Sadhguru: Namaskaram. Namaskaram
to all of you wherever you are. And a wonderful morning, here in Tennessee at III,
we're really having a absolutely wonderful morning. Whatever the time of the day for you, wherever you are. Well tomorrow is the full moon or the pournami. I was thinking of August but for various
reasons, we are pushed it to September. But from beginning of September... or end of August maybe, from the
amavasya or the new moon day comes, we will open both the centers III here in
United States and Isha Yoga Center in India, for sadhana for people who wish to pursue
this, a minimum period will be 21 days. Well, we will craft a certain sadhana
for you which will do wonders for you. Now that the world is in lockdown in many ways,
if not, you're totally off at least you're partially off. This is a good time to enhance yourself,
to invest some time and energy upon yourself. When I say yourself I'm not talking
about improving your skills. I'm not talking about improving your job competence,
your relationships with people those things, I think you had enough time to do those things. I'm talking about enhancing this life. We can, all of you know you can strengthen
the body with a certain amount of involvement. You also know that you could sharpen
and strengthen your mental structure, bring balance to your emotional structure. These things you know. Well, though, you know these things, many of you
may not have either the tools or the atmosphere, or the determination and commitment to do it. So that also can be addressed but I'm talking
about enhancing the life process, the life itself. Because Yoga is not about improving your body. Well, that is a consequence. One of the happy consequences
of yoga is you have a resilient body. Either you will get a sharp mind
or become nothing like me. Emotional balance, enhancement of whatever we do
in our lives, all these are very happy consequences, but not the purpose of yoga. The purpose of yoga is to make this life
burst in such a way that you cannot make out, which is you and which is not you. That's union. Yoga means union. For this you need enough life energy within you. You need an effervescent bursting forth, energy
within you, life within you so that body cannot contain it. If you are a feeble piece of life, you are not
able to supply enough energy for the body. Well, mental activity is pulling people down. Everybody is talking about unfortunately,
about mental pandemics, suicide pandemic, all kinds of theories are being proposed. And unfortunately, many of them may come true
because people have not even invested themselves, even to take charge of their own faculties. It amazes me. People are fifty, sixty years of age. Still they don't know how to
handle their thought and emotion. When are you going to learn? When? You have a million year lifespan, what is it? It is like, let us say you're fifty years of age,
I'm using fifty not to insult many of you who are here, but as a halfway mark I'm saying. So let's say you're fifty years of age,
but you don't know how to use your hands. What should we call you? You have normal hands,
but you don't know how to use them. We will call you a hobo. If you do not know how to use your thought,
how to use your emotion for your well being and once in a way your hand pops up and slaps
you in the face, then definitely you are nuts. I know these are bad words to use today. Not politically correct, socially correct. But otherwise how to get it across to you. Fifty years if you didn't get a point,
you think it can be made gently to you. Hello, fifty years of living here on this planet, if you
still did not understand how to use your thought, how to use your emotion to keep yourself well,
if you did not understand how to use these two hands, so that they don't come and slap you in the face. Well, it can't be done gently. That's all I'm saying. So, all these things are important. But you want to improve in instalments or you want to just burst forth as a life
which is beyond various limitations. If that needs to happen, you need to enhance this life. I've been, I think many of your familiar,
I've been using this analogy of a bubble. You blow soap bubbles, like that this is a bubble. Well, the size of your body does not
determine the size of the bubble. The size of the bubble is determined by
how much life energy have you captured. Because what we're referring to
as life is not just invested in this. It is here out in the air, it's in the tree,
it is in everything. It's in the entire cosmos. This is a living space. We have captured a little bit and
fortunately creation has given us, out of its magnanimity given
us an individual experience. This individual experience instead of becoming a
great possibility, has constipated the whole humanity. Because most people have misunderstood
their individual experience as individualism. As there are many 'isms', many
dogmatic religions, which tell you this is it. Individuals are just another religion. Some have gathered a few people
around them, some lawn warriors. Because an individual is a dogmatic
nonsense, everything is 100%, this is what I like, this is what I dislike, this is whom
I love, this is whom I hate, everything is determined. Well, you're a bloody religion. When I'm saying bloody religion, not with any
disregard for any religion, because you will bleed. That's all. You will injure yourself and you will
bleed, there's no question about that. So enhancing the life itself is
what the purpose of yoga is. The marketing jargon, unfortunately we have to put
out your headache will go, your backache will go, your immunity will come up,
you will fight the virus better. Even when there was no virus yoga
was still relevant because it's about life. It's not about virus. It's not about not going to the hospital. It's not about, for the first time being negative is good. So, if you're interested, I think both the centers together
