World Teacher. For eighteen years you have organized, you have looked for someone who would give a new delight to your hearts and minds, who would transform your whole life, who would give you a new understanding; for someone who would raise you to a new plane of life, who would give you a new encouragement, who would set you free–and now look what is happening!
Consider, reason with yourselves, and discover in what way that belief has made you different–not with the superficial difference of the wearing of a badge, which is trivial, absurd. In what manner has such a belief swept away all the unessential things of life? That is the only way to judge: in what way are you freer, greater, more dangerous to every society which is based on the false and the unessential? In what way have the members of this organization of the Star become different? As I said, you have been preparing for eighteen years for me. I do not care if you believe that I am the World Teacher or not. That is of very little importance. Since you belong to the organization of the Order of the Star, you have given your sympathy, your energy, acknowledging that Krishnamurti is the World Teacher–partially or wholly: wholly for those who are really seeking, only partially for those who are satisfied with their own half-truths.
You have been preparing for eighteen years, and look how many difficulties there are in the way of your understanding, how many complications, how many trivial things. Your prejudices, your fears, your authorities, your Churches new and old–all these, I maintain, are a barrier to understanding. I cannot make myself clearer than this. I do not want you to agree with me, I do not want you to follow me, I want you to understand what I am saying. This understanding is necessary because your belief has not transformed you but only complicated you, and because you are not willing to face things as they are. You want to have your own gods–new gods instead of the old, new religions instead of the old, new forms instead of the old–all equally valueless, all barriers, all limitations, all crutches. Instead of old spiritual distinctions you have new spiritual distinctions, instead of old worships you have new worships. You are all depending for your spirituality on someone else, for your happiness on someone else, for your enlightenment on someone else; and although you have been preparing for me for eighteen years, when I say all these things are unnecessary, when I say that you must put them all away and look within yourselves for the enlightenment, for the glory, for the purification, and for the incorruptibility of the self, not one of you is willing to do it. There may be a few, but very, very few. So why have an organization?
Why have false, hypocritical people following me, the embodiment of Truth? Please remember that I am not saying something harsh or unkind, but we have reached a situation when you must face things as they are. I said last year that I would not compromise. Very few listened to me then. This year I have made it absolutely clear. I do not know how many thousands throughout the world–members of the Order–have been preparing for me for eighteen years, and yet now they are not willing to listen unconditionally, wholly, to what I say.
As I said before, my purpose is to make men unconditionally free, for I maintain that the only spirituality is the incorruptibility of the self which is eternal, is the harmony between reason and love. This is the absolute, unconditioned Truth which is life itself. I want therefore to set man free, rejoicing as the bird in the clear sky, unburdened, independent, ecstatic in that freedom. And I, for whom you have been preparing for eighteen years, now say that you must be free of all these things, free from your complications, your entanglements. For this you need not have an organization based on spiritual belief. Why have an organization for five or ten people in the world who understand, who are struggling, who have put aside all trivial things? And for the weak people, there can be no organization to help them to find the Truth, because Truth is in everyone; it is not far, it is not near; it is eternally there.
Organizations cannot make you free. No man from outside can make you free; nor can organized worship, nor the immolation of yourselves for a cause, make you free; nor can forming yourselves into an organization, nor throwing yourselves into works, make you free. You use a typewriter to write letters, but you do not put it on an altar and worship it. But that is what you are doing when organizations become your chief concern.
‘How many members are there in it?’ That is the first question I am asked by newspaper reporters. ‘How many followers have you? By their number we shall judge whether what you say is true or false.’ I do not know how many there are. I am not concerned with that. As I said, if there were even one who had been set free, that is enough.
Again, you have the idea that only certain people hold the key to the Kingdom of Happiness. No one holds it. No one has the authority to hold that key. That key is your own self, and in the development and the purification and in the incorruptibility of that self alone is the Kingdom of Eternity.
So you will see how absurd is the whole structure that you have built, looking for external help, depending on others for your comfort, for your happiness, for your strength. These can only be found within yourselves.
You are accustomed to being told how far you have advanced, what is your spiritual status. How childish! Who but yourself can tell you if you are beautiful or ugly within? Who but yourself can tell you if you are incorruptible? You are not serious in these things.
But those who really desire to understand, who are looking to find that which is eternal, without beginning and without an end, will walk together with a greater intensity, will be a danger to everything that is unessential, to unrealities, to shadows. And they will concentrate, they will become the flame, because they understand. Such a body we must create, and that is my purpose. Because of that real understanding there will be true friendship. Because of that true friendship–which you do not seem to know–there will be real cooperation on the part of each one. And this not because of authority, not because of salvation, not because of immolation for a cause, but because you really understand, and hence are capable of living in the eternal. This is a greater thing than all pleasure, than all sacrifice.
So these are some of the reasons why, after careful consideration for two years, I have made this decision. It is not from a momentary impulse. I have not been persuaded to it by anyone. I am not persuaded in such things. For two years I have been thinking about this, slowly, carefully, patiently, and I have now decided to disband the Order, as I happen to be its Head. You can form other organizations and expect someone else. With that I am not concerned, nor with creating new cages, new decorations for those cages. My only concern is to set man absolutely, unconditionally free.
JK also wrote that nobody should ever try to interpret him; He started a few schools, which are still running.
Took me a couple tries to finish this one...length not readability.
Spiritual deprogramming.
"A belief is purely an individual matter, and you cannot and must not organize it. If you do, it becomes dead."