Sadhguru: So, Shankaran Pillai went to Goa, and he was walking on the beach.
There he found something sticking out of the sand.
Just out of curiosity, he bent down, pulled it out, and it was a lantern.
He took it, and just polished it with his shirt just to clean it up,
and the moment he did it, lo, the genie came. [Laughter]
The genie came, and stood up and said, "Okay, ask your 3 boons.
You have liberated me, so you have 3 boons. Ask what you want."
Shankaran Pillai looked at this, "Wow! 3 things... wow."
Then he said, "I want a red Ferrari."
So, right there on the sand, a red gleaming Ferrari.
Then the genie said, "Come on, come on, what's the second one?"
Shankaran Pillai said, "I want 10 million dollars.
10 million neat, crisp currency in the back seat of the Ferrari."
The genie said, "Come on, what's the third one?"
Shankaran Pillai said, " I want to be irresistible to women."
He turned into a box of chocolate.
[Laughter]
So, when...
when something is so dear to your heart, I don't wish to disturb that.
See, I'm made of chocolate. Can't you see dark chocolate? [Laughter]
So, the chocolate by itself is not harmful.
Unfortunately you're taking too much of sugar with it.
That's the reason why it causes so many problems.
Chocolate eaters have a lot of trouble
because the volume of sugar that they're taking in.
If you could eat just chocolate, uh...
it is a certain kind of stimulant, a very strange kind of stimulant.
It has its positive values, and...
actually, your brains could work. Really.
Your brains work a little better if you're taking cocoa.
Not with so much sugar. Sugar spiced the whole game.
If you're just taking cocoa,
if you're taking cocoa seeds and chew up on it,
once you get the hang of it, it's nice.
The chocolate cocoa seeds, if you chew on it, it's very, very good.
Pepper – black pepper – and the cocoa seeds have something very similar.
In India we use honey and black pepper in combination for a variety of problems,
variety of problems that people have, and it produces miraculous results.
Cocoa also has something similar, without the sting in it.
There is also 100% chocolate available,
but maybe most of you won't like it because it will be bitter.
If you can take it without sugar it's fine – or with minimum sugar, fine.
But generally the chocolate that you buy in the market is loaded with sugar.