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in comparison something becomes this and that so this goodness is always in comparison with somebody we have made somebody bad in our mind from that we conclude we are good we don't need good people we need joyful and sensible human beings on this planet and have you seen when you're joyful you're not in conflict with anybody and you do the most wonderful things when you're happy i remember you once saying there aren't good or bad people there's only joyful and miserable people and this allows us to have so much [Music] next half hour you're going to meet a man who has a devoted following across india and indeed around the world while yoga and meditation are at the core of his teachings to promote individual growth the work of the foundation covers conservation education and health and you'll find him astonishingly pragmatic on a range of very modern day problems let's meet sarguru we have the necessary resource we have the necessary capability we have the necessary technology to address every human problem on the planet but the only thing that is missing is consciousness [Music] we started a mass campaign and six years i spent planting trees in people's heads that's the most difficult terrain believe me and now in the last six years we've been transplanting it and that's happening much more easily [Music] action for world rejoination is mainly aimed at rejuvenating the human spirit [Music] this is an incredible moment that is started in tamil nadu we want to see that this happens to the whole country and revitalizing rural societies [Music] english and computer skills are very essential to make these children come out of the hopeless economic and social pit they are in [Music] whatever the nature of your business ultimately it is all about human well-being isha foundation a non-religious non-profit public service organization headquartered in southern india we've engineered the outside world in so many ways but we've done nothing about this one if you want to know well-being in is the only way out [Music] an incredible rally starting from kanyakumari reaching up to the himalayas with the sole purpose of rejuvenating india's rivers [Music] we are also launching another campaign called kaveri calling this 83 000 square kilometers of kaveri we want to bring it back at least one third of it back into some kind of green cover [Music] we are launching a campaign called youth and truth in the month of september youth in truth unplugged with satguru [Music] this precious life where are you going to invest it what is it that will be worthwhile today and worthwhile after 50 years you invest your life into that you have to describe yourself in one word would you consider wildlife as two words or one word [Music] you're a desert blossom huh thank you so much honored i named our monthly magazine as forest flower you're gonna step ahead and said uh desert rose exactly it's throws blossoming even in the desert where there is no water continuing life well we're so grateful to have you here on the podcast you've been such an influence in my life and the lives of so many and the first question i'd love to ask you is what makes you your highest self well i don't know what is high and low really within me i am i am at full throttle all the time so there is no high and low i don't see one thing more important than the other i don't see one thing as sacred another thing as filthy i don't see one thing as high or another thing as low so [Music] all these highs and lows are outside in the world within myself i have leveled it all out at a peak yeah that integration of all parts of you and and seeing all parts of them as sacred i mean i don't even have to call it sacred or filthy it's just what it is well right now i feel so many of us are are struggling with that we're feeling like every time we turn on the news or go on social media there's so much cruelty violence injustice in the world and it can feel very overwhelming and create a lot of anxiety so what is your advice for those of us who we seek to be aware but sometimes may lose ourselves in the spiral of you know another catastrophe happening in another part of the world see uh talking about violence and cruelty and catastrophes well in that sense we as a generation of people are very very fortunate actually we have minimum levels of violence it world is far less violent than ever before in the history of humanity if you look back on the history of this world the level of violence that people have faced particularly different uh groups of people have faced this but particularly women have had it so bad for centuries or millennia for the first this is probably the first or second generation which is beginning to find some freedom some freedom of expression and some sense of sanity in their lives really so i don't think we should complain about it it's better than ever before well still a lot of things need to be fixed we have to strive for that but that's not an overnight job that needs uh culturing of a society which takes a certain amount of time certain fundamentals in the society have been very skewed and wrongly perceived so trying to fix the surface without fixing the bases is uh is an effort that's going on everywhere but it will not yield results it will yield temporary results but it will not yield a long-term result so do we have the courage to address the fundamentals of our life that's what you know engineering is about do you have the courage to address the very fundamentals of who you are if you address that only genuinely well-being will come to yourself and to everyone so people who are seeking well well-being for everyone first thing is they should look at themselves if you do not know how to be well how will you create well-being for everybody else if you do not know how to be peaceful how will you make the world peaceful if you do not know how to be joyful how will you make somebody else