Realm of the Mystic Series – Significance Behind Touching Guru’s Feet

 Seeker: Sadhguru, why is there so much significance attached to the feet of a Guru?  Why has it always been said in spiritual lore that we should bow down to the Guru’s feet?

Sadhguru: There are certain very important aspects to feet. Bowing down and touching the feet in a certain way is an enormous opportunity for one to receive things. Yesterday, you saw that group of people who bowed down to my feet. Did you notice how they held my feet?  Traditionally, they have been told the importance of it and how to hold the feet. These men they just held my feet and they were all in tears. These were full-grown and balanced men, running very large businesses of their own. They just know how to hold the feet. That’s all. 

Since the consecration of the Dhyanalinga, I’ve been wearing socks. I didn’t want people to touch my feet because my whole energy system was so fragile. Most saints also do not allow anybody to touch their feet because they’re in a certain state. Sometimes touching feet takes away too much.  People who do not know anything about this don’t mind. It feels very good to have somebody touch your feet! There is a certain way of receiving things. Now in many ways I have demonstrated how, just the ring finger, what are all the things it can do to a person. Just one touch can do so many things. Similarly, in the feet also there are areas and spaces through which one can receive enormously. All the chakras have manifestations in your sole:  S-O-L-E sole, not S-O-U-L soul. In the soles of your feet, the seven chakras are manifested in a certain way. In the ninety-day Wholeness program, all the participants were taught to activate the chakras in each other’s feet. Even when the National Hockey Team was here for a program, their feet were pressed to activate their chakras. It made such a big difference for those guys.  We just pressed certain chakras and activated their energy. Also in the Dhyanalinga temple, the steps are made in such a way that the heel of your foot is pressed and this activates the nadis.

Now today, I think it’s called reflexology. Those people press everywhere and just hope to touch something. This is not like that. In yoga, it is clear-cut; it is known exactly where each chakra is located in your feet. Everybody’s chakras are not in the same location. By looking at where one’s chakras are located, you can know everything about that person, even his karmic structure. In so many ways, it is written in the body, including in your hands. Your karma is all written there, at least most aspects of it.  It is based on this that people are trying to read your future; because the past is written, they are trying to predict the future.

Excerpts from Mystics and Musings book