[00:00.000 --> 00:16.240] Welcome to the podcast, Sadhguru, of Mystics and Mistakes.
[00:16.240 --> 00:25.040] Well, why this youth and truth and how it came about?
[00:25.040 --> 00:31.560] In the last thirty-six years that I've been active with people,
[00:31.560 --> 00:34.880] this is one question that keeps coming to me constantly.
[00:34.880 --> 00:38.520] It's a constant refrain from people.
[00:38.520 --> 00:40.960] Many, many thousands of people telling me this,
[00:40.960 --> 00:43.600] Sadhguru, when I was twenty, where were you?
[00:43.600 --> 00:47.040] Now you come when I'm sixty.
[00:47.040 --> 00:52.160] If you had come when I was twenty, I would have done this, I would have done that.
[00:52.240 --> 00:58.520] So I thought we will step out and meet all those people who are below twenty-five years of age.
[00:58.520 --> 01:01.920] And that's why the youth and truth.
[01:01.920 --> 01:04.240] So that...
[01:04.240 --> 01:12.160] So that you don't come back to me after a few years and again accuse me of the same thing, where were you?
[01:12.160 --> 01:14.280] Life...
[01:14.280 --> 01:19.720] When we say life, different people think of it in different ways.
[01:19.720 --> 01:29.240] But essentially, a certain amount of time and a certain amount of energy is what makes our life.
[01:29.240 --> 01:33.640] Time is going away for all of us at the same pace.
[01:33.640 --> 01:37.120] If you sit, it rolls, if you stand, it rolls.
[01:37.120 --> 01:40.680] If you're doing something, it rolls, if you're sleeping, it rolls.
[01:40.680 --> 01:46.800] No matter what you do or you do not do, time is rolling away for all of us at the same pace.
[01:46.800 --> 01:49.440] Or in other words, time is getting over.
[01:49.440 --> 01:50.440] Hello?
[01:50.440 --> 01:53.720] It's getting over, isn't it?
[01:53.720 --> 02:00.960] Since you came and sat here, you're thirty, forty minutes close... closer to your grave than what you were,
[02:00.960 --> 02:02.560] before you came into this hall.
[02:02.560 --> 02:03.840] That's how it is.
[02:03.840 --> 02:09.360] One may not look at it that way because most people think they're immortal.
[02:09.360 --> 02:11.080] Yes.
[02:11.080 --> 02:17.040] They go about their life like they're immortal, but actually time is getting over.
[02:17.040 --> 02:25.320] In southern India, for example, in Tamil, the word for death is kalamaitanga.
[02:25.320 --> 02:27.960] That means his time got over.
[02:27.960 --> 02:30.640] Actually, that's all that happened, isn't it?
[02:30.640 --> 02:32.240] Hello?
[02:32.240 --> 02:35.160] His time got over, that's all.
[02:35.160 --> 02:40.840] So time is rolling away, but life is also a certain amount of energy.
[02:40.840 --> 02:46.360] How we manage this energy determines who we are in this world.
[02:46.480 --> 02:48.240] How much energy do you have?
[02:48.240 --> 02:52.600] How well organized and managed is it will determine what you will do and what you will
[02:52.600 --> 02:53.600] not do.
[02:53.600 --> 02:59.120] The scale and scope of your life is determined by this.
[02:59.120 --> 03:08.240] When you are in this segment of life, which we refer to as youth, your energies are at
[03:08.240 --> 03:09.240] their peak.
[03:09.640 --> 03:16.560] It's a most exuberant level of energy in this segment of life that we refer to as youth.
[03:16.560 --> 03:19.240] Most youth do not understand this.
[03:19.240 --> 03:22.760] They think it is going to be like this for always.
[03:22.760 --> 03:25.440] It is not going to be like this for always.
[03:25.440 --> 03:28.560] You must just pay attention to the older people.
[03:28.560 --> 03:32.800] You will see energies are not at the same level of exuberance.
[03:32.800 --> 03:34.840] I am an exception, okay?
[03:40.240 --> 03:48.800] So, at this time, when our energies are at their best, if we bring little more clarity
[03:48.800 --> 03:57.680] and balance into our life, the way we utilize and organize this energy will become completely
[03:57.680 --> 03:58.800] different.
[03:58.800 --> 04:03.600] The problem with the youth is there are exuberant energy, but not enough clarity
[04:03.600 --> 04:05.600] and balance.
[04:05.600 --> 04:10.360] Where there is no clarity and balance, even if you have the most powerful thing in your
[04:10.360 --> 04:16.520] hands, if you do not have the necessary clarity and balance, it could just work against you
[04:16.520 --> 04:18.280] rather than for you.
[04:18.280 --> 04:22.120] So this is the purpose of Youth and Truth.
[04:22.120 --> 04:25.840] Now this campaign for a month, but we will not stop with this.
[04:25.840 --> 04:32.000] In the next two or three months, we will roll out what is called as tools for transformation.
[04:32.000 --> 04:36.040] This will be available on the app and in various other platforms.
[04:36.040 --> 04:40.280] We want the youth of this country to make use of this, because this is the only wealth
[04:40.280 --> 04:43.440] we have right now.
[04:43.440 --> 04:49.320] Wealth means, right now we have a huge youthful population, over fifty percent.
[04:49.320 --> 04:58.280] No other nation has this, but youth is a tremendous wealth only if they are inspired,
[04:58.280 --> 05:02.840] skilled, focused and balanced.
[05:02.840 --> 05:11.200] If they are imbalanced, uninspired, unfocused, unskilled, they are a recipe for disaster.
[05:11.200 --> 05:13.680] You understand?
[05:13.680 --> 05:19.760] So are we going to make this youthful energy in this country into a miraculous process,
[05:19.760 --> 05:25.240] which we can, or are we going to make it into a disaster, is in our hands.
[05:25.240 --> 05:27.240] It's for us to make this happen.
[05:27.240 --> 05:33.120] We as a generation of people, never before another generation has known these kind of
[05:33.120 --> 05:36.160] comforts, conveniences and possibilities.
[05:36.160 --> 05:41.520] And our ability to communicate today, we can sit here and talk to the entire world.
[05:41.520 --> 05:44.440] So this is our time on the planet.
[05:44.440 --> 05:46.320] This is our time on the planet.
[05:46.320 --> 05:50.920] We are not going to be here forever, but this is our time on the planet.
[05:50.920 --> 05:58.600] We have all the ingredients that if we have bring clarity and balance into our lives,
[05:58.600 --> 06:01.960] we can become the greatest generation ever.
[06:01.960 --> 06:03.920] We have the tools in our hand.
[06:03.920 --> 06:09.800] But will we use the tools to create this, or will we use all these technologies and
[06:09.800 --> 06:16.080] tools to destroy ourselves, depends on what kind of human beings we produce, particularly
[06:16.080 --> 06:17.080] youth?
[06:17.080 --> 06:22.040] Because they are going to be here longer than me and many others here.
[06:22.040 --> 06:25.280] Because you're going to occupy this planet longer than me.
[06:25.280 --> 06:30.880] So we wanted to see that you, if possible, we bring some clarity and balance into your
[06:30.880 --> 06:36.280] life so that this youthful exuberance becomes a great gift for this nation and the world.
[06:36.280 --> 06:44.760] Thank you, Sadhguru, for that youth and truth introduction.
[06:44.760 --> 06:48.880] But before starting those questions, I would like to thank you all for giving this a tremendous
[06:48.880 --> 06:51.560] response to the Youth and Truth event in VHU.
[06:51.560 --> 06:55.120] And I would like to thank you all as well as thanks to all those people, sir.
[06:55.120 --> 06:59.560] Outside also, more than five hundred people are sitting watching this live telecast.
[06:59.560 --> 07:02.960] So thanks to them also, they were not able to get the seat inside.
[07:02.960 --> 07:05.280] So thanks to all of them.
[07:05.280 --> 07:07.280] So getting on to the question, sir.
[07:07.280 --> 07:12.280] Sadhguru, when I try to see myself as a youth and when I try to see myself as a
[07:12.280 --> 07:18.080] bachelor's in university, then one feeling that hurts me the most is the unemployment
[07:18.080 --> 07:19.720] one.
[07:19.720 --> 07:25.320] And whatever the thing is, in the final year, I am not seeing about how many marks I should
[07:25.320 --> 07:28.160] get in the semester, but should I get the job?
[07:28.160 --> 07:30.680] That is the most important thing.
[07:30.680 --> 07:33.520] And then somehow I saw you.
[07:33.520 --> 07:36.520] I saw your job also very interesting.
[07:36.520 --> 07:37.520] And…
[07:37.520 --> 07:38.520] You can apply.
[07:38.520 --> 07:44.960] So the question is, sir, you just… you play with anacondas.
[07:44.960 --> 07:45.960] You go to…
[07:45.960 --> 07:46.960] No, anaconda.
[07:46.960 --> 07:47.960] Yes, you drive…
[07:47.960 --> 07:48.960] You drive…
[07:48.960 --> 07:49.960] You drive helicopters.
[07:49.960 --> 07:50.960] You drive…
[07:50.960 --> 07:51.960] That was just a Kinko brother, not anaconda.
[07:51.960 --> 07:52.960] You drive.
[07:52.960 --> 07:53.960] You drive everything.
[07:53.960 --> 07:54.960] So it… it gives me a very much interesting…
[07:54.960 --> 07:55.960] I am also afraid of the Kinko brother, but I won't do it.
[07:55.960 --> 08:08.480] Hey, you are… you are saying you are from the town of Shiva, he wore a snake always
[08:08.480 --> 08:09.480] around his neck.
[08:09.480 --> 08:10.480] And what?
[08:10.480 --> 08:11.480] Sir, okay.
[08:11.480 --> 08:12.480] But that is a good point, ultimately.
[08:12.480 --> 08:13.480] So… that I will check it out.
[08:13.480 --> 08:29.640] So, for me, how I should become like you, cool dude like that, okay?
[08:29.640 --> 08:33.400] You can apply for the job.
[08:33.400 --> 08:38.080] We will process the application, of course.
[08:38.080 --> 08:50.680] Let's say, we must understand this, in this country, in 1990, only seven percent of India
[08:50.680 --> 08:58.320] was employed, ninety-three percent was self-employed, all kinds of small businesses and things, because
[08:58.320 --> 09:01.760] there was really no organized employment.
[09:01.760 --> 09:07.640] Now I do not know the exact number, maybe it's gone to fifteen percent or twenty percent,
[09:08.200 --> 09:14.280] so still over eighty percent of the people are self-employed.
[09:14.280 --> 09:18.080] We are talking this employment business, already I'm in a lot of trouble on the social media
[09:18.080 --> 09:19.080] because of…
[09:19.080 --> 09:26.600] I spoke about employment in the IIM Bangalore, and these are all, you know, business masters
[09:26.600 --> 09:31.320] people, they're doing MBAs, and they're asking about employment.
[09:31.320 --> 09:38.560] And I said in a developed… in a developing country, you shouldn't be looking for employment.
[09:38.560 --> 09:44.160] A developing country means there are still lot of things to be done in this country.
[09:44.160 --> 09:49.960] When there are so many things to be done, instead of looking around and seeing as youth,
[09:49.960 --> 09:53.360] what can I do, and how can I make something out of that?
[09:53.360 --> 09:58.240] You are sitting and waiting for somebody to come and give you an employment.
[09:58.240 --> 10:05.600] Well, this language of what is the employment rate in the country comes from United States,
[10:05.600 --> 10:10.320] because almost everybody is employed except a small segment of entrepreneurs.
[10:10.320 --> 10:11.800] So that's a different nation.
[10:11.800 --> 10:13.720] This is a different nation.
[10:13.720 --> 10:18.480] Here there is no organized employment of that scale.
[10:18.480 --> 10:24.440] You cannot employ 1.3 billion people in a factory or an office or wherever else.
[10:24.440 --> 10:29.160] They have to find their way, and they are finding their way, the rural population is
[10:29.160 --> 10:30.160] not employed.
[10:30.160 --> 10:38.320] It's only the urban youth, the moment they get educated, somehow they get crippled.
[10:38.320 --> 10:42.480] Those who are not educated are finding a way to live, isn't it?
[10:42.480 --> 10:43.480] Hello?
[10:43.480 --> 10:52.120] Those who never went to the college, university, they're all finding a way to make a living.
[10:52.120 --> 10:57.600] But the moment you get educated, should you be more capable or less capable?
[10:57.600 --> 10:59.560] You should be more capable.
[10:59.560 --> 11:03.040] So you should give the employment to them and you should become the employer.
[11:03.040 --> 11:04.040] Yes?
[11:04.040 --> 11:09.320] Tell me if you look around in Kashi, aren't there a thousand things that you can see
[11:09.320 --> 11:13.200] on the street that you can take up and do and make a business out of it?
[11:13.200 --> 11:15.240] Can you or can you not?
[11:15.240 --> 11:16.800] There are.
[11:16.800 --> 11:19.640] So I'm not saying there should be no employment generation.
[11:19.640 --> 11:22.160] Yes, that needs to happen on one level.
[11:22.160 --> 11:27.600] But don't ever believe 1.3 billion people can be employed in a factory or office or some
[11:27.600 --> 11:29.800] organized sector, it's just not possible.
[11:29.800 --> 11:37.020] We don't have that level of organized employment generation and it's just not possible at all.
[11:37.020 --> 11:42.800] It is just that we have to see in a developing country how we can develop this country,
[11:42.800 --> 11:44.240] every one of us.
[11:44.240 --> 11:47.500] If you can't do it by yourself, ten of you should get together and do it.
[11:47.500 --> 11:51.660] But right now the problem is ten of you cannot get together, two people can't get together.
[11:51.660 --> 11:55.180] Plus say in this, huh?
[11:55.180 --> 12:01.180] If ten of you students get together, you think you can't start something and run successfully?
[12:01.180 --> 12:02.340] Can you or not?
[12:02.340 --> 12:03.340] You can.
[12:03.340 --> 12:07.820] But you ten people can't get together but you want to go into a company where there are
[12:07.820 --> 12:10.220] million people working together.
[12:10.220 --> 12:16.660] This is unrealistic.
[12:16.660 --> 12:20.200] So this is going to be super unpopular video, I know.
