Sadhguru Guides Clueless Questioners at Harvard university

[Music] tonight little subdued onstage for the service it's fast and stable organizing team I am kinda long interaction I would have loved to ask a follow-up question but I think we're out of time so we let's open it up to the audience so let's let's do this let's take questions in groups of three and then Sadhguru can choose how to have to Club them an answer I not only answer every question so just give me one at a time scepter you speak so logically and it makes sense to me but at the same time you're celebrating the religious festival of Mahashivratri in a grand way at the Yoga Center for a young person like me these religious festivals seem like outdated rituals so I want to know what is the relevance of Mahashivratri to the youth thank you what kind of festival would you like first of all maybe only the Valentine's Day or something that is also religious it's Saint Valentin all right so what is my Shivratri you need to understand this there are certain in India there are 365 festivals in a year yes today due to economic reasons and the way we have structured our work and things a whole lot of them have died still about 30 to 35 are being actively maybe more than that about 50 to 60 festivals are being celebrated by different people but that number also is decreasing largely maybe about five or six are being celebrated in a big way so some of them are social a few of them may be religious but hardly any religious ones some are all connected to the calendar almost every Indian festival is connected to the calendar what's happening in the solar system we want to do something which is conducive for what's happening that day in the rest of the solar system why this is important is because what you call as my body right now what is human mechanism is has come out of this planet most people don't get it till you bury them they thing they came from somewhere know this body is solar system is working like a potter's wheel to generate this so everything that happens to the solar system happens to you in some way so there is a very key in observation of what is happening in solar system today accordingly we have crafted one kind of celebration and we do those specific things so on mahashiv ratri night to cut it short because this is an elaborate subject what you opened up on that day which doesn't fall on the same calendar you know the regular modern calendar date this time is on 4th of March on that day there is a natural because you know planet is not spinning like this it is spinning a certain way and there precision to the planet you know what's a precision hello not precision in terms of exactness I am talking about what is precision in terms of the planet the planets axis is not simply rotating like this it is going like this it is a wobble there is a wobble to the planet always because of the wobble it creates a certain kind of situation on the planet so on that day especially in the northern hemisphere are only in the northern hemisphere there is a natural absurd of energy there is a natural observation all this energy I don't believe you don't just go sit on the coast if there is a full moon night he's the ocean rising hello so on your Monday full Monday do you see that oh the very ocean is trying to rise well over two-thirds of your body is water what makes you think body water inside the body won't rest all the fluids in the body are also rising so you will see these things are there everywhere if you are in a if you ever been in a mental institution no you could have gone there and just for me you will see on full moon days and new moon days people take extra care because those who are psychologically disturbed become far more disturbed people think moon causes madness that's why lunr and loony and all the stuff moon does not cause madness he just close everything up if you are little crazy it makes you more crazy your little loving it makes you more loving your little meditative it makes you more meditative whatever is your quality gets enhanced because it's kind of there's an upsurge in the system this particular day after the Solstice happens in December 22nd of December is the winter solstice after that the planetary precision is such that there is a natural absurd on that particular night in a very big way if on that night if you lie down this means when the energies are trying to move like this you're kind of obstructing it it is not only that you lose the benefit you could also harm yourself in in a very sensitive way all these things matter to you only when you want to be a full-fledged human being when I say a full-fledged human being you want every faculty that can be opened up in the home and human being you want it to be opened not if you are that kind by evening you're drunk and sleeping what is there also you want to kill it that's up to you but if you want to be a full-fledged human being you want to full scale everything happening to you you observe all these small small changes that happen in the system and take care of that so you want to sit straight you want your spine to be erect on that night when energies are moving upward you want to help it further go up not like this so we created what is called as jogger and that means to stay alert and to stay erect how to keep people Erick just make them sit do you think they will if I make you sit for another five six hours you will simply sit no I have to entertain you so that night we have a celebration from evening 6:00 to morning six twelve hours non-stop music dance meditation various things being done so that everybody stays alert nearly a million people are in one place but these numbers were exploding so now we have large screens in over 130 cities across the country in southern India so that people gather there and too many don't come here but still it'll run into somewhere around 700 to 800 thousand people in one place and over 86 channels or telecasting it live so how many millions of people are watching we don't know last year they said it could be somewhere around 6 crore people could be watching this time it's going to be much more this is also the 25th year of Mahavira 3 Nisha 25 years ago we started Mahashivratri celebrations in that place with just 70 people so it's grown that big because people find the benefit of what it is you do one thing on that night without getting drunk or drugged it's just sit alert you don't like celebration so you simply sit like this w so you need to understand this a human being needs celebration if celebration has to happen in your life you need some sense of playfulness otherwise there's no celebration most people can celebrate only if you get them drunk I will show you a million people in one place not a drop of drink allowed anywhere but you will see full night not one person will sleep everybody's on on on okay good let's wait for the microphone please hello please wait for the microphone it goes off like that microphone your your your thoughts I would say or I could say your answers about the questions on pregnancy or whether your thoughts on like what it means for women to be our children or not be our children and the choice did off was a beautiful answer it I I could place you need to ask a little question time is very the context is slightly necessary I'll keep it short and your answer about rapes and increasing cases of rapes or them being sort of a social crime but also there is an association of pride etcetera that was a question and both the answers in and of themselves were honest answers but together and it is not a comment I just come to got together but together is it possible that there was in your two answers or perhaps unconscious bias or double standard because in in the answer to pregnancy you said oh it is just your primal instinct your biological need for an identity to care about a certain person you should grow beyond it and you know answer about rape you said Oh humans have what I have and you know what I have said we're ready just ask the question so the question is not what I have said if you just answer the question is it possible that in these two answers there is perhaps a subconscious bias or am i reading it wrong those two answers to me seem like oh this is logical let it go oh this is basically it won't go let's understand this the hormonal impact on human biology such it subjugates one's