Ad Yogi's 112-Foot Metal Statue in India

The first Yogi, referred to as the ad Yogi, devised 112 ways of yoga over 15,000 years ago, impacting cultures globally.

### The Origins of Yoga: A 15,000-Year-Old Tradition Explained
* 🧘 The first Yogi, known as Ad Yogi or Shiva, is believed to have lived over **15,000 years ago** and is considered the **originator of yoga**.
* 🗿 A 112-foot-tall statue of Ad Yogi has been erected in Southern India, designed by Sadhguru and constructed with **680 tons of steel**.
* 🌌 Ad Yogi's teachings included a theory of evolution similar to Darwin's, with **10 "aars" representing stages of human development over millennia**.
* According to Ad Yogi, physiological evolution has reached a standstill, but **conscious evolution is still possible through yoga practices**.
* 📜 Ad Yogi is credited with creating **112 distinct methods for individuals to evolve consciously**, which form the **basis of modern yoga**.
* 👥 Seven disciples of Ad Yogi were sent in different directions to spread his teachings, leading to the development of **various mystical traditions**.
* 🌍 Wherever these disciples went, there was a **sudden upsurge in the knowledge of geometry**, indicating the **influence of yoga on local cultures**.
* 🕉 Sadhguru emphasizes that yoga is not about **becoming superhuman**, but about **realizing the inherent potential of being human**.

how do you think they figured this out? This is getting back to this. You kind of went around that but this happened over 15,000 years ago. The first Yogi, he's referred to as the ad Yogi today. To honor him, we have set up a 112 ft tall bust of AD Yogi in India. You must look him up. 112 can look him up ad Yogi. What part of India? Uh, in Southern India, in Coor, in Tamil Nadu. So, this is 112 ft because he gave 112 methods as to how. So, this is what to say, 000 years ago he figured this out. Over 000 years ago we are saying this over 15,000 years ago because of they talked about certain Celestial happenings. Those happenings have been confirmed today as well over 15,000 years ago. And we have iconographic proof of something like 12,400 years. Yeah, that's wow. 112 feet tall, great hair. That's a crazy statue. Yeah, this was designed. This is this was designed by me.

and built by all volunteers inside the uh Center. Really? Yeah. So is that a building? So can you go inside of that? You can go inside, but there's no building inside because it's metal. It gets very hot inside. Oh, wow, that's beautiful. The idea was when I designed this, it took me 2 and a half years to design this face. You're not seeing the face very clearly. Let's see if you can get a picture where the face is clear. It's very, yeah. So I wanted intoxication, stillness, and exuberance on one face. So it took me 2 and a half years to design this face. What do you think? It has these qualities. I think you nailed it. And um, how was this constructed? This is all metal. It's all metal. How was it made? So we made this uh, uh. It took us some 680 tons of steel. Now we are doing another one near Bangalore, the same one, but now we're doing it with almost 170 tons less because now we figured out the design much better. Wow, wow, that's

incredible though. I mean, it really is gorgeous. And that's all. Is it welded together? Like, how is it? See, uh, see, uh, you can see some patchwork, uh, here. You're not seeing it, but actually the metal pieces are all about this much nice. Uh, we could have removed that. We could have, you know, braced that and removed that. But when I looked at it, the roughness of it looked better than a smooth face. So I just left it as it is. So there are patches. So you can see the conru. You can see the construction material, uh, not really that visible, but you can see for an observer. You can see that, which gives a kind of roughness to the statue, not very smooth. So this Yogi that devised these. So when he came, he appeared somewhere in Himalayas and, uh, people saw that he was dancing wildly in ecstatic states, completely oblivious to everything around him. Or he sat still for days on end, weeks on end. He just sat still, unmoving. So initially, lot of thousands of people.

gathered some miracle is happening, but slowly because he didn't perform any Miracles. No fireworks happened, people got bored, and they left. Only seven disciples hung on because they saw the greatest Miracle. The man is not getting up for food, water, toilet, nothing. That means he's beyond the physical nature. He just sat there for months on end. Sometimes the only sign of his aliveness was tears of ecstasy were dribbling down his cheeks. That was the only sign of Life. Otherwise, he looked like he's dead. So when he came to his some moments when he came to his Consciousness, they pleaded. They wanted to learn what is it that is happening to you. So he tried to be dismissive. He didn't want to be in touch with them. But when they hung on and they persisted, then he put them on a preparatory kind of work. They went through the Preparatory work, and then he started expounding for many years what is the science of how human mechanism is made. And you won't believe

this uh 150 years ago Charles Darwin talked about evolutionary process. Over 15,000 years ago, he spoke something which is parallel to Darwin's theory of evolution. Even today, every Indian knows about. Indian person knows about this. There are 10 aars. AAR means not the movie that you saw. AAR means a manifestation. So, 10 aars are. First AAR is called matar, which means the life was in the form of fish or it was water. It was in the water. The second one is uh kurar, which means it's a turtle. That means it became an amphibious life. The third one is a wild War. It's called warar. It, you know, other small things happen, but the mammals came. Then the next one is called uh narasimma, who is half man half animal. Next one is a DFT man W and AAR. The next one is a full-grown man but a volatile man. He's so angry and so crazy or a fighting man that always he went about chopping off.

