(Questioner): So my question is
should we believe in that
like the qualities of vegetarianism,
non-alcoholism,
celibacy,
practice them so that we make our body fit.
So that that kriya of eleven minutes will be more effective?
(Sadhguru): See, this is what I have been saying right through
why even eating is a moral value?
Food is about the body.
We must eat what is suitable for this body
but right now you are talking about making food into a habit.
I want to tell you there is no such thing as good habit or bad habit.
Habit means you’re functioning unconsciously.
If you are functioning unconsciously
that’s the bad thing
because the whole thing about being human is
we are capable of doing things consciously.
That is the beauty of being human
that we can do everything consciously.
What an animal does unconsciously
we can do the same thing consciously.
We can eat unconsciously
or we can eat consciously.
We can breathe unconsciously or we can breathe consciously.
Everything that we can do,
we can do it consciously.
The moment we do something consciously
suddenly that human being looks very refined and wonderful.
Just because somebody walks and speaks consciously,
doesn’t he become a beautiful human being?
Yes or no?
Yes
That’s all.
So why is it that we are trying to develop habits as
if this is a good thing?
Habit means fixed realities where you don’t have to think.
You get up in the morning and it’ll happen to you.
No, don’t try to automize your life.
That is not efficiency.
That is the efficiency of the machine.
This one is supposed to function intelligently and consciously.
Nobody is expecting it to function like a machine.
So about food and stuff
food must be suitable for the body that we eat for
it is for the body.
This is the building material for this body
the food that you’re eating.
What is the appropriate food
unfortunately is all messed up right now.
Traditionally we ate very sensibly in this country
but these thousand years of invasions has brought other kinds of food cultures
and today the national diet is pizza or pasta.
What is it …which is one, I don't know,
both are competing.
So we are losing our sense about food.
It’s definitely time
to look at what is the most suitable thing.
If I go into that food,
it's a very long process
but you must experiment with food,
not just by the tongue,
but by the body.
You eat something today and see
just learn to observe how agile and how active your body feels after eating this food.
If it feels like it wants to go to the grave that’s not good food.
if it feels like it wants to be alive after eating this
except coffee because that’s a stimulant
if you eat food and your body feels very agile and alive
that means it's good food,
body is liking it.
If you eat something, it feels dull that means it's not liking it.
It’s having difficulty with it that’s why it feels dull.
So just on this basis.
There’s a much,
I mean this is the very simplistic way of putting it.
When we say health, if someone says you have no ailment, it does not mean you’re healthy.
When you wake up in the morning, are you feeling alive and bouncy or not?
The word health comes from the word whole.
You must have a certain sense of wholeness of body, mind, energy and
the fundamental nature of your existence.
If all these things are in alignment, now when you wake up in the morning,
you feel like you're just born.
If this happens to you, then that means you're healthy.
One simple thing all you girls can do is,
just bring forty to fifty percent of the food in
its raw form.
That is it’s alive, it must be a live cell.
It can be a vegetable, it can be a fruit, it can be a nut, it can be sprouted gram.
At least forty to fifty percent, the food that you eat must be alive.
You eat dead food and you want to live - this is a little difficult thing to do because
you have to raise the dead now.
When you cook the food...
to digest the food - all the ingredients necessary for digestion are not in the body alone,
the food also brings these enzymes.
When you cook the food, you are largely destroying these enzymes.
Minus the enzymes when you eat,
now the body has to struggle to reconstruct that part that’s been destroyed,
and then only it can digest.
Normally first one, one and a half hours after eating, it tends to take the body down.
After that slowly it recovers.
Have you noticed this?
So food is for energy, but we are making the food in such a way that
it takes away energy in the first one and a half hours,
only after that, slowly it comes back.
Anyway, however good your digestive process is,
still you can never reconstitute all the enzymes that we have destroyed by cooking.
Only partly we can do that.
If your digestive process is very strong and good,
you reconstitute about forty to fifty percent of what’s been destroyed.
If it does a little timid kind of digestion, it’s much less.
So whichever way, if you are eating cooked food,
fifty to sixty percent of the food that you are eating is generally going waste.
But the body has to still process that.
And the amount of energy that it spends and
the amount of trauma that it goes through is very big.
Groundnuts
Palm Jaggery
Millets
Food means many things to many people but essentially, for the body, it’s the fuel
If you put the right kind of fuel, this (Referring to the body) will be on in a certain way.
If you put the wrong kind of fuel, somehow it will manage.
I’m not telling you, eat this way, eat that way.
Just experiment and see, all right?
Just experiment and see
Tonight if you go, instead of eating whatever cooked food, just eat fruits and see
Tomorrow morning, you will not need an alarm bell, you’ll wake up before the alarm bell.
And you will see - all these eyes will not be sticking like this (Gestures), like that
(Gestures) -
you wake up, instantly you’re bright and alert.
People do not know what it means to be at absolute ease within their body.
Ninety-five percent of the people do not know this, unfortunately,
because you put the wrong kind of fuel.
You can keep this body like breeze.
Simply it goes ahead of you, you don’t have to drag it wherever you go,
it must float ahead of you.
You can do this, just putting the right kind of fuel.
World Health Day