Sadhguru chants Yoga Yoga Yogeshwaraya… Sadhguru: Namaskaram, namaskaram to everyone. US Sounds of Isha music – Cauvery Thaaye… Sadhguru: Well, our Nadhiveeras, or our volunteers
who stood up for river rejuvenation, have been striving hard during
this pandemic times, traveling village to village. This is the time we must
start the production of saplings. Well, the thirty-five or now thirty-seven
nurseries I think, are in full function, but that's not going to fulfill our requirement
for the 2021 plantations to happen. Everybody must understand that
these are not just plantations planted in arid lands. This is happening in farmer's lands,
private lands. So, the survival rate is over ninety percent,
because there is a subsidy from the government, which we got it, you know,
got sanctioned in the last two years, which is growth related – only if the tree is growing,
they will get the subsidy. So, these efforts have not slackened
because of the pandemic. A few of our Brahmacharis who are out
there in this campaign in Karnataka, well, got infected, and we had to start a small
seclusion hospital kind of, clinic kind of thing in Mysore, and now they're back
on their feet and again in action. Because this is the timing, we take eight
to nine months to make the saplings. Generally commercial farms take
three-to-four months to make the same sapling. And that is the world of difference, that the saplings need to come up
without nematoid nodules in its root system, which will ensure the long term,
well-being of the tree, and the quality of the tree in terms of its timber
and fruit and whatever else it produces, all this is determined by
how you raise the saplings. That is one reason why we are creating
our own nurseries, because if you… if you buy a lush-looking sapling which has grown
quickly because of chemical fertilizers, after four, five years, the farmer will pay
the price for having planted that kind of sapling, which may not produce
what you want it to produce. Anyway, this week has also been
about World Soil Day. I know I've said this many times,
but we want to repeat this again. More than eighty-five percent of life forms on this
planet from microbes to worms, to insects, to birds, to animals, to human beings and plants
and trees and every other vegetation on the planet is sustained by an average
of thirty-nine inches of topsoil. And that is in grave danger right now. Across the world, many studies show that we have topsoil for approximately
another forty to sixty years of agriculture. After that, we don't have
the soil to produce the food. It is estimated that by 2035, the food production
in the world will drop by twelve percent. These are not just numbers. As it is, we are producing more food than
this 7.6 billion people can consume, much more. In spite of that, one-third of the human
population is malnourished and hungry. If you produce twelve percent less than
what we actually need, ah... you can imagine what suffering
we will unfold in the world. So, keeping the soil… keeping the soil healthy is the most
important thing that this generation has to do, and Cauvery Calling is an important
demonstration, a large-scale demonstration of this. So, I once again beseech you,
I'm not here to ask you for donations, but one sapling costs approximately sixty-five
to seventy cents, if I'm right, the conversion. At least one sapling a month, at least one sapling a month everybody can.
