- If you look at this generation,
let's say two generations ago,
how many people in UK thought they will go to heaven?
And today how many people think they're going to heaven
and they're preparing for it?
Has come down dramatically,
80% heavens have collapsed in people's minds.
Still they don't dare to say that
because there is still fear.
But in their minds the aspiration of going to heaven
is largely collapsed.
So when heavens collapse, what will human beings do?
They will try to find it here,
which is a very good thing.
But, if you don't show them any way
to find a heaven within themselves,
that is when at least 80 to 85% of the population today
is on alcohol or some kind of drug happening
simply because they are trying to build
their own little heaven.
Because the other heaven that was promised for a long time
has collapsed in their minds.
We have come to a place
where to grow our food we need chemicals,
to be healthful we need chemicals.
Today 70% of the population
is on prescription medication of some sort.
To be peaceful we need chemicals,
to be joyful we need chemicals,
to be ecstatic, of course you have ecstasy.
So we are going towards chemicals in a huge way,
the water that you drink is full of chemicals,
the air that you breathe is like that,
and the food that you eat is like that.
So if 90% of humanity goes into chemical consumption,
consciously or unconsciously they consume a lot of it,
the next generation that we produce
will be of a lesser quality than who we are.
That's a crime against humanity.
- Has that happened before in history?
- No, generally always the next generation is better
than the previous generation.
But today we're coming to a place
where we could be producing
a next generation which is less than us.
Once that happens, we have done something very negative
against the fundamental life process.
So, this heavens collapsing and then it's like a trapeze,
you're leaving one trapeze,
you need something else,
if you don't find it, you'll hang on to anything.
So right now, chemical is a net, it's not another trapeze,
it's a net that you can fall into
and people experience their own little heaven,
while it ruins you in so many ways.
See anything, this is not a moral issue for me,
what I am saying is,
the important thing about life,
whether it is a grasshopper out there or you,
both of us are striving to be the fullest possible life
that we can be.
A grasshopper is trying to be a full fledged grasshopper,
a human being is trying to be a full fledged human being.
So suppose you cut of one of grasshoppers legs
which is supposed to hop,
the hopping leg if you take it off,
have you enhanced its life? I am asking you.
- No.
- No, so similarly for a human being,
if you take away any of his faculties,
in any way, even temporarily,
have you enhanced his life?
- No.
- So intoxication is just that,
it is taking away your faculties for a period of time,
but if you continuously do it,
it will take it away for your life.
So you are taking away or subjugating your faculties
for a little bit of pleasure, or maybe a lot of pleasure,
however you wish to describe it,
but the important thing is you're taking a backwards step
with life because life can only be enhanced by sharpening
and increasing our faculties,
not by decreasing our faculties.
Our ability to be active physically, mentally, emotionally,
spiritually, if this is in any way crippled,
this means we're taking a backwards step,
though there may be pleasure attached to it.
So I am teaching them a way.
If you sit here with your eyes closed,
every day I'm very proud of this now,
there are millions of people,
in the morning if they sit
with their eyes closed for a minutes,
tears of ecstasy will flow.
Millions of people across the world.
- [Interviewer] That you've taught?
- Yes, this is what needs to happen,
because you need to understand
the greatest chemical factory,
the most sophisticated chemical factory, is right here.
The question is only are you a great CEO
or a lousy CEO.
If you are a great manager,
you will produce what you want from this.
If you are a lousy manager, you do wrong things,
you get anxiety, you get something else,
you get rubbish going on with the new
because you are misusing your chemical factory,
or you don't know how to manage your chemical factory.
Just look at my eyes, I am always toned.
Never touch a substance, but always toned.
- Is this because we have the technology for the chemicals?
Or are people taking the chemicals
a reaction to this anxiety?
- No no,
every human being wants his life enhanced.
If you don't show them proper ways to enhance,
they will find shortcuts.
See a man who goes to the bar
and a man who goes to a church or a temple or a whatever,
they're seeking the same thing,
they're trying to enhance their life.
Isn't it?
If you do not show them a proper way,
they will take whatever ways are available on the street,
that's all.
That's why I'm saying it's not a moral issue for me.
It is just that it sets you backwards.
You want to go forward, but it sets you backward.
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