Questioner: Namaskaram, Sadhguru, my question
is about death. So those who have done sadhanas and they have
been dead, including my grandparents who have been initiated. So will they be attaining mukthi? Sadhguru: The last three days I've been immersed
in, tch, this book. This is going into publication on Mahashivaratri
day. It's a Book on Death – An inside story,
only for those people who shall die (Laughter), not for immortal people. So, I’ve been you know, there are things
that I've spoken but I've been reading through and now I'm (Laughs), I’m looking at all
the idiotic things that will be said about profound dimensions of life because people
will take it out of context and rub it around because there are people who are doing PhD
in WhatsApp, you know. So, I was just thinking of the various consequences
that will arise out of it, but it's okay. I will say what I want to say, I’ve always
said (Cheers/Applause). Initial part of my life I said it very raw,
but because we had Dhyanalinga on our mind, I became little diplomatic, said the same
things in a little nicely clothed… me also started dressing up nicely. Otherwise, I was raw in every way. So most of the talks come from that time,
which is very raw, direct. Once again, I'm getting there – this diplomacy,
time for diplomacy is over. Maybe another one year, little more diplomacy,
after that we're going to go all out (Cheers/Applause). I didn't know there was such a fan falling
for that (Laughter), because social realities keep changing. But someone has to simply state what is true. Doesn't matter. Most of the beings on this planet who arrived
at some profound dimension within themselves, generally they were not even understood in
their lifetimes. We don't have such bad luck. They're telling me over one billion people
have watched our videos till date (Applause). That is sixteen percent of my target (Laughter)
and you're clapping your hands (Laughs). Don't, don't celebrate my failures (Laughter). Participant: But you’re getting there (Laughter). Sadhguru: So it's every… every generation or whenever a realized being
came, the really wise ones never opened their mouth. Over enthusiastic ones like me (Laughter)
opened their mouth and got killed usually. Or some of them were wise enough to cloth
it in different ways and try to make it a part of social process. But after some time, whatever they said was
misinterpreted in a thousand different ways and people twisted and turned it according
to their convenience. But today we have an advantage that whatever
we say is recorded. People cannot easily misinterpret because
we replay (Laughter). It’s not that we have hesitated in the past,
but we've avoided saying a few things sometimes except in close circles. But I feel with one billion people watching
our videos, now the planet is a closed circle (Applause). In my hearts and minds, they were already
close, but now even their hearts and minds also I am close to them. So we cannot speak direct hard things only
to people who are sitting here, we start speaking to everybody because those who can't digest
it, what to do, they have to go to the toilet (Laughter). So why this mode is, I feel like never before
the world is ready for a direct hit. No need for doing this and that. This over-exposure to all kinds of things,
right from early age, everybody is exposed to all sorts of things. This is made people a lot more kind of hardcore. So there is no point talking soft stuff to
them. So, the Death Book is a very strong statement. Intentionally we've left it without refining
the language, without refining the statements, just like that, as it was said, because it
was said to somebody who was asking a genuine question at that moment, a genuine seeker,
as it was spoken to him. Now we are speaking to the world like that,
which is going to cause lots of disturbance. So (Laughs), if you feel Sadhguru has lost
this civilized clothing and you want to go, you can go into forest I mean (Laughter),
because this time… in the life of this humanity this time is very important in terms of reach
and in terms of exposure, humanity has never been in this level of reach and exposure. So, this is the super-over, we need to hit
every ball for a six (Applause). They may be looking for love, sexuality, they're
just trying to buy something on Amazon, or they're looking for death and enlightenment.With
the kind of population that we have become and the level of empowerment that we have
reached, if we don't turn inward now, we are going to be the biggest disaster of… you
know, that's humanity has ever seen. There's only one problem, human being. And the only, only… the only and only problem
with the human being is he's unconscious and compulsive. Whether you look at technology, you look at
politics, you look at religion, you look at industry and business – I'm talking about
all the major forces on the planet. All of them are functioning compulsively and
unconsciously. So it's very important that teaching also
has a shock value. Otherwise, they know how to ignore these things. It's not just for effect. The truth is like that anyway. Truth is shocking (Laughs). Few human beings have a digestive system to
swallow truth and be fine. If you give them the truth, they will freak. Truth about yourself, I'm saying. If you tell them the truth about yourself,
they will freak, because they have always been taught by the so called civilization
process, the religious processes and other things to be nice. If you blossom into a full-fledged human being,
you don't have to be nice, it's just nice, that's all. So you must brace yourself up because there
are many, many processes happening. We've set fire in many places which will light
up slowly. And also, unfortunately, we also have to tackle
not just human beings, we have to tackle the environment. I wish that was not there for us. But that is a massive problem to a point where
people are referring to me as a tree planter, which I don't like (Laughter). So now with this trillion three, campaign,
I’ve… (Laughter) I’ll become a designated tree
planter. So even to extricate myself from that I need
to state spiritual aspects little more strongly. Otherwise people will think I'm a tree planter
(Laughter). Tree planter is not a bad profession. But my business is to make people flower not
to plant trees (Applause). So usually the manure tastes you know, smells
bad – I was about to say tastes bad.That also can happen you know (Laughter). A very enthusiastic salesperson saw a new
development coming up in Nashville area in Tennessee. So he went and knocked on a door. A lady came and opened the door, he just slipped
in and took out a bag and took out a whole lot of horse dung and threw it all over the
new carpet and he said, “See I have a new, a really fantastic vacuum cleaner, without
leaving a trace of anything, not a sm… not a smear, not a little bit of smell everything
it cleans and makes your carpet smell good. Just like that in five minutes. I will do it. If I cannot do it, I will eat every piece
of this horse dump.” Then the lady said, “Wait, let me go and
get some tomato ketchup (Laughter), because the house is new, we still don't have electricity”
(Laughter). So, you know you’re forced to eat the dung,
tomato ketchup helps (Laughter). So because of this tomato ketchup, lot of
dung is being eaten in the world. Because of a little ketchup, you're not able
to make out what is dung and what is a real snack. So we will take off the tomato ketchup, that's
all I'm saying. Dung is dung. So about your grandmother, we can do something
for her if she's inclined, if she's initiated, definitely. But there are many dimensions to this. In a brief meeting like this, I don't want
to open this up. And also, why should I affect the Death Book
sales (Laughter/Applause)? Because till now I never bothered how many
books are selling, where the hell it's going, but now I've been sitting with the publishers
for the last two, three days and as I'm, you know, different subjects and various questions
I'm trying to handle but their eye is always on how many books will sell in Mahashivaratri
(Laughter). So I don't want to disappoint them. Because how many books sell won't make a difference
to me, but it will make a big difference to them. So you must buy the first copy (Laughter/Applause). It's not about the book, it's just that, aspects
like this we must sit down in a different way. Not like this (Laughs). I'm in a evening fooling around mode right
now (Laughter). So (Laughs), we need to be in a different
way to an… address that question.
