Sadhguru:Â Namaskaram.
Namaskaram to everyone, wherever you are. Well I think all of you keeping current with the
news about this virus situation in the world. United States has reached nearly 140,000 deaths. Brazil is about half of that. India has touched 23,000 deaths. Russia is about half of that. Well, considering the density of population in India; per million, the number of cases
and deaths is phenomenally low. And of the positive cases, the recovery rate is over
seventy-nine percent which is probably the highest. But the surge in the number of cases
is of great concern because I think India did a fantastic job about lockdowns and social
distancing the first two-and-a-half, three months but now you can see the economic
endurance of the society and the nation; the psychological endurance of the people, psychological and emotional endurance and also
the social endurance of how long to hold on like this. Particularly when there are no clear cut answers
for any of the questions that people ask. It's become a challenge to continue to maintain
discipline, to continue to just stay cooped up; as right now that is our only solution, or that's the
only preventive step that is being talked about. Well the idea of vaccine is being kicked around
but that is not going to be the way forward. The important thing is, I know much
is being done in that direction but once we have come up with
an effective treatment protocol, then people could go about their business with a
little more ease, "Okay, if I get it there is a treatment". Right now, too many people
are succumbing to the virus. There is no particular treatment protocol and too many
people who go to the hospital are not coming back. So it's a challenge for this generation like never before. Every one of us, irrespective of
what is the nature of our activities; everybody has been seriously impacted by this. At a time like this, there is another whole situation
growing which is apart from the virus pandemic, there is a mental illness pandemic just rising. The number of people who are making
distress calls has gone up 1,000 percent; that's what they're telling me in United
States and I'm sure it's the same everywhere. So people not being able to cope with this; psychologically and emotionally cracking up
under the uncertainties of their economic future, uncertainties about their professional life and
many of them unable to put bread on the table. The problems are mounting and becoming
more severe by the day across the world. Well, this mental pandemic is one thing we do not... mental illness pandemic is
one thing that we do not need because this viral pandemic is bad enough; the economic downturn is bad enough and the
struggles of people to make a living is painful. When all this is there, we do not need a... a mental illness pandemic but unfortunately,
that is also looming as an eminent possibility. So what is it that one can do? Yesterday I was in conversation with
a few experts in this mental illness... You know, doctors who are experts in this field and all of them in one voice saying
that it's going up like never before. At the same time, there was
a doctor who was sharing that in the southern part of the country where she
works, particularly with children and teenagers, she said, "This is the first time young
people who are in their teens coming up and asking not for a prescription of medicine,
tablets or something, they're asking, "What kind of yogic practice can
I do so that I don't fall into this?" Well, in a way the world is waking up
to understand that if we want to be well there is a certain amount of investment
we have to do upon this one (Gestures). Physical well-being, psychological
well-being, emotional well-being. This life being well needs a certain attention
otherwise it's just not going to happen by itself. Well, naturally certain things have come to you but
how naturally are you living? That's a big question. There are many aspects to this. Well, teaching practices, simple
practices, to boost the immune system; to bring emotional balance and psychological stability. These practices are out there. There is substantial scientific
and medical data to show... they are one-hundred percent
legitimate; they're not just claims. Today there are biomarkers
which clearly, clearly indicate that many of the yogic practices that we've been
trying to teach people in the last nearly forty years and for ages people have been
transmitting these things, it is not a fad. It is not the domain of the weird and the
freakish who want to stand on their head or twist and turn themselves like left-over noodles. It is a proper science as to how to manage this system; how to maintain chemical balance within you so that your physiological and psychological
well-being is taken care of. How to keep an effervescence of energy within the
system so that you are not a depleting life all the time. We all will die but it need not be today. I'd written a poem I think I, we didn't bring it. My Day. (Talks aside: My Day? No?) Anyway. So one important aspect which can be immediately
taken care of is the neurological system that we have, the way it is made; it is spread across the body
but there's one big knot up here (Gestures to brain). I'm calling it a knot because most people experience
