 It is time that we, in 21st century, show that we are a mature citizens of this planet, that we want long-term well-being for ourselves and future generations. This is the opportunity. The soil is that moment. I am convinced that both our administrative agriculture as well as the entire ministry fully supports that trend or that direction. He is offering me much more than I came to ask him for. It's our common issue together. It's not for one nation, for one person, but we as people have to unite and to solve this. It's a wonderful city of Vienna. Soil is a common denominator to bring all of us together. Make sure the world gets it now. La-la-la-la-la is your mantra for now, for these 93 days. And above all, don't pick a fight with anybody. It doesn't matter what they're doing because we need every one of them. Yes, I know what is an important thing, but it's such an important thing that we can do without in our lives. At least from here on, cutting-edge technology should not go into military weaponry. This you must pitch for. How, how do you feel here in Ljubljana in Slovenia? Feeling like it's home. Reshima first. All of us have been part of this destruction. The only way is all of us become part of the solution also. So let's make it happen. Italy, Italy is raining heavily tonight. Here in Venice, what a city. I am a huge admirer of Rome because whoever did it, their sense of geometry is so fantastic. The former president of European Parliament is 100% with us and FAO is our partners now. And we are very happy that we are aligned in our message to hide the profile of soils. And we believe that is very much needed. This great city which is known as the Eternal City, we must understand over 2,000 years ago, this Eternal City made the mistake of over-forming the region. And the erosions that caused tremendous damage and that was also the fall of the city at that time. So the Romans of today should never make that mistake once again. In Geneva. I think it's a message of urgency, but it's also a message of hope. So I'd really like to thank the Saguaro for his leadership. The global movement led by him addresses the soil crisis by mobilizing people around the entire world. This massive fountain in the lake of Geneva is lit up for safe soil today. With safe soil colors of blue and green, you cannot stop this. The moment is on. It's going to be on till the policies are done. See, when people want it, it definitely will happen. There's no question about it. Tell me will it happen? Anyway, 30,000 km from the Peripe, 30,000 km by bike alone to change the world. And I think that without joy, it's not possible. In reality, the conclusion is that as soon as you have something important to do, something a little serious, when you put joy in it, it necessarily gives you wings. And it also gives wings to others. I was talking to you earlier about an invitation, to welcome a football player who has dug up the soil. So I have the pleasure of welcoming Louis, that. And I invite you to come up on stage to join me. You can applaud very loudly. Welcome Louis. Thank you for being here. I leave you the microphone. The floor is yours. Hello everyone. It's really an honor to be able to participate in this event. I came to visit my sister at first. And I was lucky enough to have a message reminding me that Saint-Gourou came to see us in Paris. And it was very important for me to immediately announce my presence. Because it's something extraordinary. What you just did, you saw the images. I am Bouchbé. We all have an influence. We all have a power. And he is really capable of federating. This room is full of people. I am amazed because there is a real energy. I had the opportunity to go to Rome like Saint-Gourou. And to have the chance to go to Vatican and to see the Pope. And I had this emotion, not necessarily religious, but I had this emotion because I had this meeting of people with real values. With this desire to change their daily lives with more positive views. And there was this energy that got out of this person. I am not necessarily a block on religion. I was really inspired by an energy. And that's what Saint-Gourou brings me. When I see him travel, I also had the opportunity to go to Everton in 2009, where I played at the time, where I had a pretty nice first league. And he took the time to talk to us and send us this energy, this compassion, this goodwill, to realize that there was more than what we did or what we accomplished every day, to make sure that we could live our passion. And I understood that I had this duty to be able to give time, to give strength and authenticity to the messages I could convey around me. Saint-Gourou, when we talk about being authentic, it's the strength he has. It's to talk about kindness, about his yoga, which is very, very good, about all these aspects of life, like a life coach who really helps us to do important things. But at the beginning, he starts with simple actions. And I say to myself, this power to generate all this, by staying human. So when I see Saint-Gourou, he is someone who is very, very simple, who is able to take a motorcycle today and make a trip, to connect us to simple things and to say that today, the ground is very, very important and