[00:00.000 --> 00:14.000] Welcome to the podcast, Sadhguru, Of Mystics and Mistakes.
[00:14.000 --> 00:25.000] Good evening, good evening everyone. I said good evening.
[00:25.000 --> 00:29.000] In your perspective, how does love contribute to our overall mental and emotional well-being
[00:29.000 --> 00:40.000] and how can one be in a constant mode of love and acceptance and forgiveness in spite of outside influences?
[00:40.000 --> 00:58.000] If this body becomes pleasant, we call this health. If it becomes very pleasant, we call it pleasure.
[00:58.000 --> 01:10.000] If this mind becomes pleasant, we call this peace. If it becomes very pleasant, we call it joy.
[01:10.000 --> 01:21.000] If our emotions become pleasant, we call this love. If it becomes very pleasant, we call it compassion.
[01:21.000 --> 01:34.000] If our very life energies become pleasant, we call this bliss. If it becomes very pleasant, we call it ecstasy.
[01:34.000 --> 01:40.000] If our surroundings become pleasant, we call this success.
[01:40.000 --> 01:49.000] Only to create pleasantness around us, we need the cooperation of people and forces around us.
[01:49.000 --> 01:59.000] But to create pleasantness of body, pleasantness of mind, emotion and energy is one hundred percent our business. Hello.
[01:59.000 --> 02:04.000] If you want to create presentness in this hall, you need everybody's cooperation.
[02:04.000 --> 02:10.000] To create pleasantness within this one is hundred percent my business, isn't it?
[02:10.000 --> 02:17.000] So, love is a certain sweetness of our emotion.
[02:17.000 --> 02:26.000] You may direct it at somebody if they are here. If nobody is here, you can simply sit here in a loving way.
[02:26.000 --> 02:35.000] It's not about somebody or something. It's just that maybe there is a longing to share.
[02:35.000 --> 02:41.000] That's fine. But it's the sweetness of our emotions.
[02:41.000 --> 02:48.000] If you're sitting here and somebody sitting in that corner loves you immensely, doesn't change your life.
[02:48.000 --> 02:56.000] But if you're sitting here and feeling love, even for something that's not here, it changes your life, isn't it?
[02:56.000 --> 02:58.000] Because it's your emotion.
[02:58.000 --> 03:04.000] Above all, we need to understand all human experience, absolutely.
[03:04.000 --> 03:15.000] Our pleasantness, our nastiness, our love, our hate, our misery, our joy, our pain and pleasure, agony and ecstasy, everything happens within us.
[03:15.000 --> 03:23.000] Have you ever experienced anything outside of yourself out here? Hello? You have? Really?
[03:23.000 --> 03:31.000] You did you experience something here? Anything that ever happened to you happened only here, isn't it?
[03:31.000 --> 03:36.000] Even this light and darkness is only happening within you.
[03:36.000 --> 03:43.000] Stimulant, maybe stimulation may be from outside, but the experience happens only within you.
[03:43.000 --> 03:48.000] Or in other words, the seat of your experience is within you.
[03:48.000 --> 03:53.000] When the seat of your experience is within you, if you are sitting on that seat,
[03:53.000 --> 03:58.000] obviously you would make the experience the way you want it.
[03:59.000 --> 04:04.000] If I ask you a simple question, will you answer?
[04:04.000 --> 04:10.000] If you say yes, if you say no, if you say silent, I'll bless you for all the treats up to you.
[04:10.000 --> 04:22.000] If there was a choice between being pleasant within yourself and unpleasant within yourself, what's your choice?
[04:23.000 --> 04:31.000] If there was a choice between sitting here in a loving manner or in an angry and hateful manner, what's your choice?
[04:31.000 --> 04:35.000] Then what? There's no problem with anybody here.
[04:35.000 --> 04:43.000] The only problem is they're not consistent, they're not sustainable. Hello?
[04:43.000 --> 04:48.000] Sustainability is the issue. Otherwise there's no problem with any human being.
[04:48.000 --> 04:55.000] We have, you know, like for the last twenty-seven years, we have programs going on in the prisons of southern India.
[04:55.000 --> 05:00.000] We did some here also in Kentucky and Pennsylvania prisons.
[05:00.000 --> 05:07.000] I met the most wonderful people, but if you look at their life's actions, they've done some horrible things.
[05:07.000 --> 05:16.000] Absolutely horrible things, but if you keep them happy and they're with you, they're absolutely wonderful people.
[05:16.000 --> 05:23.000] So I'm saying all the horrible things are simply because somewhere inside you are feeling horrible.
[05:23.000 --> 05:29.000] You're feeling unpleasant. That unpleasantness, poor me ex in so many ways.
[05:29.000 --> 05:34.000] So one simple thing we need to understand is love is not what you do.
[05:34.000 --> 05:39.000] It is something that you can become. You can become love.
[05:39.000 --> 05:45.000] But unfortunately everybody is trying to do love. Make love, not become love.
[05:45.000 --> 05:53.000] If you have become love, you can look at a man, a woman, a tree, a dog, an insect and be the same.
[05:53.000 --> 05:59.000] We are close, you rise and be loving because it's your business.
[05:59.000 --> 06:04.000] The way you keep yourself is entirely your business.
[06:04.000 --> 06:12.000] How do you relate to the world around you? See, if you're sitting here in a loving manner, if your child comes,
[06:12.000 --> 06:21.000] you grab him and put him on your lap. If your neighbor comes, you don't do that, you just do this, all right?
[06:21.000 --> 06:27.000] But with the same amount of love, you can do this. Hello?
[06:27.000 --> 06:33.000] So love is not about somebody or it is not a relationship.
[06:33.000 --> 06:37.000] Relationship is a different thing. That needs management skills.
[06:37.000 --> 06:40.000] You need an MBA to manage a good...
[06:40.000 --> 06:43.000] Laughter
[06:43.000 --> 06:50.000] That's a different affair. But to be loving is entirely your way of being.
[06:50.000 --> 06:54.000] And you should not deny yourself that no matter what.
[06:54.000 --> 06:57.000] It doesn't matter what the world is doing.
[06:57.000 --> 07:03.000] You should not then miss out, miss out the experience of being soaked in your own sweetness.
[07:03.000 --> 07:14.000] Every day, every moment, sweetness of the body, sweetness of the mind and sweetness of emotion and energy must be on with you every moment of your life.
[07:14.000 --> 07:23.000] Sometimes the world will allow you to find expression. Sometimes they won't allow you.
[07:23.000 --> 07:26.000] Depends on the kind of situations we are existing in.
[07:26.000 --> 07:31.000] In some places, there is more opportunity. In some places, there's less opportunity.
[07:31.000 --> 07:38.000] But nobody can stop you from being pleasant within yourself. Nobody.
[07:38.000 --> 07:42.000] Thank you.
[07:42.000 --> 07:51.000] So that kind of answers what my follow-up question was, which was, what advice would you give to someone who's having trouble with self-love?
[07:51.000 --> 07:53.000] What is self-love?
[07:53.000 --> 07:55.000] Feeling pleasant with yourself.
[07:55.000 --> 08:05.000] See, when we use the word love, let's say it this way. Let me put the same thing in another context.
[08:05.000 --> 08:19.000] You have heard the word yoga. Yoga means probably in United States, most people think you have to twist, turn and become like a leftover nodal.
[08:19.000 --> 08:27.000] No, the word yoga means union. Because once you have come here as a human being,
[08:27.000 --> 08:35.000] if you had come here as any other creature, you're stomach full, life is settled.
[08:35.000 --> 08:45.000] Once you have come as a human being, stomach empty, only one problem. Stomach full, one hundred problems.
[08:45.000 --> 08:51.000] Because once you come as a human being, you're longing to expand.
[08:51.000 --> 08:58.000] How much expansion would settle you for good, if you look at this?
[08:58.000 --> 09:04.000] Well, if you're this much, you want to become that much. If you become that much, you want to become that much.
[09:04.000 --> 09:07.000] What is your currency? It may be different for different people.
[09:07.000 --> 09:11.000] If you know money, you're thinking of more money. If you know wealth, you're thinking of more wealth.
[09:11.000 --> 09:16.000] If you know pleasure, you're thinking of more pleasure, power, more power, knowledge, more knowledge.
[09:16.000 --> 09:24.000] But everybody in their own way is longing to be something more than what they are right now.
[09:24.000 --> 09:29.000] Now, if you look at this, how much more would settle you?
[09:29.000 --> 09:36.000] If I make you the king or queen of this planet, would you be fulfilled and settled?
[09:36.000 --> 09:43.000] I'm asking you. Because then you look at the moon, whatever, let's get the moon.
[09:43.000 --> 09:46.000] What about our solar system?
[09:46.000 --> 09:55.000] If I give you one galaxy, you look at the other galaxy, because there is something within you longing to expand in a limitless way.
[09:55.000 --> 10:05.000] When you're longing is to become limitless. If you've tried to find physical expression to that, inevitably you will be bitter and frustrated
[10:05.000 --> 10:09.000] because it'll not get there, it'll never get there.
[10:09.000 --> 10:17.000] Unless you find another way, when I say another way, right now through physical means we are trying to expand,
[10:17.000 --> 10:22.000] in this longing to expand, we're destroying the planet through and through.
[10:22.000 --> 10:31.000] So please understand, all these environmental issues, planet being under threat and all this stuff is not because of some evil.
[10:31.000 --> 10:36.000] People in pursuit of human well-being, hello?
[10:36.000 --> 10:39.000] You think some evil people are destroying the planet?
[10:39.000 --> 10:44.000] No, all of us in pursuit of well-being, isn't it?
