What is the deal with Sadhguru Jaggi Vasudev and Rishi Prabhakar?
There are those who keep claiming that Sadhguru Jaggi Vasudev betrayed one Mr Rishi Prabhakar. Well, both the Masters themselves have kept quiet on this matter. There is really no allegation or fraud here. It is one person’s opinion versus another person’s opinion. There are no facts available in public domain to prove it this way or that way.
The source comes from one Mr.Ravi. Rishi Prabhakar (who expired in 2014) never himself said anything about Sadhguru. However, Rishi Prabhakar’s disciple Ravi (who is a Guru himself) did go on record about this and wrote the following in a blog comment in 2007:
“The arguments and counter arguments about Jaggi and his life are interesting. One fact I wish to share is we both got trained by Guruji Rishi Prabhakar in the years 1984–86. We both took SSY teachers training together in Gommatagiiri near Mysore. We did SSY classes together and we started the Hyderabad center of Rishi Samskruti Vidya Kendra under Guruji. Then he was sent by Guruji Rishi Prabhakar to Coimbatore to start center there. There he slowly left the organization and started his own. He renamed himself as Sadguru Jaggi Vasudev and became popular. His Guru Rishi Prabhakar will not claim him to be his student as Jaggi has not lived up to his word. There is no secrecy in these matters. Jaggi himself will accept it (I still believe he is truthful). I have not contacted him so far after he left Guruji Rishi Prabhakar.”
Apart from Raviji’s statement, there is no other factual proof one can find online. If you want to know more details, there is someone who has done some direct research with the involved people and has documented it here:
The author of the above mentioned article had really concluded it well:
“After enlightenment, Sadhguru taught yoga on his own for a while. Then he decided to join with other organizations. In this phase, I am reasonably certain that Sadhguru was involved with SSY, possibly as a teacher. We need more factual details to establish the story entirely here. But it is possible that Sadhguru went to Coimbatore on SSY related work and recognized his connection with that place. This is when Sadhguru started cutting off from SSY to be on his own again with his Sahaja Stithi Yoga. So this is the possible story and there is nothing fraudulent here as some critics allege. I conclude that blaming Sadhguru for his Rishi Prabhakar connection is entirely baseless.”
I am not going to go into more details because it is a futile exercise, trying to prove anything against opinions. His email communication with Ravi ji is more enlightening:
“Just continue your sadhana. Be thankful to whoever had offered it. Keep offering your best wherever you are and enjoy life as it comes. There is no one who is a Guru or Sadguru, it is his/her disciples who make it. If it is authentic or he is genuine or your belief is true, matters not from his/her context. You give value to such things and so it matters to you.”
