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Being Part of the Solution For Poverty Sadhguru Video

Last updated on: April 17, 2018 at 11:25 am   by Sunil Daman

Being Part of the Solution For Poverty Sadhguru Video 2018-04-17T11:25:50+05:30 Sunil Daman

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Below is the video from the Sadhguru channel, titled Being Part of the Solution For Poverty – Vinita Bali with Sadhguru. Enjoy! For more Sadhguru videos check out the Sadhguru video tag.

Being Part of the Solution For Poverty – Vinita Bali with Sadhguru – Video

Being Part of the Solution For Poverty – Vinita Bali with Sadhguru – Transcript

Vinita Bali: So without further ado I want to start off by asking you Sadhguru what is the next step for Sadhguru? Sadhguru: (Laughs) Dinner. Vinita Bali: Dinner (Laughter/Applause)? I thought that was already over. So we expect a more profound answer from you (Laughter). Sadhguru: It’s a very profound answer (Laughter) because you can postpone many things in your life. You can postpone buying a home buying a car you can postpone your wedding if you want it’s a good thing (Laughter) you can postpone your divorce good to postpone your death. But you can’t postpone your dinner (Laughter). Right now this is the ugliness which is happening in this country. A whole lot of people are postponing their dinner today. This is the horrible situation that’s happening. So do not consider dinner as not so profound it’s very profound. If you are eating ten times a day it’s not profound. If you are eating once or even twice a day it is quite profound (Laughs). Vinita Bali: So you say something which is you know which is very close to my heart you talked about dinner. We Sadhguru: No no dinner is about my stomach not my heart (Laughter). Vinita Bali: Okay. We’ll we’ll get to the heart through your stomach (Laughter). You know we live in a world of contrasts at least as I perceive it. You know there is obviously the rich and the poor there are the ones who are impoverished and the satiated. You know we live in a country where three hundred million people go to bed hungry every night. How do we deal with these big social issues and what is the one message that you would like to give to all of us where we as individuals can make our own little big whatever contribution to being part of the solution rather than waiting for somebody else to do something? Sadhguru: Now you’re immediately getting into the missionary mode (Both laugh). Vinita Bali: We can try a little bit of that. Sadhguru: Yes it’s a serious problem and an unfortunate problem because we are living in a land which has over 12000 years of agricultural history probably the only place on the planet like this. As far as I know except a few other places in South America nowhere else on the planet was agriculture organized 12000 years ago. So we have enormous experience of agriculture which means the science of producing food and we are living in a land where twelve months of the year you can grow what you want. Many farmers in Tamil Nadu take six crops. Four crops actually but in between the inter cropping totally six products they are taking out of the same piece of land. Vinita Bali: Right. Sadhguru: Nowhere else on the planet this is really possible. In spite of this half the people are hungry simply because of apathy not because of lack of food not because that it is not possible to fulfill this. I feel a focused effort in a matter of five years five to eight years very comfortably we can crest this. It should not even take that much time but if we are determined within five years’ time it is possible to cross this and it’s important to cross this because when you say India I know lot of poetry has been written about how beautiful it is our mountains our rivers our whatever. But for 1.25 billion people you neither have enough mountains nor rivers nor land nor even a piece of sky believe me. The only thing that you have is people. If these people are well-nourished competent inspired this can be the greatest miracle but right now sixty percent of India’s population even their skeletal system has not grown to full size or in other words we are producing a totally underdeveloped humanity. If your body does not grow to its full size neither will your brains. There’s medical evidence to show that first four years of your life if you did not get the necessary nourishment your brain is approximately sixty percent of what it should be. So with half-brained people the next generation what nation are you going to build? You’re going to be a big disaster. If you don’t fix nourishment we are going to be an enormous disaster. It’s waiting it’s a silent bomb it doesn’t make noise. Very quietly it’s going to implode upon us. So this is something that has to be fixed on a war footing. Must be! Vinita Bali: So what is the role? I know all of us as individuals have a role to play. We are all part of a corporate an academic institution part of a community and a society. So what do you believe is the responsibility? I’m not talking about corporate social responsibility. I’m simply talking about corporate responsibility when it comes to being part of fixing some of the problems that you’ve just spoken about? Sadhguru: (Laughs) I’ve You know we are very much involved with nourishment education health of the rural populations. I’ve been talking to many leading lights. Not much light out there (Laughter). Whenever I speak to a lot of people not all of them many of them if I tell them ‘You know we are planting hundred and fourteen million trees you could do something’ they’ll say they’ll tell me a very passionate story how they his wife or his mother has a trust where she planted one hundred and eight trees around their factory and how they have grown how beautiful they are and how it’s how they are enjoying it. In all this passion I just (Gestures) okay what’s there to say. Hundred and eight trees are good I’m not saying no but if your capacity was only hundred and eight I am I’ll bow down to you. Your capacity is hundred and eight million not hundred and eight but you are satisfying yourself with hundred and eight. You talk about nourishment you say ‘You know what? My maid’s children they were so malnourished. Three of them every Sunday we feed them’ (Laughter). These kind of stories I’ve heard of great compassion and love (Laughs). So there is a whole culture of doing something for your satisfaction or doing something because you want to buy a ticket to heaven. I want people to come to a place where you being fulfilled should happen within you. If you want to go to heaven please leave (Laughter). But if you want to be a solution there’s another way to work. I fed two children and I feel very happy. It’s all right I appreciate that I’m glad for those two children but this is not a solution this is only for satisfaction. So it’s time at least those people who are in a certain level of capability I would say When I say capability all of you will thinking ‘Oh okay some big corporate leader.’ I’m saying all of you are in a certain level of capability who should see how to bring a solution not do something for your silly satisfaction. You can be satisfied by eating food by simply sitting quietly by sleeping well doing whatever. Satisfaction need not come through somebody else’s suffering. You don’t have to fulfill your satisfaction because of this You know somebody is suffering that is not the basis of your suffering and if you buy a ticket to heaven through that suffering I don’t know heaven will turn into hell for probably for you (Laughs). I hope it does (Laughter).

Being Part of the Solution For Poverty – Vinita Bali with Sadhguru – Notes

Please note that this video titled Being Part of the Solution For Poverty – Vinita Bali with Sadhguru is from Sadhguru’s Youtube channel. More information about Sadhguru is available on his website at isha.sadhguru.org. The transcriptions on this page are automated transcriptions. In case you find any errors please leave a comment below. If you would like to watch this video on the Youtube channel of Sadhguru then please search for Being Part of the Solution For Poverty – Vinita Bali with Sadhguru on Youtube

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