[10:44.000 --> 10:53.000] Because our well-being is never going to settle because we want all, not more, and that's not possible physically.
[10:53.000 --> 11:00.000] Because the nature of physicality is such, nature of physicality is always defined by defined boundaries.
[11:00.000 --> 11:04.000] You call this a physical body because it has a boundary.
[11:04.000 --> 11:09.000] If this had no boundaries, you wouldn't call this physical anymore.
[11:09.000 --> 11:20.000] So yoga means to approach it in the right way, that you approach the union, understanding, physical is not the way to go about it.
[11:20.000 --> 11:25.000] There are ways to do it, leaving that aside. But people are trying through physicality.
[11:25.000 --> 11:33.000] When it finds very fundamental, basic physical expression, when two are trying to become one, we call this sexuality.
[11:33.000 --> 11:39.000] When it finds an emotional expression, we call this love, two are trying to become one.
[11:39.000 --> 11:50.000] If it finds an intellectual or mental expression, it could be called conquest, ambition, or simply shopping, you know.
[11:50.000 --> 11:55.000] Something that's not you, you want to make it part of yourself.
[11:55.000 --> 12:02.000] It's the effort. This effort is on from the simplest physical level to all levels of your faculties.
[12:02.000 --> 12:06.000] You're trying to become one with something else other than you.
[12:06.000 --> 12:13.000] But when you say self-love, there is a danger to this because you are an individual.
[12:13.000 --> 12:18.000] An individual means you are not further divisible.
[12:19.000 --> 12:27.000] The moment there is more than one here, because it's become, I'm saying this, please listen to this carefully,
[12:27.000 --> 12:32.000] because today it's become fashionable to have more than one here.
[12:32.000 --> 12:39.000] The moment there is more than one here, you will go towards mental instability.
[12:39.000 --> 12:42.000] There's only one here, this is just me.
[12:42.000 --> 12:47.000] This one is an individual, not further divisible.
[12:47.000 --> 12:54.000] The moment you divide this, people will say, you know, I'm a nice guy, but you know my ego.
[12:54.000 --> 12:55.000] This ego is a fall guy.
[12:55.000 --> 12:59.000] Whenever you become nasty, you don't want to admit I've been nasty.
[12:59.000 --> 13:02.000] That guy does those things.
[13:02.000 --> 13:06.000] And the people start creating many levels of themselves.
[13:06.000 --> 13:09.000] There's no many levels, they're just you.
[13:09.000 --> 13:15.000] If you see this is just you, there is room for tremendous transformation.
[13:15.000 --> 13:21.000] The moment you make a crowd out of yourself, there is no room for any kind of transformation.
[13:21.000 --> 13:26.000] All you can do is play ball, throwing it here and there, this happened, that happened.
[13:26.000 --> 13:31.000] So love on one level is an effort to unite what is two into one.
[13:31.000 --> 13:33.000] Don't make this two.
[13:33.000 --> 13:35.000] There's no need for self-love.
[13:35.000 --> 13:38.000] Love is yours anyway.
[13:38.000 --> 13:40.000] You can become love.
[13:40.000 --> 13:44.000] You don't have to love yourself, because then you will become two.
[13:44.000 --> 13:48.000] This mind is capable of becoming million if you want.
[13:48.000 --> 13:50.000] Human mind is such.
[13:50.000 --> 13:54.000] If you explore this, you can make million people out of the same mind.
[13:54.000 --> 13:57.000] Don't do that.
[13:57.000 --> 14:04.000] Because then you will neither, either need a psychiatrist or an exorcist.
[14:05.000 --> 14:07.000] Thank you.
[14:07.000 --> 14:12.000] So I want to touch a little bit more on self-transformation.
[14:12.000 --> 14:18.000] I like how you said that you can create a lot of different versions of yourself in your mind.
[14:18.000 --> 14:24.000] Because I went through a phase of my life where I did start to break myself up into like
[14:24.000 --> 14:29.000] portions or like this chapter, this stage, this version, this phase.
[14:29.000 --> 14:36.000] And my very first album, Free Black, was if I had to put a word to it, I would say it was like my
[14:36.000 --> 14:38.000] conflict stage.
[14:38.000 --> 14:45.000] It was my introduction to learning myself, to knowing myself, to knowing myself.
[14:45.000 --> 14:48.000] To knowing myself.
[14:48.000 --> 15:01.000] To figuring out how I felt and how to express my emotions creatively through it.
[15:01.000 --> 15:08.000] It was a moment of not feeling like I deserved much.
[15:08.000 --> 15:15.000] And being so stuck inside my head that even down to the imagery of how we released the album,
[15:15.000 --> 15:20.000] everything was muted, it was monochromatic, my hair was covered, my face, my head was down.
[15:20.000 --> 15:23.000] And that was one stage of my life.
[15:23.000 --> 15:27.000] And then I graduated to the second album, which was East Atlanta Love Letter.
[15:27.000 --> 15:30.000] And we introduced color into everything that I started to do.
[15:30.000 --> 15:34.000] The first picture that I ever posted in color was a picture of my daughter.
[15:34.000 --> 15:42.000] And for anybody who was following the story, it was a moment for all of us to kind of celebrate
[15:42.000 --> 15:47.000] because up until that moment I didn't see any reason for changing my personal life.
[15:47.000 --> 15:52.000] And that was my album of acknowledgment and reflection.
[15:52.000 --> 15:59.000] And then the most recent album since I have a lover is me in a state of practice.
[15:59.000 --> 16:04.000] Everything that I experienced the first two times around had finally made it to the point
[16:04.000 --> 16:09.000] where I could look in the mirror and say, yes, you talked a good game.
[16:09.000 --> 16:14.000] Yes, you have an idea of where you want to go, how you want to be, who you want to be.
[16:14.000 --> 16:17.000] But what are you doing every single day to prove it to yourself?
[16:17.000 --> 16:21.000] When you wake up, what is the routine that you've implemented to show yourself that you deserve everything
[16:21.000 --> 16:24.000] that you're wishing for?
[16:24.000 --> 16:26.000] What is your practice?
[16:26.000 --> 16:29.000] These were my different versions of myself.
[16:29.000 --> 16:35.000] These were the different stages of how I had to grow from conflict to acknowledgement and to practice.
[16:35.000 --> 16:43.000] So, how has your personal journey and experience influenced your teachings and guidance
[16:43.000 --> 16:47.000] for other seeking self-transformation and low-being?
[16:47.000 --> 16:53.000] What's your love life like?
[16:53.000 --> 16:58.000] Say, this is the nature of life.
[16:58.000 --> 17:05.000] First being, because you're a certain kind of being, you do certain things.
[17:05.000 --> 17:09.000] Because you do certain things, you may get to have certain things.
[17:09.000 --> 17:16.000] What you will get to have is not determined by you, but in the times that we exist.
[17:16.000 --> 17:23.000] Today in twenty-first century, because of who you are, maybe you're driving a certain kind of automobile.
[17:23.000 --> 17:29.000] If you were here five hundred years ago, maybe you would get a certain kind of buffalo.
[17:29.000 --> 17:35.000] I'm saying, what we get to have is not ours, it's the times in which we are existing.
[17:35.000 --> 17:41.000] But unfortunately, most people start their life with what they want to have,
[17:41.000 --> 17:46.000] for that what they should do, and because of that they become something.
[17:46.000 --> 17:50.000] This is just trying to run the life in the reverse manner.
[17:50.000 --> 17:57.000] First being, if you take any other life, you take a bird, it is a certain kind of being.
[17:57.000 --> 18:00.000] Because of that it'll do certain things.
[18:00.000 --> 18:07.000] Because of that, maybe it will get certain things, maybe it gets protected.
[18:07.000 --> 18:13.000] Many others have been killed and eliminated, some have been protected because of the things that they do.
[18:13.000 --> 18:22.000] So instead of being, doing and having, most people today are trying to go from having, they want to have this,
[18:22.000 --> 18:24.000] so they do this and they get here.
[18:24.000 --> 18:32.000] Even if they get there, then there is no joy to life because it's a struggle within oneself.
[18:32.000 --> 18:36.000] See, there are challenges in the world.
[18:36.000 --> 18:40.000] The more you try to do, the more challenges.
[18:40.000 --> 18:48.000] But if you yourself are a big challenge, how to deal with life?
[18:48.000 --> 18:54.000] There are so many people and situations which will throw challenges at you as you try to do more and more in the world.
[18:54.000 --> 18:57.000] Endless number of challenges.
[18:57.000 --> 19:02.000] But I should not be a challenge in my own life.
[19:02.000 --> 19:05.000] I should not be an impediment in my own life.
[19:05.000 --> 19:08.000] There are thousand impediments in the world.
[19:08.000 --> 19:16.000] Well, some we will cross gracefully, some we will struggle, some we will not cross maybe, always there.
[19:16.000 --> 19:23.000] So, you want me to talk about myself?
[19:23.000 --> 19:27.000] I must tell you a little average story about it.
[19:27.000 --> 19:30.000] You have a few minutes for this.
[19:30.000 --> 19:33.000] See, this is one thing.
[19:33.000 --> 19:39.000] Because you go to school, almost everybody goes to school today.
[19:39.000 --> 19:45.000] In your school, they reward only your memory, not your attention.
[19:45.000 --> 19:51.000] If you remember the damn textbook, they will say your number one.
[19:51.000 --> 19:53.000] That's stupid textbook if you remember.
[19:53.000 --> 19:59.000] Chat GDP has more memory than you, so that is first then.
[19:59.000 --> 20:04.000] This happened to me when I was just four and a half years of age.
[20:04.000 --> 20:09.000] One day I suddenly realized I don't know anything.
