Sadhguru: There are experiments to show how
water does not respond the same way to every person who approaches it. You handle water, almost everything that people
call as normal life is generally handled. You’ve seen the jeevarasam? You put this in your house and consume this
water on a daily basis. You will not get into chronic ailments. Water, jala or neer or achamaniyam as it's
known in Sanskrit language – in many ways water is fundamental or among the most important
ingredient of physical aspect of the life-making process. Today, a lot is being said in scientific terms
about how water is fundamentally life-making. Not just as an ingredient, not just as one
more ingredient but as an active participant… participant in the making of life. This is something always many cultures in
theworld have been aware of but we have an issue that unless it comes from a laboratory
it cannot be really true, though it's the most obvious truth that anybody who's paid
a little bit of attention to life would notice that there is a certain aspect or a certain
dimension of participatory role for water in everything that's life. In the last decade or a little more than that,
much is being said in the modern scientific language as to how water has both memory and
intelligence of its own. It is not just reacting to various things
happening around it, it is responding and water’s response to different inputs is
different. There are experiments to show how water does
not respond the same way to every person who approaches it. See, if the water does not respond well to
you, you're a done case. Over seventy-two percent of your very physical
body is water. If the water doesn't behave well with you,
you're done. Your physical life is going to be a, a horror
story in so many ways. You can be vaccinated for every disease there
is and there isn't but your physical life is going to be a horror story because water
does not respond well to you. Why wouldn't water respond well to you? To put it in a very simplistic way, if you
do not approach this dimension, consciously or unconsciously, appropriately water may
choose not to respond to you well. You may be living wantonly right now but water
is responding largely to your karmic substance. The fundamental reverb that you're setting
forth, based on that accordingly it'll respond. So if we find that somebody has this issue
of the very water, which is nearly two-thirds of our body or more than two-thirds of our
body, nearly three-fourths of our body, is not behaving well within us and just about
everything is going wrong with the system, then water-based kriyas and karmas are done
so that you make friends with water (Laughs) because if you're not friends with food, you
can still manage – it’s only twelve percent. But if you're not friends with water, physical
life is going to be a horror story. So to keep this relationship between the water
that's around us and the water that's within us and the water that has to come into us
today – to keep a good relationship, to keep that kind of relationship that even if
it's dirty water, once it enters you it will dance in joy. If you keep your situation like that, physical
health, your physical life on all levels is well taken care of. It's not that air, fire, earth not important,
it's important, but in sheer volume water wins. Most nations turning democratic (Laughs),
majority you know, you know the value of majority (Laughs) and among the ingredients, leaving
the akash, which is of a completely different nature – among the four water has a more
active role, more participatory role compared to the other elements. What does this mean in our day-to-day life? What does this mean in our process of creating
health, well-being, intelligence, agility and the spiritual possibility, what does it
mean? What it means is you know you can either float
on the water or you can drown. That's what it means (Laughs). The same water can take you places, the same
water can drown you. So, the dimension of water – much has been
said in recent times. And we know that we can change the molecular
composition of water. With any kind of reverb or vibration, the
way the water structures itself, the way the molecular structure changes so rapidly and
water has almost like how human body has cells. Water has its own cellular structure and this
cellular structure can change with even smallest inputs of vibration. Vibration can come in the form of touch, in
the form of thought, emotion, a look or an utterance of a sound or mantra, or just the
presence or if one is meditative, it's a known thing. These are recorded now. Many images, microscopic images produced like
this, that when you become meditative, how the neuronal structure in the brain rearranges
itself and dances in a completely different way, simply because you're in a certain state
of experience. When you're joyful, how the neuronal structure
is; when you're peaceful, how it is; when you're blissful, how it is; when you're stressed
or anxious or angry, how it is, is… – all these things have been recorded now. Something very similar to what happens in
human brain happens in water for every input that is put into it. When I say input, not chemical input, not
physical input, just a thought, or an emotion can change the molecular structure of the
water in a dramatic way. Different bodies of water are responding in
different ways for the same inputs and the same body of water responds in different ways
for different people who come to it. If five people go to the river, the same river
water will respond differently to five different people, if they allow a little space between
them. It's clearly there. So we are dealing with such an intelligent
liquid. They've gone to the extent of saying that
