Questioner: So what are the arguments that you would give for a woman who doesn’t want to bear a child.
Sadhguru: She needs to be awarded.
We're ensuring that our children cannot live well on this planet by producing more children.
Superscript: Women Who Choose Not To Have A Child Must be Awarded – Sadhguru
Questioner: For a woman who chooses not to be a mother who doesn’t want....
Sadhguru: Oh I will give you award (Laughter).
Questioner 1: So she has chosen you as an advocate for a case and you have to fight her case.
So what are the....
Sadhguru: I am sorry. I didn’t get that.
Questioner 1: So there’s a woman.... who doesn't want to be a mother,
Sadhguru: Yeah, she doesn’t want to have a child.
Questioner 1: And she has chosen you as an advocate for her case and you have to fight her case.
So what are the arguments that you would give for a woman who doesn’t want to bear a child.
Sadhguru: I said she needs to be awarded.
I have already announced in India.
Young women who are capable of child bearing, chose not to do it, we will institute an award for them
because right now the greatest serviceyou can do in the world is
you are not extra populating this planet, okay (Laughter/Applause)?
If.... Suppose you were a tiger woman,
I mean to say a female tiger,
then I would have encouraged you please breed, please breed (Laughs)
because it’s an endangered species.
Well you know see we are not endangered (Laughter).
Wherever you go there is a crowd.
Well, to protect a nation you have to build a wall otherwise people are coming.
Obviously there’s too much (Laughter/Applause).
Obviously there is too much population everywhere, isn’t it?
So this is something we need to look at in a very fundamental way.
This is happening because the need, the need is inbuilt.
The reproductive need is a very inbuilt need.
Whatever arguments they have at one point the body dictates.
Fortunately there’s a lot of pain and stuff involved.
Otherwise I don’t know what would have happened.
So this need if one has to transcend instead of forcefully putting it down,
if your identity naturally shifts beyond your biological self, you will see these needs will completely disappear.
Right now I want people to understand what you're looking for is not a child.
What you're looking for is involvement.
Right now your problem is you simply cannot involve with people unless they came out of your body.
Your identity of biology is so strong you can't simply include this people as yours.
Oh this one came from my body, this is mine, this (Gestures).
This is because you’re trapped in your own biology. That’s all it is.
Why should it fall out of your body, not necessary?
Human being has the ability. This is a animal instinct.
This instinct is needed for the survival of the race of course
but now the survival of the race depends on consciously controlling the population a little bit.
From the beginning of 20th century, in 1910 our population was just 1.58 billion.
Lets Say 1.6 billion.
Today we are 7.6 billion.
By 2050, they’re estimating we will be 10.3 billion.
When it’s 10.3 billion, I don’t want to be around (Laughter).
Hello?
I wanted you just to imagine, another rise in the world's population.
You can imagine what all problems you will face.
We're ensuring that our children cannot live well on this planet by producing more children.
It is very, very important.
We must understand why this has happened is not just because of unbridled reproduction.
No that it is not true, it’s controlled.
It is simply because our life expectancy is extending itself. It’s fantastic.
For example in India, when the British left India our life expectancy was twenty eight years.
How many of you are over twenty five, twenty eight I’m sorry.
So you are all dead (Laughter).
That’s what it meant.
I want you to understand, twenty eight years.
Today it has reached seventy
which is a phenomenal achievement in seventy years of independence. (Applause)
So when we take death into our hands, should we not take birth into our hands?
I’m not propounding any philosophy. I’m just talking simple arithmetic. Hello?
When we take death into our hands, should we not take birth into our hands?
If we don't do that, if we do not consciously contain our population, nature we will do it to us in a very cruel way.
You want to wait for that day?
You can but being human beings it will be nice if we do it consciously isn't it?