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Naga became prominent wherever people spent more time with eyes closed, and perceived something beyond five senses. They recognized the significance of this dimension of evolutionary residue which remains within us, how we can activate that to evolve beyond the limitations of the senses. There are innumerable legends and mythological representations of a serpent across all cultures without exception. You can see symbols in the forms of various artefacts all around the world, showing how snakes played an important part in the mystical journey of those tribes. There are serpent symbolisms in a variety of places – Russia, China, Africa, Egypt, Greece, South America, North America and, of course, India.

This day (Naga Panchami) is very significant for those who want to penetrate and know life beyond their physicality, and beyond their five senses. This is not just about experiencing, realization, or liberation – this is about knowing. Maybe not everyone wishes to know. Some people just want to be free, and they do not care to know. That is all right. But for those who want to know, this aspect of evolutionary reminder within you is very important. Whether you actually relate to the symbolism or not, you have to invigorate that dimension. If you want to know aspects beyond the five senses, your Adishesha has to begin to uncoil and move.

This is something that Indian culture has always valued, that people never killed a snake. In case they killed it accidentally, they gave the snake a proper funeral, just like it is done for a human being. This is because they recognized certain aspects of what a serpent is.

An excerpt from: https://isha.sadhguru.org/in/en/wisdom/article/naga-panchami-festival-snake-worship

Sadhguru: Time as we know it, in terms of seconds, minutes, hours, days, months, years, and decades, and centuries, and millennia - the time that we know in our experience is essentially an outcrop of an infinite space whose nature is timelessness. Probably these names are just heard, probably nobody really bothers to ask why they are named like this. You have heard of certain snake being called Ananta. Ananta means eternal. So, there is one snake which represents eternity. This is why the Kala Sarpa is in the form of infinite symbol or infinity symbol that is representing eternal - it is a Kala Sarpa. There is another snake which is called a Shesha Naga. You've heard of that? When the creation collapses, when galaxies collapse, there will be some residue left. That is the Shesha. If you have learnt mathematics in a local language in India, you would know shesha means the residue, in the mathematics. What is leftover, what is a remainder - in English, it's called the remainder - that is the Shesha. So, this is the Shesha Naga - one who is leftover from previous creations. So, one who is leftover is very vital for the next creation to happen, to have some kind of information which can go into the next making of the creation.

So, when we say creation, we mean everything. We don't mean a universe or a galaxy or a planetary system, we mean everything. Everything that is created, at some point, collapses. In that, there is a Shesha, or something that is a remainder which becomes the basis for the next creation. This is the 84th creation according to the Yogic sciences. When we say this is the 84th creation, we have not arrived at it by going and looking into the galaxies and cosmic spaces as to what is happening there.

By looking into (Referring to oneself) this one, we see there is a record of 84 creations. That is the Shesha in us, the remainder in us that there have been 84 creations. How many more can happen? Well, up to 112 can happen. The 112 - beyond that, the creation will not be of physical nature, will be of pure energy form. This is what it means by saying only 112 chakras are physically manifest, rest, or above the body or beyond the body means they are beyond physical nature. So, the future creations... we are not talking in terms of years, or centuries, or millennia, or even millions of years. It is many, many billions of years probably. So, having said that, these are 2 important aspects of Naga.

One is Kala. In that... in the Kala, there is one which is Ananta, another which is Shesha. The third one is Karkotaka, which is what these 3 aspects that we are handling here. There has not been a single civilization where there is no usage of snake as access to deeper dimensions of life. In nearly over 800 years, a proper consecration of Naga has not happened. This guy is special that way. This is about divinity rising within a human being who is willing.

So, there are 2 kinds of Kala Sarpa Yoga. One kind is to enhance one's lifespan, another wants to curtail their lifespan. The Naga is sitting here, is a Kshetrapala. Kala and Naga are the same things. They are beyond physical nature. My exploration, my ability to see things have been largely aided by the Naga.

An excerpt from the Naga Consecration video on Sadhguru Exclusive.

