Demi Lovato: So, anybody could be a mystic. (Applause)
Yalda Hakim: Do you think though that technology is a good thing?
Prajakta Koli: You start becoming your own enemy in your own head.
Noor Bint Asem: If there was one advice for the youth today, what would it be?
Nikki Walton: So, I'd just love to know, like, how you define joy?
Demi Lovato: You are an Indian author, a Yogi, a mystic, and a visionary.
Can you describe what a mystic is, for people who may not know?
Sadhguru: See, there are only 2 kinds of people in the world: mystics and mistakes.
(Laughs) Demi Lovato: Wow!
Sadhguru: Those who have made a mistake with their perception, they are mistakes.
So much suffering happens because of that.
If you perceive everything right, people will call you a mystic.
Demi Lovato: Wow! (Both laugh) So, anybody could be a mystic.
Sadhguru: Of course! Demi Lovato: Wow. I love it.
Yalda Hakim: Do you think though that technology is a good thing, or a bad thing?
Sadhguru: Technology is neither. The beautiful thing about technology is,
if you learn to use it, it works for you.
But who you are will decide how you use it, isn't it?
Yalda Hakim: But how do you do...?
Sadhguru: So, what we need to fix right now in the world is, who are we?
This is what we need to fix. We've all become many things which we are not.
Essentially, we're born as life on this planet,
rest of the things are taught to us, isn't it?
Stop teaching all this stuff which makes us something other than human beings.
Sadhguru: Right now, do you want to keep your mind,
your thought process pleasant or nasty? Tell me, what is your choice?
Juhi Chawla: Ideally, pleasant.
Sadhguru: Just tell me, pleasant or nasty?
You're thinking about it, this is...
Juhi Chawla: No, I'm trying to think, should I fox you and say nasty? (Laughter)
Sadhguru: (Laughs) Say it. Juhi Chawla: (Laughs) Okay, nasty.
Sadhguru: I'm going to bless you now. (Laughter) Juhi Chawla: (Laughs) No, no, no.
Okay, I take back my words. (Laughs) Okay, so...
Sadhguru: Any human being's choice for themselves is definitely pleasantness, isn't it?
Juhi Chawla: Yes.
Sadhguru: Body, mind, emotion, everything, and surroundings – you want it pleasant.
Juhi Chawla: Yes. Sadhguru: So, why is it not pleasant?
Surroundings are not pleasant because of many things.
Juhi Chawla: Yes.
Sadhguru: If your thought and emotion are not pleasant, it's entirely you, isn't it?
It's like this. On a certain day, a lady went to sleep.
A lady went to sleep. In her sleep, she had a dream.
In her dream she saw a hunk of a man standing in that corner.
And then he started coming closer, and closer, and closer.
He came so close she could even feel his breath.
She trembled – not in fear. (Juhi laughs)
And then she asked, "What will you do to me?"
The man said, "Well, lady, it's your dream." (Laughter)
Juhi Chawla: Okay... (Laughs) Sadhguru: I'm saying,
what's happening in your mind is your bloody dream.
Now the problem with life is, not that life is not happening the way you want it,
even your dream is not happening the way you want it – that's the problem.
I'm saying at least fix this! (Referring to oneself)
At least let the dream happen the way you want it.
Prajakta Koli:I did this campaign called #IPledgeToBeMe,
which was against body shaming.
And I got so many emails, but this one email stuck with me.
It was by this 9-year-old girl who wrote to me saying she's suicidal
because she is fat, and dark,
and her family used to tell her that, "You're never going to get married.
Nobody is ever going to marry a fat and dark child like you."
So, I feel like, you know, this whole thing
where you start becoming your own enemy in your own head,
I think that has been starting pretty young for a lot of people.
Sadhguru: The level of exposure today is such
that what happened to you at 14 is happening at 9.
Prajakta Koli: Yeah. Sadhguru: It's like preponed everything.
Prajakta Koli: It is, yes.
Sadhguru: So, what happened probably in my generation at 18, happened to you at 14.
What happened to you at 14 is happening at 10 or 9 now.
So, this rush to live... Prajakta Koli: Grow up.
Sadhguru: To live! Prajakta Koli: Okay.
