Testimony of a mother whose 7-year-old girl child was allegedly raped for two years at Sadhguru Jaggi Vausedev’s Isha Home School in Coimbatore

Video transcript

Former Isha Home School faculty member Yamini Ragani: But it is high time I think that you know the government should act on this. So the mother of the child (not clear), the seven year old girl who got raped in the School for 2 years. A mother (not clear).

Mother: A mother who is speaking because I don't have courage to bring my daughter to speak here but we as a co Isha volunteers, we were co Isha volunteers for several years. We enrolled our girl child in Isha Home School. We believed Jaggi Baba is a God himself with complete trust, faith and no doubt on him. But he and his Isha Foundation spoiled our (not clear) daughters pride. We are the victim of one of several parents by this Foundation. Our young girl child got raped several times by Isha Home School teacher who supervised the children in Isha Home School in Coimbatore. I will repeat again: our young girl child got raped not once, several times by Isha Home School teacher who supervised their daily activities in Isha Home School in Coimbatore. Our daughter has also attempted to suicide twice in her life due to this incident and it pains my heart every time when it comes up. Our experience is very bad with Isha Home School.

(Source: RTV https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nz70HS0ANuE)

Email from Sadhguru Jaggi Vasudev's Isha Education exposes how Minor girl students are made to do Sadhna without covering their upper bodies

The below email is from Isha Education's Maa Pradyuta and is addressed to Sadhguru Jaggi Vasudev. It talks about, among other things, possible repercussions arising out of minor girl students being made to do early morning Sadhna without covering their upper bodies.

Pradyuta <maa.pradyuta@ishafoundation.org> wrote:

Namaskaram Sadhguru.

What we have observed with the last 2 batches is that waking up at 3 am during the 60 day silence period is extremely challenging for the kids with the result that they fall asleep in the Surya namaskar or asana postures while doing stabilisation. They are so tired that during the day when they do siddhasana they doze off no matter how much they take a dip in the Suryakund or wet hair.

I feel in the very beginning, we are not establishing the right habit of being wakeful in sadhana. However hard they try to be wakeful, they just cannot sustain. After a certain point they give up because sleep is so overwhelming.

1. Can we wake them up at 4.30 am instead and work the schedule accordingly?

2. During initiation, the girls are asked to removed the upper cloth so the spine is fully exposed. As i have expressed earlier, I have some reservations abput this and feel this needs to be revisited keeping in mind that they are minor girls and …

… to do this before initiation. And they have no way of discussing this with any of us. Also they are grown up girls and start thinking about these things no matter how much explanation is given. Considering the way we are bringing them up, this is quite alien to them. Also there is a huge risk factor involved for the institution in case it goes negative. The type of parents (in understanding or commitment) that are coming these days is not like how it was for the first batch. So from now it's better to initiate the girls with their upper body properly covered.

Request if we can go ahead.

Pranam

Maa Pradyuta

(Source: Nakkheeran TV https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_4YkHT6H82c)