[12:20.200 --> 12:25.880] A whole lot of people, a whole lot of people, I'm on camera, a whole lot of people are going
[12:25.880 --> 12:31.420] to scream at me, oh, he's this, he's that, he doesn't know what is employment, oh, become
[12:31.420 --> 12:32.420] a guru.
[12:32.420 --> 12:36.800] Well, try, why don't you try?
[12:36.800 --> 12:38.660] You can try that also.
[12:38.660 --> 12:39.660] That is also useful.
[12:39.660 --> 12:47.500] Now after this event I will show you apply for being a mystic.
[12:47.500 --> 12:49.740] Oh, apply to be a mystic?
[12:49.740 --> 12:52.900] That you don't have to apply, anyway it happens.
[12:52.900 --> 12:59.660] No, you didn't get the part.
[12:59.660 --> 13:02.180] There is something called as mystic and a mystic.
[13:02.180 --> 13:16.580] In front of you there might be certain mistakes but I am totally into mystic, somebody say.
[13:16.580 --> 13:17.580] Probably not mischievous.
[13:17.580 --> 13:24.500] Okay, moving on, Sadhguru like you said that we need to club together and find your ways
[13:24.500 --> 13:31.300] to employ people and basically it highlights on us being ambitious.
[13:31.300 --> 13:36.460] So I am a very ambitious woman, I think, and I have whole lot of bucket list.
[13:36.460 --> 13:39.380] You have only thirty-two teeth to attend to.
[13:39.380 --> 13:40.380] That's not very ambitious.
[13:40.380 --> 13:42.380] No, but that's not it.
[13:42.380 --> 13:45.620] Do you think that I am a dentist and that is it?
[13:45.620 --> 13:52.580] No, there is more to write and that you, only you have professed in one of your videos.
[13:52.580 --> 13:58.460] So I want to ask that, yes, I'm very ambitious, I have whole lot of bucket list or things
[13:58.460 --> 14:01.100] that I want to do and I want to...
[14:01.100 --> 14:06.980] Bucket list is something that you do after your seventy, yeah?
[14:06.980 --> 14:07.980] Before you kick the bucket.
[14:07.980 --> 14:08.980] No, it's long.
[14:08.980 --> 14:10.980] I can't wait till I get seventy.
[14:10.980 --> 14:15.580] Anyways, but, sit there.
[14:15.580 --> 14:19.900] No, bucket list, you know how this came.
[14:19.900 --> 14:23.740] Bucket list means dying is considered kicking the bucket.
[14:23.740 --> 14:30.140] So bucket list you make just before few years before you die, some things that you have
[14:30.140 --> 14:31.140] not fulfilled.
[14:31.140 --> 14:34.140] For a young woman, no bucket list, okay?
[14:34.140 --> 14:39.460] A list full of dreams, I would call it.
[14:39.460 --> 14:44.900] But for each dream, for girls in this country, there is a price to pay.
[14:44.900 --> 14:48.060] There is a certain way in which society wants us.
[14:48.060 --> 14:53.740] There are unsaid rules obviously, like you behave in a manner and... or you keep your
[14:53.740 --> 14:57.220] heads down or don't speak much, all of that.
[14:57.220 --> 14:58.220] So...
[14:58.220 --> 15:15.140] Don't speak much is a good idea.
[15:15.140 --> 15:17.140] It's not a bad advice for anybody.
[15:17.140 --> 15:23.620] Now, now you are in Sivant Agree.
[15:23.620 --> 15:30.380] This was a serious question.
[15:30.380 --> 15:36.740] Okay, so to follow my dreams, sometimes I need to break some rules.
[15:36.740 --> 15:42.100] Or I... but I don't want to do it at cost of being dishonor or disrespect to my parents
[15:42.100 --> 15:43.100] or my loved ones.
[15:43.100 --> 15:46.500] I want to know, how do I be a obedient daughter?
[15:46.500 --> 15:58.100] But at the same time, an independent woman who lives her life on her own rules.
[15:58.100 --> 16:06.100] See, we want to do something that we want to do.
[16:06.100 --> 16:09.760] And we want to do it with everybody's approval.
[16:09.760 --> 16:12.820] And then we don't want to pay any price for it.
[16:12.820 --> 16:15.500] Life doesn't work like that.
[16:15.500 --> 16:20.740] When we do something that we really want to do, there is a price attached to it.
[16:20.740 --> 16:23.440] Because the nature of life is like that.
[16:23.440 --> 16:29.100] If you do a certain thing, there is a price to pay, there is tax for that.
[16:29.100 --> 16:38.860] What is the level of tax depends on how revolutionary is your idea.
[16:38.860 --> 16:44.820] So this is very unrealistic that people are always thinking, I want to do this, that,
[16:44.820 --> 16:52.860] but my father, well, you must be glad he brought you into this world.
[16:52.860 --> 16:55.820] Beyond that, don't complain, huh?
[16:55.820 --> 16:57.540] What is your father doing?
[16:57.540 --> 16:59.700] He's no... he's doing what he knows best.
[16:59.700 --> 17:00.700] Hello?
[17:00.700 --> 17:02.520] Yes or no?
[17:02.520 --> 17:04.840] What he knows best he is doing.
[17:04.840 --> 17:10.340] If you want to know, if you believe that you know something better than him, first
[17:10.340 --> 17:13.500] thing is you must be able to convince him.
[17:13.500 --> 17:18.100] But he is not able to grasp it, he will not be convinced.
[17:18.100 --> 17:23.700] Then how badly you want to do what you want to do, you must see whether it's worth going
[17:23.700 --> 17:25.900] beyond these lines.
[17:25.900 --> 17:30.860] If you decide it is so, that you... anyway you want to do it, no matter what is the price,
[17:30.860 --> 17:33.980] you do it, but there will be a price.
[17:33.980 --> 17:38.300] Now you want to say, I will do what I want, but there should be no price.
[17:38.300 --> 17:42.540] There is no such life anywhere, not here, not anywhere.
[17:42.540 --> 17:53.500] Questioner 2 Sadhguru, what opportunity it is that we have a yogi among us in the city
[17:53.500 --> 17:54.500] of the Adiyogi.
[17:54.500 --> 18:01.940] I relate my question to this, that we all know for sure that we'll be benefited that
[18:01.940 --> 18:02.940] you are here.
[18:02.940 --> 18:07.820] But do we have some special benefit of being in the city of Lord Shiva?
[18:07.820 --> 18:13.220] I mean, I do not experience it, are we being benefited directly or indirectly?
[18:13.220 --> 18:19.260] I will need a few minutes for this, okay?
[18:19.260 --> 18:28.500] As all of you already know probably, the word kashi means a tower of light.
[18:28.500 --> 18:35.180] When we use the word light, we use the word light for many things in human life, simply
[18:35.180 --> 18:41.260] because of the nature of our visual apparatus.
[18:41.260 --> 18:46.340] You have a sense of hearing, sense of smell, sense of taste, sense of touch, and you have
[18:46.340 --> 18:48.540] sense of sight.
[18:48.540 --> 18:55.900] Among all these five things, in the human being, the sense of sight is the most powerful
[18:55.900 --> 18:57.540] one.
[18:57.540 --> 19:02.660] How much life you drink through your nostrils, through your taste, to your touch and through
[19:02.660 --> 19:10.660] your ears, and how much life you drink through your eyes is very, very disproportionate.
[19:10.660 --> 19:18.100] Suppose you take a dog or any other carnivorous animal, he runs his life through smell.
[19:18.100 --> 19:22.740] You know, he finds his food that way, he finds it made that way, that's how he finds his
[19:22.740 --> 19:25.180] way wherever he wants to go.
[19:25.180 --> 19:28.380] For him, sense of smell is dominant.
[19:28.380 --> 19:35.380] But for a human being, sense of sight is so dominant that our sense of sight functions
[19:35.380 --> 19:37.260] best when there is light.
[19:37.260 --> 19:42.780] So whenever we see something, we say, it's light.
[19:42.780 --> 19:48.100] When we see something new, we say a new light has come, no new light has come, we are just
[19:48.100 --> 19:49.700] seeing better.
[19:49.700 --> 19:53.020] Because we're seeing better, we refer to that as light.
[19:53.020 --> 19:57.500] So in that context, this is a tower of light.
[19:57.500 --> 20:01.420] This means they built a machine.
[20:01.420 --> 20:05.620] I'm calling this a machine because you're in the university.
[20:05.620 --> 20:09.360] Essentially it's called a yantra.
[20:09.360 --> 20:14.700] The word yantra today also in English translates as a machine.
[20:14.700 --> 20:17.700] Why do we build a machine?
[20:17.700 --> 20:22.380] See because we are able to walk, we came up with a bicycle.
[20:22.380 --> 20:26.900] When we got tired of walking, we came up with a bicycle.
[20:26.900 --> 20:27.900] Why?
[20:27.900 --> 20:30.460] Because we are able to locomote.
[20:30.460 --> 20:33.540] But now we want our locomotion to be far more effective.
[20:33.540 --> 20:38.500] So we came up with a bicycle, then we powered it, it became a motorcycle, then it became
[20:38.500 --> 20:41.140] an airplane, then it became many, many things.
[20:41.140 --> 20:44.940] But suppose you were made like a tree, rooted to one place, would you have thought of
[20:44.940 --> 20:46.820] a bicycle?
[20:46.820 --> 20:47.820] Would you?
[20:47.820 --> 20:48.820] No.
[20:48.820 --> 20:53.940] Now that we can speak, we have a microphone, we have a telephone, we have all kinds of
[20:53.940 --> 20:55.180] phones.
[20:55.180 --> 21:01.500] Now that we can see, we have a periscope, microscope, telescope, all kinds of scopes.
[21:01.500 --> 21:06.700] Every machine that we have created is only an extension of the existing faculties that
[21:06.700 --> 21:08.540] we already have.
[21:08.540 --> 21:14.020] We have not come up with any machine which does something totally different from what
[21:14.020 --> 21:15.460] we are able to do.
[21:15.460 --> 21:18.260] It only extends our ability.
[21:18.260 --> 21:23.620] Because we cannot create a machine which does something different because we don't know
[21:23.620 --> 21:25.500] what the difference is.
[21:25.500 --> 21:33.220] We have no way of exploring something beyond our existing faculties, isn't it?
[21:33.220 --> 21:40.580] We can only extend our faculties, we cannot create a new faculty as such.
[21:40.580 --> 21:44.140] So we built various kinds of yantras.
[21:44.140 --> 21:50.660] As we built bicycles, motorcycles, microphones, microscopes and various things, we built
[21:50.660 --> 21:55.500] other kinds of machines which were essentially energy machines.
[21:55.500 --> 21:59.620] Because we understood where there is a physical machine, there'll be friction, there'll be
[21:59.620 --> 22:03.760] a lifespan, there'll be maintenance and various other aspects.
[22:03.760 --> 22:09.060] So we built machines which are pure energy machines, giving it a form by giving a physical
[22:09.060 --> 22:10.900] foundation to it.
[22:10.900 --> 22:15.700] Small machines, big machines, all kinds of things were built for specific purposes.
[22:15.700 --> 22:18.820] This is what you call as a deity in this country.
[22:18.820 --> 22:23.380] In this country, I want you to listen to me carefully, not react to this simply.
[22:23.380 --> 22:28.700] We are a godless culture, we don't have the god anywhere.
[22:28.700 --> 22:32.980] All the people whom you worship, or people who walk this geography at some time, isn't
[22:32.980 --> 22:35.460] it so?
[22:35.460 --> 22:40.820] We worship them, not because they dropped from the sky, not because they flew in the air,
[22:40.820 --> 22:43.540] not because they walked up on the water, no.
[22:43.540 --> 22:48.740] We worship them because they exhibited an extraordinary sense of freedom.
[22:48.740 --> 22:53.260] No matter what life did to them, they remained free from that.
[22:53.260 --> 22:58.700] You look at their lives and see, their lives are not free from strife, their lives are
[22:58.700 --> 23:02.500] much more strife than your life, isn't it?
[23:02.500 --> 23:08.900] Far more strife, far more dramatic strife, wars and tragedies and all kinds.
[23:08.900 --> 23:16.300] In all this, they remained unmoved, balanced, not becoming a reactive force, but continuing
[23:16.300 --> 23:17.980] to be involved with life.
[23:17.980 --> 23:21.020] They did not withdraw, nor did they become angry.
[23:21.020 --> 23:25.180] They stayed there and did what they had to do, whatever they could do.
[23:25.180 --> 23:31.700] Many times most of their activities ended up in failure, but the man is a victory because
[23:31.700 --> 23:36.140] it never… what happened around him never determined who he is.
[23:36.140 --> 23:43.980] This is why in this culture we held freedom, liberation or mukti as the highest goal.
[23:43.980 --> 23:48.460] God is not the goal, mukti is the goal, moksha is the goal, isn't it?
[23:48.460 --> 23:53.780] If you listen to the conversations of your mothers or maybe grandmothers, daily conversation
[23:53.780 --> 23:56.700] never happened, not spiritual conversation.
[23:56.700 --> 24:02.220] Daily conversation never happened without uttering words like karma, prarabdha, mukti, moksha.
[24:02.220 --> 24:06.660] This was like everyday conversation, especially in this city.
[24:06.660 --> 24:12.660] People came here just for that, not looking for God, looking for freedom, isn't it?
[24:12.660 --> 24:21.300] So they built this phenomenal machine, but the vagaries of time, invasions, ignorance,
[24:21.300 --> 24:28.100] various things destroyed this machine or damaged this machine at various levels, but still
[24:28.100 --> 24:29.740] it's a fantastic machine.
[24:29.980 --> 24:36.060] It's not in its full flow, but still it is great and fantastic machine.
[24:36.060 --> 24:39.340] And will anybody benefit from that in being in its umbrella?
[24:39.340 --> 24:42.820] Of course they will, but we must understand this.
[24:44.420 --> 24:50.580] Even if the full moon has come up, if your eyes are closed, maybe your blood will surge
[24:50.580 --> 24:55.340] up a bit, but you will miss the beauty and the whole thing about it.
[24:55.420 --> 25:01.460] The same goes to everything, because whatever we are not conscious of in some way will not
[25:01.460 --> 25:03.300] exist for us, isn't it?
