Sadhguru: In the coming years, we may pay a much bigger price for it,
if we do not realize this.
We are coming to a point where
we are destroying the very source of our existence.
It is far more dire than people think it is.
We're trying to move over three billion people to say one big yes.
Well, I think it's a good time to observe ourselves, and see...
as a life, not as a person - that also is important - but as a life,
how organized is this life?
Because organization is not something
that you have to teach to any organism.
This is an organism.
When you put so many organisms together,
then you need some organization.
Otherwise, this need not be taught organization.
This is super organized, and...
this organization did not happen overnight;
this organization happened over a few million, or billion years.
So... it is a fantastic organization, this organism.
I'm calling this organism as an organization because
over 90 percent of your body is just of other organisms.
Only about 10 to 11 percent is the genetic material from your parentage;
over 90 percent is just other organisms.
But there is a cohesion, it is going on,
a whole lot of people, if there is no tragic situations,
they're managing to live a full life
with all this.
So, the Earth itself is a tremendous organism,
a living organism,
because there is a misunderstanding in the world
that an organism means an individual life.
A group of organisms means, it needs to be something else;
either it's a pack, or a pride, or a flock, something!
No, that's our way of seeing things,
that is the way of the human intellect which dissects everything.
That is the way of, unfortunately,
the modern systems of education, which has keyhole vision of everything,
sees everything separately.
I think we have paid enough price for it.
In the coming years, we may pay a much bigger price for it
if we do not realize this, and correct this perception,
and correct this narrative in our own minds and in our actions,
and the way we run the world.
That is, we don't understand that the planet,
the Earth, is a living organism by itself;
it lives!
This silly idea that if you dig here,
it is phosphorous, iron, copper, magnesium,
and nitrogen, and whatever...
No... because it's living, you're living.
Now, you're right now sitting on the open ground. (Chuckles)
You need to understand and feel this.
You cannot really understand because it's too complex;
too complex a process.
The greatest organization is right there, beneath you, where you're sitting,
because trillions and trillions of organisms
have managed to function cohesively.
That is organization.
If 100 people come together, they have so many problems.
But this is real organization,
where there is a whole plethora of activity happening.
Life is not happening because of a few chemicals put together.
If you make a chemical soup, that will not become life.
But chemistry is involved.
Well, just beneath the soil upon which you're sitting right now,
is an exchange happening,
more complex than any stock exchange on the planet, believe me.
Trillions and trillions of organisms
are gathering various nutrients, and minerals, and micronutrients,
and coming in search of roots, of plants, and grasses,
and variety of trees, and whatever vegetation.
And there, trading is happening.
They don't simply give away; they ask for carbon sugars,
as the plant captures the carbon from this atmosphere
and converts into sugar and pumps it into the soil.
The plant is also negotiating.
All these microorganisms are negotiating continuously
as to who gets more, who gets what.
And this transaction is going on in a super sophisticated way,
the way human beings cannot even imagine.
So this is an organism
of trillions and trillions of organisms, as we are.
This idea of individualism
has brought such havoc to the world,
has caused so much pain to human beings.
So this is something that human beings have to sell;
that is, the profound level of organization that life is.
It has come to this after millions of years of evolution.
If you... you cannot appreciate it,
because you have not even paid attention to it.
Like I've been all over the world in the last two months,
talking to various leaders and many people,
one common question I'm getting again and again is,
"Sadhguru, where do you get all this knowledge? Did you study environmental science?"
I said environment, the word 'environment,' is a crime.
Because instead of seeing that you are
just one more part of the larger nature,
you think you're separate from the environment.
This itself is a crime!
Once you have such a thought process, once you have such a perception
that you are above nature, or beyond nature,
then naturally, what is happening is happening.
What you see today in the form of degradation of soils, water sources,
everything that matters for life, everything that sustains our life,
is just a consequence of what's happening in the human mind.
We have not understood we are a consequence of all the other life that's happening here.
They are not a consequence of our life,
but right now we think that we are the masters of all that
because there is we, and then there is the environment.
There is no environment; there is living nature,
and it's a fortune that we are also a part of it.
It's a great fortune that we are also a part of it, and that's all there is!
So in trying to fix the world for our comfort,
we are coming to a point where we are destroying the very source of our existence.
It is far more dire than people think it is, right now.
The question is not about who caused what,
because always, movements have been run by creating an enemy.
This is what is unique about Isha,
that there is no enemy, but we are still busy all the time.
Because we know we are responsible for everything that's happening.
We may be directly involved, we may not be directly involved,
but we are 100 percent responsible for everything
that every human being does in this world, and everything that's happening and not happening,
because this is what consciousness means.
So next year is dedicated to creating a conscious planet.
The coming year as you know, we're trying to move
over three billion people to say one big yes.
I want to hear one big yes, simply. Participants: Yes!
Sadhguru: Yeah... so it doesn't matter what the hell it is, say yes, ah?
Participants: Yes! (Sadhguru chuckles)
Now 2022 we'll leave the damn world in a much better place than the way it is right now!
Participants: Yes! (Applause) Sadhguru: Let's make it happen.