understand meaning of meditation, little space between you and your body - sadhguru

some sorta stardom would again raha sir [Music] me when I speak to my friends around here and whenever we talk about meditation or yoga this is man that's for the old people that's not for us and we're not very interested in it and one of my friends said I tried meditating and I slept so why is it that meditation and yoga is perceived as something for the old and not for the young generation and I got we don't meet this that is the kind of people they have met in the sense yoga means they saw all Yogi's who fell out of the calendars printed in Sivakasi you know in South India all right they thought Yoga means you're not interested in life that's it then do think I'm doing everything possible to change this perception many things young people am saying something physical you learn let's say you learn to ride a dirt bike let's say you learn to do skydiving let's say you learn to fly a helicopter let's say you learn to ski do something what you may take three years or five years to learn I will do it in three months at this age would you like to do that at an early age or when you're dying I'm asking you then you must do yoga I will tell you I got into yoga for all the wrong reasons but that is the beauty of life even for wrong reasons if you do the right thing it works I was just 11 12 years of age every summer vacation we go to our grandfather's ancestral home we're in the backyard there is a well which is about eight feet in diameter about 150 feet in depth water generally in summer will be at least 60 70 feet below the ground level so one of the sport for us young boys is to jump into this valve and climb up when you jump you have to go properly otherwise your brains will become a smear in the wall and to come up there is no step there is no foothold nothing just holding the rock you have to climb I remember just the sheer pressure my weight I was not very heavy but still my weight on just two fingers three fingers like this my name's would bleed out of sheer pressure not injury just hanging on to the rock like that with claws but I would do that and I was very proud that I'm good at it one day a man who is over 70 years of age simply standing there and silently watching us we ignored him because seventy means for us he was dead not now [Applause] perspectives of life will change at that time seventy means is gone but without a word this man who was over 72 years of age at that time he just walked to the well and jumped I thought he's finished but he came up faster than me I didn't like it then I asked how he said come do yoga like a puppy I went behind him because I found him so superhuman that he could do things that no young man could do so I got into yoga for all the wrong reasons so it doesn't matter how you get in which door you enter from it doesn't matter as long as you do the right things it works essentially what yoga means is this you use a cell phone what so if you have a cellphone is it true or any gadget the more you know about it the better you can use it is it so yes or no that's what your entire engineering is about to know more about everything so that you can use it better make it better isn't it why is that not true with this more you know about this the better you can use it anyway of all the gadgets gadgets that you find on this planet is this the most sophisticated mechanism on the planet do you agree with me if you don't agree with me then something wrong with you this is the most sophisticated mechanism on the planet isn't it why is it that you have not paid attention as to see what are all the intricacies of what this is what this means is you haven't read the user's manual but you want to blunder into the world so just education is becoming stress if you want to create something in the world you will see so many more challenges so education which is a simplest process of volume that is becoming stress this is simply because you do not you have not read the user's manual at all simply Samsung we don't know what will happen you must learn how to use it similarly this so if you know perfectly well how to use this then we say you're self-realized self-realized does not mean you went to heaven you know this perfectly well you know everything the range of things that this can do this is all I know in my life I know this piece of life from its origin to its ultimate people think I know everything that's their problem I know only this so there's a lot of talk about our country India these days so even in the world platforms we see that the things are improving but going to the past of India if we see the history of all civilizations we see that India particularly stands out very clearly when it comes to developing ways of this self experiential ways of realizing this inner truths about ourselves or knowing the body and the high truths through self experiential ways so what do you think was it that we were able to do properly that we were able to discover these things and and not just that we were not just able to discover but also like proliferate them into the social ecosystem what was it that led us into this essentially a long spell of peaceful civilized life a long spell you must understand this the reason why we got this long spell is in the north we were protected by the Himalayan ranges in the south by the Indian Ocean so this is Himalayan the Indian Ocean that we call today as Indian Ocean at that time was called as induce Agra this is why we took the identity he and do Hindus Hindu is not a religion not a belief system not a God God oriented thing it is a geographical identity unfortunately it's turned into many things today that's a different thing so we identified with these two geographical features because we realized it's only because of these features that we had an undisturbed civilization growing without any external agencies coming and disturbing us when there is a long spell for a human being where he doesn't have to fight for his survival on a daily basis that is when human genius flowers in many ways human genius flowered we produce the greatest mathematicians greatest astronomers that is musicians all kinds of people and many technologies we refuse to use simply because we foresaw if you go this way what will