Hello? Seventy cents. (Cheers/Applause) Seventy cents fall out of your pocket, many of you
can’t bend down and pick it up. (Laughter) Yes! Well, can I torture you with a poem? It's called the ‘Fall Guy.’ No I'm not talking about myself;
I am, but this time it's not about me. (Laughs) Anyway, thanks to our Lakota brothers and sisters who wove this rug for me and
they’re keeping me warm. (Cheers/Applause) Lot of children sitting there,
out there in the frost. It’s called, “The Fall Guy.” As snowflakes descend gently
to put much life to much needed rest. A layer of fallen leaf begins
to hatch a secret sauce under the cover of the white blanket
to regenerate life for a fresh start. A layer of leaf begins
to hatch a secret sauce under the cover of the white blanket
to regenerate life for a fresh start. The falling of the leaf, if you thought was a pity,
was only playing the fall guy to become nourishment to rise to the pinnacle
of the tree tops scraping the skies. The falling of the leaf, if you thought was a pity,
was only playing the fall guy to become nourishment to rise to the pinnacle
of tree tops scraping the skies. We had a certain amount of snow
out here last week. (Laughs) Well, the year 2020, slipping away,
December has come. 2020 as a year, just came in quietly
like any other river… any other year. But, by the second month,
it started showing its face. (Laughs) And since then, you've been
covering your face. (Laughter) Mmm, unlike wars, natural calamities, famines, year 2020 has been haranguing human
beings like nothing in recent times. Invisible, (Laughs) invisible to the eye,
doesn't seem to cause any problem around us, but still killing over a million-and-a-half people. And if you didn’t cover your face,
those numbers would multiply in a big way. Many things have happened. Lives and livelihoods have been lost, the way we relate to each other,
smiles are gone out of the world. Hello! Those un-smiling ones, you are the only ones
benefiting from this mask. (Laughter) (Laughs) Now we don't know in what state you are. We look… we have to look deep into
your eyes to figure out. (Laughs) So, I think, unsmiling faces are beginning to
become happy because nobody can see. (Laughs) So, many things we thought. People thought, if they clap their hands,
it'll go away; if you bang the plates, it will go away;
if you light lamps and candles, it'll go away. We made rules, “Mask up or pay up!” –
not much result, not as expected at least. Well, we said (Laughs) that, you know
many things people are doing around the world – prayers, chantings, looking up,
looking down, hmm, not yielding much result. There is more alcohol on people's
hands than in their gut these days. Must be causing a health revolution.
Yes. (Laughs) alcohol does not mean drinking anymore.
Alcohol means... (Laughter) maybe even I'm calling for alcohol many times so,
(Laughs) not for consumption, but you know... tch. How human beings transact is going
through a serious change. Well, handshakes and hugs are gone. Indians are happy, (Laughter)
Indians are happy. (Laughs) Many, many aspects of our life will
definitely be irrevocably changed. Now the whole world is waiting, holding its breath
for the magic-wand solution of the vaccine. Well, the Russia came up with Sputnik.
Well, America did not respond with an Apollo; instead, two private companies
came up with tch, a two-pronged attack. Very sharp teeth, both of them,
because one thing is it's very expensive and very difficult to store and transport,
because of the temperature requirements. You need to be at minus seventy degrees Celsius.
That's not easy to manage. It's going to be super expensive,
how we store and transport this vaccine. India came up with a cheaper option, which can… which can also be transported
at a much higher temperature, tch. So, what's the hitch?
Ah, the hitch is, it's a two-stage vaccine that you have to take one today and after thirty days,
another one; otherwise, it will not work. Get one billion people to go for two pricks
in… in a month’s time. Wow, that's going to be a lot of effort! That's not going to be easy at all. So, vaccine is not really a magic wand. It could contain things, definitely will contain,
but you can't wish it away. So, year 2020 will definitely leave an indelible
mark on the minds of this generation of people. They're not going to forget it. I don't think it will let us forget it so easily. So, how we do things, how we relate to people, how we eat and transact in the world, everything
has already changed, will further change. Even I have not traveled for months on end,
that's a change. (Laughs) I am… for the first time in the last forty years,
I have the pleasure of picking my clothes off a wardrobe. Always, I lived off a suitcase. (Laughs) So, we can either complain or adapt or create new situations, new possibilities. This is a choice, human beings have. But every other creature
seems to be happier than before. At least for their sake,
we must celebrate some. Hello? Because they all seem to be happy. People are saying, in big cities
that the air is cleaner, the sky is blue. It always was,
but city people were in a cloud. Either industrial smoke, automobile smoke
or cigarette smoke or if you're from California, more potent smoke. Some… one way or the other, if the machines
don't smoke us, we will do it ourselves. I'm not trying to tell you
what to do and what not to do. But I think, if you have not already learnt the lessons