that we must have this very federated message, but in an emergency, to be able to realize that we are all together in the same fight. So today, to see this room filled with people who have green t-shirts and understand the message of Saint-Gourou, it's quite special and unique for me. So I already thank you for being here. So it's quite huge. And I'm really asking you to continue the fight, to try to do what Saint-Gourou says, to try to influence everyone around you, the way our children, I have three of them, to avoid the catastrophes that Saint-Gourou has explained very well. So I think it's very, very important. We, influencers, who have a platform, social media, to be able to address a message even, I would say, powerful, but in an emergency and not to be afraid of going to the fight and being a little marginalized because it's not necessarily in an emergency, we say, yes, it's in 30, 40 years, no. It's now that we have to start doing concrete actions. So I would like to thank you for being here. Thank you for being here. And hug your sister. The joy, the power, the ability to take power on the world in which we live. Not waiting for others to do things, but to do things ourselves. Here are some instructions from the beginning of the afternoon, the end of the afternoon that we spend together. I now invite His Excellency, Mr. Jawa Dashraf, ambassador from India in France to come on stage to share these perspectives. Welcome to you, Mr. Ambassador. Welcome to you. Ambassador will speak in English. Hello. Hello. Hello. All of you here are already, as Sadguru said, making it happen. It is your time now to change the world. He is here with a message and you are the instrument. So let us once again show our commitment by giving Sadguru a round of applause. Yes. He hears it and the world will hear your voice when we speak in one voice and when we move with one spirit with the joined hands of billions and billions of people. Every day we get up and walk on terra firma, the earth. But that's the one thing we take most for granted. But everyone here in Paris, everyone in France, everyone in the world wants fresh fruit, fresh vegetable, the cleanest, the greenest bread, the cleanest and the purest water. But that's not the only problem we will face. 33% of our land, one third, is facing problems. It's already degrading. In 60 years from now the top soil which nourishes our life, which nourishes the planet will be gone. But this is a responsibility that we, the present, who are in this world bear towards our children and our grandchildren and the generations to come. Today we have to make that choice. Are we going to take the actions that we need to make sure that we leave the world more hopeful, more capable of sustaining life? Yes, all governments recognize the problem. We have the UN Soil Health Day which is the December 5th. We have three United Nations conventions that speak of soil. In 2015, the year we had COP 21 in Paris, we declared it as the year of soil. Every government, the government of France, government of India, all of us take actions, make laws, make policies about soil to save our soil. But how many of us have heard it? Yes, I work in the government, I'm a diplomat, it's my job. But how many of us those laws have heard of those conventions? Yes, we today talk about the carbon emission in the air. We don't speak about carbon in the soil. It is our job to make sure that there is more carbon going in the earth and less carbon going in the air. And the more carbon we put in the earth, the less carbon we will put in the air. And so when we speak of climate change, which we do every day, let us begin with basics. Basics are related to soil and the life it contains and the life it nurtures. And all this will happen only not because of the laws we make, not because of the conventions we write, not because of the programs we put in place, the science is known. There's reams and reams of research. But where is the message? And it is this message, this idea of creating a mass movement that you saw on the screens today across the cities of Europe, joined by enthusiastic crowds, young children, adults, old people, dancing with hope, with the purpose, with the cause to save the soil. And this is the stream at the start of the mountain which will become a giant river of human awareness, social consciousness, social mobilization. And it is this mission that Sadhguru has launched on March 21 from London and it is this message he shall take to COP 15 in Kothwa and take it all the way across Asia and to Coimbatore in India. And today we're privileged to have him here with us and make no mistake. This is not his new fancy or some new idea that he's come up with. Those of you who are volunteers know that but let me say this for those who do not. Of course he's known to all his 11 million volunteers in 300 centers across the world as a spiritual guide, a leader, a person who has transformed their lives. But he is also the world's most committed mass mobilizer on ecology, on nature. And why is that so? Because he combines spirituality with science with social consciousness and social mobilization. And why is that so? Because he speaks about inner engineering which all of you have heard of to make you better people. But you cannot do that inner engineering without also doing something about re-engineering the nature of which you are a part. The harmony between your inner self and the nature that sustains you. So this is an extension of a mission which he has launched. And I must say there are three extraordinary missions which I never fail to mention because they are the greatest examples of what mobilization can do for nature. And of course is Project Green Hands. This is a project which he launched in 2004 to bring young children, farmers, adults into a collective movement for air forestations to increase the green cover. 