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Questioner: Namaskaram. Sadhguru in one of your videos you say that the problem with the world is that most people lack the intensity. Sadhguru: ___ (Unclear-what?) Questioner: Most people lack the necessary intensity. Sadhguru: Mhmm (Indicating agreement) Questioner: And then you say the way is dhyana. So intensity is more associated to fierceness in personality and dhyana is more associated to calmness. So they’re somehow counterintuitive. Can you elaborate a little? Sadhguru: People think peace means rest in peace (Laughter) because their idea of peace is death. Peace can be very intense. Peace can be tremendously intense because peace means the reverberations of life have become subtle and intense. Action means reverberations of life are not so subtle it is at a certain level. So peace happens not because Peace may happen if somebody is dead but to be alive and peaceful means you need to be highly intense state of energy otherwise you can’t be peaceful. The reason why most people who don’t have any problems as such you know after all they’re trying to earn a living reproduce and bring up their children and die one day just for that they’re freaking simply because of lack of intensity. Because life is happening at a low ebb naturally everything is a problem. If it rises a little bit suddenly you have a little clearer view of everything. For this you need a higher intensity of energy within you and the yogic system is essentially focused towards that. Dhyana does not mean (Gestures) (Laughter). No (Laughs). Barkha Dutt: Okay let’s take the next question here right here in the front row yeah. Questioner: Sadhguru. What I get from Isha’s philosophy if I may say there is is that you need to see internally in your interiority you need to fix it internally before fixing your external situations. But is it also not right is it also not very important to do the right thing externally you know? Just to make myself more clear you know if I be more precise Sadhguru: No no I’m clear I get the question (Laughter). Why do I look so dumb (Laughter)? Questioner: Let’s say you know if somebody Sadhguru: I got it. Questioner: Yeah. Sadhguru: I got it. Questioner: If somebody is born Sadhguru: I got the question (Laughter/Applause). Sadhguru: Isha’s philosophy is not about looking internally or externally. It is just that if you’re looking for mangoes you look up the tree you don’t dig the earth all right (Barkha Dutt Laughs)? But if you’re looking how to plant a mango tree then you dig the earth. You’re looking for mangoes if you dig the earth will you find it I’m asking? So if you inner things- you must look inward outer things-you must look outward. There is no such philosophy – ‘Look out or look in.’ Wherever the damn thing is look there (Laughter/Applause). Sadhguru: Like you know Shankaran Pillai went for a job interview (Laughter) and they asked him ‘Which is further Mumbai or moon?’ He thought profoundly and then said ‘Mumbai.’ They said ‘How do you say this?’ He said ‘I can see the moon I can’t see Mumbai’ (Laughter/Applause). Barkha Dutt: Okay last question yeah. Questioner: Namaskaram Sadhguru. I just want to ask Barkha Dutt: Hold the mike closer to you. Questioner: Yeah. I just want to ask you that everybody’s perception of good and bad is different and what do you think if we start manifesting our own good and bad what’ll be the state of the society? Sadhguru: Hmm maybe you won’t have power tonight (Barkha Dutt Laughs). I think I already made this clear. The biggest problem with the world is there’re too many good people not enough sensible people. Sense is life-specific okay? Goodness need not be life-oriented goodness may be going to heaven. And the moment – I want you to understand this dangerous concept people don’t address this – the moment you believe suppose I believe there is heaven and it’s a beautiful place and you can live in the company of gods should I send you there today or no? If I really care for you I’m saying (Laughter). Yes? If I really care for you and if I believe there’s a great place should I send you there or not? This is a dangerous thing do you understand? If you stretch it to its logical end it’s a really dangerous thing. The moment I believe there is a fantastic place up there I really love you and I want you to go there you know (Laughter)? Tch yes (Laughs). Barkha Dutt: Okay let me just end by asking you something that we haven’t spoken about and then I’ll hand it over to Chiki. You said you love machines. Sadhguru: I didn’t say I love them (Laughter). Barkha Dutt: Okay you like machines. Sadhguru: I Barkha Dutt: Or they’re useful. Sadhguru: They work. Barkha Dutt: Have our lives been overtaken by gadgets? Sadhguru: Not mine. Barkha Dutt: No? Sadhguru: Definitely not I use all the gadgets but they don’t overtake me. These are fantastic things in our life. Things See in every way compared to how a human being was let’s say hundred years ago you’re almost superhuman. Tch hundred years ago if I could just pick up something from my pocket and talk to somebody in America right now I would be superhuman. Why superhuman? If I said ‘I’m God’ people would have believed me hundred years ago. Five hundred years ago if I just had a light bulb I would have become God on this planet I want you to know. Look at the things we have today we are really superhuman. Once this kind of capability has come to us little more sense has to rise little more awareness and consciousness has to arise. If this doesn’t happen this capability will turn against us. This is what you’re saying. Now gadgets are freaking people. Why? It’s a simple thing. You If you want to use it you can use it or you can keep it aside. Because you are in a compulsive state if you start using a cell phone you can’t stop it even in your sleep you’re texting. See the boy is (Gestures towards somebody) he’s in a he’s not with me he’s in looking at me in the screen (Laughter). Now this is the same thing. If food is good if you start eating you don’t know when to stop. If you start drinking you don’t know when to stop. If you start doing something you don’t know when to stop. The same thing it is not about the gadget it is not about the food it is just that there is not enough consciousness there is compulsiveness. Everything is happening compulsively. Instead of addressing the root you’re trying to kill the gadget. Gadget is a fantastic thing every damn gadget has enhanced our life in a huge way isn’t it? Don’t curse the gadgets. It is just that compulsiveness has to go.

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