joyful it's not going to work so right now this is the effort that's going on a lot of people who are deeply disturbed within themselves are trying to create world peace miserable people are talking about joy no no it's very very important that you must be the first subject can you make this peaceful joyful and genuinely well if you make this this way then how to impact the world in similar way will come to you how much impact you create different depends from person to person and also in the times in which we exist all right suppose uh this let us say this was 1942 you and me can talk as much as we want people who are shooting each other and bombing each other will go on doing it all right so it is also the times in which we exist what we can do in the world is not largely ours it is also a consequence of the times so we should not misunderstand or we should not exaggerate small things that we see i'm not saying a person one person being killed is a small thing it's a terrible thing it's as good as killing a million people it is not any different but it is extremely important that we understand that peace or well-being doesn't just happen with a magic wand it is a a generational striving that could deliver is there thank you so much for expressing that and i think what many of us struggle with is a feeling of guilt a feeling of oh well if i'm not aware and deeply in the battle then i'm not doing enough so what is your your take on this and there's this word i don't know if you've heard it before spiritual bypass it's a word that people are saying that they're saying oh you're bypassing over the realities of the world by by saying oh we're all one or using spiritual terminology so i think a lot of us struggle with that because we we want to connect to that unity consciousness but we also don't want to be considered bypassing over realities so if you're not doing enough i got a lot of work for you okay i got so much work for everybody if they're willing to do it and why should any human being do be doing less than what they can do see in our lives if we do not do what we cannot do no problem but if we do not do what we can do we are a disastrous life it's my wish that either you or anybody else should not become such a disaster everything that we can do must happen about spiritual bypass that's a good term because people think spirituality means is of the other world spirituality is not of the other world it is the core of this world if you live on the surface you are materialistic if you touch a deeper core you're spiritual you're not talking you have not seen spirits floating in the clouds though they've been talking about it for a long time if at all if there is any spirit it's within you so you can either touch your skin or a little deeper or a little deeper or the very core so if you touch the very score of who you are this is spiritual process how is it how will it ever be a bypass it will not be a bypass it will be a deeper involvement with your truly spiritual you will show much deeper involvement with everything around you than those who are not spiritual because those who are materialistic are always calculating if i do this what will i get so a spiritual person means you have transcended one calculation what will i get is gone from you because what will i get is gone from you your life is in a certain state of abandon out of this you are in a certain state of joy and blissfulness this does not mean you will bypass the world actually if you're joyful and blissful by your own nature you're willing to put yourself in any given situation because anyway it is not going to torture you or trouble you i must tell you this uh when everybody was talking about going to heaven and those kind of things gautama the buddha said i not what will i do in heaven everybody seems to be well there what will i do there i will go to hell they ask why he said well people seem to be suffering let me go and do something there anyway i cannot suffer i've made myself like this that anyway i'm joyful so i will go to hell even today buddhist scriptures uh refer to buddha is in the lower world not in the upper world this is absolute freedom so if you are genuinely spiritual if you have attained to a certain state of equanimity and blissfulness within you then you will not shun any activity nor will you try to shock anything because wherever you go your well-being is assured when your well-being is assured you can get into the worst possible situations and do the best that you can do so spirituality is definitely not a bypass spirituality is uh a profound involvement with life i love that so much and and really when you're joyful you become sovereign you become less affected by what's happening in the outside world that you can be in hell you can be in the suffering because you're not affected by it and i think it's changing that perception that joyful is leaving this human experience but rather seeing it as a deep immersion in the core of of who we truly are underneath it all so this is the biggest mistake that humanity has made we've always been trying to produce good people so these good people are the biggest problem on the planet because a good christian is fighting a good muslim a good indian is fighting a good pakistani a good american is fighting just about anybody [Laughter] each other the more good you think you are the more in conflict you are we don't need good people because goodness comes from an assumption that i am better than you if i am good how do i become good or you looking at you you are not okay she's not okay he's not okay that one is not okay this one is not okay compared to all these people i am a good man without comparison if you are the see you are a desert flower all right if you are the only blossom are you a beautiful flower or an ugly flower there is no such thing because there is only one only in comparison something becomes this and that so this goodness is always in comparison with