[20:09.000 --> 20:13.000] Don't know anything means I don't know anything at all.
[20:13.000 --> 20:18.000] If somebody gives me a glass of water, I don't know what this is.
[20:18.000 --> 20:21.000] I know how to use it, but I don't know what it is.
[20:21.000 --> 20:24.000] Even now you don't know what it is actually.
[20:24.000 --> 20:31.000] With all the scientific knowledge that we have, we do not know a single atom in its entirety.
[20:31.000 --> 20:33.000] This is a fact.
[20:33.000 --> 20:36.000] Not one atom, do we know in its entirety?
[20:36.000 --> 20:43.000] We know how to fuse it, we know how to break it, we know how to make a bomb out of it, but we don't know what it is.
[20:43.000 --> 20:49.000] So, when I realize this, if I find a leaf, I am just tearing it for hours.
[20:49.000 --> 20:54.000] If I sit up in my bed, I am just staring at the darkness for the whole night.
[20:54.000 --> 21:00.000] My dear father, being a physician, he started thinking, I need psychiatric evaluation.
[21:00.000 --> 21:05.000] This boy is simply staring at something, it looked like he's lost it.
[21:05.000 --> 21:08.000] In this condition, they sent me to school.
[21:08.000 --> 21:13.000] My mother said, pay attention to the teacher, don't look here and there.
[21:13.000 --> 21:16.000] I went and paid attention to the teacher.
[21:16.000 --> 21:20.000] The kind of attention they had never received in their lives.
[21:20.000 --> 21:32.000] And initially, I kind of understood what they were trying to say, but after some time I realized,
[21:32.000 --> 21:36.000] teacher after teacher, every forty-five minutes, new teacher is coming.
[21:36.000 --> 21:40.000] All of them are just making sounds, sounds and sounds.
[21:40.000 --> 21:43.000] I am making up the meanings in my mind.
[21:43.000 --> 21:45.000] Then I said, why am I making these meanings?
[21:45.000 --> 21:47.000] Let me just listen.
[21:47.000 --> 21:51.000] So, without making meanings, I just started listening to all the sounds that they make.
[21:51.000 --> 21:54.000] After some time, it really became very amusing.
[21:54.000 --> 21:57.000] A big smile spread on my face.
[21:57.000 --> 22:00.000] They were not amused at all.
[22:00.000 --> 22:05.000] What I am trying to say is, right now, language itself.
[22:05.000 --> 22:08.000] See, because language is a conspiracy.
[22:08.000 --> 22:12.000] If I say this sound, you are making up the meaning, isn't it?
[22:12.000 --> 22:18.000] Suppose I start speaking a language that you don't understand, just sounds, isn't it?
[22:18.000 --> 22:28.000] India is a nation where originally they were about nineteen thousand languages.
[22:28.000 --> 22:33.000] Today, in use are thirteen hundred languages, okay?
[22:33.000 --> 22:35.000] So, every other person speaks a different language.
[22:35.000 --> 22:39.000] Most of the time, they are making sounds as far as you are concerned.
[22:39.000 --> 22:43.000] So, when I just pay attention to these things,
[22:43.000 --> 22:48.000] slowly, I know, I know they are past present and future,
[22:48.000 --> 22:53.000] but I don't hear a damn thing that they are saying.
[22:53.000 --> 22:59.000] Then I became a super skeptic about everything because I paid attention
[22:59.000 --> 23:04.000] to everything around me, the home, atmosphere, the family,
[23:04.000 --> 23:08.000] the society, the economic conditions around me,
[23:08.000 --> 23:12.000] social fabric, politics.
[23:12.000 --> 23:16.000] I just paid attention, attention, attention.
[23:16.000 --> 23:22.000] And so I became, if you pay attention to just about anything around in your life,
[23:22.000 --> 23:27.000] enough attention, you will see too many meaningless nonsensical things
[23:27.000 --> 23:29.000] that are happening all over the place.
[23:29.000 --> 23:31.000] So, I am a super skeptic.
[23:31.000 --> 23:36.000] In this condition, I, I criss-crossed India on my motorcycle
[23:36.000 --> 23:40.000] because I was restless and wanted to go somewhere.
[23:40.000 --> 23:44.000] And I traveled without going anywhere from one end of the nation to another,
[23:44.000 --> 23:48.000] and then turning around and riding to another corner and riding back like this,
[23:48.000 --> 23:52.000] seeing and enjoying the terrain and the feel of it,
[23:52.000 --> 23:56.000] but not going to any place as such.
[23:56.000 --> 24:00.000] Why I'm saying this is, after this I wanted to really right away,
[24:00.000 --> 24:03.000] then I decided I'll start my businesses.
[24:03.000 --> 24:04.000] I started a business.
[24:04.000 --> 24:06.000] It became very successful in a short time.
[24:06.000 --> 24:09.000] I started one more, one more, about half a dozen businesses.
[24:09.000 --> 24:13.000] For those days it was considered too successful.
[24:13.000 --> 24:16.000] So everybody clapping their hands and saying, you're doing great,
[24:16.000 --> 24:19.000] but I was planning to leave.
[24:19.000 --> 24:25.000] So, one afternoon, I went and sat on a small hill.
[24:25.000 --> 24:28.000] Anybody been to India here?
[24:28.000 --> 24:32.000] Oh, you need to see India.
[24:32.000 --> 24:36.000] It's a unique nation.
[24:36.000 --> 24:41.000] So, a city called Mysore, where there's a small hill,
[24:41.000 --> 24:46.000] where I know this hill very well, I've camped there and I've known this place very well.
[24:46.000 --> 24:51.000] In the afternoon between two business meetings, I just went and sat there
[24:51.000 --> 24:55.000] and I am a super, super skeptic.
[24:55.000 --> 25:02.000] I don't believe anything other than I can see, what I can see.
[25:02.000 --> 25:07.000] I was sitting there with my ash open till that moment.
[25:07.000 --> 25:11.000] This was me. This is somebody else.
[25:11.000 --> 25:17.000] I have no issue with this somebody, but this is me that is somebody.
[25:17.000 --> 25:21.000] Suddenly I did not know which is me and which is not me.
[25:21.000 --> 25:24.000] I'm sitting here and what was me was just all over the place.
[25:24.000 --> 25:28.000] I know it sounds insane, even I thought so.
[25:28.000 --> 25:33.000] It was all over the place and I thought this lasted for 10, 15 minutes.
[25:33.000 --> 25:38.000] But when I came back to my normal census, it was four and a half hours that passed
[25:38.000 --> 25:43.000] for the first time in my adult life, tears, me and tears were impossible.
[25:43.000 --> 25:45.000] My shirt was wet.
[25:45.000 --> 25:53.000] Like that tears have been flowing, every cell in my body bursting with ecstasy, dripping ecstasy.
[25:53.000 --> 25:57.000] Then I shake my head and think, what is happening to me?
[25:57.000 --> 26:03.000] The only thing my logical mind could say was, maybe I'm going off my rocker.
[26:03.000 --> 26:06.000] Then I asked my closest friends, what do you think?
[26:06.000 --> 26:08.000] I'm just experiencing something like this.
[26:08.000 --> 26:11.000] I come on. What did you pop? What did you drink?
[26:11.000 --> 26:16.000] Did you find the mushrooms in the hill?
[26:16.000 --> 26:19.000] So I knew there was no context.
[26:19.000 --> 26:22.000] Then I experimented for a few weeks with this.
[26:22.000 --> 26:29.000] Then I found that if I can sit away from my own psychological process
[26:29.000 --> 26:33.000] of thought and emotion, if I can sit little away from it,
[26:33.000 --> 26:38.000] suddenly within minutes, I will be completely blissed out.
[26:38.000 --> 26:44.000] In a way that what seems like a minute in my experience is many hours.
[26:45.000 --> 26:49.000] So then I sat down and planned.
[26:49.000 --> 26:54.000] I'm telling you my problems, okay?
[26:54.000 --> 27:00.000] Then I sat down and planned that in the next two and a half years,
[27:00.000 --> 27:04.000] at that time the world's population was 5.6 billion people.
[27:04.000 --> 27:09.000] In two and a half years time, I'm going to make this world blissful, every one of them,
[27:09.000 --> 27:11.000] because who wouldn't want it?
[27:11.000 --> 27:14.000] Just sit here and be blissed out. Who wouldn't want it?
[27:14.000 --> 27:21.000] I thought everybody will go for it for years now.
[27:21.000 --> 27:29.000] Well, we've touched over 2.5 billion people now, but that is not my idea of humanity.
[27:29.000 --> 27:34.000] So I know I will die of failure, but as a blissful failure,
[27:34.000 --> 27:40.000] because my way of being is not connected to what I do
[27:40.000 --> 27:44.000] or what I cannot do.
[27:51.000 --> 27:55.000] I'm learning just as much as y'all are learning today.
[27:55.000 --> 28:00.000] I'm going to touch a little bit on spreading the message of bliss,
[28:00.000 --> 28:05.000] but in the midst of a lot of traffic and a lot of outside energy
[28:05.000 --> 28:09.000] and a lot of pressures of the industry.
[28:09.000 --> 28:16.000] I remember for me personally when I came into really the inner scope offices
[28:16.000 --> 28:21.000] when I was getting ready to decide my first deal.
[28:21.000 --> 28:26.000] I was trying to figure out how do I set the tone,
[28:26.000 --> 28:31.000] how do I let it be known like why I'm here
[28:31.000 --> 28:36.000] and how do I clear space for me to be able to continue what I feel like my purpose is.
