Sadhguru: Right from my childhood I always loved the month of March because month of
March heralded the end of the school and the beginning of the mango season and no nonsense
about education and going to school and all that stuff but on first of March this time
I went to school, to Isha Home school to meet the children who are outgoing after the twelfth standard.
These children have grown up here with us and I had to be there to spend atleast couple of hours with them.
This is truly wonderful how they’ve shaped up in the last few years but I see that though
we have managed to bring up these children without much concern about what they’ll do,
how they’ll earn their living and what is going to happen to them because I had no
such concern at all when I was growing up. What will happen to me? What will I do? How’ll I make my life?
March means I was mad as a March hare, that’s all I knew (Laughs). So here I was with these children.
They’ve really shaped up wonderfully and I am glad and all the people who’ve worked
to make this Home school happen. Incredible! What they have done.
Isha Home School is definitely one of the bright spots in the foundation.
It’s unique and it’s beautiful and it’s truly wonderful that even me who had always
allergy for a class room, when I go there, I wonder if I’ll get a second chance to
sit in a school once again (Laughs).
So that’s how the month of March started off this time around first of March.
And I could only spend a couple of hours with them because the FICCI FLO
ladies who had come from all over the country were waiting for me and we spent some time
with them, again a couple of hours.
It’s important that today…
I mean this month also has a International Women’s Day, it is important that we understand
men and women are of the same species.
It is utterly silly even to think who should get better of whom.
These’re two pieces of the same thing and all these debates about who is superior to whom.
Who should get better access to this and that? This should entirely go.
It’s important that except for the biological aspects, there should be no distinction as
to who is who and International Human Day should happen in the next decade or so, so
that this differentiation of who is a man who is a woman, who should get better this
should completely go away from a mature humanity, that’s what is needed.
I hope we drive this world in that direction, though there are many impediments, many mindset
blocks but it is possible to change this with the right kind of education, with the right
kind of attitude towards our own physical bodies.
And the same night I left for Ooty, the Nilgiri Mountains.
This time we went there because the Inner Engineering teachers, it is their annual meet
from second to forth.
This time they all decided to go to Nilgiri Mountains because it was also the hundredth
Guru Pooja celebrations for Sadhguru Shri Brahma and they wanted to be there in this
absolutely incredible terrain and wonderful people who lived there, these mountain people.
So our teachers were all there.
So I spent these two days second and third with them and our teachers most of them young people.
Even those who have been with us for over fifteen, twenty years are just touching or
crossing their forties and it is these young peoples who have created this movement on
the ground level and it’s truly fantastic because the way they have been working the
Dedication for their age the maturity and the insight and the wisdom that they have displayed is
truly phenomenal and I wish I could spend much more time with our teachers because there
is a lot more I could infuse into them.
Unfortunately the schedules and their schedules and my schedules, now it’s a competition
as who is busier than whom, that’s all (Laughs) because of that we barely get to meet once
or twice a year. But it’s been most wonderful spending this time in the blessed hills of Nilgiris and
we sat in this verdant forest.
Come fifth march, we’ve been in Bangalore for various meetings- but particularly the
board meeting of the Rally for Rivers, apart from the existing board members which is a
scintillating group of people.
We also added a very prominent name in the country Shri Kiran kumar, who has been heading
the Indian Space Research Organization for the last few years and he just retired and
gracefully he joined Rally for Rivers.
We welcome his presence and I am sure there will be incredible contributions that he can
make to this movement and Rally for Rivers is truly rolling on.
And in any time soon the advisory from the Central government and Niti Aayog will come
to the states as how to implement this and it’s very, very clear that this is doable.
This transformation of revitalizing rivers also is going to revitalize the farmer’s
life, so we are not going to restrict ourselves to the riverine lands, it is going
to spread across.
And there are many aspects which will transform Indian agriculture and in turn the rural life
in the country.
I want to see that in the next ten to twelve years’ time that this transformation happens.
If we show the necessary commitment and industry to make this happen- it is doable.
It is not a question of money but it’s a question of human concern that which will
bring about this possibility.
And many things that need to happen in Mumbai, we are also meeting the forest minister and
the concern officials to put the first on ground project, for a large demo project for
Rally for Rivers.
The detail project report has been prepare and that meeting is coming up today, but yesterday
evening was an event with the International Advertisers Association, all the top media
leaders were there and Isha foundation got an award as the “Green Crusader” of the
year, which is wonderful for all the volunteers who worked for this.
The millions of volunteers, many of them faceless, nameless people that we are not able to connect
as human beings but as an energy that flows in this direction- as the power that moves
this possibility.
They have all been a part of it.
It is an acknowledgement to all of them that they are all truly the “Green Crusader”
of this year and they will remain green crusader and these numbers will grow year on year and
it’s great for these media agencies to acknowledge this.
We’ve done one significant thing right now that is we are opening up our archives for
anybody who is willing to responsibly take this material and use it in whichever way
possible.
So openly I offered this to all the media houses that if they wish they can take the
material.
We have hundreds and hundreds of hours of video and audio material which can touch and
transform human life.
The intension is in the next three years’ time I am looking at at-least ninety percent
of the adult population in the world should have at-least a three minutes spiritual process
within themselves.
It doesn’t matters which religion which caste, creed, gender, race they belong to,
every human being should know how to do something within themselves for their own wellbeing
and transformation.
So as a part of this, translations into fourteen different languages and variety of activities
happening in the foundation, but we have realized the amount of material we have, the amount
of content we have and to translate this, to absorb this, to edit this and to put in
a right format.
Our own volunteers have done a fabulous job till now but I don’t think we’ll be able
to do it in a time frame.
So free of cost this is being offered.
People can even monetize this if they wish on their own platforms because the important
thing is we want this to reach the world and this is the time because we are in the times
of communication where our ability to communicate is fantastic.
Never before in the history of humanity could ever human beings communicate as widely as
we can do it today.
But the question is only, what are we going to communicate?
Are we going to communicate something that is of true wellbeing or are we going to communicate
something which will be divisive or we going to communicate something which is fundamentally
against human wellbeing?
This is the choice we have.
I want to see that humanity makes the right choice of communicating that which makes a
huge difference in the wellbeing of the human beings who live on this planet.
We are supposed to be the most intelligent creatures on this planet, if we exhibit that
intelligence not only us every other creature, the nature, the environmental situations,
everything can function better- everything can have a better life if we exercise our
intelligence in the right direction.
So from Mumbai, I am leaving for Delhi.
There are series of events and meetings and one important thing is we are speaking to
the Harvard alumni in India.
So interesting meetings and above all, Rally for Rivers is truly rolling on and there are
things to do in Delhi regarding this.
What do you think- you think I won my rad for the week.
Thank you.
Namaskaram.