Sadhguru's message to India's politicians

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00:00When we say Sadhguru, it means you don't go to him to discuss any scripture or tradition

00:13or ritual or culture or something, because the only thing that he knows is his own nature.

00:20I know this piece of life from its origin to its ultimate.

00:23I don't know any other scripture or tradition or ritual or anything.

00:28So you don't go to him, if you want to learn a scripture, you don't go to him.

00:33You want to debate some religion, you don't go to him.

00:36If you want to know something about the nature of your life, you go to him.

00:41As a nation, I think Dubai is a miracle.

00:45In the middle of a desert, what has been done is a true genius, there's no question about

00:50it.

00:52And I think in a place like this, where there is no great natural resource, no any kind

01:00of… you didn't dig gold or oil or anything in a big way, but still they made this place

01:05prosper like this, is something that the world has to learn that you can make this happen.

01:13I think this is just a result of a certain level of openness and a judicious openness,

01:19not simply wildly open.

01:21A judicious openness has brought benefit.

01:24Everybody wants to come here, those who are in pursuit of economic well-being at least

01:28want to come here.

01:30So I think it's a fantastic example that in any part of the world, if the leaders have

01:36the necessary vision and commitment and necessary openness to address the world in a certain

01:43way, we can make this happen, if you can make it happen in the middle of desert.

01:48The damage that's been caused in… is in pursuit of economic well-being.

01:53You cannot reverse it with just value systems.

01:57Right now what I am proposing is an economic plan, how everybody can benefit, at the same

02:03time we can save our ecology.

02:07Because protecting our ecology is not against our economy.

02:12Only if we have ecological well-being, there will be long-term economic well-being.

02:18So the important thing is, this is an economic plan with significant ecological impact.

02:25So this is the reason why it's gone to the Planning Commission or the NITI Aayog right

02:28now.

02:29And it is…

02:30I did not want this to go to the Environment Ministry because it will become just another

02:33file.

02:34Now it is actively being pursued because we are presenting this as an economic process.

02:39We are trying to bring the farmers together, make them understand how they can earn many

02:44fold over, if they adopt a certain level of agricultural practices, where very easily

02:51we can bring down this eighty-four percent of water consumption that agriculture is taking

02:57easily to thirty to forty percent, just by bringing in modern technologies of irrigation.

03:04So we are looking at how to build partnerships, how to organize farmers into large groups.

03:10Right now, they're all small farmers with two acre… on an average holding is one hectare,

03:15which is 2.25 acres.

03:17With this, you cannot make any investment.

03:21This is a nation with 1.3 billion people, where nearly sixty percent of the population,

03:31they have not eaten properly from their childhood.

03:36Sixty percent of the population, their skeletal system has not grown to full size.

03:41Or in other words, we are busy producing underdeveloped humanity.

03:46Body doesn't grow means even your brain doesn't grow.

03:51And if we don't fix this one thing, I don't think we can call ourselves a nation.

03:56This is the fundamental thing for me to fix.

03:59Basic thing is nourishment, health, education and ecology.

04:03This is all my concern is – nourishment, health, education, ecology.

04:08These are the only things that needs to happen.

04:11I am not interested India becoming a superpower.

04:15I am interested India exhibits the wisdom that it always had.

04:21Wise people means everybody looked east always.

04:25We have to get back, regain that position.

04:27Our position is that of a soft power, not of a superpower.

04:32We are not cut out for superpower and we don't need a superpower in this world.

04:36We want nations which live well.

04:37We want human beings living well on this planet.

04:40We want every other life on this planet to flourish.

04:44If this has to happen, this is the fundamental thing – nourishment, health, education, ecology.

04:53Nearly fifty percent or over fifty percent of the population is below twenty-five years of age.

05:00This is not a small thing that you have six-hundred million youth below twenty-five years of age.

05:09If you have this six-hundred million people, well-educated, focused, well-nourished, healthy, focused, disciplined,

05:17if you do this, you are going to be the biggest miracle.

05:22If you don't do this one thing, that you don't nourish them, you don't educate them,

05:29you don't make them focus towards anything, you do not inspire them, if you do this,

05:33we are going to be the biggest disaster.

05:35This is the only damn thing you are here to do because you are elected by the people.

05:40So fifty percent is below twenty-five years of age.

05:44This is a tremendous possibility.

05:46No other nation has this possibility right now.

05:49And if you don't make use of it, if you do not harness this, this will pass.

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