[25:03.300 --> 25:04.300] Hmm?
[25:04.300 --> 25:08.860] Whatever we are not conscious of will not exist for us even if it's there in a very
[25:08.860 --> 25:10.500] big presence.
[25:10.500 --> 25:16.340] So are you benefiting from it definitely on one level, but are you taking full benefit
[25:16.340 --> 25:17.340] of it?
[25:17.340 --> 25:18.700] I don't think so.
[25:18.700 --> 25:23.080] When I look at the people, the way they're moving around, they will see pilgrims coming
[25:23.080 --> 25:27.000] like this with tears in their eyes, but these people are going like this, about that little
[25:27.000 --> 25:30.000] danda that they're doing.
[25:30.000 --> 25:36.320] So you may not benefit fully from it unless you're conscious, because subtler aspects of
[25:36.320 --> 25:41.440] life especially will not come to you unless you consciously become receptive.
[25:41.440 --> 25:47.760] So this is very important, unfortunately people have started referring to Kashi as the maka
[25:47.760 --> 25:50.000] of the Hindus and all this stuff.
[25:50.000 --> 25:54.480] This is not a maka, this is… you're not going there to seek God's grace or something
[25:54.480 --> 26:01.920] else, you are coming here because this place represents mukti or liberation or freedom.
[26:08.920 --> 26:15.760] The next question that we had is, which was very common thing that the students have had
[26:15.760 --> 26:19.920] is, I am a suffer-and-silence kind of a person.
[26:19.920 --> 26:26.640] Because I believe that if I show my vulnerable side to the society, they might use it against
[26:26.640 --> 26:27.720] me.
[26:27.720 --> 26:30.860] So I carry a shield and go… go out to the world.
[26:30.860 --> 26:37.400] So I want to ask if it is okay to show our emotions that… that does make us weak or
[26:37.400 --> 26:42.680] we can carry a shield and maybe suffer in ourselves for some time.
[26:42.920 --> 26:52.440] No, you're… you're asking this question as if suffering is very natural to you.
[26:52.440 --> 26:56.360] Suffering is not natural to you, I want you to understand.
[26:56.360 --> 27:04.280] See there is something called as pain and there is something called as suffering.
[27:04.280 --> 27:08.960] If I put a pin into your body, there is pain.
[27:08.960 --> 27:13.440] But whether you suffer that or not is your choice.
[27:13.440 --> 27:16.520] Many times, many things that hurt you, you don't suffer.
[27:16.520 --> 27:18.480] Have you seen this?
[27:18.480 --> 27:24.240] Let's say you want to climb up the mountain or you want to swim across Ganga.
[27:24.240 --> 27:28.840] Every muscle in the body may pain, but the moment you reach that side with this painful
[27:28.840 --> 27:31.640] body you are so joyful.
[27:31.640 --> 27:36.200] Yes or no?
[27:36.200 --> 27:42.320] So pain is not necessarily suffering, pain need not translate into suffering.
[27:42.320 --> 27:48.280] Pain is the natural process in the body, it's very good for you, yes?
[27:48.280 --> 27:55.680] Because if there was no pain in the body, most people would not know how to even preserve
[27:55.680 --> 27:58.000] their physical bodies.
[27:58.000 --> 28:05.480] See wherever there is no pain, what all they have done to it, if there was no pain in
[28:05.480 --> 28:10.640] your nose, in the name of fashion you would have cut it in so many ways.
[28:10.640 --> 28:14.840] If there was no pain at all in your body, you would walk on the street with your intestines
[28:14.840 --> 28:18.440] in your hands.
[28:18.440 --> 28:29.640] Yes, maybe on the stomach bag you could put Gucci and go, don't tell me you won't do
[28:29.640 --> 28:30.640] these things.
[28:30.640 --> 28:35.320] If there is no pain at all, wouldn't you have pulled it out?
[28:35.320 --> 28:37.520] Come on.
[28:37.520 --> 28:41.480] You would have done all kinds, it's only the pain which is keeping you.
[28:41.480 --> 28:45.240] You are walking on the street, if a bicycle comes you step back, do you believe it's
[28:45.240 --> 28:49.080] because of humility?
[28:49.080 --> 28:51.280] Consequence of pain, isn't it?
[28:51.280 --> 28:56.200] If there was no pain, even if a truck came you would go like this.
[28:56.200 --> 28:59.680] Lot of people are going like that in spite of the pain.
[28:59.680 --> 29:05.160] The consequence of pain is the only thing which has allowed you to preserve your own
[29:05.160 --> 29:07.040] body, isn't it?
[29:07.040 --> 29:12.880] So I am saying unfortunately most human beings are in that state, if there was no pain they
[29:12.880 --> 29:16.320] would have cut themselves into pieces.
[29:16.320 --> 29:20.320] So pain is good for you because it's keeping you in one piece otherwise you would carry
[29:20.320 --> 29:22.880] your head in your hand and walk around.
[29:22.880 --> 29:29.660] Yes, you've seen such imagery.
[29:29.660 --> 29:33.660] So suffering is something that you do mentally.
[29:33.660 --> 29:35.740] This is your choice.
[29:35.740 --> 29:40.960] Either you can suffer or you need not suffer or you can enjoy the same thing.
[29:40.960 --> 29:45.560] Many people are enjoying many painful things, isn't it?
[29:45.560 --> 29:50.380] So you're talking about like all the time you're suffering, should I show it or not
[29:50.380 --> 29:52.180] show it?
[29:52.180 --> 29:55.800] Whether you show it or you don't show it is visible.
[29:55.800 --> 29:59.840] If you're suffering, is it not visible on your face?
[29:59.840 --> 30:03.360] You may pretend but everybody knows.
[30:03.360 --> 30:06.920] Everybody except those who did not bother to look at your face.
[30:06.920 --> 30:10.600] All those people know that you're in suffering, isn't it so?
[30:10.600 --> 30:16.280] They may just keep quiet because they don't want to intrude into your private suffering.
[30:16.280 --> 30:20.960] And suffering is always a private hell, it's never public, please say, because it happens
[30:20.960 --> 30:22.540] within you.
[30:22.540 --> 30:27.940] So why are we making ourselves into such a mess?
[30:27.940 --> 30:40.380] Simply because we do not know or... please.
[30:40.380 --> 30:52.180] If I hear music, I will laugh.
[30:52.180 --> 30:59.140] Most people after thirty, forty, fifty, sixty years of living here still have not figured
[30:59.140 --> 31:03.780] out how to handle their thought and emotion.
[31:03.780 --> 31:04.780] How unfortunate.
[31:04.780 --> 31:06.100] When are they going to learn?
[31:06.100 --> 31:09.540] After thousand years?
[31:09.540 --> 31:13.100] People are pretending as if they have a ten-thousand-year lifespan.
[31:13.100 --> 31:17.060] At fifty if you don't know how to handle your thought and emotion, when are you going
[31:17.060 --> 31:19.420] to learn, I'm asking.
[31:19.420 --> 31:24.740] This is simply because they gave you a super, super sophisticated machine.
[31:24.740 --> 31:26.360] Do you agree with me?
[31:26.360 --> 31:30.260] This is the most sophisticated machine on the planet?
[31:30.260 --> 31:32.500] Have you read the user's manual?
[31:32.500 --> 31:34.500] No?
[31:34.500 --> 31:37.260] That's all the problem is, not suffering.
[31:37.260 --> 31:38.660] Hmm?
[31:38.660 --> 31:44.900] Questioner 2 – Sadhguru, last year in this month only, in the month of September, there
[31:44.900 --> 31:49.300] was a very big movement, a student movement, particularly the girls came out.
[31:49.300 --> 31:51.540] They were running for some of their rights.
[31:51.540 --> 31:55.580] And nowadays, in few years, few last few years, we have seen a number of movements
[31:55.580 --> 31:59.900] happening in our different universities, different colleges.
[31:59.900 --> 32:04.980] My question is that, do you think these movements which are led by students particularly
[32:04.980 --> 32:11.220] are based on ideologies or are they just the reaction of something?
[32:11.660 --> 32:21.140] Well, see, every human being would like some sense of justice and balance in the situations
[32:21.140 --> 32:23.660] in which they exist.
[32:23.660 --> 32:30.820] Whether it's home or university or street, you want some sense of equity in what's
[32:30.820 --> 32:31.820] happening.
[32:31.820 --> 32:34.060] Even within the home, there is injustice.
[32:34.060 --> 32:36.700] Many times we fight, isn't it?
[32:36.700 --> 32:37.700] Hello?
[32:37.700 --> 32:38.700] Participants – Yes.
[32:39.500 --> 32:44.580] So the same thing in the university, the same thing on the street, same everywhere.
[32:44.580 --> 32:49.660] But what we need to understand is, let's take family as a structure.
[32:49.660 --> 32:52.980] There is a structure, something is being managed.
[32:52.980 --> 32:58.380] Your parents are not experts in all kinds of justice systems and ideologies and everything.
[32:58.380 --> 33:00.540] They're just doing what they know best.
[33:00.540 --> 33:01.540] Yes?
[33:01.540 --> 33:05.180] Out of their love and concern, they're doing what they know best.
[33:05.180 --> 33:06.460] Is it always perfect?
[33:06.620 --> 33:09.620] No, parents are never perfect, isn't it?
[33:09.620 --> 33:10.620] Hello?
[33:10.620 --> 33:11.620] Participants – Yes.
[33:11.620 --> 33:16.740] They're never perfect, they're doing their best, what they know best.
[33:16.740 --> 33:23.780] Maybe you as a young person think what they're doing is no good, maybe, but they're
[33:23.780 --> 33:24.780] doing their best.
[33:24.780 --> 33:30.460] If they're not doing their best, we can remind them, you're not doing your best,
[33:30.460 --> 33:31.460] then I will not…
[33:31.460 --> 33:33.700] I will not do my best if this happens.
[33:34.220 --> 33:39.500] Or a more creative way of doing things is, when they don't do their best, you really
[33:39.500 --> 33:43.220] do your best, so that they will feel, oh, what am I doing?
[33:43.220 --> 33:44.220] Yes?
[33:44.220 --> 33:47.060] These are different ways to correct a situation.
[33:47.060 --> 33:52.860] But there are certain people who think, if a thorn gets into their foot, they believe
[33:52.860 --> 33:55.860] you must cut off the leg.
[33:55.860 --> 33:58.220] There are lot of people like this.
[33:58.220 --> 34:01.380] If a thorn got into your foot, what should you do?
[34:01.380 --> 34:05.780] Simply remove the thorn and walk on, isn't it?
[34:05.780 --> 34:09.220] But right now, there are many people, if thorn gets into the foot, they will claim,
[34:09.220 --> 34:14.580] come on, let's amputate the leg, let's amputate the leg, campaign will start.
[34:18.580 --> 34:19.580] Before…
[34:19.580 --> 34:25.860] Before we protest and deride somebody else, try to pull somebody else down, we must take
[34:25.860 --> 34:27.460] little time and see.
[34:27.460 --> 34:33.380] Suppose, if I am in that place, if all these people are saying thousand different things,
[34:33.380 --> 34:36.060] how would I manage?
[34:36.060 --> 34:37.380] You must see this.
[34:37.380 --> 34:41.780] Right now, the people who are managing the situation, are there some superhuman beings,
[34:41.780 --> 34:46.620] they know how to do everything, they don't know, they are trying to do their best.
[34:46.620 --> 34:50.500] If they're not doing their best, we can key them up a little bit.
[34:50.500 --> 34:51.980] We should…
[34:51.980 --> 34:55.420] We should remind them that they should do their best.
[34:55.420 --> 35:01.140] But expecting a miraculous situation, where thousand people in India, if there are three
[35:01.140 --> 35:06.340] people, there are five opinions, all right?
[35:06.340 --> 35:10.820] So we are such a country where for everything we have a question, even if so-called divine
[35:10.820 --> 35:15.580] entities come, we just barrage of questions, we throw at them.
[35:15.580 --> 35:16.580] Yes or no?
[35:16.580 --> 35:20.460] When Shiva comes, we throw questions, Krishna comes, we throw questions.
[35:20.460 --> 35:24.420] Whoever comes, we throw thousands of questions, we are that kind of people.
[35:24.420 --> 35:29.300] So naturally there will be many things, it's okay, we are that kind of people.
[35:29.300 --> 35:33.340] But questioning something is one thing.
[35:33.340 --> 35:37.220] Always trying to dismantle the existing structure is another thing.
[35:37.220 --> 35:42.980] If you dismantle the existing structure, are you capable of creating a better structure?
[35:42.980 --> 35:46.460] This is something you must consider.
[35:46.460 --> 35:51.540] Right now, the existing structure may be lousy.
[35:51.540 --> 35:55.020] The existing structure may be utterly lousy.
[35:55.020 --> 36:01.940] But the question is, right now, are we competent, do we have the resource, do we have the time
[36:01.940 --> 36:03.740] to create a better structure?
[36:03.740 --> 36:06.020] This is something we must look at.
[36:06.020 --> 36:12.020] The problem right now is, we are going about busy judging everybody.
[36:12.020 --> 36:16.380] The kind of judgments that we ourselves will not pass.
[36:16.380 --> 36:20.500] Can I tell you a joke?
[36:20.500 --> 36:24.340] A lady went into the butcher's shop.
[36:24.340 --> 36:30.500] You know all those chicken, they were all hanging there, dressed chicken.
[36:30.500 --> 36:35.380] Somehow for some reason, feathers are the dress of the chicken, we pull off all their
[36:35.380 --> 36:40.940] feathers and then we say they are dressed.
[36:40.940 --> 36:46.140] They were colorfully dressed, but we pulled off everything, then we say they are dressed.
[36:46.140 --> 36:52.220] So this dress chicken were hanging there, dead of course.
[36:52.220 --> 37:00.160] The lady went there and lifted one wing, wrinkled her nose, lifted one leg, wrinkled her nose.
[37:00.160 --> 37:04.140] Like this she went from chicken to chicken, chicken to chicken.
[37:04.140 --> 37:07.500] There were many other customers, they were all feeling uneasy because the way she is
[37:07.500 --> 37:13.540] wrinkling her nose, maybe they are old, maybe it's getting rotten, they are all looking.