happen to the world various things if you look back in the glorious history of this country it is simply because which is true even today see you can build a great society or a great nation or a great world not by talking about it only by building individual human beings were truly great without great human beings where is a great society society is just a word nation is just a word world is just a word the individual human beings are the only reality what kind of people we are that's the kind of India we have isn't it so the focus right from ancient times in this country was always about individual development we never see this is why the Western commentators are missing the entire point they don't they think India never had a civilization because we never spoke about it we refuse to speak about society about nation we only spoke about individual development because if you generate great individuals we will naturally have a great society a great society is a consequence it is not the cause the cause is great individuals so our focus was always on producing great human beings never and producing a great society or a nation that happened as a consequence so so do you think that from ancient times till now do you think that things in India has changed so if they have but what brought us to the change we are here we are in and how do you see the this development process of great individuals how do you see that being manifested in the modern times if I may add how can how can these ideas it's something that I'm assuming that they're not so prevalent in today's systems I'm assuming that these ideas of individual development focus on an individual are not so prevalent in today's system bead ordinate or mass production yes yes so how can we actually bring them back and how should India then if I ask a larger question how should India's model of development be is it just taping the west or can we bring back those elements of individual development for anything to happen you need a certain ecosystem certain economic what to say a certain economic depth to for people to be able to do it you must understand this the generation that we were growing up our parents were just crazy that you must somehow get one degree and getting your government job your parents are not doing that they're thinking little more easy they're trying to explore things they want you to do a startup they want you to do a business they wanted to get into sport this was never there they were just saying get a job somehow otherwise you will be on the street this was the level of economics of the time today there is a little more economic space where parents are looking at their children little differently still we are little compressed in the heads but little more ease than what it was 40 50 years ago ask all your professors they were just pushed push get a job get a job first thing today parents are not looking like that they're looking at what can you create what can i what can our children create what can they live how would their happiness nobody ever thought about our happiness okay so it needs a certain economic depth for any society to experiment to have little more freedom to do things otherwise putting them through the extruder and getting them out in some form in which they are useful this is what the society will do this is a natural consequence of 15-20 generations of extreme poverty this is this mental structure and this economic structure is a consequence of 15 to 20 generations of extreme poverty very bad poverty means India has suffered poverty like nobody else people may show you no pictures of Africa and stuff you must know this in Africa they have been famines there have been wars unnecessary Wars and tribal wars which have caused this in small scale in India the level of malnourishment and poverty that's happened in the last two centuries is most painful no other nation on the planet has suffered as much as this country no other player country has lost as many people as we have lost in the last century just for hunger and lack of nourishment even today it is true though we are much better today even today unfortunately it is true that we have the highest number of malnourished people in the country more than 60% of the rural population even today they have not grown their skeletal system is not grown to full size when they're in that state you're only thinking how to make a living you are not thinking of how to open up human genius you are not interested in all that you are not thinking how to become self-realized you are only thinking how to make a living so this has happened to us because we've been an occupied nation for too long we've been ripped off in every other way there's no point blaming somebody we didn't take care of it at that time it went out of our hands but two hundred fifty three hundred years ago everybody wanted to come to India why because it was the richest country on the planet we occupied a 33% space in the economic space of the planet at one time today probably we are two or three so because of this extreme poverty we have a certain mindset but I think in a generation or in next 15-20 years a whole lot of people will come out of this because there's little more ease little more space to play with little more space to push it so as a part of this we are creating this space in many ways we have three types of education you know in Asia we have what's called as east of India which is in rural India which includes our own schools which are mainly focused towards teaching English language Computer Sciences regular academic education at a certain level bring discipline and well-being health and well-being nourishment which is most important in the villages and get them out of the village because to get out of that economic and social pit in which they are education is just a passport for them that's one level of Education another level of education we have what's called as Isha home school this is for the little more affluent people this happens inside the yoga center itself we have a huge tract of land and various facilities these schools are run in a certain way 20 children live with two dedicated house parents and everything the school itself is inside the house that's why it's called a home school only for playground laboratory and