water is the most valuable computer on the planet. So, enormous amount of systems were established
in day-to-day life as to how to treat water. Largely lost, but still a bit, traditionally
people were conscious of certain things and those who are little orthodox, even without
knowing why they're doing it, many of them are doing the right things. If you walk into a traditional South Indian
home even today, the water is kept in a certain way. It has to be in a metal pot, preferably copper
or brass or some alloy of copper. And you will see they will keep a lamp, they
will have sacred ash smeared on it, a flower on top of it, here it is. In America there's no flower, but in India
always there'll be a flower on top of it. Because water needs to be happy if you should
not turn into a horror. Life is… I don't know, sometimes you might have been,
many of you but I think once a month everybody should take… make a visit to one of the
major hospitals around you, not just to catch an infection (Laughs), just to see how much
of a horror life can become, you know. Life can become real horror if certain things
don't function properly within this and taking care of water is an important aspect of that. So every day how you drink the water means,
well take the… even today, even today in our house they do it and many homes they still
do it. Of course many people have shifted to plastic
bottles and plastic purifier machines. Otherwise, in the night with little tamarind
and turmeric, the vessel is washed not with soap, and then water is filled up and they
put a flower on it, they light a lamp in the night and go to bed and next day morning they
will drink from that. This water is going to behave wonderfully
within you. Above all, water is looking at your attitude
towards it. Being a huge presence on the planet, over
seventy percent of the planet itself is water. Our idea of life springs from water. If you're looking for life in any planet,
we're only first looking for water because the basic, the basic elements which make life,
I'm not talking about the five elements, the basic elements from the chart, you know, (Talks
aside: What do you call this? Hmm?) from the periodic chart, if you take,
it's only a matter of six to eight elements, which are playing a major role in the life-making
process, carbon is a major thing. Of course, we think carbon is poison now,
but we're all carbon, okay. Everything that's life is largely carbon,
carbon, hydrogen, phosphorus, and oxygen. (Talks aside: What's the other one?) Nitrogen a little bit. (Talks aside: No, not really oxygen) Just
these things and maybe one or two more. These are the things which in play with water,
generate life. So, all the life making material, fundamental
physical life that happens on this planet are actively engaged with water, otherwise
they cannot by themselves do anything. Experiments have been conducted where these
elements, water, a little bit of electricity, life begins to happen in a complete vacuum
state. Rudimentary life will start taking shape right
there in a vacuum state simply because these ingredients and water and little bit of electrical
charge, life begins to happen. Well, it's come a long way with its evolution
and everything. But the fundamental composition of life in
terms of being almost… three fourths of it being water has not changed. This is true with every life, not just with
human life. So the phenomena of water on the planet is
indescribably big and complex. It's behaving in so many different ways and
accordingly, it affects life, makes life or breaks life. So, this play of water in our lives is big. Conducting water in the right manner means
largely you’ve handled your physical life well, largely. Rest of it, very simple, if water is good,
earth will be good. Taking charge of air is very simple. If you just learn a few things, you can take
charge of the air as to how it should behave. _____ (Unclear) fire is a different nature
but it's four percent. With ninety-six percent you can manage life
because you're not… most people are not aspiring to take their
life to tweak it to the highest pitch. They are okay if they don't get into trouble. For that you don't need ninety-six percent. You can easily manage with sixty percent. You can do pretty good. You can be successful, you can earn a living. You know, you can produce two children and
send them to the university. All this you can do is fifty, sixty percent
(Laughs) of you. The problem only arises when you want to be
like a racing machine. You want to be on the edge between physical
and non-physical, then you need to gather all your hundred percent. Otherwise, it doesn't really matter. So I'm saying if you handle water, almost
everything that people call as normal life is generally handled. The agility of the body, the agility of your
intelligence, largely depends on water. As you know, water is the only substance found
on this planet, which is found in all the three states naturally, solid, liquid and
gaseous or vapor state. But this a certain arrangement of its molecules,
which is, these days being referred as structured water is almost being recognized as the fourth
state of water, because the cellular structure or the molecular structure within the water
are… are arranged in a crystalline form. Because of this, a structured water is being
referred to today as the fourth state of water. There are various ways to do this, one aspect
of it is implosion. I don't know if you've ever done this but
you could do this – our waterfall is not high enough, it is not… it doesn't have
the volume. I'm sure if you try the Niagara it will be
so but don't try it there. Some other waterfall which is at least a minimum
twenty, twenty-five feet and there's substantial volume falling. You go fill the water up there, before it
