Question: I am an only child, like many others in China.
I have difficulty handling things in my life by myself
because my family takes care of
so many things.
How to take charge of my life?
Sadhguru: So, whether you have one or 10, the human child is not born like other creatures,
the moment you drop them, they run around and find their food and run away.
any other creature let's say Tiger is born ninety percent he's ready made, only 10%
the mother or father has to teach them a little bit.
Only ten percent.
Ninety percent - It's all in built for him.
Everything he needs to know about his life is there within him.
With a human child, Ninety percent you have to teach and groom.
Otherwise it won't happen.
If you don't do the right things a child can come up like an animal.
So this is not because of one child or 10 children,
it is the nature of people.
That how people are attached to their children, their idea of well-being is to pour them with
gifts.
Well, if you really want your children to be well,
you must give them strength in body, in mind, in emotion, in energy.
If you give them lot of strength and stability, wherever they go, they will be well.
If you just give them money, when they lose it, they're lost.
They just don't lose their money.
If somebody loses their money, people think they've
lost their life and they want to kill themselves.
Isn't it?
Whole lot of times, not just in one place, everywhere.
Because the think, the moment they lose their money,
they have lost their life.
No, if you've lost money, time for yoga.
(A few laugh, applause)
This is why Patanjali started the Yoga Sutras which is a
tremendous document on life with half a sentence.
If you still believe that, by getting married or unmarried,
your life will become fulfilled.
Not yet time for yoga.
If you believe, if you get some money, or wealth,
your life is settled.
Not yet time for yoga.
If you believe, if you build a new home or buy a new car, life will be fulfilled,
not yet time for yoga.
If you know all these things make some convenience happen in our life,
but doesn't really transform us in any way.
If you understand this one thing - …and now yoga.
(Applause)
So, time has come for China, …and now yoga.
Time has come.
Only thing is you have to make the authorities realize it's now, and now yoga.
we can make political commentaries about China about this about that.
But, all said and done, this is the only society which
has moved a billion people from utter abject poverty,
to reasonable levels of well being in a matter of
two generations, in fifty years time.
(Applause)
Nowhere, nowhere has it ever happened.
Right now India is sitting on such a threshold,
what China did with great force, India could do it democratically.
We're sitting on the threshold, but still there are
distance to walk, we still need to walk the distance.
So we can give commentaries about this and that and many things.
About freedom, freedom of speech, freedom of yoga,
freedom of pursuing my own goals and stuff.
But you must understand your present well-being has happened because
as a consequence of forceful determination by somebody.
Keeping a whole generation in abject conditions of poverty is a worst crime
than forcefully doing a few things.
So, for China, the time for Yoga has come.
Not the twisting, turning yoga that's becoming popular, there.
Tch, real yoga!
Yoga means to obliterate the boundaries of your individuality.
Right now, you must understand this,
a nation like China has grown because of a strong sense of - this is what we will do,
determined approach towards the nation.
Now that those goals are achieved, slowly relaxing that,
must happen.
I think they're doing it.
But still, to benefit this generation, it may not be fast enough.
So it needs to happen.
Not by protest.
Not by doing this, and that,
but bringing better understanding in the minds of those who administer the nation,
that this will not work like opium of the past.
Because you must understand this.
The religions of the past were described as the opium, because they were.
They were putting people to sleep.
So yoga, pursuit of spiritual process will not work as a sedative for the population,
but will act as an invigorating force.
This understanding must be brought to those who administer that nation.
That is the way to take it forward, not by protests,
not by threatening their some sense of stability they have created for the nation,
by threatening that you are not going to get anywhere.
So about you, being the only child.
Because your parents were prevented from having two
they gave you two children's food to you.
That's happening worldwide.
Most children if you look at them, it looks like
they ate two or three children's food.
(Audience laugh)
Tch, look at our children, scrawny and nicely growing up.
Because we make them burn every ounce they eat
they must burn in their stomach.
This is happening across the world.
Children who come from affluent societies,
obviously their mothers wanted to have 3-4-5 children,
but they had only one or two.
So all that five children's food.
(few laugh) they want to feed all of them into one -
investment.
(few laugh)
So on all levels, from food, to toys, to wealth, to everything else, this is happening.
Another reason is
this is the first generation or the second generation,
which is seeing both the parents going off to work,
not just working around the house, going away to work somewhere else.
So how to keep the child engaged,
throw some gadgets at them, keep them busy with some video game, it doesn't matter.
They're shooting everybody in the world.
But give them many things so that before they open their mouth and complain
throw more things and more things and more things.
Because parents are feeling guilty,
that I'm not spending enough time with my child,
this is become a universal problem.
The only way to handle their guilt is every day
when they're coming back from office,
pick up one gift and throw it in the child’s hand.
So child doesn't complain and goes on.
This is not the way to do things, we need to find solutions for this,
we need to find ways that children at least will grow up in a community,
you can love them for 30 days in a year as much
as you want the rest of the time, they're in a place
where they will be treated as sensible creatures not as pampered nonsense.
(Applause)
I would like to see a lot of Chinese children in Samskriti.
(Applause)
Quote: “The most important work on the planet is
to raise human consciousness.
Isha Samskriti is an endeavor to allow children to flower into their ultimate
possibility of consciousness and capability.”