can house thousand people or a few more than that. Twenty-one day batches you
can come, we will open this up. I've not even told our teams to work out the modalities. But you know, tomorrow is pounami. I was just thinking August moon we
shouldn't miss it but we did not announce it. Some logistics have to be prepared
and some protocols have to be set so that people don't bring virus into the centre. Probably these two centres have been
the safest havens for people because both here and in India where they
are nearly four-thousand people, we have not had a single infection till now. So, we want to keep that. So there will be protocols, but even
those periods can be used for sadhana. Those of you who feel that you could do with
enhancement of life should do this twenty-one day. What does enhancement of life mean? See, at least in this weather you can distinctly
see it, everywhere you can see it if you have eyes, but you know, many of you are sparing it because when
you go to heaven, you want to see everything clearly. So, not seeing anything here so that it's well rested. Because of that, you may not see it
otherwise for example, from winter to spring, there's a whole enhancement
of life a burst of life happening. Not just leaf and flower and fruit. Just life itself bursting forth. Well, if you didn't feel that, at least you
can see that something is stimulating life. No, no Sadhguru we know all the science. That is because from winter solstice,
we are moving up toward summer. Because of that, because of sunlight leaves
are coming out photosynthesis happening. Well, you're a textbook scientist,
you know nothing about life. Do not think these kind of rudimentary
explanations about everything contains life. Yes, it's factually true. I'm not questioning that. But you know, you don't have any fundamental
answer for all the life that's bursting forth on this planet or elsewhere for that matter. Because right now, some of the official
agencies of the United States is confirming that they have found remnants of UFOs. Where they came from, they don't know. But definitely
something that doesn't belong to this earth. They have found remnants of that they're
confirming that now for the first time, from the time of Roosevelt to now it's a long
time but confirmations are coming at last. This is because of competition with other nations,
because they may announce anytime. Unfortunately, we are not self stimulated to do our best. Always there must be somebody
running little faster than us. We want to beat that guy. Well, unfortunately, I'm not saying this with any... I'm not joking about it. Unfortunately, definitely United States is beating
the whole world in terms of both infections per day. Seventy-thousand-nine-hundred infections per day
and nearly fiften thousand deaths in twenty-four hours. Beating the world. This is not the way to beat the world. This is not the way to be on top of the world either. Unfortunately, it is happening. Well, other countries are doing their
best to catch up, Brazil is right behind. India galloping fast and could be in the tops anytime. There are up and down trends that nobody knows why. Suddenly some cities are dropping,
some cities are going up. No clue. All contact tracing this that everything they did
for four months in India very diligently, forcefully. But administrations are slowly loosing control. Where are the infected people?
Where are they running away? Some of them are jumping off the hospital
wards and running away somewhere. All these things are happening.
I'm sure it's happening everywhere. Probably much more here than anywhere else. But the unfortunate reality is,
we are still not conscious enough, disciplined enough as a generation
of people, with all this technology, with so much enhancement and
information, everybody knows what it is, but still we're not able to do what is needed. So twenty-one days if you withdraw into
sadhana, you could even save the world. Yes, not just enhancing your life. Enhancing your life, what it means is, the life that you are, the life energy that you are,
should be at least little more than your body. Well don't think you have to enhance the body for this. Because body may compete with the life
energies and also try to become like that. No. Yoga means your life energy
is always beyond your body. This is why there is an experience of
that which is not physical in nature. Essentially if we have to technically define
what we are referring to as a spiritual process, essentially it simply means your experience
of life is not limited to your physical nature. Something more than that is happening to you. If that something more has to happen there
are many, many, many ways of doing it. But the fundamental thing is in some
way you have to make the life process more significant than the physiologic
process and the psychological process. Well you're carrying a... you know we ordered
for clouds today so that everybody's in shade. But you're carrying a cloud out of your own, all the time. Generally, at least in this part of the world,
not so much in India, but in this part of the world, a cloudy day is considered a dull day. In India cloudy day is seen as a pleasant day. So cloud essentially means something is
blocked out which is the basis of life here. Sun, the solar energy is the basis of life here. When I use these words like solar energy,
a whole lot of people are thinking of solar panels. No, these are all solar panels. The best design solar panels that we have,
we know or we are yet to create anything like this. This is a solar panel. Every life is a solar panel. Without sun's energy, nothing here will happen. So blocking that is considered in
some way against life process and it is. Yesterday I was talking to our
Ishangas and I was just telling them, you know summertime when it feels hot you
