Speaker: For the first time in nine years Sadhguru conducted the powerful Samyama program
at III (Referring to Isha Institute of Inner-sciences)
in the USA, for close to nine-hundred participants.
April 10th, Sadhguru attends the Happy City Summit in Amaravati, Andhra Pradesh, and has
a conversation with CM Chandrababu Naidu about the making of the new city.
Sadhguru: We have forgotten where we come from.
We have forgotten the land that we walk upon.
We have forgotten the air that we breathe, we have forgotten the water that we drink.
It’s very important that we create spaces, if not the entire city, atleast spaces where
people are inevitably guided to get engaged with everything that they are in touch with.
All the ingredients that make our life.
Physical creation is essentially geometric, whether it's atomic structure, cellular structure,
or many, many things that the… planetary structures or the universe or the cosmos.
Today, modern science has come up with something called as constructional theory, where they
are talking about how the atom and the cosmos are fundamentally same design – complexity
and sophistication is multiplying but fundamentally same design.
This is something always is the basis of the yogic process, that the way you are made in
some way is the way the cosmos is made.
How we can relate this, the entire system of Yoga is about mastering the geometry of
your existence – how you sit, how you stand, how you breathe – all these aspects because
a city or a space or a building can create joy simply because of the type of geometry
it has and how it relates to your existence.
So it is great that we are thinking of happy cities.
Happy World (Applause).
Speaker: April 13th, Sadhguru speaks at the Mint Asia Hindustan Times Leadership Summit
in Singapore.
Sadhguru: Success is the sweetest thing in human life.
But unfortunately if you look at the faces of successful people on the planet, you get
an idea, ‘Success must be a deep suffering,’ and it is (Laughs),
because if you look at people, you will see, somebody who is not so successful once they
come… come to terms with their failures, they can walk on the beach, they can laugh,
they can sing, they can dance.
Successful people can't do a thing because (Laughs), they are successful and they are
demonstrating to the world, ‘Success is a great suffering.’
This is a wrong message to send to the next generation.
It is very, very important that we send out a message, ‘Success is the sweetest thing
that can happen in human life.’
If a society stops seeking success, that is a down-the-drain society, it is finished.
It is very important, at every level of life, we are seeking success, because this is the
nature of human existence.
You might have earned a billion dollars yesterday but today, if you can't hit the ball straight,
you feel miserable (Laughs), because success is not just about big things in life.
The very purpose of action is success, isn't it?
Speaker: April 14th to 15th, Sadhguru initiates participants into Shambhavi Mahamudra, at
the two-day Inner Engineering program, in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.
Sadhguru: Right now, what Shambhavi means is, if you sit here, your body is here, your
mind seems to be somewhere else, what is you is elsewhere.
Once there is a little space between you and your body and you and your mind for that matter,
then you are moving from compulsiveness to consciousness.
Compulsiveness means in your patterns of life it is happening because of old memories and
old habits, acquired things which makes you compulsive.
When you become conscious of something, suddenly that compulsiveness is not there, isn't it?
So the entire process is to see how to create a little distance between you and your physical
nature and your psychological baggage.
Then suddenly you find you are far more conscious, and there is no limit.
Once you are conscious, there is no limit; there is another dimension of intelligence
within you, where there is not an iota of memory.
It's just pure intelligence, as life is.
Once you are in touch with it, then what a human being can do and cannot do these lines
are blurred.
Suddenly, you seem to be hugely empowered.
Shambhavi can do that to you.
Speaker: April 19th, in conversation with Jonathan Coslet, at Stanford Graduate School
of Business on capitalism and spirituality.
April 20th, keynote speech at US-India strategic partnership forum on Capitol Hill, Washington
DC.
April 21st, Inner Engineering program at Long Beach, California, with intent seekers.
April 25th, in conversation with actor Ed Begley Jr.
Sadhguru: We are take… consuming more medicine than food.
What's wrong with us (Laughs)?
In this sixty percent of the consumed consumption, I believe is in United States.
The wealthiest nation on the planet is not healthy, because they don't know what to eat.
Everything they eat, they have poisoned it themselves.
Somewhere, one little farm, organic here, organic there.
No, by law it should be so.
The time is over for that, where thinking people will do it consciously and it will
happen.
It has to be enforced.
If it is not enforced now, it is going to be late because the amount of human suffering
we are causing with this is too much.
Speaker: April 14th to 28th, ninety-eight personnel from the Border Security Force of
India underwent Isha Hatha Yoga training at Isha Yoga Center.
They were empowered with technologies for inner well-being – Upa Yoga, Angamardana
and Surya Kriya, Aumkar and Isha Kriya.
Further, many of them were equipped to be trainers to impart these powerful practices
to other BSF.
Meanwhile, throughout this month Rally for Rivers volunteers who have committed themselves
to the cause of revitalizing India's rivers full-time for a period of three years, have
been undergoing training at Isha Yoga Center.
They participated in training workshops led by national level experts in diverse areas
such as soil science, agriculture, livestock, micro-irrigation, integrated Rural Development,
policymaking and government functions, FPO’s and hydrology.
Upon completing this technical training this month, these Nadi Veeras will set out into
the six states of India which have signed MOU’s with Isha foundation and begin the
on-ground work.