Sadhguru: These are two things which are
going completely unused in today's world. This is the main reason for depression. If you
had to do only physical jobs, you eat one way; mental things, another way. So eating the
right kind of food becomes very necessary. That means you are in ill-health or you’re heading
there quickly, both physical and psychological. If this is achieved, you have reasonably complete
human beings, who’ll live their life fully. The word 'health' comes from the root word
'whole,' that means feeling healthy means to be complete, a sense of wholeness within ourselves.
For this to happen, our body should be vibrant, our physical energies must be
vibrant, our mind must be joyful, emotion must be exuberant – only
then you feel a sense of wholeness. Essentially within the human being there is
a certain allotment of energy for action, certain allotment of energy for intellect, certain
allotment of energy for emotion, like this there are various allotments. This differs from person
to person. But generally the amount of energy allotted for… particularly for physical action and
emotional dimension, these are two things which are going completely unused in today's world. This
is the main reason for depression, believe me. Any number of children that they bring
to me with all kinds of mental ailments, I just tell them first thing is, some sport that
they like, swimming, tennis, something and music. These two things you bring into
their life, within three months, most of the children, eighty to eighty-five
percent of the children will recover quite wonderfully because without finding
expression to their emotional dimension and if… without finding enough exertion for the physical
body, they are bound to become depressive. Today, it's become like this, sunrise
means they watch it on the phone screen, sunset means they watch it on
the phone screen. Yes (Laughs). So losing connection with all that supports
and manages our life is going to be a serious challenge of the future. But this is one
thing that you can do if you have children, vacation means don't take
them to Mumbai, Bangalore, Dubai, some other place, just
take them, walk them in the jungle or take them on a small boat out there or
whatever, some exposure to nature is needed. You will see how excited children will
get and how involved they will become. You need to understand this, your physical…
your physiological and psychological health can be very easily managed if you are in
touch with the elements of nature, of water, soil, light and things like that. If the more
exposed you are, the more balanced you are both physiologically and psychologically,
which must happen to every human being. In this country, we made food like this. If you
had to do only physical jobs, you eat one way; mental things, another way; but today none of
us are in that condition, we have to be both physically sharp and mentally sharp, isn’t
it? That exclusivity of just physical work and mental work is gone. All of us need
to be physically good and mentally good. So eating the right kind of
food becomes very necessary. Particularly, some of the things which are very,
very positive are the ash gourd – if you consume a glass of ash gourd juice every day, you will
see clearly the sharpness of your intellect will enhance itself, you will be mentally
much sharper than the way you are right now. Especially children must drink ash gourd juice. Daily consumption of ash gourd, you will see
distinctly your mind seems to be clearer and sharper. This will be noticeable within
a few weeks of consumption of ash gourd. If you drink coffee, it gives you energy with
agitation. You drink a glass of ash gourd juice, it gives you enormous amount of energy. At
the same time it keeps you very, very calm. Daily consumption of honey can do wonderful
things to you. Especially if you have children at home, make honey culture part of your thing.
Psychological stability, physical well-being, vitality, all these things can be greatly
enhanced, simply consuming daily honey. Do you know whatever cleansing process that
happens in the body, whether emptying your bowels or emptying your bladder or exhalation or sweat –
these are all different ways, the body is trying to clean itself – in all these things different
bodies have different levels of efficiency. If you are in good health, if you are in very
good health and if you’re eating the right kind of food, when you empty your bowels,
nothing, not a speck should remain in your colon, everything should be gone. In yoga that’s
very, very important, the colon being clean, otherwise it’ll get into your head, really. Your
colon not clean and psychological disturbances are very directly connected. In the yogic
understanding of life, after you wake up, within twenty minutes, naturally if the
bowels don’t empty themselves completely that means you are in ill-health or you’re
heading there quickly, both physical and psychological. It could be either depending upon
whichever is weakest in you will break first. First thing if you go to an ayurvedic
doctor, whatever your problem, first thing is he will purge you. Because
keeping the colon clean is very important. There are only four things with you right now
that you can make use of – your body, your mind, your emotion and your energy. If you manage
these four things well, they will produce a certain level of life for you. If you have
a healthy body, you will live in one way. If you have a very stable and sharp
mind, you’ll live another way. If you have stable and exuberant emotions, you’ll
live another way. If you have a very effervescent sense of energy, which is also balanced
at the same time, you live another way. Now, for most human beings, who are in different…
various levels of activity in their life, they need all these four things to be in a reasonably
good shape. So Inner Engineering is trying to cater to that, as to how to bring a human
being to physical health, mental peace and joy, emotional stability and exuberance and highly
effervescent energy and balance within themselves. If this is achieved, you have reasonably complete
human beings, who’ll live their life fully.