libraries they go out everything is inside the house this turns out expensive an expensive way of delivering education but this is done by dedicated people as a rule we never take any trained teachers we have doctors engineers accountants all kinds of people but no trained teachers because we want education to happen as an inspiration not as putting you know shoving down information down somebody's throat as an inspiration children should get that spark of wanting to know something there is a whole range of activity of theatre art music sport all kinds of things many of her I mean two three of our boys are now in professional football in Germany so like this they're going into various things this cool gives an enormous range of things and I made this now 11:12 i made it three years not two years three years i said one year extra because by the time they got get to leaven the whole lot of parents will get marks mad we have invested so much time in music theater and many many things now leaven standard comes and everything is dropped and they just start doing only trying to get marks so i said three years if you want you stay otherwise no the surprising thing is nobody wants to withdraw their children this wouldn't have happened twenty-five years ago everybody would have withdrawn their children now nobody wants to be do not even one child wants to be withdrawn everybody wants to go through three years for two years just as an experiment i announced this everybody is taking to it the idea is see indians wherever i go what i see is there in the best jobs they're running well they're highly qualified but they can't sing they can dance they can't paint they can't do any damn thing except going to work really this is an unfortunate thing there is no life so so I thought we must invest enough in the children before they get into professional colleges we have to invest enough in their art music sport variety of interest they must explore many things there's another school which we call as Isha sanskrit ii here if any child enters compulsory Demma stay with us as a commitment for 12 years only with that commitment we take the children here there's no academics they learn only yoga kalaripayattu which is the mother of all martial arts have you seen color if I - yes color if I - classical dance classical music Sanskrit language and English language this is all they learn you must see this children you won't believe they are a different set of human beings altogether here the focus is just this the developing human body and human brain to its fullest without a purpose I am doing this because this is how I grew up I grew up without a purpose there was beat his head and said what will this boy do he's not getting qualified for anything so I would say if I'm not qualified for anything I can do just about everything these children are growing up in such a way most amazing you won't believe it unless you see it I'm just to tell you an experience from age of 6 to 18 there with us after that if they wish they can stay otherwise they can go out and do what they want to do there are many things that they can do which we are supporting them to do from 15 to 18 they become monks for 3 years extreme discipline and focus very serious practices so before I initially this compulsorily they have to come out at 18 they cannot choose to be monks they have to come out at 18 because this we have allowed we have made them go into it as children when they become adults they must come out of it there is they cannot choose to continue so first batch I wanted to initiate now another is coming now in July the third one the first batch when I went to initiate about three years ago 60 days 15 year old children they have been on sixty days of silence morning 3:30 to 8:30 in the evening there in some kind of yogic sadhana minimum of 8 hours the keeping their eyes closed and sitting ok just another 4 days are left for the initiation I want to see how this boys and girls are doing 14 of them in the first batch I went there to seek morning 3:30 I went and sat in the room these eight boys and six girls were sitting there I will never forget this in my life they were just sitting there like that believe me they were literally glowing I sat there and wept because I have never seen children like this in my life I was not like this when I was 15 for sure beyond anything that you can think of simply because they are focused in developing the human mechanism to its fullest not about how to earn my living this is not a question when an earth one with one millionth of your brain can earn a living with such a big brain earning a living is it such a big problem it is the most it's a grossest way to approach life is how will I earn my living everybody can earn their living the only problem comes in your life when you want to live like somebody else that's a problem but earning a living is not a problem if you just make what is considered survival minimal don't go on exaggerating it then you will see you have a whole lot of time and opportunity to create what you want in your life but people keep on raising the bar of survival so much that they will not get to do anything in their life except surviving in the end they don't know why they survived [Applause] so I think there's a lot of curiosity in the audience also building up so unless you have some general comments to make we can open the floor to the audience you're all engineers that is having you we must understand this engineering means essentially to make things happen the way we want that's engineering isn't it to engineer this building means what we wanted the way we want it we could have sat under a tree but we choose to build this building because we want to sit under something engineered the way we want it are suitable for us we are conditioned the place because we want the temperature in a certain way all this we did but is it not important that you engineer this the way you want it hello outside is air-conditioned inside is boiling what's the point I am saying power is being wasted on you in the last hundred hundred fifty years with the advent of Science and Technology we have more comforts and conveniences than any generation ever could imagine is it so no I'm looking for a higher opinion again you have more comforts and