falls, how it feels, drink it, feel it. Then come down immediately after the waterfall. Just take the water and feel it. You will see the water is silky. It's almost like you know, it's like silk
threads you feel like that, if you pull it out it's almost coming like that in your experience,
not that water has become thread, but it feels like that, because of the sheer force, a certain
natural amount of implosion is happening. Because of this, the molecular structure is
rearranging itself in such a way that it becomes far more conducive for life. Today they have created implosion machines. Some, some inventor in UK has patented this
and this is being used in agriculture now. If you implode the water just by a certain
way of churning it, creating a centrifugal force which turns inward rather than going
outward, you must understand all energy on the planet is released. Today all modern technology happens because
of explosion. When I say explosion, don't just think of
a big bomb exploding. If you start the car what's happening in the
engine is explosions, continuously something is exploding. So almost everything that we do in the name
of technology, all machines that we built are releasing energy by explosion. Wherever there is explosion, there is a tremendous
waste of energy because once it explodes, you cannot control. See right now, you… you run your car, then
you go on to the bonnet, you don't get to touch the engine. If you touch it, your hands will burn out. If you just touch the bonnet or even go near
it, it's so hot. All this energy is just going out. Only a part of the energy you can trap it
and convert it into kinetic energy, rest of it is all dissipating into the air in the
form of heat. Thermal energy is going waste. Every machine that you run on this planet
is generating heat, not because we need it, simply because we don't know how to make use
of it. So that is happening with everything that
we do. Implosion is a different way of generating
energy. You can say (Laughs), Yoga is implosive. Cool, but hot (Laughs), you know. Very cool, but burning inside because it's
an implosion. It's not an explosive process. Because it's an implosion. Enlightenment is an inclusive process. It's very wonderful to see that today modern
science is beginning to recognize the significance of implosion and what it can do. If implosion becomes the way of doing things,
running machines on this planet, there will be no global warming. You can run as many machines as you want because
it will not throw out thermal energy. Because implosion is a different way of making
energy. So imploding machines, generating this imploded
water. They're saying you can grow the same crops
with ten percent of the water that you're using right now. But now, you're pumping water through your
pipelines from your local waterworks or whatever you… whatever you call it. They say, if the water is going through, let's
say fifty bends, pumped forcefully, and then it drops out of your tap. You take it in a glass, in terms of molecular
structure arrangement, sixty percent of it has turned into poisonous water. But if you hold it in this glass for the next
twenty minutes, it will undo itself. If you're drinking… I see in America, people are drinking from
a spra… spout like this. Straight into their mouth (Laughs). Many times when I'm thirsty, when I'm outside
people say, “Sadhguru there’s a spout here,” I said, “I’ll never ever drink
from a spout. It’s too… it lacks dignity” (Laughter). I don't know, a lot of people are not going
to like this. But please drink in some other way this is
not the way to drink water (Laughs). In the east always the best way to drink water
is with your own hands. Not even in a tumbler. You must drink with your own hands. If that's not possible, if somebody gives
water to you, in a metal tumbler, you always hold it with both your hands and drink like
this. Have you seen this? When you come to India, you must have seen,
the village people still do it like that. Of course city people are… they're all wearing
“I Love New York” T-shirts so (Laughs), they’re different people. But you will see if you go into the villages
even today, if you give water they will always drink like this. Even if you give it in a tumbler, they'll
hold the tumbler like this and drink like this. Not like this. Because it's important that first before you
drink water, you have to touch it. Allow that much time and then drink it, then
it behaves differently. And this may sound like, what to say, some
mumbo-jumbo story. Well, some people come to senses only after
suffering comes; why some, most people. This happened once. In a South Indian jungle a lion was really
feeling a little, tch, you know, the king of the jungle. So he was just swaggering around like that. He saw a little rabbit, pop he caught him,
“Who is the king of the jungle?” he asked. Uuuugh, you know, you don’t know whether
you are his snack today. He said, “You, you, my master, only you,
who else can be?” Let him go today, okay, magnanimous today. And then a fox was going, pop he caught the
fox, “Who is the king of the jungle?” You know a fox, what he will say. He said all those things with extra attachments. Then he was feeling really full and with a
big swagger he came. There’s a big clearing in the forest. He looked up, a huge tusker, he was in the
mood, not considering sizes, he said “Who is the king of the jungle?” The tusker without a word, picked him up in
his trunk, twirled him around and smashed him on the ground. His back broke. Then he said, “You could have just told
me” (Laughter). The tusker said, “Well, I had to make my
point” (Laughter). Life is just like this. You… after things go bad, well, you would
have told me, I would have loved water, tch, somebody should have told me (Laughs). Oh, see life has to make a point, otherwise
