Questioner (Kalvakuntla Kavita): Since you have mentioned Mahabharata, Ramayana and all
these scriptures, and also we have been speaking about being…
Sadhguru: If I can correct that…
Questioner (Kalvakuntla Kavita): Please.
Sadhguru: See, we should not misunderstand what is a scripture and what is a very organic
way of writing our history.
An epic is a historical document written in a lively form so that it is relevant to you
all the time.
See right now, the modern way of…
Western way of writing history is like this.
This King came, he killed so many people, he did this, he did that, he died (Laughter).
And next one came, he did this, he did that, he died.
What are you going to do with this?
I am saying thousand years ago, somebody lived or died, what does it matter to you?
But when you read Ramayan, Mahabharat, these are live stories so that you can relate it
to you, even today.
So you… this is genuinely learning from the past because the basis of being human
is just this that we can learn from somebody else's experience.
All the nonsense need not happen to us.
By seeing something is happening to somebody, we can learn.
Maybe it happened 5,000 years ago, but we can still correct our lives by looking at
what happened to them.
So historical documents written in a very organic way, need not be mistaken for scriptures.
There is nothing scriptural about Mahabharat or Ramayan, they are just stories.
History which is written in a way that will always be relevant for people's lives.
Questioner (Kalvakuntla Kavita): Exactly.
That is my point, Mahabharat, Ramayan, they are very, very relevant to our society.
And when you look at Ramayan, the way Sita was treated, you know, these examples of women
being treated by men the way they want to treat them, they have certainly left an imprint
in the minds of Indian men.
There is no doubt about that, since you said these are the learnings that we take from
the past.
And we have we have dramatized them, put them in a very good way and our grandfathers recite
these poems, and these are day-to-day household stories.
So, my question to you, Sadhguruji is you know, when you have a… when you have to
learn from these things, when you have been learning from these things from generations,
Ramayan, Mahabharat and many more stories, how do we expect the current Indian men to
not treat his wife like Sita or not treat his wife (Sadhguru laughs) like Draupadi (Applause)?
I mean, for this generation, we truly want to understand, how do you… you know, unlearn
these things that we have learnt all our life?
And how do you hit a refresh button and start all over again, by looking at a woman as a
respectable figure, as an individual, as a person living and _____ (Unclear) in her?
How do we, you know, how do we teach this to our children?
That is what I want to learn.
Sadhguru: Let me ask the ladies, would they like to be treated like Sita, let me put it
in the right perspective.
Suppose, suppose you were living in Uttar Pradesh, hmm, not today, 5,000 years ago,
and a man came from Sri Lanka and kidnapped you.
Would you like a man who will walk all the way to Sri Lanka to find you or find a practical
solution locally, because anyway (Laughter) he was king?
I am asking…
I am asking you what kind of man do you want in your life?
The man walked all the way, fought a battle, burned down a city, to get back his wife.
It's not a small thing.
Questioner (Kalvakuntla Kavita): But then he again gave her an agnipariksha you know,
he didn't trust his wife.
So I mean…
Sadhguru: See, we are… we are taking these words literally.
Agnipariksha did not mean somebody has to enter the fire, means she was put through
some test, of course, because you are the king, everybody is looking at you as an ideal.
How you behave, what you do, is very important because the entire nation's life depends on
you.
Today, our biggest problem is this, in the country.
This is the Dhritarashtra syndrome from then to now (Laughter), okay?
So he is setting an example in those days, it doesn't matter, she is pregnant.
That means his sons are inside.
For a king, his sons are important because it is an empire.
But in spite of that, he sends her to the jungle, because otherwise there is disruption
in the country.
You are seeing this as a negative thing.
I think we need such prime ministers and leaders in this country, no matter what, for the well-being
of the nation, they will do what is needed (Applause).