it as a knot; they're not able to figure it out. I always admired when I was growing
up, my sisters and my mother; later on many other ladies that I've seen, you know, like
thread, you know, the sewing thread and other things... Well, when you try to do certain work it gets all knotted
up and I always found that these girls, my sisters, would always be able to unknot it so easily. I would tear them, tear it apart, but it won't unknot itself. And I generally found this was a
problem with the male of the species that unknotting something delicately urrrurrhhh
(Gestures trying to unknot something)! So I many times paid attention to this; well, one thing
is they have more nails, maybe that is one advantage. But another thing is, I think generally,
at least in the Indian society, or I think everywhere in the world,
maybe things are changing now, the very nature of life was such that women always
had to pay attention to little little detail of life otherwise the feminine won't flourish. So they paid attention to these little details;
because of that they could unknot things. But I'm not saying they're great about
unknotting the knot of their mind; no, but usually they don't knot up in their head. Their chemistry largely sloshes somewhere here
(Gestures to the torso, perhaps stomach region). So chemical slosh happens
and out of that emotions spill. As long as it doesn't fall on you, they're wonderful. So what is this thing about the neurological system
that whether you're a man or a woman you experience it that when certain things happen, something
seems to be happening here (Gestures). Well, this is something which is very
well addressed in the yogic sciences but I was surprised to know that now the medical
science is recognizing this aspect in a big way. That is, there is a gut brain,
there is a brain in your stomach. Nearly 100,000 neurons are invested from esophaegus
down to the colon; along the alimentary canal, there is a brain, there is an intelligence functioning. Fortunately it does not generate thought,
otherwise you would be in trouble. But there is an intelligence there's a
neurological system invested in that direction and this intelligence is not entirely ours in the sense, there are probably billions, if not trillions,
I don't know the numbers of bacteria and viruses and other microbial substance. Some of them are full-fledged life,
some of them are half-lives, some of them aspiring to be life
but all of them playing a role. And they have a significant
influence on how you think and feel. It's not just this new virus that's come
which is making you think in a specific way, there's a whole lot of micro-organisms,
particularly in your stomach region, who are able to influence even your vagus vein (nerve?). A vagus vein means generally it is in the yogic
sense, we're talking about this as a sacred vein. But the medical science calls it a
vagabond because it is all over the place. And for a long time, they did
not realize what is its purpose. So if somebody goes all around without any perceived
sense of purpose, then we say he's a vagabond, so in that sense, they said it's
a vagabond or a vagus vein. In yoga, this vein is seen as a sacred part of your body because if you have a certain
pleasant influence upon the vagus, it determines how your experience is - your mood. I don't like to use this word but this is the term;
your mood modulations are managed, your neuroplasticity or your ability to shift and change
according to situations or at different times of your life, according to the requirement of your life is enormously
enhanced if your vagus is well influenced. Now, there is evidence to show that more than you, the microbes can influence the
functioning of the vagus vein, that means the microbes in your stomach
can decide whether you're happy or unhappy. So, welcome to the world of virus, because microorganisms have played
such a significant role in who we are both in terms of our physiological evolution over these
millions of years and who you are as a person right now. So now especially when your
psychological endurance is going down because three, nearly four months of inactivity, uncertainty of what is going to be tomorrow or what
is going to be the next year; not knowing what is 2021. What to plan, what to do, whether my business
will be there or not, my job will be there or not, or the bigger question whether I will be there or not. With all these uncertainties, maintaining a
pleasant way of existence becomes a challenge. So suddenly you're not going to become
absolutely (Clicks fingers)Â like that, enlightened and fine no matter what, "If I have
to die tomorrow, still I am fine." Well that is not the status of most human
minds, so, what is it that one can do? What is the small things that everybody can do? The important thing is to keep
the gut in a complex condition. That means the microbial condition
must be a real cocktail of life within you. That means one thing is you should not
be drinking any of the popular disinfectants because you should not disinfect your body. Hands, okay; that is because you may touch
something where there is this particular virus... First of all our attitude towards
this virus also needs to change, we must understand viruses are not our enemies. This virus was living well. We don't know
