Sadhguru: At least fifty percent of the water must go into the ocean.
Because of our excessive population, if you can’t let fifty percent, at least twenty to twenty-five percent must go.
If fresh water doesn’t go into the ocean, monsoons will not come into the subcontinent.
This idea that river going into the ocean is a waste, is a stupid idea.
River has to flow into the ocean, at least fifty percent of the water must go into the ocean.
Because of our excessive population if you can’t let fifty percent, at least twenty to twenty-five percent must go.
If fresh water doesn’t go into the ocean, monsoons will not come into the subcontinent
- it will avoid the subcontinent and go.
These are all well established. This is not some rocket science. These are simple factors in nature.
If fresh water doesn’t go there,
one thing is the marine or the salt water will enter the… transfusion will happen into the land.
In the Indian subcontinent, very easily up to hundred to hundred-and-thirty kilometers
of substrata will allow marine water.
Already it has happened in Tuticorin - at least fifty kilometers it’s come inside.
In Gujarat, every year they are losing about five-hundred square kilometers of land
because marine water is slowing seeping in.
As fresh water withdraws, marine water will flow in.
So, if this happens, let us say, if hundred kilometers it comes inside all across…
that will take some time but if it happens, you have 7,400 kilometers of coastline.
Hundred kilometers if it comes in, that many square kilometers of land you lost.
This is approximately the same size of land that you gave as Pakistan at one time, the partition.
So you’re going to have another partition.
All that population will try to move inland because it will not be habitable - nothing can grow there.
So, we are manufacturing a disaster.
If we don’t fix it now, it’s very, very, you know, what we will leave for our children
is going to be a terrible India.
People are not taking up serious issues.
They will fight for all kinds of petty things.
Real things to stand up people hesitate.
Now this Cauvery Calling is a test for everybody.
Let me see this 1.4 billion people in the country.
Let us see, how they will respond and what they will do.
When we went for Rally for Rivers, they gave a tremendous response.
Hundred-and-sixty-two million people responded.
No movement has every gotten that kind of support in one month’s time.
But now it is action, that time it was only awareness - now it is action.
So that’s why it’s called Cauvery Calling Action Now.
So, let me see even a laborer - I’m saying even a beggar can plant one tree, isn’t it, hello?
Not possible?
Even a beggar can plant one tree - forty-two rupees, he can plant right?
Or he himself can plant, he need not give money.
So, let us see how everybody responds.
This … this shows our commitment.
See, doing a… putting chocolate into our children’s mouth is not love affair.
What kind of nation you leave for your children is your love for the future generation, isn’t it?
If you have some concern for the next generation, the most important thing is you leave a rich soil.
Without rich soil where is the nation, I’m asking?
(Nadi Stuthi)