 everyone and welcome to this historic conscious planet save soil event in Vienna Austria. We hope to take a moment to highlight the significance of this event and the save soil movement that Satguru is launching. Rather than a doomsday calling the save soil movement is a rallying call. We have a window of opportunity to be the generation that brought ourselves back from the brink rather than the ones that fell through this important time period. With this in mind, Satguru is on a 100-day journey across nations as a lone motorcyclist meeting global leaders, influencers, citizens and their elected representatives to raise awareness and restore soil health. Are we with him? We'd like to play you a short video now to introduce you to the save soil movement. We are talking about climate change, carbon emissions and global warming and various other aspects but we are not addressing soil. Soil is the habitat upon which zillions of lives thrive. Once there is no richness in soil then you have forsaken the planet in many ways. Every responsible scientist in the world and the UN agencies are clearly saying we have only eighty to hundred harvests left. That means approximately forty-five to fifty years of agricultural soil left on the planet. By 2045 we will be producing forty percent less food than what we are producing right now and our populations will be 9.3 billion people. The food shortages that could manifest in the next twenty-five years, the consequences of that is unimaginable. Civil wars will unfold across the world once there is food shortage. What we are facing now is soil extinction. Why is soil becoming extinct? Where is it going away? What is happening to our soil? We must understand if you add organic content to sand, sand will turn into soil. If you remove all organic content from the soil, soil will become sand. In normal agricultural soil the minimum organic content should be between three to six percent. The most minimum is three percent, at least this minimum to keep the soil alive, to keep the soil as living soil is a must. Agricultural soils across the world, the depletion is so heavy in most countries more than fifty percent of the top soil is already gone in the last hundred years. The nutrient levels have dropped significantly. The level of micronutrients you would get from your food in early twentieth century to what you are getting from the same food now has dropped ninety percent. If you ate one orange in 1920s, what you got from it? Now in 2020 if you have to get the same you will have to eat eight oranges. This is what we have done to our food. Soil is the biggest ecosystem on the planet and so few people know anything about it. One teaspoon of healthy soil probably contains more microbes than there are people on earth. The microbial life in the first 12 to 15 inches of top soil is the basis of our existence. It is this magic beneath our feet which has produced the life that we are. This first 12 to 15 inches of soil is the basis of life for eighty-seven percent of life on this planet including you and me. We have to begin to recognize that what we call our soil mother earth is a living organism. Open soils ripped open by plowing open to sunlight is the basis of destruction of microbial life so the focus should be an agriculture the focus should be on seeing that land is under shade as much as possible. Some kind of shade grasses, herbs, bushes, trees conscious planet is launching safe soil movement to bring about a policy change to regenerate soil. As a part of this I'm sixty-five and I'm riding 30,000 kilometers a lone motorcycle journey 30,000 kilometers across 24 nations to activate support from the citizenry to assure the governments long-term investments will be appreciated. So it's extremely important that soil regeneration is enshrined in the policy of every government on the planet. We must change the narrative on the planet that soil is a wealth a legacy we have received from previous generations and we have to pass it on as living soil for future generations. We are in a cusp of time if you do the right things now in the next fifteen to twenty-five years we can significantly turn this situation around and regenerate the soil but if we allow this to progress like this for another thirty to forty years after forty years if we attempt this then it could take hundred and fifty to two hundred years because that much loss of biodiversity would have happened. From twenty-first of March for one hundred days the whole world every human being on the planet should talk soil. We must hear the word soil save soil everywhere to see that the narrative on the planet changes towards the most vital aspect of our life the soil. Each one of you should reach as many people as you can to make this happen. Many global leaders and influencers are already participating in the moment be a part of this and let us make it happen. From my part as much as I can contribute. And the movement that you are taken up I could not expect any more God's blessing than that. We are going to save the soil and do your part. And saving the soils. Our future our children's future and our planet's future depend on it. Sir Guru, save soil my friend. We need to save our soils and Tien Babura is part of the same mission. Save the soil. We know what we must do so let's make it happen. Let's make it happen. Let's make it happen. Let's make this happen. Let us make it happen. Let's make it happen. Let's make it happen. Sustainability is an issue that confronts us more now than in any other time period. We are all acute acutely aware that any action we perform now positively or negatively has an effect on generations to come. But in the last few weeks we've seen an overwhelming support for the save soil movement both abroad and here in Austria. We'd like to play you a short video now to show you some of these highlights. It's a great pleasure for me these beautiful nations these pearls of the ocean which of the Caribbean nations are going for this past. Soil is not a separate subject if we are interested in health if we are interested in agriculture if we're interested in the well-being of the citizens of today and the unborn child of tomorrow. Attending to soil right now attending to the soil biodiversity right now this is a must do thing in our life. It's time right now if we act now if you bring in the policies and start implementing this in the next 12 to 15 years we can make a significant turn around. So this memorandum of understanding that we are signing it will also bring some technical assistance to the Caribbean region. This is a historic moment because here is the first step to turn around. It's our Guru. Welcome to the Daily Show. Wonderful. I know that we also are facing a soil crisis where some people are estimating that if we do nothing in 50 years time we may not be able to grow anything because we may run out of soil which forgive my ignorance I did not know that soil is even something that we could run out of. The thing is this has happened in the last 50 to 100 years of industrialized farming that the organic content in the soil is going away because there's no replenishment. Are you getting any signs that governments are enthusiastic to try and do something about this. See in the last two years I've been talking to various country heads various politicians political parties we have written to 730 political parties on the planet to make sure that they include soil and ecology as a part of their election manifestos as their political philosophy whatever they believe in right left center whatever they are soil is one thing which is a common factor for all of us we're always looking at what divides us it's time if you don't understand the consciousness of this cosmos and stuff like that at least you understand you come from the soil you live off the soil when you die you go back to the soil that much you get it. So this is something that you're very concerned about and rightly so that there's a problem with the topsoil in America. 