people to he got so angry, and he lopped off his own mother's head. So the next one is a peaceful man. Is a r AAR. He's a peaceful, gentle man. The next one is a loving man, Krishna AAR. The next one is a Buddha AAR, who is a meditative man. The next one, the 10th one, is supposed to be the mystical man. These are not individual people to be seen. These, this is the evolution of life on the planet. If you look at Darwin's theory of evolution, somewhere it runs parallel to this, from waterborne life to amphibious life to this way half man, half animal, dwarf man like this. It is grown. So he talked about this and he said, see, if you want to evolve further, then something in relationship to the Earth and the Sun must change. Otherwise, physiologically, you're not going to evolve further, but you have a Consciousness with which you can transform yourself absolutely and become completely different from what you are right now. Right now, you're

available to all the forces of nature right now. In many ways, you're enslaved to what's happening around you. You can rise above this and evolve consciously, but physiological Evolution has come to a standstill because planetary moment and who you are right now. The planet and the solar system is functioning like a potter's wheel to make this happen, this life like a potter's wheel. You know, potter's wheel, a Potter wheel, yeah, okay, it's functioning like that. It's got new to this place. So, people ask, can we develop more intelligence? Can we become bigger than this? He says no. Physiologically, your Evolution has come to a place. Unless there is some serious change in the relationship between the planet and the Sun, that will not happen. But consciously, you can evolve. So then, he propounds 112 ways as to how you can do it. 112 distinct ways how you can do it. So, that is how yoga started. Who do you think this person was? He are the yogi. They called him because he never introduced himself. They called him Yogi.

because he was the first one, they called him ad Yogi. Ad Yogi means the first Yogi, and he is also referred to as Shiva. Shiva means one who is not, that which is not, in the sense. See, today modern science is speaking in these terms. In an atom, for example, over 99% of it is empty space. If there is proton, neutron, electron, all that covers less than 1%. 99% is empty space. So, it is in the cosmos, 99% is empty space. See, right now, you look at this ceiling and you think it's full of star-like lights, but actually there's more empty space than lights, isn't it? But because our visual operators are in a certain way designed, in a certain way, it gives more prominence to light, because that's what we see more clearly. So, he said everything is like this. So, if you transcend your physical nature, you become a Shiva. That means you are nothing, but nothing is the most powerful dimension of the existence because it is

in the lap of the nothingness, everything is happening. What you call as everything is just 1%. Do you think this was a real person, a real individual, or do you think it's representative of the learning of yoga and the best way to establish it, to express it was to make it a person. It's a real person because uh, the places where he came, what he spoke, everything is recorded in history, largely by lore. Today, people are trying to write it down in books because in India, we don't believe in scholarship, we believe in experience, inner experience. So it's always transmitted as an oral tradition for a long time. These days, people are writing down in many ways. It was a real person because spectacular human being if they could do absolutely see when he came down south in Southern India at that time, people were way shorter than the northern people. So they say he was twice the height of an average South Indian woman. So they say he must have been because an average South Indian woman tribal wom were like 4 4 and A2 ft.

so he must have been seven or 8T tall. That people said he was twice that. And uh, they say when he stood next to your horse, he was as tall as the horse's ears. But do you think these are exaggerations? Do you think exaggerations could be there? But uh, because his physical size doesn't mean anything for his yoga, right? So there's no point exaggerating that aspect. I'm saying, see if he was a warrior, somebody may exaggerate him. But for a yogi, what is the point making him a big guy physically to make him Divine? So, physically, that is the whole thing. See, in India, the Indian culture has only spiritual paths. There's no real religion per se, because a religion needs a belief, right? Spiritual process needs a quest, a seeking. If you are on the spiritual path, we call you a Seeker. If you ascribe to religion, we call you a Believer. All right, belief means something that you do not know because an authority speaks. You believe that it could be your father who

says that this is the truth, and you believe him as a child. Then it may be a priest. Then it may be somebody bigger. Or it may be in a book. You believe it because it comes from an authority. But the nature of that culture, the Eastern cultures, is there is no Authority for us. Truth is the only authority. Authority is never the truth. So that is the essence of Eastern, uh, mysticism and Eastern spirituality. That it is you're always a Seeker, never a Believer. So you think that yoga just emanated from this one incredibly unique human being that was larger than everybody else, that had supernatural abilities that existed 15,000 years ago. No, see now you're making a superhuman being out of somebody, but making an 8ft tall person who go days without drinking water. There see there have been people like that, all right, in every culture. There have been physically large people, but his physical size has nothing to do with his capabilities. The capabilities are super physical too, aren't they? No. So this is

