if you take the three thousand people here we know that there are some people with high energy and some people with low energy so is it that they are born like that or they're manufactured like that it? Sadhguru: Depends what was the breakfast Pongal and no coffee after Pongal you need degree degree coffee Dr.Rajasekaran: so how what do you mean by this energy? which you can take it and keep it in a different
place? and how do we get energized? people also say I heard you said that you sleep only for two and a half hours so can you tell us the secret so Sadhguru: That was at one time, the first 25 years of my activity on an average, I slept two and a half to three hours a day. These days becoming a bit lazy anywhere between three and a half to four and a half hours I'm sleeping. More by not because of my age for sure because nothing has changed that way within
me just that one thing is these days nutrition is bad because I'm traveling so much and I'm particular that the food is in a certain level of freshness. Once you leave India, most of the food that appears on your plate is
minimum three months old. very difficult to get something which is fresh so that makes me go skip meals, skips meals, skip meals all the
time I think due to lack of daily nourishment I get nourishment once in two days,
three days I get good nourishment but there is no daily nourishment simply because of excessive travel. I think because of that there is a bit of slackness. I think if I eat well for two three months I'll be back to three hours easily. so why does one person need well by prescription these
days eight hours is it ? Dr.Rajasekaran: Seven seven to eight hours seven hours Sadhguru: Seven hours and why another person can do with half of
that see one thing is as we already went through the very physical body that you carry is just
the food that you've eaten isn't it? you are looking at food only as protein, vitamin, mineral like this, but we are talking about a food chain that means there are all different kinds of
lives, what we consume is another form of life, every animal consumes another form of life this is the way the food cycle is created so in what condition that life is will determine in what condition your life is in many ways so if food appears in front of me if I just look at it people have prepared it with the elaborate
care, if I just look at it and say "No" No Sadhguru, Sadhguru this lady has brought it she's a very good cook she's very tasty, I just look at it and say "No" simply because it's not alive enough for me it may be tasty but it's not alive enough
for me if it's not alive enough I will not consume if you just conscious of this one thing you will see your sleep quota will go down. Another thing is most people are eating at least 50% 50% means hundred percent more than
what they need to eat yes you you will do one thing, As an experiment just try this whatever you eating cut it down by 50% if you're eating let's say 2 kilograms of
food cut it down to 1 kilogram and eat variety
of foods you will see, you will neither drop weight nor will you become weak nor will you become less energetic only thing that'll happen is your sleep quota will go down because you are putting so much food to generate the same same amount of energy you're eating more by compulsion of liking
the taste or simply by compulsion of filling yourself
up now the body has to process so much food to create so much energy this extra processing is taking a toll on
the system. The amount of impurities that are there in the food will also determine how how much inertia you generate in the body. Let's understand it this way, in terms of physical terms, what sleep means is inertia right now your dynamic this is life. Inertia sets in, when inertia goes beyond a certain points that's a death, but sleep is a certain kind of death but it is offering you rests so restfulness is very important what is being restful means is if you sit here, if you're a total ease, you will see the body is naturally restful if you have you noticed on a particular day you were very happy on that day you don't need much sleep or food. Have you noticed this? that's all you have to do!! If you remain very joyful every moment of your life the food will come down, sleep will come down naturally. So there are many aspects to this fundamentally, if you keep your life energies very exuberant now you will see the sleep quota will naturally come down. To keep it exuberant, you should not be over legged, Largely In the ashram everybody, young people also eat only two meals a day ten in the morning seven in the evening. Our activity exceeds most people's activity
in the world and we are 7 days, 365 days we don't know what's a vacation because we are enjoying what we are doing we don't want a break so they never go on a vacation there is no break there's no Sunday Monday nonsense nothing every day something is happening endlessly but you will see people are very energetic healthy, sleep is very little so energetically a human being can be at different
levels why this is important is, see, what we call as life is just a combination of two things: a certain amount of energy and a certain amount of time. When it comes to time, it is ticking away for all of us at the same
pace clock doesn't run slowly for me faster for
you there's no such thing whether you are busy you're lazy, you're sleeping you're doing useful things or useless things it doesn't matter what you do or you do not
do time is ticking away so there is no such thing as time management. You can manage your energy if you raise your energy to a higher pitch of intensity what somebody does in 10 years you may do it in one year so if you live for a hundred years it looks like you lived for a thousand years simply because your energies pitched up this every human being can do the whole yogic system is one dimension of yogic system is just towards
this if you sit here, even if you simply sit here with your eyes
closed you don't sit here in a static way you sit here in a dynamic way you never become static because static is called as death if everything becomes static that is death if inertia really sets in that is death so sleep in yoga is seen as death , you die every day, how long do you want to die in a day? you really must use this word for yourself don't tell anybody I'm going to die. For yourself, how long do I want to die in
a day eight hours a day if you die one-third of your life you're dead in 24 hours eight hours you're dead means one third of your life dead another four hours goes into eating sleeping, eating, toilet, bath, this that where is the time to live I'm asking. So if life is precious, the most important thing to do is keep your energies in an exuberant way so that life becomes more. Life feels enhanced, because you cannot enhance time maybe you can live a few years longer, but you can't slow down time for yourself do what you want do whatever you want time keeps rolling, as you sit here, since you came and sat here you are about an hour and a half closer to
your grave it's a diagnosis. that was not me okay ? so this is very important because one dimension of what we call as life which is time See, in Tamil language this is very good when somebody dies we don't say he is dead we say "Kalamaiyutaar" simply means his time got over perfect description isn't it? all that happened is time got over so time is getting over as you sit here yes or no ? hello those immortal beings I'm asking you time is getting over as you sit here is going away so the only thing we can manage is how intense is my life energy for this we have a whole lot of systems, to slowly work on it ,work on it work on it in such a way that you know there were times these days one night is okay second night I'm bit down otherwise there was a time three nights if I don't sleep continuous three nights consecutive nights I don't sleep full day I'm working full night I'm working if you see me on the fourth day I will be just fine you won't even make out anything today I'm little as I said this excessive travel I don't have enough sadhana to keep me up
like that but one night, two nights also I could manage but one night effortlessly I will go even
today
