Sadhguru: Soil is not our property.
It's a legacy that's come to us from previous generations, and we must pass it on as living
soil for future generations.
If we do not do this one thing, future generations will look upon us as a very irresponsible
generation.
(Laughs) I'm sixty-five and I'm riding 30000 kilometers; (Laughs) not a joyride at this
age.
Well, I thought, before I'm too old and no good for anything, I will do my bit.
Every one of you, let's do our bit, and let's make this happen.
Sadhguru: It's a great pleasure for me, these beautiful Caribbean nations are going for
this first.
Participant: Save Soil.
Speaker (Hon'ble Gaston Browne): This Memorandum of Understanding that we have signed, it will
also bring some technical assistance to the Caribbean region.
Sounds of Isha music - Soil Song Lalale Lale Lale...
Sadhguru: This is a historic moment, because here is the first step to turn around.
Participants: Save Soil.
Let's make it happen.
Speaker (Lord Bilimoria): You are probably one of the most famous Indians, and what you're
doing today is really important because people like you who have a wonderful following of
millions and millions of people and what you're doing with that is so important with saving
the soil.
Sadhguru: If you want to say, "I love you" to your child, you must just say, "Save Soil."
Because it is a more committed way of saying I love you.
Speaker: Every single one of us needs to get behind this really, really important mission.
Speaker (Baroness Patricia Scotland): It's an extraordinary campaign.
It echoes what we in the Commonwealth have been aspiring to do for a number of years.
Sadhguru: Next hundred days from 21st of March, we want the whole world to talk about soil
(Cheering/Applause).
It is not about the motorcycle, it's not about the journey, it's not about the song, it is
about moving people on the planet.
Make it happen.
Hmm?
Participants: Let's make it happen.
Participants sing Lalale Lale Lale...
Speaker (Carice van Houten): Nobody spoke about soil like Sadhguru does.
I think, if we all contribute, then we have a really strong voice.
Speaker: There has been so much excitement and everybody is
so excited to hear Sadhguru.
Participant (Child): Save Soil.
Save Soil.
Save Soil (Laughs).
Sadhguru: This is our time on the planet.
What we do here is our business.
Let's do the right things.
Speaker (Toni Garrn): I honestly didn't feel a part of the movement before.
Obviously, I'd never met him.
Seeing what kind of a following he has and how impactful it is, I really feel like I
just joined a global movement.
Sadhguru: Graffiti artists supporting this Save Soil movement, wanting to inspire the
youth, and youth being the major population in most parts of the world today - all graffiti
artists, to whatever walls that you have, make sure that you use this.
Participants sing Lalale Lale Lale...
(Cheering)
Sadhguru: One of the most beautiful cities of Europe (Cheering).
Speaker: It really resonated with me - the message that we have to save our soil.
Speaker (Eva Volfova): It's our common issue together, it's not for one nation, for one
person, but we as people have to unite and to solve this.
Participants sing Lalale Lale Lale...
Sadhguru: This is a celebration of human beings coming together, to do what they need to do.
Sadhguru: Had a wonderful meeting with the Agriculture Minister of Slovenia.
Participants sing Lalale Lale Lale...
Sadhguru: (Speaks in Slovenian - not transcribed) (Cheering).
All of us have been part of this destruction.
The only way is, all of us become part of the solution also.
Participants: Yeah.
Thank you Sadhguru.
Thank you.
Sadhguru: Riding on to Italy.
Italy is raining heavily tonight.
Here in Venice.
Participant: It's like a wave of hope.
Participant: It's necessary for the future.
Sadhguru: Over 2000 years ago, this eternal city made the mistake of over-farming the
region, and the erosions that caused, did tremendous damage and that was also the fall
of this city at that time.
So, the Romans of today should never make that mistake once again.
Speaker (Maria Helena Semedo): And we are very happy that we are aligned in our message
to really (Sounds like - high?)
(Highlight?)
the profile of soils, and we believe, that is very much needed.