feel I wish it was ya, I wish he was a little cooler. What is he simply burning away like this. Well I'm just making a guess
this is not some scientific fact. I guess that let's say sun decided to
reduce his intensity by ten percent. Probably twenty-five percent of
the landmass will go under ice. Let us say he decided he will reduce
his intensity by twenty-five percent. Most probably over fifty percent
of the landmass will go under ice. Well, I may not be correct in the numbers,
but something like this will happen for sure. So essentially you have land to walk upon and you have
a life to live because of the intense burning of the Sun. If he cools off this will become cold. So the reason why he burns the way he burns and
becomes the source of life is because he is nebulous, loose. No I am taking the battery cells to the last bar because they are not made like sun nor
are they capturing solar energy. So I'm trying to... being the COVID
times we are economising on everything. So I thought we should run the
batteries to the very last bar. So sorry for that one minute of, the rest of the world for watching wherever you are, didn't go into confusion what
happened, what happened? The video was still on. So the sadhana is about changing your form. Right now, your form is largely restricted to
your physical form and your psychological form. If you change this form beyond physiological and
psychological processes, then you are transforming. Transformation essentially means you
want to change the form that you are. I know in United States it's not a popular thing to
say 'you lose your form' or 'you become out of form'. Not a popular thing to say but I am
not talking about your physical body. You can remain zero in your body size... Whatever zero means, in my
understanding, zero means non-existent. But people claim their zero. Maybe they're talking about their mental structure. I'm getting into trouble I know, it's okay. But zero is also infinite. So, your form has to change. Changing your form means, if you really have to
transform... see you can make changes with your body. You can make changes with your mental structures, but transformation can only
happen upon the life, life process. That is, a form which is in
transit is transforming always. It must be transiting from its existing nature always. If that is happening, then we say you're
in a, in a mode of transformation. That every day is a new adventure,
in terms of profoundness of experience, that your life is not mundane venture of transactions. Most people have made their
life into a venture of transaction. You give me this, I'll give you this, what
do I, what do I have? What do you have? How many things, how many flowers do
I have? How many flowers do you have? No, they don't discuss flowers. It's usually money. Everything is a transaction. So you're running a venture. Well, you will get a reward. Maybe we'll get you an Indian granite stone. I'm saying when you're dead or we will just
burn you and spread the ashes to the trees, better a living monument
than a dead monument for you. Because there is no reward for this life. The only reward is life itself. Because one who fails to see the phenomenal nature
of what has been invested in us, for him what reward? A stone is a reward? A heaven is a reward? What is there in heaven? Because this is nature's creation. Here the imagination is limitless. You take and assimilate all the pieces of
heaven, from every religion on the planet. What is in heaven? Nobody, they don't even have a grasshopper. Hello? No, in some heavens, there is food, heaps of
food. In some heaven there are floating people. Half bodied, not even full bodied. And in some heaven there are pretty woman, all right. But no grasshopper, no. Nobody talked about a tree in heaven. Nobody talked about a flower in heaven. I don't think anywhere there's a
description, please tell me if I'm wrong. I have never heard of a heaven which is
flowers blossoming, fragrance coming, trees growing, new leaf bursting out. You know, have you seen the king cobras dancing? No cobra is dancing. Oh snakes not allowed in heaven! So you have only rodents is it? So heaven is such a poor idea
made up in desperate minds, wanting to find some substance to a substanceless life. Because if you cannot get engaged with the
tremendous phenomena that's happening here, you will start inventing something to
find meaning to your silly existence. Desperately searching for meanings. If you did not see the significance of the phenomena
of life, both within and around you then what meaning? Okay, you went to heaven. So what? Anyway, I told you, it doesn't even have as
much variety of life and stuff as this planet has, which is just a tiny spot in the universe. So that kind of heaven you go there
and you're going to live happily ever after. There used to be these things in every movie. The end scene is man and woman will
come together hold hands happily ever after. Now, both men and women are sufficiently disillusioned, that there is no happily ever after. If you want to be happy, you have
to work hard from both ends. If you want to maintain some peace, you have
to work hard, otherwise it's not gonna happen. So sadhana is about this, about changing your
form, changing the very form of your existence. So that you are always a transforming force. This transformation has to happen means
you at least have to transcend a few things. Transcending a few things means one thing,
at least you must transcend the social media. Hello? Birds are tweeting, it's okay. You must transcend at least the need to
bullshit the rest of the world for some time. Just, just learning to you know, just sit quietly here. This much must happen, that you must
become comfortable with this life. You don't have to mess with some life all the time. This must happen for every life. If nothing great happens at