[37:13.540 --> 37:18.480] The butcher saw that it's going to seriously affect his business this way.
[37:18.480 --> 37:22.480] So he went and tapped her on the shoulder, she looked back.
[37:22.480 --> 37:31.040] He asked, man, would you pass a test like that?
[37:31.040 --> 37:34.660] This is all you have to check, would you pass a test like that?
[37:34.660 --> 37:44.660] So Sadhguruji, when I started saying you are a cool dude and I saw you, I am following
[37:44.660 --> 37:48.660] you from the last three to four years and you have been doing Rally for Rivers, Youth
[37:48.660 --> 37:51.660] and Truth also is the idea that you have invented.
[37:51.660 --> 37:53.660] Luckily, if you hold it little.
[37:53.660 --> 38:01.660] Youth and Truth idea that you invented and Rally for Rivers also, sometimes I think that
[38:01.660 --> 38:03.660] you have a lot of responsibilities for this.
[38:03.660 --> 38:08.660] And I have seen your video, in one video you are saying that you are working for 16 to 18
[38:08.660 --> 38:12.660] hours a day because you are made to work because you need to work for this country.
[38:12.660 --> 38:14.660] In one of the videos I saw it.
[38:14.660 --> 38:16.660] A lot of responsibilities on your side.
[38:16.660 --> 38:18.660] Lot, lot of responsibilities.
[38:18.660 --> 38:19.660] All of it.
[38:19.660 --> 38:21.660] All of it, a lot of responsibilities.
[38:21.660 --> 38:26.660] So either you can just transfer to some of them, to me also.
[38:26.660 --> 38:28.660] But the thing is that…
[38:28.660 --> 38:30.660] When you apply, we will consider.
[38:30.660 --> 38:33.660] I will be applying by tomorrow, sir.
[38:33.660 --> 38:39.660] So the thing is that what I feel that sometimes or the other, there are certain few
[38:39.660 --> 38:42.660] peoples who are taking the responsibility.
[38:42.660 --> 38:46.660] But many times people are scared of the responsibilities, taking the responsibilities.
[38:46.660 --> 38:50.660] You have taken the responsibilities for rivers, for others, for planting trees and other things.
[38:50.660 --> 38:51.660] For you also.
[38:51.660 --> 38:53.660] For me also, Youth and Truth.
[38:53.660 --> 38:58.660] But there is certain times when the people are scared of responsibility.
[38:58.660 --> 38:59.660] Yes.
[38:59.660 --> 39:05.660] It doesn't taste good like chicken or something else.
[39:05.660 --> 39:09.660] See, responsibility.
[39:09.660 --> 39:12.660] Does everybody hear that word clearly?
[39:12.660 --> 39:17.660] Responsibility means responsibility.
[39:17.660 --> 39:20.660] Your ability to respond.
[39:20.660 --> 39:27.660] I am asking you, would you like to retain your ability to respond to every dimension
[39:27.660 --> 39:29.660] of life that you face?
[39:29.660 --> 39:31.660] I am asking you.
[39:31.660 --> 39:33.660] Hello?
[39:33.660 --> 39:35.660] Some of you are saying no.
[39:35.660 --> 39:36.660] Why?
[39:36.660 --> 39:38.660] If you have no respond…
[39:38.660 --> 39:45.660] If you don't have the ability to respond, that is when you feel fearful, helpless.
[39:45.660 --> 39:50.660] If you retain the ability to respond, whatever can be done, you will do.
[39:50.660 --> 39:56.660] In your life, if you do not do what you cannot do, no problem.
[39:56.660 --> 40:01.660] But if you do not do what you can do, you're a disaster.
[40:01.660 --> 40:04.660] I am not a disaster.
[40:04.660 --> 40:08.660] Everything that I can do, I will do, will everything happen?
[40:08.660 --> 40:10.660] Maybe not.
[40:10.660 --> 40:14.660] Let me tell you, how big a failure I am.
[40:14.660 --> 40:17.660] Okay? Is that okay?
[40:17.660 --> 40:25.660] When actually yesterday, twenty-third of September is thirty-six years since certain things happen
[40:25.660 --> 40:28.660] within me and my life dramatically changed.
[40:28.660 --> 40:33.660] I was going about my business, successful, making money, everything good.
[40:33.660 --> 40:38.660] But suddenly this experience hit me in such a big way, everything changed.
[40:38.660 --> 40:41.660] It was on that little hill called Chamundi in Mysore.
[40:41.660 --> 40:45.660] It was on twenty-third of September, 1982.
[40:45.660 --> 40:54.660] So, on this day I happened to be in Kashi, thanks to all of you for having me.
[40:54.660 --> 41:01.660] So when this happened, I'm just sitting there doing nothing.
[41:01.660 --> 41:06.660] Simply, every cell in my body is exploding with ecstasy.
[41:06.660 --> 41:08.660] I thought, this is it.
[41:08.660 --> 41:16.660] I've discovered something that if you don't do anything, you will be overflowing with ecstasy.
[41:16.660 --> 41:18.660] There's really no problem.
[41:18.660 --> 41:21.660] Then I made a plan.
[41:21.660 --> 41:27.660] In two-and-a-half years' time, at that time the human population was 5.6 billion people.
[41:27.660 --> 41:28.660] So I made a plan.
[41:28.660 --> 41:35.660] In two-and-a-half years' time, I will make the entire population blissful because I know the technology.
[41:35.660 --> 41:37.660] You don't have to do anything.
[41:37.660 --> 41:42.660] Simply, if you sit here not doing anything, everything will explode.
[41:42.660 --> 41:47.660] See, thirty-six years, huh?
[41:47.660 --> 41:51.660] I'm still talking to you, not yet gotten you, okay?
[41:51.660 --> 41:56.660] Maybe we've touched over five-hundred million people, but that's not my idea of the world.
[41:56.660 --> 42:00.660] There are seven-point-six billion people.
[42:00.660 --> 42:08.660] So I know I will die a terrible failure, but I will die blissfully because everything that I can do, I've done.
[42:08.660 --> 42:11.660] Successful failure, can be a good one for you.
[42:11.660 --> 42:15.660] No, blissful failure.
[42:15.660 --> 42:26.660] So, now in your life, the choice is this, you can have one constipated desire, okay?
[42:26.660 --> 42:31.660] My only ambition is, I want to build one little house for myself.
[42:31.660 --> 42:38.660] That happened and you're a success, but a stupid success, constipated success.
[42:38.660 --> 42:43.660] My wish for all of you young people is, you must have that kind of a desire,
[42:43.660 --> 42:46.660] which cannot be fulfilled in this life.
[42:46.660 --> 42:53.660] If you take two steps in that direction, if your desire…
[42:53.660 --> 42:59.660] if your desire for well-being includes everybody, if your desire is all-inclusive,
[42:59.660 --> 43:03.660] most probably it will not happen before you die, isn't it?
[43:03.660 --> 43:09.660] But you took a few steps in that direction, that's great.
[43:09.660 --> 43:14.660] Instead of having a constipated desire and you had it fulfilled in next five years
[43:14.660 --> 43:18.660] and you think you're on top of the world, what is the point of such a desire?
[43:18.660 --> 43:22.660] So, I'm wishing you failure, I want you to understand.
[43:22.660 --> 43:30.660] But a blissful failure, because the only reason…
[43:30.660 --> 43:38.660] the only reason you suffer responsibility is you're always afraid whether it'll happen or not happen.
[43:38.660 --> 43:40.660] Why are you afraid of that?
[43:40.660 --> 43:48.660] Because your joy, your happiness, your peacefulness is dependent upon how the world responds to you,
[43:48.660 --> 43:49.660] not how you are.
[43:49.660 --> 43:52.660] First let me ask you this fundamental question.
[43:52.660 --> 43:56.660] You are referred to as a human being, yes?
[43:56.660 --> 43:58.660] Human being.
[43:58.660 --> 44:06.660] We did not call other creatures tiger being, ant being, elephant being, we did not call them that, yes?
[44:06.660 --> 44:08.660] We called this one as human being.
[44:08.660 --> 44:13.660] What it means is, this one knows how to be.
[44:13.660 --> 44:19.660] They all exist in reaction to outside situations, but this one knows how to be.
[44:19.660 --> 44:24.660] This is why we know how to respond, not react, how to respond.
[44:24.660 --> 44:28.660] This is why this is a responsible creature.
[44:28.660 --> 44:33.660] If you know how to be, would you keep yourself blissful or miserable?
[44:33.660 --> 44:34.660] Blissful.
[44:34.660 --> 44:38.660] If you're blissful, what is the consequence of your action?
[44:38.660 --> 44:39.660] Would it really matter?
[44:39.660 --> 44:40.660] You'll do your best.
[44:40.660 --> 44:41.660] If it happens, it happens.
[44:41.660 --> 44:43.660] If it doesn't happen, it doesn't happen.
[44:43.660 --> 44:45.660] Hello?
[44:45.660 --> 44:50.660] But when you're shit scared of what will happen, what will happen, what will happen,
[44:50.660 --> 44:57.660] you will reduce your desire and responsibility so small, essentially because of fear, isn't it?
[44:57.660 --> 45:01.660] But if you're really blissful by your own nature, you know how to be.
[45:01.660 --> 45:04.660] If you're a human being, you know how to be.
[45:04.660 --> 45:09.660] If you know how to be, does it matter how far your actions go or do not go?
[45:09.660 --> 45:14.660] Our actions will depend on the times in which we exist, isn't it?
[45:14.660 --> 45:18.660] People are... you know, like I was at the World Economic Forum,
[45:18.660 --> 45:21.660] and all these people usually coming and saying many things like this.
[45:21.660 --> 45:24.660] One professor from the Harvard University comes up to me,
[45:24.660 --> 45:28.660] oh, you're that amazing tree planter?
[45:28.660 --> 45:33.660] I say, no, no, I'm not a tree planter.
[45:33.660 --> 45:35.660] Then, no, no, you planted millions of trees.
[45:35.660 --> 45:42.660] Yes, I planted, but I'm not a tree planter.
[45:42.660 --> 45:44.660] Then he asked, what do you do?
[45:44.660 --> 45:49.660] I said, I make people flower.
[45:49.660 --> 45:56.660] So why I planted trees is not because I am a tree planter,
[45:56.660 --> 46:01.660] simply because, you know, one day it happened,
[46:01.660 --> 46:05.660] two men were working, government employees.
[46:05.660 --> 46:08.660] One man was digging on the roadside,
[46:08.660 --> 46:13.660] behind him another man was coming and closing these pits and coming.
[46:13.660 --> 46:15.660] Somebody else was passing by,
[46:15.660 --> 46:18.660] they saw this ridiculous activity and they backed up
[46:18.660 --> 46:20.660] and they came and said, hey, what are you doing here?
[46:20.660 --> 46:23.660] This guy is digging, this guy is closing.
[46:23.660 --> 46:24.660] What is this?
[46:24.660 --> 46:28.660] They said, no, no, I'm doing my job, he's doing his job.
[46:28.660 --> 46:38.660] The in-between person was a tree planter, he is missing.
[46:38.660 --> 46:44.660] Because... because that tree planter has been on a leave for a long time,
[46:44.660 --> 46:47.660] I stepped in, I'm not a tree planter.
[46:47.660 --> 46:50.660] Nor am I a river saver.
[46:50.660 --> 46:51.660] Okay?
[46:51.660 --> 47:00.660] Because that person is missing, I stepped in.
[47:00.660 --> 47:02.660] Interviewer – Sadhguru, as we grow up,
[47:02.660 --> 47:08.660] we are often told or it is fed in our minds in childhood that life is a race.
[47:08.660 --> 47:11.660] You need to keep running and be perfect.
[47:11.660 --> 47:13.660] Sadhguru – Oh!
[47:14.660 --> 47:15.660] Interviewer – You are a driver also, sir.
[47:15.660 --> 47:16.660] You are a driver also, sir.
[47:16.660 --> 47:17.660] You are a driver also, sir.
[47:17.660 --> 47:19.660] You drive bikes, sir.
[47:19.660 --> 47:22.660] That was the main advertisement that we put up in the...
[47:22.660 --> 47:26.660] Sadhguru – No, if life is a race,
[47:26.660 --> 47:29.660] if life is a race, you must win it, isn't it?
[47:29.660 --> 47:31.660] Winning it means what?
[47:31.660 --> 47:37.660] You must get to the finish line today.
[47:37.660 --> 47:41.660] Harishandra Ghat.
[47:41.660 --> 47:52.660] You can choose Manikarnika or Harishandra Ghat, which one is your choice?
[47:52.660 --> 47:53.660] Hello?
[47:53.660 --> 47:59.660] If it's a race, you must cross the finish line ahead of everybody else, isn't it?
[47:59.660 --> 48:03.660] So whoever this idiot who is telling you life is a race,
[48:03.660 --> 48:11.660] ask them to finish, cross the finish line.
[48:11.660 --> 48:15.660] The thing is, life is a race and it's a good point
[48:15.660 --> 48:18.660] but what we can say, we are taught like this only.
[48:18.660 --> 48:22.660] So I don't say that the people who taught me is an idiot
[48:22.660 --> 48:24.660] because that will... I am on camera.
[48:24.660 --> 48:31.660] So what I feel is that giving certain tips of responsibilities,
[48:31.660 --> 48:34.660] I saw certain God-man also in this country.
[48:34.660 --> 48:38.660] I am saying literally God-man, I am not saying any particular person
[48:38.660 --> 48:42.660] but I see, some of them I see that there are many people who are
[48:42.660 --> 48:46.660] stronger in their ways, who are just giving the puja to the God-man.
[48:46.660 --> 48:48.660] Life creature is like a God-man.
[48:48.660 --> 48:54.660] So I... once I feel that why those people are like doing a puja of him?
[48:54.660 --> 48:58.660] But second times I thought how powerful and how intelligent that God-man is.
[48:58.660 --> 49:00.660] He is able to convince that I am a God.
[49:01.660 --> 49:03.660] He is able to convince those people that I am a God.
[49:03.660 --> 49:05.660] So that is also an intelligence.
[49:05.660 --> 49:08.660] So is this a country where the people are so foolish
[49:08.660 --> 49:10.660] that they are following just a person and not...
