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Sadhguru: I very much understand the sacrifice and the situation of staying away from families
for long periods of time
and especially the sacrifice
that the families, the wives and children
and mothers and fathers are making in this.
This is still an unfortunate situation
in the world, where
every border has to be guarded.
Since 1947
when we got this out of wrested it out of foreign powers
and got it into our own hands,
I think we were too excited
about this idea of freedom
and we did not understand
what territory means.
When I say this,
in the running of a nation,
usually most nations
unless they were broken up by somebody else,
most ancient nations are formed
on the basis of geographical features,
but we broke up in a hurry
and we put lines
which are very difficult to guard.
And above all
we cut off trade routes
which we have been using for thousands of years.
We have been trading with Damascus, Jerusalem, Greece, Rome, for thousands of years
through these routes
and we cut that off on the western border.
And the eastern routes have been on forever,
we cut that off
on the eastern border and
we made a nation.
Somewhere, we were too excited
about the idea of freedom,
not really looking at the making of a nation.
We were new to freedom
and we cut ourselves into pieces
without understanding what future problems
we will have,
which unfortunately
both the political entities
- our neighbor and us are suffering.
Because we did not understand the making of a nation.
To protect a free nation,
what it takes,
to make a free nation prosper what it takes,
we did not look at it in full depth and dimension.
I’m not trying to blame anybody, all I’m saying is,
we were new and we were in a hurry.
In many ways
the troubles of our armed forces are related to this,
the kind of terrains we have placed them in,
without reason, in plain open land sometimes.
So, as your commander was saying
you are in minus fifteen degrees centigrade
and fifty two degrees centigrade in Rajasthan,
extreme conditions
- apart from that staying away from families.
This staying away from families in the past, it was not so much of a problem – because,
almost any man who was active either in business
or in anything, stayed away from families
for long periods of time
- but today because of cell phone and Facebook and Twitter (Laughs),
you got in the border with your family right behind you which is tough (Laughter).
They’ve come very close to the border
- your family, which is tough because,
when you’re doing certain type of jobs,
not only soldiering,
when you’re doing certain type of jobs,
your women and children should not be around you, you cannot do that job well.
It will bring so much concern and fear that you cannot do that job well,
but this is the modern life
that they are everywhere.
Every five minutes they can call you.
There are issues like this,
this is the trouble of the modern times,
but at the same time
it is also a solace for the families that they can be in touch with you.
But I can imagine
what will happen to the families and to you,
suppose there is some kind of action
at that time,
if you turn on your cell phone
and let them hear the gun fire, this is going to be a disaster.
I really don’t have a solution
for that but,
we can teach you something
all the forces
where keeping you calm
keeping your chemical balance in the system
- I’m not talking about even mental balance,
more fundamental
- keeping your chemistry in balance
so that you can handle these things is possibility.
But for this modern day communications
I would say excessive communication,
not just for the soldiers, for everybody (Laughs),
too much of communication is a bit of a issue,
but we have to learn to deal with it.
But I feel this is first generation of soldiers having this level of communication,
may be in other five-ten years
they will learn to handle it,
because you can’t cut it off (Laugh).
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