Eclipse and Food – Life Sense, not Internet Science | Sadhguru

[Music] sadhguru you may not be aware of this but in the last few days uh after the eclipse there have been a lot of people on social media referring to your observation that food becomes unfit for consumption during eclipse and they think they had food and they did not die [Laughter] are they disappointed so they're even calling you superstitious and unscientific so i just wanted to hear your thoughts on that let's understand what is superstition superstition is without any perception or knowledge about a certain subject you make conclusions that's superstition now the nature of life is like this depends how sensitive you are accordingly that profound is your perception and experience of life this will not come through intellectual accumulation those who read a high school textbook if they think they are scientists what can i say because a genuine scientist a scientist was probed into any aspect of life into any aspect of life with certain profoundness will not speak like this now as a yogi i as far as possible i will never consume anything which is cooked which is more than an hour and a half old while we are serving the food the way we're serving in the ashram is hoping that all of you will graduate from being yoga practice practitioners to yogis not just bending and twisting you are beginning to feel the union in the existence if this has to happen body has to be sensitive and it has to have a minimum level of inertia now if you eat food which in some way has deteriorated it may not be rotten nor is it going to kill you you can eat it it is just that it will lower your perception in my experience of life for me lord perception is death at least death of the yogi the man may live the yogi is dead because he's lost his perception he's lost his sensitivity so the depth of sensitivity if it doesn't matter to you there's really no problem you can eat what you want you can eat garbage and still survive well people are eating food that was cooked a week ago ten days ago three months ago they're keeping it in the refrigerators and eating after eating it they don't know what's the difference to such people what can you say but for sure they cannot have the sensitivity that i'm talking about and i'm sure they're sleeping eight to ten hours a day that is death for me 10 hours of sleep nearly 40 death isn't it in 24 hours so if you wish to live like that you can eat whatever you want what is the problem you can eat anything you want well i am not a scientist either and i don't wish to be one i don't have either books to read nor am i researching anything nor am i looking through a microscope nor do i have a lab in my backyard i just pay attention to this human mechanism which is me i kept it well takes a lot of work takes a lot of work to keep this well it doesn't just come so i keep it in a certain way and at anything that happens in nature i observe what's happening with me and i'm speaking that i'm also observing the life around me for confirmation every insect worm bird animal tree is saying the same thing well if you are going to discover this after many years and a few billion dollars of research it's up to you well i want to tell you till recently these so-called scientists the real science is different a scientist who's looked at something with profoundness will not speak this way these are probably internet scientists you know they know every science not just one everything they know because they are on the internet so such people were saying i'm saying something so simple they were advocating that alcohol tobacco red meat are the best things for your life till recently now suddenly they've all become activists against that because somewhere somebody said after a billion dollar research we've been saying it forever what is a recent discovery for you has been an eternal wisdom for us i'll tell you i was in conversation with a doctor in united states of indian origin was telling me that he is the first one in western medicine to identify that the heart not only pumps blood but it also sucks the blood back the ventricles pump it out the atrium sucks it back this he's the first one who wrote the papers he sent me his videos his ted talk his scientific papers i looked through it and i couldn't believe it that till recently till a few years ago nobody in the medical science knew that heart sucks back the venous blood well in the yogic system the focus is on the atrium which sucks back the blood the ayurveda speaks about it character samhita speaks about it in yoga the focus is always not on pumping the blood out but about sucking the blood back because we are interested that our blood is as pure as possible because certain level of impurity in the blood means we lose perception we are not interested in terms of what is the nutrition what is the oxygen content how long will i live this is not the point how do i live what is the quality of my life is my concern how profound is my perception it's always my concern and this has always been the concern of this culture and this science that we are referring to as yoga so if you think only if it's written in a book it is true then you're very superstitious and religious you're nothing scientific about you you think night means just absence of light or there is a phenomenal change in the very way the life happens from day to night you ask every insect bird animal tree even the rock it knows night is different if you sit here with little openness you will know it's not just about light if you close your eyes even in the daytime there's no light in the night also there's no light but is there no difference every meditator knows what's the difference isn't it so somebody will say this is all rubbish there's just absence of sunlight that's it that's what they're saying about the eclipse doesn't matter i'm telling you during the eclipse time don't cook food and eat you know keep it and then eat don't do that eat before or after because this is life sense this is not internet science the greatest ignorance is knowing that you're not ignorant that's the whole problem all the internet scientists i please request you eat some fresh food keep yourself healthy well perceptive not to me to life eat during the eclipse if you wish you won't die inertia will build up if you don't mind the inertia anyway you're drinking alcohol smoking cigarettes doing things maybe it won't make any difference for you possibly doesn't if you take a high-end car today and go and pump gasoline in any of the indian gas stations which is uh 87 octane your car will stop within a few kilometers you need to buy special gas and put it into it why because it's high performance so if you want to be high performance what kind of fuel goes into you you look at it carefully you're a junk machine eat whatever drink whatever what does it matter anyway you live whichever way you want there's really no problem okay so if you are disappointed that you did not die by eating during the eclipse i'm sorry you're superstitious and [Laughter] the nature of life here is such that the earth the sun and the moon have significant impact on this life if you're conscious of its ways you can write this and make your life effortless and easy if you're not conscious these same cycles could crush you and everything you will struggle with and you will suffer enormous prejudice within you because prejudice and resentment will make you suffer more than physical disease or pain or injury please don't store stay there try some fresh fruits and vegetables it could help whatever next eclipse comes one eclipse you eat old food another eclipse you eat fresh food experiment and see yeah

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Keywords: Sadhguru 2018, yoga, spirituality, sadguru, satguru, Sadhguru, Jaggi, Vasudev, wisdom, isha, mysticism, seeking, Lunar Eclipse, Eclipse, Food, Inertia, Perception

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Length: 13min 16sec (796 seconds)

Published: Fri Feb 09 2018