Sadhguru: You know you have a reptilian brain in your head. In the evolution of the physical form, your nearest neighbor is the orangutan or the chimpanzee. In the evolutionary process of the being, the snake and the cow play a very important role. When we utter the word “snake,” most people only think of a venomous creature, so the first reaction is to kill it. A snake is the only animal in India that gets a funeral. Not even a cow gets a funeral. But if a snake dies, it gets a funeral, because in terms of life energies, they are close to a human being. There are various aspects to it, but the important thing is that we do not think of a serpent as a venomous creature. We are thinking of a creature who is energetically so sensitive and whose perception is so keen that snakes know things that you cannot imagine.

When the Cobra becomes a deadly weapon.

Those who come from certain parts of India may have heard stories like this: if you do something to a cobra, it will remember for 12 years, come after you, and bite you. That's a very unfair thing to say about the cobra, but why and from where this legend has originated is – if you do certain things, if you acquaint the snake, or the cobra particularly, with the flavor of energy of a certain person and create a certain situation, wherever he may be, he will go and bite him – only him.

There is a cult like this in India where if we want a particular person to be bitten by a snake, they will usually steal that person’s unwashed undergarments. If an unwashed undergarment is stolen from the house, people will try to block every hole in their house, or they will travel. They do not want to be around because someone may employ a snake to bite them by making it acquainted with their physical energy. A snake can be programmed to go and bite a person wherever they may be. Once they do a certain ritual and process, it will go in search of the person.

This negative usage is always more dramatic; that is why it draws more attention. But there are also positive ways of using this energy. It can be used in so many beautiful ways for one’s wellbeing and development. Snake worship is not unique to India alone – almost every civilization has done it. Only in the last 2000 years, these things have been obliterated in other societies; otherwise, it was everywhere. They say even Moses set up a snake temple. The serpent and human life are closely connected.

Source: This is an excerpt from a series on occult phenomena, only on Sadhguru Exclusive.

Sadhguru: Mysticism and snakes cannot be separated. Wherever there was an exploration or experience of mysticism – in the ancient cultures of Mesopotamia, Crete, Egypt, Cambodia, Vietnam, and of course India – snakes were always there. There is no Indian temple without a snake. One aspect of it is symbolism, because in yoga, a coiled-up snake symbolizes kundalini. But the reason for this symbolic status is because when celestial beings – those who are in consciousness and capability superior to human nature – entered this dimension of existence, they always took the form of a snake. This finds mention in every mythology on the planet. In India, there are innumerable stories, starting from Shiva being a Naga Bhooshana.

In mythology, there are Naga Lokas in the netherworld – a whole society of not just snakes, but human beings who belong to the snake clan. They are known as Nagas, and they played a very important role in shaping the consciousness of this nation and many other cultures. Historically, we know that the great temples of Angkor in Cambodia were built by Naga descendants. They went from India, intermarried with the indigenous people, and established a kingdom. Nagas were ruled by queens, not kings, as they were matriarchal families. Later on, Kaundinya, a Brahmin king from India, went and defeated the Naga queen.

Human beings who are very deeply associated with snakes exist even today. I am one of them – not a Naga, but my life and snakes cannot be separated. Every significant event in my life is always punctuated by the presence of a snake.

All the Goddesses in the world – the Middle Eastern, North African, Mesopotamian, South Asian, Central European – are always symbolized together with snakes. At Linga Bhairavi, sarpa seva is available for people every full moon day. Here, the two snakes are in an embrace. They are not in entanglement. An embrace happens out of involvement. Entanglement happens out of compulsive needs. They are in a certain embrace and a certain dance to bring this forth into everyone’s life. Once a month, these snakes are filled with the earth taken from a termite mound mixed with certain other substances. This is a way of making use of the snake to enhance one’s perception.