[28:36.000 --> 28:43.000] And for me personally, it came in the form of telling them like I was an album artist
[28:43.000 --> 28:46.000] and that can mean a bunch of different things to different people,
[28:46.000 --> 28:50.000] but for me it meant I want to focus on the story of what I'm doing.
[28:50.000 --> 28:52.000] I want to focus on the entire message of what I'm doing,
[28:52.000 --> 28:55.000] and I don't want to necessarily be here just to go to radio.
[28:55.000 --> 28:57.000] I don't want to be here just to make money.
[28:57.000 --> 29:00.000] I don't want to be here just to pump out a bunch of products.
[29:00.000 --> 29:03.000] I want to focus on telling my story,
[29:03.000 --> 29:08.000] and that requires a certain amount of living and experiencing and learning.
[29:08.000 --> 29:12.000] So I went through that process for those three albums,
[29:12.000 --> 29:16.000] and in the midst of figuring that out,
[29:16.000 --> 29:20.000] I just found myself in that state of confusion,
[29:20.000 --> 29:24.000] and I found myself in the state of being overwhelmed,
[29:24.000 --> 29:29.000] and I was trying to be and do so much for so many other people
[29:29.000 --> 29:32.000] that eventually I looked up and I was burnt out.
[29:32.000 --> 29:38.000] And I felt like I had overextended, and I was holding like this message in this flag,
[29:38.000 --> 29:42.000] and I was trying to bear it so hard that I just completely forgot to,
[29:42.000 --> 29:46.000] like you said, sit with myself and find that bliss and find that happiness.
[29:46.000 --> 29:52.000] What advice would you give for navigating through what we're all pretty much,
[29:52.000 --> 29:55.000] everybody in here is a creative in some kind of form,
[29:55.000 --> 29:58.000] but navigating through that with the norms of the industry
[29:58.000 --> 30:03.000] not necessarily being considered of that?
[30:03.000 --> 30:15.000] Say music in its essence is one instrument which can touch life profoundly.
[30:15.000 --> 30:19.000] It should be never seen as an industry.
[30:19.000 --> 30:25.000] There is an industry around music, but music is not industry.
[30:25.000 --> 30:32.000] You know, industry might have become overwhelmingly large compared to the art form of it,
[30:32.000 --> 30:38.000] but I don't think as musicians you should ever allow that to happen,
[30:38.000 --> 30:44.000] because industry is business, it's commerce, it has to do its thing,
[30:44.000 --> 30:48.000] and commerce is needed to take it to the wide world,
[30:48.000 --> 30:51.000] a musician cannot do it by himself.
[30:51.000 --> 31:01.000] All that's fine, but still, for me, instead of speaking for everybody,
[31:01.000 --> 31:07.000] let me speak what it means for me.
[31:07.000 --> 31:12.000] While you're kind of music, I may be a bit too old for that.
[31:12.000 --> 31:18.000] When I was in sixties, we started with heavy rock and roll and rolling stones
[31:18.000 --> 31:27.000] and gertool and, you know, all that, and BB King and all that stuff.
[31:27.000 --> 31:38.000] I'm still listening to BB King, because he spills magic out of his fingers.
[31:38.000 --> 31:45.000] So, completely Western music, though, I grew up in India.
[31:45.000 --> 31:53.000] One day, in the university, there is an open air theatre where about, you know,
[31:53.000 --> 31:56.000] eight, ten thousand people can sit.
[31:56.000 --> 31:59.000] I'm just riding on my motorcycle.
[31:59.000 --> 32:04.000] My motorcycle is loud enough so that it blurs out everything.
[32:04.000 --> 32:07.000] I like the music of the engine.
[32:07.000 --> 32:12.000] That's my constant companion.
[32:12.000 --> 32:20.000] But then I heard some strange kind of sound, which got me by the gut literally.
[32:20.000 --> 32:25.000] It just literally drew me, and I just rode towards the open air theatre,
[32:25.000 --> 32:29.000] and there was some small security, and then they tried to stop me.
[32:29.000 --> 32:31.000] I just rode straight through.
[32:31.000 --> 32:37.000] This open air theatre, me and my friends have been using, which is like an arena,
[32:37.000 --> 32:40.000] to ride the motorcycles up and down the steps.
[32:40.000 --> 32:44.000] Okay, I never thought about any event there.
[32:44.000 --> 32:50.000] In the last few years, I have been doing events there.
[32:50.000 --> 32:54.000] So, I just rode to the edge of the arena and stood there,
[32:54.000 --> 32:56.000] and they were playing some kind of an instrument.
[32:56.000 --> 32:59.000] I did not even know the name of the instrument at that time.
[32:59.000 --> 33:04.000] Very slow, simply don't like that.
[33:04.000 --> 33:08.000] It just, I just sat there with tears flowing down.
[33:08.000 --> 33:09.000] I couldn't believe it.
[33:09.000 --> 33:11.000] What are they doing to me?
[33:11.000 --> 33:14.000] It's like they grabbed me from inside out.
[33:14.000 --> 33:18.000] This was the beginning of Indian classical music for me.
[33:18.000 --> 33:21.000] Then all this body shaking music went out of me.
[33:21.000 --> 33:25.000] Suddenly it just got me from inside.
[33:25.000 --> 33:33.000] As I became more and more meditative, this classical music became more and more prominent for me,
[33:33.000 --> 33:37.000] and I started seeing what sound can do.
[33:37.000 --> 33:43.000] In most of my programs today, I use music in such a powerful way
[33:43.000 --> 33:50.000] that simply by uttering a sound, you can make people burst out in so many different ways.
[33:50.000 --> 33:56.000] So, we need to understand this, even according to modern science today.
[33:56.000 --> 34:00.000] What seems to be solid material is not really that.
[34:00.000 --> 34:05.000] It is a reverberation of energy, which makes it this way.
[34:05.000 --> 34:09.000] Where there is a vibration, there is bound to be a sound.
[34:09.000 --> 34:12.000] Not all sound is audible to our ears.
[34:12.000 --> 34:16.000] Only a small frequency of sounds are audible to our human ears.
[34:16.000 --> 34:20.000] What is about that is ultrasonic, what is below that is subsonic.
[34:20.000 --> 34:25.000] Many animals, elephants, whales and others are communicating in subsonic sounds.
[34:25.000 --> 34:27.000] You don't hear that.
[34:27.000 --> 34:32.000] Similarly, there are some who are doing in ultrasonic sounds like the bats and others,
[34:32.000 --> 34:34.000] which you cannot hear either.
[34:34.000 --> 34:37.000] We are only hearing a range of sounds.
[34:37.000 --> 34:40.000] But sound is the basis of existence.
[34:40.000 --> 34:44.000] There is a whole yoga called nada yoga, nada means sound.
[34:44.000 --> 34:50.000] There is a whole yoga as to how to approach your ultimate nature through the use of sound.
[34:50.000 --> 34:55.000] There are scriptures talking about first there was a word.
[34:55.000 --> 35:03.000] See, if I say a word now, let us say, I say some word for which you don't understand the meaning.
[35:03.000 --> 35:06.000] It's just a sound, isn't it?
[35:06.000 --> 35:11.000] Word is human mind interpreting it as a word.
[35:11.000 --> 35:13.000] Otherwise it's just a sound.
[35:13.000 --> 35:15.000] Sound is existentially true.
[35:15.000 --> 35:19.000] Words are made up in human societies.
[35:19.000 --> 35:25.000] So if you use the sound effectively, it can transform life in a very powerful way.
[35:25.000 --> 35:28.000] Not just about creating emotions and this and that.
[35:28.000 --> 35:34.000] It can be both self-transformation and transformation for everybody who comes in touch with it.
[35:34.000 --> 35:41.000] So for all this, the most important thing is a very intense and keen sense of attention.
[35:41.000 --> 35:48.000] And if you touch those sounds, even if not in everything, even here and there if you touch those sounds,
[35:48.000 --> 35:53.000] those sounds will live forever in people's minds and hearts.
[35:53.000 --> 35:58.000] There is music when I say, be king, the guy's going, boom, all right?
[35:58.000 --> 36:01.000] Because some sounds touched everybody.
[36:01.000 --> 36:06.000] Doesn't matter what culture, where you are, what time, you'll listen to it after hundred years.
[36:06.000 --> 36:12.000] Still that sound touches you in some way because sound has this power.
[36:12.000 --> 36:17.000] And musicians should pay that attention and try to find that sound
[36:17.000 --> 36:20.000] which will touch every human being who's sitting here.
[36:20.000 --> 36:25.000] Not only human being, right now some of the Indian musicians are experimenting with animals
[36:25.000 --> 36:28.000] and they find animals are keen listeners.
[36:28.000 --> 36:33.000] If you make certain sounds, they're listening so intently.
[36:33.000 --> 36:36.000] Thank you.
[36:36.000 --> 36:39.000] So conscious music circle is co-present in this event.
[36:39.000 --> 36:46.000] What work are you on your team doing within the music industry and how can this community of people
[36:46.000 --> 36:50.000] who haven't been to India, who haven't, who are just learning about you?
[36:50.000 --> 36:53.000] How can we get involved?
[36:53.000 --> 36:59.000] I'm not a trained musician, I know nothing about that, but I have an ear too.
[36:59.000 --> 37:04.000] I mean, I have a tension.
[37:04.000 --> 37:09.000] If I listen to something, I know whether this is going to touch somebody or not, clearly.
[37:09.000 --> 37:17.000] So in that sense, well today there is so much music happening around the world,
[37:17.000 --> 37:19.000] so many varieties of music.
[37:19.000 --> 37:23.000] There are cultural aspects which you're trying to fulfill, I understand that,
[37:23.000 --> 37:29.000] that has to be respected in different cultures, different kind of things that are appealing to people,
[37:29.000 --> 37:35.000] talking about that there's issues, problems, solutions, all this aspect is there.
