Sadhguru -technology to create inner well-being.

when we say leadership most of the time any kind of leadership training is spent on learning to manage situations people money property yes all this is important but how could you essentially a leader means you must be able to manage a few thousand people or in another words you're trying to manage a few thousand minds but if you're incapable of managing this one this mind how will you manage that mind just by chance when you're managing situations by chance you'll be always freaked anxiety and Leadership has become synonymous today because you're managing people by chance if you cannot manage this one managing that one is definitely by chance so one of the most significant aspects of leadership has been generally ignored or people have acquired this out of their own natural capabilities that reminds me uh you know you definitely heard of Andrew carnegi when Cari was multiplying his wealth at a tremendous pace the United States governments of that day couldn't figure out how is he making so much money so they set up an investigation because they thought something improper is happening here when they look through his business and they found nothing wrong then they called him for an inquiry he says how are you managing to make so much money and we don't find anything wrong with your business so carar he said I can keep my mind focused for 5 minutes at a stretch this was a group of congressmen who were sitting you know conducting the inquiry can any of you do this and they tried an experiment none of them could stay on anything for more than 10 seconds then he said uh you should not be running United States because if you do not know how to manage this one managing the rest is always going to be accidental when you do things accidentally being anxious is very natural and today we have enough medical evidence to prove that if you're not in a very pleasant state of mind then your body and your mind and will never function at its optimal level there is substantial medical evidence towards this only when you're very peaceful and Blissful your body and your mind works at its best and your success in this world is just this to what extent can you harness the capabilities of this physical body and this mind that's all successes it doesn't matter what is the nature of your activity that's all it is is it true and the most fundamental and the basic requirement to make your body and mind work properly sensibly in the highest possible way is that if you sit here you must be in a state of pleasantness within you if I ask you the simple question how many of you in this many years of living have had a 24hour stretch that is one single full day where you did not have a single moment of irritation agitation anger anxiety stress nothing you just pass through it blissfully how many very few people can say yes to this not just here in the whole world unfortunately in All These Years of Living not even a single day happen the way you want it not outside within yourself if your body and your mind took instructions from you how would you keep it Pleasant or unpleasant let me know your choices how would you keep it for yourself I'm saying I'm not talking about your neighbor you may have other intentions for him but for this one pleasantness isn't it so yes or no so if 124 hours did not pass in utter pleasantness obviously your body and your mind are not taking instructions from you any instrument is truly useful to you only if it takes instructions from you isn't it right now I'm using this microphone this public address it's very useful to me because it's amplifying whatever I say suppose it starts saying its own things I better not be here isn't it yes your mind and your body should do what you wanted to do and if it is doing what you wanted to do I'm 100% sure you will keep yourself in atmost blissfulness can I trust you on this can I trust you on this one thing that if your mind was taking instructions from you you would keep yourself Blissful every moment of your life if that's not happening obviously it's not taking instructions and there is enough scientific evidence to prove today that only when you are Blissful your mind and body does their best I would say most human beings are functioning at 15 to 20% of their natural capabilities if only if they could sit here in a sustained levels of pleasantness you would see within a for one week if you simply sit here simply Blissful in one week you would be 100 or 200% more intelligent and sharp than the way you are right now I'll assure you this I can prove this to you if you give me that one week one week you just stay simply Pleasant and wonderful I think these days you're trying to do that by taking a vacation isn't it yes have you noticed you went out and you had a good time and you were pleasant and you came back you seem to function so much better but if vacation is the only Pleasant time in our life obviously we're not going to be very productive isn't it if we do not know how to wake make our work hours very pleasant we obviously not going to be very pleasant or very productive in our lives so as there is a science and technology to create external well-being there is a whole Science and Technology to create inner well-being this is what we are offering as inner engineering this could be offered in a million different ways it is just that as we have paid so much attention to learn our way through the world we need to spend a little bit of time to find a way through this one the better you know this mechanism the better you can use it that's for sure isn't it that's true with anything whether you're using a computer or a cell phone or a car the more you know about it the better you can use it isn't it so so definitely that's true with this one too the more you know about this the better you can use it but how much time have we spent with this when I said this I'm not talking about you going and reading a book on psychology or on your physiology no what you call as my body and what you call as my mind both these things you acquired over a period of time when you were born you came with such a small body isn't it slowly you accumulate it this what you accumulate can be yours can never be