38 million, 38 million saplings were planted, 850,000 farmers were enabled or facilitated. On one day, 850,000 saplings were planted which is a Guinness Book of World Record of course. In 2017 he launched the Rally for River movement in India which is drawn in 162 million people. 162 million people in what the United Nations Environment Program has described as the world's largest ecological movement. I'm sure this one is going to overtake that very soon because it will be several billion people joining in this venture. And then of course we have the Cauvery Calling. Now those of you who have been to India know the Cauvery River which is drawing up and it has caused all kinds of social problems also because water like soil is the basis of life. And so Cauvery Calling is another move to plant trees to rejuvenate the river and 2.42 billion trees are to be planted by 5 million, 5 million farmers in Cauvery. But today he's launched a mission that is going to make all of this look very, very modest. Because tonight today we are all part of a giant of a great mission that will unite the world across our identities, across our boundaries, across our cultures, languages, religions, genders in one common purpose, in one common hope, in one common aspiration. An aspiration that's the noblest of all. An aspiration and a hope to leave this world better than what we inherited it. To create that movement, that consciousness so that everyone in the world who makes decisions will hear you. And so that in every day of your life in every little way you will also make that one small giant step which will be really a giant step towards conserving and saving the soil. It will be very simple steps. But they will make a huge, huge difference. And that is what this movement is about. That is why he, Sadguru, is on this extraordinary journey. This leg of that journey will take him as you have just heard through 30,000 kilometers on a motorcycle through 30 cities in 23 countries but touching the lives along the way of hundreds and hundreds of millions of people who all of us now today, as we leave this room, as we leave this hall and after we have heard him we will do what he has been saying. Let's make it happen. And to speak to you today, to raise our consciousness and to call you to action, it is my honor and privilege to invite on stage Sir Guru. This is a soil man. What are you? This is a soil man. Should I go on a picnic? Thank you. Give it to them. I'll take it later, okay? First one minute I will speak in French after that I will speak English. When somebody speaks, if I don't understand, I think it's French. So, because you didn't understand, it must be French. So, what was I speaking in my French? Is this that life is just a little bit of time. If you're very joyful, it's very little. If you're miserable, it's pretty long. Hello? Miserable people can live a long life because it feels that way. Have you noticed on a particular day, you're very happy, poof! One day it goes off like that. It's very little. Then one day feels like a year or a year depending on the depth of your misery. For a miserable person, one day is too much. If you really blissed out, hundred years is too little. So, life plays between the time that we have and the energy that we manifest. Manifest itself in various levels. Where are you more invested will determine how your life feels than these seven disciples of Adiyogi. Ask Adiyogi, what is this complex creation made of? Where is it all coming from? How does it happen? What is the mechanics of this? Wherever you look a new kind of life, right here in your little garden, if you look close enough, there are so many creatures that you've never seen, so many creatures that you never thought existed. If you use a microscope, you will discover trillions of them. So when they ask this question, by then Adiyogi was bored with their questions. I said just like, just five things. The entire creation is a mischief of five elements, earth, water, air, fire and akash. In English language, there's no appropriate word. We'll either call it itta or call it space. But that's not the appropriate description, it's akash. So this earth, water, air, fire and akash, they manifest within ourselves also in a certain way. Because now, you know, I might be talking too much spirit, soil. This is only for the front rows, you got it? People keep asking me, Sadhguru, what is the secret? Hey, if I tell you everything, how is it a secret? So, if we take a handful of really rich soil and put it on your plate, it has all the nutrients. Can you eat it? Hello? Hello? No. No? If