for how many million years on this planet. It had its customers, pangolins and bats and whatever. Well, we can explain it in many ways,
we can propound various conspiracies, but one important thing is, I'm not saying... this is, I'm talking about the social nature
of the virus, not the scientific aspect of it. See, suppose let's say you're living on an
island and your island starts shrinking in size then you naturally want to find another island
or another place; if you find mainland, that's fantastic. Naturally you will look. For example here, we're in United States right now. Well, three-hundred years ago
nobody knew where this land was. People out there in UK and Europe felt
congested, they needed a new land. Why? Many people there could not thrive,
the social conditions were oppressive and only for a small segment of people could
thrive in those lands; the rest were oppressed. They wanted to find a new land. Well, they thought the best land to go to because
they had so... heard so much about India, they thought the best place to go was India. And they were going all over; many of
them went to the bottom of the ocean. Well, people say Vasco da Gama discovered India. No, no, we were there before the guy came. And Columbus, a bad mariner, obviously;
he ended up on the wrong side of the world. Well, after two-hundred-and-fifty, three-hundred years, that becomes the right thing
because you found a new land. So I'm saying any life, whether human, animal, insect,
bird, or microbial; in our longing to survive and thrive, if we find a place is too congested,
not enough for us to exist, then we will try to find new habitat, which is natural. So it is a fact that in the last seventy years
the vertebrate... in the last fifty years, the vertebrate population on the planet
has come down by seventy percent. Yes, I'm getting the numbers right for you. In fifty years' time, the vertebrate population on
the planet has come down by seventy percent. Well... and all the insects and other smaller life;
one in five of the species are endangered. So obviously, much smaller life, like
viruses, bacteria and other microbial life are all desperately looking for a new America. America was not referred to as America at one time; people used to call it a new
world because it's a new habitat. So they're also looking for a new world,
not just one virus, many probably but all of them may not be
competent to make the journey. One of them managed. We don't know; some people have all kinds of theories
as to how they managed this, nobody is certain. Nothing that is being said about this
violence is being said with any certainty. After nearly four, five months, we still are in the same...
square one; we still do not know much about it, we're going on saying new things about
it but we not know what to do about it. What it does in our body also, we're not sure. Initially, we thought it's just a respiratory infection,
now we know it has neurological complications; it has, you know, pulmonary complications, it has various
levels of impacts on people, not only in terms of fatality, also in terms of damage to the
body is happening at all levels. So we still don't know a thing about it actually. We have lot of bits and pieces but
there's no one comprehensive picture of, "This is the nature of this virus and this is what we
can do about it." There is no such clarity anywhere. So now, the only thing that's left to us as after
talking a lot about vaccines and about this and that; slowly all the scientific community coming back to, "The only solution is social distancing and
strengthening of the immune system." When we say strengthening of the immune system,
we must understand there are more microbial life, microorganisms in this body than
the human cells that you have. I'm saying you are a composite of so many
microorganisms that you have not seen or met, but you are more of that than what
has come to you from your parentage! The genetics of these microbes are
determining how resilient a life you are; not only that; now, as I said,
they're influencing the vagus vein means, how happy you are is also decided
by the microbes, how's that? Maybe one day, more research will say, it is the microbes
which decide whether you can meditate or not. I would say that right now, if the
microbes are working against you, you cannot meditate because
your stomach will give you works. If you want to meditate, first thing is the body should
be at ease, you must know how to bring it to ease. If there is no ease, then forget about meditation;
no such thing will ever come in our lives. So managing the gut brain. I'm saying those of you given up on this one (Gestures
to 'head' brain), at least this one, if you manage, you can pass through these difficult
times with a certain sense of ease. If you've given up hope on managing this
(Gestures head brain), this (Gestures gut brain), just managing with the right kind of foods and stuff; it is important for the gut brain,
for what happens in your gut. Now, I'm not using medical parlance anymore; the simple understandings that we have by
living here on this planet for thousands of years, not by opening up a rat's gut. I'm saying this understanding is
not from the lab, but from life is; well, this may have become almost
impossible in Western societies, I don't know how to walk here