[37:35.000 --> 37:39.000] But music is beyond all the causes that we hold.
[37:39.000 --> 37:46.000] It may serve some cause, but music must be seen as something which is about that,
[37:46.000 --> 37:51.000] because sound is the most fundamental thing in the universe.
[37:51.000 --> 37:55.000] Everything else is made up by us on top of it.
[37:55.000 --> 38:01.000] So our causes are there, our purposes are there, but music should stay about that.
[38:02.000 --> 38:04.000] I want to go back into the emotions.
[38:04.000 --> 38:10.000] And dealing with how to express yourself when you're struggling with expressing your emotions.
[38:10.000 --> 38:17.000] I went through a good portion of my life feeling like I was coping.
[38:17.000 --> 38:23.000] And one coping mechanism was just feeling like everything that I needed to solve.
[38:23.000 --> 38:25.000] I would just figure it out on my own.
[38:25.000 --> 38:28.000] It wasn't really into using the community around me.
[38:28.000 --> 38:32.000] I wasn't really that into having outside conversations.
[38:32.000 --> 38:34.000] It was all just self-reliant.
[38:34.000 --> 38:40.000] And it kind of put me in a space to where I got to my adult life,
[38:40.000 --> 38:44.000] and it just started to show up in my relationships.
[38:44.000 --> 38:50.000] So the things that could have been easy conversations, that could have been easy solutions,
[38:50.000 --> 38:54.000] started to become just hyped up and over exaggerated,
[38:54.000 --> 38:58.000] because I would just be so in my head that it would go from,
[38:58.000 --> 39:02.000] okay, there's something important on my mind, but I'm having a good day today.
[39:02.000 --> 39:04.000] So I won't say it today.
[39:04.000 --> 39:09.000] And then two days ago by, and I would be like, okay, I'll say it Wednesday,
[39:09.000 --> 39:12.000] but only if it's like the right time in the right place.
[39:12.000 --> 39:15.000] And then Wednesday would come, and I would put it off until the next week.
[39:15.000 --> 39:17.000] And then by the next week, it would like-
[39:17.000 --> 39:19.000] Never told her I love you, is he?
[39:20.000 --> 39:22.000] It would just blow up in my face.
[39:22.000 --> 39:27.000] And things continued to blow up in my face until I was able to look in the mirror
[39:27.000 --> 39:33.000] and really just acknowledge that there was a lot of self-improvement left to be done.
[39:33.000 --> 39:37.000] And luckily I had a partner who was hyper-aware enough to be able to say,
[39:37.000 --> 39:41.000] hey, I see you, and you might look like you have everything together to everybody else,
[39:41.000 --> 39:44.000] but to me, you look like a mess right now.
[39:44.000 --> 39:49.000] So with like struggling with those emotions,
[39:49.000 --> 39:56.000] is there any way to cut all the fat off or get past the being in your head part?
[39:56.000 --> 40:00.000] So let's understand what is emotion first of all.
[40:00.000 --> 40:07.000] Leaving personal stuff, let's fundamentally understand what is emotion.
[40:07.000 --> 40:13.000] Because emotion has such power over human beings,
[40:13.000 --> 40:17.000] people start thinking it's a force by itself.
[40:17.000 --> 40:19.000] But please look at this carefully.
[40:19.000 --> 40:24.000] The way you think is the way you feel, isn't it?
[40:24.000 --> 40:29.000] Right now I sit here and I think he's a horrible guy.
[40:29.000 --> 40:32.000] Now I have nasty emotions towards you.
[40:32.000 --> 40:34.000] Now I think he's a wonderful guy.
[40:34.000 --> 40:37.000] I have sweet emotions towards you.
[40:37.000 --> 40:42.000] Can I think he's a wonderful guy and have nasty emotions towards you?
[40:42.000 --> 40:46.000] Or can I think he's a horrible guy and have sweet emotions towards you?
[40:46.000 --> 40:51.000] The way you think is the way you feel, but why they look so different is,
[40:51.000 --> 40:53.000] because thought is agile.
[40:53.000 --> 40:56.000] This moment I can think you're wonderful.
[40:56.000 --> 41:01.000] Next moment I can think you're horrible just because you did something that I don't like.
[41:01.000 --> 41:03.000] But emotions are a bit sappy.
[41:03.000 --> 41:05.000] They don't turn around so quickly.
[41:05.000 --> 41:09.000] It takes three days to turn around or three years to turn around.
[41:09.000 --> 41:12.000] Depends who you are, right?
[41:12.000 --> 41:15.000] But emotions are not agile like thought.
[41:15.000 --> 41:17.000] Thought changes direction.
[41:17.000 --> 41:21.000] Emotion goes, crashes into this and that.
[41:21.000 --> 41:24.000] So the way you think is the way you amount.
[41:24.000 --> 41:29.000] So what we need to do is, how do we think?
[41:29.000 --> 41:34.000] Most people don't think they just have mental diarrhea.
[41:34.000 --> 41:38.000] You just running?
[41:38.000 --> 41:41.000] Why is there a mental diarrhea like this?
[41:41.000 --> 41:43.000] Why would there be a physical diarrhea?
[41:43.000 --> 41:47.000] Something that should not go into the stomach has gone, isn't it?
[41:47.000 --> 41:48.000] Hello?
[41:48.000 --> 41:51.000] Bad food?
[41:51.000 --> 41:53.000] What has happened to this?
[41:53.000 --> 41:55.000] The fundamental is this.
[41:55.000 --> 41:58.000] See this body, you were not born like this, you were born this much.
[41:58.000 --> 41:59.000] Now you become this much.
[41:59.000 --> 42:00.000] How?
[42:00.000 --> 42:02.000] The food that you've eaten.
[42:02.000 --> 42:07.000] So this body, what you call as myself right now is an accumulation
[42:07.000 --> 42:09.000] over a period of time.
[42:09.000 --> 42:11.000] Everybody, I'm saying.
[42:11.000 --> 42:16.000] Whatever we have eaten has slowly gathered.
[42:16.000 --> 42:17.000] What is this mind?
[42:17.000 --> 42:22.000] All the impressions that we have gathered slowly accumulated.
[42:22.000 --> 42:28.000] Anything that we accumulate, we can say this is mine, this belongs to me.
[42:28.000 --> 42:32.000] But you cannot say it's me, isn't it?
[42:32.000 --> 42:39.000] Right now, if I say, this pot belongs to me, this is my pot.
[42:39.000 --> 42:42.000] You will think Sadhguru's got some problem.
[42:42.000 --> 42:48.000] But let's listen some more, everybody's saying his voice.
[42:48.000 --> 42:55.000] After some time I say, this is me, then you'll say, let's go.
[42:55.000 --> 42:56.000] It's clear.
[42:56.000 --> 42:57.000] Hello?
[42:57.000 --> 43:01.000] The moment you claim something that is not you as myself,
[43:01.000 --> 43:04.000] it's very clear, it's a case.
[43:04.000 --> 43:06.000] This you're doing every day.
[43:06.000 --> 43:12.000] Food appears in your plate, you say, this is my food, you eat it and then you say, it's me.
[43:12.000 --> 43:14.000] This is where it starts.
[43:14.000 --> 43:19.000] The moment you identify yourself with something that you are not,
[43:19.000 --> 43:23.000] after that mental diarrhea cannot be stopped, do what you want.
[43:23.000 --> 43:27.000] The harder you try, the faster it runs.
[43:27.000 --> 43:32.000] Because in this mind, there is no subtraction and division.
[43:32.000 --> 43:36.000] There is only addition and multiplication.
[43:36.000 --> 43:41.000] If you, if this thought is going on, I want to remove it, there is no such thing.
[43:41.000 --> 43:44.000] If you remove it, it'll become ten.
[43:44.000 --> 43:49.000] But you can distance yourself from that.
[43:49.000 --> 43:52.000] This is what I said in the beginning.
[43:52.000 --> 43:58.000] If once you create a little space between yourself and the psychological process,
[43:58.000 --> 44:02.000] you will see the chemistry of the body changes so dramatically.
[44:02.000 --> 44:07.000] Today we have a research center in the Harvard Medical School which is studying all this.
[44:07.000 --> 44:10.000] You must see what they are putting out.
[44:10.000 --> 44:12.000] There are many things I will not go into the science of.
[44:12.000 --> 44:19.000] If one thing that would interest you is, there are endocannabinoids in the body.
[44:19.000 --> 44:22.000] This body produces its own cannabis.
[44:22.000 --> 44:23.000] You know that.
[44:23.000 --> 44:26.000] Oh, you didn't give it an opportunity.
[44:26.000 --> 44:32.000] You're banking on the wheel.
[44:32.000 --> 44:33.000] Okay.
[44:33.000 --> 44:40.000] But within this body, there are endocannabinoids that body produces its own cannabinoids.
[44:40.000 --> 44:42.000] And this is at its peak.
[44:42.000 --> 44:46.000] It's considered at its peak in an ascetic sexual orgasm.
[44:46.000 --> 44:52.000] But in a simple practice that we teach, it has been measured and found.
[44:52.000 --> 44:54.000] It's much higher than that.
[44:54.000 --> 44:56.000] Simply sitting here.
[44:56.000 --> 44:58.000] Not doing anything.
[44:58.000 --> 45:04.000] Simply sitting here, you can change the chemistry of the body simply because there's a little distance
[45:04.000 --> 45:08.000] between yourself and the psychological process.
[45:08.000 --> 45:15.000] Both physiological process and psychological process is something that you slowly gathered over a period of time.
[45:15.000 --> 45:17.000] Is that so?
