Sadhguru: Congratulations to all the American people, you have a new President.
I have been saying this for some time that the next decade-
the most important leadership on the planet will be business leadership
but you did not imagine that a business man will get elected as a President.
The political forces on the planet being in practicing democracy
slowly reduced themselves to a certain arithmetic.
They learn to work the electoral arithmetic, this keeps happening in India or has been happening till recently.
People are always counting before elections they are making a list of en masse voting
which are the blocks of people that we can make them feel discriminated, we can make them feel insecure,
we can make them feel threatened in some way so that they’ll vote not as individuals but as communities.
These communities can be of religion or religious… it may be on the religious basis, racial basis,
caste, creed but it has become the habit of various political forces across the world
to pick on minority communities- make them feel insecure and make them vote en masse.
Unfortunately, similar language has been evolving in the United States as it is been in India in the past.
But you have to give it to the intelligence of the common voters that they defeat this
once in a way that is we must understand the democracy means the rule of majority.
Rule of majorities does not mean crushing the minorities, rule of majority means
you don’t divide people on the basis of their beliefs, or their color, or their creed or
whatever other basis you find.
When people vote as individuals only then there is a true democracy otherwise we are
practicing feudalism through the drama of democracy.
The world is moving in this direction that the people of the world are rejecting
paraphernalia of ideologies which don’t work- decorative statements which mean nothing to nobody,
high flung language but not good literature which doesn’t make one’s life.
The people of the world are rejecting this, I think the previous elections in India,
the brick set and the selection of Donald J Trump as the president of United States
all these things are a clear statement in this direction- people are looking for economic well being.
They are not interested in effusive statements of correctness.
The world is moving from very fancy nuances to simpty… simply practical way of doing things.
In this effort it is important or in this movement of things that are naturally happening,
it is important that certain probity is brought that individual people who get to the helm
of nation must maintain a very high level of integrity.
As I have said during my tour in America during this Inner Engineering book tour repeatedly.
Unfortunately for a whole lot of people around the world, for a whole lot of people not just in Middle East,
for a lot of people America means “source of war.”
I think it’s time America as a nation changes this image and creates an image that America means wealth,
America means wellbeing, America means an ideal way of living.
Above all America means help to everybody because if you don’t teach everybody around
the world how to generate wealth, we will not live in a wealthy world.
Why is it important to live in a wealthy world?
It is just that if you alone become wealthy, naturally people will keep sniping at you.
Those who have nothing to lose and on the street will naturally throw stones at people
who are living in expensive glass homes.
It’s best that your neighbor also has a good home- it’s very important (Laughs).
If we generate wealth across the world, this is also an insurance that you’ll live well
everybody will live well otherwise the way technology is evolving just a small nation
with certain capabilities can derail the process of administration businesses, banks everything
with a certain skill, slowly we are realizing this.
It’s unfortunate that major nations today are talking about if you disrupt our
cyber space we’ll disrupt your cyber space. This is not where it should be going.
Where it should be going is you will not want to disrupt because you also have something worthwhile.
If you have nothing worthwhile only then you get this ideas that I want to disrupt you.
If you also have something worthwhile you don’t want to disrupt anybody
because you know you have something to lose.
So let’s create a world, let America and the new leadership in America focus on
creating a world which is well. When people are well, they value their wellbeing.
They wouldn’t want their wellbeing to be disrupted in anyway.
It was beautiful to watch how whatever the acrimony the bitterness that we have seen
in last twelve months, yesterday came to a culmination with at most graciousness from both sides.
However painful or bitter one may be, but being able to conduct themselves with certain
amount of graciousness is most welcome and it’s truly fantastic that both sides behave
that way and this is where democracy matters.
That never before in the history of this world before democracies got established has it
happened that transfer of power happened without blood spilling, never before it happened.
This is the most beautiful aspect of democracy that doesn’t matter- there is a time to fight and
there is a time to work together (Laughs).
It needs a cer… there is something spiritual about this I am saying (Laughs).
The acrimony and bitterness and the viciousness with which the elections were fought and
yesterday’s gracious statements are… are spiritual I would say (Laughs).
Truly fantastic.