in the garden or in the forest and pick up some greens which we can cook today. There's no such possibility. Everybody has been completely trained to believe
everything other than what you buy in a store is poison. Other than what you buy in a
superstore is naturally poison. The whole world is poisoned except
what is sold in the marketplace. This madness; for this, we are paying a huge price. Fortunately, in India still you can walk
in your backyard, pick up something, a few green leaves and cook it and
eat it without thinking it's poison. Well, there are reasons for this,
I'm not saying it's completely baseless, but at the same time, it is overly exaggerated. If everything in nature is poison, where did
stuff come to the superstore; I don't know. Are they importing it from Mars, or somewhere else,
I do not know because a lot of things look like they don't have a earthly origin. When I see a square tomato, I know it doesn't
have a earthly origin, it must be Martian! So it's very important that we maintain all
these creatures which are living within us. The cousins of the present microbe who've
been with you, they're just visiting their relatives. If you keep these guys very strong and resilient; if you,
you know if you have enough of bacteria, viruses, fungi, archaea reside in the gut, they say
there are over 1,000 species of them. Over twenty-million genes they have. These genomes have packed enough genomic
punch that it can change the way you are in terms of your health, your mental
status, your emotional balance; all this. This is why a certain level of
significance about what to eat, how to eat, there is so much In the yogic sciences
about how to eat and what to eat. Well, all of it is... may sound alarming today
for many people who are cultivated in this that whole creation is poisoned except
what comes from the marketplace. It's really a wonderful level of marketing that
such a thing has been impressed upon people in the last fifty years. Before that everybody was plucking things off the
nature and eating, but now you know, I think I was in... somewhere in Ohio a few years
ago and I saw a tree full of pear. And it was just on the street side. I plucked a pear, wiped it and bit into it. A few people who are around me, they went into a shock,
"Sadhguru you're eating that. You cannot eat that." I said, "Why?" "You cannot eat a fruit like that. You have to buy it
from the market because there could be anything. There is mercury oxides being poisoned,
rivers are full of poison, lakes are full of poison." I said, "Your head is full of poison." This is the problem with you. Your head is full of poison. Now this poison in the head, at least the gut brain,
the poison in your gut brain must be removed. There must be a more complex
activity happening in the stomach. Well, it is difficult to make any recommendations,
you must figure it yourself because everything is both right and wrong today. What was perfectly fine some time ago,
because we don't know where... from where you will pluck what you pluck. At least you can go by this – if the squirrels are eating it, they are also mammals – they look quite smart, have you looked at their face? If they're eating it, I think you can eat it. "But I'm allergic to this, I'm allergic to that, I'm allergic
to pure air, I'm allergic to sunlight, I'm allergic to rain." This is happening genuinely. It is happening to an extent where allergies
are no more small disturbances in the body. It is killing. I knew people have nut allergy. Even I used to have nut allergy. I mean before I turned spiritual and started teaching,
I used to have nut allergy also, all the nuts – I kept away from them. But then when I started teaching
I saw there is no other way. So I developed a certain love for the nuts. So leaving that aside, I know... in India we know those... we call this pitta, where certain nuts which
have a very strong sense of protein in it can cause certain rashes and things in you. We have a simple solution for this – we soak it in water
for four, five hours and then eat it. It gets neutralized. As simple as that. Or because nuts are seeds also,
if you soak them in water, the moment it touches water, nut has a brain
of its own. You know, even nuts have brains. It... It begins to think it must sprout that it thinks it's found a habitat for it to
sprout because that's what it's been waiting for. So when it wants to sprout, once it's in the earth,
it knows there are many others who want to eat him up – insects, worms, others. So there is a certain level of poisonous substance. In different nuts, it's different – some of the
nuts have mild aspects of cyanide in them that moves to the surface beneath its skin. So we figured this out and we said, "Soak the nut for five,
six hours, peel the outer skin. That poison goes away. Then you eat it, then you will not get
any of these rashes and things like that." This is the level of allergy that I was exposed to. But once I was traveling by the
Delta Airlines in United States and they announced that today
we are not serving peanuts, because there is one person in the plane who is allergic. First of all, you know, I used to
have problems – what is a peanut? Because it comes from the ground, it's not a nut, it's
a legume, but we call it a nut because it has a shell. It comes from the ground so