least this much must happen, that you must know how to be engaged and
involved and enjoy the process of this life without messing around with any other life. Even if this doesn't happen, you haven't even started yet. That's what it means. So twenty-one day Sadhana will be
available, please make use of it. As I said, considering the virus times and the nature
of accommodations we have to produce, provide, maybe together both in India and here put
together we can offer a thousand people at a time. But protocols will be there. If you have questions, please. Participant: Namaskaram Sadhguru. In this age of Kali Yuga, how would you
introduce spirituality into corporate India? Sadhguru: Because unfortunately I keep hearing this in
the, in that segment of people they say corporate world. So well this is a very important thing, that we don't want to break the world into many pieces
which we have already done in the name of race, religion, nationality, communities,
caste, creed, now corporate world. This is also not new, class has always been there. Either money or lack of money has united people. Money people gather in one place,
no money people gather in another place. So that is what probably they're referring to as a world. Well, different religions are claiming it is their world. You know? Now classes are claiming their world. I don't know what else will claim. No, there is a world. If you were a part of it, you
would be a great contribution. But unfortunately, if you're not a
part of it, you become exclusive. Exclusivity invariably brings
exploitative tendencies in everybody. So, every economic system that you create, you talk about communism, you talk
about socialism, you talk about capitalism. Every system has become
exploitative at certain point of success. Either exploiting the very people that
they are supposed to take care of, or exploiting somebody else who
is not in the communist world, or the socialist world or the capitalist world. Now how to introduce spirituality to these people? Well, these people have found material success. That means, in many ways, a few things,
not everything about their life a few things, they have gotten logically correct. So it's very important that if spiritual process has to
enter corporate world It has to be logically correct. How to make a dimension which has nothing to
do with the limitations of logic, logically correct. That's a challenge. Because logic is based on the principle of two,
there must be this and that then there is logic. There must be high and low, then there is logic. There must be you and me, then there is logic. Now you're talking about a dimension, where
there's only one number either one or zero. In many ways, spirituality is a zero
sum game because it's one big hole, who is here to cut this... this not your birthday cake,
to cut it into many pieces and serve it to people. It can't be done like that. Well, you're trying to do that in your mind for that there
is inevitable suffering that everybody is going through. So corporate world is also just
one more piece of the cake. Maybe the creamier part of the cake. Especially because there is more cream
on their cake or their piece of the cake, they're a little more (Gestures) you know, generally at least the men in the
corporate world are little noozed up. Because of that even the breath is constipated. Because of that very limited logic. First of all, human logic is a very limited process. Most human beings have not understood or grasped
the basis of our logic and the limitations of our logic. This is why they're going on eulogizing
silly little things that they say. Well, for this there is Indian masala you know? Haven't eaten anything, if you talk
Indian masala my mouth will water because not the kind that Usha is serving
or somebody else is serving in this kitchen. I have my masala if you eat it you will become my slave. Yes! why the tongue... your tongue will hang out
and you will be pointing at me all the time. Yes. So Indian masala is there with which we can say,
most illogical dimension of life in a logical way. It's taken millenia of observation of human
mind and the basis of human logic that, for example, Inner Engineering program,
all of you, many of you have gone through this, you do what you want, find one logical hole in it. You cannot, but we are saying the most illogical things. Because life is not contained in logic. Life contains logic as a part of itself. But you cannot contain whole life into the
logical process that happens in your mind. This is the big investment that the Western cultures have
done, that they've invested too heavily in their own logic. They believe their logic will take them to the ultimate. No, for the first time the physicists in the world, the top physicists in the world are
admitting we shall never know because we don't have instruments to know. This is a clear admission that human
logic cannot go beyond a certain point. It has its limitations. But this limited logic, we hash it up with Indian masala and use it to express the most
illogical dimensions of life. I must tell you this, at one time when... this is in mid 90s when Isha as a movement
in southern India was growing exponentially. So, for the local people in Tamil Nadu, I'm
somebody who landed up from somewhere who doesn't know a word of Tamil, but
bullying them with their own language, or saying all kinds of words which don't belong
to Tamil, but conveying what I want to convey. Even today I am managing Tamil language
with just thirty-three words of vocabulary. Then it was just eleven. So saying all kinds of things, but it was logically correct. So they were taken by it and it was just growing. The state government got a little nervous. Who is this guy, just anywhere he goes
thousands of people gathering, what's happening? Is he going to start a new political party? Is he going to contest elections?
