Sadhguru: Your physiological strength in many
ways is the foundation for your psychological balance. No, I think food and toilet
more... both must be far away. Then you will keep your
physiology in a conscious condition. Just because I am laughing
and joking about this, don't think there is no problem. There is substantial problem. Speaker: "Sadhguru, during the lockdown we
have gained a lot of weight from over-eating and no physical activity. Can you offer us some simple
weight loss tips, please?” Sadhguru: I was in
Chennai a few years ago and I was talking to some of the business
community in Chennai. They were not particularly
obese or something, but little trying to imitate the planet; not by being on a spin,
in form I mean (Laughter). So I said, you know, "As a generation of people,
look at your condition. If I had come to Chennai fifty years
ago or hundred years ago, in what physical form people
would be, in what level of physical fitness
they would be," ordinary people I am talking about. I'm not talking about
gymnasts, sportspersons, not those kind of people,
ordinary people on the street. Or even now, in what kind of physical strength
and condition people are in... in rural India for example. I said, "See suppose it so happened, you were walking on the street
and you saw a tiger, a wild tiger – hungry one. How many of you can at least climb a tree," and this is a spectacular show. A tiger on a Chennai Street –
this is not a everyday happening. It is something you must enjoy. "But how many of
you can climb a tree?" which is the... the trunk of it,
usually the city trees, what is on the avenues and stuff, is not more than eight to twelve feet. "How many of you can climb this eight to
twelve feet and sit on a branch and enjoy the wildlife view?" No! Only those guys who are doing the menial jobs,
the guy who's sweeping the street, maybe he will go sit on the tree and watch how wonderful
a breakfast you are (Laughter). Why have we become like this?
It's not that tiger is... "Where is the tiger going to come?"
That's not the point. Why are you in this condition that you cannot
do anything physically anymore? All you can go to office and come back. Those things are also necessary
in today's world, but is it not important that you are
in some way physically competent? Physical competence is a reflection
of your physiological strength and your physiological strength in
many ways is the foundation for your psychological balance. It is no more in question,
your physiological strength is the foundation for your psychological
balance in many, many ways. We have always been saying this,
the yoga... yogic sciences, but people have been laughing
at it, because everything is keyhole. People say brain is a separate study. That's why yesterday I confessed
with all the neuro experts, "See I don't have a brain." At least most of the time
it's not working. I keep it off. There is enough from...
from the tips of my hair to my toes. There are enough cells with
enough memory and intelligence, they will do my life, tch. I have disciplined them nicely. They will do my life the way I want, because a large part of day-to-day
work and day-to-day functioning is… is just a repeat work. All you need is a clerk. You don't need a super brilliant person to
do all these things. So I have trained them
and they do their work. I don't have to think –
how to eat, how to sit, how to stand, how to breathe – nonsense. It just happens by itself, because a very stable and
effervescent physiological condition is very, very important to have a certain
level of psychological freedom. Otherwise, every little thing you do,
you have to think. Once you think, inevitably you're confused
about every damn thing that you do. Now, you are talking about because...
because of virus you ate too much. This is not because of virus
you are eating too much. This is... this is a...
a kind of a compensatory activity that, you know, you will see this
in the cinema theaters and everything, if you have nothing to do
(Gestures absent-minded eating). Never before in the history of humanity was food simply available
like this all the time, it's a wrong thing that everywhere
you walk there is food. It should not be. I see some of the corporations in America
are organizing like this – food and toilet should always
be within whatever fifty feet or hundred feet – something they have fixed,
fifty feet I think – within fifty feet of wherever you are, there must always be food and that food is usually one month old of
course and there is a toilet. No, I think food and toilet more...
both must be far away. Then you will keep your physiology
in a conscious condition. Everywhere there is toilet, it's not good. because body has certain resilience. You wanting to run to the toilet
is not just physiological, sometimes it may be when the body – at some time it is disturbed, at
that time it may be. Otherwise in normal conditions, it is more a psychological condition
than a physiological condition, that all the time you want to message not because you have something
very significant to say, it is simply because it is a release. Similarly, going to the toilet is a release, sexuality is a release, wherever, whenever,
whatever – all the time the same things because you are building up
nonsense within yourself all the time, you need a release.