we always called it groundnut. That's the only thing that comes
from the ground in that type of shell. Because it comes from the ground, it's a groundnut. When I came here, people started saying, "Peanut,
peanut," I always used to wonder how do they do it? We pick it from the ground, how do you get a peanut? Anyway, that's been sorted out now. So somebody, one person has an allergy in the
airplane and you cannot open your groundnut packet and he may die. Then I spoke to a few doctors,
"Is it true really, are we exaggerating this?" They said, "No, no, no Sadhguru,
it is true in a controlled atmosphere – if you open this groundnut
packet, that person will die." Vow. So I also had allergy for nuts, I told you but
not this kind of allergy that it can kill you, and so many people have died. Now people have allergy for milk,
allergy for rain, allergy for sunlight, just about everything that sustains your life. Well, we must understand there may be many reasons,
but in my understanding, in my perception of things, one reason is I think we are not keeping all these life that
is existing within us and supporting our life all the time making us who we are, we are not keeping them happy. The microbial life within us for some reason is not
happy either because of excessive processed food or living constantly in unnatural
conditions, air conditioning all the time, living in cities where highly polluted air and above all, everything sanitized, super sanitized. Your home is like a hospital, it's like a
operation theater – it is sanitized all the time. Everybody... Okay now virus time,
you do this (Gestures)Â but all the time wash it with soap,
wash it with soap (Gestures). See bacteria, virus, microbes are a part of us. There are more of them than us in this body. What you call as myself, it is very... much less than
the number of microbial life that exists within us. Keeping them happy is very important. So just taking a leaf of natural conditions not in a
city garden, maybe it's all sprayed with insecticide, but in natural condition and putting it
in your mouth is not going to kill you, because this life and that life is connected.
Above all, being disconnected from earth, being disconnected from the soil from which we have
come and the soil to which we will inevitably go, being disconnected I think the microbial life, this
thousand and odd species of microbes are not happy. Once they are not happy, if they freak a little bit,
your health freaks, your psychological balance freaks, your emotional balance freaks,
all these things are happening. So at a time like this... I know this is a dangerous thing to talk at
a time like this when a microbial you know, a micro life like a virus is threatening our life,
I'm talking about making deals with them, because long term well being particularly
your psychological and emotional well being at a time like this when tomorrow is
a definite uncertainty – it always is – but you have some sense
of fixed certainty in your mind. But now you clearly know it is uncertain and
you're struggling with the uncertainty of life. When this is so, keeping your
gut happy is very important. It is very important. At least this much you
must do, particularly those of you who are here in the Western countries who are buying even
fermented stuff like let's say, curd or yogurt, at least this much you must learn to ferment your
own curd in natural conditions with natural mink. Everything coming to you from a factory,
probably there's not much life left in it. Well, now there are people who are selling probiotics. The whole world is full of...
The whole planet is full of probiotic. That also must come from the marketplace,
otherwise you cannot trust it. Well, I think this situation post-virus
– whenever that is, that is also uncertain. We don't know when that is, because
just I think three weeks ago in India, we were all feeling, "This is it.
We've mastered this damn virus. In such a large population, we have contained it." But the moment economic activity opened
up, it's just going crazy all over the place. So nobody has a handle over it. When this situation is on, the best thing
to do is everything in this system must be – for lack of vocabulary I'm saying
happy, must be comfortable. Your gut must be comfortable, your head must be
comfortable, your entire system must be comfortable, because in pleasantness of experience,
your immune system functions at its best. That is an acknowledged fact everywhere. So keeping it well is very important. But tomorrow, you don't know what is tomorrow. Right now, you're only goal
– first goal, not the only the goal, the most basic goal is tomorrow you must be alive. That's the important thing. Don't think this is a joke. This is not a joke anymore. I think the number of deaths in
the world is closing up to a million. So it is no more a joke. It is real. Well, a chief of some... a hospital in United States
has shared this. It's... I think it's on the social media. Young people are having COVID parties. Here the challenge is, let us
see who will get infected today. Okay? They're meeting for a party
and having whatever they have. And the challenge is let's see who will get infected. So a thirty-year old young man died about
four days ago, and his last words were, "I thought this whole thing is a fake.
