EP 01 - The Cherokee's Eternal Flame | Ride with Sadhguru Vlog

so here we are [Music] just three motorcycles and uh a crew of 16 people here i am sitting under this birthing tree such a positive life-sustaining energy out here absolutely spectacular actually we are officially entered uh the ancient cherokee nation we emerged from here we pranced a little bit and back again [Applause] ah full of microphones but i don't feel like talking anything just feel like riding so here we are a little bit of a trial run close up sites around here let's see what we can find and this is the very first step of uh [Music] should be very intriguing two to three weeks across america touching both traditional sites of native american culture which has been here for thousands of years and also the making of modern united states of america let's see what we discover just three motorcycles and a crew of 16 17 people so here we [Music] [Music] [Applause] [Applause] [Music] well we've just taken off uh from asia institute of inner sciences and turn left on the highway eight riding towards uh mcmanuel [Music] we are on a 55 mile uh speed limit road and the engine is waiting to roll but holding it at speed limit [Music] right from childhood our textbooks always said full numbers discovered america well till then it did not exist just that a few million people lived there for anywhere between 20 to 40 000 years [Music] well there are records of a viking explorer life ericsson [Music] who came to america in early 11th century at least 400 years before columbus day they came here as explorers and naturally trading on the basis of water happened between them they called this newfound region as wind land because a certain type of wild grapes was growing so abundantly in that region and they could make wine out of this grapes so it was called wind land but the native american indigenous people of this land have been here for anywhere between 12 to 40 000 years you taught me you're the first one to catch me on this channel bless me all the best i'm glad you're doing this by the time we finish we'll have corns growing in our backsides 10 000 miles [Music] [Laughter] [Music] well the early settlers thought these were footpresses but these are actually mounds used for various uh religious and spiritual rituals this old stone fort is among the oldest and there are some interesting aspects of ceremonial entrance ways and ritual objects very interesting we'll be exploring quite a bit [Music] located between two rivers [Music] the duck river and the little duck river the big one of the small one so wall stone folks so [Music] this is uh rural tennessee for you well this is how the midwest village has come space is the most important aspect of this nation this land enormous amount of space foreign [Laughter] [Music] here we are at mcmanuel birthing tree as it is known [Music] it is also a trail marker [Music] estimated to be over 200 year old tree white oak which is being known to the native american people as symbol of strength and well-being [Applause] so it is believed that a whole lot of native american women have delivered their babies here in the shelter of this tree very nice wonderful feel to this tree i don't think it is because the children born but i think they chose this tree to give birth because of such a positive life-sustaining energy out here [Music] there is such a beautiful fragrance here this white oak the way you can spread its arms out must have been a welcoming feel for a newborn child and this tree also used as a place of assembly [Music] strategic meetings deliverance of justice in many social ways [Music] when settlers travel from east to west normally they would choose to leave east coast let's say new england which is where a lot of landings happen by the time they got here would be september like now it is mid-september so as the temperatures start cooling down as you go west a whole lot of dragon trains would be would decide to stay on in this terrain and because the legend of indian women delivering healthy babies strong children for the future came with this tree many many settlers who stayed here for long stretches of time to beat the winter before they continued their journey also delivered many babies so here i am sitting under this birthing tree not born here of course but i got here [Music] [Music] [Music] here we are i don't know if the cameras are catching it absolutely spectacular uh area this one we are cutting through the mountains going uh south on triple one highway beautiful beautiful country out here uh you will be seeing much of it today fantastic engineering out here for the roads and the machine and of course me well-engineered [Music] [Music] it's wonderful to be back on two wheels well the speed limit itself is around uh you know 75 miles per hour right now at just uh 3200 or 3200 rpm [Music] actually we officially entered the ancient cherokee nation [Music] here we are next to a cattle farm well they look healthy and nice that means they will be slaughtered it's a sad reality of human exploitation of every creature on the planet here we're crossing a railroad open railroad no rail railway gates are not manned here i wish we could do this in india that railway gates are not man but nobody gets killed by just behaving sensibly this needs to happen we are at the entrance of red clay historical park [Music] hey [Music] [Music] [Applause] hey [Music] [Applause] [Music] right now whatever happened here in the past painful as it is [Music] not something that we can fix either this way or that way but if we have the sense we can fix the future but if we have to fix the future those who have been pained those who have been anguished and vanquished and shamed to treat them with compassion [Music] to approach them with a bit of remorse [Music] so that we can fix the future [Music] well the trail of tears [Music] is 1830 [Music] after a painful disaster and 1837 the fire that the cherokee nation used to keep their sacred rituals going they brought back the fire that went from eastern lands of cherokee which is here to the western lands which became oklahoma they brought the fire back here in a symbolic way of coming back to their native lands [Music] [Music] this is called the blue hole supposed to have provided water for the council hall which is right here the cherokee also believed metaphorically