you... you think I'm so stupid, huh? He's asking me, did you try? Do I look that stupid to you? If you allow this soil to go through a certain process, ah, it becomes a nice vegetable or a sweet fruit or a cereal or a bread or something, it becomes food. It's the same soil, but became food and then arrived on your plate. Now instead of eating it, ingesting it and digesting it and assimilating it, we'll open up the body and stuff the bread inside. I think the French baguette. You think my arm is a French baguette? You put it inside here, here, here. You think it's going to work? No, it must go here and it must go through an entire complex process for the food that you have eaten to become this flesh and bone and blood. Hello? Still the same soil, hello? Still the same soil became food because it went through a process and then this same soil went through a process and became flesh and bone. Now this same soil, if you put it through another process, it will become the spirit. So the question in life is only this, are you a feeble spirit or are you a glowing spirit? This depends on how well nourished you are. I'm not talking about protein, protein, vitamin, that kind of stuff. I'm talking about as you put the soil through a process and made it food, as you put the food through a process and made it flesh, as you put the flesh through a certain process, it will become the spirit. I'm using the word spirit in its essence as life is, not in scriptural terms, not in religious terms, not about you going to heaven. Hello, those? Are you feeling like you're in heaven? No, no, don't. That's not a good place to go. We've always made this serious mistake, which is also one of the causes for us to degrade the soil, to destroy the planet. That is, don't waste your time, it'll be on the YouTube. Be with me. Don't do that. Be with me, it's going on the YouTube immediately. Going with good cameras, not your phone. This is what I'm telling you. So, I'm not talking in terms of spirit means going up. Tell me, where should the spirit be? Here or there? No, no, it is supposed to be up there. It's around planet. What do the French think? It's a round planet. And it's spinning. If you look up, you're inevitably looking up in the wrong direction. Hello? If you were in Australia, how would you look up? Hello? I'm asking you. Responding to me because I don't look French. Hey, give me the French cap. So, this is... He's making all the mistakes today. He's calling me a French yogi. This is what you need to understand. The word yoga means union. The word yogi means one who has obliterated his boundaries consciously. So, this is not an Indian yogi or a French yogi. This is just a yogi. That's what I am attempting with everybody. If everybody becomes a yogi, the world will be free of problems because all our problems are because of the boundaries that we have drawn around ourselves. They may arrest me with this cap. He's okay. So, when we say spirit, we are thinking of something up there. No. A soil becomes a sprout. Sprout becomes a plant. Well, people will say it's a seed, but seed is also soil. And then it becomes a flower. You can't believe the stinking manure made this fragrant flower. But is it true? It is the more stinky the manure is, the more fragrant the flower is. Hello? So, it is this soil which becomes food. It is this food which becomes body. It is this body which becomes spirit. This is the evolutionary process. Not that the animal doesn't have it, but it's feeble. Not that every human being doesn't have it, but in some it may be feeble because they did not do the necessary process. If you eat the food, if you are not able to digest it and assimilate it, you would still be weak and malnourished, isn't it? This is the same way. You have a body that has come from the basis of this soil, but the next process if you do not do, you will not have a strong spirit. Strong spirit means not you have a strong temper. Spirit means... See, body means like this. This is my body, that's your body. These two are two separate things. This is my mind, that's your mind. These two are two separate things. Here and there our minds may overlap, but still that is your mind, this is my mind. Our bodies are very separate. Suppose I get buried in the French soil and when you get buried after many years, hundred years later, okay? When you get buried, suppose they buried you right next to me, then you understand this body and that body are the same stuff. Hello? But for now let's not go that far, but for now your body is your body, my body is my body, my mind is my mind, your mind is your mind. But there is no such thing as your life and my life, your spirit and my spirit. There is no such thing. This is like, this is a living cosmos. You have captured some, I have captured some. How much will determine the profoundness of your life? It's like if two children are blowing soup bubbles, I'm being shot, posing for the camera. So, because I'm in France, you know. Hello? Is this correct? So this two children are blowing soup bubbles and this is my bubble, that's your bubble. No, no, no, this is my bubble, that's your bubble. It went. Then, oh, this is my air, that is your air. There's no such thing. So just now your life is