Sadhguru: Young people getting into farming is very good.
That's the future of the world.
Speaker: Thank you.
Sadhguru: Here we are, in Geneva.
Speaker (Stewart Maginnis): I think there...
it's a message of urgency, but it's also a message of hope.
So, I'd really like to thank Sadhguru for his leadership.
Speaker (Nadia Isler): The global movement led by him addresses the soil crisis by mobilizing
people around the entire world.
Speaker: It touches your heart, you know, and his message is strong.
Sadhguru: This massive fountain in the lake of Geneva is lit up for Save Soil today, with
Save Soil colors of blue and green; you cannot stop this, the moment is on.
It's going to be on till the policies are done.
See, when people want it, it definitely will happen.
There's no question about it.
Tell me, will it happen?
Participants: Yes!
Sadhguru: In this cold, slippery road and winds are picking up speed.
No matter what the hell, I have to keep going.
You think this is a problem - relentless commitment to what you do; that is
the only solution.
Save soil.
Let's make it happen.
Speaker (Jawed Ashraf): We already have one action, which is an MoU to be signed between
Isha Foundation and 4per1000 Initiative, Soils for Food Security and Climate, for co-operation
in achieving our objective of creating a healthier soil (Applause).
Speaker (Paul Luu): We were just sharing exactly the same objective - increasing carbon content
in the soil.
Speaker (Jean-Francois Soussana): I'm really humbled by your campaign, Sadhguru.
What you're doing is really impressive.
Speaker (Claire Chenu): First, I would like to... to thank Sadhguru for this campaign.
I'm quite amazed and thrilled by it.
Speaker (Louis Saha): I was very honored to be on the stage and be able to actually express
that, that his mission is what we need.
Sadhguru: It's fantastic.
France has been great.
Sadhguru: Well, Brussels.
Speaker (Maciej Golubiewski): Let's put together and work on a common message for all just
to save the resource that determines our future.
Save the soil.
Participant: We should all stand up and make the most impact we can to create the real
change in the world.
Participants: _____ (Unclear).
Sadhguru: And then, a smashing evening at the (Laughs) main event, and a super enthusiastic
crowd committing themselves to make this happen.
Participant: This is heartwarming to see everybody come together.
Sadhguru: Save soil, on the move.
Let's make it happen.
Sadhguru: Just look up the news and see, in the last four months how many governments
have started talking about soil, because they see it's picking up momentum.
But if you create three to four billion people talking about soil, that's it.
That will be the main conversation in the government.
Speaker (Ibrahim Thiaw): Save the soil is a very important movement that we support,
as UNCCD.
We would like to propose to the world to do whatever they can to protect the soil, because
it is our future.
Sadhguru: Save soil!
Let's make it happen.
Sadhguru: The Education Ministry in Germany has now come into the picture officially and
asked all the children to do artwork to support Save Soil movement.
Child sings Lalale Lale Lale...
(Cheering).
Sadhguru: Good Arjun, wonderful.
Congratulations, that you wrote to the Prime Minister.
Participant (Arjun): Let's make it happen.
Sadhguru: So, on the way to Bratislava.
Well, the road surface is not great; too many puddles of water.
So, can't maintain very high speed.
It's great that all of you are here in Bratislava.
Nobody ever imagined hundred years ago, that we will have to save soil, of all the things.
Speaker (Martin Kovac): Thank you for coming to Slovakia.
It is a wonderful (Sounds like - moment?).
I am very happy that... with your campaign.
Speaker (Rozina Wossala): Would you like to come in the kitchen, and cook with me a little
bit?
Sadhguru: Why not!
Without soil being rich, food won't be rich.
Without food being rich, our bodies will not be of full potential.
What do you call this (Rozina Wossala laughs)?
Speaker: It's a Sadhguru salad (Both Laugh).
Sadhguru: Table twelve (Rozina Wossala laughs)!
Sadhguru: The old heroes always built something which stands up like this.