not everybody gets it. So, in terms of one's spiritual growth, also
water is very important with what kind of memory, with what kind of attitude are we
taking the water. I'm talking about the memory and attitude
of the water. To create that, you have a responsibility
how to create that. In India there's a word called tirth, tirth. You’ve heard tirth kund? Tirth means water with a specific type of
memory, with a specific capability to act. So, a tirth from a certain kind of temple
supposed to do this to you. Tirth from another kind of temple will do
something else to you because the water flows over that and it has the memory of the divine
and there are… there are deities in India which are made of nine types of deadly poisons
– a combination of nine types of deadly poisons. This is called as navapashana. It's a… an Indian alchemy where nine poisons
which each one of them would kill you for a minute dose. But now nine have combined together and they've
made a deity out of it. Every day somebody pours water over that. And that water that comes out people drink
this with traces of those nine deadly poisons because over a period of time the deity wears
out and they'll have to prepare a new one. The controversy is going on now because one
very famous temple, the deity is all worn out. They should make a new one. But now the new laws, the government's laws
does not allow making of a new deity but this deity is melting away. People have drunk it up (Laughs). It was made for that purpose. Periodically you must replace it as people
drink it up. People should drink up the God. No. Because what is the idea and what is the point? Now I'm getting into trouble. We want to drink the Gods, we want to eat
them up, so that they become part of every cell of our body and happen in a certain way. So tirth and prasad, very important. It's not because you've not eaten at home,
you go to temple for that one drop of water, or for that one little something that they
give you. It's not because you have no food at home
or water at home, because you want to take in water, which has a certain type of memory,
the memory of the divine, so that it functions within you in a certain way. So this science has been elaborated in many,many
ways, and many absolutely incredible forms and some of them are truly miraculous and
fantastic. Some of them are absolutely filthy over a
period of time. All these things have happened, but what we
are looking at now is water as an element, what can we do with it on a daily basis? See, water is used for everything. If you want to consecrate something, water
is an important part of it. In most ancient cultures, whether it is Mesopotamian
culture, Egyptian culture, the Jewish culture, India, of course, probably only in India,
it still lives to a reasonable level. In all the other places, it's been wiped out
because of whatever influences that have happened in the last few hundred years. Without consecrating the food with water they
wouldn't consume it. Even today, you will see in most homes in
India, those who still sit on the floor and eat –first thing is they'll take water,
they will put it around, sprinkle it on the food, then only they eat the food. Because what we consume should become conducive
to us even before it enters us. In this, water plays a significant role. How we treat the water that's how everything
else is. There are various aspects to this, how different
water bodies have gained reputation over a period of time. For example, Ganga is… now she's internationally
famous, and she's in lots of trouble. Right now there's a big effort to clean Ganga
and put her back into some kind of this thing but it is a big job. Actually, it's a very simple job. But people like to do big jobs because there's
money involved. It’s very simple. If you don't let any of the effluents in and
give it one season, Ganga will clean herself. Nobody need to clean her. Just takes one season. When the flood comes, it'll… she'll clean
herself up, but they want to clean the river (Laughs), for whatever reason, anyway. Many people, not one or two, thousands of
people, millions of people actually have experienced this. By being on the banks of Ganga and consuming
this water and taking a dip in this water, they have come out of all kinds of ailments. Sunderlal Bahuguna was a great proof of this. In his efforts to save Ganga and the Himalayan
rivers, which the movement was called as the “Chipko movement” at one time, I… I almost went full time into that movement
but then I got enlightened (Laughter), my direction changed. Otherwise I would’ve almost joined the Chipko
movement at that time. There later on, these people were initially
decried, later on admired as tree huggers. He's the one who got the tribe… the tribal
people to hug the trees. When they came to cut the trees, they went
and hugged the trees and did not allow them to cut. Because the entire Indian Railways at one
time was built from the timber from Himalayan region. It took them fifty years to understand they
could make the railway sleepers with something else, with concrete or metal or something. Otherwise all of them were wooden. Because the British used wood, so they continued. The entire Indian Railways was made from timber
from Himalayan range. That means the… the whole forest range amounting
to maybe twenty, twenty-five thousand square miles vanished. But we had railways. So (Laughs), so at that time Sunderlal Bahuguna
started a movement, and he went there – I forget what the ailment – he went there
with a serious ailment and he and his wife just lived in the banks of Ganga, just everyday
Ganga water consumption and the dip. He just completely came out of that ailment. In my own experience for twenty-seven years