50% of the American farmers have not seen a dollar in the last 12 years and the highest suicide rate among all professions is among the farming community in the United States. I don't want to be that one who didn't care enough to do something which matters because right now we are consuming the soil and food that belongs to the unborn child. This is a crime against humanity. I hear you. Let's make it happen. Let's make it happen. His spiritualist techniques have gained him a following of millions and we welcome Siragiri. In the first 15 to 18 inches of the soil you are a consequence of that even now over 60% of your body is actually microbial life only 40% is of parental genetics. So ignoring that thinking you can destroy the soil and live happily upon this planet is it just a pipe dream it's not going to work. And you were interviewed by Trevor Noah who's the darling of the left and then you were interviewed by Joe Rogan who's the beloved of the right recently. So is it Sadhguru who unites the left and the right or the very important issue? Soil. Soil unites the left-right center everybody. Saad Guruji has said it's important for all particularly leaders whose decisions affect millions of lives to be conscious and inclusive and this is where each one of us can help. How are we going to make farming more respectable and more more profitable as well? When I go to the farmer we are only talking economics. How to enhance your income and if you want next generation to go for agriculture this is only solution that he must make more money than a lawyer or a doctor or an IT professional. Wish you a very successful joyful accelerating journey. I will take care of the acceleration and enjoy myself. What I need is next hundred days from 21st of March we want the whole world to talk about soil. How can we involve women as leaders in climate action? When this motorcycle journey is being flagged off we are making a seven or eight year old little girl flag it off. Unfortunately adults have come to this place where if I see him I will see what country belongs to what race is he what religion is he what caste is he what creed is he all this nonsense but when they see a child a girl child I believe people's hearts will become little more tender. If you want to say I love you to your child you must just say safe soil because it is a more committed way of saying I love you. Sagar's gift of making a systemic issue so personal to each one of us of this room and the generation of responsibility so relevant for everyone. You know it's shocking and unnerving we need to take this up and save the soil and act more sensibly and responsibly. It's an extraordinary campaign it echoes what we in the Commonwealth have been aspiring to do for a number of years. Hits. You win the toss. I want to go to the Pavilion. I can't make it with Bill. Who's a hero? Take a picture and next couple. It's a great pleasure to welcome you to London. You are probably one of the most famous Indians and what you're doing today is really important because people like you who have a wonderful following of millions and millions of people and what you're doing with that is so important with saving the soil. If only they could have seen this at COP26 so I think what you're doing is phenomenally important. In the last 20 years over 300,000 farmers have committed suicide. If this doesn't wake you up what else am I asking? What else needs to happen? You think of what that one man did Nelson Mandela and he changed the world? So, Sadhguru, you have the ability to change the world for the better and I was at COP26. I spoke at about 30 different events not one person mentioned soil. No one. This many people, 6,000 people with today's technology available, various platforms available. If you make up your mind, you yourself can reach three to four million people. Yes or no? So now when you say such a big yes, now the question is only will you do it or not? Will you make it happen? In case, in case I don't make it, you must make it happen. The young people here should stand up and make it happen. It's not about the journey. It's not about the song. You think about moving people on the planet. Make it happen, huh? You have many followers. What is the thing I can do to help save the soil? In your neighborhood, do a jig. Initially people will think, what's wrong with her? After some time kids will come and dance with you. Tell them, just go and tell your parents they must talk about this. I'm saying go and request people. I'm saying at this time if you don't talk to people, we will be a very regretful generation. Please let's not go there. I think if we all contribute, then we can, we have a really strong voice. Save soil. I was still waiting for us to get inside. Excitement and everybody is so excited to hear Sath Guru talk about save soil. The opportunity first of all just to meet Sath Guru was a huge honor. Sath Guru is very charismatic and he says it as it is. All graffiti artists, to whatever walls that you have, make sure that you use this. This is our time. This is our time on the planet. What we do here is our business. Let's do the right things and save soil and let's make it happen. Thava samāpanam drushto mātava mākākālaka Namaskaram and good evening to all of you. Thank you, wonderful people of IPNF and the wonderful city that you have. Well, all the many wonderful things that we human beings have created have also cost us immensely in a different way. In creating one thing, we're destroying another thing. This does not mean we should stop creating. We just have to be a little more transformed in the way we create things, that's all. This now, this chant, what I did now, essentially I'm just coming to a simpler meaning of that. What it means is your life is essentially a combination of time and energy. Time, as you sit here, for all of us, it's rolling at the same pace. Hey, are you a pirate? Show who I'm talking about, come on. Thaibans, be seen man, come on. They won't know why I made that comment. Yeah, all of us have been pirates doing very clandestine things when it comes to life on the planet. Horrible things. Because there is no way to do anything without taking something from another life. Hello? If we eat, we take something from another life. If we build a building, we take something from another life. Everything that we do, we take something from another life. Only thing is, are we conscious that we are doing such a thing? If we were conscious, just our humanity would function in such a way that we would do it little more gently. We cannot avoid it completely, but at least we would do it little more gently. And doing that little more gently has become very important now. Because as we sit here, our time is rolling out. Did it ever happen to you that you felt one day was wasted, so you revound that day and you lived it again? Hello? You did? You did rewind time. Oh. Then you will be still thinking you're eighteen, but you will become eighty. If you keep on revinding and thinking it's my eighteenth birthday, well, it'll be eightieth birthday and you won't know, that's a problem. Nobody can rewind time, it's rolling away. Hello? Not one minute can we rewind. So there is another ingredient which makes our life. You want me to sit down and walk around and talk, it's okay. I could even come there, but I heard you have fifty thousand cases going in the city. So there is another ingredient to life which we call as energy, life energy. So when it comes to time, we cannot enhance time. Because I know this, for last many years I've been requesting a few extra hours per day. But whatever I do, they're not giving me even an hour or a minute extra, only twenty-four hours. No use being a yogi, mistake all this. They're not giving any extra time. Hello, they should at least grant me some extra time in a day, isn't it? No, because they never gave me extra time. I neither ate properly nor slept properly all my life in these forty years. For twenty-seven years on an average I slept only two-and-a-half hours. These days getting little lazy and sleeping little more. So because they didn't give me extra time, various other things are always in little crazy. But there is another aspect to you which is called as life energy. If you manage this well, if you keep this in full intensity, you will see what somebody does in ten years you can do in one year. That means if both of them live for hundred years, you would have lived thousand years in terms of impact and in terms of experience. Because when it comes to life, there are only two things. One is profoundness and pleasantness of experience. As you sit here, how pleasant or how profound is your experience of life. Another is when it comes to activity, how impactful are you? This is all you got with life. You may think you're doing many other things. No, no I'm building a family, I had a baby, I achieved this, I achieved that. All these things are about seeking profoundness of experience. So these are the only two things. Profoundness of experience, pleasantness of the same thing and impactfulness of activity. For both profoundness of experience and impactfulness of activity, you must be able to engineer your energies in a more organized and purposeful way. Otherwise, you yourself are a big impediment in your life. See, if you look at the world, I'm just seeing people are labelling every segment or every stage of life, every stage of life as a problem. Infancy is a problem because you are like this, you can't crawl, you can't walk, that's one problem. Toddler, diaper problem, teenager, hormonal problem, middle age crisis, old age horrible, death, everything is bad. No, no, this is the nature of life, nothing is bad or good about it. You can make it whichever way you want. There's nothing good about life, there's nothing bad about life. It's a spectacular phenomenon. If you ride it, it is fantastic. If you get crushed by it, it's a terrible thing. Now, when was the last time somebody came and stabbed you with a dagger? Yeah, no, it hasn't happened. Even to you, it didn't happen. They haven't even poked you with a pin in a long time. No, I'm not talking about the vaccine. What I'm saying is, how much physical suffering has come your way, almost negligible. If you are in a famine situation or a war zone, or you've got some disease or an injury, there is some physical pain and suffering. But over 90% of human suffering is mental, isn't it? Hello? You're on talking terms with me or no? Over 90% is mental suffering, yes? Yes. Yes. Yes. Especially because you're masked, you need to speak. Otherwise we don't know what the hell is happening with you. We can't see any expression. Now, I was just being polite. It is not 90%, it is 99%. 