you yes I'm not disputing whether it's yours or not for now but what you accumulate can be yours can it be you whatever you accumulate can be yours but can never become you isn't it if you start thinking yourself to be something other than what you really are there are bad medical terms for this I will not go into that two cows were grazing upon an English Meadow they were English cows and one of the cows said what is your opinion on the mad cow disease the other said I don't care a hoot as anyway I am just a helicopter okay if you think yourself to be something other than what you are there are bad words for that I won't use such things upon you but it's very very very important especially people who are in positions of power positions of responsibility that every action every thought every emotion that you generate has impact on many lives around you when you are in such a position it's extremely extremely important that this one is in a state of utter pleasantness and well-being isn't it so if your life was just your own nonsense it's up to you once you say I'm a leader in some Place everything that you do the way you think the way you feel the way you act has impact on a few thousand lives when that is so it becomes of Paramount importance that you take care of this one in a completely different way not just being physically healthy much much more than that right now unfortunately most people's wellbeing is so fragile just about anybody can hijack it you went out today and somebody told you you are the most wonderful person in the world and you were floating on cloud what number nine you do only nine in South India we do 11 you know you were floating on whatever number cloud and you came home and people at home told you who you really are it's a very fragile well-being isn't it so just anybody can hijack it just anybody it doesn't take some earthshaking event to hijack your well-being please see anything can stress you anything can make you an anxious anything can make you disturbed anything can make you lose your sense of joy and peace now in this state your ability to use your ability to manifest the capability of who you are is not at a very high level Unfortunately today most people when they use the word human they're always using the word human as a bundle of limitations if someone says oh I'm only human he's not referring to the possibilities of Being Human he's not referring to the immensity of Being Human he's only referring to the limitations of Being Human isn't it so yes when someone says I only human he's only talking about his limitations these limitations have become significant mainly because of the kind of identities that one takes on and above all because even this one is not happening the way you want him to be see in your life nobody happens 100% the way you want them isn't it so has anybody happened in your life your parents your friends your spouse your children none of them happen 100% the way you want them these days not even your dog he does his own thing has anybody happen 100% the way you want them or are you such a hopeless romantic you're still hoping that somebody will happen 100% the way you want them nobody will happen they'll happen to some extent if they happen 51% the way you want them you are doing great yes yes or no if people are happening people around you in your life are happening 51% the way you want them to be that means you're doing great your stake is good so nobody happens the way you want them to be it doesn't matter that's not the real problem the problem is this one is not happening the way you want him to be nobody happens it's okay this one person must happen the way you want him to be isn't it so yes if this one doesn't happen it's a lost case if this one did happen the way you want him I'm sure you would keep him in the highest level of pleasantness and well-being and that is a sure way of ensureing ing that who you are finds full expression in your life then when you say I'm human you will refer to refer to the immensity of Being Human not to the limitations of Being Human it is just that when it comes to the outside we have understood there was a time do you whenever you get onto your plane today do you tell prayers you still do what airline are you getting into not anymore isn't it you just go because you know the airplane is well taken care of the pilot is well trained and everything that needs to be done has been done and the chances of you crashing or one in a million isn't it true the chances of you getting killed crossing a street is much more than crashing your plane so no you just go sit nobody thinks of God there was a time if people had to get into an airplane they would pray 10 times before they got in because they were not sure whether they're going to land or not technology isn't it so yes or no technology so right now your trust in technology has way outstripped your trust in God please say this yes or no yes or no is anybody still trying the carpet somebody was just asking me now I said right now I flew on a silk carpet and came from India you know it's funny why they named an air plain silk it is just that there was a time when you believed that you could do stupid things and tell a prayer and everything will be okay now you understand unless you do the right things right things will not happen to you yes or no are you clear about this unless you do the right things right things will not happen happen to you on the outside why is that not true with inside unless you do the right things the right things will not happen to you it's as simple as that if right things are not happening to you obviously you're not doing the right things so there is a whole technology as to how to conduct the interiority unfortunately we have tried to ignore that and tried to live so wherever we have done the right things those things have worked for us whatever things we have not handled well is not working for us isn't it yes or no isn't that so so if your interiority is uh a turmoil when I say A turmoil not always that you're continuously freaked out about something if your experience of the day is not immensely Pleasant that means you are in a steady state of turmoil because only when you are very very pleasant