But now I know it's for real." But too late, he passed away, thirty-year-old. So it's very important to understand this is for real. Uncertainty is for real. Uncertainty is always real, but it's coming home to everybody's minds
now that tomorrow how you and me will live – it is a question mark. How our economic status will be, where you will be,
what you will do, all these things question marks. I'm not trying to paint a bleak picture. All I'm telling you is if you stay alive, it's still good. See, just look back and see. Hundred years ago... Why hundred years ago, twenty-five years ago – none of us had a cell phone,
very few of us had a television. Everything that we have today was probably
at fifty percent of what we have today. If you go back one hundred years,
probably what we had at that time... people what they had at that time was ten
- fifteen percent of what we have today. If you go back a 1000 years, well,
you can't talk percentages, it was minimalistic. Even if you go back 10,000 years,
even when people lived in caves, they knew about the uncertainty of life. Every day was a struggle for food and everything. Today you struggle though everything
is assured. That's a different matter. That is because both your brains in your
gut and up there, both are out of control. But even then, those who were happy were happy. Half naked men and women living in caves, they also
had fun. Once their stomach was full, they were happy. They sang their own songs,
they danced their own dances. They lived well I'm saying for what was there. So whether we live well or not is not essentially
dependent upon the arrangements. Our arrangements may shrink. One thing, as I've been repeatedly saying
that every nation should take care of and India has a crucial role in this is,
we must ensure substantial food is produced. Whether people have money to
buy it or not, it doesn't matter. If there is substantial food on the planet,
we can see that nobody starves. As long as there is no starvation, reorganization
of our lives, reorganization of our economies, reorganization of our social structures,
all this you must be able to go through it as a... a challenging exercise of our lives. Only when our life is threatened either
due to lack of food or something else, that is a different kind of challenge. Because you're here now, this is our time on the
planet, what we make out of it is entirely ours. Definitely you know, even twenty-five or fifty years ago, forget about the wars and famines and horrible
things that happened, even in normal conditions their life compared to how our lives are organized today
were not even ten - twenty percent of what it is today. But still they lived well. I know twenty-five - fifty years ago we lived well. So you know, there is a... a buzzard like a... like a vulture. We call it vulture in India. Maybe
they're slightly different, I do not know. A lone buzzard which always comes and
sits on a... a dry branch in a tree, a single tree outside my window and he comes
and sits there, I've been watching him. He always comes and sits there and looks at me. I'm not a customer yet. So I wrote a little poem. It's called "My day." A lonely buzzard sits upon a tree at my window He looks at me with interest Seems disappointed that I am a bit too alive He looks at me with interest But seems disappointed that I'm a bit too alive He wants me or someone or something to die But he looks like an icon of patience The limits of his patience is the
length of lease of life that we have I say to him, "I shall not keep you
waiting forever, nor will it be too soon." You shall have your day but this is my day This is our time. Well, the virus also lives at our time. But it's important that we are a habitat for
all these things and still manage to live. They are just always depending on us to live. So we must have some mastery over how we are. If this one thing comes into you that your
gut and your brain are not sloshing around, whatever tomorrow's situation, we'll deal with it. It's going to be a challenge for every one of us. But this is the nature of being human
that challenges make us rise, not fall. Some will choose to get crushed unfortunately. But it's my wish and my blessing,
every one of you should rise, because there is certainty in this aspect that
we are the peak of evolution on this planet. We have to show it in the way we live. How fearful the virus is about not finding a new habitat, that he's not able to infect you because