All these kind of things came up. So it seems they sent some
intelligence officers to our programs. Maybe here also I don't know if your FBI. So they came and they did
the Inner Engineering program. Then unfortunately they got into
the Bhava Spandana program and the horror of horrors,
they got into the Samyama program. And then they submitted a report. After almost two years after this report was submitted, we found some access to the report because
we didn't even know such a thing had happened. So these guys who reported to put it in a brief
form, they said, this first program is very good. You know what they mean? What
they mean is, it's logically correct. Second program is little crazy, but all right. Third program, this must be banned! Because without doing anything,
they're just sitting there and going crazy. Not doing anything at least in the second
program, they were doing something to go crazy. In the third program, they're doing nothing and...
they're going crazy, this must be banned. So, when I came to know this, I thought
this is a classic case of observation. It has to be logically correct. Tell me, is your existence logically correct? In the middle of nowhere, you don't know
where this cosmos begins, where it ends. In the middle of nowhere you're
sitting on a little mud ball called Earth. It's just a tiny little mud ball. And thinking up all kinds of things sitting here. And whoever comes here we call
them an alien, aliens have come. We are a microscopic, super microscopic
existence, but any other life is alien to us. So this is our logic. It's absolutely illogical, your very existence is illogical. There is simply no logic to your existence. We are trying to find meanings, no meaning. So, of course, with the corporate people, you have to say,
you will be peaceful because they're never peaceful. And they're telling me about hundred-and
-twenty-thousand corporate leaders are, in the executive group of people,
managers and executives in United States are dying
much earlier than they should. And about hundred-and-eighty billion dollars is being
spent on just corporate executive health in this country. Why are they so sick? It's very natural. When you have a world of your own,
you will be sick, I want you to understand. We not only have a world of our own,
we also have separate heavens. You should see on the golf courses people
keep on arguing, there is a golfers heaven. Golfers go to a different heaven,
where it's full of golf courses. Sex maniacs go to another place. Foodies go to another place. Separate heavens are also there just like
the separate worlds that we have created. So, corporate world, whether in India or elsewhere, they want something which is logically
correct but still it takes them ahead. Well, you know we got the solution; Inner
Engineering, hundred percent logically correct. Pick a hole in it, let me see. You cannot because it's so logically perfect. It's like Indian masala, if you taste all the ingredients
separately and the final product, the final product doesn't resemble
anything that you've put into it. So it's like I'm calling it Indian masala because in
the end it works and that's all that matters. Please. Speaker: Namaskaram Sadhguru, the United States' response to the pandemic has
clearly exposed the many shortfalls of this generation. In many ways, it seems at least initially, that we
may be the first generation in this country's history to not rise to the challenges it faces. Is there any hope for Americans? And how with such a blatant disregard
for the importance of human life can we turn this country in a spiritual direction? It seems so far away. Sadhguru:Â You're throwing one
challenge after another to me, how to turn the India's corporate
into spiritual process, how to turn... People who are not concerned
about their life, not out of dispassion... Because their passions are entangled
so badly that it'll take away their lives. Well, we must understand, if you... I'm sure every one of you have seen something,
if you look at, let's say, the Wild West movies, many of them are timed between 1850 to 1900. That means just a little over hundred
-and-twenty, hundred-and-thirty years or hundred-and-fifty years at the most. If you look at America of that time, how it was and what they made out of it today, well, there are many ecological
issues all that, all that is fine. But as a nation, how it build itself, how it organized
itself has not happened out of fanciful thinking. A few generations of people toiled. Day and night they toiled; with absolute
dedication to creating something. Which nobody thought was possible to put
such a large mass of land into one nation. Well, cruel things have been done. Yes. But still, you have a nation organized to a
certain level of performance and well-being. I don't know, I'm not very good on American history, I'm trying to read some right now. Whoever... who said 'Ask not what
the nation can give for you' or... What? Participants: John F. Kennedy. Sadhguru:Â Oh! Hey the Lebanese... the Palestinian
and Lebanese people will say it came from there. Everything came from there! All the troubles. Is it true Khalil Gibran first said it? John F. Kennedy who said that? Not further back?
