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Participant 1: Isha Mahashivaratri is very unique in its grandeur and the kind of energy
that Sadhguru brings forth that night.
This year is very, very special because Sadhguru is consecrating the hundred-and-twelve feet
statue of Adiyogi.
We also have a very special guest who is the prime minister of this country who is… who
will be coming as a Chief Guest for this event, so we expecting a very large number of people
to come to participate in the event.
Participant 2: When we were constructing the Suryakund in the mid of the meeting he was
saying we have to make an Adiyogi statue, you people work out on the face or different
postures of Adiyogi.
That’s how we started that project, that’s how it initiated.
It didn’t happen in a month or a two, it took almost two to three years.
So after completing you know we made two twenty-one feet statue, one we have shift to US ashram
and another one is in front of Suryakund.
So when we had… when he was saying to… was in the process of making the second one,
he said why don’t we make hundred-and-twelve feet.
So hundred-and-twelve feet means in my…massive…mind, I couldn’t think how big it will be.
The design part is once Sadhguru approved that model we have done the twenty-one feet.
So twenty-one feet the same thing we are going to blow up for a hundred-and-twelve feet,
so the artist part is done.
It is only Swami Vahava’s part, it took three months for him to convert from 2D to
3D.
He used to work day and night, and I asked… anna used to say even in my dreams only lines
are coming, I don’t see anything as curves because everything he… it should be somewhere
around sixty-five thousand… sixty-five kilometers of lines he has done.
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Bharadwaj Ravi: Okay, so this year we have twenty one drum… twenty-one big drums being
played at one point of time, also we have five thousand drummers who will be playing.
It requires a big coordination, you can imagine like we use where the previous Mahashivaratris
we have been just using having around like three to four big drums and from there we
are expanding to like twenty-one big drums and then there are five thousand… drums
on top of it.
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Sadhguru: I started writing, I don’t know where the book went off.
All four line poems just powerful meaning, in English I can write.
See even the existing poems, you don’t have to sing the whole thing you can take four
powerful lines from that and just sing that.
Translate that and sing that.
Because nowhere am I mentioning the word Shiva or Adiyogi anything but it’s about that,
it’s about that dimension, not about the person, but it’s about the dimension.
Here we are establishing a form which will become like a person, so this is very important
for us that we don’t make it too much of a personality.
People need a form to identify.
But it shouldn’t become too much about the person, it must be about the dimension that
he… he’s supposed to represent.
So all everything that we say must be about the dimension not too much about the person
and adulatory stuff.
Bharadwaj Ravi: So it’s not required to have the word Adiyogi or?
Sadhguru: You can have, but we don’t have to praise Adiyogi, you did this, you did that
kind of thing.
In we have to…talk in terms of how you are there and you are not there and that kind
of stuff, how you’ve said when I am in trouble I thought you will reach out but then you
said, you will sleep (Few laugh).
I will write these things.
See whe… when I asked what will you do when I am in trouble, I thought you will reach
out but then you said, you will sleep.
So, (Laughs) what he did to me, these kind of things which are… which are different,
which must break people’s mind about what is divine.
Divine means they think it’s a place to go and beg for help.
No it is a way to empower yourself.
So this you must bring ahh… bring you out in many different ways.
Participant 3: So like everything else that happens in the ashram…
every aspect of the event right from the construction of the Adiyogi to, how a simple thing like
a barricade is done or you know how we are going to manage the footwear for so many people.
Every small aspect of this, Sadhguru is paying very keen attention.
We have had walkthroughs with him at the venue, his involvement with the event is such that
he wants to make sure that every individual who comes even though there could be many
lakhs of people here.
Their th…
The arrangements are such that they are able to sit and experience the Mahashivaratri night.
Be with Adiyogi, go through the processes and it should be a night of transformation
for each individual.
Sounds of Isha music - Lage Re Lage Mane Lage Re…
Sounds of Isha music - Alai Alai…
Sadhguru: I am receiving various messages and calls from across the country and many
other parts of the world by many different people not just our meditators, many different
people from all walks of life who watched Mahashivaratri on the television or they watched
it on the YouTube or wherever else it is.
Largely in one voice almost all of them are saying this is one of the most extraordinary
event that they have witnessed (Applause).
And I agree with them (Laughter) because it is one of the most extnor… extraordinary
events that I’ve witnessed, so I have to agree with them.
This is one comment that is coming from everywhere in the country, people watched this sea of
humanity in the midnight meditation they saw them and nearly I think thirty-two channels
across the country who are telecasting this.
Crores of people, millions and millions of people have watched this one single comment
that is coming from everywhere is we’ve never seen so many people sitting there wrapped
in meditation, unmoving.
When this entire thing is happening whatever those fifteen, twenty minutes, the entire
crowd was sitting there unmoving, most of them are not meditators (Applause).
So it takes all these people- small people, big people, those who did big things, those
who did small things, it takes all of them to make an event a great success.
I wish to acknowledge them and bow down to all of them because without them this wouldn’t
be what it is.
Beyond caste, creed, religion, gender, it’s my only wish that every human being should
know how to be blissful within themselves.
External situations will work in so many different ways, some things will happen our way, some
things will not happen our way it’s always going to be like that.
But, what happens within you must happen your way.
Sounds of Isha music - Ya Ghat Bheetar…