everything works well 70% of the ailment on the planet will disappear if people were just simply Blissful and happy this I'm not saying off hand there is substantial scientific evidence to prove this so whether we have become medically sick or not one way or the other if we are causing unpleasantness we are sick if you're causing unpleasantness to this one we are sick if I cause unpleasantness to you you think I'm sick isn't it so yes if I simply cause unpleasantness to you every day won't you think I'm sick so if I'm causing it to this one am I not sick maybe nobody's complaining but it is a kind of sickness isn't it so this needs to be approached as a science too it is very very important the inner well-being also has to be be approached in a scientific way and it has been done this way for thousands of years but it's always been so just a small segment of people made use of this but it's my interest that people like you who are in many ways going to impact many many lives around you also should make use of this because your life is no more about yourself once you have taken a position of responsibility once you have taken a position of power your life is know more about yourself everything that you do has something to do with somebody every thought every emotion every action has something to do with somebody isn't it so uh this is to be briefer time to do anything more but if you have questions any kind of question we will look at it any kind of question hello I'm JP MOS I'm MPA student at the Lian New School of Public Policy you emphasized in your presentation the need to be uh at peace with ourselves or being relatively happy uh however does do we not need to be uh sometimes angry or sometimes uncomfortable with our surroundings in order to have the drive to change the things that we want to change I did not say you should be at PE with yourself or you should be happy I'm just asking what's your choice what is your choice for yourself pleasantness or unpleasantness that's what your choice what is your choice for yourself pleasantness or unpleasantness pleasantness isn't it so that is not my choice if you like unpleasantness do it I have no problem but if you want Pleasant and you're creating unpleasantness obviously you're not going where you want to go isn't it so I am not advising people be peaceful be joyful it's their choice if somebody enjoys misery what's my problem yes I really have no problem but there is no such thing everybody wants pleasantness in his life isn't it so you want as pleasantness inside and pleasantness outside that's what you want isn't it whatever you may be seeking see please understand this whether you go to the temple whether you go to the bar or you go to the office or you want to go to heaven you're still seeking pleasantness isn't it yes or no somebody thinks it's in success somebody thinks it is in the bottle somebody thinks it's in heaven somebody thinks it's in the temple but everybody is in search of pleasantness is that so is that so so if pleasantness is what your seeking and if you're creating the riverse of that you cannot say you're successful yes if pleasantness is what you're seeking and you're achieving the riverse of that could you say you're successful if unpleasantness is what you seeking that's fine with me you are successful so this is not my idea please get that out of your mind this is not my idea that you must be happy I have no such intentions my my intention is just this let whatever you want happen to you what you want should happen isn't it if you like misery and I impose happiness on you is it going to be good it's not going to be good isn't it so this is your choice so if your choice is pleasantness why is it not happening that's a question now unless you're angry you cannot Propel yourself into action unfortunately Ely this is true with a lot of people that unless they're angry they cannot Propel thems into action you heard of chra you heard of CH you must be seeing those t-shirts everybody's wearing CH we t-shirts most of the people don't know who they who he is they think he's a rock star but I heard that um the one t-shirt which is still being sold to the maximum on the planet isra t-shirt even today I see anywhere any part of the world I go young people are wearing Chase many times I stopped them and asked do you know who this guy is they said we don't know then why are you wearing he's CH so CH you know when I was young CH was like a cult hero and CH said if you are in Rage if you're in Rage you're one of us so this impressed me because uh wherever I saw Injustice wherever I saw something not going okay I was also in a rage about everything then it took a certain amount of experience and inner exploration for me to see and get out of that rage then a group of revolutionaries uh from you know the jaal N University came to me and they were all CH people and they said CH said this I said listen now I have something to say if you are out of Rage you're one of us now you can Propel yourself with rage you can also Propel yourself with your joy with your love with your compassion which will be more serer way of doing things when you Propel yourself with rage you you will cause one Injustice for another Injustice that's been happening till now but if you Propel yourself with compassion you will do just what is needed nothing more nothing less see I don't even want to impose Joy upon you I want what you want to happen yes this is how it should be isn't it because I am not propelled by my rage I'm completely out of Rage nothing puts me in Rage anymore it's not that I'm oblivious to the nonsense that's happen on the planet I'm very very aware of it I'm very very involved in seeing and finding Solutions so these are the two ways do you want to drive yourself consciously or unconsciously this the question whenever you are in rage whenever you angry are you conscious or unconscious you're definitely unconscious isn't it and when you become angry generally you suffer more than your victim most of the time yes or no so in that kind of condition what are you going to create once in a way corrective measures may happen because somebody's angry but that is not the way to do things in a balanced San way you can correct things