Yogi, mystic and visionary, Sadhguru is a spiritual master with a difference. An arresting blend of profundity and pragmatism, his life and work serves as a reminder that yoga is a contemporary science, vitally relevant to our times.
(Guest post by Sadguruh) But since I’m 25 years of age to this day, my weight has not varied more than two kilograms. I have been 74, 75, since I was 25., it’s just that little from my shoulder it slipped a little down. It was all on my shoulder now kind of going towards.
I want you to know this being Indians being in Delhi, which is the capital of India. I want you to know this, and this is not my nationalistic fervor, this is a reality. Nowhere else on the planet, no culture at any time in the history of humanity has looked at human mechanism with as much profoundness as we have looked at it here. Traveling around the world. I always find the basic general intellect in India is way higher than in most places on the planet.
Recent medical research shows that mother’s milk, for a male child and a female child is different. In fact, it is so magical that if a mother has twins, a male and a female child, at the same time, the milk for the male child and milk for the female child. Did you know that in the culture we have always known this, your grandmother has always known this, it’s just that what we have always known, you have to do a billion dollar research today, that’s the whole problem.
An important part of health is how you eat and most of the time I’m eating in somebody’s home, so I have to eat to their satisfaction, not to my health. You know this is India. Hospitality means you must eat two people’s food, not one. So considering all that I have, the choices get quite restricted. So what do I do? What I say right now may not be a practical suggestion, because you can’t take it as a tip and do this. I do every day on 20 seconds of sadhana.
That is I just let my energies run through our overhaul in the morning and that’s all I do. I have no regular exercise regimen. I don’t walk every day, I… nothing, but since I’m 25 years of age to this day, my weight has not varied more than two kilograms. I have been 74 75. Since I was 25., it’s just that little from my shoulder it slipped a little down. It was all on my shoulder now kind of going towards the earth, except for that which I am wanting to correct uh.
So this is not a practical suggestion, but there are ways to do your health in ways other than physical ways. Maybe you have not heard, or maybe you have a couple of times in the last 10 12 years doctors have written me off. As for sure, you won’t make it kind of thing, because all my systems were failing because of certain things that happened, but I’ve come out of that just in a matter of days or weeks, because you need to understand this:
This whole body was manufactured from inside, not from outside. You provided the raw material from outside, but the piece of bread that you eat becomes human body from inside. So there is an intelligence here. There is a competence here that creates this body. If you have access to that, if there is a repair job to be done, would you go to the manufacturer or the local thinker? If you have lost access to the manufacturer, you go to the local tinker, otherwise, you go to the manufacturer. Most of you take your cars to the company service station, isn’t it? not to the local thinker unless you’re in some place, where you have no excess? This is possible for every human being. It is just that they think it’s not important to play.
Pay attention to the source of their creation. They think something else is more important which is which amazes me. How is this possible, but somehow the large segment of the population thinks something else is more important than what that, which is the very source of your creation.
Your thoughts and emotions are more important than something of this intelligence, that is, it can transform a piece of bread into such a sophisticated mechanism called a human being. When such a level of intelligence is there within us I cannot understand how anybody can ignore it. It’s always, though, I’ve lived this long in this world and I’ve worked with people continuously. It still amazes me: how is it, how is it that they can ignore this see the way we sit?
For example, people on the path of hata yoga spend a lifetime learning how to sit, a logically thinking person cannot understand. Why should somebody spend a lifetime learning how to sit, health you’re talking about health? I’m sorry, there are other dimensions to it, but coming to health, if you have to be healthy, you have to be at ease. This is like you’re driving your car. You may be are driving a good car, it’s a wonderful machine but drive it without the engine. Oil in 10 minutes it’ll be junk yes or no, because there is no ease, lubrication is lost so when you say you’re, stressful you’re, anxious you’re disturbed by this, and that what you’re saying is your lubrication is lost. It is not because of the speed at you at which you’re traveling you’re struggling It is because there is no ease, there is no lubricant inside and everything is friction when there is friction there will be stress, drive your car for 10 minutes without engine oil and see what happens.