99% of human suffering is mental. And people think they have a right to suffer. Of course, you have a right to suffer, you have a right to die. But life is a phenomena that you cannot recreate. When it's there, you can ride it, otherwise you miss it. Isn't it so? Hello? So, what is this suffering about? Well, we'll leave the physical suffering that needs to be handled differently in case disease, injury, something happened, we have to deal with it differently. That's a different aspect of life. Mental suffering means essentially you're suffering your own intelligence, that's all it is. Really, if we remove half your brain, you will be very peaceful. Yes, I'm telling you, you will be. If you had the brain of an earthworm, you would be peaceful and also eco-friendly. Yes or no? So essentially you're complaining, millions of years of evolution to give you this sized brain, which is capable of enormous cerebral capability. It's the problem, isn't it? Shall we take it away? Some people are keeping it soaked in alcohol, so that it is preserved for another time. Some people are shutting down with drugs. Some people are sleeping eight to ten hours a day because somehow sleep is a relief. Intoxication is a relief. Being drugged out is a relief from what? From your own mind. I must tell you this, in us there is a city called Hyderabad. Anybody from here? Hyderabad people? Only one, two, I'm surprised. Usually they're everywhere. So about three years ago I think, a reasonably popular television anchor, she jumped off the fifth floor balcony of our home and she killed herself. And she left a note, my brain is my problem. It took millions of years of work, very complex work of evolution to get you this sized brain. And now that's become a problem. Shall we take it away? Hello? No, you just have to learn to use it for your well-being and benefit, isn't it? Right now we are using it to cause immense suffering to ourselves and slowly creating suffering for everybody in the world. We may call it war, we may call it politics, we may call it little anger, hatred. Want to scratch somebody's face? You felt like that sometime? So what is this issue? I can put it in various kinds of perspectives, but I should be very respectful and nice to you or can I be little poking and insulting to you? You're nice. You're really nice. So, according to the scientific studies, the DNA difference between you and a chimpanzee is only 1.23 percent. 1.23, is that a passing mark? Hello? In any educational system is 1.23 percentage of passing mark I'm asking. So 1.23 percent is not much of a difference. I'm saying physiologically that is how close you are to a chimpanzee. But in terms of your intellect and awareness, you are world support from a chimpanzee and this is your problem. You have an intelligence for which you don't have a stable enough platform. Till this… unless you stabilize this platform, this intelligence is going to poke you to death. It's happening, isn't it? Today, World Health Organization is talking about there is going to be a mental health pandemic. That means, you know what pandemic means is why all of you are wearing masks is, if one guy has got the virus almost everybody in this hall can get it. That's a pandemic. So mental health pandemic means every one of us is so susceptible, anytime we could go, not a pleasant prediction, isn't it? Not only that, they're talking about a suicide pandemic. In the year 2020, in Japan, more people committed suicide than the numbers that died of COVID-19. We don't really need a virus, I'm saying. We're… you know, we can do it ourselves. So why are we going this way? Essentially, not learning how to handle your own faculties. If you are 30, 40, 50, 60 years of age and you still don't know how to handle your thought and emotion, I'm just saying maybe you have a million-year lifespan. I'm a regular mortal. So I learned to handle my thought and emotion and my brains very early on because I realized the time is so brief. If you don't figure it out in the beginning, when the hell are you going to do it? Essentially, it's like this. Do you agree with me? This human mechanism is the most complex and sophisticated technology on the planet. As those of you not agreeing, where did you come from? However you made, I'm asking. So if you buy a new phone, no, I'm not telling you to buy one. I'm just saying, if you buy a new phone, should you read the user's manual in the first three days after you buy the phone or after three years when you're discarding the phone, when should you read it? When should you read it? In the... as early as possible, because if you want to use this gadget well, the more you know about it, the better you can use it. Why is that not true with this? The more you know about it, the better you can use it, isn't it? So this... somebody's phone is buzzing out here. So this, in the Ashram culture, we call this enlightenment. We call this self-realization. That means somebody read the user's manual thoroughly, exactly how this works. Because your whole experience of life is just the way it's happening within you. You don't know anything else. Not a damn thing in the world do you know except the way it happens within you. Right now you think you see me here, no? Light is falling upon me, reflecting, going through your lenses, inverted image in the retina. You know the whole story, isn't it? You see me within you. You hear me within you. You've seen the whole world within you, isn't it? You have never seen, heard, experienced anything outside of you. Everything that ever happened to you happened within you. So if everything is happening within, at least what's happening within must happen our way, isn't it? These people won't listen to you, they do their own thing. But at least this one, hello? This one person must take instructions from you, isn't it? Your husband, your wife, impossible, your children, no way. At least this one guy must listen to what you say or what give you what you want, isn't it so? Right now, what you call a stress, anxiety, unhappiness, madness, whatever you call it, essentially is just this. This guy is not listening to you, doing his own nonsense that you don't like. How's this? So this leads to a consequence that now in pursuit of pleasantness, when I say pleasantness, there are many levels of pleasantness. If your body becomes pleasant, we call this health. If it becomes very pleasant, we call it pleasure. If this mind becomes pleasant, we call it peace. If it becomes very pleasant, we call it joy. If these emotions become pleasant, we call it love. If it becomes very pleasant, we call it compassion. If these very life energies become pleasant, we call this blissfulness. If it becomes very pleasant, we call it ecstasy. If your surroundings become pleasant, we call it success. Only to create pleasantness around you, you need the help of people around you, forces around you, without their cooperation. You can't make your surroundings pleasant, isn't it? Hello? But to make your body pleasant, your mind pleasant, your emotion pleasant, your energies pleasant, it is one hundred percent your business. Yes or no? But now, because we are in pursuit of happiness, happiness, we want to get it from somewhere or somebody or something. Because of this, we are ripping the planet apart. Ripping of the planet has not happened with some evil design. There is no one evil force planning how to destroy the planet, as some of the movie show you. This is just in pursuit of human happiness and well-being. We are turning it upside down, but happiness and well-being is not coming, not happening. So, in pursuit of this happiness, the damage that we have caused to every other life, just to give you some sense of this, in the last seventy years, sixty-seven percent of vertebrate animals have disappeared in just seventy years. Ninety-two percent of all freshwater aquatic life gone, ninety-two percent. Eighty percent of biomass, biomass insects are gone. And microbial life, on an average, every twenty-seven thousand species are going extinct, all in pursuit of our happiness and well-being. So, in these seventy years, have we become so ecstatic that it doesn't matter, we make a bonfire of this planet? No. People are miserable, we're talking about a mental health pandemic and a suicide pandemic. So, this needs to be looked at. Why? It is not about just fixing agriculture. It's not about just changing the method of doing things. Fundamentally, we are like, you know, there used to be a potato farmer. You know what's a potato farmer? You have to show some sign that you are still awake. I am the one who should be sitting like this, because I've been riding in seven days, I'm in five different nations, and the whole day I've been in non-stop meetings, talking endlessly. I am the one who should sit back and live into you, okay? You are all the young people doing this. Okay, whenever I say boom, you must say boom, okay? Boom, better. So, there was a potato farmer. One day he wanted to eat apples. He had enough of potatoes. So, he went to an apple tree. But out of sheer habit, started digging for apples. He found no apples, so he went like in pursuit of happiness. How we are tch-tch-tch-tch-tch-tch- Amazon. Hello? In pursuit of happiness, isn't it? Whether you're searching for people, whether you're on Facebook or Twitter or Amazon, pursuit of happiness, isn't it? Like this, he went for it. He dug up so intensely, the tree came down on him. This is exactly the human situation right now. This