India, a land steeped in history and mysticism, is home to countless ancient secrets waiting to be discovered. Beyond the well-trodden paths lie hidden gems—lesser-known places that hold profound spiritual and historical significance. From secluded temples to remote villages and mystical landscapes, these sites offer a glimpse into the rich tapestry of India’s heritage. In this video, Sadhguru shares glimpses of the mystical dimensions of seven of the most powerful, yet lesser- known places in India which are of utmost spiritual significance.
- Guptakashi, Uttarakhand
Sadhguru: “It is a powerfully consecrated place. This is a place where Sadhguru Shri Brahma stayed for a period. Sadhguru Shri Brahma who was born in a small village called Vettaikaranpudur in southern part of India, now known as Tamil Nadu. When he recollected his past life, he became restless to consecrate a Dhyanalinga. He walked across the Sub-Continent looking for the right people to create the right sense of strength and sadhana. Along with four young sadhakas he walked all the way from RudraPrayag to Kedar, because they wanted to do their sadhana in Kedar. All of them being from South India, where the climate is warm, could not withstand the cold. So, they stayed there for a few days and walked down to a lesser altitude. As they considered themselves the very progeny of Agastya they decided to settle here, in this same temple. They were housed here. They stayed here for over three and a half to four months. They did their sadhana. Two of them made use of the sadhana later to attain their fullness and they left. They shed their bodies and they left.”
- Nattatreeswarar Temple, Tamil Nadu
Sadhguru: “This is my kind of place. It is said that this place was consecrated by Agastya Muni himself over 6000 years ago. It feels like it was done yesterday. It just remained intact. Thanks also to the people who are taking care of it now that they kept it without disturbing it. This is seen as the navel of Cauvery because it’s a mid-point. So, they identified the exact midpoint and Agastya Muni consecrated a Linga which was originally made of sand mixed with some compound of those days – a traditional compound. So, it is a sand linga which is still intact, not only physically intact, but intact in every way. It’s believed that Agastya Muni left his subtle body here with this Linga. He was looking at Cauvery as a body or a living body and he established the naval center here in such a way that the upward movement of energy and the downward movement of energy, both happen in a proper way.”
- Kumara Parvat, Karnataka
Sadhguru: “Kumara Parvat in Karnataka in Southern India is where Skanda left his body consciously. When he came to the South, he helped Agasthya Muni to establish order and probably his association with Agastya Muni cooled him down a little bit. He was an angry man because he thought the world was unjust. And this young warrior had made up his mind that wherever he sees injustice, he’ll remove it by sword. He went about slaughtering so many people. He came to South from North and his association with Agastya Muni probably cooled him down a bit. He then went to what is today called as Kuke Subramanya or Gati Subramanya. He went there and he washed his sword for the last time. He went up the mountain and there he left his body, standing. This is tremendous, because when you must uproot the life energies from the physical self, you need some stability in the body. To do it standing, it’s extraordinary. Around this mountain you will find all the pebbles are six-faced as if they’re chiseled by machine, called Shanmukha lingas. You take it in your hand, it literally wants to burn through your hand, it’s like that kind of intense energy.”
- Mayamma’s Samadhi, Tamil Nadu
Sadhguru: “There was a seeress, a lady saint in India. Nobody knows where she came from. So she just walked on the streets in the southernmost tip of India, which is known as Kanyakumari. She just walked around the street. She came as a young woman and people were wondering who she was. She would go to the beach and sit on the water and float around. The people saw this and started worshipping her. Some people gathered around her but she never spoke. Somebody told me her name was “Mayamma”. “Mayamma” means the illusory one, the illusory mother. The people showed me her picture. The moment I saw the picture I said, “I want to go there.” So the three of us – myself, Vijji and my girl, she was just maybe about 5 years of age, and we drove down. That happens to be a full moon day and they built a, she’s already gone, a small samadhi. The place was reverberating like crazy. She was bursting out of the concrete that they built around her.”
- Mahakuta Temples, Karnataka
Sadhguru: “Kuta in Kannada means assembling. Mahakuta means a great assembly. In this, if we are looking at the universe as an energetic possibility, we’re talking about one hundred and fourteen chakras. This 114 represents everything that can be in this universe because of all the life that’s happened in this mechanism or system that we call as our universe, this is the highest form of life. It’s reached its peak in terms of its physical evolution. Normally we talk about seven dimensions represented by seven chakras, actually it is 112 or 114 but we’re talking about seven because we have segmented them into seven categories or seven dimensions. A human being can exist here as a Mahakuta, that means the entire galaxy has become alive within you. If anything is consecrated with all the seven dimensions of life, then in the yogic tradition, generally it’s referred to as Mahakuta, a great assembly of things because it’s cosmic in nature.”
- Velliangiri Mountains, Tamil Nadu
Sadhguru: “Wherever Shiva rested, those places were referred to as Kailash because his original abode is Kailash. Wherever he went and rested, generally those places are referred to as Kailash. So this got labeled as the Kailash of the South. Because of this, a variety of sages and saints, various types of yogis, and mystics chose this mountain as their space to work with. These mountains have witnessed a phenomenal amount of mystical work. Many siddhas and seers walked these mountains, spent a large amount of their time here and above all, for me, this is a mountain where my guru walked and he even chose to leave his body upon this mountain on the Sixth Hill. “
Sadhguru: “When we started looking for a space to set up or consecrate Dhyanalinga, once again we traveled all over and people went on pointing out all kinds of lands to me. I would see, everything is nice and everything is nice but this is not it. So, people were just getting frustrated, “will Sadhguru settle somewhere?”. Then one day, we were just driving this way and I suddenly saw the seventh hill – the peak and we just stopped there in our tracks. I just walked to this place and said, “This is the place.” 11th day after that, it was registered in Isha Foundation’s name and there has been no looking back since then. Kailash mountains are the greatest mystical libraries on the planet. There isn’t another place like that. This is a smaller repository – not in any way less in quality but a much smaller library. So there is a phenomenal amount of reverberation and knowledge in these mountains.”
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