Sadhguru: Essentially to live early, you know?
Everybody wants to live. They think it's a race.
Prajakta Koli: Yeah. Sadhguru: If life is a race, you must win.
If you must win, you must get to the finish line quick!
Prajakta Koli: First. Yeah.
Sadhguru: That means what? You must be buried first (Both Laugh) ahead of others.
If you win the race, you're finished, isn't it? Prajakta Koli: Yeah.
Sadhguru: Life is not a race, it is a certain phenomena.
How profoundly can we experience this phenomena, is all there is.
It's not something that you have to do. It is happening – life is happening, isn't it?
Prajakta Koli: Yes.
Sadhguru: How profoundly will you experience, is all there is in your hands.
Noor Bint Asem: Before coming to today's engagements,
my 13-year-old daughter was asking me, you know,
"Could I... could I ask a question?" I'm like, "Sure."
So, this is from her, picking up on this whole male-female...
that she is influenced by,
given society and the narrative that has been played.
And she said, "I am curious to know,
if there was one advice for the youth today, what would it be?"
Sadhguru: See, gender is a personal thing.
I'm sorry I'm putting it in a very basic way.
Noor Bint Asem: Please.
Sadhguru: What is in somebody's pants is not my business or your business.
It is only relevant in a few places like bathrooms, and bedrooms, and somewhere.
In rest of the places, your gender is irrelevant.
It's a question of your competence – what you can do, what you cannot do,
what you're capable of, what you're not capable of.
We need to bring the world to this place that,
what kind of body you have is not my business.
Only in bodily relationships it matters; the rest of the time, it's not my business.
Nikki Walton: So, I'd just love to know, like, how you define joy?
Sadhguru: Well... if you could define it, it would not be worth pursuing it.
Nikki Walton: I love that.
Sadhguru: Because... see, we're calling it by different names.
Essentially, it is life.
If it's exuberant...
in its exuberance, it may be joy, it may be blissfulness, it may be ecstasy.
Well, if it's relatable, it may become love.
These are all different manifestations of exuberance of life.
Joy is not a philosophy that you take on.
Like, right now it's become "in pursuit of happiness."
Where are you chasing it? And why is it elusive? (Laughs)
Because you think it's somewhere else.
It's just that this life, when it functions in an exuberant manner,
– not in a depressed way, in an exuberant manner –
that means if you open the cork, it is exuberant.
If you close it and keep it, then it becomes depressed.
In this massive life that exists on this planet,
for all of them clearly drawn out lines by nature: you can do this, you cannot do this.
For you, lines are not fixed.
So, human beings are not suffering their bondages, they're suffering their freedom,
because they don't know how to deal with it.
Danica Patrick: Let's unpack that. It's the freedom that they're suffering?
Sadhguru: It's the freedom that they're suffering!
Danica Patrick: What do you mean?
Sadhguru: Why do you think everybody is trying to bind themselves to somebody?
Because they cannot be free – if they're free, they feel terrified.
Sadhguru: Somebody has to hold their hand all the time.
See, "I cannot live without you," or "I cannot...
Danica Patrick: Thank you. (Sadhguru laughs)
Sadhguru: You're thinking... (Laughs)
Whether I say "I cannot live without you," or "I cannot walk without a crutch,"
what is the difference, I'm asking?
Danica Patrick: Perception?
Sadhguru: See, right now we made it very romantic,
and if I say "I cannot live without you," that's supposed to be the best thing.
No. I can live perfectly without you. Danica Patrick: Right.
Sadhguru: But by choice I'm having you here. Danica Patrick: Right.
Sadhguru: Isn't this a great thing? Danica Patrick: Right! Absolutely.
Sadhguru: In many ways, a woman is like the flower of human species.
Her root is most important, but if a root doesn't flower, it will feel frustrated.
The fulfillment of life will not happen.
If feminine has to find a place – the right place in the world –
we need to create a balanced society,
where the finer aspects of life are as important as survival.
If in our education systems, music, art, aesthetics,
become as important as science, mathematics, and technology,
only then feminine will find expression in a society.
This must come into our education system, this must come into our social milieu.
So, in only making this happen, empowerment of the feminine can happen.