Not Abraham Lincoln or somebody, okay. So, whoever said this it matters, maybe it
came from Lebanon or Palestine probably. So, generations of people who
did not ask what they can get, but talked about what they can do for the nation from
there we've come to a generation born into comfort, born into too much technological conveniences. This happened, this happened early 20th century,
a man went to England. So he met somebody, and then in the
conversation that person mentioned, "Aristrocrats, we have aristocrats.
Do you have aristocrats in America?" Then American guy asked, "What is an aristocrat?" "Oh, you don't know what's an aristocrat? Aristocrat means they don't
have to work for their survival. Everything comes to them. They live on other people's work." "Oh, in America, we call them hobos. They don't do any work.
They live on other people's work." So unfortunately, from a hard working
America, a lot of them are becoming hobos. So no wonder they're even talking
about changing the economic system which demands you need to perform at some
level to a welfare system where everybody can... can wear your mask and smoke (Gestures). You know, the moment you use the word
freedom in your lexicon, you must understand this, you will become irresponsible. Responsibility should have been the word. Unfortunately, a generation
picked up freedom, freedom. Freedom means what? I will do what I like! If every one of us do whatever I please, well, we will have
a disaster, which we're having, unfortunately right now. Where some world leaders are going out to
describe United States as a primitive society. If you have not seen the news, some people are
saying this because unfortunately, it is happening. People are dying in thousands per day but
people are saying, "I want to have my hair cut." I have lived without a haircut
(Referring to his mane) for so long, hello? What's happened to us? Like one girl came on the television from,
I don't know, some University in Texas, young girl, she said, "The problem right now in the university is, Budweiser is more important
than their grandmother's life. That is a real problem." I think she in many ways she captured the unfortunate
spirit of the young people in America right now. I wouldn't say every one of them,
but a whole lot of them. See, there are times to sit back
and enjoy a few fruits of life. There are times to stand up and do the right things. If you don't know which is which
time then you will be a disaster. Unfortunately, a certain segment is going
that way from three, four generations of really hard working people who built this
nation from nothing, from scratch, to this point. Now, people who are here don't know how to
live, don't know how to respect all the life's toil that generations of people have put in. Generations of people have just
worn their life out to build this nation. But today, you don't even have basic respect for
them to preserve and nurture and enhance it further. If that is missing unfortunately, you're unworthy. Right now, don't be insulted, in the universities at least... I've been visiting many universities as part of
Youth N Truth; many professors have told me, "The only hard working students in the universities
are either Indians, Chinese, Jewish children, very small band of Americans." Well, they also may be Americans I'm saying because
they have other appellations, Asian-American, Indian-American, whatever, whatever. Those people who call themselves American in the
university, they're not doing great in most universities. Well, this is because we have
bred this culture of freedom. No, you need to breed the culture of responsibility. Where there is no responsibility, there'll be no freedom. Freedom will go away! Where is your freedom, when people around
you are falling dead you must have a haircut. Where is your freedom I'm asking. You're enslaved! You must go out and you know, have parties secretly,
and half the people in the parties are infected. Where is your freedom? You are terribly compulsive. It is time the American youth stand up,
at least respect the previous generations for what they have toiled for and
what they have created as a nation. It doesn't matter there may be many,
I can have a list of criticisms about America. But still, in many ways, almost the
whole world aspires to become like that. There's no question about that. Well, we can have a list of negative things about