[45:17.000 --> 45:18.000] Yes?
[45:18.000 --> 45:22.000] What you gather can be yours, can never ever be you.
[45:22.000 --> 45:23.000] Am I correct?
[45:23.000 --> 45:24.000] Hello?
[45:24.000 --> 45:28.000] This can be yours, but it can't be you.
[45:28.000 --> 45:29.000] Just like that.
[45:29.000 --> 45:31.000] This can be yours, but it can't be you.
[45:31.000 --> 45:38.000] For example, for a thousand years there has been an argument whether this planet is round or flat.
[45:38.000 --> 45:39.000] Hello?
[45:39.000 --> 45:41.000] What do you think now?
[45:41.000 --> 45:47.000] Whether flat, flat.
[45:47.000 --> 45:54.000] Because if you walk up and down from your experience, the earth is flat.
[45:54.000 --> 45:57.000] We would have argued for the rest of the time.
[45:57.000 --> 46:00.000] But then we started navigating the oceans.
[46:00.000 --> 46:06.000] Then we saw it seems to be round and we started from the same place and ended up in the same place.
[46:06.000 --> 46:08.000] So it must be round.
[46:08.000 --> 46:12.000] Then we started flying, we looked down, it was quite round.
[46:12.000 --> 46:19.000] We went, stood on the moon and looked down one hundred percent, it's a ball.
[46:19.000 --> 46:22.000] It's a little space, little distance.
[46:22.000 --> 46:29.000] Similarly, if you create a little space between yourself and your psychological process,
[46:29.000 --> 46:32.000] it is crystal clear to you how it happens.
[46:32.000 --> 46:37.000] Right now you're sitting inside that and trying to figure it out.
[46:37.000 --> 46:41.000] No, it doesn't work like that.
[46:41.000 --> 46:46.000] People misunderstand confidence for clarity.
[46:46.000 --> 46:50.000] But confidence without clarity is a disastrous process.
[46:50.000 --> 46:52.000] How to get confidence?
[46:52.000 --> 46:57.000] Just make conclusions about everything that you're confused about.
[46:57.000 --> 46:59.000] Hello?
[46:59.000 --> 47:02.000] Make conclusions and will it work?
[47:02.000 --> 47:04.000] Sick will confidence work, you try this.
[47:04.000 --> 47:06.000] This is an I-75.
[47:06.000 --> 47:08.000] Tomorrow I will also be on it.
[47:08.000 --> 47:11.000] You can try it, please don't do this, I'm just joking.
[47:11.000 --> 47:15.000] You say whatever builds confidence in you, one slogan,
[47:15.000 --> 47:19.000] some people have religious slogans, other people have ideological slogans.
[47:19.000 --> 47:24.000] Say one of those slogans and just run across I-75.
[47:24.000 --> 47:26.000] You may make it.
[47:26.000 --> 47:31.000] Just by sheer chance or because of compassion of some driver, you may make it.
[47:31.000 --> 47:36.000] But if you try every day, we know where to pick you up.
[47:36.000 --> 47:38.000] Yes or no?
[47:38.000 --> 47:43.000] So confidence is like this because it is like,
[47:43.000 --> 47:46.000] see if you flip a coin and make all the decisions in your life,
[47:46.000 --> 47:49.000] 50% of the time you will be right.
[47:49.000 --> 47:52.000] But if you're right only 50% of the time,
[47:52.000 --> 47:55.000] there are only two professions left for you.
[47:55.000 --> 48:00.000] You can either become a weatherman or an astrologer.
[48:00.000 --> 48:02.000] Everywhere else you'll be fine.
[48:02.000 --> 48:05.000] Thank you.
[48:05.000 --> 48:14.000] So I don't want the entirety of the conversation to be me picking his brain
[48:14.000 --> 48:16.000] and me sharing my personal experiences,
[48:16.000 --> 48:19.000] so I do want to get ready to break for questions.
[48:19.000 --> 48:22.000] But before we do that, join your way to life.
[48:22.000 --> 48:25.000] Oh man, thank you so much for this talk.
[48:25.000 --> 48:27.000] It's been incredible.
[48:27.000 --> 48:33.000] I would love to know one of the most interesting things I found
[48:33.000 --> 48:39.000] that you've been doing recently is that you had a trip across the country
[48:39.000 --> 48:43.000] where you were essentially trying to spread the message
[48:43.000 --> 48:46.000] about some of which you taught us today,
[48:46.000 --> 48:50.000] which is the efforts of saving the soil, right?
[48:50.000 --> 48:54.000] Not across the country from London to southern India, 24 nations.
[48:54.000 --> 48:56.000] 27 nations.
[48:56.000 --> 48:58.000] You'll be great.
[48:58.000 --> 49:00.000] Thank you.
[49:00.000 --> 49:02.000] It was incredible.
[49:02.000 --> 49:07.000] And so I want to know what was the general feeling
[49:07.000 --> 49:11.000] and the general consensus of some of the conversations you were having.
[49:11.000 --> 49:15.000] Were people able to understand and to take seriously
[49:15.000 --> 49:19.000] what you were telling them and how dire the situation actually is?
[49:19.000 --> 49:25.000] Were there any moments of resistance or any memorable moments of the opposite?
[49:25.000 --> 49:31.000] Many moments of danger, you would have killed yourself a hundred times over
[49:31.000 --> 49:38.000] because I not only rode the motorcycle, I did 691 events along the way in 100 days,
[49:38.000 --> 49:45.000] averaging nearly seven events per day and riding sometimes nearly 24 hours,
[49:45.000 --> 49:48.000] many days over 18 hours.
[49:48.000 --> 49:52.000] And I'm 65 at that time, last year.
[49:53.000 --> 49:55.000] Has there been any negativity, resistance?
[49:55.000 --> 49:59.000] No, because I designed and constructed this whole movement,
[49:59.000 --> 50:01.000] it is not against anybody.
[50:01.000 --> 50:06.000] It is not against fertilizer industry, it is not against chemical industry,
[50:06.000 --> 50:10.000] it is not against the farmer, it's not against the government.
[50:10.000 --> 50:15.000] So once people saw it is not against anybody, everybody became a part of it,
[50:15.000 --> 50:19.000] which is very important because if we want to fight,
[50:19.000 --> 50:22.000] we can choose against who it is.
[50:22.000 --> 50:27.000] If we want a solution, we want all of them, otherwise there's no solution.
[50:27.000 --> 50:31.000] I am not looking for a fight, I'm looking for a solution,
[50:31.000 --> 50:34.000] because I think this is a generation of responsibility.
[50:34.000 --> 50:38.000] If this one thing we don't do, I'm telling you,
[50:38.000 --> 50:42.000] if soil regeneration on the planet does not happen,
[50:42.000 --> 50:47.000] it doesn't matter how much wealth and education and whatever nonsense they have,
[50:47.000 --> 50:51.000] the next generation, I'm saying those who will be born in the next 10 years,
[50:51.000 --> 50:56.000] they cannot live well, no matter what you do.
[50:56.000 --> 50:59.000] They cannot live well.
[50:59.000 --> 51:00.000] Thank you.
[51:00.000 --> 51:01.000] Thank you so much.
[51:01.000 --> 51:02.000] Appreciate it.
[51:02.000 --> 51:05.000] I'm the guy who liked to be became good.
[51:05.000 --> 51:08.000] My name is Michael Rinder, they call me Killer Mike,
[51:08.000 --> 51:10.000] I'm from right here, I'm from about four miles that way.
[51:10.000 --> 51:15.000] I'd just like to know your thoughts on the importance of older generations,
[51:15.000 --> 51:19.000] being the direct teachers of children, because a lot of times in our ego
[51:19.000 --> 51:23.000] and our teenage demon and our young adultism, we simply don't have time for it.
[51:23.000 --> 51:27.000] But in my opinion, if we get those that are 45 and up
[51:27.000 --> 51:32.000] to spend more time with children that are from zero to 13, 14,
[51:32.000 --> 51:36.000] I feel like we'll almost be escaping political lobby,
[51:36.000 --> 51:39.000] because we'll be raising people that know how to do it already.
[51:39.000 --> 51:43.000] So much appreciation for you to telling us how to do it as adults,
[51:43.000 --> 51:47.000] but what advice do you give us as adults to teach children the way
[51:47.000 --> 51:50.000] so it simply becomes the way and not the way we have to laugh?
[51:50.000 --> 51:54.000] And thank you, I appreciate your considerations and what's so black.
[51:54.000 --> 52:01.000] So, yeah, the times are such today.
[52:01.000 --> 52:04.000] Let's say when I was growing up,
[52:04.000 --> 52:09.000] if 30% of the influence on us as children came from school
[52:09.000 --> 52:14.000] and outside, 70% of the influence was parents.
[52:14.000 --> 52:19.000] But today, most parents don't even have 25 to 30% influence
[52:19.000 --> 52:24.000] once the child is 10, 11 years of age, because it is not the school,
[52:24.000 --> 52:28.000] it is not the friends, it is a whole world,
[52:28.000 --> 52:34.000] www, three worlds, influencing them.
[52:34.000 --> 52:37.000] And we don't know who they are and what they are saying,
[52:37.000 --> 52:41.000] what they intend for your children, you have no clue about it
[52:41.000 --> 52:44.000] and you have no control about it.
[52:44.000 --> 52:52.000] So the parental influence, grand parental influence has become very small.
[52:52.000 --> 52:59.000] So in these times, building a social consciousness which influences a child
[52:59.000 --> 53:03.000] from elsewhere is more important than we trying to influence them,
[53:03.000 --> 53:07.000] because if you try to influence them, you will lose them.
