A Thoroughly Modern Mystic by Clare Dakin:
“Leave your belief systems at the door with your shoes when you enter the room….” In typical Sadhguru style, the words were uttered with a smile that acknowledged the enormity of the request within so simple a sentence. I peered at him, floundering as I considered dropping the ways of thinking that maintained my version of the world in the shape that made sense to me. He might as well have asked me to drop my personality in the corner of the room, which as impossible as it seemed, stirred a surprising longing within me to know what lay beneath.
In that brief moment, Sadhguru had suspended reality as I knew it, and offered me a glimpse of another dimension of experience. I didn’t know what was there beyond the grasp of my mind and the veil of my perceptions, but in that instant I knew that I craved connection with whatever ‘that’ was more than anything else in the world.
For those of us who can manoeuvre around the western belief that the fastest way to grow is by doing it all ourselves, a living Guru is a blessing. It’s not that I doubt that we have the answers within us or that we can do it alone, it’s more that we are running out of time to turn our world around and that a living spiritual navigator can offer vital short cuts to collective awakening. Signposts and maps may show another way to go, but we still have to do the walking ourselves.
Sadhguru is a thoroughly modern Mystic.
Clare Dakin is the UK Co-ordinator for Project GreenHands, the primary environmental initiative of the Isha Foundation.
