Yantra Ceremony with Sadhguru Isha Yoga Center – 22 Dec 2018
(Music)
(participants entering venue/hall)
(showing all the Yantras)
Sadhguru: Now that you are taking Devi home
– how powerful, how mighty, and how wonderful
she becomes in your house
simply depends on
how much you feed of your heart to her.
if you hold her
as the highest entity in your home,
not yourself, not your family,
but if you hold Devi
as the highest entity in your home,…
one who receives the grace of Devi need not ever fear failure,
disease, death,
all this will become a play.
(Lifetime Achievement Award by Maharashtra)
(State Marathi Journalists Association for
the nationwide Rally for Rivers campaign;
Award presented by Union Minister Nitin Gadkari
in Pune on 23 Dec 2018)
Nitin Gadkari (Minister of Road Transport and Highways of India): Respectable Sadhguruji,
your global contribution for rivers,
Rally of Rivers is just such a successful movement
which is going to inspire not only India,
but in the whole world.
Particularly
I am responsible for water resources,
river connectivity, Ganga rejuvenation, and
particularly the water is a subject leader
with my ministry.
As with your blessings,
we are trying to develop clean Ganga mission
and which is really a basic big challenge for the country.
You are absolutely correct,
without plantation we cannot save our rivers
and that is the main theme
behind the Rally for Rivers.
You educate the masses,
you inspired the people,
and you give them a very specific target
as far as the ecology and the environment is concerned.
As a one of your admirers,
it is a great pleasure and pride for me today
to have this Jeevan Gaurav Puraskar for you
from Maharashtra Rajya Marathi Patrakar Sangha
and it’s a great pleasure and pride for me
that I got opportunity to give it to you.
I am not so big man
but it is the blessings from your side to me,
this is only my feeling about it.
(Music)
Sadhguru: The most embarrassing moments of my life are moments of accolades and awards
but I must thank you for organizing this (Laughs).
A river is a live thing.
This great amount of work being done with the Ganga,
cleaning of the Ganga,
a lot of people think Ganga is dirty.
No, we are dirty people essentially (Laughs).
If human beings go to sleep
just for one year, in one flood season,
Ganga will clean herself.
So what Ganga needs is some responsible action from us.
Soil is the most important thing.
If we have rich soil,
there will always be enough water.
We as a generation of people,
are we committed to take it in the direction of solution,
rather than driving it towards a problem?
What is our gift to future generations?
At least, do we have the responsibility
to give this nation to the next generation as
our parents gave it to us?
Maharashtra has been a very proactive state
for Rally for Rivers.
It is the most proactive state.
We must congratulate you all for this (Applause).
As Gadkariji was mentioning
Sudhir Mungatiwar’s name,.
this man is fire!!
Without his enthusiasm,
these things wouldn’t have happened.
And of course the chief minister is backing him hundred percent.
And fortunately
In Maharashtra,
the forest minister and the finance minister are same (Few Laugh) (Laughs).
This has done wonders (Laughs).
We will be unfolding a project in Yavatmal,
the Waghari river.
We have chosen the most difficult place in the country.
This is considered the epicenter of farmer suicide.
There are variety of reasons for this.
But I am hundred percent sure,
if the necessary co-operation is there,
in five to eight years’ time,
we can make a complete turnaround of this region.
Every one of you who are proud Marathi people,
we have to demonstrate this to the world.
What looked like a hopeless piece of land,
we can convert it into a very rich piece of land
where people will live well.
We have created a detailed project report.
Our volunteers have been working for last eight months
on the ground,
literally meeting every farmer in the region.
Farmers are very eager,
and the government is very enthusiastic,
if all of you are with us,
I am sure we will make this happen.
Thank you very much (Applause).
(Christmas Song)
“Jesus said, ‘The kingdom of God is within you.’ Yoga is a method to Experience the Within.” –Sadhguru