Sadhguru: Sixteen years ago on this day we concluded the
90-day Wholeness Program in this place,
on 13th September I think.
So when I suddenly remembered this in the afternoon, I was itching to do something (Laughs).
So when we were doing the Wholeness Program with those sixty and odd people,
very hardy ones because there was no place to live,
a hut was… that was threatening to fall down any time,
repeatedly threatening us that it’s going to come down upon us
but still we did all that we had to do there.
And at that time everybody dreamt we must build a meditation hall.
It took maybe another six years or seven years before we built the Spanda Hall.
Today it is such that the Spanda Hall is occupied almost twenty… twenty to twenty-five days
in a month and it’s not available for anybody in the ashram
and Sadhana Hall is anyway bursting at the seams.
So today we started a project called ‘Adiyogi Alayam’,
a south-facing… (Applause) a meditation hall which is south-facing
because Adi Yogi when he sat as a guru, he sat south facing.
So this meditation hall is south facing.
And we will have a wonderful consecration which will befit him for this hall.
And the hall is a little over 40,000 square feet, so…
and plus there’s an extension that we can open up and up to 12,000 people can sit
in the whole area.
About 6,000 people will have roof, another 6,000 people
will have to sit like you’re sitting right now (Laughs).
So we came up with a design today afternoon and I thought the boys are tired after the
temple and the school construction. You know..
a very big school building is coming up out there?
Nobody has seen? We will open on 23rd, you can be there on that day.
So I thought they’re little exhausted and we’ll go little slow and I asked them how many months.
They said, ‘We’ll do it in three months.’
That’s a phenomenal challenge to build this building, which is over 40,000 square feet
and to do it in ninety days - we have a fetish with the ninety days, you know (Laughs).
So probably sometime September… come September next year
or maybe for the sake of the weather, we may push it to October or November
where we’ll have a big program in the Adiyogi Alayam
which will be… probably a series of programs for those two months, let’s see how.
But definitely we will be doing a program called ‘Mahabharata… what?
Saga Unparallel’ (Laughs).
We’re not going to do the whole Mahabharata,
we’re just going to pick one.. twelve to fifteen
themes in Mahabharata and handle the story, supported by
various artists in terms of dance and other kinds of depictions.
We want to make this program into a mega happening in the ashram,
not just a program that happens inside a hall where we sit and talk and do meditations, this that.
This is a happening. This is an event.
We want this to be a real mega event, a biggest…
the grandest depiction of Mahabharata that could have happened anywhere,
we want to make it like that.