isn't it the reason why the first Injustice has happened also is because somebody is in Rage and you're trying to correct it with another rage let's say a crime happens on the street out of greed or anger something a crime happens now you get angry and try to correct it you are also committing another crime probably a larger one usually you can correct that out of simple sheer sense out of your Humanity just now uh you know like about six days ago I was speaking to a group of people and they introduced me as humanitarian I said what's this I have heard of vegetarians nonvegetarians and what is this humanitarian what are you trying to say no no you're doing lot of human activity I said it's a shame that we have to teach human beings to be human isn't it so we're making an effort to teach human beings to be human as if they were some monkeys if you try to teach a monkey to do what a human being can do that's an achievement you teach a human being to be like a human being this is not an achievement but right now in this world it looks that way because lot of people have taken on different positions because they have become Indians they have become pakistanis they become singaporeans they become Hindus they become Muslims you have to look for a human being where are they very hard to find them if you just sat here as a human being to resonate with other life around you would be very very natural if you get identified with something that you are not then it all gets narrowed down some things will happen yes you can fight a war you can do certain things you can do certain things forcefully yes but if you want true well-being in the world first thing is you have to resonate here as life because you are life isn't it I don't have to teach you that you are life you are life if you resonate and throb as life you will know how to be a wonderful piece of Life which you are but right now we are trying to find patch patchy ways of doing things simply because somebody did something in anger and it worked at a certain time that doesn't mean that that's the way to correct everything isn't it so it's unfortunate if a human being cannot be propelled into action out of his love out of his joy out of his compassion you tell me one thing on a certain day you're unhappy un angry on another day you're very happy which day are you willing to be more active when you're joyful you're ready for Endless amount of activity isn't it so it works yes uh is there a question yes sir please introduce yourself if you can take the microphone please my name is Ram Gupta sguru my question is intellectually and logically we understand but practically we find lot of uh Gap s can can we get some tips from your inner engineering on how to go about it okay shall we do a simple experiment are you okay simple experiment the guinea of these are days of the flu anyway we'll experiment I want you to sit with your spine erect and your legs uncrossed what you do is you keep your the Five Fingers of your hand together place it gently placed upon your thigh gently do not press down very gently place don't do it yet I'll tell you what to do but do not do it yet we will do this with our eyes closed with your eyes closed holding your hand this way you just breathe slightly deeper than normal and as you're doing this I will say switch when I say switch the hand this is this way just slowly turn it over without breaking the rhythm of your breathing again when I say switch get it back into this position in these two positions something about your breath will change the way the air fills up into your lung or the maximum expansion and contraction something about it will alter itself I want you to notice what's happening please hold your five fingers together gently placed upon the thigh eyes closed unless your spine is erect and eyes closed you will not notice it just breathe slightly deeper than normal just inhalation exhalation a few times switch switch again please please open your eyes do you notice some change in your breath Can someone say what when it's this way where is the maximum expansion could you notice that where is this deep one okay what's happening I will tell you just do one breath and you will notice this when you hold the Palm facing down the maximum expansion and contraction is in the lower lobe of the lung so you notice it in the diaphragm region if you turn this around it is Shifting to the middle lobe of the lung so you notice it higher up in the chest just take one breath and see you will notice this is that so just turning your hand over the very way you breathe is altering itself this is not just about the breath the very fundamental life energies in the system are altering itself just because you turn your hand over how many times in a day unconsciously are you now you keep on doing this now you're setting your energies into your turmoil and hoping to be peaceful life doesn't work like that this is like you got into your car you don't know what these two pedals are you just kick any one of them whenever you feel like it you know what a jerky driver you will be right now your well-being is very jerky please see this it is not that you do not know peace it is not that you do not know Joy it is not that you do not know blissfulness the problem is it's not sustainable isn't it isn't it so this is like are you okay for a joke you very serious question but on a certain day this happened in Michigan an Oldtimer decided to go ice fishing you know this is one of the things in Michigan because almost 5 months it is snowing and the Great Lakes freeze and uh people go sit on it cut a hole and fish because there's still water beneath the ice sheet so an oldtime I went fishing when you go fishing it's not totally about solely about fish so he took a can of beer sat there the cans got empty through the day he spent and sat at 9 at 10: in the morning so almost 4:00 the crate got empty he was little dizzy but no fish in the basket then at 4: in the evening a boy from the downtown area with a big boom box on his shoulders with blaring rap music came driving like that came sat close by cut a hole and sat down fishing the Oldtimer looked at him no fool like a young fool I'm sitting here for the whole day quietly fishing