what it's about yoga is not about being superhuman. Yoga is about realizing being human is super. That's what is important. So that's the whole thing that he's saying, how being human is so super. If you explore your humanity to its fullest, you will become a fantastic being. A human being itself is a fantastic feat. You don't have to act like a superhuman being. He did not perform any miracles. He did not do anything. He just taught them how to be beyond the limitations of one's physical and psychological structures, that's all. Do you think if this person didn't exist, that yoga still would have been invented? Without him, of course, somebody else would have. After that, many, many yogis have come. But he is the maybe even before there were people, but they did not speak or they did not gather disciples who would take. So he sent his seven disciples in seven different directions. One was sent to Southern India, who is today we hold him as the father of Southern mysticism, Goni, who came down south and and he did maximum

amount of work there every human habitation he touched at that time and brought spiritual process as a living practice not as a separate practice. Just the way you sit, that's just the way you do things, just the way you address each other was made into a spiritual process. See, right now in India, if people go to the temple and whatever their favorite day, if they worship, they will stand like this. If anybody comes also, they'll stand like this. If a dog comes also, they'll do this. If they see a rock also, they'll do this. They see a tree also, they'll do this. For the people just listening, you're holding your hands together in prayer. It is not in prayer. Well, this way, whatever you're doing with your hands, this is done to everybody, all right? So, because spiritual process is not alien to the life that you live, the way you live has to become spiritual. It's not that you have a spiritual practice and you have a separate life. It is the same thing. You integrate it into your life. So, he did that and

another one stayed with him. Another one came to the northern part of uh India. Another one went to Central Asia. There are, you know, there are certain Footprints of his. Another one went to North Africa. Another went to South Asia. Another when another one came to South America. Wherever these yogis went, suddenly those cultures where they went saw a sudden upsurge in the knowledge of geometry. Wherever you see extraordinary sense of geometry, which is not in line with the tribal existence that they had, that means a yogi came there. S of meaning like the structures that they built, structures that they built, the artifacts they created, uh, the way they arrange things around themselves, suddenly they had a different sense of geometry because yoga is essentially a cosmic geometry. Cosmic geometry in to align yourself in line with the cosmos so that it reverberates as the same.

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Journey With The Mystics

The 112-ft Statue of Ad Yogi in Southern India

A 112-ft tall statue of Ad Yogi has been erected in Coor, Tamil Nadu, Southern India, to honor the first Yogi who lived over 15,000 years ago and developed 112 methods of yoga.

The statue is made of 680 tons of steel and was designed to embody intoxication, stillness, and exuberance on the Yogi's face, with a rough construction to enhance its appearance.

Another similar statue is being constructed near Bangalore with a more efficient design, requiring 170 tons less steel.

The Evolution of Life: A Mystical Perspective

A man sits for months without any physical needs, showing only tears of ecstasy as a sign of life.

He then teaches his disciples about the science of the human mechanism and expounds on the 10 aars, which represent the evolution of life from waterborne creatures to mystical beings.

His teachings also emphasize the potential for self-transformation through consciousness, independent of physiological evolution.

The Limitations of Physiological Evolution

Physiological evolution is currently at a standstill due to the relationship between the planet and the sun.

However, conscious evolution is still possible.

According to the yogi, there are 112 distinct ways to achieve this.

Shiva, the first yogi, taught that transcending our physical nature allows us to tap into the most powerful dimension of existence, where emptiness is predominant.

The Representation of Yoga in the Form of a Real Person

The learning of yoga was traditionally transmitted orally in India, but is now being documented in written form.

The physical appearance of the yoga figure is exaggerated in historical accounts, but his size is irrelevant to his practice.

In Indian culture, spiritual paths are emphasized over religious beliefs, with seekers prioritizing inner experience.

The Essence of Eastern Mysticism and Spirituality

Eastern culture does not rely on authority for truth, but on the concept of truth itself as the authority.

Yoga is about realizing the greatness of being human, rather than being a superhuman.

The individual attributed with the invention of yoga is seen as significant, but it is believed that yoga would have been invented by someone else if not by him.

Yoga was integrated into everyday life, affecting how people interacted and conducted themselves in various regions.

Wherever yogis traveled, there was a noticeable increase in the knowledge of geometry and a shift in the way structures and artifacts were created.

Yoga's influence on different cultures was marked by a sudden surge in extraordinary sense of cosmic geometry, impacting the way people aligned themselves with the cosmos.