"On the auspicious occasion of Guru Purnima (2018), I bow with reverence on the feet of Adiyogi. Away from the noise, dust and smoke; the celebration here in the natural and peaceful environment was elevating and enlivening. Feeling Blessed and Blissful!," wrote on his Facebook Chandra Kant Bajpai along with sending the selfie in front of 12-foot tall Adi Yogi bust at Isha Yoga Center (IYC) near Coimbatore which has world-wide over 9 million volunteers or followers.
At the IYC, the full moon day in the month of Ashadha is celebrated as Guru Purnima and Sadhguru Jaggi Vasudev addresses the gathering on significance of the festival in 2018 and 'the offering that the Adiyogi, the first guru, made to humanity'.
A notification when acessed on the internet on the address of Sadhguru stated that human being suffered confinement more than anything else, hence understanding this fundamental nature of a human being, the Adiyogi spoke about liberation.
According to Sadhguru, Guru Purnima night is recognised as the night of the first guru who had reminded human beings that they did not have a fixed life and every door in the existence was open, if they strive. It was the confinement that made a human being suffer the most - more than anything else.
"It is in knowing this and understanding this fundamental nature of a human being (self-imposed confinement) that the Adiyogi spoke about liberation. This culture adopted liberation as the highest goal and the only goal. Everything that you do in your life is only towards your ultimate liberation because whatever the nature of confinement, whether the confinement is imposed by prison guards, marriage, school teachers or just the laws of nature - anything for that matter - confinement is one thing that a human being cannot take because his innate longing is for liberation. For the first time on this day, a few thousand years ago, he gave ways as to how to transcend this confinement," stated the release of his address.
He added, "Every boundary that we set has the purpose of protection to start with, but the boundaries of protection and self-preservation have become boundaries of self-imprisonment. These boundaries are not in any one form; they have taken on so many complex forms." People think they can drug themselves out; smoke, drink, eat or even sleep themselves out of their confines...But one does not see that it is complete confinement.
Blessings he followers, he reminded them significance of the day and said that the celebration was about the start of something so sophisticated and phenomenal for the human race for the first time by Adiyogi to strive for.
In 2020, in his message Sadguru said, "Guru Purnima celebrates the human ability to rise beyond physical nature, and the Greatness of Adiyogi, who made this possible."
(The contribution of Lalit Kishore was published in merinews portal which has been discontinued)
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