is not because of some evil design. People, everybody asked, Sadguru, who did this, Sadguru, which is that company? Let's bash them. And no, it's you and me, all right? Every one of us is a generation of people. There is no one company, one politician, one nation to beat up. We must give up that attitude, because all of us are a part of it. Now your argument is no, but he did more than me. So, let's bash up his face. No, we need him also, especially if he's capable of doing more. We need that guy also to turn it around. So, this is... We have built a whole economic engine like this, that in 2008, when I was speaking at the World Economic Forum, I found that we came and India was running a campaign, India everywhere. So, India everywhere means there were bus hoardings carrying India everywhere. When I got down in the airport, India everywhere. Everywhere, there is a huge advertisement campaign going on, India everywhere. So, Indians are in that mode. And then I went into the economic forum, all the western billionaires, you know, there are about 1200 billionaires meeting, all of them depressed because they were a few billions less than what they were four months ago, because of recession. So, then they asked me to handle a session. The session was titled, recession and depression. So, I thought recession is bad enough, now you want to be depressed on top of it. And I told them, see, the way you built the economic engine right now, because the whole economic engine is all about, see, next month you must earn little more and spend little more. You, if you're not able to provide that, you must take a loan and spend. This is the economy we've created. Hello? So, right now the economic engine is devised in such a way that this is like the case of, you know, there is a proverb or there is a fable in India. This is about a man who is sitting on the wrong end of the branch and hacking vigorously when he succeeds, he will fall. Yes or no? Right now, our economic modules are like this, when we succeed, we will fall, badly. This is what we're talking about. If you sit on the wrong end of the branch and hack, you should not succeed, isn't it? So, does it mean to say we should not have economic development? Does it mean to say we should not do anything? That's not the point. The point is that earth is a limited source. Either we should control our aspirations or our populations. One of these things we must do. Hello? So, I, you know, a few years ago in India I said, see, any young woman who is healthy, capable of bearing children, refuses to do that. By choice, consciously, I'm going to give them an award because the greatest service that you can do in the world right now is, you did not increase the population. So, everybody, every religious person or religious leaders at least, the Hindus, the Muslims, the Christians, everybody got at me. Oh, he's trying to destroy our religion. I said, where did I destroy your religion? No, they all want more numbers. Politicians want more numbers. Religions want more numbers. Of course, the market people want more numbers. But at what cost? When we have such brilliant minds that in Africa, there are too many elephants, so every 20 years we call them. Hello? I'm not talking about calling human beings. We are conscious people. So, the difference between other creatures and us is that we do the same things that animals do. We eat, they eat, we sleep, they sleep, they reproduce, we reproduce, they die, we die. The same things we do. But the difference is we can do it consciously. We don't have to do it compulsively. That's a big difference, isn't it? So, reproduction also must be conscious, hello? And everything in life must be conscious because that is the significance of being human that though we do the same things, we do it consciously. If you go and sit in front of… on the table, in front of your food, you can eat like that. But you sit there and eat properly because you're human. Yes or no? There's a certain aesthetic to your life only because you're capable of being conscious. If you were unconscious, then people will say, look at him, he's like an animal. You heard that? Did anybody tell you? Not you, you're a nice guy. If a man behaves very unconsciously, don't you say he's like an animal? Because that's all the difference is. Otherwise, everything that they do, we do, everything that we do, they do. Only the scale is different, isn't it? But we can do it consciously. That's the big difference. So right now, what we are talking about is even to do our agriculture a little more consciously, nothing else. We are not talking about destroying or dismantling this or that, just to do it a little more consciously. So that we don't become that potato farmer or this guy who sits on the wrong branch of the wrong side of the branch and starts hacking it, we don't become a fool like that. Right now, we are heading in that direction as a generation of people. If we are willing to act consciously now, in the next 10 to 15 years, we can make a significant turnaround. And this is an opportunity that's available only to this generation because the loss of biodiversity at the scale at which it is going, in another 30 to 35 years, it'll become impossible to turn this around. The damage will be too much. As a generation, we have a challenge and as a generation, we have a privilege that we could be that generation which turned back from the brink of a disaster. Or we are that generation. Or we are that generation, we slept and we fell over. We either avoid disasters or allow them to happen and grieve over it. There are two kinds of people. There are some people who are blind to anything that's coming their way. Disasters happen, then they will sit and grieve over it. But there are some who avoid the disaster because disaster doesn't just pop up. It is coming. If you have eyes to see, you can avoid it. If you have no vision at all, then it'll come your way and then you can grieve over it. What kind are you? Hello? What kind are you? What the disaster? So today we are in an extremely unique place as a generation. One thing is still there is time for us to turn around. Another thing is for the first time, for the very first time in the history of humanity, we have the tools and technologies with which we can awaken the world. Many great beings have come in this world but when they spoke, hardly ten people would hear. Yes or no? When Gautama the Buddha came, you heard of him? Buddha? When Buddha came, like this large number of people gathered, so he will speak. When he speaks, this guy will stand up and repeat his words. There, ten rows behind another person, she will stand up and repeat the same words. Another ten rows later, another person stands up, repeat the same words so that everybody gets it. I can imagine by the time it goes there what has happened to these words. Yes or no? All kinds of distortions would have happened from here to there. Today we can stand here, not just the microphone, we can stand here and talk to the entire world. When there is an opportunity like this, when there are tools and technologies like this, if we don't do what needs to be done, it simply means that we don't care enough. There is simply no other excuse. There is no other excuse. If there is no way to do it, that's different. When there is a way to do it and if we don't do it, it shows we don't care, isn't it? In our lives, if we do not do what we cannot do, there is no issue. But if you do not do what you can do, you're a disaster. Yes or no? A disaster does not mean you have to be hit by a bus. A disaster means you did not explore the full potential of who you are. This is a disaster. This is the worst disaster for a human being because you have not come like other creatures. Other creatures have come like this. Ninety percent of who they are is determined by nature. Only ten percent latitude they have to make their own personalities. Between one tiger and another tiger, the difference is only ten percent. Between one dog and another, in characteristics, okay, you made many of them, many varieties of them, but essentially only that much difference, ten or twelve or fifteen percent, whatever, it's a small band. But with a human being, we have come largely unformed. Only ten percent is determined by our birth. Ninety percent is left in our hands. This is both a privilege and a burden. What do you think it is? It's a great privilege that nature has trusted our intelligence to a point that ninety percent of our own making is left in our hands. This is the greatest privilege that we have as human beings. Not only making ourselves, but crafting the world that we live in the way we want, must happen. But that's not happening simply because a large part of humanity is still functioning unconsciously and compulsively. Just now I came to know that European Union was just about to announce regenerative agriculture policy this week. But citing the war, they are pushing it or postponing it by two years. I'm saying, I am sympathetic to the various problems that a government may have to handle the refugee influx, the war situation, the economic challenges that come with the refugee, refugees coming in, there are many problems, administrative and financial problems. So, okay postpone it by three months. Six months, but not two years. Because when has there been two years, if you take the cutoff as the World War II, from World War