[53:07.000 --> 53:09.000] This is the reality, unfortunately.
[53:09.000 --> 53:13.000] I wish it was not that way, but that's how it is right now.
[53:13.000 --> 53:17.000] So about making our own gardens and things, yes, it is relevant.
[53:17.000 --> 53:22.000] See, I do my own garden, it's very cute,
[53:22.000 --> 53:29.000] but it's not a solution because agriculture is a huge machine on the planet.
[53:29.000 --> 53:33.000] Fifty-four percent of the earth's land is found right now,
[53:33.000 --> 53:39.000] out of which nearly sixty-seven to sixty-eight percent of it,
[53:39.000 --> 53:42.000] we grow food for animals.
[53:42.000 --> 53:44.000] Can you bid that?
[53:44.000 --> 53:49.000] If we see how we change our diets to whatever extent we change it
[53:49.000 --> 53:53.000] and how we grow our food, this can be brought down.
[53:53.000 --> 53:57.000] This is one thing we have been pushing out in India.
[53:57.000 --> 54:02.000] Today, 163,000 farmers have taken to this full-on
[54:02.000 --> 54:05.000] and we are working on another family and farmers right now
[54:05.000 --> 54:08.000] to make tree-based agriculture.
[54:08.000 --> 54:12.000] That is, within the regular farms, trees can be of great help
[54:12.000 --> 54:17.000] if you choose the right species and there is a whole science to it, how to do it.
[54:17.000 --> 54:20.000] You can produce much more on the same land with trees growing,
[54:20.000 --> 54:22.000] farm or nutritious food.
[54:22.000 --> 54:26.000] See, if you ate one orange in 1920,
[54:26.000 --> 54:28.000] what nourishment you got from it.
[54:28.000 --> 54:34.000] Today, if you have to get the same nourishment, you will have to eat eight oranges today.
[54:34.000 --> 54:36.000] Did you eat eight oranges any one day?
[54:36.000 --> 54:39.000] It's never happened, alright, for anybody,
[54:39.000 --> 54:44.000] because the nutrient value has come down that much,
[54:44.000 --> 54:49.000] going on using chemicals and ploughing the land and leaving it open to the sun.
[54:49.000 --> 54:52.000] So, we are working on this in various levels.
[54:52.000 --> 54:55.000] One thing is to bring robotic machines into farming
[54:55.000 --> 54:59.000] where mass application of anything doesn't happen.
[54:59.000 --> 55:02.000] See, today, if your doctor checks your blood
[55:02.000 --> 55:07.000] and finds some calcium deficiency is there, we gave you just one pill.
[55:07.000 --> 55:11.000] They found your B-12 is not there, we just gave one small pill
[55:11.000 --> 55:14.000] for how long, as long as we find it's deficient.
[55:14.000 --> 55:18.000] So, we need to do the same thing with plants and crops
[55:18.000 --> 55:22.000] that medicines or pesticides or whatever,
[55:22.000 --> 55:26.000] they are medicines for the plants must go in a doctored manner,
[55:26.000 --> 55:28.000] not mass application.
[55:28.000 --> 55:32.000] We have been pressed praying pesticides in airplanes,
[55:32.000 --> 55:34.000] literally killing everything.
[55:34.000 --> 55:36.000] We must understand this.
[55:36.000 --> 55:40.000] The nature of how the biology on this planet is,
[55:40.000 --> 55:45.000] the fundamental biology of a single cell animal like an amoeba and you,
[55:45.000 --> 55:47.000] they're not different, it's the same thing.
[55:47.000 --> 55:51.000] If I can use a chemical and kill a single cell animal,
[55:51.000 --> 55:55.000] it also can kill you, it's only a question of dosage.
[55:55.000 --> 55:58.000] The dosage that we're giving may not kill us,
[55:58.000 --> 56:03.000] but it is killing something, it is killing us in installments, not at once.
[56:03.000 --> 56:10.000] So, using poisons in large scale is a crime that we have committed.
[56:10.000 --> 56:13.000] Maybe we didn't have the knowledge at that time, we did what we did,
[56:13.000 --> 56:16.000] it is not about blaming this person or that company
[56:16.000 --> 56:20.000] or this company, the thing is right now we need to make the correction.
[56:20.000 --> 56:24.000] This correction will not happen unless it happens on the policy level,
[56:24.000 --> 56:28.000] in the government, federal policies and state policies
[56:28.000 --> 56:33.000] and this policy implementation can only be done by the farmer.
[56:33.000 --> 56:37.000] Scientists and academics and politicians cannot do it on the ground,
[56:37.000 --> 56:41.000] it's only the farmer and farmers economy is so fragile.
[56:41.000 --> 56:45.000] If you do not know this, maximum suicides in this country
[56:45.000 --> 56:48.000] happens in the farming community.
[56:48.000 --> 56:51.000] They are the, you know, the whole family is shooting themselves,
[56:51.000 --> 56:56.000] because nearly fifty percent of the American farmers haven't earned a single dollar
[56:56.000 --> 57:01.000] in the last twelve years, they're just going into deeper and deeper debt.
[57:01.000 --> 57:05.000] Over forty percent of the American farmers don't own the land,
[57:05.000 --> 57:07.000] they're renting the land.
[57:07.000 --> 57:10.000] So, this is a dangerous situation.
[57:10.000 --> 57:13.000] Now you're waiting for the wheat to come from Ukraine,
[57:13.000 --> 57:15.000] what happened to us?
[57:15.000 --> 57:18.000] When we have a whole continent here,
[57:18.000 --> 57:21.000] we need wheat from another place in Central Asia.
[57:21.000 --> 57:25.000] This has happened because we've been destroying this wantonly,
[57:25.000 --> 57:29.000] it is time to turn around, it's still not late.
[57:29.000 --> 57:32.000] If we are committed to this, within ten to fifteen years
[57:32.000 --> 57:37.000] we can make a significant turnaround which we have proven on land
[57:37.000 --> 57:40.000] for the last thirty years with hundreds and thousands of farmers,
[57:40.000 --> 57:45.000] but still it's a drop in the ocean, because policies have to come in.
[57:45.000 --> 57:50.000] Now Indian government is investing in this, since we started this campaign,
[57:50.000 --> 57:54.000] they've invested one trench of about two point four billion dollars,
[57:54.000 --> 57:58.000] another one of one point three billion dollars in the last two years,
[57:58.000 --> 58:02.000] which is not enough, but it's a good beginning.
[58:02.000 --> 58:06.000] Every nation has to do this, some European nations are beginning to do.
[58:06.000 --> 58:13.000] United States has done very little, but it's very important US sets an example.
[58:13.000 --> 58:16.000] If US sets a good example, the world will take to it.
[58:16.000 --> 58:21.000] Caribbean nations are very deeply committed to this,
[58:21.000 --> 58:24.000] and they are going, many African nations are looking at this,
[58:24.000 --> 58:27.000] Asian countries are looking at this, but it's very important,
[58:27.000 --> 58:31.000] European Union and United States must set a big example
[58:31.000 --> 58:34.000] and make this an international mandate that
[58:34.000 --> 58:40.000] if you own land, see for example, if you go to any old part of any city,
[58:40.000 --> 58:46.000] people have built homes next to each other, okay, sharing a wall.
[58:46.000 --> 58:51.000] That means there is no concept of a window, one door to go in, one door to come out, all right?
[58:51.000 --> 58:54.000] But today if you want to build a house in Atlanta,
[58:54.000 --> 58:58.000] if you have ten thousand square feet, you can't build ten thousand square feet,
[58:58.000 --> 59:02.000] you have to allow some space for yourself or your neighbor and all these things.
[59:02.000 --> 59:08.000] So there are laws in urban land, but in rural land, if you have hundred acres of land,
[59:08.000 --> 59:13.000] in the next ten years you turn it into a desert, there is no law to ask you,
[59:13.000 --> 59:16.000] why are you doing this? We are asking for laws.
[59:16.000 --> 59:21.000] If you have an agricultural land, minimum three percent organic content,
[59:21.000 --> 59:26.000] you must maintain because land is not your property, it's a legacy,
[59:26.000 --> 59:30.000] soil is a legacy that's come to us from previous generations,
[59:30.000 --> 59:35.000] and it's our fundamental responsibility to hand it over that way to future generations.
[59:35.000 --> 59:40.000] We are not the last generation, though many of the young people call themselves Generation Z,
[59:40.000 --> 59:43.000] we are not the last generation, hello?
[59:46.000 --> 59:51.000] My name is Jazz, I want to say thank you to both of you for coming out tonight and speaking with us.
[59:51.000 --> 59:57.000] I want to know from both of you what are the practices, the habitual practices that you do
[59:57.000 --> 01:00:02.000] that help you be more mindful of your inner spirituality.
[01:00:02] You came here for work and you started off with meditation and I really appreciate that.
[01:00:08] So I'd like to know what are your practices, do you meditate daily multiple times a day,
[01:00:12] and then you Black, what are your practices that you do that don't include any vices,
[01:00:18] because I feel like a lot of times, now a lot of us turn to vices to kind of co-deal, de-stress,
[01:00:25] but what are your practices, your daily practices that help you be more mindful
[01:00:31] that make you be more calm as you go on in life with the stresses of everyday life?
[01:00:37] For me, journaling, writing down what I'm grateful for,
[01:00:41] even if it's something as simple as the air that I'm breathing, the food that's on my table,
[01:00:45] my daughter's left, the conversation that I navigated in the right way,
[01:00:49] like giving myself, almost like task and assignments, but since we're out of school,
[01:00:53] there's nothing actually force us to do anything.
[01:00:55] So it's like if you want to just chill, if you want to just relax, if you want to have a lazy day,
[01:00:58] it'll happen.