[49:10.660 --> 49:13.660] not saying about a foolish but is there a following a person
[49:13.660 --> 49:15.660] and treating him like a God
[49:15.660 --> 49:18.660] or is that God-man so intelligent that he is able to convince them?
[49:18.660 --> 49:21.660] You just know, you said you are on the camera,
[49:21.660 --> 49:26.660] you don't want to call people who crocs, who says life is a race as idiots
[49:27.660 --> 49:30.660] but you are calling the whole tradition as foolish.
[49:32.660 --> 49:34.660] No, I will come, I will answer the question.
[49:37.660 --> 49:43.660] See, this word God-man is a media invented word.
[49:43.660 --> 49:48.660] There is nobody anywhere I have seen who claimed I am a God-man.
[49:48.660 --> 49:51.660] I have seen man and I have seen God-damn man.
[49:53.660 --> 49:55.660] I have not seen a God-man anywhere.
[49:56.660 --> 49:59.660] Have you seen a God-man anywhere? Hello, anybody?
[49:59.660 --> 50:00.660] No.
[50:00.660 --> 50:04.660] Somebody is sitting there, somebody else,
[50:04.660 --> 50:08.660] right now to Malviyaji we garland him.
[50:08.660 --> 50:10.660] Well, is he a God?
[50:10.660 --> 50:12.660] No, he did something that we revere.
[50:12.660 --> 50:15.660] He did something that we value.
[50:15.660 --> 50:18.660] So we offer our respects to him by putting a mala.
[50:18.660 --> 50:22.660] Oh, you put garland on him, so you made a deity of him.
[50:22.660 --> 50:28.660] Yes, because the man did something in his life which we all benefit and value,
[50:28.660 --> 50:30.660] so we bow down to him.
[50:35.660 --> 50:40.660] So this… See, there is… there is logic of various levels.
[50:40.660 --> 50:42.660] Don't think there's only one logic.
[50:42.660 --> 50:45.660] There is rudimentary logic, there is little I above,
[50:45.660 --> 50:48.660] there is very fine logic also.
[50:49.660 --> 50:53.660] Now, people who worship looking up,
[50:53.660 --> 50:56.660] saying there is our God is up there,
[50:56.660 --> 51:01.660] and that looks okay to you because first of all,
[51:01.660 --> 51:04.660] this whole upper wall of business,
[51:04.660 --> 51:08.660] first thing you… Are you on a round planet?
[51:08.660 --> 51:11.660] You sure? Okay.
[51:11.660 --> 51:14.660] Planet is round and the thing is spinning all the time.
[51:14.660 --> 51:19.660] If you look up, inevitably you're looking up in the wrong direction.
[51:19.660 --> 51:23.660] You are not even on the North Pole, you are in Kashi.
[51:23.660 --> 51:26.660] You are like this looking up in the wrong direction all the time,
[51:26.660 --> 51:29.660] all 360 degrees.
[51:30.660 --> 51:38.660] So, do you know in this cosmos which side is up?
[51:38.660 --> 51:41.660] Is it marked somewhere this side up?
[51:41.660 --> 51:42.660] No.
[51:42.660 --> 51:45.660] So, you don't even know which side is up,
[51:45.660 --> 51:48.660] but you know who is up.
[51:48.660 --> 51:52.660] I think that's very stupid.
[51:52.660 --> 51:56.660] So, in this culture we thought you that.
[51:56.660 --> 51:58.660] Today this is modern science also,
[51:58.660 --> 52:01.660] I want you to understand this.
[52:01.660 --> 52:07.660] Whether you take an atom or a cosmos or the cosmos,
[52:07.660 --> 52:12.660] over ninety-nine point nine, nine, nine, whatever number of nines,
[52:12.660 --> 52:14.660] is actually empty.
[52:14.660 --> 52:17.660] Only little bit material in the atom.
[52:17.660 --> 52:18.660] You know this?
[52:18.660 --> 52:19.660] What is your subject? I'm sorry.
[52:19.660 --> 52:20.660] Law.
[52:20.660 --> 52:22.660] Oh.
[52:22.660 --> 52:25.660] You could argue for all the wrong things.
[52:25.660 --> 52:27.660] That's what I want to do.
[52:31.660 --> 52:34.660] Anyway, this is science.
[52:35.660 --> 52:37.660] The…
[52:43.660 --> 52:46.660] Over ninety-nine percent,
[52:46.660 --> 52:49.660] ninety-nine point nine, some eleven times or fourteen times,
[52:49.660 --> 52:51.660] something I don't know the exact number,
[52:51.660 --> 52:55.660] that much of the atom is empty space.
[52:55.660 --> 52:58.660] Only little bit is material.
[52:58.660 --> 52:59.660] Tiny miniscule.
[52:59.660 --> 53:01.660] The miniscule is miniscule.
[53:01.660 --> 53:04.660] The same is true with the cosmos also has similar proportions.
[53:04.660 --> 53:07.660] Over ninety-nine percent is empty space.
[53:07.660 --> 53:11.660] Only specks of stars and planets and galaxies,
[53:11.660 --> 53:12.660] only small specks.
[53:12.660 --> 53:15.660] Rest is all empty space.
[53:15.660 --> 53:20.660] But this empty space seems to have some intelligence of its own
[53:20.660 --> 53:23.660] that it keeps all this physical material
[53:23.660 --> 53:25.660] going around in a certain way.
[53:25.660 --> 53:28.660] Because how much ever we study,
[53:28.660 --> 53:33.660] we see that the physical material itself doesn't carry the needed intelligence.
[53:33.660 --> 53:36.660] Something else is driving it obviously.
[53:36.660 --> 53:40.660] So the simplistic, childish way of coming to it is
[53:40.660 --> 53:44.660] there is one man sitting up there and managing everything.
[53:44.660 --> 53:46.660] But when you look at the size of the cosmos,
[53:46.660 --> 53:49.660] one man managing things is…
[53:49.660 --> 53:51.660] just naturally goes.
[53:51.660 --> 53:52.660] Women are today arguing,
[53:52.660 --> 53:54.660] why can't it be a woman?
[53:54.660 --> 53:56.660] Yes?
[53:56.660 --> 54:01.660] I was speaking to a group of people in Nashville in United States.
[54:01.660 --> 54:03.660] I was just telling them a joke.
[54:03.660 --> 54:07.660] In the joke, I referred to God as he.
[54:07.660 --> 54:10.660] Immediately, ladies stood up.
[54:10.660 --> 54:13.660] They said, do you believe God is a man?
[54:13.660 --> 54:19.660] Oh, oh, oh, I know what I got into.
[54:19.660 --> 54:22.660] I said, see, I was only telling you a joke.
[54:22.660 --> 54:25.660] It doesn't matter, you said him.
[54:25.660 --> 54:28.660] Now, in United States, there's a big argument,
[54:28.660 --> 54:30.660] why can't God be a woman?
[54:30.660 --> 54:40.660] They tried to settle it in the previous election.
[54:40.660 --> 54:45.660] But you know the results.
[54:45.660 --> 54:53.660] Then there are also arguments like they see.
[54:53.660 --> 54:55.660] You've heard of Idi Amin?
[54:55.660 --> 54:58.660] Idi Amin, the Uganda man.
[54:58.660 --> 55:03.660] Idi Amin declared, God is black.
[55:03.660 --> 55:05.660] I agree with him.
[55:05.660 --> 55:07.660] Because if a white man can have a white God,
[55:07.660 --> 55:12.660] why can't a black man have a black God?
[55:12.660 --> 55:14.660] So in the southern churches in United States,
[55:14.660 --> 55:18.660] the big debate happening is God, white or black.
[55:18.660 --> 55:21.660] Actual debates happening.
[55:21.660 --> 55:25.660] You know, in the previous election, they tried to settle that affair.
[55:25.660 --> 55:28.660] Didn't work.
[55:28.660 --> 55:37.660] But, you know, we in India know God is brown.
[55:37.660 --> 55:39.660] Yeah.
[55:39.660 --> 55:43.660] Because, you know, those people don't know.
[55:43.660 --> 55:46.660] Because to those places, God sent only his messenger,
[55:46.660 --> 55:49.660] son or somebody else and somebody else.
[55:49.660 --> 55:56.660] Here God himself arrived nine times.
[55:56.660 --> 55:59.660] Now, now, now.
[55:59.660 --> 56:03.660] Especially Indians who are living outside the country are super proud about this.
[56:03.660 --> 56:07.660] God came to our country nine times.
[56:07.660 --> 56:09.660] So I keep reminding them that is because
[56:09.660 --> 56:16.660] God wouldn't trust anybody else with Indians.
[56:16.660 --> 56:18.660] He knew.
[56:18.660 --> 56:20.660] He knew his son, his messenger,
[56:20.660 --> 56:22.660] nobody would be good for the Indians.
[56:22.660 --> 56:27.660] So he came hands on himself.
[56:27.660 --> 56:32.660] Nine times and he failed.
[56:32.660 --> 56:34.660] See, nine or ten times you can debate,
[56:34.660 --> 56:36.660] failure is not debatable, isn't it?
[56:36.660 --> 56:37.660] It's visible.
[56:37.660 --> 56:38.660] Hello?
[56:38.660 --> 56:42.660] Failure is very visible, isn't it so?
[56:42.660 --> 56:46.660] So we can go on endlessly with these things.
[56:46.660 --> 56:50.660] But your belief systems are culturally relevant,
[56:50.660 --> 56:52.660] existentially not relevant.
[56:52.660 --> 56:56.660] So you must understand this is a godless culture.
[56:56.660 --> 57:01.660] Here we revered people who contributed to our life.
[57:01.660 --> 57:04.660] Our parents, we bow down to them.
[57:04.660 --> 57:09.660] If you see... if Shiva comes also, this is what you do, isn't it so?
[57:09.660 --> 57:11.660] If you see a tree also, this is what we do.
[57:11.660 --> 57:13.660] If you see a cow also, this is what we do.
[57:13.660 --> 57:17.660] Even a snake, a cow gave us milk, so we bow down.
[57:17.660 --> 57:22.660] A snake because he didn't bite us today, we bow down.
[57:22.660 --> 57:25.660] I'm saying we are doing the same act,
[57:25.660 --> 57:29.660] what we do to God, to man, woman, child, animal, everybody, isn't it so?
[57:29.660 --> 57:33.660] Then why are you calling a particular man God-man, huh?
[57:33.660 --> 57:40.660] We are bowing down to everybody, aren't we?
[57:41.660 --> 57:46.660] Sadhguru, nowadays youth are so active on social media
[57:46.660 --> 57:49.660] and we have been using that platform for various purposes.
[57:49.660 --> 57:51.660] We even use that for this Youth and Truth program,
[57:51.660 --> 57:53.660] polarizing it here in Varanasi.
[57:53.660 --> 57:57.660] We asked for several questions on the social media also
[57:57.660 --> 58:01.660] and we selected the famous one, the most famous one out of those questions.
[58:01.660 --> 58:03.660] So I have one question.
[58:03.660 --> 58:05.660] It is Pranav who asked,
[58:05.660 --> 58:08.660] at whom they teach us how to behave with girls.
[58:08.660 --> 58:10.660] But when I go out with my friends,
[58:10.660 --> 58:13.660] we see something different, which is totally different.
[58:13.660 --> 58:17.660] When I go online, the things are crazy.
[58:17.660 --> 58:23.660] How is a man supposed to behave with or treat a woman?
[58:23.660 --> 58:26.660] Well, a woman is...
[58:26.660 --> 58:31.660] A woman is not a separate species, first of all.
[58:31.660 --> 58:40.660] This too much of man-woman thing is being done, unfortunately.
[58:40.660 --> 58:45.660] It's a small biological difference to serve a certain purpose.
[58:45.660 --> 58:49.660] We are all here today because of this difference, yes?
[58:49.660 --> 58:51.660] Because we have a mother and a father,
[58:51.660 --> 58:54.660] one happens to be a woman in that.
[58:54.660 --> 58:58.660] Because of that, we are born and we are here.
[58:58.660 --> 59:02.660] So we don't have to treat women like separate species.
[59:02.660 --> 59:05.660] There was a time, we must understand this,
[59:05.660 --> 59:08.660] there was a time when the world was such
[59:08.660 --> 59:13.660] that a woman couldn't really go out and do much
[59:13.660 --> 59:16.660] because of the nature of the world around.
[59:16.660 --> 59:19.660] Suppose right now, you know,
[59:19.660 --> 59:22.660] I don't know, maybe two-three thousand people
[59:22.660 --> 59:24.660] turned up from many parts of the world
[59:24.660 --> 59:27.660] for yesterday's event in Kashi.
[59:27.660 --> 59:31.660] I think in this more than sixty percent are women.
[59:31.660 --> 59:35.660] Now, suppose this was thousand years ago,
[59:35.660 --> 59:37.660] it would be ninety-five percent men,
[59:37.660 --> 59:40.660] only five percent women maybe,
[59:40.660 --> 59:44.660] because to travel by walk or by on a horseback
[59:44.660 --> 59:47.660] and to come to Kashi from thousand miles away
[59:47.660 --> 59:50.660] would be a challenging thing for a woman,
[59:50.660 --> 59:54.660] would not be very safe for a woman those days.
[59:54.660 --> 59:56.660] But today, you must understand,
[59:56.660 --> 59:58.660] it's not your liberal attitude
[59:58.660 --> 01:00:01.660] which has brought women reasonably level,
[01:00:01] just technology.
[01:00:03] Technology has leveled the difference
[01:00:06] because your big muscle is no more useful.
[01:00:10] You need some brain.
[01:00:14] There was a time when man's muscle
[01:00:16] did everything on this planet.
[01:00:19] When man's muscle did everything on this planet,
[01:00:22] naturally man was dominant.
[01:00:24] This dominance also is misunderstood.
[01:00:27] He dominated in one arena
[01:00:29] which was filmed and reported.
[01:00:31] She dominated in a different arena
[01:00:33] which was private and not reported.
[01:00:40] But because we have taken to western modes
[01:00:43] of living right now very much,
[01:00:46] because of that we have this...
[01:00:49] This controversy has been going on with me
[01:00:51] for last week, ten days,
[01:00:53] because I said,
[01:00:55] if you make economics
[01:00:57] the only value of your life,
[01:00:59] money is the only prime value in your life,
[01:01:02] then world will become very male
[01:01:06] because there'll be no room for the feminine
[01:01:08] to find expression.