America. Yes there are about every nation. But the important thing is a whole lot of
people would like to come and live here. That means they're aspiring for this. So, don't waste your time just trying to see
the negative underbelly of every nation. Every society has its ugly underbelly, always. But still, what somebody creates in terms
of positive nature needs to be appreciated, preserved, nurtured, enhanced. We don't even have the sense and sensitivity
that somebody else's life may be at risk if I don't wear a mask and blow
my cigarette smoke in their face. That much sense we must have. Unfortunately in the name of
freedom, we are losing our sense. Speaker: This question is from Harsh from Agra. "Namaskaram Sadhguru, it has taken nearly
three decades to resolve the Ram Janma dispute. With Ram Mandir Bhoomi Pooja just days
away, there's a lot of excitement in Ayodhya. Even though Ram was a king,
why is he worshipped even today? I want to understand how
Ram is relevant in today's times." Sadhguru: Well, because he's
from Agra, he's calling him Ram. Where we are from, we call him Rama. So we will not give up that 'a'. In case somebody just forgets that I'm South Indian, because looking at my name,
some people think I'm a Punjabi. My name and my... (Gesture) name and my mane both, they think I must be a Punjabi. No, no we call him Rama. I want to go further down to Tamil Nadu and
call him Raman then people will be confused. They may think that I'm talking about somebody else. Rama, see this is the beauty of this
culture, that there is no the God. There are qualities that we recognise as divine. In some human being displays
that we bow down to him, because we are bowing down
to the quality not to the person. This is something that most of
the world will not understand, because they have been psyched
with very dogmatic religions. What is God? What is devil? What is man,
what is woman everything is clearly defined. In India, nothing is defined. Because, you know, I told you masala... everything is
like that always evolving always things happening. This costs a lot of life and energy to keep yourself
disorganised and still move in one direction. But this is like a swarm of
starlets or like a swarm of bees. They... it looks like they're going nowhere but they're always going somewhere
they know where they're going. But for an outside observer,
it looks like they're going nowhere. So you must understand this, Ram or Rama, he's from Ayodhya which is where the temple
construction is happening because it's his birthplace. The temple is few thousand years old. Nobody knows exactly first temple what age it came up. Then developments happened,
developments happened over millennia. But about five-hundred years ago, it was demolished. Systematically a lot of temples were demolished
upon which other religious places were built with the same... using the same construction material,
pull down this and build something else out of it. So, Rama being an icon, you must understand he's
an icon, not a God because we did not call him a god. We called him Maryadapurush,
Purushottam;Â that means an elevated man. The very word Purushottam means an elevated man. Rama is always referred to as Purushottam. That means among the men,
he's above them, because he's so elevated. What is so elevated about him? Well, he went through trials and tribulations I will not
go through the whole works, but series of disasters. Serial disaster his life. He loses his kingdom, loses his wife, has to fight a war, then comes back again, loses his wife loses his children,
almost killed his children, endless number of disasters. Through all this, he goes through peacefully, blissful. Pain, but still blissful. On one level, on a personal level,
he has much pain which he expresses, but he never allows that pain to make any
decisions about anything that he is doing. Well, when a man acts like this,
we say his Purushottama because his uttama means an elevated one among the men. It's very important that he is a man, he was born in Ayodhya and died at a
certain age and went through all this life. Travelled through Indian geography, coming
down to South and again going back to North. After having killed his adversary,
a man who kidnapped his wife, and was living and ruling wantonly after killing him,
he comes back and goes into a year of repentance. So his brother asked, "Are you crazy? This is the worst kind of guy. You had to kill him. And now you want to repent.
