Everything that happens to the solar system, happens to you in some way
Mahashivratri night there is a natural upserge of energy
If you lie down you could also harm yourself. So, that night we have a celebration
Somewhere around 6 crore people could be watching
Sadhguru, you speak so logically and it makes sense to me. But at the same time
you're celebrating the religious festival of Mahashivratri in a grand way
at (Sadhguru laughs) the Isha Yoga Center. For a young person like me,
these religious festivals seem like outdated rituals. So I want to know
what is the relevance of Mahashivratri to the youth? Thank you.
Sadhguru: What kind of festival would you like? (Few Laugh) Festival?
May be only the Valentine's day or something? (Laughter) (Applause)
that is also religious. It's saint Valentine, all right? So, what is Mahashivratri?
You need to understand this. There are certain… in India,
there are 365 festivals in a year (Laughter). Yes!
Today, due to economic reasons and the way we have structured our work and things,
a whole lot of them have died. Still about 30 to 35 are being actively,
may be more than that, about 50 to 60 festivals are being celebrated by different people.
But that number is also decreasing. Largely may be about five
or six are being celebrated in a big way. So some of them are social,
a few of them may be religious, but hardly any religious ones.
Some are all connected to the calendar. Almost every Indian festival is
connected to the calendar, what's happening in your solar system,
we want to do something which is conducive for what's happening that day in the
rest of the solar system. Why this is important is
because what you call is my body right now, what is human mechanism
has come out of this planet.
Most people don't get it till you bury them.
They think they came from somewhere. No. this body
solar system is working like a potter's wheel to generate this.
So everything that happens to the solar system happens to you in some way.
So there is a very keen observation of what is happening in solar system today.
Accordingly, we have crafted one kind of celebration and we do those specific things.
So on Mahashivratri night, to cut it short, because this is an elaborate subject
what you opened up. On that day, which doesn't fall on the same calendar,
you know, the regular modern calendar date,. On that day, there is a natural…because,
you know, planet is not spinning like this, it is spinning in a certain way
and there is a precession to the planet, you know what's a precession? Hello?
Participants: Yes.
Sadhguru: Not precision in terms of a exactness. I am talking about what is
precession in terms of the planet. Planet's axis is not simply rotating like this,
it is going like this. It is a wobble, there is a wobble to the planet always.
Because of that wobble, it creates a certain kind of situation on the planet. So on that day,
especially in the Northern Hemisphere or only in the Northern Hemisphere
there is a natural upsurge of energy. There is a natural upsurge of…
oh all this energy, I don't believe. You don't, just go and sit on the coast,
if there is a full moon night, is the ocean rising? Hello?
Sadhguru: So a new moon day, full moon, do you see that the very ocean is trying to rise?
Well over two thirds of your body is water. What makes you think…
water inside the body won't rise? All the fluids in the body are also rising.
So you will see these things are there everywhere.
If you have ever been in a mental institution, (Few laugh) no,
you could have gone there just for once.
You will see on full moon days new moon days,
people take extra care because those who are psychologically disturbed
become far more disturbed. People think moon causes madness. That's why
lunar and luni and all this stuff (Few laugh). Moon does not cause madness.
It just pulls everything up. If you're a little crazy, it makes you more crazy.
You're little loving, it makes you more loving. You are little meditative,
it makes you more meditative. Whatever is your quality gets enhanced, because it's kind of…
an upsurge in the system. This particular day, after the solstice happens in December.
Twenty second of December is the winter sostice. After that, the planetary precession is such
that there is a natural upsurge on that particular night in a very big way.
If on that night, if you lie down, this means
when the energies are trying to move like this (Gestures), you're kind of obstructing it.
It is not only that you lose the benefit, you could also harm yourself,
in a very sensitive way. All these things matter to you
only when you want to be a full-fledged human being.
When I say a full-fledged human being, you want every faculty that can be opened up in the
human being, you want it to be opened. Not if you are that kind,
by evening you are drunk and sleeping. What is there also
you want to kill it, that's up to you.
But if you want to be a full-fledged human being, you want to full scale,
everything happening to you. You observe all this small, small changes that
happen in the system and take care of that. So you want to sit straight,
you want your spine to be erect on that night. When energies are moving upward,
you want to help it further go up not like this. So we
created what is called is as Jagaran that means to stay alert and to stay erect.
How to keep people erect? Just make them sit? You think, they will?
If I make you sit for another five, six hours, you will simply sit? No. I have to entertain you
(Laughter) (Laughs). So that night, we have a celebration from evening six to morning six,
twelve hours, non-stop, music, dance, meditation,
various things being done so that everybody stays alert.
Nearly a million people are in one place, but at this numbers were exploding.
So now we have large screens in over hundred and thirty cities
across the country in southern India. So that people gather there and
too many don't come here but still, it will run into somewhere around 700 to 800,000 people
in one place and over eighty six channels are telecasting it live.
So how many millions of people are watching, we don't know. Last year they said,
it could be somewhere around six crore people could be watching.
This time it's going to be much more. So it's grown that big because
people find the benefit of what it is. You do one thing on that night without getting drunk
or drugged, just sit alert, you don't like celebration, so you simply sit like this
(Gestures) (Laughter). It's up to you (Laughs). So you need to understand this,
a human being needs celebration. If celebration has to happen in your life,
you need some sense of playfulness otherwise there's no celebration.
Most people can celebrate only if you get them drunk. I will show you
a million people in one place not a drop of drink allowed anywhere
but you will see full night not one person will sleep.
Everybody is on, on, on, okay (Laughs) (Applause).