without a break, every year I went to Himalayas for trekking. I think only last four years or five years
I took people and then I gave up, too much management and now our Sacred Walks is doing
that. Otherwise, all those first twenty-two or twenty-three
years, I went alone by myself. Many, many days, just drinking two to three
times Ganga water, no food, nothing, I just trekked every day in the mountains eighteen,
twenty kilometers a day. No food. I was just fine, fully charged up, just drinking
this water, distinctly different, especially beyond Gangotri if you go and drink the Bhagirathi
water, you see it just fires you up. Just two handfuls of water you're done for
the day, you’re fully on. It just charges you up in such a big way. And even today, this is the only segment of
the river which is not going through a turbine. Right now, the Ganga water that comes downstream
into the plains has already gone through three or four turbines, they’re generating electricity
from this. They could have spared this one river, because
in many ways it is the very consciousness of India (Laughs), it is symbolically consciousness
of India and above all the river had very special qualities. This is something that rudimentary idea is
H2O is H2O, wherever you take it it's same H2O. You're only looking at the physical, chemical
properties, there are other dimensions to life. Now, science is trying to touch other aspects
after having you know, leveled out everything, now you're trying to build a mountain from
the level land (Laughs), it's a tough job and your mountains may collapse very easily
because they're built by you. A mountain that’s standing for a million
years has gone through everything that it can go through and it is standing because
everything that can fall off has fallen off largely. So nature has its own way of doing things,
these water bodies. I have experienced some water bodies as truly
powerful process. It's from my experience of certain natural
water bodies which were like you know, one… you just get into this water, you’re like
sparkling. Because of that experience I have… we decided
to set up the Chandrakund and Suryakund in the Ashram. I thought people should have some experience
of water, what water does to you, and today I think there are tens and thousands of people
who know the well-being of being in charged water, what it means how water behaves very
differently. Many of you who've been in the Chandrakund
or Suryakund have experienced the excessive buoyancy of the water. You can check the pH factor, it is… it is
just normal. It is not like sea water, it's not dead sea
where you can walk upon it and whatever. This is just regular water, but you can feel
the body becomes far more buoyant in that water simply because of the sheer energy,
because of the molecular arrangement has changed so dramatically because of the reverberation
which is constantly on. We can create this in our own homes. I'm (Laughs)… internationally acceptable
way of making a jeevarasam. Have you seen the jeevarasam? So I'm… I'm designing and making a jeevarasam which
will be internationally acceptable. Right now what we're making in India is a
very powerful jeevarasam, but you know there is a fetish in the world about certain substances. So we are making another kind of jeevarasam. A copper pot, a jeevarasam, a lamp on top
of it. If you can put a flower or a leaf on it, it's
fine. You put this in your house and consume this
water on a daily basis. Most probably, it's not like a guarantee because
there are so many other influences, but largely I would say, you will not get into chronic
ailments. You have to catch a bug. That's different. But largely you will be free from body generating
ailments, your attitude towards the entire thing. Not seeing it as a commodity, but seeing it
what is bigger than your mother. Yes or no? (Talks aside: Hello, I don't like it.) Water is bigger than your God, yes or no? If you… If you say no, I'm going to deprive you of
water for next twenty-four hours (Laughter). In twenty-four hours’ time you will agree
with me (Laughs). So, I'm saying the fundamental life-making
material if you do not treat it as such with the necessary value and the necessary reverence
towards it, it has its own way of doing things. Maybe (Laughs) you always been thinking if
you do something wrong, a lightning rod will strike you down. Lightning may miss you but water will get
you (Laughs). Yes, if you don't treat it well, it'll get
you anyway; if you do the wrong things, it'll get you anyway. So, drinking water is one thing – we can't
control the bathing water, if we could, that would be great. There are ways to do that. We are in the process of making a manual – How
you should conduct water around you and within you. It's a part of the Bhuta Shuddhi. The practices are too complex and sophisticated
to be taught to larger public, it will take a certain effort, simple practices can be
thought. We… in the twenty-one day Hatha Yoga, we’re
teaching the Bhuta Shuddhi practice. Otherwise, there is Pancha Bhuta Aradhana,
where you can just experience some well-being through a ritual that happens. But understanding a few simple facts as to
how you should deal with it, what's around you and what's within you, these two dimensions
of water, you have relationship with, not just this, what is around you also you have
a relationship with this and we can change the way the water bodies around you behave
with you simply by doing certain things with yourself and sometimes with the water body
itself. We want this to become common knowledge as
it used to be at one time. If you're not made yourself sensitive enough
to know, at least you must have information. It's not the same thing. If you could feel it, it would be the best
way to do it.
