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BIG NEWS 🚨 MOHAN BHAGWAT : "If Gen Z is protesting, they are not anti-nationals. They are our own people, our next generation. They are more honest than my existing generation"

INTERESTING: RSS chief Mohan Bhagwat says there should be a dialogue with Gen Z, says the protestors are not ‘anti national’, an Andolan is legitimate as long as it is within the law. Says the grievances are ‘genuine’. Just days ago, another RSS functionary called CJP’s movement ‘anti-national’ and ‘anti Constitution’. So who does one believe? 🙏

The RSS does not exist! Yes you read that right. One of the country's most powerful organizations is not even legally registered in any state. The Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh, or the RSS, shapes public sentiment, governments, classrooms, and public life in India, but interestingly it has no legal registration. Just recently, the RSS chief Mohan Bhagwat said Sangh is not registered under any law because it is simply a body of individuals. He argued that it began in 1925 under British rule, so registration was not at all necessary back then. And according to him, the government did not make it compulsory to register after independence, and the RSS has continued its work within framework of the law for nearly a century. Addressing concerns about its finances, Bhagwat said the Income Tax Department and the courts have already examined the matter, noting that the RSS is legally classified as a body of individuals—a status that exempts it from paying income tax. But that very status also shields it from very valid public scrutiny. RSS has no registered membership list, no mandatory income statement, and no annual audits. Yet, it operates on a scale few institutions can match, with more than 80,000 local shakhas, hundreds of affiliated schools, charities, and publishing houses, and a ₹150 crore headquarters in Delhi. So then the question is how does an unregistered organization own land worth crores, raise funds, and even run national programs? They do it through a web of registered fronts, including temple trusts, welfare societies, and cultural NGOs. Money and assets move through those affiliates while the core organization stays legally invisible. There is no single entity to question, no clear paper trail to follow. This particular loophole once even helped the Sangh deny that Nathuram Godse, Gandhi's assassin, was ever a member. There was literally no official membership records to prove it legally. Being unregistered doesn't make an organization untouchable, but in practice, it shields the RSS from the kind of transparency required by a charity or a company. If there is no legal entity, who is accountable for the money it collects, the land it holds, and the influence it exercises? The RSS has used terms conveniently over the decades. At times it calls itself cultural, at some other times educational, sometimes charitable, now just a 'body of individuals'. But the RSS's reach today goes far beyond cultural work. It extends deep into the very machinery of Modi's governance. A hundred years later, the RSS has indeed mastered something rare: how to be powerful without paperwork, visible without scrutiny, and central to governance without being formally answerable to the public. The RSS is everywhere, and yet officially, it does not exist at all.

I just learned about a 17,000-acre ‘spiritual community’ being built in Tennessee and somehow the same names keep showing up. Despite how it may be billed, this is not just a yoga retreat. On Isha Foundation’s property, residents can build and own homes on 99-year ground leases. They can mortgage them and they can sell them, but Isha keeps ownership of the land underneath them. Isha says this helps “safeguard its ethos.” But you can’t simply buy your way in; for Isha’s Kamala lots, the primary applicant must complete Inner Engineering Completion. For its studios and apartments, residents must be initiated into Shambhavi Mahamudra Kriya. The primary applicant must also participate in Kshetragna, which Isha describes as a lifelong commitment to daily spiritual practice under Sadhguru’s guidance. Tennessee regulators now describe the property as a 17,000-acre site, with another 102 residential lots planned for lease to Isha members. How are they able to do this? Well, Sadhguru does not generally present this as conventional religion. He describes yoga as a “technology” and “science” of inner transformation. Despite his characterization, Isha’s world is built around concepts like: Shiva as Adiyogi. Consecrated lingas. Linga Bhairavi. Karma. Liberation. Gurus. Devotion. Prana pratishtha. In other words: ideas, rituals and sacred forms deeply rooted in Hindu and yogic traditions are often presented to Western audiences as wellness, technology and self-development instead of “religion.” If you tell Americans “this is a Hindu spiritual tradition” they hear religion; but if you call Shiva, consecration, gurus and lifelong spiritual discipline “yogic technology,” many people hear meditation class. Now follow the network behind this compound. Sadhguru → ITServe Alliance Sadhguru was a keynote speaker at ITServe’s flagship Synergy conference. Isha → Sewa International Sewa partnered with Isha’s Save Soil campaign and mobilized its U.S. chapters behind it. Sewa has also explicitly listed Isha Foundation and Hindu Swayamsevak Sangh (HSS) as partner organizations at U.S. events. Then there’s RSS. Sadhguru participated in the Positivity Unlimited series coordinated by a group formed of the RSS and its affiliates. Even RSS chief Mohan Bhagwat participated in the same series. At what point does a “spiritual retreat” become a privately controlled town with its own rules about who gets to live there? Because 17,000 acres is a hell of a yoga studio.