not a single fish the fool comes in the evening the sun is about to set and with this blaring music is he going to catch fish no fool like a young fool you know the young people think the other way around but then within 10 minutes to his amazement the boy caught a big trout he looked then he dismissed okay I flash in the pan nonsense and he focused on his fishing in another 10 minutes the boy landed one more trout now he couldn't ignore him he sat there watching The Boy The Boy was listening to blaring music Jing and like this and another 10 minutes he caught one more trout now he couldn't ignore this anymore he kept his pride aside slowly walked up to the boy and asked see I been sitting here since morning I haven't landed a single fish you just came in 30 minutes you got three what is the secret the boy turned on the music a bit and said R he said what the boy again repeated R said I don't understand he said wait and then he spat out a blob of something into his hands and said you have to keep the worms warm unless you do the right things right things will not happen to you so uh because the this the technology is subjective it's about you see if it was about something else I would have written a book and given it to you because this is about you you are the object and you are the subject so here it needs a different level of Focus right now your whole focus is outward in the sense right now you're the way you perceive life is through five sense organs seeing hearing smelling tasting touching this is the way you know life isn't it so if these five faculties shut down you'll have no experience of life for example right now if you dozed off a bit that's not instruction if you dozed off a bit suddenly in your experience I will disappear for sure everybody around you will disappear and you will also disappear isn't it so you fell asleep for a moment the world disappeared and you also disappeared everything is going on but in your experience everything is gone simply because the five sense organs have shut down so these five sense organs are the basis of your experience right now and they're essentially Outward Bound you can see what is around you you can't roll your eyeballs Inward and scan yourself you can hear that so much activity in this body you cannot hear that even something as small as an ant crawls upon this you can feel it so much blood flowing Can you feel it in the very nature of things your sense of organs are Outward Bound but the basis of your experience the seat of your experience the source of your experience is within you right now do you see me sir do you see me where am I tell me you must point it out where am I you got it wrong you know I'm a Mystic see right now this light is falling upon me reflecting going through your lenses inverted imagine the retina don't you know the whole story where do you see me right now where do you see me within you isn't it where do you hear me right now within you where have you seen the whole world within you have you ever experienced anything outside of yourself the light and darkness has happened within you your joy and my Miser and happen within you your Agony and ecstasy can only happen within you you have never experienced anything outside of yourself your pain and pleasure has happened within you isn't it so so your whole experience is within but your five sense organs are Outward Bound so if you have to turn this inward a little bit if you have to have an inner faculty to focus on the inward nature of who you are it takes a different level of focus everything these five sense organs are very essential for your survival so they get turned on when you're born but if you want to do anything beyond survival it takes a little bit of striving otherwise it will not come to you isn't it anything beyond survival it takes a bit of striving otherwise it won't happen so this inner striving has not happened that's all I would say if you are willing to give 28 to 30 hours of focused time we can turn on a different level of perception which is very inward that's all it takes 28 to 30 hours of committed focused time we usually format this in 3 days 4 days according to people's convenience but essentially that's how much time it takes for you to have a simple mechanism to activate a perception which is not outward which is inward word once you know what is happening within you once you're conscious of how it is functioning within you I'm sure you will create pleasantness for yourself I trust you on that um I'm uh mad studying here as lky School of Public Policy I was um uh just wondering about one concept that you mentioned that the body and mind get accumulated over time and they are acquired so they are essentially different from who we are and I wanted sort of this to compare with the saying of deart that's like kogito ergosum meaning I think therefore I am which is uh human being is a thinker and such and I was wondering how the mind would be different from who we are and you also said that we are life uh could you cast some light upon that thank you see um they kind just said I think so I am or I exist I'm asking you okay from your own intelligence you tell me is it because you exist you can't think or because you can think you exist please tell me what is true for you because you exist you can think or because you think you exist huh because you exist you can think isn't it true right now your your thought process has become so compulsive it's a mental diarrhea it's on all the time so you think it's a Non-Stop thing it is not so if I sit in one place if I shut myself up and sit 4 days 5 days I don't have a single thought in my mind because thought is an activity isn't it any activity if you wish it must happen if you do not wish it should not happen isn't it so if you're in a compulsive state of activity and you think that's your nature oh that's a sad thing detis a poor man I know famous what to do now it is not that I said so see don't accuse me of such things I did not say this you tell me when you were born were you of the same size as you are right now no slowly you gathered this what you call as my body is actually just a heap of food that you've eaten isn't it so not a pleasant way to describe you but it is just a