Speaker: You said that this is the easiest part of your life as the students but we see that
a lot of youngsters fall into the clutches of stress, depression and to cope with that
they go to the addictions like alcohol, drug, porn, internet, Etcetera
and they think that it will give them relief.
Sadhguru: I didn’t know internet was along with the drugs (Laughter). Speaker: So how to deal with them?
Sadhguru: Look at me, I’m always stoned (Laughter/Applause).
Never been on a substance but you must understand whatever stimulants… whatever stimulus you
may take from outside, essentially human experience of all kinds is caused only from within.
The question is only are you on push-start or are you on self-start? Which is better technologically?
Participants: Self-start. Sadhguru: Self-start.
So if I teach you, suppose I teach you that you can simple sit here and be totally blissed
out, more stoned than anybody on the campus (Laughter), at the same time, you’re fully aware,
would you go for it? Hmm? Would you go for it? Fully stoned, fully conscious, would you go for it?
Participants: Yes.
Sadhguru: See the only problem with your alcohol, drugs, everything is not a moral issue, it is a life issue because
it destroys life.It’s not a morality that this is good, this is bad, that’s not the point.The point is, it makes you
incapable in so many ways.There was a certain Israeli scientists who was researching on marijuana
or cannabis. Over eighteen years the US drug and… drug administration gave him large quantities of
marijuana and he went on experimenting and eighteen years’ time he came up with really
nothing significant and during mid-eighties when American agencies were fighting drug
on the street, they change their policy of fighting the suppliers in Mexico and South America, they decided to
fight on the street with the users. So they said… somebody said this is not right, you’re giving this man
such a big stock, we don’t know what he is doing because he had not produced anything, eighteen years
of research.Then he moved to Israel, the Israeli government looked at his work and they decided to give
him big stocks of marijuana.And after another three-and -a-half, four years he came up with this, he found
that in the human brain there are millions of cannabis receptors.Then he threw this question to various
disciplines. Anthropologist tried to look at it and say at some time in history maybe every human being was
smoking that’s why the receptors. Then they said this is rubbish because in many parts of the world
it was not there. Even a Eskimo has cannabis receptors where he has never seen anything like this.
Then various things happened, then the neurologists came up with this, they said always the human brain
is waiting for the cannabis, that which causes intoxication.Not waiting for it from outside, it can
generate from within that is why there are receptors. So this is something that we have always known.
I can show you I’m there always but you look at my eyes, I’m always stoned but as aware as anybody can be.
If you do not know intoxication in life, you will never know a sense of abandon. If you don’t have a sense of
abandon, you will never walk full stride in your life, you will only walk half steps all the time.
Only when there is no fear of suffering - because you’re highly intoxicated and fully aware.
Not because you consumed substances which will take away your awareness, simply because
you’re keeping the system, the human mechanism at its highest function, now it is fully self-sufficient,
blissed out all the time, now you will not think of all these things.