Chennai/IBNS: The Madras High Court has questioned spiritual leader Sadhguru's intent behind encouraging others' daughters to live lives of hermitness when he got his own daughter married, media reports said.

A bench comprising Justices SM Subramaniam and V Sivagnanam asked Sadhguru after a retired professor alleged his two daughters have been "brainwashed" to turn into hermits and stay at Isha Yoga Centre under Isha Foundation run by the spiritual guru.

S Kamaraj, the professor, had filed a plea seeking his daughters' appearance in the court in person.

Kamaraj's two daughters- aged 42 and 39- said they joined Isha Foundation without any compulsion but their own will.

But that did not stop the court from raising questions. The judges asked the cops to investigate all the cases related to the foundation.

The High Court said as quoted by NDTV, "We want to know why a person who had given his daughter in marriage and made her settle well in life is encouraging the daughters of others to tonsure their heads and live the life of a hermitess."

"We believe that adult individuals have the freedom and wisdom to choose their paths. We do not impose marriage or monkhood, as these are personal choices. The Isha Yoga Centre accommodates thousands who are not monks, alongside a few who have embraced Brahmacharya or monkhood," it added.