II till now, show me one period of two years where there was no war in this world. Continuously there has been something or the other. So two years is too much. This is what all of you should do. Request the European Union or your chancellor. All of you should write. All of you know how to write. At least you know the two thumbs. Write please. Write your chancellor. Write your agriculture minister. Write to the EU. Can you write? Hello? Write to them and say we are concerned about this. Yes, war is a terrible thing. War puts all kinds of loads upon us. It is fine. Even if you cannot invest money towards the agricultural policy right now, at least announce it and express your intent. Hello? Right now we have developed an agricultural directive or a handbook as to how to make policy in different nations. Considering the latitudinal position of a given nation, the soil types which are present there, there are 14 different types of soils in the world. The soil type, the economic condition of a given nation and the agricultural traditions of that nation. Why the agricultural traditions is because even if you have all the signs that you want in your hands, without taking agricultural traditions into your hands, you cannot really implement anything without considering that. So changing agricultural traditions overnight doesn't happen anywhere. So taking all this into consideration, we have made soil policy directive handbook, one for the region and one for specific nation. For all the 192 nations, we have made a policy directive. It has taken our two years of dedicated work with the help of some top scientists in the world. We put this together, this must reach your leadership. Suddenly everybody is talking about war, all the meetings that are set up are not happening because they're saying they're busy with the war. Yes, I know war is an important thing, but it's such an important thing that we can do without in our lives. So this is off the subject, but I'm requesting all of you young people to strongly make statement as much as possible. See, don't do it one day and leave it. Nothing happens unless there's a relentless commitment. Wars and wars have happened. Well, you guys in Europe are quite war experts. Really, World War I, World War II, did you not see enough misery? Hello? Human beings should not be exposed to such horrors, but people were put through that. But at the end of World War II, everybody came to some kind of wisdom and said, never again we will fight wars. So we formed League of Nations, then we made the United Nations and thought we have a world body through which we will negotiate, not really shoot at each other. But since World War II, how many major wars around the world? Then we thought when the year 2000 came, we said, twentieth century is a horrible century full of wars. Twenty-first century is the age of technology. It is the information age. We are not going to fight. We will only tweet since 2000 how many terribly destructive wars across the world. So one thing that you must aim at, you can't stop these people from fighting, but you must at least aim at this much. Today I went into that museum quarter in your city. They were saying there used to be about two thousand horses for the cavalry. I said this would be a good idea. Once again you bring horses and swords, at least don't use these terrible technological weapons which are mass destruction literally. And you are also going about calling them smart bombs. The dumbest thing you can do is drop a bomb on a group of people who are sitting here unaware of what the hell is happening. Hello? But these days people are advertising we have smart bombs. We can from two miles up in the air from an airplane, we can shoot it through your window. Can you be proud of such things I'm asking? Hello? So the young people should demand. Doesn't matter what disasters we have done till now, at least from here on, cutting edge technology should not go into military weaponry. This you must pitch for. This is this is not going to be achieved overnight. This is not going to be achieved overnight. But as a generation if you keep the throttle on, we could come to that in the next twenty-five years maybe. Hello? But it needs relentless commitment. It needs relentless commitment. See I've been talking about this soil and soil related things for thirty years. But there's a whole lot of idiots all over the world. Every nation has their own share. We in India have our own. Because the population is big we have a bigger percentage. Bigger size rather. So initially I talked about project green hands making 33% green cover in a given state where it was only sixteen point five percent. Then I talked about rally for rivers changing the policy. We managed to change the policy. And this policy became the official fall policy for all the twenty-eight states in India. Within three and a half months after we wrote the policy because we did this movement where we gathered hundred and sixty-two million people. Twenty-nine days I drove from the southern tip of India to Himalayas. And in these twenty-nine days one hundred and sixty-two million people supported the rally. Because of such numbers because of such numbers no democratic government can ever ignore that. Within three and a half months it became the policy. Then once the policy correction happened then I saw only six states were proactively going for it. The remaining waiting for a disaster to happen you know. Lot of people like to act only after the disaster has happened. Something needs to happen. Something terrible needs to happen. Otherwise they won't get up and do anything. So anyway that's going on. At least six states got into proactive action. But I knew that we had to manifest a strong model to show them that it works. Twenty-five years we've been working this, hundreds and thousands of farmers. We shifted them into tree-based agriculture. The organic content in the soil went up significantly. Farmer's income went up three hundred to eight hundred percent in about seven to eight years time. And the water tables came up looking at the success of this Cauvery Calling project which covers eighty-three thousand square kilometers of land. And five point two million farmers who live and work there. The Karnataka government that is one of the states there asked us to do the entire state. But the central government went further and made detailed project reports for thirteen river basins, a replica of the Cauvery Calling what we're doing. So that was on for some time now we've been trying to see what they will do. Just about five days ago the government of India announced a budget of two point five billion dollars towards these thirteen river projects. I want you to understand this is not coming as one fanciful journey through Europe, Central Asia and Arabia. This is a relentless commitment for last thirty years continuously working. But people who are talking are talking, oh initially you said you plant trees, then you said river, now you're saying soil, you keep on changing the goalpost. So, you idiot, when I said planting a tree, were you planning to plant it on your head? When I said planting a tree, we were talking about soil. When we're talking about soil, we were talking, when we're talking about water, we were talking about soil. Because the soil, the top soil in the world can hold eight hundred percent more water than all the rivers on the planet put together if the organic content is high. Today if you raise the organic content to eight to ten percent, your irrigation requirement across the world will come down to thirty percent of what it is right now. If you're using hundred liters, it will come down to thirty liters. If you raise it to twelve to fifteen percent, your irrigation requirement will come down to ten to fifteen percent. From hundred liters it can come down to fifteen liters. So, you cannot talk about water, air, environment without talking about soil. Because soil is the base from which everything happens. What do you think, you know, ten thousand, fifteen thousand years ago when that cave, in the cave, when they discovered how to make fire and learn to cook food on that, was it a man or a woman? She's not married. Anyway, it was a man or a woman we can't decide. It is normally decided it's a caveman. Whoever discovered how to cook food with fire made a phenomenal difference, isn't it? Yes or no? But over nearly a billion years ago, a very smart fungi or an algae it could be. We don't know whether it's just like man or woman. We don't know whether it's an algae or a fungi who did this first. Between the two of them, somebody discovered how to cook their food using the perpetual energy of the sun, which today we call it as photosynthesis. When photosynthesis started nearly a billion years ago or before that, the oxygen content in the atmosphere of the earth was just a shade over one percent. Today it is around twenty-one percent. Only because of this, you and me are alive. Only because of this, many complex life forms have happened. But today everybody is busy talking about carbon dioxide for some reason, because most of them are WhatsApp scientists. They read two messages on the WhatsApp and suddenly become scientists, you know. So we also decided it's best to do it this way. On the website there are toolkits with which in twenty-five minutes you can learn to speak for one minute to anybody you meet