of 2020, as to what to do and what not to do; early 2021 is going to teach you that. Ah... United States is right now going through
its third wave and the worst one. We are talking less about it,
because we've had elections. We do elections,
and we still don't know. (Laughter) We’re busy with that political stuff, and of course, there's been Thanksgiving,
and Christmas is coming. This is the first time, really, all this, you know
whatever gifts coming with Santa Claus or ah... you know, some wild animal
bringing things for you. (Laughter) For the first time, I think it's going to work because
that wild animal is called Amazon right now. (Laughter) It's definitely growing. (Laughs) And those of you who… who only walked in shopping malls, you have to
find other places to walk. Hello? (Laughter) If you must carry a bag to feel complete,
well, there are still rocks. You can carry because you must feel heavy
in the shoulder to feel satisfied. Hello? So, many adaptations, you will have to do. Well, people are busy, always trying
to judge whether this is good or bad. Nothing has ever been good or bad, in every situation those who are conscious, and
who know how to respond to a given situation, thrive. Those who refuse to respond to the realities
of one's existence, will suffer. Now, as if the pandemic, the virus
pandemic was not good enough, people are predicting mental pandemic,
suicide pandemic. In this year, in Japan, more people have committed suicide than
the number of people who died of this virus. If the virus doesn't succeed,
we will do it ourselves. (Few laugh) So, this in many ways, exposes
how human beings are living. They're saying, in UK between the ages of sixteen and
twenty-four, four out of every ten, in that population… in that age-group population, cause physical
harm to themselves at least once a month or so. They want to pull their hair,
they want to cut their hands, they want to bang their heads on the wall. See, this is not entertainment. Why I'm using the word, ‘entertainment’ is because anywhere you watch a television
or you see the movies, everywhere, it is being projected like this, ‘the best way to handle your
emotions is punch something, somebody if you get. You find somebody weaker then you punch them,
otherwise, at least punch a glass pane or a mirror or if you're stupid,
punch a wall or a rock or scream and yell and roll around
and throw things at everybody or nobody.’ Hello, this is becoming the standard
way of handling emotions. Hmm, all of you doing this at home? At least the crockery industry must be doing well. (Few laugh) Ah, in our cultures, right from our childhood,
if we get angry and something, first thing was just shut up and sit down;
if you're angry it's your business, all right? You deal with it; don't give it to
anybody else, just shut up and sit down there. Yes, if you… if you get angry at least
this much you must do. You have no business to get angry, because by being angry you cause more damage
to yourself than anybody else, most of the time, unless you're working in Hollywood. Generally, most human beings,
cause more damage to themselves, than to anybody else when
they're angry, most human beings. Only a few get to damage other people. So, do I have a right to damage
myself, after all it's my life? Well, you need to understand
your life is not your life. For you to be who you are right now –
well, leaving the nature alone – to feed you, to clothe you, to keep you alive,
to make you go here to there, thousands and thousands of people have worked,
to bring you up as a full grown adult. Yes or no? Huh? Somebody has to grow the food,
somebody has to spin the thread, somebody has to weave the clothing, somebody
has to make the various other services for you. So, do you have a right to
simply obliterate yourself? No. People may think
I'm infringing on their personal liberties. Life has liberty: to live. Terminating life, just like that
is not your business. When life becomes feeble, you don't have to put it
on a hook and hang it in the hospital forever, that's a different matter.
But you have no right… simply because you don't know how
to handle your thought and emotion, you want to destroy… because you don't know
how to handle your brains, essentially, you don't have to destroy
your heart, liver, kidney and spleen. Hello? That's what it means – because you
don't know how to handle one thing here, you cannot destroy everything else here. So, I think in many ways for this generation of people, the coming year could be a lot more inward looking and spiritually oriented than ever before;
for this generation of people. Because this generation of people,
we as a generation of people, all of us included, in many ways, we are… we have been living
more wantonly than anybody else. We have more comforts,
more conveniences, more technology, more possibilities, but ah we are not using
that to make our lives fantastic. We are using that to make our lives,
quite neurotic, many of them psychotic. When we're talking about
a mental pandemic, what is it? We were just on the edge,
and now we're falling off. So, the wisdom of life is – whatever life throws at you,
you can make something wonderful out of that also. This is where your intelligence matters. This is the purpose of you
being given an intelligence which is beyond the instincts
that other animals carry. I heard, there are lots of questions, so...