An excerpt from:https://isha.sadhguru.org/en/wisdom/article/snakes-and-mysticism

Sadhguru: Snakes are comfortable with anyone actually. One reason why the snake is worshiped in India is because it is a symbolism of kundalini. In India, if a snake dies they give it a proper funeral, because in the evolution of the body, a monkey is very close to human beings but in the evolution of the soul, a snake and cow are very close to the human soul. It is because of this that energy-wise, snakes are very comfortable in the human hands if you don’t get alarmed and agitated. Among wild animals, it doesn’t matter which animal, even an insect will not be comfortable if you catch it. It will immediately react to you. But the snake is one animal where you can just pick it up gently and it just won’t do anything to you if you are not agitated.

I developed a certain keen sense, which has gone out of my system these days because of a lack of application. I could easily track a snake in the wild. I would smell it and just go and catch it. If I went to some spot on Chamundi Hill, I would know under exactly which rock the snake would be at that moment. These days I have lost that sense - too many people and too much city stuff around me.

There was a time when I used to have twenty live cobras all over my bedroom. They would be just everywhere. It takes a certain level of alertness and awareness to live with them. They are very wonderful but one wrong move and you know what. I was living in a farm at the time and I just left them free in my bedroom. Many times in the night they would want the warmth of my blanket and one of them would crawl in. You learn to move slowly when you live like that. You don’t make any sudden moves and you learn to move every single muscle in your body carefully, cautiously, fully aware. Otherwise you will be dead.

Even today, I have some friends in my home. There is one who is over twelve feet long in my garden. When we decided to build a wall around the house, we decided to leave a hole in the western wall so that he can go out and come as he pleases. But he has such a sense of dignity that he refuses to crawl through this hole. He always comes through the main gate!

An excerpt from: https://isha.sadhguru.org/en/sadhguru/man/snakes

Sadhguru: Nearly four hundred years ago, there was a man in a small village in the present state of Madhya Pradesh. His name was Bilva. He lived a totally different kind of life. He was too wild and intense. He didn’t really fit into the norms of society.

Bilva was the snake charmer of his tribe and he was deeply in love with what he was doing.

Bilva loved snakes. If you love poisonous creatures, you have to be a different kind of person. To kiss a snake, you must be very courageous. For a person for whom love means everything, everything else is secondary; being alive itself is secondary. That’s the kind of person he was. He was someone who could not fit into the social structure and was looked upon as a rebel. For one of the many rebellious acts he did, not respecting the prevalent caste distinction, at a very young age he was put to death by a snake’s bite, while he was tied to a tree.

He was a great devotee of Shiva. Our mantra, “Shambho,” comes from that era. At that time, you couldn’t really call him a spiritual person; he was a devotee, but not really a spiritual person. Those last few moments of his life, he watched his breath. Cobra’s venom acts on the cardiovascular system. The blood thickens and makes cardiac and respiratory action difficult and ultimately it stops. Poison was all through his body and death a few minutes away. There was nothing else he could do and breath watching just happened. It was more of an accident than a conscious awareness. It was more Grace than a sadhana. From that breath-watching, which happened for just a few minutes, a new spiritual process began which changed that person’s future in so many ways. In his next life, he was a very intense seeker of the Ultimate nature. Shiva was his way.

https://isha.sadhguru.org/en/sadhguru/mystic/bilva

When the night sky is at the darkest hour on a no-moon day of Amavasya, it is yet again a time to pay our respect to the loved ones who have departed.

The Kalabhairava Shanti process is a sacred ritual that can be performed after the death of a loved one. Using Linga Bhairavi Devi's abode as the energy base, this process has been very much a part of Yogic culture, that if someone dies and does not have the awareness to conduct their death properly, then someone else does it for them. It can be done anytime after death on any Amavasya night.

Today is Adi Amavasya and especially significant for performing the Kalabhairava Shanti and Kalabhairava Karma processes.

Sadhguru describes Linga Bhairavi Devi as an ocean of compassion and a steadfast companion when sought with devotion.

When the heart truly melts in devotion, we become less rigid, less fearful, and less focused on controlling how life should happen.

Sometimes Devi's grace may come as something we recognize immediately—a new possibility, protection, or a situation unexpectedly falling into place. And sometimes we may not even realize it is grace until much later, when we look back and see how life unfolded.

The deeper the devotion, the more receptive we become. That is the beauty of surrender - a profound trust in something greater than ourselves.

