does anyone else have any questions?
There’s a lot.
Maybe someone
Sadhguru: She has the microphone, yeah (Laughs).
Dr. Benjamin R. Doolittle: Yeah, you got the
mike, go ahead.
Questioner: Hello.
Thank you very much for a wonderful lecture
and you’re definitely very smart man (Laughter).
My question is...
Sadhguru: That’s the worst insult anybody
has thrown at me (Laughter).
Dr. Benjamin R. Doolittle: He started by saying
he doesn’t know anything.
That was his whole (Laughter)
Questioner: Maybe this is the main sign of
a smart person.
So my question is that you mentioned before
that
just belief without clarity is not a good
thing.
And I’m absolutely impressed by amount of
volunteers,
like millions of the volunteers.
I cannot even imagine how many people come
flown in and not volunteer
and so it’s a lot.
Do you think they are all driven by clarity
and search for clarity?
Or they believe that once they will do Inner
Engineering,
they will work on the process of gaining joy
and eventually they will have a positive story
with you
or the positive story, as you mentioned before?
Thank you.
Sadhguru: See, if...
For any human being to do something,
either it should have worked for them,
or it should have worked for somebody around
them.
If you want to buy a car,
either you will test drive it and see whether
it works for you
or you’ll ask the opinion of your friend
who is driving that particular car,
“Is this been good for you?”
Yes or no?
So I must tell you, a... as a rule,
for the first twenty, twenty-one years of
my existence as a teacher,
as a rule,
I never appeared in the media –
never once (Laughs) –
to a point, where media started writing about
me,
“He’s running some kind of a secret school”
(Laughs)
because I refused to meet the media,
no advertisement,
no any kind of posters,
not even a brochure.
Only by word-of-mouth, millions of people
came.
Because once it works for somebody,
they want it to work for their family,
their friends and things.
That’s how it happened.
In the last fifteen years or sixteen years
now –
fifteen actually –
from 2001 is when you have heard about me
all over
because we’re making a lot of noise in the
last fifteen years,
because these projects,
which we started as small endeavors in the
local area,
caught on so well and they became such major
projects of planting trees,
education, health
We are active in 53,000 villages.
So, it needs enormous support,
otherwise this can't be done.
For a... a non-religious movement,
which doesn’t offer any miracles like this
Never before, as I know, in the last two hundred,
three hundred years,
never before, a spiritual movement has caught
on this kind of following,
where no ticket to heaven,
no miracles,
no any kind of stuff.
Only thing I’m telling them is,
badgering them that you are the source of
all your troubles (Laughs),
nobody else but you.
But millions are gathering,
which is very (Laughs) fantastic because
I must tell you this.
About thirty years ago, when I conducted programs,
over eighty-five percent of the people came
because of health reasons –
physical, mental ailments.
Today, on an average,
only about twelve percent of the people are
coming for health reasons.
The rest are coming because they’re seeking.
They want to know.
They want to experience.
They want their lives to be touched in a deeper
way than the way it is touched right now.
This is a phenomenal change that you’re
seeing in the world.
It’s never before, I think.
Only twelve percent are coming for health
reasons.
But at one time,
over eighty percent were coming for health
reasons,
which is a big shift.
Dr. Benjamin R. Doolittle: Any other question?
Maybe someone from up above there.
You’re right there in the front,
can you shout your question out?
Questioner: I was wondering if physical ailments
or health-related physical ailments
can be cured by or at least helped by yoga?
Sadhguru: There are...
We must understand, there are two kinds of
ailments.
In the yogic system, we look at health issues
as two ways.
One is caused by external organisms,
which I think modern medicine has handled
in a phenomenal way.
In fact, the birth of modern medicine happened
mainly
because of the epidemics and pandemics, which
were happening at that time,
where it would wipe out populations.
It is that which inspired people to experiment
and do the things that they did.
And when they found solutions, that is when
suddenly the...
the trust of the population shifted from one
to another,
simply because they could eliminate epidemics
and these were caused by external organisms.
But seventy percent of human ailments are
on self-help.
That is, they cause it to themselves in so
many ways.
For whatever reasons, knowingly, unknowingly,
they do it to themselves.
This seventy percent of ailments that people
cause to themselves
can be undone from within.
But if you have an infection,
you must go to the doctor.
If you have pneumonia, you must immediately
go to the doctor (Laughter).
Don’t try to do yoga (Laughter).
Now, are there instances?
We have thousands and thousands of people.
I would say hundreds and thousands of people,
who walked out of their ailments
without ever being treated for them.
We don’t treat people for yoga.
I must tell you this because we are in a medical
institution.
A bunch of doctors from United States came
to our Yoga Center.
We were...
We have a yogic hospital.
So, about twelve of them,
largely from this Michigan area,
and they came and stayed for three days.
And on the fourth day, they were very upset
and they wanted to leave.
I was very busy, I couldn’t meet them
and somebody came and told me,
“Sadhguru, all these doctors are very upset,
they want to go.”
I said, “What happened?”
“They are just very upset that there is
no yogic hospital here.
You told them there is yogic hospital, they
think there is no yogic hospital.”
Then I said, “Okay, let me see them” (Laughs).
Then I saw them.
They were really upset.
They were angry, they were f...
They felt cheated that there is no yogic hospital
here,
where are the patients,
where are the uniformed nurses and doctors
walking up and down?
I said, “See…”
At that time, on that day, maybe there were
over seventy patients.
But I said, “I thought I’ll put them to
good use
and I was making them work in the gardens”
(Laughter).
Nobody should ever understand sickness is
a reward.
They must want to get out of it as quickly
as possible.
Right now, we’re treating patients in such
a way,
people would want to be sick
whenever they want attention.
