Swatika: Sadhguru, when certain youngsters face problems or difficulties like failures,
break-ups, loss etc, few go for drugs or alcohol instead of solving the problem and finding solutions.
So I want to know what is that one hope a person can cling on to
even when he’s fully shattered from within (Applause)?
Sadhguru: Oh!
So many broken hearts here who are clapping their hands (Laughter) (Laughs).
So (Laughs), when he’s fully shattered, what can he do?
The question is do you want to allow yourself to be fully shattered, that’s the question.
And many things that don’t work out in your early life,
you will see, later on, it is a great blessing (Laughs) (Laughter/Applause).
There are many ways to look at this, let me tell you this- this happened in 1941,
it’s just when the Nazi movement was building up in Germany and in some parts of Europe.
So one day in Austria, a bunch of German soldiers came, broke into the homes.
A Jewish family, a rich family they broke the home and took away the adults, took…
everything was robbed and these two children-
a twelve year old girl and a eight year old boy were taken away.
They were taken to a railway station.
This is the month of November end, December kind of time when it’s becoming very cold.
So they were kept in the railway station for three days because the trains did not come.
Boys, little boys being boys, they started playing football.
So they were playing football and then suddenly the train came.
The train is not a passenger train, it’s a cargo train, the goods train.
So when the train came, the soldiers came and
rushed everybody into the… the wagons which are there.
Everybody got in and the little boy and the girl also got in
but the little boy forgot to wear his shoes, he left his shoes outside and
they pushed him into the wagon. So without shoes he came.
His sister, a twelve year old girl saw her kid brother coming without shoes
and she got mad with him.
She held him by the ear, boxed his ears, scolded him nicely, slapped him.
She said, ‘you idiot, already we are in enough trouble now you come without shoes.’
Because in Germany in winter, no shoes means you may lose your feet.
So she’s angry about that.
In the next station, the boys and girls were separated.
After four years, after the war was over, she came out of the concentration camp to find
seventeen members of her family including her little brother all had vanished, no records,
no sign of them, they just evaporated.
At that time, the only thing that bothered her was, the last few things that she said to her little brother.
She loves her brother but the last few things that she said to him were such terrible things,
it rang in her mind and troubled her.
These are the last things I told my brother and after that I’m never going to see him, he’s gone.
So she took a vow, if I speak to anybody in my life,
I will speak in such a way if this is my last word, I will not regret.
This one thing transformed her life in such a way, she went on to United States,
she died in 2006, she did some phenomenal work, built a hospital, somewhere near Chicago I think.
She lived a fruitful life.
I’m saying even if you are put through the most horrible situations,
either you can come out using that experience as a better human being
or you can use the experience to become a horrible mess!
So whenever something hurts you, there are two options,
you can either become wounded or you can become wise, this is the choice.
The more things hurt you early on in your life, the wiser you should have become, isn't it?
But unfortunately, most people become wounded.
This is simply because they just need an excuse to turn their own intelligence against themselves, that’s all.
Especially if the world around you turns against you,
is it not very, very important that your intelligence stands up for you (Applause)?