Let the heart melt. Let the offering be sincere. Let Her grace do the rest. Jai Bhairavi Devi 🪷🔱🔥

Devi holds what seems opposite — fierce and compassionate, wild and nurturing.

She is not a contradiction. She is life in its fullness.

To invite Devi into one’s life is to welcome a lifelong companion of health, prosperity, and spiritual growth.

This Guru Purnima, connect with Linga Bhairavi's boundless energy through offerings such as Netra Arpanam, Mangala Arpanam, Devi Abhishekam and Purnima Pooja. When you imbibe Devi's grace, she creates possibilities where none existed before.

Make an offering: bhairavi.co/gurupurnima

By opening one's heart to Linga Bhairavi, the embodiment of the divine feminine, a devotee can find in her a powerful guru, guiding one towards inner transformation and transcendence.

This Guru Purnima, appeal to Devi’s grace with sacred offerings such as Netra Arpanam, Mangala Arpanam, Devi Abhishekam or even experience the profoundly transforming Purnima Pooja for the wellbeing of yourself and your family. Making offerings at Linga Bhairavi supports individuals at significant milestones throughout their lives and ensures the possibility of being touched by the Divine.

Jai Bhairavi Devi Gurubhyo Namah Shri 🪷🔱🔥🙏🙇‍♀️

Make an offering: bhairavi.co/gurupurnima

What we can do with our strength, intelligence and knowledge is very limited. If you open the window of grace, then life will happen in ways that you have not imagined possible. Grace is not something that is on and off. It is not something that you question every weekend. It is just on. You have to become conscious of it so that you know the joy of being in Grace.

The first full moon after the summer solstice in the month of Ashadha (July-August) is known as Guru Purnima. This Guru Purnima, experience Devi’s grace as your guide as the upsurge of energies on this auspicious full moon enables devotees to benefit from Her overflowing Grace. 🔱🔥🪷🙏🙇‍♀️

https://isha.sadhguru.org/linga-bhairavi/in/en/events/guru-purnima

Q: If someone has come in touch with you, does that mean it is their last life?

Sadhguru: Someone asked me a while ago, “Are only brahmacharis your disciples?” Yes, only they are my disciples. When I say brahmacharis, it is not necessarily only people who got an official initiation. Whether they went through a formal process or not is not the point. In some way, they are on the path.

Only brahmacharis are my disciples. If they are not brahmacharis, they are not my disciples anyway. If their interest is something else, where is the question of disciple-hood? They cannot be anyone’s disciple. Being a disciple is not about someone. You are not this person’s disciple or that person’s disciple. If you are a disciple, you are a disciple, that’s all. If you are a devotee, you are a devotee. There is no question of you being a devotee of this God or that God – that is just foolishness. You are a devotee and that’s all. It is a quality.

Becoming Darkness

There are many who set their eyes upon me but did not take me as their Guru. They may be hanging around here next time around. I may not be here, but they will hang around here because they smelt it, now they want to eat it. “Guru” means “dispeller of darkness.” “Gu” means darkness, “Ru” means dispeller. When you say you have a Guru, your darkness is dispelled. Then why would you be here again? Your darkness is dispelled not because you become light. Your darkness is dispelled because you became nothing, you became darkness yourself, so there is no need to dispel anything. If you stay away from it, darkness is a terrible thing. If you become it, darkness is a boundless thing.

Don’t Sniff Forever

If you have met your Guru, there is no question of being here again. But if you did not really meet him as a Guru, if you just liked the “smell” but did not dare to step into him, that’s another matter. When you like the smell of roses, wherever the rose is, you go. But do not go on sniffing forever. It is time to step into it and burn because if you do not, you are not using it for the purpose that it is.

If you have met your Guru, there is no question of being here again. But if you did not really meet him as a Guru, if you just liked the “smell” but did not dare to step into him, that’s another matter.

