Rajyavardhan: Namaskar Sadhguru!
The period of youth is defined by challenges, goals, achievements and ambitions.
Many chase success as defined by others.
In this hyper connected, information saturated era
there is the added stress of information overload and work related burnout.
Such stress takes away the happiness of our youngsters.
We see more and more cases of depression amongst youth.
How can the youth in such challenging times continually be happy?
I want to know the truth about youth and happiness.
Sadhguru: Namaskaram Raj and (Laughs)…
See in every generation, there is a set of people who are always complaining about something,
and of course there are people who are making use of the situations of their times.
As a generation today, we have more conveniences, comforts
and we are able to know whatever we wish to know.
People who are complaining about information overload, they must visualize and see
that a thousand years ago, you wouldn’t know what’s happening hundred kilometers away.
If even there was a great calamity or something fantastic happened hundred kilometers away,
it would take a month or two months for you to get the information.
Today anywhere in the world, whatever is happening comes to you quickly
and are you complaining about it (Laughs)?
Please do not complain about it because this is one of the greatest privileges
that we have as a generation that technologically we are empowered like never before.
Never before, another humanity had the capabilities that we have
simply because of technological empowerment.
It is just that, you have not prepared yourself for the life that you need to handle
In the sense, right now you’re complaining about technology
which has made your life easy and comfortable (Laughs).
I want you to just imagine a thousand years ago if you lived here
in the morning when you wake up, you need water for your use,
you will have to walk down to the river
and carry two buckets fulls of water.
Believe me, most of the youth (Laughs) today,
are not even fit enough to carry two buckets of water for a mile.
Physically they’re just not capable of doing it.
So, if you were here a thousand years ago without technology
would you carry these bucket fulls of water without complaint?
No, you would complain because you are physically not capable.
Similarly, if you’ve not made yourself mentally capable of handling various realities of today,
then you complain.
So what the youth needs to understand is, the early part of their life
the most important thing is not your ambitions, not your desires to be fulfilled
not the lifestyles that you aspire for.
The only thing that you should be concerned about it is
how to enhance this (Referring to Oneself) life to a higher level of possibility.
If you do invest enough time in the inner development of who you are
handling the present situations will be effortless.
And above all, you will not be complaining about the greatest gifts
that have been offered to you in this generation.
Never before, you could fly from India to United States in fourteen hours’ time.
Never before, you could pick up your phone and talk to somebody in any part of the world,
Never before, you could see a million things happening all over the world
And even in the outer space, you can see what’s happening.
Please do not complain about these great gifts that you have, you have to equip yourself.
Equipping yourself means, there are technologies for inner well-being.
What we’re transmitting as Inner Engineering is just this
that you engineer yourself in such a way, that you’re fit for life.
Instead of making yourself fit for life, you’re asking life around you to change
for your level of unfitness.
Please don’t do this.
Right now, the world is not moving any faster than what it was a few thousand years ago,
the world is still spinning at the same time,
it is just that we feel that the distances have been reduced
simply because of technological prowess that we have.
This is the most fantastic thing that’s happened to human beings is
we are so technologically empowered
we can see beyond our normal vision, you can hear beyond your normal sense of hearing,
you can experience things beyond your normal sense of experience.
It’s just that you have to upgrade yourself.
The technology around you is phenomenally upgrading itself every few months or years.
It’s time you upgrade yourself.
Upgradation of this (Referring to Oneself) technology, Upgradation of who you are,
enhancement of this life needs to happen.
This is what inner engineering or yoga means
that you focus on enhancing this (Referring to Oneself) life.
Without enhancing this life, if you enhance your activity, of course you suffer the activity.
It is like taking an old (Laughs) junky car on a F1 track, it’ll fall apart.
That’s all that’s happening to people.
It’s time that instead of just educating our children, just to make a living
just to find a job, just to get into this one, or that one
we have to educate our children to first of all enhance themselves.
Tools for self-transformation are the most important requirement of this age
because external situations are going to be largely handled by machines.
It’s very important you are little smarter than the machines that you handle.