Above all when you're doing yoga, your first relationship of being one is with
the earth. To be in touch with the earth is important. A proper yogi means, for
Hatha Yoga, if you can afford to do this you must make a room with packed mud, with
packed clay, on top of it you put either a raw silk cloth or a cotton cloth. A raw
cotton cloth not sanforized and you do yoga on that for maximum impact because
this body you might have forgotten but the body knows that it's just a piece of
the planet always it knows. When you practice yoga you want that to become a
conscious and a living process for you so that you experience yourself as one
with the earth on which you're living. And I would say 80% of your health depends
on this, how much you're in tune with the earth, 80%. 80% of your chronic ailments
can just vanish simply because you kind of found a
little rappo with the earth on which you're walking or sitting right now. So using
rubber mats for yoga, I know there are Isha of branded rubber mats. I look at it
with great pain but this is Sadhguru cotton mats get dirty who's going to
wash them in America they don't know how to wash them so we made the rubber mats
but this is Sadhguru this is some special material which really insulates you. This
is what I'm asking you when I asked you the first question, are you here to
experience life or dodge life. Unknowingly you're doing it in so many
ways as to how to insulate yourself from life. If you,
you might already know this it's all over the place these days. 90% of your
body is bacteria you notice, that means you're only 10% occupant of this
building, this construction you have only 10% is yours 90% is microbes, they're
constantly in and out, they are not just here. If you isolate this, that itself is
sickness. That itself is sickness, if you insulate this from the rest of the world
you will become the potential of who you are is being lowered continuously. So if
you are at, if you are a homebound person, that means, every day you wake
up in the same place now largely if it is so, it's best you use a cotton
mat for your yoga or a raw silk mat not a plastic thing. That is for people who
roll it up and go and do it in Central Park because they want everybody to see
they're doing yoga. (Laughter) Today is my yoga day, yesterday I came with my bicycle to Central
Park today I have come with my yoga mat. So that's a different kind of life. You
should be doing proper yoga, hatha yoga, you must be connected with earth. Organic
material so that there's no break.