I’ve been intrigued by this guruji lately, and came here to check if anyone would have any experience of him / his teaching. And of course there was 
Thanks for this thread.
Namaste
I also went to the Chicago Shambhavi Mahamudra event with Sadhguru. I never cease to be amazed by Sadhgurus humor, radiance, piercing logic, wisdom, etc. And so far i haven’t heard anything by Yogani or Sadhguru that isn’t on the same page philosophically.
Unless someone’s an out an out fraud who does more harm than good to their followers, we should vocally support any efforts to bring spirituality to the masses (who are miserable with the destructive religion of divisiveness, status and materialism).
I’m posting to this dormant thread as it is related to Sadhguru. He says relentless pursuit of external information is useless as far as making one happy is concerned and that one should look inward. That sounds sensible and you would expect him or his followers to come out and say, ok I looked inward, this is what I found. Which can be lets say for example (writing from things that are close to my own heart):
So I have been having this ailment for an unknown reason, and I tuned inward into my spine and located what karma is causing it and took steps to burn it, and cured the ailment.
So this organ of me got paralyzed and doctors didn’t have a clue, and I tuned inward to become one with the consciousness flowing into the organ, injected my will into it and got it to work again.
So my symphatetic nervous system had been out of whack following a post traumatic stress and I suffered my insomnia and erectile dysfunction for years, and I went into samadhi, tuned the nervous system, and got it all fixed.
etc.
Isn’t that what you would expect from knowing yourself from the inside? Any of the above could be considered as an example of applied spiritual practices.
But when you look at his actual practices, it is always about nihilism. Distance yourself from the body. Distance yourself from past karmas. Destroy your past karamas (sachita karams) so there is no future birth. Not that nihilism is unique to Sadhguru but why speak about knowing from the inside at all if all you care about is destroying existence? He says one gets tired of repeated human existence and wants to get rid of it and find out what is next (which no one says what it is). Then why all the lecture about how magnificent the body is and all that? Someone comes to you trying to know the mystery of creation and you lead him on saying all that can be done, but when he sits for practice all you say is how to destroy existence for good. Why can’t there be any intermediate steps? Why can’t I live well, why all the focus on leaving? 3.7 billion years of evolution, and I can’t spend a few years enjoying realizing my own journey from a single cell to a human, and sharing the joy with family and friends? Vivekananda, Sadhguru, all these guys just saying, leave, leave, leave. And never saying where. I know I’m taking a stand from a what-science-can-see, no soul, earthly evolution only stance, but so are these guys saying individual souls exist (or atleast Vivekananda did, not sure about Sadhguru). If personal exploration and finding truth for oneself is what they preach, where does the leave, leave, leave fit it with that?
That reminded me of a scene from The Big Lebowski:
Waitress: Could you please keep your voices down? This is a family restaurant.
Walter: Oh, please dear! I’ve got news for you: the Supreme Court has roundly rejected prior restraint!
Dude: Walter, this isn’t a First Amendment thing.
Waitress: Sir, if you don’t calm down I’m going to have to ask you to leave.
Walter: Lady, I got buddies who died face-down in the muck so you and I could enjoy this family restaurant!
Dude: All right, I’m leaving. I’m sorry ma’am.
Walter: Don’t run away from this, Dude! Goddamnit, this affects all of us! Our basic freedoms! [Long pause]. I’m staying. Finishing my coffee…finishing my coffee.
Hold your ground, FakeYogi, hold your ground. I’m also here to arrive, so I empathize. Plenty of miracles still to be experienced on the Earth plane. I’m far from bored or tired as of yet. Game on. 
Reminds me of Osho
Osho looks more realized to me. I don’t trust realized men who blink 30 times a minute . When my mind silenced my need to blink vanished .
Posted by dancer303
I can only speak for myself and go with my guts. I don’t trust Jaggi Vasudev.
He is not a guru for me. The yoga practices he teaches are not of his origin as he always claims. For instance, Shambhavi Mahamudra, is just a compilation of several known yoga practices (hatha-yoga and pranayama technics) which can be found in, for example, Bihar Yoga School books. But he always praises the kriyas and practices as a big secret in order to sell Isha course better.
If you would have ever visited a sathsang of his organization “Isha” you would know, that more than 30 % of sathsang’s time is wasted for promotion for several Isha-courses. Also he claims that you may not learn yoga especially, kriya yoga, from books or on yourself, you have to learn exclusively from Isha otherwise, he pretends, yourself would be harmed very much. Also he and his volunteers pretend if you reveal any Isha practices to uninitiated you would harm them and yourself very much.
My opinion is clear in that matter. A realized and enlightened guru would not act this way. Would Buddha or Jesus sell his teachings? I don’t think so.