you're effectively social distancing, have you thought about his psychological problems? How he must be suffering, because all of you are sitting
like this eight feet - ten feet away, not able to jump. With... It is not within his long jump
distance, how he must be suffering? That's his life. He has to go through that. But there are many people who are cooperating for him. You should not be one of them. This is the fundamental responsibility that
you live through this. Do you understand? This is not a joke anymore. You live through this. This is important and live through
this joyfully, peacefully and well. Well, we may not be wearing
what we're wearing in a year's time. We may not be driving what
we are driving in a year's time, we may not be eating what we're eating in a year's
time, possible or everything may get back to normal – we don't know. Virus willing! If you have questions please. Speaker: Sadhguru, during the lockdown we've gained a
lot of weight from over eating and no physical activity. Can you offer us some simple weight loss tips please? Sadhguru:Â So I was talking about your psychological
struggles, now your physiological struggles. I was in Chennai a few years ago and I was talking
to some of the business community in Chennai. They were not particularly obese or something,
but little trying to imitate the planet. Not by being on a spin, in form I mean. So I said you know, "As a generation
of people, look at your condition. If I had come to Chennai fifty years ago or hundred
years ago, in what physical form people would be, in what level of physical fitness they would
be," ordinary people I am talking about. I'm not talking about gymnasts, sports persons, not
those kind of people, ordinary people on the street. Or even now, in what kind of physical strength and
condition people are in... in rural India for example. I said, "See suppose it so happened, you were walking on
the street and you saw a tiger, a wild tiger – hungry one. How many of you can at least climb
a tree," and this is a spectacular show. A tiger on a Chennai street
– this is not a everyday happening. It is something you must enjoy. "But how many of you can climb a tree," which
is the... the trunk of it usually the city trees, what is on the avenues and stuff is
not more than eight to twelve feet. "How many of you can climb this eight to twelve
feet and sit on a branch and enjoy the wildlife view?" No. Only those guys who are doing the
menial jobs, the guy who's sweeping the street, maybe he will go sit on the tree and
watch how wonderful a breakfast you are. Why have we become like this? It's not that tiger is... "Where is the tiger going to come?" That's not the point. Why are you in this condition that you
cannot do anything physically anymore? All you can go to office and come back. Those things are also necessary in
today's world, but is it not important that you're in some way physically competent? Physical competence is a reflection
of your physiological strength. And your physiological strength in many ways is
the foundation for your psychological balance. It is no more in question. That's what
I was talking about this gut all the time. Your physiological strength is the foundation for
your psychological balance in many, many ways. We've always been saying this the yoga... yogic
sciences, but people have been laughing at it, because everything is key whole. People say brain is a separate study. That's why yesterday I confessed with all
the neuro experts, "See I don't have a brain." At least most of the time it's not working. I keep it off. There is enough from...
from the tips of my hair to my toes... There are enough cells with enough
memory and intelligence, they will do my life. I have disciplined them nicely. They will do my life the way I want, because a large part of day to day work and
day to day functioning is... it's just a repeat work. All you need is a clerk. You don't need a super brilliant
person to do all these things. So I've trained them and they do their work. I don't have to think how to eat, how to sit,
how to stand, how to breathe – nonsense. It just happens by itself, because a very
stable and effervescent physiological condition is very, very important to have a
certain level of psychological freedom. Otherwise, every little thing you do, you have to think. Once you think, inevitably you're confused
about every damn thing that you do. Now, you're talking about because...