somebody we have made somebody bad in our mind from that we conclude we are good we don't need good people we need joyful and sensible human beings on this planet and have you seen when you are joyful you are not in conflict with anybody and you do the most wonderful things when you are happy mm-hmm i remember you once saying there aren't good or bad people there's only joyful and miserable people and this allows us to have so much compassion you know and i think that right now a lot of the terminology is the darkness is taking over so what is your perception on is there a darkness out there or is this just trauma that actually also thinks it's doing the best it i wish darkness takes over see i'm dark skinned so what's wrong with me you think something dark means it's something wrong no no this is a racist idea [Laughter] dark is not bad dark is good isn't it uh the darkness of the night which gives you really relief from the relentless light of the day so this idea that darkness is something negative something bad is essentially coming from a certain color of the skin i think we should keep it aside darkness is good darkness is coming means maybe they were saying this in the evening yes definitely it's coming early morning you can say light is coming yes yeah i definitely see that of how that can perpetrate colorism and i think a lot of us have grown up with like religious programming that creates this duality and the separation of your either a good guy or a bad guy you're fighting for the light or you're fighting for the quote-unquote darkness so for those of us who want to elevate consciousness do you think it's important to even be aware of this quote unquote darkness badness etc or just sort of ignore it and go on in creating the kind of world you want to be a part of see uh if you want to uh make judgments on people or situations or communities or nations or races or religions well everybody will accept you all right so never get into that business there is nobody here who is perfect there is nobody here who is 100 horrible all right everybody is uh oscillating between being horrible and uh wonderful people are uh going between this it's just that on which side your pendulum swings too much is the question so some will do horrible things in the name of goodness some will simply do it some will do wonderful things simply out of their joy some will do it because of something that they believe in so people who believe they are good as good nations as good religions as good morally good people they have done the most cruel things on the planet i want you to know the most horrendous things on the planet have been done by people who believe they are doing a great thing even now there's a whole lot of people who will do horrible things and they believe they are doing god's own work all right so we don't need such judgments what we need is we want our humanity to overflow we are too much uh invested in a world that we have not seen it's time you invest in a world that you know the world that you experience the world in which you exist and see how to make this wonderful this whole idea that there is a heaven to go to heaven means it's a better place than this this idea that there is a better place than this is the most criminal idea on the planet this is the place this is the most wonderful place because you have not seen any other place rest is all just sales talk nobody has seen a better world than this what is the proof do you have any proof to tell me that you are not already in heaven and messing it up you're in heaven and making a mess out of it this earth is a heavenly body if you go out in the space and look at this this is a heavenly body is floating in the milky way what more do you want it's just that those who are joyful are joyful those who are miserable and messing it up are messing it up but the number of people messing it up when they increase they will make sure they spread misery and disaster all around them either in the form of wars or in the form of strife or in the form of ecological degradation in so many different ways so it is important we create joyful and sensible human beings we don't need righteous human beings we don't need people who believe that god is talking to them and they will do the right things at any cost well they will want to transform you or they want to fix you what if you don't want to be fixed i'm saying leave them alone i'm saying we have i have worked with uh you know prison inmates for the last 23 24 years i worked and i've spent time with the worst kind of criminals i'm saying they have come for horrible crimes murder rape you know many many double murderers triple murders kind of people but when they are with me they are such wonderful guys absolutely wonderful guys but if you meet them somewhere when they are not happy they can do terrible things so the best insurance that you have for humanity is we need to create a joyful world if there are joyful human beings the chances of them doing ugly things is not gone but is greatly depleted i so agree wholeheartedly with you and thank you for sharing that example of even someone who in one miserable situation could commit a murder and another could be a humorous conversation it allows us to have compassion towards everyone and their choices and not create an overarching label that sticks with them forever based off of one momentary experience so right now a lot of us are desiring we're we're feeling that we're meant i use this with quotes again because not everyone feels this but men to live in community and many of us are right now thinking what does this look like does this look like a more traditional method that we all buy land and grow our food together or is it a more modern way of finding homes in the same neighborhood i think what a lot of us struggle with is we've grown up in this western mindset that we've had you know our amazon's delivered to us and everything that we've wanted that it