like you're a soil scientist. It's the training as part of the same soil. Hello? Because all kinds of idiots who have no intention of doing anything in their life, because they are perfect people, they have never made a mistake in their life because they never did anything. If you're doing something, some mistakes happen, isn't it? Hello? If you're doing something, something will go this way the way your cooking goes wrong. Every day, come on, I'm joking, come on. Because I can't see your face, what do you think, every day? What's your name? Sandeep. Sandeep, when he got married, after the honeymoon was over when they came back home, what's your name? Hey, it's okay if I joke on you? Oh no, it's recorded on the camera. Let me use some other name. So, a young man got married, young man and a young woman got married. They went on a honeymoon, they came back home and the new bride was super enthusiastic. She wanted to cook for him. So, he went to the office and he came back. The whole house was smelling many things. So, he came little apprehensive. Then she said, you know, the only two things that I learned to cook from my mother and I've made it today. He said, really, you cooked yourself? He said, yeah, come, let's have dinner. So, he sat down and she served. He carried open and put it in his mouth and a pensive moment, you know. Then she said, you know, the only two things I learned how to cook. One is a meatball, the other is an apple pie. These are only two things I learned from my mother. He put it in his mouth and asked, which one is this? Cooking. They started cooking with solar energy nearly a billion years ago. Because of that, you have this much oxygen. Because of that, you and me are sitting here alive right now and every other life in this planet is on. So, this photosynthesis is the most phenomenal thing that's happened on this planet. But everybody is talking about carbon, nobody is talking about oxygen anymore because carbon is fashionable and all these online scientists, if you utter the word carbon, they say, poison, poison, beat it down. No, we are all carbon life, aren't we? Hello? Every life on this planet that you see is made of carbon. What you call as life here is just a cycle of carbon that's going on. In this cycle, soil is the most important and vital link and that link has worn so thin. If you push it any further, the chain will wither in many ways. That's what we're talking about when we say save soil because if we don't do it now, we will be jeopardizing human life on the planet first. Other lives, unfortunately, people have been taught that every other life is here only to serve us. You do one thing, go and ask an ant, are you here to serve me? He will make you hop. Go and ask a bumblebee, put your nose into the beehive and ask, are you here to serve me, make honey for me? Are you my honey maker? You know what'll happen to you. Everybody, every one of them. I've spent so much time in the jungles, what I see is every one of them have a complete life of their own. Their own systems of living, their own understanding, unbelievable, unbelievable. Termites, I went into really looking at termites, I couldn't believe it. What they're doing and the level of organization and their traffic control, incredible really. And if you don't know this, in many places, if a termite is here in the soil, do you have termites here or no? You have. Yes or no? Termites, you know. So these little boys put their hands into everything they must know. So the termite here, if it is there in this soil, it is capable of knowing up to seven hundred miles, if there is water somewhere, they will hit a tunnel and get there. There must be something, isn't it? For their life, they are very intelligent and super organized. Yes or no? They can also bring down your house, that's a different matter. But for their life, they know what to do. Every animal seems to know at least how to handle their life well. It's only human beings who are so confused about everything. Hello? This confusion is a consequence. This confusion is a consequence of not learning to handle our freedom. Nature has released us from certain, you know, for every other life, nature has put two lines. Within those lines, they must live and die. But for human beings, there's only one line. There is no top line. You can make whatever you want out of yourself, but not able to make use of it because there is not enough investment upon the individual human being. Everybody is talking about nation, race, religion, organizations and this and that. There is not enough focus on the individual. If we really want to make a change, we have to focus on you, you and you, isn't it? Hello? All of you together will treat you as one entity. All you can do is, let's fight, let's fight, let's fight. When you get a group of people together and make them into one, all that's happened is fighting, conflict endlessly. It's extremely important that human intelligence is cultivated as individual intelligence, not as a mass intelligence. Hello? This, this does not mean all the hippie looking guys are going, yeah, this does not mean each one of us doing our own freaky things. This means that a human being can explore the possibilities of being human. What are all the different dimensions of being human? Only within our experience, there is no such thing as doing it here, isn't it? Hello? According to, you know, in the yogic sciences, we look at the energy system in a certain way. What I see is, if you use approximately twenty-one of the one hundred and twelve chakras which are there in your physiology, you know what's a chakra? All of you? Oh, not the wings of your car, I'm talking about chakra. So what a chakra means is these are like junction boxes in the energy system. They always meet in the form of a triangle, but we call them a chakra which literally means a wheel because it represents dynamism, it represents movement from one state to another. So there are one hundred and fourteen of them, two of them are outside one's physiology, one hundred and twelve embedded in our body. Out of this, if twenty-one of them are functioning or activated, you will live a complete life, twenty-one only. You will live a total life physically, mentally successful life you can live. You get the feeling that you're quite complete, you don't need to do anything more. So what are the remaining things for? Only if you touch the other aspects of energy, will you open up to other dimensions of experience beyond physical nature. Physical nature means, we've said this in so many ways already, your whole experience is within you. Yes or no? Pain and pleasure is within you, joy and misery is within you, agony and ecstasy is within you, everything happens only within you. Even light and darkness happens only within you. You take a spoon of honey and you say, it's sweet, it's not about the honey, it's your tongue. If you did not have a tongue, you won't know what the honey is. Yes or no? It's a tongue which is giving you an experience. Maybe some other animal doesn't have that, if you put honey, means nothing to somebody else. So when the whole experience of life within you, it is important to understand, if you limit your experience just to your physical self, what physical self means is, you were not born this way, were you? Safe soil boy? You were not born like this. You were born like this, now you become like this. I'm not saying anything wrong with you. All I'm saying is, how did you become like this? You just gathered how? By eating the food that you're eating. The food that you're eating is just the soil, just a few days ago or a few months ago, yes or no? The soil became food and food became your body. Now you're thinking, this is me. What you gather can be yours, but cannot be you, isn't it? Now, suddenly I say, this is my bell. Then you say, oh, Sadhguru's got a problem. But everybody says he's wise, so let's listen some more. After some time I say, this is me, then you will say, let's go. Because this is a clear mental case, isn't it? Hello? But every day you're doing this. Food appears on your plate, you say, this is my food, you eat it and then you say, this is me. Case or no? Only case, number we have to decide. Case, isn't it? This is a case. If you believe anything that is not you to be you, it amounts to psychological impairment, yes or no? Hello? And you have a heap of food which you call as my body, you have a heap of impressions which you call as my mind and you think that is you. Once you made this one wrong way of perceiving what you are, after that everything is a mistake. Sometime ago, I think almost seven, eight years ago, you know, only about four or five books I've actually sat down and worked on, but over hundred and twenty-three or some books they've published, largely from the talks. They've just transcribed those talks and made books. So I don't like to read my own stuff. So I don't like to read anything. It's a confession, don't tell anybody. Everybody thinks I know all the scriptures backwards, don't tell them. So these books come to me only for giving them the title for the book. So this book came, I just flipped around. Then I gave a title of mistakes and mistakes. So our people said, Sadhguru, this is too much up in the face. Can you give something a little more gentle? I said, say no, no. There are only two kinds of people in the world, mistakes and mistakes. If somebody