because of virus you ate too much. This is not because of virus you're eating too much. This is... This is a... a kind of a
compensatory activity that you know, you will see this in the cinema theaters and
everything, if you have nothing to do (Gestures). Never before in the history of humanity was food
simply available like this all the time, it's a wrong thing that everywhere you walk there is food. It should not be. IÂ see some of the corporations
in America are organizing like this – food and toilet should always be within
whatever fifty feet or hundred feet – something they've fixed, fifty feet I think – within fifty feet of wherever you
are, there must always be food. And that food is usually one month
old of course and there is a toilet. No, I think food and toilet – both must be far away. Then you will keep your
physiology in a conscious condition. Everywhere there is toilet, it's not good
because body has certian resilience. You wanting to run to the toilet is not just
physiological, sometimes it may be when the body – at some time it's disturbed, at that time it may be. Otherwise in normal conditions, it is more a
psychological condition than a physiological condition that all the time you want to message, not because
you have something very significant to say, it is simply because it's a release. Similarly, going to the toilet is a release, sexuality
is a release, wherever, whenever, whatever – all the time the same things because you're
building up nonsense within yourself all the time, you need a release. All the time release. These things are being openly talked about as
part of psychiatry that you must find release. Why are you pent-up? I think in one of the interviews
some journalist was asking me, "Sadhguru what do you do to unwind yourself?" I said, "What? Why will I wind myself up first of all. I don't wind myself up and then
want to unwind somewhere." What are you, are you a grandfather clock
or something – you wind yourself up. Even the watch doesn't need any
winding anymore, it runs by itself. Why are you winding yourself up? This is simply because you
understand life as an accumulation. Yes, body is an accumulation. Mind is an accumulation. But life is not an accumulation.
It's a phenomena that's happening. If you have not tasted that phenomena,
you know only accumulations, you always think the safety is in accumulation. Whether it's wealth, money, this, that and body,
but at least your money you can keep it in the bank, though it's... it may be heavy in your mind. But if you accumulate too much body, you have
to carry it around every moment of your life. And in the world today, in the world today thirty percent
of the population is malnourished and around the same percentage
of people are obese, overweight. See you can fix it. The world's problems of malnourishment, you can fix it. So this practice is there in the Isha Yoga
Center – whenever a cause comes up, when Isha Vidhya you know, educated rural children, raising funds for it became a problem,
then many people in the yoga center took this up, "On wednesday evenings I won't have
dinner and let that money go to the children." I think you must find seven causes like this. I can give you seven. Monday for Rally for Rivers, Tuesday for
Cauvery Calling, Wednesday for Isha Vidhya, Thursday is called Guruvar – this is for your Sadhguru. Friday for Devi, because that's her day. Saturday, you have your dinner, I am reducing one day. Sunday for Dhyanalinga. Like this you find seven or at least six
causes where six dinners you give away. Morning you eat, all right? Ten o'clock in the morning you eat well,
and again eat ten o'clock tomorrow morning. And also because you need to keep social
distancing, drive out of the town and walk back. Get into a bus, take a... buy a ticket for
ten kilometres away and just walk back. Best you go without your phone and your wallet so that
you have to walk back, do something, hmm, come on. Already there is one problem, you want
to multiply your problems, hmm? You want to increase the size
of your problem, don't do that. There's enough problem already. I'm telling you there's substantial problem. Just because I am laughing and joking
about this, don't think there is no problem. There is substantial problem. Don't fool yourself because if your body and your mind
is in a certain condition, you can easily fool yourself. This happened. Shankaran Pillai was running a
garment shop here in United States. And a lady came to buy some kind of a pullover. So he promised her, "It is one hundred percent wool." She took it, went home. The next day she came back and she said, "You said
it's one hundred percent wool, but here the label says, "It is made in Bangladesh and
it's one hundred percent cotton." He said, "Mam, don't you be fooled by this.
The label is only to fool the moths". Like this, there are so many labels all over the world. Don't go by that. You... This is a simple experiment you must do – all of
you who are sitting now on the floor, when you get up, you must use only two limbs to stand up. All of you in your life you must keep this up
however old you are, this is a simple test for you – you sit down cross-legged and when you
want to stand up, you use only two limbs. That means you don't do four wheel drive. Just get up with your legs. This much fitness at least you must manage. If you can't climb a tree, they're not enough
tigers to you know, for them to roam in your city. If you can't climb a tree, it's okay but
at least you must be able to stand up. This much fitness you must maintain. Please do that for yourself. I think we've gone over time. Say this after me. Sadhguru chants Yogarathova Bhogarathova