[01:01:09] There may be women,
[01:01:10] but they will surrender their feminine
[01:01:12] to be successful, unfortunately.
[01:01:14] This should not happen.
[01:01:15] Women should succeed as women,
[01:01:18] not as men.
[01:01:24] With full-blown feminine nature,
[01:01:27] they must be able to be successful in a society.
[01:01:30] They don't have to pretend to be a man
[01:01:33] to be successful.
[01:01:34] This has to go.
[01:01:35] If this has to go,
[01:01:37] the world has to move completely
[01:01:39] from brawn to brain.
[01:01:42] It's very important, this transition.
[01:01:45] Now, when you talk about economy
[01:01:48] or money power, it's brawn.
[01:01:50] It's a different kind of muscle,
[01:01:52] money or muscle.
[01:01:53] We're talking about it in the same context.
[01:01:55] Money is another kind of muscle.
[01:01:57] So we are taking away the physical muscle
[01:02:00] and bringing in the money muscle.
[01:02:02] So once again you're creating
[01:02:04] a male-dominated society,
[01:02:06] masculine-dominated society,
[01:02:08] because now women have understood
[01:02:10] how to be successful by being masculine.
[01:02:12] No, this is not a good thing for the world.
[01:02:14] There must be a world where women can be
[01:02:17] hundred percent feminine
[01:02:19] and still be absolutely successful.
[01:02:21] If this has to happen,
[01:02:23] money should not be the ruling factor.
[01:02:25] It should be just currency.
[01:02:27] Money is just currency to facilitate things.
[01:02:30] But right now money is a ruling factor,
[01:02:32] so masculine becomes the dominant force.
[01:02:35] We need to change this.
[01:02:37] Unless music, aesthetics, love,
[01:02:41] beauty and other things,
[01:02:42] everything becomes equal proportions.
[01:02:45] Feminine will not flourish.
[01:02:47] And if feminine is wiped out of this planet,
[01:02:50] then all the men will sit and wonder,
[01:02:52] why are we living?
[01:02:53] Hm?
[01:02:58] Questioner 2 – Sadhguru, in your AV you said
[01:03:01] it was difficult for you to plant trees
[01:03:03] in people's mind
[01:03:05] and then rest of the thing just happened.
[01:03:07] So I want to ask,
[01:03:09] how do we plant this seed in their mind
[01:03:13] that females need to flourish as females?
[01:03:19] See, you don't have to plant it in their head,
[01:03:21] you have to plant it in your head.
[01:03:25] But like I said in my first question,
[01:03:27] yes, we can do it at our part,
[01:03:29] but then there are people, there is society,
[01:03:32] there are ways that people judge us.
[01:03:34] See, don't think there's no judgment for a male.
[01:03:39] Don't think there's exploitation for a male.
[01:03:41] It is there.
[01:03:42] It is just that for a woman, unfortunately,
[01:03:47] any little exploitation takes on a sexual tone, all right?
[01:03:53] That is the ugly part of it.
[01:03:55] Otherwise, don't think men are not exploited.
[01:03:59] They're exploited in many different ways, ask him.
[01:04:06] No, that is why a lawyer is successful,
[01:04:08] because somebody is exploited, isn't it?
[01:04:10] I want to say thank you, sir, for saying this.
[01:04:14] The problem right now is,
[01:04:16] we are still in such a consciousness,
[01:04:18] anything that's weaker than us, we will exploit.
[01:04:21] Man, woman, a child or animal.
[01:04:24] Yes or no?
[01:04:26] Anything that is weaker than us,
[01:04:28] because still we don't have brain in our head,
[01:04:31] we still have muscle in our head, okay?
[01:04:34] The muscle should transform into brain cells.
[01:04:37] Then we will see that for you to succeed,
[01:04:41] you don't have to really exploit anything, actually.
[01:04:45] In fact, if you get the love and cooperation of everybody,
[01:04:48] you will succeed even better.
[01:04:51] I will tell you an example.
[01:04:52] I am doing a program for one of the top international companies,
[01:04:57] one of the top companies.
[01:05:00] Twenty-five of their top executives are there.
[01:05:03] It's a three-day event.
[01:05:05] I have nine volunteers.
[01:05:07] I don't know if you noticed our volunteers here.
[01:05:09] Without one instruction,
[01:05:11] they just go about doing everything that needs to be done.
[01:05:14] If something is not done, I know it could not be done.
[01:05:17] There's no question of somebody did not do it,
[01:05:20] because we built such a force.
[01:05:25] So they watched these nine people moving around,
[01:05:29] then they asked,
[01:05:30] where do… where do you get such people?
[01:05:34] Because they are always looking for attrition, you know.
[01:05:37] Then I said, you don't get them,
[01:05:39] you got to make them.
[01:05:42] How do you make them?
[01:05:44] I said, you have to make them fall in love with you.
[01:05:47] Oh, how do you do that?
[01:05:50] I said, first you must fall in love with them.
[01:05:54] Then they say, wait, wait, huh?
[01:05:56] Then they say, oh, they don't pay us for that.
[01:05:59] So when money is the only ruling factor in your life,
[01:06:07] you are like a circus monkey.
[01:06:09] If you give a banana, you will jump,
[01:06:11] otherwise you will simply sit, all right?
[01:06:15] So if you are not a circus monkey,
[01:06:18] then you will see exploiting is not a good thing.
[01:06:24] If everybody falls in love with you,
[01:06:27] how easy and wonderful it is to work?
[01:06:30] When people hit you, when they resent you,
[01:06:33] they will make your life miserable, believe me.
[01:06:36] They will make sure, won't you?
[01:06:39] When you're resentful about somebody
[01:06:41] and you have to work for them,
[01:06:43] won't you make sure their life is miserable?
[01:06:45] Yes.
[01:06:46] This is why people are thinking work is so stressful
[01:06:49] because everybody hates them.
[01:06:52] If they create a really loving
[01:06:54] and inclusive atmosphere around them,
[01:06:57] where everybody senses there is no sense of exploitation.
[01:07:01] See, I don't exploit anybody, but I work them to death.
[01:07:07] But before that I'm working myself,
[01:07:09] people are afraid, I may kill myself.
[01:07:11] So they're also trying to catch up, there's no problem.
[01:07:14] If I sit like this and make you work,
[01:07:19] then you will come up with something else
[01:07:22] to make my life miserable.
[01:07:23] When you see you're only emulating me,
[01:07:26] then why will you feel exploited?
[01:07:29] I make them work seven days of the week,
[01:07:31] eighteen hours a day, non-stop, non-stop day or night
[01:07:34] at two o'clock in the morning, I'll call them and say,
[01:07:36] do this, do that, do that.
[01:07:37] Because so many things happening.
[01:07:39] You see you're joining up, so I'm telling you.
[01:07:42] I can lead you, sir.
[01:07:46] So exploitation is a silly way of doing things in the world.
[01:07:52] Unintelligent way of doing things in the world.
[01:07:55] Inclusion.
[01:07:57] Inclusiveness is the best way to do work in the world.
[01:08:02] If you're… if you think your work is important,
[01:08:05] if you think what you're doing is important,
[01:08:07] people come to me always, you know,
[01:08:09] we are a volunteer organization, over 4,600 whatever,
[01:08:13] full-time volunteers and over nine million part-time volunteers.
[01:08:17] Every day somebody comes up to me and says,
[01:08:19] Sadhguru, I can't work with this person, she's terrible,
[01:08:22] he's like this, he's like that.
[01:08:24] I say, see, in this world,
[01:08:27] there are only these kind of people,
[01:08:30] like this, like this, like this, like this, like this,
[01:08:33] only these kind of people.
[01:08:35] If you think what you're doing is very significant,
[01:08:39] you have to work with these kind of people.
[01:08:42] But if you think you want to work with ideal people,
[01:08:46] you must go to heaven and today.
[01:08:49] Yes.
[01:08:51] If you think what you're doing is very significant,
[01:08:54] you will work with whatever you have.
[01:08:56] If you have donkeys, you'll work with them.
[01:08:59] Yes?
[01:09:00] But you have not realized the significance of what you're doing,
[01:09:04] now you're busy complaining about everything.
[01:09:08] This doesn't mean everything around me is perfect,
[01:09:11] but everybody is doing their best, that's all.
[01:09:19] So Sadhguru, when he talked about social media,
[01:09:23] in social media one thing is very much important
[01:09:25] and one thing is very much spreading,
[01:09:27] it's like certain news are there
[01:09:29] and they are just forwarded to certain groups
[01:09:31] and then certain other things have occurred.
[01:09:34] In one of the media you also gave certain example
[01:09:37] for an explanation for mob lynching also.
[01:09:40] I won't go into that because you have already answered.
[01:09:43] But people think that these messages are like real ones
[01:09:47] and they just try to do what the message says.
[01:09:50] So one person, one I think ladies, Madhu Sudanji has asked this
[01:09:55] that is there a line of suppression between the thinking
[01:09:59] and overthinking or rather there is no line of suppression
[01:10:02] or it's just a mental thing?
[01:10:04] Sadhguru laughs
[01:10:06] See, I don't know if you've seen the byline
[01:10:13] for youth and truth, it's not here.
[01:10:16] No, not that.
[01:10:18] We're talking about exploring truth
[01:10:21] not with the seriousness of a gossip panel
[01:10:24] but with the playfulness of gossip.
[01:10:30] Gossip has been the most reliable system of seeking truth.
[01:10:38] Yes or no?
[01:10:40] If whatever the official thing comes out
[01:10:45] you will ask around your friends and best neighbors
[01:10:47] what happened, is this true, what happened, what happened?
[01:10:50] Everybody says five different things
[01:10:52] then you find your own filter for that
[01:10:55] and arrive at okay, this is what should have happened.
[01:10:59] So social media is new,
[01:11:01] what it means is gossip has gone global suddenly.
[01:11:05] Gossip was always there locally, was there or no?
[01:11:09] Ladies, tell me.
[01:11:13] Because more people confide in you
[01:11:16] because man is walking like this,
[01:11:18] nobody wants to talk to him,
[01:11:20] a woman is paying attention and walking
[01:11:22] so they will talk to her.
[01:11:27] Gossip has always been there in every society
[01:11:30] and it's a reliable thing.
[01:11:32] But now suddenly gossip has gone global because of technology.
[01:11:38] Now this globalization of gossip
[01:11:40] has caused little bit of disruptions
[01:11:43] and the scale of things that happen is little
[01:11:45] disproportionate to what we were used to earlier
[01:11:48] because by the time we tell ten people
[01:11:51] it would have died down,
[01:11:53] today one forward boom, 250 people got it in the town,
[01:11:57] it could incite certain things.
[01:11:59] Well it's been misused and it's been used, all right?
[01:12:03] Many people have used it well.
[01:12:06] Some people have misused it.
[01:12:08] This is true with any technology, anything, anything.
[01:12:12] Right now we can use this vessel to store water
[01:12:15] or I can take it and smash it on your head.
[01:12:19] So now shall we ban all the copper vessels
[01:12:22] because somebody's skull got cracked, shall we?
[01:12:27] No.
[01:12:29] So we have to bring culture to society,
[01:12:32] it's not going to happen overnight,
[01:12:34] and it will evolve the society.
[01:12:36] If it's going out of control, maybe little enforcement.
[01:12:40] But just clamping down on anything
[01:12:42] and everything that causes little damage,
[01:12:44] this has happened.
[01:12:46] See, Mysore, Bangalore, for example,
[01:12:48] I am from Mysore, right from my very young age,
[01:12:52] even when I...
[01:12:53] First time I went to Bangalore on my father's scooter
[01:12:56] without him knowing.
[01:12:57] When I was just thirteen and a half years of age,
[01:13:00] I got enough money, I put gas and zoom,
[01:13:02] I went to Bangalore, made a circle there
[01:13:04] and came back all the way.
[01:13:06] It was a single track road,
[01:13:08] going like this, like that, with potholes, everything.
[01:13:11] And many of the times I had to ride standing
[01:13:14] because of various things.
[01:13:19] One was height.
[01:13:23] So now they made a six-lane highway, all right?
[01:13:28] Later on when we...
[01:13:30] we graduated into motorcycles,
[01:13:32] if we thought about it, we just boom, boom, we went.
[01:13:35] One hour thirty, thirty-five minutes,
[01:13:37] hundred-and-forty kilometers we did and came back.
[01:13:40] But now they put a six-lane highway
[01:13:43] and in the villages traffic started moving fast.
[01:13:47] There are lots of villages,
[01:13:48] they did not bypass the villages because of whatever,
[01:13:51] land acquisition and stuff,
[01:13:52] because they went on expanding the existing road.
[01:13:56] People get killed crossing the road, unfortunately.
[01:13:59] Lot of pedestrians get killed in India
[01:14:02] because they don't know where to cross
[01:14:04] and they can't jet the speed
[01:14:06] or they're just so full of themselves,
[01:14:09] they come in the way and they expect somebody to stop,
[01:14:12] all kinds of things.
[01:14:14] So they went on putting road hump, road hump, road hump.
[01:14:18] In hundred-and-forty-two kilometers of road,
[01:14:22] they put over one-hundred-and-twenty road humps.
[01:14:26] So you got a six-lane highway,
[01:14:28] you cannot even get to third gear, boom, boom, doop, doop, doop, doop,
[01:14:33] oh, boom, boom, boom, boom.
[01:14:35] What is the point of a highway, yeah?
[01:14:37] We could have a mud track.
[01:14:39] Why are you spending money on the highway?
[01:14:42] When you put in hundred-and-forty kilometers,
[01:14:45] you put over one-twenty road humps.
[01:14:48] Now by high court order, it's all being removed.
[01:14:51] But villages will put up their own thing.
[01:14:53] They will not learn how to cross the road.
[01:14:56] They will put up only road hump.
[01:14:59] So this culture must go.
[01:15:02] Some damage happens because of somebody's irresponsible action.
[01:15:07] Instead of fixing that irresponsibility,
[01:15:09] we want to destroy the possibility.
[01:15:11] How many good things have been done on social media?
[01:15:14] Yes?
[01:15:15] Many wonderful things have been done.
