Sadhguru: We have cells and cells
over hundred billion cells, they say. All these cells are essentially coded
and you know, geared for health –
for survival mainly, their own individual survival
and the survival of the organism. A few of them take shortcuts. They want to survive upon others. It's crime, you know. So there is a pickpocket. What is his business? What you took one month to earn,
he wants to pick it up in one day. But he is also part of the society
till he’s caught, all right (Laughs)? Now, if all the pickpockets of the country
got together and they came to Delhi, now everybody’s pockets will be gone
because now it's organized. So right now,
what you call as cancer is just this. In everybody’s body,
there are cancerous cells. When they get organized and get focused in
one place, then it becomes a serious problem,
to a point where it can take one’s life. What is the solution? There are many things to say. First of all,
crime flourishes where there is no order in the system. Yes? Criminals in the society will flourish
if the law enforcement is not in order. So there is a defense mechanism in our system. Are we keeping it well? Are we bombarding it
with all kinds of stimulants, intoxicants, everything
and then we’re expecting our defense mechanism to work. It won't work like that. We must understand,
every stimulant and every intoxicant we consume, in some way dents our defense mechanism. People think defense mechanism is only for
external infections. No,
even to contain the internal criminals in the body,
the defense mechanism works. So a simple thing is – you know,
in the yogic system this is a simple logic –
these cancerous cells in our body, they consume usually about
twenty-seven to twenty-eight times of food than the normal cells. So, if you space out your meal –
an ideal spacing between one meal and the next in the yogic culture is
eight to twelve hours – if you space out eight hours meals,
you will see the cancerous cells will all die by themselves
because they cannot survive without food. Other cells will survive. So always we fixed it,
morning one meal, evening one meal,
no in-between eating. And once in a way, every month,
twice a month or once a month,
people are practicing one full day no food. These are simple ways to control this. Apart from that,
there are various other things. Above all, if your mind and body is in a certain
ease, these will not survive. If your mind and body is in a certain sense
of strife, then these will survive –
and not only survive, they will flourish. If the society is in strife,
organized crimes rise. If the society is in order,
very little crime happens. The same is true with our physiological structure. Sadhguru: So coming to the doctor’s statement,
it all depends on how you take it. Yes, it all depends on how you take it. ‘Should I fight it?’ How can you fight an enemy that you cannot
see? And cancer is not somebody. You are the cancer. A part of you has turned against yourself. You can't fight it. ‘So what should I do?’ It is just that every human being
largely every human being always in some way is working against himself
or herself. If you created
a moment of anger, you are working against yourself, isn't it? Today there is medical proof to show you
when you are angry, your whole chemistry is working against yourself. There is substantial medical proof. It doesn’t need medical proof,
one should know by experience but if you are so insensitive,
today we will show you blood results. So if you are miserable,
you are working against yourself. So in some way everybody has some kind of
cancer. Only when it manifests physiologically,
it becomes a medical issue; till then it's your problem. Yes? Till then it's just your problem. When it physiologically manifests,
it becomes a medical issue. Now that it’s physiologically manifested
for variety of reasons, not for one particular reason,
there are variety of reasons – fighting is not the way. Fighting the cancer not the way. Fighting for something
and fighting against something are two different things, isn't it? And anyway it's best to take the fight out
of it. If you want
a plant to grow and blossom into beautiful fragrant flowers,
you may think you are fighting the earth and getting flowers out of it
or you may see it as a great love affair,
that your involvement with the earth gives out such beauty and fragrance for you. The second is a more intelligent way of doing
it because your experience of doing it will be
pleasant; the result, whatever it comes, will be pleasant. It may flower or the cow may eat it up,
you don't know, but whichever way,
if your experience of what you’re doing is very pleasant,
the result will become irrelevant to you. ‘So does it not matter whether I live or
die?’ It matters,
that is why you must do it the way it works. If it matters,
it's very important that you do it the way it works. Just because you are a brave man
you will fight and you will die, that’s no use
that’s of no use to anybody and that’s not of no consequence to your
life. You did the right things,
maybe you had it your way or maybe you did not have it your way
but at least you did the right things, that is most important. So when death stares at you,
it's a greatest possibility, I think already we have handled that,
because it's reminding you that you’re mortal, which is not a simple thing. Most people have forgotten that they are mortal;
they think it only happens to somebody else. Yes or no? Most people think death happens only to somebody
else, not to them. No, no, it's going to happen to you and me. How it happens is different
but it's going to happen to you and me. So about how to deal with the cancer,
I don’t want to go into that now. If you come we can help you
but first go through the allopathic treatment. It's a most aggressive and invasive treatment
but it's best to go through that rather than taking chances. But after that has happened,
recovering from the treatment is a big challenge. There, there are many, many things that can
do in the yogic system it can be done
but cancer itself it can be done but the risk levels are so high
and the time allowed is so little, so we wouldn’t usually take a chance with
that. It's best to go through the treatment
and then do other things so that recurrence doesn’t happen. A very dear friend of mine is completely consumed
with cancer and she is very very very ill. Is there anything that I can do or she can
do to come through this? Come through means, get cured? Yes. Or die peacefully? Get better. Get better. Get better, get calm. Now, I'm not talking with any disregard to
your friend but I want you to understand people need to die. When and how is the only question, isn't it? So, if death comes to us, yes we will do everything
possible to save ourselves but if it goes beyond that let us learn to
die gracefully. Let’s not fight with it and fight with it
like endlessly, you know It's a horrible way to die. The way people are dying in western countries
is really a horrible way to die. Even though they're eighty five, ninety
staying in a hospital with full of pipes and needles all over them, this is not. It's okay if you die two years early, what's
the problem? You die peacefully and gracefully, that’s
more important, isn't it? See, death is the last thing that you do in
your life, shouldn't you do it gracefully? We must learn to accept death as a part of
our life. We are not wishing death but when it comes
let us learn to go through it gracefully, you know. If there is a possibility of saving ourselves,
living beyond that, that is fine but what I see in all the geriatrics homes
in United States many people are living beyond their death
just because of medical support and it's such a torture to themselves and
to everybody. You should see the way in some of the homes
they're being treated, not because of anything. The people who work there, after sometime
they get irritated because these dead bodies walking around
they don’t understand anything, they'’ve forgotten everything, they are like lost all
their senses because they have lived beyond their time. If there was no too much medical input they
would have gracefully died at a certain point, isn't it? There is no sense in stretching it one more
month, one more month, one more month; it doesn’t make any sense. But life is not understood that way, we are
thinking of always stretching it. So, if somebody's body is broken beyond redemption
let’s learn to die gracefully. Let us make the person understand it's okay
it's all right, you know, we’re all in the queue, aren't we? So, you're ahead of me, isn't that great? In any queue you want to be ahead of everybody,
isn't it? So, I'm not trying to make fun of somebody's
illness but we should understand where one thing stops
and the other thing begins, isn't it?