The question people are harassing me, “Sadhguru, I've been waiting for six weeks,
you have not answered my question.” (Laughs) I don't want to cause any harm to themselves,
so let's answer some questions. Speaker: This question is from Sarah from Leeds,
“People often use the expression, ‘you drive me crazy.’ With misplaced intentions, can a person actually
drive another perhaps more vulnerable person to madness or self-destruction? If yes, can we make
ourselves absolutely immune to such intentions? Sadhguru: Oh. Why Sarah? Sarah is it?
Sarah has not met anybody really wonderful, who drove her crazy.
I'm talking in a positive way. (Laughter) Somebody should drive you crazy, otherwise
what's the point of life? Hello? (Laughter) I'm self-propelled; I'm just driving
myself crazy, all the time. (Few laugh) But if you don't know how to drive,
somebody at least should drive you. (Laughter) No, no that's not the question. (Laughs) The question is about somebody driving you
towards insanity, making you really crazy. We're not supposed to use
these words: insanity, crazy, but I'm not medically qualified
to use the most appropriate words, because they have seventy-two descriptions for
various levels of mental degeneration of various sorts. So, can somebody push you into
a depressive state or a manic state, or even… you know there is… there is a law in India;
I don't know how it is here. There is something called as,
‘abetment of suicide’. You don't have to be physically there, you are sending
messages and somebody commits suicide, saying, "These messages are disturbing me,
so, I'm killing myself." All he had to do is throw the damn phone, (Laughter) but instead he throws his life away,
and you will be arrested immediately – ‘abetment of suicide’ is a serious crime,
up to ten years in prison. Well, you have to prove that your messages were
love messages, and they’re misunderstood. (Laughter) Try convincing a police officer
that this is a love message. (Laughs) So, can someone else push you off the brink?
Yes, if you are on the edge. See, if you're on the cliff edge,
somebody can push you off with a finger. If you're three steps away,
they need both their hands. If you're ten steps away,
they need to… takes two people to drag you. If you're far away, no more chances of falling off
the cliff doesn't arise in your life, isn't it? So, the question is
where are you sitting right now? Are you sitting in that aspect of you, which
I would refer to as, ‘the seat of your experience’? There is a seat of your experience
from where all experience is generated. If you're sitting there, in control, nobody ever can
drive you crazy; simply out of question. That's why I do it to myself,
you know? (Laughter) But if you get off that seat, then yes. Situations and people can push you into
very complex and difficult mental situations. Most of the time, when psychological
disruptions happened in the past, or even today, many, many, many people think that they are possessed
by some other force, or there is black magic. This is a common thing; hundreds of letters
like this coming to me every year, “Sadhguru, I am possessed.
Somebody has done black magic on me.” Well, I don't want to completely
take away that dimension, but that is minuscule,
rest is your own psychological thing. When psychological disturbances happen, the nature of it is such that it almost
feels like somebody is working from within, because you’ve never realized
how many dimensions are there to your mind. Human mind is a building with a million
rooms; every room, different kind. You may have created safety and security of your life
in such a way that you just live in one room. If you enter the next room, you will be
surprised; it doesn't even feel like you. Yes. It doesn't even feel like you. If you enter every
room… every… new room every day (Laughs) then you will know, all the nonsense that
you thought that you are, just is absolute rubbish, because you made up everything
for the sake of convenience. Because human mind is not a small possibility. If a building has a million rooms,
we are trying to build rooms and rooms. It's a lot of work, but if you have a readymade building with
one million rooms, is it an advantage or a disadvantage? Hello? It’s a tremendous thing. I have a building
with a million rooms, is a tremendous thing. But now, if you're unconsciously pushed into new
rooms, that is called as, “Psychological problems.” Can somebody push you into a new room?