However, great your car is it’ll be gone, so bringing this to ease there are too many things to it. I can’t go about that. One simple thing is today: fortunately, they put this kind of chairs for you otherwise, these days slowly, you know we’re getting European furniture makers in India big time now, so you go to united states and sit down in a sofa, You have no choice, You anyway become like this. You have no choice about how you sit like this now. You need to understand this. If there’s something called muscular comfort, skeletal comfort, organ comfort, muscular and skeletal comfort is largely just comfort, comfort It is, it is needed at some times, but your organs should be comfortable for you to be healthy. If you take all the vital organs in your body, I’m putting it in a very simplistic way, considering the time, all these vital organs in your body, they’re not fixed with clamps and nuts and bolts they’re hanging in nets. Only if you sit like this with your spine erect, your organs are at maximum comfort. You sit wrong they collapse one on top of each other. Now, how do they function well, they will not function well.
So, in a day, if you’re sitting wrong for eight to ten hours, you’re asking for it you’re just asking for it, it’s like you want to drive your car on two wheels one day, if you flip around to show off it’s okay every day, if you drive Like this, it’s not going to last that’s happening to your body all the time, so maintaining a certain level of organ comfort is very important, If all these things have to function well, see, you may not be medically diagnosed as deceased or you have an ailment, but I would say, pardon me for my percentages, I would say, or 85% of the people do not know, what’s health they have not experienced it.
Maybe they knew it as children where they bounced around if you’re healthy, you feel like bouncing around. That means your grave, You know your destination, so this sense of gravity has entered you not because of age, not because you become profound, simply because there is no ease either in the mind or in the body. So it’s trying to save itself. It is trying to live in a limited way. It is not trying to live, it is trying to save life and curtail it and hang on for a little while longer so keeping the body at ease is most important coming to mind and other things there’s So many things apart from that.
If you learn to sit right, you know in 70s, late 70s or 80s. When you first got your television, you were watching your television, which was a one channel, wonder and you’re watching your favorite program. You know what it was and suddenly it went boop boop boop. Then you go up on the terrace. There is a piece of aluminum there. You try to do this and this, doesn’t come then very carefully. You bring it to that level. Suddenly the world pours into your house once again, the world is back in your sitting room simply because you got the aluminum piece to the right position.
You need to understand, that you are who you are only because of what you have perceived, Isn’t it perception means You must be like an antenna. The whole system of yoga is just this: You learn to hold your body right now. If I go anywhere even in India, you know, because they think uh If you wear Indian clothes or archaic, you have to be in western clothes to be modern and they’ll Give me a chair with armrests like this, because they have lost their flexibility. They can’t cross their legs. They all sit wrong and every two minutes they keep Shifting and shifting, if I sit like this I’ll sit the whole day like this, because the body is at ease.
Now, if I have to think if I have to perceive the body has to be in a certain way, they don’t perceive anything they got everything stored In their iPad, it’s a very different world. Health is not just physical. There are a whole lot of dimensions to it. Isn’t it? unless this, this human being feels complete in every way, you cannot say he’s healthy, isn’t it? so we have a phenomenal sense of what human mechanism is.
I want you to know this: being Indians being in Delhi, which is the capital of India. I want you to know this, and this is not my nasty nationalistic fervor. This is a reality. Nowhere else on the planet, no culture at any time in the history of humanity has looked at human mechanism with as much profoundness as we have looked at it here. If you destroy this knowledge, if it is not a living knowledge, it is only with a few people. It is no good, we have to live it. This is the greatest advantage we had and it is showing in many ways, though, our people 60 percent of the population is malnourished in the country right now, their physical bodies, their skeletal system, has not grown to full size.
Still, in spite of this, I speak across the planet to all kinds of people, highest level of academics, scientists, tribal women, rural people, all kinds – I always find traveling around the world. I always find the basic general intellect in India is way higher than most places on the planet, but it has no expression. In other places they have found systems to allow people to find expression to their intelligence here, we’re blocking it in a million different ways. In spite of that, you can’t kill it, but if you keep them malnourished for another generation or two, this intellect which came because of thousands of years of breeding carefully doing the right things with life, we call this samskriti.That means doing the right things with life. Life does not mean party. Life means this, that you’re doing the right things with this, so that this gradually evolves to a higher and higher space. Because of this, so many things happen in this country. So many wonderful things were invented so much knowledge and knowledge happened, but now that knowledge and that possibility we are not able to pass it on large scale to our children, which is the greatest tragedy the country is going through right now.
