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Is the Dhyanalinga mentioned

anywhere in Vedas or any Hindu or
religious scriptures?
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Prasanth Chandrahasan, Practicing Yoga &

Meditation since 2001
Answered 6 years ago · Author has 84 answers and
1.4M answer views

I have been to the Isha Yoga Center at Coimbatore.

Took a dip at the Theerthakund and sat inside the
Dhyanalinga dome for hours and hours with closed
eyes. Nothing happened. No chakras, no energy, no
enlightenement. Just wasted time.

And then I visited Ramana Maharishi's Ashram at

Tiruvannamalai. Entered Bhagawan's shrine and sat
cross-legged near his bed. I immediately slipped in
to deep meditation. My only regret was that I didn't
get to spend enough time at the Ashram.

OK, that's not what you asked. The answer to your

question is....I don't know the answer to the
question. But then let's dig a little more deeper.
Sadhguru alaways claimed that the Dhyanalinga is
mentioned in the Vedas and that such a linga will be
consecrated by a householder Yogi. Remember that
when he make such claims he is preaching to a
choir. Most people who listen to him believes all and
everthing he says. Sadhguru always claimed that he
is an "ignorant guru" with no spiritual education
whatsoever. In those programs where he has quoted
scriptures, he has used a references like a book. In
one of the programs I attended, he quoted from
Bhagavad Gita. So that begs the question - if he is
ignorant Guru, then how come he know about
Dhyanalinga in the Vedas.

He also says that prana pratishta technique comes

from Agama Shashtra. There aren't a lot of books
out there about Agama Shashtra. Plus it later
evolved in to Kashmir Shaivism, a highly developed
Tantric school.

Thus applying Occam's Razor to Sadhguru's claim,

we can conclude that he is either highly
exaggerating or lying. Most probably both.
Technical term for this process is called application
of Bovine Fecal Matter.
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Updated 2 years ago

Jaggi Vasudev takes something from occultism,

something from theosophism, something from his
own imagination and mixes it all togheter to fool
people. Some decontestualized data abusively
taken from hinduism are just the glaze on the pie.
He says the Dhyanalinga is the final and successful
step of many attempts to create THE Perfect Being.
According to his own words, the first idea to create
"a synthetic (!) perfect being that could be the
perfect Master and the Redeemer of humanity" was
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have lived right after the sapta rishi age.... This very
idea is a total nonsense: do you really believe that
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Ashok Kumar, Since Birth

Updated 1 year ago · Author has 212 answers and
155.2K answer views

It is a debatable topic, I myself can go on proving

there is no such mention..

On the other hand,

I can go on saying it's mentioned…

It's like Did Jesus exist….that kinda matter..strange

rite not a single photo of arguably greatest being on
earth…but no Proof to show his photo, drawing,
something but we have images of people way
before him…but again one cannot fully deny he
didn't exist..

What I suggest always look for the place from where

it all started…

So Find about Yogi Sunera..

Rest I leave it you…

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Arvind Kesh, Just another seeker

Updated 10 months ago · Author has 95 answers and
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What is Dhyanalinga, and have you visited this

place?

This meme is an accurate description of my thought

process during my college days.

I used to live with my grandparents back then. I was

completely against against lingas, temples or
anything related to Sanatana Dharma. But my
curious mind used to read a lot of Osho and even
some western books on mysticism.

My grandfather was a theosophist and was the first

person to teach me all religions lead to the same
God. I used to mutter within:

But God is within me! Why do I need all these

external help? I am God!

He stuck a lot of “divine” pictures here and there.

From Krishna to Christ to Mecca and a lot more.
Every room had at least two or three realised beings
or holy place. I barely cared to individually
investigate what each picture meant. I hated the
idea of religion itself.

The only practise of any kind I did was a simple

meditation taught by my uncle. I was never regular
and rarely did it. You could say I was more into
“spiritual gossip” as I was content in reading and
exploring other dimensions rather than doing
anything to actually explore those dimensions.

But every time I sat on a particular couch I would

suddenly become meditative. I just closed my eyes
and found myself going into Gyan Rudra
automatically. My grandpa used to call my grandma
whenever I sat there. They used to enjoy the sight
of the rebel meditating. He used to mockingly call
me a “spiritual master”.

Years passed by. The rebel started striving to be a

yogi. I was introduced to Inner Engineering and got
initiated into Shambhavi Mahamudra. After getting a
taste of my Agnya chakra, I was able to perceive
energies and was blown away by the exuberance
exuded by some of our Devi temples. A notable
mention would be the Attukal Bhagavathi Temple.
She was so fierce!

After these experiences, the thirst to go to

Dhyanalinga became intense. If Sadhguru’s yogic
process was able to open me up in this way, I
wanted to know what the man was capable of
consecrating.

It was a Mahashivaratri night and I was expecting a

lot of fireworks within. But nothing happened. There
were no fireworks. Instead, a deep sense of
relaxation engulfed my body. It was beautiful. I
thought I had spent a couple of minutes inside while
in reality it was half an hour.

After this incident, I visited Dhyanalinga multiple

times. The experiences are always so subtle and
very hard to recollect in future. The only common
theme is a deep sense of relaxation. It’s a kind of
mini-death and when you come out there is a sense
of renewed life. But all these are so subtle and if it
weren’t for Shambhavi Mahamudra, I'm sure I
wouldn’t even be aware of it.

A couple of years later, I visited my hometown again

and decided to go to my grandparent’s house. It
was a nostalgic trip especially because my dear
grandfather had passed away.

I remembered that old couch I used to sit on - the

one which made me meditative. The cushions still
had the familiar dusty smell. I sat down and casually
looked at the wall on the opposite side. There was
this photo. I remembered that it was always there
and I had never cared to investigate it. But this time,
it needed no investigation. It was an image of the
Dhyanalinga.

^This just a reference pic. The wall back home

wasn’t this cool! It was a normal white wall.
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Pragya Singh, lives in Bengaluru, Karnataka,

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