The courtroom directed police to compile an inventory of all circumstances associated to the Isha Basis. (File)
Chennai:
When non secular chief Sadhguru Jaggi Vasudev bought his personal daughter married, why is he encouraging younger ladies to tonsure their heads and surrender worldly lives to stay like hermits, the Madras Excessive Court docket has questioned.
A bench of Justices SM Subramaniam and V Sivagnanam posed the query for the Isha Basis founder after a retired professor alleged that his two well-educated daughters had been “brainwashed” into completely staying on the Isha Yoga Centre.
S Kamaraj, who used to show on the Tamil Nadu Agricultural College in Coimbatore, had filed a petition searching for the looks of his daughters in individual within the courtroom.
The 2 ladies, aged 42 and 39, who appeared within the courtroom on Monday, stated they had been staying on the Isha Basis out of their very own will and weren’t being detained.
The ladies had given comparable testimonies previously within the decade-old case after their mother and father claimed their lives had grow to be “hell” since they “deserted” them.
The judges, nevertheless, determined to probe the case additional and directed the cops to compile an inventory of all circumstances associated to the Isha Basis.
“We need to know why an individual who had given his daughter in marriage and made her settle effectively in life is encouraging the daughters of others to tonsure their heads and stay the lifetime of a hermitess,” stated Justice Sivagnanam.
The Isha Basis asserted that the ladies select to stick with them voluntarily.
“We consider that grownup people have the liberty and knowledge to decide on their paths. We don’t impose marriage or monkhood, as these are private decisions. The Isha Yoga Centre accommodates 1000’s who will not be monks, alongside a number of who’ve embraced Brahmacharya or monkhood,” they stated.
It additionally submitted it has just one pending police case whereas one other was stayed by the courtroom.