But the new heroes are those people who will nurture the soil which always lies beneath
our feet - never stands up (Cheering/Applause).
Participants sing Lalale Lale Lale...
Sadhguru: Aw, this wonderful city of Belgrade!
The UN FAO said something which really deeply hurt me is, the soil that we are consuming
right now belongs not even to these little children, belongs to the unborn child.
This is an expression of our love and responsibility for our own lives and the future lives (Applause).
Participant: I love the message that he sent and how he like broadened it, that it's everybody's
responsibility.
Speaker (Borislav Sandov): I think there is a great potential for a good collaboration,
partnership with the campaign Save Soil and what we are doing as a government, we can
make it together.
Sadhguru: It's very important, bringing a certain sense of love and celebration towards
the land that we walk upon.
It's just afternoon but temperatures are around two degrees; morning it was below zero - not
a weather for motorcycle for sure.
Ah, going from Sofia to Bucharest.
Sadhguru: Organize yourself whichever way you want - form groups, come together somehow
and see this happens.
Participant: Sadhguru reminded me that I have a voice.
Speaker: The people from Istanbul were really amazed by Sadhguru to appear, and they were
just so happy to see him (Applause).
Sadhguru: These many people, if all of you are committed, and you spend fifteen-twenty
minutes a day to enhance the message, I think I don't have to go on riding like crazy.
Yesterday I rode eighteen hours, can you believe this, through Bulgarian roads?
Participant: It's a honest expression of his wisdom and love for humanity, I think.
Speaker: He'd been riding through very, you know, rough terrain, rough... rough roads,
dusty construction sites.
Speaker: It was a long drive and we were getting a little late for the live event at Tbilisi.
Speaker: He, right at the end, maybe five minutes before the event, decided that he
couldn't stop for a break.
Speaker: In the traffic, he was just removing his jacket and gloves and throwing in the
car, just to make it on time.
Sadhguru: The whole purpose of this movement is to first to bring this home, that when
you walk up on the soil, you know it is the source of your life.
Keeping it alive is the most important thing (Applause).
Will you make it happen?
Participants: Yes.
Sadhguru: We could have touched, or we...
nearly about 1.2 to 1.3 billion people have spoken about soil since 21st of March.
But that's not good for us, we want three to four billion people (Applause).
Participant: He's a gift from God, for... for the people, for the earth, for the soil.
Participant (Child): We must save the soil, we must plant the trees, we must replenish
the forests, we must save our planet.
Sadhguru: Wonderful.
Thank you so much for standing up for soil (Cheering/Applause).
Sadhguru: Right now, soil has turned into sand because we've pulled out all the organic
content.
We're taking the life out of the soil.
If we don't put that back, all the other concerns which are important to be attended to, but
none of them will matter (Cheering).
Participant: This is not for us,; this is for him and his generation, hoping that they
would have a better future with a better world.
Save soil.
Speaker (Ron Malka): Well, it's very impre...
I can tell you as a motorcycle driver, I also like motorcycles and it's not easy.
The man... this guy is devoted.
This is what makes him so impressive, it's so...
It touches people.
Sadhguru: When it comes to agriculture, when it comes to soil, when it comes to soil ecology,
our national borders mean nothing, because microorganisms operate as a global system.
People are talking about doctors without borders; I'm asking you, are you beings without borders?
Are you a life without borders (Applause)?
The only way and the only way we can see the continuum of life process is, that it can
be... it has to be addressed globally (Applause).
Sadhguru: Implementation has to happen on the land and land is not managed by scientists,
land is managed by farmers.
So, it's extremely important, it must be a single-point agenda, incentive-based agenda.
If inspiration, incentives and disincentives after a certain period of time - is the way
forward.
This is my appeal to every one of you, because I don't want this COP15 to end as one more
convention with more paper and more paper.
This must end with concrete action and action in such a way that is... it's implementable
(Applause).
Multiple Speakers: Save soil.
Let's make it happen.