intellect subjugates one's knowledge subjugates social order and acts beyond that is that the way to create a society no the whole idea of creating a society is that all these things will fall into a more graceful slots so that they will function smoothly to everybody's benefit not against anybody that's the whole idea of trying to bring a civilization to a society is just that that's the effort have we ever in these whatever thousands of years have we ever succeeded 100% in this effort have we no at certain times these things have been well handy at certain times they've been badly handled only thing we can do is how well can we handle it in our time that's all there is in our hands you're thinking of these things as some sort of absolutes these are not absolutes don't think there is a man who is a rapist and there is a man who is no rapist it's not like that it's just that when he goes out of control he will do ugly things when he's in control he behaves well when he is in love he be well when he is joyfully behaves well when he gets frustrated he behaves horribly this is the nature of the human being if you think it needs my endorsement or not then you're living in some lala land this is the nature of the human being are we going to create a system where there is going to be minimum friction among people is the continuous challenge for every generation yes it is a continuous challenge for every generation no generation has ever arrived at one perfect system that it worked absolutely for everybody always somebody was exploited if you don't know the reality of the existence and you're living in some other psychological state of absoluteness then that's not the point but pregnancy is a choice and especially now it would I wouldn't have said it's a choice hundred years ago because it just happened it just the hormonal thing happened but pregnancy is a choice even if you're sexually involved still you don't have to get pregnant that is possible only for this generation if you do not understand the impact of that that is the biggest thing that's happened for women that's the biggest thing that's happened that is there is birth control that one can exercise their choice whether I want to go into it or not go into it so that is of a different kind this is of a different kind that's why I said if you want to bring both of them in one category you come to me I will initiate you into Brahmas area I will give you sadhana you do that both will be by choice [Applause] [Music] see when I talk about giving back something to you that means I have stolen something from you already please don't do that if you don't do the first act the second act will not be necessary as a part of this we are we have started this conversation in the business world it's still picking up momentum but not enough momentum I am talking about structuring businesses in such a way that you understand in any any transaction you are talking about sustainable business not only ecologically the business also has to sustain as a business if any relationship has to sustain it must be beneficial for both the parties whether it's marketplace or marriage I want you to understand you're not but whether it's marketplace or marriage unless it benefits both the people this transaction is not going to go for long isn't it sure to build a business in such a way that always it's beneficial for both the parties if you do first I don't have to take it and then at the time of retirement I want to give it back what is this this is like the old you know even the Mafia and Robin Hood's who stealing from other people also give it to people because otherwise they cannot survive so first don't take it and then try to give it back why why can't our life process itself is useful to everything that we do why can't businesses be built in such a way that it's naturally beneficial to everybody and if you make this happen if you structure this today a lot of impact businesses are coming which are all thinking on these terms it is still not large enough as it should be but it's beginning to happen as a part of this right now one of the biggest problems we need to address in the world in the next few years is going to be migration it's estimated nearly 1.5 billion people will migrate in the next five to ten years time when 1.5 billion people start moving not one wall people will try to build walls everywhere and wall is a solution on till the tidies of a certain level when the tide increases it will fall over the wall it will not I'm not just opened one country I am saying everywhere so what is the solution for this this problem is just this right now nearly 80% of the world's investment is probably probably in approximately 25 to 30 cities on the planet this needs to spread if investment has to spread who will risk spreading their investment to a place which is harder to do business you have to create a fund which will allow a little more easy money if you want easy money you must invest it in improvised societies so we are looking at this in a big way try to work with the united nations and the large businesses and to set up a trust where businesses will be given soft loans for long gestation period 1215 years so that you have time to go there train the people create talent and create a business and create livelihood there so that people don't have to go away what kind of business well businesses can decide what kind depending on the terrain people the nature of everything else that is there a co system but if we don't do this now that if we don't spread the world's investment into various areas you will see when one segment of population is living with so much comfort and well-being another segment has nothing you cannot control it all these years you controlled it because there was no transportation you understand now everybody has transportation one way or the other they will come in one way or the other they will come in it doesn't matter what kind of barriers you put up in the next 10 years time they will come anyway unless you put investments in various places and create livelihoods the businesses have to be structured like this young people who are studying business you must think of solving world's problems rather than just thinking of some fanciful ambition you ambition whatever it is I want you to understand this you will realize this as you go with your life but if you realize early it's better in terms of activity whatever activity we perform in the world how they feel how deeply we touch another life is the most profound satisfaction of activity that's a purpose of activity really do you want to write a book that nobody wants to read now do you want to cook something that nobody wants to eat do you want to build a building where nobody wants to live when you do something you want it to touch somebody's life so if this is the thing the young people who are going into business you must think on these terms how to impact maximum number of lives and where can we do it if we don't create this opportunity and allow migrations to happen you will see terrible things happening when people migrate so you must understand this right now between Africa and the United States at Spain Italy all these places every year thousands of people are drowning in the waters they are not reported media will not report that nobody wants to report that because they are unwanted people but some deaths will be reported deaths are reported is anybody capable of reporting the human suffering of leaving their homeland take dragging their women and children and going somewhere that suffering can anybody report ever I'm asking he's dead the only thing that matters human suffering matters isn't it human suffering cannot be reported by news media only if deaths happen they will say 100 people died 200 people died but that is not the real thing those thousands of people who left their homelands where they have lived forever and coming and desperately looking here and they're losing their wives and children and husbands and searching here and there this is not a small small thing this is going to scale up in a tremendous way if we don't spread investment if we don't spread businesses into societies which are struck stuck in poverty right now and where we are out of time it's 12:30 so [Applause] [Music] [Applause]

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Published: Tue Oct 08 2019