Suryakund Construction - சூர்யகுண்டம் (Tamil w. English subtitles)

The construction of the Suryakund at the Dhyanalinga Yogic Temple, has been a massive effort. Like so many structures in Isha Yoga Center in Coimbatore, it has been built with granite -- built to last, not decades, not even centuries but thousands of years. The reason, as Sadhguru explains: “Because when we build a temple we want to ensure that it’s there for a long period of time. I am thinking five thousand years. I don’t want to build a temple in concrete, cement... which will collapse in a hundred years, because the energy process that we do will last easily for four, five thousand years. So we want the temple structure also to last that long.“ The excavation for the Suryakund started on 11 June 2011, and on 25 July 2011, a crane lowered the first block of stone, adorned with a garland, into the huge pit. Since then the ashram has become used to the constant sounds of drills and hammers, the incessant hum of machines as the work progressed at amazing speed. The Suryakund wa