may be difficult to transition to a collective based community so what are your thoughts on on people moving back to living in community and how can this be done what is the word you use what community you said something conscious um conscious community yes okay so uh well uh i think it's very very important this individualistic existence see for example in india just a generation or two generations ago i have been in families not my family but i've been a guest in families where there were over 400 people in one home large home and a bunch of kids all over whoever is best in handling kids they are handling them till they are 10 12 they don't even know who their biological parents are because they are just brought up by a few women who are good with the children most how many many mothers and fathers may not be good with the children but there is always an aunt who is good with the children so she brings up all the children and it's one rollicking situation these things were possible just two generations ago in the last generation they dropped all those people aunts and uncles and everybody we dropped we said family means myself my husband or wife or and my parents even the wife's parents are not really family usually unfortunately so from there this generation has come me and my wife or me and my husband is the only family who uh parents are also not family they cannot be with us we can't stand them and we're wondering if the children are our family or not because even we don't want them around anymore i'm saying our sense of individuality is growing in a way that even has there i know a couple who taken homes in the neighborhood where they adjacent homes but in the same home they cannot exist it will lead to divorce so they live in two separate homes close by and through the window they wave at each other once in a while they meet either you visit him or he visit you something like that and i'm saying we're coming coming to this place we're becoming so individualistic we simply get cannot get along with anybody that's where we are going so is this a good trend no because after some time you cannot even get along with yourself the number of suicides in 2020 for various reasons but in one one way or the other when it happens in poorer nations it may be due to economic reasons and other kinds of problems in war zones in famine zones people may take their life because they see uh their physical condition is hopeless they can't do anything about it but it is in well-to-do societies like united states japan europe all these places this is essentially because you're not even able to get along with yourself your own mind is such a big problem your own emotions are such a big problem and this is happening so we need to understand this progression will lead to uh not a healthy society so like here in israel center where over 5000 people living together here in united states we are building a a spiritual uh community not away from the world as a part of the world it's very important you don't make your community exclusive and something you think it's superior to the rest of the world this will always bring it down this is a mistake many communities have made so we make sure our communities are very engaged with the outside world very inclusive with the outside world so we have over 20 000 acres in united states in tennessee we are building a spiritual community where people individual people families businesses can come and establish themselves there and be a part of a community which believes in human well-being human well-being starts with you eating right living right breathing right sitting right standing right doing the right kind of thoughts through doing the right kind of emotions if you do this a new possibility opens up which is not something that we can you know articulate but a new possibility beyond all these things will open up physiologically and psychologically we are equipped in a certain way compared to any other creature on this planet but unfortunately this capability our ability to intellectualize our ability to imagine things that may happen tomorrow our ability to have a vivid sense of memory all these things human beings are suffering people are thinking they are suffering life they are not suffering life they are suffering their vivid sense of memory and a fantastic sense of imagination that is why you can suffer what happened 10 years ago or you can even suffer what may happen day after tomorrow already so this is not suffering of life this is suffering human faculties which have happened to us after millions of years of research and development you can call this evolution but essentially it's research and development from a single-celled amoeba to who you are right now just see how much development how much sophistication has happened and unfortunately we are suffering that so it's very very important that people coming together and either say whichever way i'm not saying this is the best way we say yoga it means either this way or that way in pleasure or in discipline in aloneness or in togetherness somehow bring that sense of equilibrium within yourself so that the dimensions which are beyond your physiological and psychological uh spheres becomes available to you your body and your mind should become a platform upon which you stand and touch the sky right now it's a morass it's a it's like a sinking sand you know people are sinking into their own minds and bodies their bodies and their minds are keeping them busy for an entire lifetime this is not the way you're supposed to be this is a platform upon which you should stand and do something more significant thank you for sharing all of that and you're so right i feel there's a higher level of expectation and also agitation in our society that the reason why so many can't really get along with anyone whether it's family members or even friends is because i feel we're so used to having whatever we want when we want it and then