perceives everything just the way it is, you call him a mistake. So in revenge I call you a mistake because you did not perceive it the way it is. Hello? So the moment, the moment you make this one mistake that what is not you, you thought is you. After that everything is a mistake. Is it true you gathered this body or a period of time? Hello? What you gather can be yours, but never ever can be you. Is that so? Oh, you're enlightened. From this comes all the problems. From this comes all the problems that we breed in the world. This is me, that is you. What is you and me is like this. A little, this little boy or girl, girl. Did you, do you blow soap bubbles? Ask her, soap bubbles. Yes, I got one. You will blow it? No? Okay, if you and me start blowing soap bubbles, your bubble came like this. My bubble came like that. Then I say, this is my bubble, big one is mine. Then it went poop. Then I don't say this is my air, that is your air. Stupid, isn't it? Hello? Your entire life is structured around this. This is a living cosmos. You captured little life, I captured little life. That's all it is. Now the whole system of yoga is about how to capture more life than what I have right now, so that my life and experience of life is enhanced, not because of what I do, simply because of the way I am. If you sit here, you must feel the significance of the life. Right now, I want you to look at this carefully. Your significance is largely in comparison with somebody. If you are wearing better clothes than somebody, you feel little more significant. If your jewelry is more expensive than theirs, you feel significant. Your car is bigger than theirs, you feel significant. Or your muscles are bigger, you feel significant, whatever nonsense. But your significance is only in other people's losses or other people's failures, isn't it so? Because it's always in comparison. This guy, you know, I met this young person in America and I asked him, what do you want to do with your life? Sadhu, my only thing is I want to make billion dollars. I said, see, I can give you a billion dollars if you want. He said, really? I said, yes, I can give you a billion dollars. He had come with a bunch of friends. I said, I'm going to give you one billion dollars. But all these friends of yours, I'm going to give each one of them ten billion dollars. He said, why, Sadhu? I said, you only wanted a billion. No, no. If they don't have a billion and I have a billion, it's good. If they have ten billion and I have only one billion, no good. So always in comparison only, this is not something that you've made up because the very five senses that you have can perceive only in comparison. Only because there is light, if it goes off, you know what is darkness. Only because there is a man, you know what is a woman. Only because there is a day, you know what is night. Everything that you know is only by comparison. What is small and big is by comparison. If you're six feet tall, you are walking like a tall man, feeling like a tall man. Suddenly you walked into another society where everybody's eight feet tall. Suddenly you become a short man. Feel like a short man, think like a short man, walk like a short man, isn't it? Hello? So what you… what you know in comparison is not life. It is only a survival mechanism so that you don't go and pick a fight with an elephant. Survival, you know? You're very careful, isn't it? If you pick a fight, you always pick where there is least damage. You don't go and yell at your boss, do you? You only come home and yell at somebody. You're smart. So you know everything by comparison. By comparison, you can only know the physical aspects of life. You cannot know the basic nature of life itself. For this, you need to capture little more life, little more intense energy so that naturally your perception goes beyond the five senses. If this one thing had happened, neither soil problem nor war problem nor any goddamn problem would exist. It has happened but too few are people. This is why, you know, shall I tell you my problems? You okay? You shouldn't cry. This happened nearly forty years ago. This September, it will be forty years. I was sitting on a small hill and suddenly I just burst into an ecstatic state. I did not know where I am, where I am not. I seemed like I was everywhere and every cell in my body was dripping ecstasy. Then I thought it's just a few minutes but when I came out it was about four-and-a-half hours. Then I was a super skeptic. I'm thinking, what's happening with me? Maybe I'm going off my rocker. Then I asked my closest friends, something is happening to me. It's too fantastic. I said, eh, come on. What did you drink? What did you pop? I knew there's no point talking about it because there was no context anywhere around me to tell me what's happening to me and I had not grown up in any spiritual tradition. I had grown up out and out you know, wild. Do I still look wild? I'm sorry. I'm supposed to look spiritual because the beard I have but I need a constipated look on my face which I'm not able to get. So then I experimented with this and realized if I don't mess with my mind, if I just take my hands off my mind, I burst into ecstasy. I tried this in many different ways. Then I knew this is it. So I thought this is it. I hit a gold mine and on that day the world's population was 5.6 billion people and I sat down and made a plan. I was twenty-five years of age. I made a plan that in two-and-a-half years' time I will make the entire world blissful. Forty years. These days, these days people are telling me to make me feel a little better. Sadguru, we have touched more than two billion people on the planet. You must be happy. I said happiness is not the problem but I am a failure. That much I know. I am a blissful failure though. They can't make me unhappy but I know I will die a failure because population has grown to eight billion and too many people are committed to their miseries. Whatever you do with them, they are determined to die miserable. Hello? Are you here? Come on, don't say that. Are the miserable people here? I am asking. Yes, sir. Oh, first I got a bell, now I got a cow. This is it. I am on a motorcycle, otherwise I would have carried a pasture also with me. So what I am trying to tell you is this life is a brief amount of time. Before you know what's happening, it'll be goddamn over. You may think, oh, I'm young, I got a lot of life. See, have you seen on a certain day, if you're very happy, you're just so happy, twenty-four hours went off like a moment. Have you had days like that? On another day, you're a little miserable, depressed. Twenty-four hours feels like a year or at least a year. Yes or no? So only miserable people can have a long life. If you are really joyful, blissful, before you know what's happening, it's over. People keep asking me, Sadhguru, where do you get this energy, energy in any kind of situation, the number of projects you're running, the number of people that you talk to on a daily basis, how do you manage this? Well, I feel like I just started day before yesterday. Hello? It's just getting over so quick. The same is true with you and everybody, because if you explore human potential, then the time that you have is too little. If you just know your physical body and your silly thoughts and emotions, then it feels very long, very long. A lot of people even have to kill themselves because it's too long. Hello? Whatever seventy, eighty, ninety, hundred years of life, for what potential a human being has come with, it's too little, too little. So people ask me, Sadhguru, my dream should come true, will you bless me? My blessing is, may your dreams not come true, because may something that you could not dream of happen to you, because just… just look at this carefully and see, what is it that you can dream of? If you know one dollar, you will think of a billion dollars. If you know this, you will exaggerate into that. You cannot dream of something that you do not absolutely know, isn't it? So does it mean to say that you want only the same things exaggerated, or is it important something that you cannot even think of should arise and happen in your life? Are you okay with the blessing? May you not… may your dreams not be fulfilled, may your life be about things that you could not even ever dream of. I got one more blessing. I got one more blessing, shall I do? Hello? Hello? May you die as a failure in your life. Oh, what is this, Sadhguru? Yes. See, you set up a tiny little goal, do it, make it happen and then say, I did it, I did it. This is stupid, childish. For the brains that you have… I'll come to you, boy. Oh, thank you. I think… I think from Vienna, I must drive a truck the rest of the route. For the brains that you have, for the intelligence that you have, for the consciousness that you're capable of, these hundred years if you live is not enough. You must die as a failure because your vision is so big. It should not be complicated in such a brief amount of time. Is it okay, two blessings for you? But… but to realize these things in our life, we need healthy soil. Above all, our promise to the future generations. With what is the promise that you have for these children, you may not say to them, but essentially your promise is, I want you to live better than me. Isn't this the fundamental promise you have for your children? If you don't have this, I want these children