conveniences than any generation could ever imagine we are the most comfortable generation ever physically materially but can you say are you the most peaceful generation joyful loving no or can you even say you're the most intelligent generation that would be wrong thing to say anybody who claims he is intelligent amounts to foolishness isn't it because the significance of intelligence is it shows you how many loopholes are there in your intelligence only a fool things there are no loopholes a truly intelligent person always sees how many loopholes in my intelligence the significance of being in a technological Institute he is not about just getting qualified to get some job somewhere or a passport out of the country it should become a way of creating life making life happen better than the way it's happening right now because this is a fundamental responsibility that we have as a generation of people because we occupy this space on the planet for a brief time when the last generation gave this planet to us whichever way they gave it it's our business that when we leave it we leave it little better than the way we had it very important how better in what way better you can decide that I won't say only ecologically better but in every way better it must be better than the way we got it this means we have to engineer ourselves to fit in such a way see a well engineered machine means least amount of friction is it at all it's a well engineered machine means what least amount of friction heavy friction means badly engineered isn't it isn't that the understanding so the fundamentals of yoga is this the fundamentals of yoga is in the geometry of physical existence if you understand the geometry of what this human mechanism means the body is the psychological structure is the chemical processes are the energy structures are if you understand the geometry of this and become capable of observing the cosmic geometry if these two things are well aligned suddenly your life hits off like a magic your life is no more a miserable drag but it's magical simply because you have gotten the right geometry of things anything that is geometrically perfect will functions absolutely smoothly and for a very long time this is something that you must do to yourself when you're young it doesn't matter what you want to do in your life one thing must happen your body and your brain should not come in your way they must work for you yes or no hello never your body and your mind should not come in the way of who you want to be right now for most people they themselves are a big issue when you are an issue how will you address the issues in the world if you really want to address the issues in the world this one should never be issue isn't it I am NOT the issue here I am never the problem if there are problems I will deal with it but I am never the problem this must happen to you isn't it please make yourself like this that you are never the problem you are always a part of the solution never a part of the problem right now [Applause] right now we have developed a certain attitude in the country a whole lot of people for every solution they invent a problem for every solution they have found a problem so there are people who are working for problems there are people who are working for solutions young people should stand up and become a solution for future generations to come and your own life to blossom because the greatest fulfillment in one's life is that you function in such a way that you could do something which is much larger than yourself this must happen this is the highest fulfillment of activity that you are able to do something which is larger than yourself only then you will see fulfillment in activity activity is one thing but most important thing is how you are people come to me like right now you are all saying your IIT is the problem so I'm inviting to iyc is a Yoga Center lot of people come to me and say Sadhguru this these are people who passed out that guru my mother-in-law from somewhere else is just don't know how to live with this person and my husband after all her son my wife impossible my boss is not even human like this it goes on then I tell them see don't worry your husband wife mother-in-law boss nobody will come here you're protected like IIT you I've I see also well-protected nobody will come here you just come and stay I'll give you a nice place to say food is good you don't have to do anything just be joyful that's wrong none of these tormentors are they just be joyful 24 hours you'll leave them in the one room you must see in how many ways they twist themselves out when you are alone if you are miserable you're obviously in bad company isn't it [Applause] so all the young people should do this to yourself at least with three days one week I will provide you that must be otherwise you can walk into the Himalayas but there there is no food and supply you know you will have to go searching I will provide you food everything just come spend some time not with any purpose simply if you sit alone for three days no television no book no texting simply by yourself let's see what happens you must know the nature of who you are you should not go on dodging yourself and one day you will explode into something you must know what is the level of madness you're suffering when I say madness if your mind is out of your control is that called madness in different in definition hello if your mind does not take instructions from you it's out of control is that called madness just try just today after this even just go sit quietly in your room just see what all your mind does you you decide don't tell anybody you decide what is the level of madness you're going through with this if you enter the world what will you create you will only create who you are isn't it you cannot do anything other than what you are what you are is what will happen to the world around you before you step out into the world is it not important at least you're this much equipped that you are not the problem if you meet a problem and get married we'll see but you are not the problem can you make this happen for yourself as young people that you are never the problem

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Length: 33min 30sec (2010 seconds)

Published: Thu Feb 01 2018