[01:15:17] But now somebody gets killed because of somebody's mischief.
[01:15:21] So we want to ban that.
[01:15:23] This is not the way to do things.
[01:15:25] This is not the way to take the nation forward.
[01:15:27] It doesn't matter.
[01:15:28] Some people pay the price.
[01:15:29] Unfortunately, it is true.
[01:15:31] But we must bring more responsible usage of that
[01:15:34] rather than simply banning this, banning that.
[01:15:42] One more question that came over the social media verse.
[01:15:45] You told Ranveer that ambition is limited.
[01:15:50] It is a thought and not worth investing our life on it.
[01:15:54] Without goals or commitment or destination,
[01:15:58] how will I even take my next step?
[01:16:01] And you also had the goal of Dhyanalinga.
[01:16:04] I'm really confused.
[01:16:06] One part of that we've already answered about…
[01:16:11] See, what you call as ambition
[01:16:13] is essentially a thought that you generated, isn't it?
[01:16:17] How did you generate this thought?
[01:16:19] Maybe people around you influence.
[01:16:21] And above all, essentially your ambition or your thought
[01:16:25] is only coming from the limited data that you already possess.
[01:16:29] Yes or no?
[01:16:31] Do you believe, many of you are in twenties or early twenties,
[01:16:36] do you believe everything that you need to know about the world,
[01:16:40] all the possibilities that life may hold,
[01:16:43] you already have collected data about it?
[01:16:47] No. With what little you know, if you fix your life's goal,
[01:16:53] I think that'll be a poor life.
[01:16:55] Right now, you are in college,
[01:16:58] you can fix a goal.
[01:17:00] Within the stipulated period, I want to get out of the college.
[01:17:05] Not too early because they threw me out,
[01:17:07] not too late because I didn't get out.
[01:17:10] Yes?
[01:17:11] Within the stipulated period, I want to get out.
[01:17:14] How I want to get out, whether I want to get out,
[01:17:16] first class or first this, that, that, that,
[01:17:18] how much I should know, that is a goal you can set
[01:17:22] because already it's a structured time, isn't it?
[01:17:27] Already it's a structured time.
[01:17:29] In this structured time, you set a goal.
[01:17:31] But you don't set a goal for your life,
[01:17:33] ruling out all the possibilities that may open up.
[01:17:37] So if you decide right now, this is what I'm going to become.
[01:17:41] I was talking about that in terms of
[01:17:43] this is a problem in our families, in Indian families.
[01:17:47] A three-year-old child, they will ask,
[01:17:49] what do you want to become?
[01:17:53] That tiny little girl says, I want to become doctor.
[01:17:56] Oh, they're so happy.
[01:17:59] This is rubbish.
[01:18:01] Why a three-year-old girl is being made to decide
[01:18:04] what she should become?
[01:18:06] We don't know what's her genius.
[01:18:08] Yes?
[01:18:09] What talent she has, what genius she has,
[01:18:11] you don't know.
[01:18:12] But instead of seeing how to unfold that,
[01:18:15] you're fixing that so early on
[01:18:18] and ending up with a very constipated life.
[01:18:22] So the important thing is human beings have immense potential.
[01:18:26] If this has to unfold,
[01:18:28] one important thing is you create a situation
[01:18:31] of balance and pleasantness within you.
[01:18:34] That means you're peaceful, joyful and balanced.
[01:18:37] If you're like this,
[01:18:38] every human being has a certain genius
[01:18:41] and this will start unfolding.
[01:18:43] When it unfolds, it will surprise everybody.
[01:18:47] Right now, the problem is this in the world.
[01:18:51] Not even one percent of human genius actually blossoms.
[01:18:55] Rest get trapped in these kind of systems
[01:18:58] and systems and systems all over the place.
[01:19:00] Somebody gets trapped into earning a living,
[01:19:02] somebody gets trapped because they fell in love too early,
[01:19:05] you know, something or the other.
[01:19:08] They get committed to something.
[01:19:10] So ambition means you got committed to a single idea
[01:19:13] which came from very limited data in your life, isn't it?
[01:19:17] Don't get committed to a limited idea.
[01:19:19] Limited ideas are okay short term.
[01:19:22] Right now I'm here for five years in this university.
[01:19:25] This is what I want to do in this five years, this is okay.
[01:19:28] But life must unfold.
[01:19:31] You must give it an opportunity to unfold.
[01:19:33] Only reason why you're committing yourself like this is
[01:19:37] you are afraid of uncertainty.
[01:19:39] You think certainty has come because you pegged it there.
[01:19:43] I am going to be a doctor, doctor at the age of three
[01:19:47] and you feel there is a certainty.
[01:19:49] This certainty is death like certainty
[01:19:52] because it takes away all possibilities.
[01:19:54] It's important for a human being.
[01:19:57] Life should be explored, many possibilities.
[01:20:00] Only then human genius will unfold
[01:20:02] and we have multifaceted human beings in the country.
[01:20:05] Otherwise this has been our problem
[01:20:07] because we're concerned about earning a living.
[01:20:09] There was a time where everybody was a doctor in this country.
[01:20:12] Now everybody is a software engineer in this country.
[01:20:15] This is not the way to go.
[01:20:16] If it's needed, we'll do that.
[01:20:18] That's not the point.
[01:20:19] But the important thing is human genius must unfold.
[01:20:24] If you destroy that because you fixed a peg in your life,
[01:20:28] it's very unfortunate.
[01:20:31] Like you said, we should set specific goals for a short time.
[01:20:40] If you're setting a goal, we'll definitely work for it very hard.
[01:20:43] But in due course, we might also resort,
[01:20:46] we see people amongst us or we ourselves,
[01:20:49] we might resort to some unhealthy practices.
[01:20:52] Just because this is set in our mind that,
[01:20:54] okay, this is my goal, I want to achieve it.
[01:20:56] We might set into unhealthy practices.
[01:20:58] It happens amongst us or maybe at our workplace also.
[01:21:01] What is unhealthy practices?
[01:21:03] Like foul competitive...
[01:21:05] competitive streak in amongst our fellow mates or foul competitive practices.
[01:21:10] It could be like pulling someone else down just to go ahead of you.
[01:21:14] No.
[01:21:15] If you pull somebody else down, you did not go ahead.
[01:21:18] Both of you went back.
[01:21:25] That's all that happened.
[01:21:27] But right now, this continues.
[01:21:30] This is what I said.
[01:21:31] If something has to unfold within you,
[01:21:35] outside should not decide everything.
[01:21:37] A few things outside will decide.
[01:21:39] Rest should come from within.
[01:21:40] That's what a human being means.
[01:21:42] For other creatures, everything is decided by reaction with the outside.
[01:21:46] For a human being, there is enough intelligence
[01:21:49] that a whole lot of things have to come from within,
[01:21:52] not from outside reactions.
[01:21:54] So if you keep looking at somebody, how somebody else is doing,
[01:21:57] how somebody else is doing,
[01:22:00] now obviously you will take a step.
[01:22:03] They were asking me, somebody,
[01:22:05] Sadhguru, how to beat the Pakistani team.
[01:22:09] I said, don't beat the Pakistani team,
[01:22:11] just hit the damn ball, huh?
[01:22:15] You don't try to go and beat Pakistan with a cricket bat.
[01:22:19] With the cricket bat, you just hit the damn ball.
[01:22:23] There's no Pakistan in the ball.
[01:22:26] You just have to hit the ball
[01:22:28] so that Pakistanis will not find the ball.
[01:22:31] Like that you must hit it.
[01:22:33] But if you are looking at Pakistani and wanting to beat him,
[01:22:36] the ball will smash your face, maybe.
[01:22:41] So we need to understand
[01:22:43] whether it's a game or education or work
[01:22:46] or whatever else we are doing,
[01:22:48] the important thing is the process that we are doing.
[01:22:52] If you are not devoted to the process,
[01:22:55] result will not happen.
[01:22:58] It's... it's like this.
[01:23:00] Suppose you want mangoes in your garden.
[01:23:02] If you sit there and every day do mango meditation, you do.
[01:23:08] Mango meditation, mango meditation, mango meditation,
[01:23:11] mangoes will not come.
[01:23:14] If you just look at the soil, manure, water, sunlight,
[01:23:20] take care of these things well, absolutely involved in the process,
[01:23:24] even if you never thought about a mango,
[01:23:26] one day mango will land on your head anyway.
[01:23:29] Inevitably, if you do the process right,
[01:23:32] consequence will happen.
[01:23:34] Right now you get committed to the consequence.
[01:23:37] This means in yoga there is a saying,
[01:23:40] if you have one eye on the goal,
[01:23:42] you have only one eye to find your way, it's very inefficient.
[01:23:46] Both eyes, everything you got into what you're doing right now,
[01:23:50] result will come. Why will it not come?
[01:23:54] Why are you bothered how somebody else is doing?
[01:23:57] Are you doing your best or not?
[01:23:59] That's all the question is, isn't it, with life?
[01:24:02] Even if you want to become a mystic, you know?
[01:24:05] Don't worry about me.
[01:24:07] This happens, shall I tell you?
[01:24:09] I don't be worried if you are the competitor,
[01:24:11] if I want to become the mystic.
[01:24:13] No, I'm not in competition with you.
[01:24:15] But I must tell you, because there is an aspiration, it's nice.
[01:24:21] It once happened, Shankaran Pillai went to the bar.
[01:24:26] Once a couple of drops inside,
[01:24:29] then everybody starts, the stories get taller and taller, you know?
[01:24:33] Everybody was saying their own things, big things
[01:24:36] about their families and about stuff.
[01:24:38] So Shankaran Pillai waited and then they nudged him,
[01:24:41] hey, what? You got nothing to say? No good.
[01:24:44] He said, no, my uncle was a great mystic.
[01:24:48] He knew the exact time, date and mode of death in his life.
[01:24:56] Oh, really?
[01:24:57] He knew the time, date and how he will die, well ahead of time?
[01:25:01] He said, yes, my uncle, great mystic.
[01:25:04] Really, how did he come to know?
[01:25:07] The judge told him.
[01:25:18] See, there is a possibility, huh?
[01:25:22] You have lifted the whole thing in law.
[01:25:25] That's a nice thing.
[01:25:27] So Sadhguruji, I would also like to open certain questions from the audience.
[01:25:33] Since we have time constraint, so we will be only getting up for only two questions.
[01:25:37] So I think, who has to ask the question?
[01:25:49] Namaskaram Sadhguru. I am Ayushi Dixit, a third year political science student.
[01:25:55] Sadhguru, my question is that today on one hand we see all these scientific, psychological methods,
[01:26:03] whereas on the other side we have spirituality and mysticism.
[01:26:09] So, how can we collaborate both the aspects, both the factors
[01:26:15] and have a better governance and a better society maybe?
[01:26:20] You think governance needs psychological treatment?
[01:26:24] Yes, there are concepts in political science that, you know, work psychologically also.
[01:26:31] See, this is a culture where always
[01:26:39] the spiritual leaders always largely worked with the kings of the time.
[01:26:46] Not because they wanted to bum around in the palaces and get some benefits,
[01:26:53] simply because they saw unless you benefit the man,
[01:26:59] unless you benefit the man who has the power to make difference to millions of people,
[01:27:05] people will not really benefit.
[01:27:08] If you get to a position of responsibility or power that every word you utter,
[01:27:15] every thought, every emotion and every action that you perform
[01:27:19] has influenced over millions of people.
[01:27:22] The first and foremost thing you need to do is to fix yourself
[01:27:26] so that how you think, how you feel, how you speak and how you act
[01:27:31] is calibrated for the well-being of the people.
[01:27:35] So, this is why whether you take Krishna,
[01:27:39] Krishna's whole life was just about marrying political system and the spiritual process.
[01:27:45] You take Gautam Buddha, all his life he is working with kings
[01:27:48] because you can work from bottom up.
[01:27:51] That is one way, but that's a long way.
[01:27:54] Today it is possible because we have communication.
[01:27:57] I want you to imagine when a Gautama walks from village to village,
[01:28:02] if he speaks, even ten people will not hear.
[01:28:05] Village to village, village to village.
[01:28:08] Forty years of his enlightenment life he walked and walked and walked.
[01:28:12] But impact is not good, he knows that.
[01:28:15] So, he goes to the kings and try to impact them
[01:28:20] because once they are impacted, they will change things in the nation.
[01:28:24] Because monarchy is a kind of autocratic rule.
[01:28:27] If he gets it, he will make sure something happens.
[01:28:31] In a democratic process, it is not so impactful, but it is still impactful.
[01:28:37] Here people are the leaders, but fortunately today
[01:28:41] we have ability to communicate like never before.
[01:28:44] We can sit here and talk to the whole world if you want.
[01:28:47] This was never possible.
[01:28:49] Many great beings have come, but unfortunately when they spoke,
[01:28:53] hardly fifty people could hear.
[01:28:56] And even if they heard, somebody wrote down all wrong.
[01:29:00] And after thousand years, another hundred people modified it
[01:29:05] in so many different ways.
[01:29:07] By the time it comes to you after thousand, two thousand years,
[01:29:10] you don't know what the hell is coming to you.
[01:29:12] But today, see these cameras are recording.
[01:29:14] If you say something different than what I said, they will play the video.
[01:29:19] I'm saying this was never possible before.
[01:29:22] So now we can work up, from grassroots to up.
[01:29:28] But at that time, the only way to work was top down
[01:29:32] because down is not possible to reach, only top is possible to reach.
[01:29:37] So today we can work both ways, but ground up is more effective today,
[01:29:42] that is why we're working with the people.
[01:29:45] So between psychology and spirituality, what is the difference?
[01:29:50] See, with psychology, you're trying to analyze the mechanics of thought process
[01:29:56] in a certain way, essentially thought and emotion.
[01:30:00] But in the yogic culture, in the spiritual cultures of India,
[01:30:05] we don't give any significance to your thought.
[01:30:08] You can think what you want.
[01:30:11] We know it's just the surface of who you are.
[01:30:15] Because thought is coming only from the data that you have gathered, isn't it so?
[01:30:20] Hello?
[01:30:22] Only from the limited data that you have gathered, thought is coming.
[01:30:26] But your behavioral patterns are coming from dimensions much deeper than thought.
