Speaker: This question is for both of you.
To my knowledge I haven't seen anybody from our IIM alumni becoming a guruji or an actor.
What is your advice and your thoughts on this (Laughter/ Applause)?
Speaker: Really?
No mystics, no, no performers, no?
What do most IIM alumnus become you have to tell… enlighten me.
Sorry, what?
Speaker: They become boring.
Speaker: They become boring bankers (Laughter).
Speaker: I see jubilant faces yaar.
Jubilant.
Sadhguru: So, I think our education system, not just at IIM, right from kindergarten is
life-taking process (Laughter/Applause).
Speaker: Guruji why don’t you open a school?
I would love to send my kids there.
Sadhguru: You must come and see my school, how we’re running our school, top.
Children want to come there before the vacations are over (Laughs).
But one school is not good enough.
See, we have made education system into an industrial process of turning out certain
kind of products.
This is a crime against humanity if you ask me.
So about, about why education does not produce either mystics or even actors for that matter.
Because both of them need some versatility.
Not a set straitjacket.
In a straitjacket, nobody ever became a mystic.
In a straitjacket, maybe in India, certain type of actors you can become (Speaker laughs),
you can do the same thing in every movie and still you're an actor (Laughter).
No, this is happening.
Speaker: Agreed, yaar agreed.
Same movie, same thing every time.
Sadhguru: I saw only one of yours so I'm not making judgment on you.
Speaker: (Speaks in Hindi – not transcribed).
Sadhguru: So, if you have a straitjacket, you cannot act, you definitely can't, cannot
access other dimensions of life.
I am saying the general system, not just IIM, right from early school it is, it is conditioning
the mind to such a limited way of looking at life.
You're only cultivating intellect.
You will see all those people who are using their intellect and thinking they're doing
great.
All of them become, will become irrelevant in the next ten to fifteen years’ time.
Because everything that you can do by gather… gathering data, analyzing and bullshitting
everybody in the world (Laughter) is not going to work.
A simple, a simple gadget, your phone will do it.
Already the Google lady looks much smarter than you (Laughter) than your professor, isn't
it?
Right from my childhood I never understood why I should go to school.
I, I just did not understand what were they trying to do in that school?
I just couldn't figure what is it they are trying to do?
Just reading a damn book to me.
They just have to teach me how to read.
It just goes on for twelve, fifteen, twenty years, the same thing.
This… see there are, there are studies which clearly show twenty years of formal education,
seventy percent of your intelligence is irrevocably destroyed (Laughter).
That means you have come out as a knowledgeable idiot (Speaker laughs).
You will have to undo it, then people talk about unlearning, tch.
Why?
It's simply unnecessary.
There are other ways to do education.
All you have to do for a human being is to develop their body and their brain to the
fullest possible extent, the rest they will do.
But none of the schools are focused on this.
They're only interested in how to cram something in that you don't like so that you can puke
on the examination day (Laughter).
So if you change the system, well, places of learning definitely must create mystics
and actors also, why not?