very very casually, as a matter of fact, he said,
“Sadhguru, about seventy percent of the data is pornography.”
So in the last ten years, we’ve run a campaign
even if you're watching pornography, in between Sadhguru appears - Inner Engineering.
every medium that we have of communication must be used to transform human beings.
Superscript: Can Movies Be Used To Transform Human Beings
Question: Commercial cinema reaches so many people. Is there a way it can be used to spread spirituality?
Sadhguru: See, Cinema means you’re thinking in terms of the big screen.
Well, it's not that it's not a possibility, the question is who will go and watch it!
See, it has to be commercially successful. Commercial success means people watched it, all right?
This happened. This is about nine, ten years ago maybe now.
I was in United States and I was talking to somebody who’s some kind of an expert on internet affairs.
So I never get to go on the net and browse this and that, I never have the time to do those things.
So I asked him, “What are people looking for?
Everybody's looking at their screen. What are they looking for?”
Very casually, very, very casually, as a matter of fact, he said,
“Sadhguru, about seventy percent of the data is pornography.”
I said, “What?” He said, “Yes.”
I said, “I don't want to believe this kind of nonsense. Seventy percent - is it pornography? It's not possible!”
Then I checked with a few other people,
they all say, “Yeah, it's around that much, maybe sixty-five - seventy something.”
And what else are they using this for?
There are many other things - drug sales, arm sales, all kinds.
More than anything what really kind of brought disgust to me was,
1.6 million children below fifteen years of age are sold on the internet every year.
When we sell our children, as human beings we’ve hit the bottom
- there's no further down to go. Hmm?
When we start selling our children to be used in all kinds of slavery, this means we’ve hit the very bottom.
There’s no further place to go, isn't it?
That is when I decided, then let me get on the net.
So in the last ten years, we’ve run a campaign
that many of you in the upper regions might have suffered this,
even if you're watching pornography, in between Sadhguru appears - Inner Engineering. (Applause/Cheers)
I'm saying this with some glee,
because when such a phenomenal technology is available to us, is this what we do?
See, many great beings have come on this planet,
but when they came, if they spoke hardly ten people heard.
In that ten people, all kinds of things.
Today is the first time you can sit here and talk to the entire world.
When there is such a tool in our hands, if we don't transform humanity now,
that means we have no intention at all, isn't it?
So your question is very relevant. But, will our natural star make a movie on spirituality?
Nani: Biopic Sadhguru (Cheers/Applause) (Sadhguru laughs).
Last... He will give a guest appearance in the last scene of the movie. Is this okay?
Sadhguru: So if definitely every medium that we have, not necessarily a spiritual process,
every medium that we have of communication must be used to transform human beings.
Because that's the only problem that you have on this planet - human beings!
There is no other problem. Hello?
Yes or no? Participants: Yes
Sadhguru: That’s the only problem.
So, when there is such a powerful means of communication today,
technology is available to touch every human being in whichever part of the world he or she is living.
When this possibility is there, this is the time to transform humanity. (Applause)