[01:30:33] A whole lot of people who if you have ever been psychologically little disturbed,
[01:30:37] suddenly you see something else beyond what you have known,
[01:30:42] what your regular thought pattern and emotional patterns are,
[01:30:45] something beyond that is influencing you and pushing you and pulling you in ways
[01:30:49] that you can't help yourself.
[01:30:51] Yes or no?
[01:30:52] You've seen such people if it's not happened to you.
[01:30:55] So we don't pay any attention to your present level of thought and emotion
[01:31:00] because thought patterns and emotional patterns we just see is an acquired pattern
[01:31:05] which has happened because of the data that you have.
[01:31:08] But other dimensions of influence within you are there,
[01:31:12] we wish to bring balance to that dimension.
[01:31:15] But for this, you need willingness and you have to work with people.
[01:31:20] But with psychology also you have to endlessly talk.
[01:31:23] Most people cannot be talked out of anything, they will talk you out of it.
[01:31:28] Okay?
[01:31:29] Yes.
[01:31:30] So when talking doesn't work, when counseling doesn't work,
[01:31:35] you have chemical bombing.
[01:31:38] You put chemicals into the system in the form of pills or whatever,
[01:31:42] which could balance because after all human experience is all rooted in chemistry.
[01:31:48] Every human experience has a chemical basis to it.
[01:31:51] What you call as peace, joy, blissfulness, agony, ecstasy, stress, anxiety,
[01:31:57] everything has a chemical basis to it.
[01:32:00] So now we are looking at how to create a chemistry of blissfulness.
[01:32:06] This is the greatest chemical factory on the planet, do you agree with me?
[01:32:11] The most sophisticated and complex chemical factory on the planet.
[01:32:16] The question is only, are you a great manager or a lousy manager?
[01:32:22] That's all it is.
[01:32:24] So we are looking at how to manage one's chemistry without taking external inputs.
[01:32:32] The modern psychiatry is looking at how to manage human chemistry
[01:32:36] by putting outside ingredients.
[01:32:39] Well, when things have gone to the extreme, that's the way to do it.
[01:32:43] If things are reasonably in control,
[01:32:45] we have systems through which one can work themselves out of it.
[01:32:51] So Ananji, one last question.
[01:33:00] Okay, sir, ask.
[01:33:06] Please give the microphone.
[01:33:12] My name is Sushant Kumar Kishore.
[01:33:15] I am a research scholar from BHU
[01:33:17] and very much fortunate to have time to clear my doubt from you, sir.
[01:33:23] Sir, like seven years back when I got admission in BHU,
[01:33:27] in diploma course it was a very small course, just a part-time.
[01:33:30] What course?
[01:33:32] Diploma in Tourism Management.
[01:33:33] Okay.
[01:33:34] I was very much happy to get enrolled in that course.
[01:33:36] I went to my house, to my father,
[01:33:38] shouting like anything that I got admission in BHU
[01:33:42] as like I have cracked IM and the bath.
[01:33:44] So, like, you know, my father was okay, fine.
[01:33:47] And now, after seven years, I have cracked net and got admission PhD,
[01:33:51] but I am not happy with what I am doing, sir,
[01:33:54] because I don't know.
[01:33:55] I have lost my spark.
[01:33:56] At that time, so in diploma,
[01:33:58] I was so much concerned about my study and being a part of BHU,
[01:34:02] the reputation of university,
[01:34:03] said like I was much more confident.
[01:34:06] Please brief the question.
[01:34:08] What is the question?
[01:34:09] My question is, I have lost my spark, okay,
[01:34:11] and I am not very much like, you know,
[01:34:13] a continuously, consistently motivated person.
[01:34:15] I have lost my motivation how to regain that,
[01:34:18] to live my life and lead in a, you know, like a joyful way.
[01:34:21] So, to regain your inner peace.
[01:34:23] Thank you, sir.
[01:34:26] See, the nature of life is such…
[01:34:33] Please, sir.
[01:34:36] If you… if you go outside in the garden
[01:34:41] and try to catch an ant,
[01:34:45] the BHU ant,
[01:34:50] who is born here, who has grown up here
[01:34:52] and probably he'll die here,
[01:34:54] that BHU ant,
[01:34:55] if you try to catch him,
[01:34:57] he'll say, okay, to hell with my life,
[01:34:59] okay, crush me if you want.
[01:35:01] Is it so?
[01:35:03] He'll do everything to protect himself.
[01:35:06] He values his life, isn't it?
[01:35:10] Very much or no?
[01:35:12] Tiny little creature that we may not even notice,
[01:35:15] we may step on him without even seeing him, unfortunately.
[01:35:19] But he values his life immensely.
[01:35:23] Does he or no?
[01:35:25] He's got spark.
[01:35:29] But you, a human being,
[01:35:35] at least on this planet, you're the peak of evolution,
[01:35:39] physiologically at least.
[01:35:42] Yes?
[01:35:43] If other behavioral aspects, if you may have questions.
[01:35:48] But physiologically at least,
[01:35:50] the most evolved creature on the planet.
[01:35:54] What the most evolved creature on the planet means is,
[01:35:58] it has the most complex neurological system
[01:36:01] and it has the highest level of cerebral capability.
[01:36:05] That means you can think,
[01:36:07] you can remember,
[01:36:09] you have memory,
[01:36:11] you have a very vivid sense of memory
[01:36:14] and a fantastic sense of imagination.
[01:36:20] An ant doesn't have such a vivid sense of memory,
[01:36:23] nor does he have any great imagination.
[01:36:26] He has some.
[01:36:28] But he has a presence of mind about the life that he is living.
[01:36:36] Because the education systems that you're going through right from kindergarten level
[01:36:41] is such that it is about everything except you.
[01:36:48] It's about everything else.
[01:36:50] Somebody is PhD in tourism,
[01:36:52] somebody is PhD in biotechnology,
[01:36:54] somebody is PhD in something,
[01:36:56] nothing about this.
[01:36:58] How does this function?
[01:37:00] There is no attention at all.
[01:37:03] A human being functions.
[01:37:05] You know, you have a Kalabhairava temple here.
[01:37:09] What this means is,
[01:37:11] a human being exists in three times.
[01:37:15] He lives because of the richness of his memory.
[01:37:19] How rich is your memory determines
[01:37:21] what you will do and what you will not do right now.
[01:37:23] Isn't it so?
[01:37:25] So memory is important.
[01:37:28] The present experience is important
[01:37:31] and how vivid is your imagination for tomorrow is very important.
[01:37:36] Right now the problem is,
[01:37:38] these things have all gotten mixed up
[01:37:41] because discipline of faculty has simply not come.
[01:37:46] Nothing has been taught to our children
[01:37:49] that there needs to be...
[01:37:51] Discipline means people think English kind of discipline,
[01:37:53] walking like this, like idiots.
[01:37:57] Discipline of faculty is not there.
[01:38:00] Because of this, your own mind turns against you.
[01:38:04] What happened ten years ago, you still suffer?
[01:38:08] Hello?
[01:38:10] What may happen day after tomorrow, you already suffer?
[01:38:14] Because there is no discipline of faculty.
[01:38:16] You don't know how to use your memory.
[01:38:18] You don't know how to use your imagination.
[01:38:20] Your memory makes you suffer.
[01:38:22] Your imagination makes you suffer
[01:38:24] and you think you are suffering your life.
[01:38:26] You are not suffering your life.
[01:38:28] You are only suffering the two greatest faculties of being human,
[01:38:32] vivid sense of memory and a fantastic sense of imagination.
[01:38:36] Isn't it so?
[01:38:38] If you suffer the greatest faculties that you have,
[01:38:41] what can we do with you?
[01:38:43] If you suffer ailment, understandable.
[01:38:48] If you suffer a disability, understandable.
[01:38:51] If you suffer your ability, hopeless case.
[01:38:57] Yes or no?
[01:38:58] You are suffering your capabilities.
[01:39:00] If you are suffering your disability, it's all right.
[01:39:03] You are suffering your capabilities.
[01:39:06] I must tell you this.
[01:39:07] About four, five months ago, I think,
[01:39:09] you might have seen it on the news,
[01:39:12] a young lady, thirty-four-year-old lady,
[01:39:15] who was a television anchor in Hyderabad,
[01:39:17] jumped off the fifth floor window,
[01:39:20] killed herself,
[01:39:22] left her note,
[01:39:24] nobody is responsible for my death,
[01:39:26] my brain is my enemy.
[01:39:30] How many million years it took
[01:39:33] to get this brain to this size
[01:39:35] and now it becomes your enemy?
[01:39:38] She articulated this,
[01:39:40] but this is true with almost ninety percent of the human beings.
[01:39:44] They are suffering their own intelligence, isn't it?
[01:39:48] If you take away half their brain,
[01:39:52] if you take away half their brain,
[01:39:54] they will be peaceful.
[01:39:57] Yes.
[01:39:59] And that is why a whole bunch of idiots
[01:40:02] are going about saying that
[01:40:05] the ultimate goal of life is peace of mind.
[01:40:08] Such people will only rest in peace.
[01:40:12] Now you, young man,
[01:40:14] they kept you here for too long, seven years,
[01:40:16] they should have thrown you out in four years,
[01:40:18] then you would have done something.
[01:40:21] University life,
[01:40:23] if somebody is not keying you up all the time,
[01:40:26] it could become too easy, you know.
[01:40:29] Even I remember,
[01:40:30] when I went to the university,
[01:40:32] most of the time we were in the canteen or in the garden.
[01:40:35] The easiest part of my life was university.
[01:40:39] I think...
[01:40:41] I know nobody is going to like it and...
[01:40:45] But I think this university time must be shortened
[01:40:48] unless somebody is producing something brilliant.
[01:40:51] They must be chucked out within three to four years' time, everybody.
[01:40:58] If they are doing something very focused and very intense,
[01:41:01] they must stay.
[01:41:02] Otherwise...
[01:41:03] See, this is all...
[01:41:04] I'm telling all of you young people,
[01:41:06] do whatever the hell you want in your life.
[01:41:09] But you must be intensely focused on something.
[01:41:13] If you are not investing in anything in your life,
[01:41:16] it will just go waste.
[01:41:18] Because as I told you in the very beginning,
[01:41:21] one basic ingredient of your life is time
[01:41:24] and this is just going away.
[01:41:26] Already you are two hours closer to your grave since I came here.
[01:41:30] Yes or no?
[01:41:31] Two hours closer to Manikarnika.
[01:41:35] Yes or no?
[01:41:36] Yes.
[01:41:37] You are not immortal.
[01:41:39] It's just a limited amount of time.
[01:41:42] Are you a precious life, I'm asking?
[01:41:44] Is your life precious to you?
[01:41:46] Then you must decide where you want to invest this life.
[01:41:50] If this is precious, if this is worthless,
[01:41:53] throw it somewhere.
[01:41:55] If this is precious, invest in something worthwhile, isn't it?
[01:42:00] So if you invest this in something worthwhile,
[01:42:03] not spark, you will be a flim all the time.
[01:42:09] That's why my first question was being a mystic, right?
[01:42:12] I'm investing it in a good one, being a mystic.
[01:42:15] Because you are a lawyer, because you are a lawyer,
[01:42:19] judge may tell you.
[01:42:22] No, the thing is that with judge, Supreme Court or High Court?
[01:42:26] Okay, we can have a concluding remarks.
[01:42:29] As you said, that time is limited.
[01:42:32] So we are approaching towards the end of this wonderful gossip.
[01:42:36] I would like to thank you for spending your time,
[01:42:39] because if time is money, then you have spent millions on us today.
[01:42:43] No, no, no, let me correct you.
[01:42:45] Time is not money, time is life.
[01:42:48] What is it?
[01:42:55] See, she's already a practicing dentist.
[01:43:02] Money, money, money, money, money.
[01:43:12] If I would say thank you, I know, I'll reach out of words,
[01:43:15] I'll not have some words to express my gratitude.
[01:43:18] The only thing is, if somebody would ask me,
[01:43:20] what have you got in Kashi,
[01:43:22] now I can answer that once I had Satguru then.
[01:43:25] Thank you very much.
[01:43:32] Hey, the end is judge, you are not the lawyer.
[01:43:34] No, sir, thank you.
[01:43:35] Sir, Satguru, I think one phone rings,
[01:43:38] and when you said that, when you hear the song, you dance.
[01:43:41] And I saw a video of Ranveer Singh, sir.
[01:43:43] So can we have that?
[01:43:50] Because that is Ashiv Nagari and we just throng it every time.
[01:43:53] Sir, please, if we can, that's your favorite one.
[01:43:58] I would...
[01:44:01] Music will come, we'll wait.
[01:44:03] I want to see the young people dance and then we will see.
[01:44:06] All right? Anyway...
[01:44:10] I want...
[01:44:11] I want all of you to understand and appreciate this,
[01:44:15] that...
[01:44:18] See, we are...
[01:44:20] We are living in a country
[01:44:23] where still millions of people,
[01:44:26] nearly 500 million people probably,
[01:44:29] don't even get to eat properly.
[01:44:31] All right?
[01:44:32] In such a country,
[01:44:34] when all of us have the privilege that
[01:44:37] at least we don't have to search for our food,
[01:44:41] it's there.
[01:44:42] And not just that, you're in a premier institution like BHU,
[01:44:46] thanks to Malviyaji that he created this.
[01:44:50] You are part of his vision to educate this India,
[01:44:55] where when the British left, we were over ninety percent illiterate.
[01:45:01] So, at that time, somebody had the vision to create this
[01:45:05] and you are part of this great institution.
[01:45:07] I want you to always appreciate the privilege that you are here,
[01:45:11] which so many others have not found in this country.
[01:45:15] Please make use of this time at the university to build yourself.
[01:45:20] Don't worry about the nation, about the society, about this, that.
[01:45:24] Build yourself into such a grand human being.
[01:45:28] Because if there are no great human beings, there'll be no great society.
[01:45:32] There's no great society, there's no great nation,
[01:45:35] there are no great nations, there's no great world.
[01:45:37] So you can't build a great world or a great nation.
[01:45:40] You can only make yourself into a great human being
[01:45:43] and around you wonderful things will happen.
[01:45:45] It's my wish and my blessing, the best should happen to you.
[01:45:48] Thank you very much.
[01:45:54] Thank you.
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