Isha Institute of Inner Sciences

The Isha Institute of Inner Sciences, headed by Jaggi Vasudev (called Sadhguru or "The Mystic"), is described as:

For good measure, Sadhguru turned Madhguru has been accused of murdering his wife.

New age spiritualism and deepities


The YouTube channel regularly features clickbait videos like:
 * "Beyond Physical Intelligence" (non-materialist neuroscience rocks!)
 * "We are just a Minuscule of Data" (the universe is big, you are small, doesn't that make you wish you had a soul?)
 * "Science and Mysticism" (science is "a slave of technology" and scientists "just want money")
 * "What is the Third Eye?" (third eye nonsense)
 * "Eastern Wisdom and the Intelligence within Us" (appeal to tradition much)

If you were looking for 11 minutes of advertisement-grade pictures in a glorified slideshow with vaguely uplifting music in the background, just watch the channel introduction.

One particularly wonderful video, entitled "Yoga is E=mc2", Sadhguru mouths a string of gibberish states:

Aside from that particular word salad being so spicy as to put Deepak Chopra to shame, it's worth pointing out — since the good guru himself decided to bring up logic — that: saying that the drop is a part of the ocean while the ocean is also part of the drop violates both the and the first postulates of

Inner Engineering
Inner Engineering is a spiritual program, one of the biggest products of the Isha Foundation. As IshaYoga.org explains...

If you read that and still don't know what Inner Engineering is, don't worry &mdash; it's just standard babble about how meditating (and buying Sadhguru's course) will fix all your problems. Listed health benefits include:


 * "Prevent chronic diseases like asthma, allergies, sinusitis, hypertension, diabetes, obesity, rheumatism, arthritis, epilepsy, back pain, skin and eye ailments, migraine"
 * "Reduce stress"
 * "Increase ability to handle stressful situations"
 * "Generate inner peace and fulfillment"

If that sounds like promises to cure incurable diseases plus vague promises of improved mental state, then you're absolutely right.

Hindutva Propaganda
Vasudev is one of the main propagandist of Narendra Modi's government. He constantly argues that he and his organisation are non-political, although this claim doesn’t stand to scrutiny.

In 2019, he released a video supporting the new law implemented by the BJP Government that grants citizenship based on religion. The video which was tweeted by Modi himself contained false numbers concerning the Hindu population of Pakistan and Bangladesh and countless false claims to get the sympathy of Hindus. Ironically, he started the video by saying "I haven't read CAA (The name of the law) fully." Isha Foundation's twitter account conducted a poll asking 'Whether the protests were Justified?' which was deleted after the poll results turned out to be not in favor of the Government.

In 2021, he criticised Rihanna, Greta Thunberg, Meena Harris, Mia Khalifa, Jay Sean, and other global celebrities’ comments on the undemocratic suppression of the farmers protest by saying “It is important to understand #celebrity status in the world does not give you an understanding of internal situations of a nation. India has a democratically elected govt with all the necessary systems to address its internal issues. We don’t need your help.” Meanwhile, he was himself lecturing America on racial inequality during the BLM movement. Just a few months before the protests, he also (ironically) said:

Pseudoscience
Vasudev, like most other new age gurus, has not been afraid to dip his toes in pseudoscience to further his spiritual money-making racket. To do this, he constantly strawmans the philosophy of science to suggest spirituality as an alternative to finding the truth.