also prioritizing our career over connection so it does take that rewiring and that reprogramming of what do we really want in this lifetime do we want to be successful and alone we're everything and the temperature is exactly as we want or do we want the joy of being in community oh temperature will be exactly the way you want uh when you are in the undertaker's place you know they will keep the temperature minus something and it it'll be right there yeah and you're alive when you're alive you must brave every kind of temperature and i think it's that illusion of control that we have if i'm alone i can control everything so for people who are struggling with that yes what advice do you have we need to we need to understand see you and me and talking here because of technology where are you uh sarah miami okay look at you in florida i'm in southern india uh you're near the ocean and uh i have a mountain blocking my ocean view i am also close to the ocean but i have a huge mountain between me and the mountain between me and the ocean anyway look at this across uh probably i don't know maybe 12 000 kilometers we're talking to each other because of technology all this is fine but the essential aspect of who we are is just this that as human beings when it comes to human experience we want our experience to be as profound as possible somebody thinks it will become profound if they have lot of money and access to many things in the world their life will become profound somebody thinks it will happen out of a love affair or a deep sense of love or relationship somebody else thinks it'll happen because of knowledge somebody thinks it'll happen when they hit the bottle somebody thinks it'll happen by popping some pills every one of them one who is going to the temple one who is going to the bar both of them are seeking profoundness of experience isn't it this is all we are seeking profoundness of experience when it comes to activity impactfulness of activity is important when you do something you want it to impact people otherwise what is the point of activity these are the only two things we are genuinely seeking profoundness of experience impactfulness of activity right now our problem is we are trying to make activity impactful without profoundness of experience because of this activity is overly stressful it is like you have uh raised the bar for your activity but you have not elevated yourself it is like you're on a race track with a old beat up pickup truck but you're on a formula one track obviously four wheels will go in four different directions if you want to be in a formula one track you need to have that kind of a machine so the most important thing is to elevate this constantly the life that you are not just becoming physically fit or mentally capable the life that you are can be upgraded if you are always upgrading your uh the life that you are activity will naturally upgrade itself instead of activity being a consequence of who we are we are making activity the basis of who we are this is the fundamental mistake first being then doing then having but today in the world even a 12 year old or 15 year old is dreaming what are the things they want to have because of that they do and because of doing that they become this is the fundamental upside down way of handling a topsy-turvy way of handling life which is causing so much distress and pain to human beings actually when life is better organized than ever before never before in the history of humanity our survival was so well organized i'm especially saying this as a woman just look back and say 500 years ago if you were a woman what are your difficulties from simple personal difficulties to every kind just imagine all the things today where you are placed this is true for a man and a woman but i feel it's far more starkly real for a woman still many things have to change that's a different thing but as a generation of people we are enjoying the highest level of comforts and conveniences but we are at a high level of distress simply because we do not know how to handle our own faculties and the technologies that we create which are a tremendous empowerment uh even they trouble us absolutely and i'd love to ask you about the technologies because it feels like right now there's um a crew of people who are seeking more merging with technology so wanting to move towards for example tesla tesla recently released these robotic dogs that can go on street and almost act like policemen and i think there's a natural expansion of technology that happens with expansion of consciousness we can't prevent ourselves but then there's another crew of people who are wanting to go off grid and disconnect and go back to the natural ways so what is your take on how we can integrate with technology which is the way that the mainstream world is heading without giving up you know levels of our freedom and consciousness to it so the problem is people are always looking at extremes one wants to become a robo by themselves they want to become robotic uh somebody else wants to reject everything and have a hermit's life these are two extremes these two things are happening either by overly being uh attracted to something or rejecting something completely has technology made our lives physical life uh the experience of our life cannot become better because of technology but the physical comfort and our ability to function in the world has it empowered us definitely in a phenomenal way all right in an unimaginable way it is done see you're in miami i'm here in southern india we are even talking if we did this 100 years ago you know what people would call us maybe i am i am god and you are my angel or something yes much more than that if you can see each other and talk to each other that was the end of it yeah we just got this technology little late see suppose you and me got this technology hundred years before everybody else or you could have claimed your god and people