heap of food that you've eaten or a piece of this planet isn't it yes or no your body is an accumulation is that so is that so the content of your mind is also an accumulation is that so so all I said asked you was what you accumulate it can be yours I'm not disputing it as yet but it cannot be you it's like this I'm sitting here right now and I suddenly pick up this glass and said this is my glass then you'll think okay sguru has a problem but it's Okay let's listen people say he is wise let's listen after some time I said this is me then you'll say let's go yes or no now this is a serious problem this is my glass itself is a problem now if I say this is me this is a serious problem you don't want to be here the food appeared on your plate you said this is my food you ate it and now you say it's me this is a very serious problem you need to address it I didn't create this problem you've been living with this problem for a long time I feel it's time you resolve this if you don't resolve this one problem you are an endless problem if you resolve this one problem there is no other problem in there is only one problem in life that's you if you solve this then there is no other problem just situations some we can handle some we cannot handle that's all um sadguru I uh also was wondering uh about some of the the work that you had been doing as a as a kyogi as I as I mentioned about rural Rejuvenation and uh project green hands and uh I think uh in the LK school we were very interested in knowing um what motivated you to get into that and if you could U just tell us particularly like why did you think about about reforestation as an activity um that you wanted to take up in the year 1998 some experts from United Nations came to South India and they made a study and they declared by 2025 Tamil Nadu which is the state where I come from they said 60% of tamado will be a desert by 2025 I don't like these predictions I don't like any kind of predictions because a prediction means you are not valuing the human beings who live there if I tell you this is what you will be after 10 years that means I don't value the potential of who you are isn't it based on present figures and statistics I'm making a projection you are not valuing what is beating in people's hearts what is churning up in people's minds you're not thinking about that so this is a land Tamil Nadu is a place South India is a place where there are many farmers who take four crops in a year from the same land nowhere else on the planet you know wherever I go any part of the world I travel in first thing I look at is what is their agriculture they told me you have none here but that's a smart thing so first thing I see is how do they make their food because that is essentially what's going to you know longterm that's all that really matters how do people make their food is a very important aspect so Tamil Farmers have been taking four crops in a year nowhere else in the planet such a thing ingenious there with almost uh absolutely Obsolete and non-existent infrastructure okay no infrastructure simply man and land pulling out four crops from the land is not a simple thing they're quite ingenious now this land which have sustained us for thousands of generations now is going to become a desert in a single generation I didn't like the idea so I just uh drove around Tamil Nadu really looking at these people just alarmist or is it real then I saw it is much more real than their figures I didn't think it'll go to my own estimation did not look like it'll go up to 2025 it looked like it's going to happen much faster because in those 15 years that I had noticed the area four perennial Rivers had gone dry in ketu city where we come from I know very well 60 to 75 ft We Were Striking water with the tube Wells now they're going 1,400 ft and the whole areas are just going dry people are actually leaving their Villages where they have lived for generations and going away somewhere else so when I saw this okay what can we do changing government policies reversing GL global warming all these things are not in our hands right now because it depends on so many aspects one of the simplest things that you can do is put the green cow back so I saw that Tamil nadu's green cow was 16% and the nation National aspiration is 33% so we just made a simple calculation what does it take to make it 33% then we saw if we plant 114 million trees in about 6 to 8 years time in 15 years time we'll have 33% green C so we started this moment in 1998 I started planting trees in people's minds it took 6 to 8 years that's the most difficult place you don't know now in the last 5 years we've been transplanting this from people's head to the land okay we planted little over 14 million trees in the last 4 and a half years and Tamil Nadu is the only place in the whole of Asia in the last 30 years where the green cow actually has gone up so official figures are today this January the government announced that the green cover has gone up by 4.2% in 5 years time that's what the people did all it took was just people's movement no great Investments no great infrastructure nothing just people's Movement we convince the farmers to plant 10% of their land into trees fruit trees any kind of tree just doing this this much has happened so another 100 million trees people think it's big numbers these are not big numbers when I said 114 million trees they said oh this is impossible how can anybody do this then I asked them actually I don't come from Tamil NAD I come from Karnataka so I asked them how many people are you they said uh we are four people in the house one is on the way something like this I said that's not it how many Tums are you how many Tamil people they said we are about uh 60 million people I said 60 million people all of you plant one tree today take care of it for 2 years and plant one more you have 114 million trees going much more than that this all it takes even a beggar on the street can plant one tree he'll have an office for himself he'll have an office building growing for himself in the next few years if he plants a tree isn't it that's a kind of very grassroot level moment we started and now it's picked up into huge momentum huge we have over 1400 