Sadhguru (Jaggi Vasudev) Biography: Age, Education, Net Worth, Personal Life, Family, Wife, Children, and Youtube Videos

Priyadarshi Shastri September 2, 2022

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Sadhguru (Jaggi Vasudev) Biography: Age, Education, Net Worth, Personal Life, Family, Wife, Children, and Youtube Videos

Jagadish Vasudev popularly knowns as Sadhguru is an Indian yoga teacher and proponent of spirituality. He was born on September 3, 1957, in Mysore India.

Since 1982, he has been teaching yoga in south India. He also established ‘Isha Foundation’ near Coimbatore in 1992 which runs an ashram, and yoga center along with some educational activities.

In his long spiritual career, Sadhguru has written several books and is a regular speaker on international forums. In 2017, he received Padma Vibhushan the second highest civilian award in India for his esteem contribution to social issues and welfare.

Sadhguru Age (2022)

Sadhguru will turn 65 as he celebrates his birthday on 3rd September 2022.

Personal Life

Sadhguru was the youngest one among his siblings. Dr Vasudev his father used to work in Indian Railway as an ophthalmologist making him move from one place to another during his childhood.

When he was of 10 years of age, he met Malladihalli Sri Raghavendra Swamiji who taught him the basics of yoga and spirituality. Still, he maintains all the teaching in his life regularly.

Education

When it comes to his educational qualifications, Sadhguru formally known as Jaggi Vasudev completed his schooling at Demonstration School and later joined Mahajana Pre-University College. He graduated from Mysore University with a degree in bachelor’s English Literature in 1973.

Sadhguru Net Worth

As per newworthdekho.com, The estimated net worth of Sadhguru is $25 Million, which turns into 182 crores in Indian Rupees.

Sadhguru Family: Parents, Wife, Children

His father’s name is Dr Vasudev and his mother’s name is Susheela. Sadhguru got eloped with Vijay Kumar in 1984, however, their life was shortlived as his wife died in 1997. The duo were blessed with a baby girl named Radhe Jaggi. Now she is a renowned Bharatnatyam Dancer & is married to Sandeep Narayan, a reputed Carnatic Classical Singer.

Spirituality

When he was of 25 years of age, he went to Chamundi Hill and did meditation. Due to this spiritual experience, he left his business to his friends and travelled in order to gain more experience towards mystical experience. After a year of travelling and meditation, he decided to shift from business to teaching yoga and inner peace.

In Mysore 1984, he taught his first class on yoga. Gradually, he started conducting classes across Karnataka and Hyderabad. Going different places on his motorcycle, donating payments received from teaching to charity.

Career

When it comes to Sadhguru, he is a multi-level personality, a great yoga teacher, counsellor and motivational speaker. He is one of the few people who have been recognised internationally for his contribution to yoga and spirituality.

If you listen to his interview and conversation it will certainly make you feel strong, motivated and powerful. His videos are the most frequently watched video on YouTube when it comes to motivational and spiritual videos. His words will make you do good in life, be humble to people and let god show you the way.

He enlightens those who are willing to connect with their higher self. His events, seminars and conferences are attended by thousands of his fans mostly youth. His inspiring quotes help in motivating the youth through a rough patch in their life be it due to financial problems, careers or relationships.

His Isha Foundation is associated with many international bodies such as the Economic and Social Council of the United Nations. The organization’s presence can be seen in other countries too.

Awards & Achievements

His project Green Hands (PGH) won the Indira Gandhi Paryavaran Puraskar given by the Government of India in June 2010.
He was voted among the 100 most influential Indians for his spectacular contribution to saving the environment along with encouraging mass participation in the issue concerning ecology in 2012.
He received the title Padma Vibhushan civilian award from the Government of India for his contribution to the mysticism field in 2017.

Sadhguru’s Isha Foundation

In 1992, he started the Isha Foundation, based near the city of Coimbatore. It is a platform where you can learn spirituality, and yoga along with other educational activities. The whole organisation is run by volunteers. Their vision is to improve the quality of education in rural India. For that, they run an initiative called Isha Vidhya. Besides that, they have also launched other projects to focus on environmental conservation and protection.

Reception

Sadhguru has received recognition from many notable personalities. He has been associated with United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification to highlight social issues like soil erosion through their campaign Save Soil Campaign. He has also been featured on many international talk shows like Trevor Noah, Joe Rogan etc. Recently on World Environment Day, Indian PM Narendra Modi attended an event with Sadhguru in an effort to improve soil health.

He is also an active advocate for the ban on cow slaughter. Although he is also been criticised a lot for having a similar ideology to the Hindu nationalist party-BJP. Some other environmental activists raised his work as greenwashing work in order to gain popularity.