If you have an airplane capable of flight but decide to drive it around like a bus, is it wrong? I would not say it is wrong, but it is terrible. To drive an airplane like a car is a terrible and stupid thing to do. Is it wrong to be terrible and stupid? No. Terrible and stupid is bad enough, it need not be wrong. What could take you to a great height, if you use it in a mediocre way, it is just foolish and terrible.

This is not a relationship that endures. If you make this relationship, everything ends. When everything ends, when all things end, a dimension which is not a thing will happen. It is that which this being is longing for, when it is seeking expansion. It is a natural goal. It is just that there is too much diversion on the way. And with every diversion that is taken, people start propounding philosophies as to how this is the right diversion.

Suppose you are travelling somewhere and you found the normal route is obstructed and have to take a diversion – everyone in the car will vote for different diversions and start arguing. Doesn’t it happen? Once there is no clear-cut marker, everyone will start making up their own thing, everyone will start claiming this is it. A man who smokes says that this is life, a man who drinks says that this is life, a man who is into some other kind of pleasure says that this is life. A man who takes drugs says that this is life, a man who overeats says that this is life – they are all insisting “this is life.” Because of that, diversions happen.

If anything is life, if you do more of it, it should be better. But it does not happen like that. If you eat more, if you drink more, if you smoke more, if you copulate more, life does not get better. People have tried all those things and it has not worked. The only thing that you can do endlessly is doing nothing. And that is the only thing a Guru is, because a Guru is just an empty space. An empty space is the only thing that can dispel darkness, because it is darkness – nothing happens there. Where nothing happens, you can make anything happen if you want.

A Guru is just an empty stage. If you enter there, he sets up whatever kind of drama that is necessary for the day, but he is actually an empty stage – four walls with nothing inside. If you step in, you will also become nothing. There is no other way. You looked at him and listened to him, that is not it. You have got to step into him. That is when he is your Guru. Till then he entertains you because he is setting up the appropriate drama for the day.

Source: This is an excerpt from Sadhguru’s 2-in-1 book “Emotion: The Juice of Life & Relationships: Bond or Bondage”

Om Sadhguruve Namah🙏🪷

Jai Bhairavi Devi Gurubhyo Namah Shri 🔱🙏🪷

Guru Purnima is the only time of the year when devotees can offer Netram Arpanam to Linga Bhairavi Devi.

Netram Arpanam is the symbolic offering of Devi's Third Eye, available in copper or silver. Devi's Third Eye represents perception beyond the physical, seeing what our ordinary eyes cannot. By making this sacred offering, devotees seek Linga Bhairavi Devi's grace for greater clarity, deeper perception, inner wisdom, guidance on their spiritual journey and fulfilling a deep rooted desire.

This unique Arpanam is available only during the auspicious period of Guru Purnima, and devotees who are unable to visit in person can also make the offering online. May Linga Bhairavi Devi's boundless grace open us to a deeper way of seeing and living.

Jai Bhairavi Devi Trinetrini Namah Shri 🪷🔱🔥🙏🙇‍♀️

Sadhguru explains that Linga Bhairavi Devi's form was not created to look beautiful in the ordinary sense. Every part of her shape has a deeper spiritual purpose. Her form is based on sacred geometry and precise yogic science, not artistic preference. The "algorithms" and "mathematics" refer to the exact proportions and energy principles used during her consecration.

Because of this, Linga Bhairavi Devi radiates a specific kind of powerful and nurturing energy that supports human wellbeing, prosperity, protection, and spiritual growth. The outer appearance exists to serve the energy, not the other way around.

Sadhguru also gives a message for life: true value lies in the qualities and energy you carry, not just in physical beauty.

Jai Bhairavi Devi 🪷🔱🔥🙏🙇‍♀️

Only when the masculine and the feminine play an equal role in our lives, there will be beauty and purpose to our existence. So how could we do without Bhairavi?" -Sadhguru

Life becomes complete when the masculine and feminine are in balance. The masculine brings strength, logic, and action. The feminine brings love, compassion, intuition, and grace. Both are essential for a meaningful and beautiful life.

Linga Bhairavi Devi represents the powerful r of existence. Her presence nurtures devotion, inner strength, and harmony.

