Anukampa- 2

First Part of this story is here

With What you get, you can make a living. Only with what you give, you can make a life — Sadhguru

He’s at his best when he does nothing and what he says by nothing is absolutely nothing. No reading, sleeping, looking out of the window, thinking, NOTHING at all. Then why he does what he does to the world? To Raise Human Consciousness.

Why should he take up so many activities if he as to eventually teach yoga?

If the world, ok let’s leave the world(for now), if our country is self sustainable, he would just teach yoga and be a spiritual guru. He cannot teach Yoga and go on with the world where poverty is on the rise, there is no employment and education, rivers are depleting which invites many other environmental issues and millions have not eaten anything. It is an everyday struggle.

With food, education and basic essentials, he creates a conducive ambiance where they would be willing to go beyond their basic understanding. To turn spiritual. To live happily and not just survive.

The Projects

Gramotsavam — The Rural Olympics

1. Rashtriya Khel Protsahan Puraskar awarded by Govt. of India
2. Khelo India accreditation from Govt. of India.
3. Three fold increase in participation
4. 3000+ teams (All these are as of 2018. Numbers have only increased)

Rally for Rivers

1. 162 Million people supported Rally for Rivers in 30 days by giving missed calls
2. Detailed Project Report was approved by Maharashtra government for pilot project in Yavatmal.
3. Sadhguru was invited to UN for the launch of decade of action for water.
4. Draft Policy recommendation by Sadhguru to PM for revitalization of Rivers
5. 250 Million trees for reforestation of Cauvery basin

Project Greenhands

1. Enabled plantation of 35 million trees
2. 84 different tree species
3. 2 Million Volunteers
4. Awarded Indira Gandhi Paryavaran Puraskar
5. Consultants to State Governments

FPO (Farmer Producer Organisation)

Best FPO in TamilNadu and 9th in India with 200% increase from previous year

Isha Yoga for Defence Forces

1. Sadhguru in Saichen glacier taught Isha Yoga to Indian Army
2. More than 350 BSF, Indian army personnel are trained as Hatha Yoga trainers
3. More than 10000 Defence personnel are taught Yogic practices
4. Yoga sessions were conducted for BSF, CISF, CRPF and Indian Army across India.

Yoga in Prison

15,000 Prisoners, Police and wardens were taught simple Yogic practices in Tamil Nadu

Isha Vidhya

1. 8132 children are part of Isha Vidhya
2. 47% of girl students
3. 64% are on full scholarship
4. 100% pass percentage (am not surprised)
5. Numbers are just statistics. The impact and the repel effect is huge. Difficult to articulate what Isha Vidhya does. I am personally touched by their work.

Disaster Relief

68000 people reached during Kerala Floods

111 Medical Camps attended to 15,652 patients during Tamil Nadu cyclone.

Action for Rural Rejuvenation

520000 Patients treated so far in Rural areas*

Why they do that?

To run these projects, they need resources. He doesn’t hire any resources. Who does all this work? So many medical camps, tree plantations, classes across the Globe(ok we were talking about India so across India), the schools, programs, God knows how many projects I am not aware of. Who does that? Remember I spoke of 9+ Million volunteers in part 1 (Flagship Program). Let’s cover them in part 3(Volunteers)

*An Appeal : Isha Foundation is fighting Covid-19 pandemic. Providing essentials, food, medical aid and equipment for the needy and medicos. The work is huge and costs are sky high. I request you to contribute if you are willing from this link