would have believed you i'm saying that is the level of empowerment we have so let's not crib about it nor should we exaggerate this thinking that technology is going to fix everything technology is not going to fix everything technology is going to empower us in such a way that many many things that we were doing with much hardship we can do it easy all right we can do it so easy that today anything that you want is at our fingertips this is fantastic so when everything that you want happens by the machine you know today there is artificial intelligence and i've been people are inviting me to this artificial intelligence conferences i asked them why are you guys inviting me to these conferences i am not an artificial intelligence i am as natural as it can be they say no no the thing is these are all academics talking to me and saying if this artificial intelligence take over what will we do we won't have jobs that's what they are saying i said no problem for me if artificial intelligence takes over i will have too many things to do because it's a great thing if machines can do all the physical work isn't it fantastic right now all the physical work suppose you had to dig take a crowbar and a spade and dry it dig how much time it would take today machine is doing it isn't everybody happy i'm sure at that time the laborers thought oh what will i do my job will go because of this machine now people are doing mental work are having the same insecurity if all the mental and intellectual work a professor reads 10 books and assimilates and tells his students now a computer can read a million books and tell the students something far more enriching so they're afraid our jobs will go i'm so glad that these jobs will go because for too long idiots who can read a book have been acting like they are the agents of god if you if they can read one book see it's like this if you uh read a hundred books or you become a scholar if you read ten books you become a school teacher if you read one book you become the agent of god so you become god's representative on the planet so this has been going on for too long now you can your phone can repeat all the scriptures on the planet effortlessly all right it's it's really good if all the physical and psychological work that you're doing intellectual work that you're doing are done by the machines i think there is enormous room for human beings to focus on consciousness the problem all these millenniums of human existence has been even if you want to sit and meditate where can you do every day in the morning you have to go to the river and fetch water and chop wood and do this and do that by the time you're done you're all half dead all right today you can wake up and press a few buttons and everything happens now you can do whatever you wish to do with yourself i think this is a fantastic time and better time could come now in the next few years if only if we manage a few things well that we don't let these things go out of hand and we don't let uh very convoluted minds use technology to destroy us in so many different ways because technology doesn't have a mind of its own you can it can do anything you can direct it whichever way you want technology can become a war machine technology can become a life-saving process so i only hope that the right kind of people handle the technology and also the important thing is that we should not misunderstand technology as uh just because it does things that you do see for example uh you want to load a ship i i was recently in a port i was just seeing i remember in india in 60s when men were loading the trucks i mean the ships they would take 24 to 28 days to load one ship with cargo today it is done in some 12 to 13 hours large ships the ships are 10 times bigger than what they were at that time but still loading unloading happens in anywhere between 12 to 18 hours because the machines are doing it aren't we glad so similarly if our intellectual struggles and intellectual labor is done by machines it's even better this means a human being is free when a human being is free if the necessary guidance is there consciousness will rise otherwise human beings will go into states of intoxication and all kinds of devious ways of somehow to beat their boredom and above all to avoid themselves so the drugs and alcohol are rising in their usage all over the world simply because there is less and less work to do machines are doing the work so many things are happening it's very important when human hands are free consciousness should be really up then it's a fantastic world absolutely dream world when our hands are free we have nothing to do but our consciousness is risen we will do something which is not physical in nature which is significant to the entire cosmos i love that and and what i'm really hearing is it just depends on our level of consciousness we could take the technology of taking over and use it to numb out or we can take that extra space to develop and to continue to solve the world's problems that technology cannot solve like spreading love and compassion do you feel we'll get to this place that there's a set universal income and people don't have to work and can completely devote themselves to creativity spirituality etc well that is an utopian idea but it could happen so will we be meditative will we be full of love and joy and blissfulness or will we be drugged out he's a choice that we have sorry blue pill will we culture this generation in the right direction that's what is important as a part of this we are launching what is called as conscious planet uh you rose you must be a part of this absolutely thank you so much for sharing the space in your wisdom with us today we're so grateful if you can bloom in a desert what is the problem exactly everywhere it's fine thank you so much thank you wonderful

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Length: 43min 30sec (2610 seconds)

Published: Thu Nov 04 2021