(Sadhguru): We’ve come up with the Adiyogi
it took me two and a half years to design this face.
we created dozens and dozens of faces and forms, ,
I somehow could not agree. Every time I describe something
our IT team works on it and comes up with this,
then I don’t like the nose, I don’t like the ears,
I don’t like this, I don’t like that
and it went on for two and a half years,
we came up with many dozens of images.
Finally we arrived at an image somehow.
I thought this represents what we are looking at as Adiyogi.
And now we built one twenty-one feet tall
and he is sitting in America in Tennessee
the Tennessee ashram (Applause).
and
we are in the process of building one which is hundred-and-twelve feet tall
just the face it’s
it’s going to be the largest face on the planet,
just the face (Applause).
One is coming up near the ashram.
We want to put this, four corners of the country.
So I am thinking East means we’ll put it up in Varanasi,
North means somewhere north of Delhi,
West means we are… we were thinking of Rajasthan
but again it’s too far out in the desert,
so West means now we are thinking Mumbai (Applause).
So this is going to be an iconic presence for this city.
The one that we place in the ashram is in a remote place but we want him there.
So he is
nobody can create an Adiyogi for sure
but he largely
this image beginning to represent that it kind of jelled with my mind.
So he has a certain presence
and we’ve also created one foot tall ones and six inches ones, nine inches ones,
all kinds but we want hundred-and-twelve feet tall ones come
because he gave one hundred-and-twelve ways
in which a human being can attain to his ultimate nature.
Because he created hundred-and-twelve ways,
we thought as a acknowledgement for providing us one hundred-and-twelve ways
through which we can know,
still being in the body
He also mentioned this.
When Parvati challenged him, “Why can’t there be more,”
and they went through that whole drama.
Then he said, “Hundred and twelve ways if you are rooted in the body.
If you are not rooted in the body then
as many atoms there are in the cosmos that many ways are there” (Applause).
So even if you are rooted in the body one hundred and twelve ways.
So we thought we cannot build something as many atoms in the universe.
So hundred and twelve ways
for those who are rooted in the body he provided hundred and twelve ways to attain ultimate nature.
So hundred-and-twelve-foot tall Adiyogi will come up.
I think we
These… These temples are not pure worshipping temples.
These are sadhana temples.
So if people come they can learn a three-minute yoga,
ten-minute yoga,
twenty-minute yoga,
thirty-minute yoga whatever.
If they come to the temple
there is a way to learn something for your inner well-being.
This is the fundamental shift that we want to bring about that is
for human well-being, instead of looking up you turn inward.
This shift needs to happen in the world (Applause).
As long as they are looking up, there’s going to be a fight on the planet.
My god versus your god,
struggle will never go.
Only if people start seeing
my well-being has to be addressed means I have to turn inward
if this awareness and this consciousness spreads,
only then you will see a different kind of humanity,
a different kind of world
where people will function in an entirely different way.
So we want to use this
event that’s coming up now on twenty-first of June which is declared the International Yoga Day
where hundred-and-seventy-seven nations have endorsed this for the first time.
In United Nations no resolution ever in the history of United Nations
got the support of one hundred-and-seventy-seven nations
International Yoga Day (Applause).
So International Yoga Day got this kind of support
and this has been
something that we’ve been working for that the leadership in the world
should begin to speak the spiritual possibility
and the benefits of turning inward.
And for the first time a head of a major nation is going out
in the committee of nations
in the United Nations our Prime Minister spoke about the importance and the significance of yoga.
When he is in conversation with the President of United States
seven minutes of the conversation was about yoga,
two minutes of the U.N. speech was about yoga.
Never before such things have happened.
what this means is the significance of life is shifting
from heaven to inner nature (Applause).
Those who think their well being is in heaven must proceed