Yes, they can, but it depends where you're sitting. If you're sitting firmly in the seat of your
experience, where experience is generated; you're in charge of that, then nobody can push you anywhere. Somebody else cannot determine
the nature of your experience. The nature of your experience alters itself,
depending upon how you react to that somebody else. From day one, (Laughs) I've been talking to you, talking to you, “Your ability to respond, you must take charge of it.” If your ability to respond is hundred percent in your hands,
nobody else can determine what happens within you. This does not mean you will become a dry stick. This does not mean there is no excitement in your life. This does not mean there is no love,
laughter, joy in your life. No. All this will become just available to you all the time. It's just that you don't need anybody's
cooperation for this. This is freedom. Hello? You don't need anybody's cooperation for you
to be joyful, for you to be loving, for you to be compassionate, for you to be ecstatic. You don't need anybody's cooperation, because human
experience is essentially caused from within. This is why I'm saying, “The coming year – 2021 can be
of great significance to this generation of human beings.” Ah, you know, tch, we built the yoga center here and in India. The idea is, people slowly turn inward. Well, many of them are doing wonderfully well, but... because for a lifetime they've been trained that unless
they mess with somebody, life is not complete! It's a social training. (Laughs) So, now I'm just seeing, in some way
your homes, your offices, the world, slowly becoming a yoga center.
Tch, people have to turn inward. I've been saying this… people keep asking me,
“Sadhguru, should I come and live in the ashram?” No, the important thing is,
you must turn your home into an ashram, not ashram into your home. (Laughs/Applause) Your home should become a spiritually
rich place – very important! Otherwise coop up everybody in
one place, it'll become like a chicken farm. Hello? (Laughs) Hey, you’re looking like frozen
chicken right now. (Laughter) Oh (Laughs) So, I know, this is going to infuriate many, many
people, because the governments are struggling; businesses are struggling; people are struggling. I want you to know, Isha Foundation also
struggling on various levels, but joyfully. That's our choice. Hello? Whether we have to struggle with situations or
not is not a choice right now, you have to because you have to transform many things that you have done,
which have worked well for many years, now you have to turn it upside down. But, see a child, have you seen, maybe
you also did, you know, once upon a time, you were also a joyful child,
you remember that? Hello? Because I see, (Laughs) parents are always happy when their children are
serious, eh, focused on some stupid thing. They're not happy if they find their children joyful,
hanging upside down in the room, eh? And they don't like the sounds of joy, in their home. Most adults, these days, it is been… kind of…
because of so many kinds of gadgets and instruments, people are trying to beat their melancholy with music –
dang, dang, dang, dang, dang, dang, dang, dang, – because all it takes is a machine to produce music now. You don't need any, (Laughs) any kind of sense
about, you know, weaving sounds together. You can set up a machine – dang, dang,
dang, dang, dang, dang, dang, dang. Have you heard? A lot of music like this,
all of you listening like that, these days. Nothing else, simply
dang, dang, dang, dang, dang. (Laughs) So, some dang, dang, dang is happening,
(Laughs) beating you know, the moods of the people
to some extent, and it's plugged in, so that others need not suffer that music. (Laughs) Because of that they are little wobbling like that. But anyway, the neurologists in the world are saying, “This constantly plugged in music is causing
serious damage to your neurological system,” you know this? Tch, it's eating up your brains. Well, at least if you feed it to the birds,
you know, some life would be nourished. Now ah, these types of moods,
over 22,000 people were surveyed in UK and they found sixty-five percent of the people,
in a week's time of their experience, every week, one week… in one week at least one day for the whole day,
they're either irritated or depressed or angry or resentful, at least for one full day,
in seven days. Must be a Monday I think (Laughter) or maybe a Saturday – maybe it's at home! (Laughs) Well, probably in United States if you take
the same 22,000 sample, the numbers may not be sixty-five percent,
I would lower the percentage. The reason is you are not cooped up on an island,
though you're called a Turtle Island, you know. It's a vast continent, so you have space
to freak by yourself. Hello? You've space. But where… if you coop them up in one house or
in more concentrated population, you will see that how many people are at the edge. So, if they are at the edge, somebody comes
and does this, you will fall off. So, can somebody drive you crazy?