What does it mean? Did we all do wrong?" So Rama said, "See, there are many negative things
about this Ravana but he was a great devotee. And he was a great administrator of his kingdom. He exploited everybody else for which I had to kill him. But he was a great devotee. For that I'm repenting that I killed a devotee." Well, this man needs to be emulated and
it's very important that this he is a man. If he becomes a god you'll hang him
on the wall and forget about him. Nobody tries to ever emulate a
god, you must undersatnd this. God means he is beyond emulation,
that is the idea of human mind. A man means, if he is doing really wonderful
naturally there is an aspiration in everybody, "Why cant I be like this?" So it's extremely important that he is a man. He was a king, he lost his
kingdom and again came back and walked away from all the wealth and pomp of
his kingdom just because somebody else was upset. His stepmother was little upset and she was
doing a little kuchu kuchu behind his back. He said, "If this is what you want, I will leave." Well, this man needs to be emulated, when people are hanging on to power
like crazy today no matter what, even if they lose a election they don't want to go. At a time like this, emulating
Rama is very, very, very important. So why is this temple important? The temple is important because in many
ways at least in the Northern part of the country, in South not so much... It is very much there but not so much. But in the North, Rama is their spirit. And five-hundred years ago when foreign invaders from
Turkey and some from Mongolia later on they came, and they systematically went
about destroying all the temples, which were ancient temple built a long time ago
which was the fundamental force for that society and put up whatever they wanted
to put up hurriedly on top of it. This dispute has been raging. This dispute has been in the court for I think,
if I'm correct about hundred-and-thirty-five years, since the British era it has been in
the court and going on and on and on because we have developed a certain kind of
wanting to be politically correct at any cost, unfortunately in the country, no judge
has been wanting to take a call on it. Everybody is pushing it so that his term is
over let the next one handle the trouble. Because two communities are fiercely
contesting as to whose property is it. But now the Supreme Court after a long process
of nearly three to four decades in the supreme court it's been going on. Now it came to a conclusion
looking at all the proof clearly, archeological proof clearly, clearly
more that hundred percent it suggests that there was a temple and it was pulled down
and hurriedly they put up a building on top of it. So they said, this must be built as temple. For the other community, they alloted another
piece of land close by within twenty miles... I mean twenty kilometers or something like that. They said you build your place there,
let them build their place here. So it is not just another temple,
it's a resurrection of India's spirit because it is not just one particular
denomination or religion who looks up to Ram. There is a whole lot of people, whole lot of people who
belong to other religions who also want to emulate him, who also eulogize him in many, many ways. So in many ways Ram, Ramayan, the story of
Ram has been so much a part of Indian ethos, so it is almost like a resurrection
of a damaged national spirit. So, I think it's a good thing it's
happening because otherwise unnecessary hatred against
other communities will continue. With this resolution, a whole lot of minds and hearts are
cooler which is a good thing for the future of the nation. And unnecessarily frictions going on
endlessly between two communities. So, I think one major problem has been setelled. So on 5th of August they are laying the foundation
stone and they are planning to build a grand temple. Probably in record time, because in the last twenty-five,
thirty years I think they have carved all the pillars, you know the columns, this, that, everything. Whatever the stone part of the work,
stone-work part has been all kept ready, stored somewhere else and they
will just have to assemble that. The rest of the structure should come up pretty fast. Hopefully in twenty-four months or thirty
months this grand temple will be up. And because of the virus situation they've
sent out only hundred-and-fifty invites. Otherwise probably ten-million people would be there; ten to twelve million people would be there for this
opening of the temple or even foundation laying. But only hundred-and-fifty invites are sent out. So rest is being live telecast, people can see it on
the television or maybe it's webcast I don't know so I think it's... I think it's a landmark in terms of
resolving disputes which continue for a long time, unnecessarily festering in a society like a wound. I think it should cool down many people. Now that you asked Ram question. Sadhguru chants These qualities of Rama if we have to encapsulate it; his passion for the well being of his people
was limitless to a point of self sacrifice, which is eulogized in so many ways, through Ramayan. So essentially, absolute passion for everything, total
dispassion for myself this is what he encapsulates. I think this is a quality all human beings
need to emulate, no matter where they are. Virus is testing you to see how
dispassionate are you about yourself and how passionate are you about every other life. Virus is checking. No way to escape, you know,
you can't bull yourself out of it. This happened in Texas, an officer from the FBI because they were suspecting
people may be growing illegal... Some time ago illegal when it
was still illegal to grow marijuana, illegal drugs they're growing
and making money out of it. So an officer came to a ranch where an old man over
seventy years of age but very fit and hardworking man. And he said, "I want to come and check your ranch. If you're growing any illegal
plants, which are hallucinogenic." The old timer said, "No, we're not growing anything
like that, we just have cattle and this and that, but no illegal something." "No, no, I need to check." He said, "Okay you're free to check, wherever you want. Except that one place" he showed a patch
of land and he said, "Just don't go there." So the officer got livid, "You telling me
where I should go and where I should not go. Do you know who I am,
and he pulled out his badge, the FBI. I am FBI, I'm a senior investigator. You're telling me where I should
go on where I should not go. With this badge I can go wherever I want to go." The old timer said, "Okay, I'm sorry. You can go wherever you want to go." Then after some time, he heard,
the rancher heard wild desperate cries. Then... From the direction where that patch of land was. Then he looked, then he saw the
officer running crazies for his life. With this super-stud bull chasing him. Then the old man ran to the fence, stood on the
fence pole and he said, "Show him the badge! Show him the badge! "Please don't flash your entitlements in
the face of the virus; it's non discriminatory.
