Last September, Sadhguru launched an ambitious ‘Rally for Rivers’, driving thousands of kilometres in a green colour expensive imported SUV to create awareness about depletion of Indian rivers. See more at: http://gulfnews.com/gntv
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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.