If a small percentage of people become like this
just by their way of being they will change the atmosphere in the world.
Will we get to that critical mass
in the next 10-15 years is the challenge
which we are striving for.
(Music)
Questioner: Namaskaram, Sadhguru.
I’m living in the ashram
for around two months.
Sadhguru: Whoa!
Questioner: This place is so conducive for sadhana.
I fear that if someday I have to travel outside
or go home to meet my family,
I will not be able to adjust.
Is that once a person lives in ashram,
he or she is unsuitable to live anywhere else (Laughter)?
Sadhguru: Why don’t you see it this way by living in your home,
a place that you call as home,
you become unfit to live in ashram?
Tch , but I managed for two months.
So it’s like this.
You see coconut trees.
You don’t see many here but if you see in the next piece of land,
our coconut trees are doing well,
yielding well, better than…
Actually our Farmers Producers Organization here which is largely coconut and areca nut farmers
has become among the top five Farmers Producers Organizations in the country (Applause).
So that means,
that means they’re yielding very well.
The coconuts and the areca nut,
it’s yielding so well.
So, let’s do one thing.
Take the same coconut trees
and keep them up on the mountain top. It’s really nice.
It will be nice to have coconut trees up there.
When we climb up and we are very thirsty,
having a tender coconut out there will be fantastic.
But if you put the coconut trees up there, they will all shrivel up and die.
Because
different types of life needs different types of ambiance,
different kinds of soil, different kinds of climate.
For a human being to flourish as a human being,
if you want to flourish as an engineer,
maybe, I wouldn’t say that but maybe,
because we are not building as much as we should
so maybe this is not the most conducive place.
If you want to thrive as a doctor,
maybe this is not a conducive place
not enough sick people (Laughter).
If you want to be a lawyer,
if you want to thrive as a lawyer,
not a good place because not enough disputes.
So you can’t thrive as a lawyer.
But
if you are seeing how this being should thrive,
it needs a certain atmosphere.
The ashram is designed for that.
Not for you to thrive as something else.
Maybe a city or an industrial place or a law court,
may be better for other kinds of thriving.
But if you want to thrive as a being,
the entire atmosphere has been created for that
but if you want to thrive as a ego,
very bad place to live.
Very bad place.
Not good.
You will shrivel up quicker than a coconut tree on the mountain.
So, different spaces are created for different reasons.
First you must decide
what is the purpose and direction of your life.
After that where to be will come naturally.
Where to be?
You want to be an industrial engineer
but you go and sit on the beach - no good.
Nothing to do there.
Beach is for people who are holidaying,
vacationing, just sitting there enjoying the ocean and the sand and whatever.
That’s not a place to go and build an industry.
So for that you have to be in one kind of place
but you want to thrive as a being, you are not interested in becoming
thrive as a profession.
But you want to thrive as a being.
Then this is the place.
That’s why this place is created.
I wish there were thousands of places like this across the country and in the world
but unfortunately it’s not so.
Because in the last few centuries,
this entire system has been dislocated in many different ways.
If you do not know this,
if I mention the name Krishna,
people will think of butter, flute and girls.
But Krishna created over and over a thousand spiritual ashrams in his lifetime in the northern plains.
Well, nobody talks about it
because according to their interest they speak.
All that infrastructure has been razed to ground
because of..
serial invasions that this land saw continuously
by very wanton and very cruel people who destroy everything that’s not like them.
If you are not like them you are dead. That’s their policy.
It has taken a big beating. But it’s time to build it back.
As I said by 2025 we will have infrastructure here
for 10000 people to do sadhana for seven months in a year (Applause).
The idea is to build enough infrastructure
so that there is substantial spiritually strong,
not belonging to this group or that group
but internally stable and settled kind of population.
We don’t need to do this to all the 7.3 billion people.
If a small percentage of people become like this,
they don’t have to teach anything,
just by their way of being they will change the atmosphere in the world. (Applause)
Will we get to that critical mass
in the next 10-15 years is the challenge
which we are striving for.
Young people who are not yet conceited or entangled,
not yet screwed up
or entangled
within themselves or outside,
you must think through this
because as a generation of people
we have this possibility
that
the way science and technology has liberated our lives
from survival process
-it’s coming to a place where
people are talking about this,
it may sound utopian right now
but it will happen
- people are saying in another twenty - twenty-five years,
nobody in the planet need to work.
So lot of people are worried.
They are calling me for all kinds of artificial intelligence conferences and asking, “What shall we do?”
I said, “All your few professors will be useless
because a stupid gadget will earn ten PhDs in a day.
My phone can earn ten PhDs in a day, that much information it has.”
All the idiots who read a book
a few years before you and they think they are super intelligent,
all of them will fall
because a small gadget will do
what a million of them cannot do.
So this is good time.
People are fearing, “What will happen to our jobs?”
I said, “You will be on a vacation for life, how wonderful (Laughter)!”
Anyway I don’t see professors going to their job
with great joy, dancing,
how many professors went dancing into their classroom,
in total ecstasy (Laughter)?
Now your phone will recite Gita, Vedas,
Quran, Bible, whatever the hell you want
with total analysis (Laughter)
-which page do you want,
which subject you want, if you just ask,
“I want to know about what God said about liberation?” (Laughter)…
all out.
Everything that you know by memory will be meaningless because gadgets will carry
a zillion times more memory than you can carry.
This is when,
this is when
a human being becomes significant.
This is why
we want to create infrastructure
to produce human beings,
not accumulated memory.
This is what dissolving or demolishing your karma means.
Instead of being an accumulated memory,
you are becoming a being.
So this atmosphere is created for that.
If you think you have completed your mission, you should not have any problems anywhere.
If you are..
a...
work in progress,
then you should not be leaving.
You must finish the job
because a half-baked thing could be trouble you know.
So, it’s important that (Laughs)…
They are all afraid
that they will lose their jobs.
I am looking at how will I handle (Laughter/Applause)
because...
once they don’t have their jobs, all of them,
initially they will freak
and fret and drink
but then they will all come.
Tch, we need to have both physical infrastructure and human infrastructure because
being human will become the most important thing
once all these damn things are done by the machines
(Applause).
So you must stay for some more time
and finish your job.
Then you will see wherever you go, you are fine.
I am going out in the world more than you,
I am doing fine whichever part of the world.
People ask me, you know,
I was… I happened to be
in one of those glamour events in Mumbai.
So some of the people were worried
how to have Sadhguru in this kind of magazine event.
You know it’s too much glamour,
the way people are dressed,
they are drinking, they are doing this.
I said, “What makes you think
that I will be disturbed
by the way they are dressed
or they are not dressed? (Laughter)
Or what they are drinking or eating,
what makes you think it will disturb me in any way?
My spirituality is not that fragile
that somebody is eating something,
somebody is drinking something,
somebody is dressed or not dressed.
This is not even a matter for me.
It’s not even a thing for me” (Applause).
Because if your spiritual process is so fragile
then if you look at somebody, it will collapse,
then you need to work upon yourself.
Carrying something so fragile all the time is going to be stressful.
If you are carrying something that is that fragile,
suppose your feet are made like a jelly,
wherever you step, it will ppp (Gestures)
go like that, then it’s difficult to walk.
Then you are unfit to walk around in this world.
So being unfit to walk around in this world,
don’t think it’s spirituality.
Spiritual means if you take me to hell,
I am still like this only (Applause).
No, I didn’t say your home is hell but I said (Laughter)…
you said something (Laughs).