nurseries now running in Tamil Nadu generating millions of saplings school children all kinds of people most people you never thought would be involved in ecological movement that kind of people now slowly the bigger guns are slowly beginning to move in in the end so this is not for me this is not ecology for me my interest is just life I'm not interested in ecology I'm not interested in economy I'm not interested in any damn thing I'm only interested in life are you and all these things are needed to make life happen and I don't see how you know I I when I was the economic Forum this January a DA somebody came and oh you are that amazing tree planter this man is a professor in the Harvard University I said no I'm not a tree planter he said no no you planted millions of trees yes we did because it's needed but I'm not a tree planter then he said okay what do you do I said I make people flower that's my work my Essential work is that human life flowers if human life has to flower you need a economy you need a ecology you need everything that's supports and sustains that I don't see why we have divided all these things in our perception whatever is necessary for Life must happen isn't it John Roberts MP senior uh I've been hearing what you're saying and I really appreciate your philosophies and I appreciate you coming to our school uh as a school of public policy um and seeing the momentum that you've been able to turn in your projects what recommendations do you have because you do have the ears actually of policy makers from throughout southeast Asia so I think somewhat related to your question sir is what do you recommend from a governmental perspective that we can do to help further bring about the things that you are saying here and that things that we all are agreeing with you I believe oh when we say governance we need to understand that uh a government uh generally is not designed to run the nation in its entirety it's the people who have to run the nation always it's been so governance is to just create an atmosphere where so now here you decide you drive on the left side of the street if you don't if the government does not decide this that in this country we drive on the left side of the street are you from America you drive on the wrong side so now you come and drive that way I come from India and I drive another way somebody comes and they drive in the middle now every day we would be clashing into each other so governance is essentially to see that people in their pursuit of their well-being and whatever else they're doing they're not clashing into each other that's governance essentially on all levels whether it's economics or social life whatever essentially you're seeing every indiv ual in pursuit of his well-being does not Clash into somebody else's well-being that's all governance essentially is but there may be situations in societies where sometimes a government has to step in and pump up a few things because uh it is not happening the way it is supposed to happen so these are all usually there must be timely and limited periods of time any long-term intervention from any government always leads to some kind of uh you know situations in different societies these things may be decided and determined by those societies as it is necessary for them there is no one common prescription one common prescription I think a lot of policy makers a lot of people influenced by one successful culture trying to implement the same thing elsewhere they caused quite a bit of disasters and pain across the world you know and that's one of the biggest Pains of Asia right now is we are trying to implement what the Western Society successfully did on our societies where it is not fitting into people's way of thinking and feeling and doing things and it's causing so much of struggle not because it's right or wrong it is just a question of what works for us here so as policy makers the main policy is just this human well-being is a policy isn't it that's all the policies all other policies should be around that there's a single policy for any government it must be the well-being of the citizens of the nation rest of the policy is only incidental and it could be changing every other day as long as we keep the basic well-being of the citizens as the main policy other policies can keep on changing as situations change but unfortunately we get identified with uh policies and systems and ideologies and we forget all this nonsense we created only for human well-being isn't it so there is only one policy actually human well-being well-being of the life on this planet that is the only policy to fulfill that one policy we may have to continuously evolve what we're doing coming to thinking out of box and for Asia and the current meltdown I mean there are variety of people from various parts of the world but let me say this I'm not saying this with uh any kind of identity from a nation or a region but one thing is clear that a few hundred years ago or for example about 250 years ago a IIA was the most vibrant economic and social situation on the planet that's why every European ship risking their life they wanted to come to India because it was the most vibrant economy on the planet for whatever reasons for multiple reasons these things change and it went down and almost 12 15 generations of uh very abject poverty happened and various structures and strengths of the society diminished over a period of time all these things have happened once again they're trying to rejuvenate that but there are many many missing links in that we have to work on many things which unfortunately our policy makers are still grappling with it's not that there is lack of understanding but there's lack of implementation for various reasons but now the current melt that if you ask me I don't know none of you are going to like this is a very good thing for me it's a very good thing because the kind of economic structures we have created are simply unrealistic simply simply unrealistic if you go at this space see right now for example if you take American economy as the ideal because that's the richest Society on the planet if you take that as the standard and if you provide that for 7 billion people on this planet