Not just that,
one important part of the yogic treatment
is,
what is called as Bhuta Shuddhi.
This means syncing and purifying the elements
within you.
Water...
Earth, water, air, fire and space.
These five dimensions you can work on,
this is the fundamentals of yoga.
So one of the most important thing is,
I want them barefoot, with open hands, to
work in the garden,
to just get in touch with the earth.
Be outside,
get in touch with the air, water, earth.
Half their ailments are gone.
Treatment is there little bit,
rest is all just connection with the world
around
because this (Referring to oneself) is a composite
of all these things.
You remove yourself and keep yourself in a
completely alien atmosphere,
where you’re not in touch,
you’re four inches above the ground all
the time (Laughs).
You will lose contact with what makes your
life.
It’s the very soil, which you’re carrying
as your body.
Is it not important that it needs to be touched
with its origins?
No, you’re looking up.
No, your life happens from this planet.
There are other dimensions to it, of course.
But physical health and the physical nature
around you
are very closely related.
If you don’t connect them,
health is an accident for most people.
Today, I see America probably has the highest
incidents of allergies
Is that so?
Am I right?
Very high.
This is mainly because they’re removed from
everything that’s natural.
They’re not in touch with anything that
is natural.
Everything is tampered with.
Those who are living in the open,
even in America,
I’m sure they have no allergy,
they have no issue of any kind,
they’re doing fine.
I think the homeless people are the most healthy
people in the end (Laughter).
They’re enduring all kinds of you know,
variations in weather
and still managing pretty well without healthcare
(Laughs).
Dr. Benjamin R. Doolittle: We probably have
time for one more question.
In the back, right there, shout it out!
Questioner: How to look for internal peace?
Sadhguru: How to?
Questioner: How to look for internal peace?
Sadhguru: Whoa, whoa!
You just came in (Laughter)? .
Dr. Benjamin R. Doolittle: Sorry,
was that internal peace or eternal peace?
Sadhguru: Internal.
Dr. Benjamin R. Doolittle: Internal peace.
Sadhguru: Okay. Now (Laughter)...
We... We’ve gone through this. Anyway,
whether it’s peace, or happiness, or joy,
or love or whatever,
it can only be internal.
It can’t be external.
Now, there are many ways to address this.
But one simple way is just this –
you just have to learn where the keyboard
is
for this big computer of your mind.
Right now, you don’t know where the keyboard
is,
you’re punching it somehow (Gestures) (Laughter),
something works.
No.
If you know where the keyboard is,
you would type out the right things, isn’t
it?
Fundamentally, it’s just that your mind
is not taking instructions from you.
Don’t ask for peace,
don’t ask for joy,
don’t ask for love.
Just you have to understand the mechanics
of
how this body and this mind works,
and then you cause whatever you want.
If you like turmoil, cause it.
If you want love, cause it.
If you want hate, cause it. That’s up to
you.
But I trust you, that if you are capable of
causing pleasantness or unpleasantness within
you,
you will choose the highest form of pleasantness
for yourself.
I trust you on that one.
Now that... You know, it started with this
fifty-four percent of doctors suffering,
which is unfortunate.
Doctors, all said and done, are rendering
a very key aspect of service to any given
society.
It’s very important that they are well.
I... I would like to make this offering,
that the doctors who are interested in this,
we would like to offer them the tools of Inner
Engineering,
so that they go out as truly healthy, joyful
life which is full of vitality,
that their very presence is an inspiration
for health,
for everybody who comes in touch with them.
This must happen.
Otherwise, what are we talking about health?
We’re talking medicine.
Medicine is a business.
Health is an aspiration for every human being.
If this fundamental aspiration is not fulfilled,
you cannot lead a human being to any other
aspiration.
Right now, there is some trouble in your body,
I will talk about enlightenment,
are you interested, I’m asking?
No.
Your back is aching, I will talk enlightenment,
you’re not interested.
“Will my backache go?”
That’s the only question, isn't it?
Because body has this power.
Unless you keep your body in such a way
that you don’t know whether it is here or
not...
This is what yoga means that your body becomes
like breeze.
If you sit here, you don’t know whether
your body is here or not.
Otherwise, if you sit here for one-and-a-half
hours,
your body says, “I must go to the bathroom”,
your body says, “I must drink”,
your body says, “I must do something”
because it is in a state of compulsive needs.
If you bring it to ease on all levels,
you will not know whether body is here or
not.
If you are in such a state,
you’re not even conscious whether it’s
here or not,
you have no gender issues,
you don’t care whether you’re a man or
a woman right now.
Yes?
It should not matter, I’m saying.
There’re only two places, where your gender
should matter –
bathrooms and bedrooms (Laughter),
nowhere else.
Dr. Benjamin R. Doolittle: And some people
even debate that,
which… you go to which bathroom (Laughter).
It doesn’t matter which bathroom,
so just it’s the bedroom (Sadhguru laughs).
Sadhguru: Everything is under debate (Laughter).
But I’m saying, to move the body from compulsive
needs
to a place where it is like a stepping stone,
not an impediment for your life
Right now, the compulsiveness of the body
is making people do all kinds of things in
the world.
People are not able to raise to a place,
where they can do something other
than the compulsive things that every other
creature does,
simply because they’ve not kept their body
as it should be kept.
This body can be upgraded to a place,
where it will function like an antenna,
which will download the cosmos.
Even if that doesn’t happen to you right
now,
the physicians of the world,
at least they must become an embodiment of
health and vitality.
This must happen.
Whatever is needed from our end,
we’re willing to do for Yale and you sir,
Doolittle.
Dr. Benjamin R. Doolittle: Thank you so much.
Sadhguru: And I am Dr. Do-nothing (Laughter).