Both ways, positively and negatively, they can. It's a good possibility. But does a human being have a choice of remaining
absolutely sane and acting little crazy? Yes, we have. You must exercise
the choice to be absolutely sane, but act little insane, just for fun, tch, you know. (Laughs) You don't need somebody
or a drink or a drug to act insane. Because there is somebody here, there is every
kind of chemical here. Hello. So, self-help is best help, they were saying,
you know, though prob… at least the previous generation was
always saying self-help is best help. Speaker: This question is from Mita from Baltimore, “Namaskaram Sadhguru, my profession
includes lots of research on tax laws, which are constantly changing over the years. Most of the time I'm thinking in my sleep, even though
I want to keep my brain relaxed. (Sadhguru laughs) Looks like kriyas are helping since couple of years. My question is, does all this thinking
add up to my karmic baggage?” Sadhguru: No, I want to know, in the end
are you paying or not paying? (Laughter) If you are thinking so much about the tax laws,
maybe you have found a way not to pay. (Laughter) If you have found a way, well, there are so many
people who wants to know what is that way. (Few laugh) Hello? (Laughs) Everybody wants to know. So I'm saying you have a great possibility. If you (Laughs)… if something
is keeping you up in the night, in the morning you must deliver
something, isn't it? (Few laugh) Hello? Taxes are taxing, I know that. (Laughs) Well, governments get elected
constantly promising change in tax laws. Why can't we make up our mind – what are the taxes for
the next, at least twenty-five years, if not hundred years? Next twenty-five years, this is the taxation, so that...
You know, all the consultants will go out of business. It has to change to keep the economy up,
to keep you confused. Why can't we just decide,
especially in a developed economy, at least for twenty-five years, this will be
the tax laws, this will be the healthcare? Hello? No, no. Otherwise, what is
the election issue? (Few laugh) How to campaign for the election? Same things over and
over again – I'll change the tax, you change the tax. If it's a developing economy, maybe as the development
happens, some tax laws have to change; that's understandable. In a developed economy, I don't see why tax laws should be
changing all the time and keep you up in the night, tch. The important thing is nobody should
understand the laws. (Few laugh) That is when so many people will thrive. Anyway, this is about karma;
this is not about taxation, okay. But you must understand
karma is a tax. (Laughter) You… you do certain activity – physical, mental,
emotional, energetic; activity always happening – how much residue you carry is karma. In a way if you earn hundred dollars in United States, am I correct, thirty-five to forty dollars
you have to give it away? Tch, hello? Is it correct? Nearly forty dollars maybe. So, one way not to pay the tax is don't
earn anything beyond Social Security. I'm saying, in karmic terms,
a lot of people are trying to do that because, “I don't want to gather karma,
I won't do anything.” (Laughter) No, no, that will become your karma. You had hundred dollars and you paid
forty dollars, that means you still have sixty. If you don't have anything, they give you
five dollars to go by, that's not a better life. So “I don't like to pay taxes, so I won't earn anything,”
is not really an answer to life. “So I don't want any karmic substance,
so I will not do anything.” But if you don't do anything physically,
in so many other ways you will do. See, even in… in sleep, you're calculating tax, not paying tax, (Laughs) just thinking tax. (Laughs) Paying tax happens only once a year, thinking tax happens the remaining
three-hundred-and-sixty-four days, for many people. There is a beautiful poem or a verse
written by Allama Mahaprabhu, I think. Among those three four sages who are there. He is talking about – I'm not able
to repeat that; it's a Kannada poem. Ah... he's talking about how a man who does not
want to pay tax for the grain that he's carrying, goes round about,
but there's a little hole in the sack. He's carrying the sack and walking. And he does not take the pathway,
and he goes round about – off road. But by the time he reaches there,
his whole sack is empty. He could have just paid
a couple of bushels and gone on. But instead, he went through the rough terrain. And by the time he reached there, the sack is
empty, but he was getting happier and happier because he... you know, the load was