I think we just have another 30 40 years for extinction yes am I exaggerating am I exaggerating there's only one man so somewhere somewhere we have to reinvent the way to run economy that it's is not self-destructive in the process of creating Prosperity Prosperity at what cost is something we have to look at so one thing is definitely to relook at the very idea of what is development we really have to look at this the very idea of prosperity is something we have to look at Prosperity does not necessarily mean simply more more more and more okay because there is no more more and more and more there is only this much there is only one planet to live one I know some of some the ladies are planning to export the men to Mars and uh wherever else but there's actually right now only one planet there is no endless more there is only that much how to generate well-being for everybody within this we have to completely rethink our ideas of well-being our ideas of prosperity our ideas of success in the world if I think meltdown has brought that kind of thought process in the world to some extent but once again they're all getting hyped up because the share markets are moving up even large companies I know I've been interacting with them very closely very large companies which are almost like small Nations by by themselves in fact their uh annual turnovers are bigger than the budgets of many nations even such companies unfortunately are still operating from quarterly BD quarterly balance sheet to quarterly balance sheet this is a very poor way of looking at life you want to be ahead in the next quarterly balance sheet it's it's just a very disturbing that leaders who are you know who when I go to Dows I just look at these people a little over 2,000 people they control more than 80% of the world's economy and they don't have to be desperate about the next quarterly balance sheet that's not the way to look at life it needs to be looked little more longterm beyond our life we have to look at the well-being isn't it we living here as if we are the last generation that's not good so the kind of well-being that we had known in this part of the world in this region in the world was of a totally different kind in the past only thing was the Democratic process was missing to some extent other than that generally people lived well even when monarchies were there many of them were very gentle monarchies which handled things well you know people were happy that's all that ultimately matters people were happy that's all that matters not this system or that system there's no ideal system on the planet who is managing the system that's what makes the difference isn't it yes any system can be made to work beautifully if the right kind of people are handling it the wrong kind of people you give it whatever great systems in their hands they will ruin it so we need to first of all focus on producing the right kind of people who have a larger vision of life then a very narrow Focus towards a very narrow goal which is very very destructive so meltdown is a good opportunity one thing is to rethink many things and also no matter what you do Asia never had a Level Playing Field for various reasons for the first time there is a possibility that there could be a Level Playing Field if you make use of the situation properly not against somebody but if General well-being on the planet has to happen there definitely needs to be a much more Level Playing Field otherwise it will just lead to continuous processes of exploitation which has been happening all the time initially it was Asia now everybody's focus is on Africa people are not interested in the African people they are only interested in the African wealth that's not a good way to approach any space because today it'll be on somebody tomorrow it'll shift to somebody else the focus yes so our way of structuring economies in the world has to come you know if you want to create a more gentler economies more compassionate economies where every human being can find a way through it not be rubbed down by it it's very very important that the public policy comes from a different level of understanding Market forces are fine to keep Vibrance in the economy but Market forces should not direct the nature of life on the planet because commercial forces should not direct the life on the planet the nature of life on the planet they are good only to keep vibrancy in activity and that's all but right now we are allowing the commercial forces to decide how people live yes I mean I'm not making any particular comment on any company or whatever but even a kindergarten child a child which is going to kindergarten knows this much that carbon dioxide is bad for him yes but you bottle carbon dioxide and you say this is the real thing now we need to look at it what is it what is this about are we really interested in human well-being or just in somehow running something we call as economy which is against human well-being there is no such thing nobody should call himself an economist an environmentalist this this this essentially every human being should be focused towards how to create well-being for all life on this planet that should be the fundamental policy and uh this Consciousness if it doesn't arise on all levels uh we will work towards our you know diminishing human life on the planet not for the well-being because right now we are going about as if we are the last generation it's very responsible way to live so this meltdown is a good time people have time to think because they're out of their jobs they're thinking you know it's good welcome you all to we have created a certain space in South India we are in the middle of AR r forest and uh this space was essentially structured engineered to uh for self transformation this is a very carefully crafted place just for this purpose and we are open 7even days of the week and 365 days and we're only 4 hours away from you someday whenever it's possible for you please make this trip and experience this space because this is a very very unique space created for self transformation this something that everybody should experience thank you very much

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Published: Mon Oct 31 2016