Sadhguru: Here, sitting on the banks of river Salzach,
in Salzburg.
Well, I have some company here from the past.
At one time, I spent so much time just simply staring at the water,
and its endless number of forms that it takes.
In all these forms that it takes, and even in still water, like a glass of water,
I always noticed that maybe today
I'm calling them molecules, but I always saw the water particles changing shape and form,
and taking on many different dynamics, (Laughs) which people thought was crazy.
But here, at Salzburg, I have some company.
There was Viktor Schauberger in early 20th century,
who spent a lot of time watching many aspects of nature,
in that, water being one important aspect.
And he spoke about it elaborately, out of which many designs were made
as to how water behaves when it's moving.
For a superficial observer it's just moving - that's all.
If you pay enough attention, well... (Laughs) we are doing what's called as Samyama,
which is absolute attention. If you pay that kind of attention,
not only the form and energy that the water exudes,
the aliveness of the water, and the molecular dynamics of the water which is continuously changing,
depending upon which the water behaves differently in different lives,
differently in different human beings, how you treat it - 72% of your body being water.
How you treat it, how you perceive it, is extremely important.
This is the land of Viktor Schauberger.
Unfortunately, he was (Laughs) a bit too ahead of his times.
When the German occupation happened,
the Nazis saw him as a crazy person, or an insane person.
And they wanted to put him in an insane asylum.
Fortunately, his friends got him out of it,
and he died penniless in 1958,
just a year after I was born.
And here we are, because my own observations of water,
be it in many things - one thing that really resonates for me is,
when I watched river water flowing,
I saw many, many sizes and shapes of ellipsoids forming and unforming themselves,
and how they were exhuding energy; in many ways, these ellipsoids have ruled my life.
(Laughs)
It's very difficult to explain without being termed crazy - this is the whole problem.
Those who are stuck in the structures of logic,
any deeper delving into creation looks crazy to them.
After a thousand years, they come to the same things.
But, here we are - I would like to honor Viktor Schauberger
for his observations, unfortunately his troubles of the day,
for everything that he went through, but today,
at least a small segment of people are recognizing the significance of his observations,
the profoundness of his observations.
That's why I said many things are recognized a thousand years after it is done.
This is the unfortunate situation, at least in future
we must create situations where new things are welcomed, it doesn't matter how crazy it looks.
This doesn't mean everybody can come up with a crazy theory of their own,
but everybody should pay attention.
If we had paid attention - enough attention -
did I have to do the Save Soil movement?
Everybody would definitely know that soil is a super living entity.
Something that's alive, something that's throwing life out with such exuberance,
we can even conclude that it is inert.
This shows how we are trapped in the structures of our own logic.
Pay attention and be alive to the soil, because without soil being alive to you,
you would not be alive. Save Soil, let's make it happen.