Vijaykumari, Sadhguru’s wife – All you need to know
Isabella Harris Vijaykumari was the wife of Sadhguru JaggiVasudev, the famous Indian yogi and founder of the Isha Foundation, a non-profit organization that offers yoga programs around the world and is equally involved in social causes, education and environmental initiatives. She made the headlines of many news channels in 1997 as a result of the mystery surrounding her death after passing away from Mahasamadhi practice. This is an act of leaving the body intentionally and consciously, a feat that requires utmost dedication and determination in one’s yoga sadhana.
Due to the nature of her death, her husband, Sadhguru was accused of murdering his wife a few months after Vijaykumari’s death. Although the case was later dismissed for lack of evidence, many eyebrows were raised as Vijaykumari’s death remains a mystery. Read on and find out everything you need to know about Vijaykumari.
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Vijaykumari’s marriage to Sadhguru
Vijaykumari who was also known as Viji met her ex-husband, Sadhguru Jaggi Vasudev in Mysore, India. Soon after, their meeting led to an exchange of love letters and then marriage in 1984. In 1990, the couple had their only child, a daughter named Radhe Jaggi. When Vijaykumari was alive, she is said to have worked in a financial institution. Unfortunately, on January 23, 1997, she transitioned from the practice of mahasamadhi, which is the act of consciously and intentionally leaving one’s body.
details of her death
It has been established that a yogi or yogini who realizes the state of nirrikalpa samādini in yoga will in due course consciously step out of his body and this was the case of Vijaykumari. In oriented culture, many Tibetan, Hindu and Zen masters have experienced such a graceful exit from this world. Vijaykumari’s Mahasamadhi has been reported to have happened in a program performed at her ex-husband’s foundation, the Isha Yoga Center in Coimbatore, India, witnessed by hundreds of people.
A few months after Viji’s death, police reportedly filed a complaint with her father that he was suspicious of his daughter’s death, citing that she may have been murdered. The suspicion was based on the fact that his request to see his daughter’s body was not approved by Sadhguru as he cremated her body immediately after the incident instead of burying her and secondly that in their country nobody cremated anyone, who attained Mahasamadhi.
The New Indian Express newspaper reported on August 1997 that a case had been filed against Sadhguru, accusing him of causing his wife’s death. The case has been referred to Coimbatore Police. However, eight months later, a news report stated that the case was closed following an investigation by police that found no wrongdoing and that there was no reason for further investigation. Although the case was dismissed for lack of evidence, Sadhguru Jaggi Vasudev has been in the news constantly after a series of allegations about his wife’s death.About her ex-husband
Vijaykumari’s ex-husband, Sadhguru Jaggi Vasudev, acts as the founder of the Isha Foundation, which offers yoga programs around the world. He conducted his first yoga class in Mysore, India in 1983 and then continued the program in other cities such as Karnataka and Hyderabad. Gradually, his yoga classes became so popular, attracting more than 15,000 participants. He founded the popularly known Isha Yoga Center in 1993, which works with the international bodies of the United Nations Economic and Social Council. In 1997, Sadhguru began his programs outside of India when he began teaching yoga classes in the United States.
Then on June 23, 1999 he built a yoga templeThe Dhyanalings, a place of meditation 30 km from Coimbatore Tamil Nadu. Sadhguru then became popular because he attended the World Economic Forum in 2006, 2007, 2009 and attended the United Millennium World Peace Summit in 2000. For the contributions he had made in his country, the Government of India awarded him the Padma Vibhushan Prize April 13, 2013.
Vijaykumari’s daughter
Viji gave birth to their daughter Radhe Jaggi in 1990. She is a dancer and choreographer. She exchanged marriage vows with her lover Sandeep Narayan, a Chennai-based classical singer, on September 3, 2014 at the Isha Yoga Center at the foot of the Vellingiri Hills on the outskirts of Coimbatore, Tamil Nadu, India.