to live better than me. Know something more than I know. Experience something more than I have experienced. Live life better than me. If you don't have this in you, you're not a human. One point to three percent, you're right there. But even a chimpanzee has that emotion and feeling towards its offsprings. I got a boat also. Thank you. Should I? Oh, I was asking for a truck, but I got a boat. So I'm asking you, in this hall, these seventeen hundred people who are here with the modern technologies that you have and the gadgets that you have, if you make up your mind, the number, see this time I'm aspiring very low, I'm not asking for eight billion people, I'm only asking for four. Hello? Just all of you here, if you use your brains and the gadgets that you have properly, right here, just you, leave the other cities and nations that I'm going to, just you can touch four billion people, yes or no? The question is only will you do it or not? All I'm asking you is, enroll yourself as an earth buddy and every day ten to fifteen minutes is all I'm asking. Ten to fifteen minutes, see how to enhance the message because right now the most important thing is to change the narrative on the planet. The narrative is elsewhere. We need to bring that narrative back to soil because soil is a source of who we are. If we live, we live on it, if we die, we go back to it. People are continuously asking me, Sadhguru, what can I do, what can I do? Shall I go fix my garden? That's wonderful of you, very cute. You're fixing your garden because you're concerned about the soil in the world. Yes, it's a good thing to do. I'm not against it at all, but it's not a solution. It's very cute and wonderful of you to do that, but it's not a solution because seventy-one percent of the world's land is under agriculture. That is where the problem is. If we don't address that now, just to give you a perspective, in this region, Germany, Czech Republic and Austria are average organic content in the soil is about 1.48 percent. In United States, thirty percent of the top soil is gone, totally gone. It has disappeared. To create one inch of top soil, it takes nearly five hundred years. It's not something you can manufacture overnight and throw it out there. In India, sixty-two percent of the agricultural soil, the organic content is less than 0.5 percent. Across Africa, the average organic content is 0.3 percent. On the verge of desertification, a whole continent, if you look it up on the Google maps, you will see, in the last twenty-five years, the deserts have grown by ten percent. Ten percent of the earth's land has been desertified in just twenty-five years. What is your plan for your children? Just... I love you, I love you. This is not going to help if you do not create a situation. So, if you want to say, I love you to your children, you must say, save soil, that's a more committed way of saying, I love you. All of you must write, as I told you already, you must write to your local representative, your members of the parliament, you must write to your chancellor, you must write to whoever is in different regions. I'll come to you, I'll come to you. Yeah, yeah. Your mother is disposing all the things that she wants to with me. Sorry, thank you. So, you, above all, every day, can you dedicate ten minutes to enhance the message in the world? Because... So, because you are such wonderful people from this wonderful city of Vienna, I'm giving you seven percent discount, only ninety-three days. All right? To everybody I said, hundred days for you, only ninety-three days. What, you're not happy with seven percent? Tomorrow morning I'll give you eight percent discount. So, you follow the journey for the remaining ninety... ninety-three days and you know, you... there are toolkits on the website, how to... if you do not know how to start a Twitter account, how to magnify the message there, Facebook, YouTube, you can enhance the message. Do not want... I don't want you to support me. I want you to talk about soil and make everybody talk about soil. This is not about me, this is not about the journey, this is just an effort. But the important thing is the world should talk about soil for the next hundred days and this is what is important. If you share the... share the savesoil.org website with as many people as you can, especially the savesoil message video from the homepage, please make sure it reaches the maximum number of people, because what I see is many, many celebrities and influencers that have met, they had no clue that there is a problem like this. Suddenly in the last four months, because of our campaign that started about four months ago, got various levels. Now there is a little bit of awareness in the influencer segment, but they had no idea. We have over eight hundred influencers with at least five million following supporting this movement right now. They will all start enhancing the message from now on. But you have... you have a very powerful instrument in your hand. You can be a powerful influencer in the world. Yes or no? Just learn to use this, you know? So, every message that you send to anybody, whatever you do, just close it with savesoil. This is not about me, this is not about this journey, this is about our children's future, leaving a living soil for future generations is the most important thing we need to do. It's a generational responsibility. And make savesoil song reverberate everywhere. You can download from the website or you can make the savesoil song reverberate everywhere. Lilllili lilllili, better. That's better. And you can download it by scanning the QR code and make this your ringtone, make this, so many things, somehow get the message out. Have your children write a letter to the Prime Minister. In India, the Eshah homeschool children took up this responsibility that they will inspire ten million Indian children to write to the Prime Minister, if… if ten million children, ten million children when they write a letter to the Prime Minister, do you believe he can ignore that? Hello? In Austria, at least half a million or one million children, please write to the Chancellor, he will not ignore it. The problem is still now people have not spoken responsibly, that is the only problem. You can… you can make your own placards, you can make your own stickers, don't change the color… color scheme and the things so that it's represented that way, you… every one of you should have at least a sticker on your car saying, save soil for hundred days. Don't tattoo your… if you want to tattoo it on your forehead, I'll leave it to you, but I'm not advising anything like that. But in every possible way, enhance the message, it's important to do this now. As a generation, the problem is when it comes to consumption, all of us are consuming. When it comes to compensate reactivity, all of us are not participating. This is the tragedy of the world. So this happened, this happened in Vienna in 1836. Am I referring to a wrong date? Is there some historical event that you're sensitive about, 1836? No. Okay, 1836 is a good number. In 1836, it so happened, people who lived in this city believed there are people on the moon because, you know, it keeps changing color, shades and it looks like people are moving there, then they wanted to communicate with them. As there was no other means, they… the wise people of this city decided we will all gather ourselves on the rooftops of our homes. At one given moment, all of us will say in a single voice, who? Let me try this with you, so that when they hear, they will respond. I will say one, two, three. All of you should say who with all that you have, okay? One, two, three. See, you are wonderful people, you became like this. On that day in 1836, everybody gathered on the rooftops ready to say this, who? But me, you know, I am a small person. My voice, even on the microphone, it's not getting across. If I don't say it, what's the problem? There are all these big guys, he is there, she is there, he is there. What is there if I don't say it? It's a unique moment. All of them are going to say who the entire city, so I just kept quiet. And that moment came, I want to see how all of you will say it. But that moment came and it passed in total silence, because everybody thought so. Everybody thinks somebody else will do it, that's the only goddamn problem with us. So Vienna, all of you young people, save soil, let us make it happen. We will play the... We will play the anthem. Please play the anthem, where is it? La la la la la la la la la la la la la… This very body is soil. My body, your body, everybody is just soil body. Unquench the fire of hunger. Unquenched hunger can burn the very world. This is a generational responsibility. Save soil. Let's make it happen. Let me do something like this. The most important thing to understand is, this is not a protest. This is not an agitation. This is not a manifestation against somebody else. We want everybody to be a part of it, whoever they are. This is not a fight. I'm saying this because whenever people talk about environment and ecology, they're always asking, whose face shall we punch? No face to punch. It needs to happen joyfully. It's very important that we learn to do significant things in the world joyfully. People always think if you have to do something significant, you must be dead serious. No, first you get serious, then you are dead, all right?