that beneath the blue hole is another world this is a way to enter that world but you need guidance to get there the whole world out there as it is here only the seasons are different from what it is here the metaphor of this is that as we are living on the surface right now all of us go under some time [Music] you emerged from here you pranced a little bit and back again here's the blue hole for you [Music] uh this is a representation of uh the cherokee making a serious effort to adopt to european ways of life distinctly farmed houses built with sitting on living areas bedrooms and outer porch as there was a promise from the president of the united states that if you merge and mingle with us if your blood runs in our veins we can all live together make the effort so cherokee is one of the tribes which really made a serious effort though it didn't work out in the end for them but they really made that effort to change their lifestyles and make it as much like settlers as possible [Music] [Music] check my view also useful to make this trip successful [Music] not shaped in a factory or something no sir no no those are handmade in tennessee [Music] thank you thank you you'll have a safe journey thank you all of you you want to drink eat something everybody i'm asking you where's the next place is there something in the cars we have snacks very well right yeah we got set to go [Applause] this is moccasin bend it's also a significant place uh where people gather of two different tribes i think uh the both the comanche and the other tribes which are further south toward chattanooga and georgia they all were assembled here and this is where uh people were put together in stockades like cattle stockades and without a flooring without roof just to stock it they say they were here for weeks sometimes months before they could start their journey and because of this delays and lack of organization they ended up walking through a severe winter which was a major part of the tragedy [Music] this bridge is historical significance [Music] it is uh just beneath this bridge the first few boats which took the cherokee from here as part of the removal happened but unfortunately terrible organization unfortunate events of uh failure of the boats and some of them had to go to pick up the soldiers some mess up and because of that most of them were made to walk over land only about a thousand an odd went in the boats and the rest were made to walk which killed nearly four thousand cherokee [Music] [Music] foreign [Music] we won't have time we need to start quick [Music] [Music] so [Music] just starting out a bit late to cumberland uh caves or cabins as they're known a very large cave system here very close to the center [Applause] [Music] hello hey how are they good good glad to have y'all [Music] if the wireless get into the cave or not yet here you have a sample of how small families made their own little whiskey to be sold around here no better place than a cave to do this [Music] it's called the never-ending waterfall it's never quite running as long as we've been coming in here we don't know where the water comes from we don't know where it goes [Music] rocks are growing like human beings trees it takes approximately 100 years to form a cubicle cubic entire range of length cubic age is what they say [Music] so [Music] [Music] [Applause] in no rocks came down so i must be okay [Music] in in india many of these formations were called some types are not worshipped as familiars that is a nice formation which comes in a specific form which may also be dripping water all right which freezes in the winter but uh these kind of stalagmites and sterile this thing and not worship but because it is a culture which is not a religious culture which is a spiritual culture the idea is to recognize the spirit of everything animate and inanimate it need not be in any shape this rock also will be worshipped this also will be worshipped because it's all in the creator's hand it doesn't matter what made you and what made this rock are not two different things so because of that you bow down not because you think it is some divine form in a way it is tell me what is not thank you very much thank you thank you please come and visit us sometime have breakfast with us and go there's a very remote part of rural tennessee very different from anything huh [Music] high pressure being low is really troubling [Music] okay we're doing a railroad hold up jesse james but nobody coming on the track [Music] uh one of the major major steps towards development of united states as a nation was the trans-pacific railroad that is from east coast to west coast and those who are going by from east coast to towards the west in search of land and gold and whatever else in search of fortune the american dream as it was known uh were all on wagon trains dragon trains were risky slow and subject to all kinds of attacks so railroad was the real thing that it started moving people so uh there's a very beautiful this thing uh when i think it's a lakota chief to us the iron iron horse is coming how many white people do you think are going to come so the crazy horse says as many as the stars then they got the point that you know this is not going to stop people are going to come a big amount of population moved and took the land and the gold and the mining variety of things which was the arterial line for the development of this nation at that time [Music] 42.40 [Music] [Music] no just for that it was feeling like it's gone flat you know you get kind of suddenly feel the tide has gone totally flat [Music] [Applause] right through the history of humankind there have been men of great power [Music] great wealth and great spirit [Music] men of great spirit are always relevant because being of great spirit is not in comparison to weaker men but of life itself in this context here we are in the ancient cherokee nation [Music] our history replete with man of great spirit [Music] you cannot talk about history of america without taking into consideration the native people the indigenous tribes and nations of this great continent that we today refer to as america [Music] um [Music] [Music] [Music] then [Music] [Music] hey [Music] [Laughter] [Music] you

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Length: 36min 57sec (2217 seconds)

Published: Sat Dec 18 2021