getting lighter and lighter. (Laughs) So initially if you avoid activity,
you feel wonderful for a few days. But after some time, you understand
you have no access to anything. You have no access to life in
so many different ways. So taxes are good, only because either
willingly or unwillingly you pay the tax. Even in a remote place in Tennessee,
roads are good. Hello? Hello? You came without any problem; otherwise, you had to come
in a ATV from Nashville or Atlanta. Tch, that would be very taxing. (Laughter) If you don't pay the taxes that's what happens. You will need a ATV to come to this place. (Laughs) So, taxation is another matter, but not very
different from karma – that's a good question you asked, because karma is the tax of life;
it gathers. Well, how much you gather
depends on how you do it. See, the misery of last year's tax,
you can carry into this year or... because, giving forty dollars out of
hundred dollars ah... tch, little painful only. Hello? Yes or no? It is for anybody,
but you come to terms with it. All right, the roads are smooth, in case
they don't do the roads, you can complain, hmm? If they don't deliver some other service,
you can complain, you can take action. In that sense, you make up for giving away
forty percent of what you earn, tch. Anybody giving forty percent of your earnings, hurts. But you look at the larger perspective, in every given society, there are people who are not
as competent as you are; they also need to be served. But we must also ensure
that population does not increase. Hello? Taxpaying population should increase. Those who don't earn and
don't pay tax and think they are free, when actually the rest of the population
is bound by their irresponsible life. Hello. Yes, the rest of the population is paying for you. This came up, you know, this is… this is a huge
debate in Isha Foundation at one time. Because initially I also
seemed to have this problem. When I first started the programs, ah... I was very allergic to collect any fee. So, first two-and-a-half years I spent
all my savings and taught classes free. After the two-and-a-half years it got over,
then I said, “See, pay for the expenses.” We were so (Laughs) puritanical about this. Suppose you pay the fee
and the last day, we'll give accounts. The hall rent is this much; microphone rent is this much;
carpets is this much, this much, this much, this much. And this much money is left – this money
we will call an orphanage or an old-age home, somebody will come and we will present
that and we have not taken a single rupee. (Laughs) We… we were that puritanical,
so we've come a long way. Not that we have become corrupt. We are able to serve millions of people
today only because there is an understanding that certain things need to happen in certain
way – not according to your ideology or your ethic, but in terms of practical sense
things need to happen in a certain way. Otherwise, nothing will sustain itself. One way was for me, after my savings ran out, I could have given up and gone back
into some business or profession, make money and again come back and teach. Well, that would have taken away five,
ten years of my life. So, I'm saying, everything has a tax, tch. You got married, is there a tax or no?
That… that guy. (Laughter) She's not here, so boldly. (Laughter) You remain unmarried,
is there a tax or no? – There is. You do this, there is a tax;
you do that, there is a tax. The question is what type of
tax are you willing to pay? So, karma… If you lie down in your bed
and think about your neighbor or your wife or your husband or your children or government
or tax or politics or the… about the cosmos – all of them will extract serious tax because
when you sleep, you're supposed to just sleep. Don't think if you're thinking about God,
you will get better results in the morning. No. Whether you're thinking about
heaven or taxation, anyway in the morning you will be sleep deprived
and miserable. (Laughs) Hello. So it's not only about taxation – right now
your engagement is taxation, I hope you come through a breakthrough…
you come to a breakthrough that you will have some kind of a magic solution for all these
people who are painfully paying their taxes, that you will come up with a solution
how not to pay taxes. There’re whole lot of people talking
about it these… (Laughs) in the country. So, if you figure that out, well, you will have lot of taxes
to pay because you will make a lot of money. (Laughs) So at least come up with something,
otherwise don't break your head in the night. Will it accumulate karma?