All the time release. These things are being
openly talked about as part of psychiatry that
you must find release. Why are you pent up? I think in one of the interviews
some journalist was asking me, "Sadhguru what do you do to
unwind yourself?" I said, "What? Why will I wind myself
up first of all (Laughter)? I don't wind myself up and
then want to unwind somewhere." What are you, are you a grandfather clock
or something? You wind yourself up. Even the cl... watch doesn't need any winding
anymore, it runs by itself. Why are you winding yourself up? This is simply because you understand life
as an accumulation. Yes, body is an accumulation,
mind is an accumulation, but life is not an accumulation. It's a phenomena that's happening. If you have not tasted that phenomena, you know only accumulations,
you always think the safety is in accumulation. Whether it's wealth, money,
this, that and body, but at least your money
you can keep it in the bank, though it's... it may be heavy
in your mind, but if you accumulate too much body, you have to carry it around
every moment of your life. And in the world today... in the world today thirty percent
of the population is malnourished and around the same percentage
of people are obese, overweight. See you can fix it. The world's problems of
malnourishment, you can fix it. So this practice is there
in the Isha Yoga Center – whenever a cause comes up,
when Isha Vidhya, you know, educating rural children, raising funds for it
became a problem, then many people in the yoga
center took this up, "On Wednesday evenings
I won't have dinner and let that money go to the children." I think you must find seven
causes like this (Laughter). I can give you seven (Laughs). Monday for Rally for Rivers,
Tuesday for Cauvery Calling, Wednesday for Isha Vidhya, Thursday is called Guruvar –
this is for your Sadhguru (Laughter). Friday for Devi because that's her day. Saturday, you have your dinner,
I am reducing one day. Sunday, tch for Dhyanalinga. Like this you find seven or at least six causes
where six dinners you give away. Morning you eat, all right? Ten o'clock in the morning you eat well, and again eat ten o'clock
tomorrow morning. And also because you need
to keep social distancing, drive out of the town and walk back. Get into a bus, take a... buy a ticket for
ten kilometers away and just walk back. Best you go without your phone or on... and
your wallet so that you have to walk back, do something, hmm,
come on (Laughter). Already there is one problem, you want to
multiply your problems, hmm? You want to increase
the size of your problem? Don't do that.
There's enough problem already. I'm telling you there's
substantial problem (Laughs). Just because I am laughing
and joking about this, don't think there is no problem. There is substantial problem. Don't fool yourself, because if your body and
your mind is in a certain condition, you can easily fool yourself. This happened. Shankaran Pillai was
running a garment shop, here in United States, and a lady came to
buy some kind of a pullover. So he promised her,
"It is one hundred percent wool." She took it, went home. The next day she came
back and she said, "You said it is one hundred percent wool, but here the label says 'It is made in Bangladesh and
it's one hundred percent cotton.'" He said, "Ma’am, don't
you be fooled by this. The label is only to
fool the moths” (Laughter). Like this, there are so
many labels all over the world. Don't go by that. You... This is a simple experiment
you must do – all of you who are sitting
now on the floor, when you get up, you must
use only two limbs to stand up. All of you, in your life, you must
keep this up however old you are, this is a simple test for you –
you sit down cross-legged and when you want to stand up,
you use only two limbs. That means you don't do
four-wheel drive (Gestures). Just get up with your legs. This much fitness at
least you must manage. If you can't climb a tree, they are not enough
tigers to, you know, for them
to roam in your city. If you can't climb a tree, it's okay, but
at least you must be able to stand up. This much fitness
you must maintain. Please do that for yourself.
