Sadhguru: You don't know the impact of these things, and what they know,
I still not figured this out. People always wondered, "How do you survive? In any season
you go, you manage to stay there for two, three weeks and come back." Approximately
about three-fourths of a liter it would take, you just drink that, that's the food.
And you are so energized means you don't need anything else for the whole day.
Sadhguru: We have forgotten that soil is the greatest and the most complex and
sophisticated living system, not on just the planet, in the universe (Applause).
It is not just on this planet, in this universe, in the known universe, we do not
know anything like the topsoil of this planet. That's how complex and sophisticated it is.
And it is fantastic partnerships between various species and how they function, and the whole
chemistry of the planet is managed by them. But in... many, many people call this as dirt.
If that is dirt, you and me are dirtbags. Hello (Laughs)? Isn't it?
So, unfortunately we are treating living things as inanimate things.
Even inanimate things need to be treated with respect. But unfortunately, living entities we
are treating like this because somebody has put this idea in our head that every other creature
is here only to serve the human beings. I have spent lots of time in the jungles of India.
I've spent so much time observing all the different creatures – not just the big ones,
the small ones – because the crickets, the grasshoppers, the ants, termites, you better
know who they are because, you know, I've been in the jungles, I've had close encounters with
tigers, I've... very close encounters with elephants and the Indian wild buffalo is a terror,
but I've been very close around them. After all that, when you come out of the jungle after two,
three weeks, the only thing you really remember is the insects (Laughter).
Really, you don't know the impact of these things and what they know, I still not figured this out.
They'll be going baaaa, vaaan... they'll going, exactly – you know, especially in the rain forest
in the South – exactly at 2:30 in the morning, chakkk, they'll stop. Within thirty seconds,
another group starts off (Laughter). Boooon... they'll go on for hours. Every day,
I'm just looking at the watch, exactly at 2:30 in the morning. What are they doing?
They know something that you and me have not figured out, all right?
I'm saying, without a clock, without anything, they know time to the second. How? But they know.
As the birds know how to... you know, they got their own GPS, insects got their own time clock
and exactly they know, and if you just observe them, you know today it's going to rain.
I am there in the jungle without any equipment, all I'm... except what I'm wearing, there is
nothing else. So, rain is an important part (Laughs) because if it starts raining in these
southern Indian jungles, it can rain for three days, non-stop, okay? So, you better find a place
where... your bones will get wet, it's like that. So, if you just observe the insects,
they're all preparing for the rain. Nothing, no cloud in the sky.
But I learnt to trust them. If I watch them, I know it's going to rain means
it's going to rain. When they say it, it's true. Meteorologist... the, you know, the...
the only two professions in the world where you can be wrong fifty percent of
the time is... is either you're a weatherman or you're an astrologer (Laughter/Applause).
I heard that you guys are all soaked in honey,
let me tell you my honey story. Can I tell them a honey story?
Goran Visnjic: Yes please. I'm just like them. I'm
listening (Sadhguru laughs), I'm enjoying myself. Please do. Go.
Sadhguru: So, when I was getting lost in the jungles of India,
mmm... the only food that sustained me largely was honey. I eat other
things that I don't want to talk to you about. But (Laughter), largely honey.
People always wondered, "How do you survive? In any season you go, you manage to stay there for
two, three weeks and come back. How do you do it?" Simple. My trick was, normally we were riding a
Czechoslovak... no, Czech Republic, motorcycle at that time (Few laugh). Okay (Laughs)?
These days everything is sensitive, you know, you can't say anything as it was (Laughter).
Goran Visnjic: You can say Thomas here.
Sadhguru: So, we were riding a Java or a Yezdi,
so it has a petrol tube, normally, you need seven, eight inches of petrol tube,
but I always put extra about fifteen, sixteen inches of petrol tube because it gets hard,
you have... you can keep cutting it and putting it on. The rubber gets hard.
And this is also for my honey, so when I park the motorcycle in the forest, and cover it up
with all branches and stuff, I pull off the petrol tube and put it in my pocket and go.
So, I climb up the tree and the hill... I don't know what kind of honeybees you
have here. I have no experience of this. There, we have what is called as black bees.
They are (Gestures) this big about one-and-a-half inches long, and honey is fantastic in the
Western Ghats because the variety of vegetation there is probably like no other in the world.
The number of species of plants there is like nothing else in the world.
So, I go there and these huge hives, they built it on that kind of branch where the
sloth bears cannot get. A sloth bear weighs approximately seventy to eighty-five kilograms.
So, the bees are so smart, they will build it in a place where the bear cannot get to it. Just on
that kind of branch where the bear will not be able to go because the branch will bend.
So, I'm just around little over seventy kilograms (Few laugh). So, I crawl up that, go close to it,
stick my pipe into the hive and drink it up. I drink up about three-fourths of a liter of honey,
and for the day I'm settled, you know? So, I just lived on honey for many weeks.
And there are... there are tribes called Honey shepherds in India, they're called Jenukuruvas.
So, I went and lived with them. And they just live on honey. Every day from morning to evening, just
the've bamboo glasses about (Gestures) this tall, approximately about three-fourths of a liter it
would take, you just drink that, that's the food, and you are so energized means you don't need
anything else for the whole day. You're climbing trees, you're doing all kinds of crazy things, but
it takes care of you (Laughs), one liter of honey.
So, I'm just telling you because I heard honey kee... beekeeping is a big deal here (Applause).
That's... that's probably one of the smartest things that you've done in your country.
It will pay, it will pay in future, not just with honey (Applause), it will pay in many ways
(Applause).