She helps us become more balanced and joyful in life. With her grace, we can grow beyond our limitations. She reminds us that true well-being comes through inner balance. That is why Linga Bhairavi is an essential part of a fulfilled human life.

Jai Bhairavi Devi Soubhagya Dayini Namah Shri 🪷🔱🔥🙏🙇‍♀️

"Devotion is a tool to dissolve yourself. As an energy form of high intensity, Linga Bhairavi will lead you into blissful abandon." -Sadhguru

True devotion is not about asking for things or following rituals alone. It is about letting go of the limited sense of "I" and becoming open to something far greater than yourself. Sadhguru explains that Linga Bhairavi Devi, as a powerful and intense energy form, helps a devotee move beyond personal fears, desires, and boundaries. As this inner resistance dissolves, one experiences a state of deep joy, freedom, and complete surrender. This "blissful abandon" is a state where life is lived with trust, love, and an overwhelming sense of grace, rather than being controlled by the mind or ego.

Jai Bhairavi Devi 🪷🔱🔥🙏🙇‍♀️

"Linga Bhairavi lets you enjoy the physicality so quickly and fully that you will naturally shift your focus on something higher." -Sadhguru

Linga Bhairavi Devi helps fulfill your physical, emotional, and material needs in a balanced way. When you experience a sense of completeness and well-being, your constant longing for external things begins to settle. Instead of being caught up in endless desires, your attention naturally turns inward. This creates a deeper longing to know life beyond the body and mind. Linga Bhairavi Devi supports both worldly well-being and spiritual growth, guiding you gently from the joys of physical life toward a higher possibility within yourself.

Jai Bhairavi Devi Mukti Dayini Namah Shri 🪷🔱🔥🙏🙇‍♀️

"Linga Bhairavi only has half a heart. She is not capable of love, but she is capable of immense compassion and force." -Sadhguru

Linga Bhairavi Devi's compassion is unconditional and reaches everyone equally, without expecting anything in return. She is a powerful force that supports those who seek her with sincerity. Rather than offering emotional affection, she gives what is truly needed for one's growth and wellbeing. Her grace can bring strength, protection, balance, and the possibility to overcome life's challenges. Linga Bhairavi Devi's immense force helps dissolve limitations and opens the door to inner transformation. When one approaches her with devotion and openness, her boundless compassion works for their highest wellbeing.

Jai Bhairavi Devi Dukha Samhari Namah Shri 🪷🔱🔥🙏🙇‍♀️

“Those who earn the Grace of Bhairavi neither have to live in concern or fear of life or death, of poverty, or of failure. All that human beings consider as wellbeing will be theirs, if only they earn the Grace of Bhairavi.” - Sadhguru.

When Linga Bhairavi Devi's presence becomes a part of our life, worries about success, failure, wealth, or even life and death begin to lose their hold. Her grace does not simply grant wellbeing—it gives inner strength, clarity, and potential to achieve everything that human beings consider as wellbeing. Whether it is health, prosperity, loving relationships, success, or inner peace, Linga Bhairavi Devi empowers us to move toward these with confidence and balance. Challenges may still come, but they no longer define our life. Her grace fills us with courage, trust, and a deep sense of fulfillment, allowing us to experience life with devotion, stability, and fearlessness.

Jai Bhairavi Devi Sarva Mangali Namah Shri 🪷🔱🔥🙏🙇‍♀️

"Linga Bhairavi is a feminine manifestation of the Divine, but in the form of a linga. The linga as the most fundamental form in creation has both masculine and feminine aspects." -Sadhguru

Linga Bhairavi Devi is the Divine Mother expressed through the form of a linga, showing that the linga is not limited to masculine symbolism. It represents the very basis of creation, where both masculine and feminine energies exist together in perfect balance. Linga Bhairavi Devi reminds us that the Divine is beyond gender while embracing all aspects of life. Through her presence, one can experience the nurturing, powerful, and transformative nature of the feminine, united with the wholeness of creation.

Jai Bhairavi Devi 🪷🔱🔥🙏🙇‍♀️