[01:00:59] But for me, writing it down, therapy was a great outlet for me,
[01:01:05] because before that I didn't really have a mentor.
[01:01:08] I didn't really have an outside person to go to for advice.
[01:01:11] So opening myself to having somebody tell me about myself was another thing that sharpened me a little bit.
[01:01:18] But yeah, besides journaling, besides therapy, besides making sure I take care of my body,
[01:01:24] obviously yoga, meditation, I'm plugging.
[01:01:28] If I need to turn all the notifications, well, I haven't had notifications on my phone for the last six years.
[01:01:34] So if you text me, it don't pop up.
[01:01:36] If you tweet me, it don't pop up.
[01:01:38] If you Instagram me, it don't pop up.
[01:01:39] I have to go in and actually make it an effort to see it.
[01:01:42] And that just keeps like a certain...
[01:01:44] How you tell him?
[01:01:46] I'm plugging.
[01:01:53] But now that keeps like a certain amount of...
[01:01:57] just like space for me to just enjoy my day and enjoy myself and be present.
[01:02:01] So those are a couple of things, meditation, writing it down,
[01:02:06] stepping outside, taking time off, being off the internet,
[01:02:10] spending time with the people that I love.
[01:02:12] Those are the most common things, and that's been like the rotation for me lately.
[01:02:16] Though they sound normal, but it's easy to slip out of it,
[01:02:21] and to, you know, when you wake up in the morning, the first thing you do is get on Twitter,
[01:02:24] get on Instagram, see what the news is, see what somebody said, who's on Shave Room, who's on stuff.
[01:02:29] I've been trying my best to just like get all of that out of my life,
[01:02:33] and at the very least, save it for the middle or the end of the day
[01:02:36] when I built up a capacity to really handle it.
[01:02:39] If I start my day in the right way, if I take care of my body,
[01:02:42] if I have the right conversations, then I feel more conditioned to handle anything else that happens.
[01:02:50] What do you do?
[01:02:56] I live with my life wild.
[01:02:58] No discipline, I don't know where I will sleep, where I will wake up.
[01:03:02] If I sleep on the same pillow two nights, it's a luxury.
[01:03:07] I'm always somewhere else.
[01:03:10] So, I don't have any discipline except that my day normally extends to 18 to 20 hours.
[01:03:20] Trying to slow down a bit, but it's only picking up speed and momentum.
[01:03:28] But because I made myself in such a way that nobody other than me
[01:03:36] determines what happens within me.
[01:03:40] So, nobody can frustrate me, nobody can make me unhappy or angry.
[01:03:44] So, I have no issue if they wake me up at 2 a.m. in the morning and ask me something.
[01:03:50] I have no issue because the most important thing is, first of all,
[01:03:54] I made up my mind very early.
[01:03:58] You know, in my life, I've never applied for a job ever.
[01:04:01] Nor did I go for any job interview or even think of a job.
[01:04:06] Always my family worried, how will you make a living?
[01:04:11] I said, I don't know.
[01:04:13] All I know is, if nothing works, I'll go.
[01:04:18] You know, I spend weeks in the jungles of southern India, all by myself.
[01:04:23] I learn to survive there.
[01:04:25] I said, if nothing works, I'll go into the jungle.
[01:04:27] You won't see me, but I will live.
[01:04:29] Don't think I will die.
[01:04:31] I know how to live.
[01:04:33] So, I don't see activity and people and challenges and impediments
[01:04:41] as anything that fundamentally disturbs me in any way.
[01:04:45] It's just that some things will make your work better, some things will impede things.
[01:04:50] So, in that context, I'm looking, that's all.
[01:04:53] I'm never looking at any activity or any person as somebody who can make my life
[01:04:58] or break my life, because I've taken that and kept it in my hands, absolutely.
[01:05:04] Or in other words, I'm just conscious of every thought and emotion that happens within me.
[01:05:10] So, I can think wild and feel wild and let myself go where I want,
[01:05:15] because it's only happening according to the way I want it.
[01:05:19] I think this is something you must do.
[01:05:21] As I said earlier, if you create a little distance,
[01:05:25] you will see, you will understand the whole mechanics of how this works.
[01:05:31] But if you're in it, it looks like it's such a complicated, complicated affair.
[01:05:37] It's not complicated.
[01:05:39] It is just that individual people are complicating it within themselves.
[01:05:45] And about being mindful, no, I'm not mindful of anything.
[01:05:49] I'm generally mindless.
[01:05:54] Yes, I don't have a single thought on my head.
[01:05:58] I don't have any knowledge of knowing when I walk on the street.
[01:06:02] I just walk like I'm a five-year-old boy, just joyfully looking at everything.
[01:06:09] It's a bird or a butterfly man woman, everything I'm looking at, carefully.
[01:06:15] Not with any intent, simply looking, because I have eyes.
[01:06:20] I must see everything that I can see.
[01:06:23] So, if you have keenness of attention, both internally and externally,
[01:06:32] I don't think you have to struggle with who will disturb you, what will disturb you,
[01:06:38] what will throw you off.
[01:06:40] No.
[01:06:41] See, balance, inner balance is the most important thing.
[01:06:46] You may have intelligence, you may have genius,
[01:06:49] talent, you may have many things, you may even have a lot of wealth.
[01:06:55] Once there is no balance, all these things will turn against you.
[01:07:00] Your own intelligence will turn against you, your wealth will turn against you,
[01:07:05] your relationships will turn against you, everything will turn against you.
[01:07:09] Above all, balance.
[01:07:11] I'm well balanced.
[01:07:13] You know, I came riding to Atlanta, I'll ride back on a motorcycle.
[01:07:18] I'm going towards 70, but I'm still riding.
[01:07:22] And because balance, both inner and externally, you were balanced.
[01:07:28] It's very, very important.
[01:07:30] If you're balanced, whatever you have, your intelligence, your capabilities, your talents
[01:07:38] will naturally find the best expression possible.
[01:07:42] Or in other words, if you're well balanced,
[01:07:45] everything that you can do in your life, you will do.
[01:07:49] What you cannot do, anyway you will not do.
[01:07:52] But if you're not balanced, what you can do, you will not do.
[01:07:57] In your life, if you do not do what you cannot do, there is no problem.
[01:08:01] If you do not do what you can do, you're a disaster.
[01:08:06] It's my vision, my blessing, you should not become such a disaster.
[01:08:10] Is there a practice?
[01:08:11] She was asking, her name is jazz, what can I do?
[01:08:18] So, there is a simple process that you can, you know, you can download this process.
[01:08:23] 12, 15 minutes a day you can do, especially if you do it just before going to bed.
[01:08:28] It's a simple way of creating little distance between you and your body, between you and
[01:08:33] the psychological process.
[01:08:35] It's called as Isha Kriya.
[01:08:37] Initially, you listen to it and do it, it's guided for some time.
[01:08:41] If you do it for, let's say, maybe 15 days or a month, after that you can even do it without
[01:08:46] any guidance, you can do it by yourself.
[01:08:48] Every day, just reminding yourself and linking your breath to it,
[01:08:54] because breath is an important part of who you are, in the sense.
[01:08:59] Nobody has forgotten.
[01:09:00] We all came from our mother's homes.
[01:09:02] Hello?
[01:09:03] Not forgotten.
[01:09:04] Long time ago so I'm asking.
[01:09:06] We came from our mother's homes.
[01:09:08] When we were in our mother's home, there was a maintenance pipe connected and she ate for
[01:09:15] us, she breathed for us, everything we got from that.
[01:09:19] We came out of our personal mother's home, but even now we're in a womb.
[01:09:25] See, right now, all these things, unfortunately, the modern science has made it mundane.
[01:09:31] There's no experiential thing to it.
[01:09:36] We are in this atmospheric bubble.
[01:09:39] For your body to be here this way, there is a certain pressure it has to maintain.
[01:09:46] Certain amount of gaseous percentages, it has to maintain.
[01:09:51] If it becomes all nitrogen, you will die.
[01:09:53] If it becomes hydrogen, you will die.
[01:09:54] If it becomes carbon, you know, you will die.
[01:09:57] Everything is in proper balance, right amount of pressure.
[01:10:01] Little more pressure, your lungs will collapse.
[01:10:04] High pressure, something else will happen, low pressure, something else will happen.
[01:10:08] It's just holding you like this.
[01:10:11] Is this not mother's home?
[01:10:13] From one home to another home, you'll come.
[01:10:16] Yes or no?
[01:10:18] Even now, constantly maintained.
[01:10:22] But we don't feel it because we study science like it's some ABC.
[01:10:27] There's no feeling towards life around us.
[01:10:30] Simply everything ecology is some kind of a subject.
[01:10:34] No, we are part of the ecology.
[01:10:37] Hello?
[01:10:38] When did we become separate from the ecology?
[01:10:41] So this is important that you feel it.
[01:10:44] Once you see something as a part of yourself, nobody has to teach you any morality, any values, ethics, nonsense.
[01:10:52] What you see as a part of yourself, you will anyway take care of it, isn't it?
[01:10:58] This is what yoga means, not twisting and turning, not lulu lemon.
[01:11:06] No, no, I'm not against any brand, I'm just saying that's not what yoga is about.
[01:11:12] When you do yoga, we always say when you do classical yoga, you must wear an organic cloth which is loose, which doesn't touch your body.
[01:11:21] But in America it's just the river's skin-tight nylon stuff you're wearing.
[01:11:31] See, we do everything wrong and we hope something right will happen.
[01:11:36] That's not the way life works here.
[01:11:38] Unless you do the right things, right things won't happen to you.
[01:11:51] You
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