Of course. I'm telling you, any unconscious thought
that you generate, you will generate karma, because unconsciousness is the basis of karma. It is in your unconsciousness that you have arrived
at what is good, what is bad, what is right what is wrong, what is up, what is down –
this has happened because you are not conscious, you are trying to figure out life
with the silly little intellect that you have. I'm saying silly little intellect, not because it's not
sharp, because it’s sharp, I'm saying. Because knife is a cutting instrument – if you try to stitch
the pieces of your life together with a knife you will be in tatters, so tax or
no tax, you will be in tatters. Life is taxing, isn't it? Hello? Life can be an exuberant wonder
or it can be taxing. So that is karma. If you're feeling the tax of life, well, you're definitely
accumulating karma, no question about it. Oh, I think they're all getting frozen
out here, but in India they are saying, “Sadhguru, little more, Sadhguru don't close it,
don't close it.” Is it okay for you? Participants: Yes.
Sadhguru: Just a few more minutes. You know, you have to keep the Indians happy because
they have to take two shots, you know. (Laughter) Speaker: This question is from Raiza,
from Mumbai. “Is it possible for one to be inclusive in any moment
regardless of one's karma or energies?” Sadhguru: (Laughs) Well,
inclusiveness is not an idea. Right now it may be for you.
You're trying to be little more inclusive. Inclusiveness is not your idea. This is the way the existence is. You may reject the person who's sitting next to you, but you may be inhaling
what they're exhaling. Hello? You are actually,
because the same bubble of air, which we call as atmosphere, has been
around for millions of years, same air. I'm saying… saying
all of us are on re-circulated air. Thousands of people or trillions of people
or countless number of people, for thousands and thousands of generations,
have been breathing the same air. I want you to know even the toad
in the pond breathes the same air. Hello? Toad, you know, you are breathing
his exhalation also. Yes! So, I'm just talking about your breath,
but in every way, from your breath, body, food, soil,
water, air, to the subatomic particles, every one of them know
that life can only be inclusive – only you, who has got
a sanatorium up here. Hello. Your mind is a sanatorium
because it’s exclusive. Now, ideas of inclusion are coming
tch, ideas. Once in a way… going back to the first question –
when somebody drives you little crazy in a positive way, then you want to include them. If they drive you a little more crazy
then you want to exclude them. This must have happened to you, isn't it? The same person
who drove you crazy in a sweet way, after some time
drove you crazy in a very bad way. Happened to you or no, tch? (Laughter) Let me tell you, this happened. A judge… judge, you know, who takes decisions on people's lives – who should live,
who should die, who should hang, who should walk, who should go to prison,
who should be free – all these judgments. If you're a reasonably sincere human being,
you know, there are no absolutes about these things, tch. Some struggle will be there within a human being for
hanging somebody or imprisoning somebody, you know, unless you are a total
fanatic, you think, “Yes, he must hang.” Otherwise, there is a little struggle
as a human being. So to beat this one day,
Judge O'Brien, got really drunk. And he came home very drunk,
and he puked all over himself. He was in a mess, but he came and slept. In the morning, the moment he was little
more stable, he was very embarrassed. And he told his wife, “You know I was coming by train,
and this guy sitting next to me puked upon me.” Then he left for the court, then he knew what
he said to his wife was not convincing enough, so he called her and said, “Can you believe this Mary?
You know the guy who puked on me yesterday, today came to the court, and
I gave him thirty days." Then the wife said, “You better make it sixty, because he also did shit in
your pants.” (Laughter) Inclusive, you know. (Few laugh) Inclusiveness is not an idea, not even
an ideal or not a philosophy of yours. This is the way life is happening;
that is the only way it can happen. If you are in tune with life around you,
if you're in tune with this life, if you know how this is happening right now,
you will naturally be inclusive. If you are living in your sanatorium
then you will be exclusive. Sadhguru chants Brahmananda Swaroopa…