just like this. This is my bubble, that's your bubble. You captured some life, I captured some life. Now there are ways that you don't just gather a body or a body of information that you call as mind, but you capture more life. This is yoga. This is the spiritual process where you gathered much more life. Because you gathered much more life, your experience of life becomes very pleasant and profound at the same time. If you had this profoundness, you would not simply be restless. You wouldn't be, if you sit down, because it's so profound, just being alive is more than enough. Because there is no profoundness, there is a desperation to be something more. All human beings, no matter where they are, what they're doing, they're trying to be something more than what they are right now, isn't it? If it finds, if it finds a very basic physical expression, we call this sexuality. You're trying to include another which is not you as a part of yourself. It seems to work for a moment, and then it doesn't. If it finds an emotional expression, we call this love, emotionally you're trying to integrate somebody as a part of yourself. There are moments when you feel like that, the two have become one, but you know nothing against it. But if you intellectually try this, mentally if you approach this, this becomes ambition, conquest or simply shopping. Because you're trying to make something that is not you as a part of yourself. If it finds a conscious expression, we call this yoga. Now people are asking, why is the yogi talking about soil? Because soil is the foundation of your life. If you don't handle that right, you're not going to handle anything right in your life. That's for sure. If you do not know how to handle that right, you will not handle anything right. All the terrible statistics we have spoken enough about it, hmm? Only sixty years of soil left, soil extinction, by 2045 there will be less food and nine billion people, terrible things that can happen out of it, dozens of civil wars by 2040. All this stuff has been already thrown out. If you want more horrendous information, you can go on the UN sites and look at it. There's a lot of horrible stuff. Yes. Well, I don't think I have to tell you more and more horrible things. If you're a sensitive human being, which I believe you are, one thing is enough to wake you up. Hello? Yes or no? Yes. One thing is enough, why do I need to tell you 100 terrible things to wake you up? I'm saying this because generations of people have had this problem that they walk into the same stupid disaster again and again and grieve over the disaster. For example, the wars in the world. Every time it happens, everybody says, oh, what terrible thing it should not happen. Look at the blood, look at the children, look at the women, what's happening, what's happening? But after two years they'll be at it once again, somewhere else. Yes or no? Hello? Always been happening, isn't it? It's just that when it comes to our doorstep, we say it should not happen and it's happening somewhere else, it's just news or it's just core. It's very important that we could become a generation who will mitigate disasters, not work into them and then grieve over it. That's not the point. What is the point, grieving over a disaster that we create? Best to mitigate it, isn't it? Best to turn back. So this is the opportunity we have that right now if we do the right things, when I say right thing, yes, Sadhguru, I'm rolling up my sleeves, let me go and fix my kitchen garden. Very cute, very, very cute of you. But that is not a solution. It's very wonderful for you to do that. But that is not a solution because seventy-one percent of world's land is under agriculture. Another four point two percent is urban land. So the land is either plowed or paved. This is the problem. Plowed land and paved land. Natural habitat cannot happen here. Life cannot happen here because it's plowed and ripped open and left for four to six months in a year. Otherwise, urban lands are paved. Well, I will... You know, you've tried cobbling your streets, which makes riding a motorcycle quite... Wet cobblestones are not a great place to ride. But the idea of cobblestones at that time was, if it rains, it'll go this way. But now it looks like you've concreted it and on top of it you put the cobble. This is no good because you have heavier vehicles than then. So you've done it, it's okay. We build cities the way we build. But one problem with the cities I'm noticing in any city I go is if you go at the peak morning hour or evening hour, both sides of the traffic are busy. This means people who live here work there. People who live there work here. What's wrong with us? Hello? If only one side of the road is busy, we think, okay, they're going to work or going home. Both sides are busy means both the sides of the people are living in the wrong place or working in the wrong place. Why are we not living and working in one region rather than living here and working there? Something, we have explanations. Most cities were done long time ago. We didn't plan it. It's time to think about it. Yes, even now, whatever the carbon footprint that everybody likes to talk, it's become a fashionable thing to talk about carbon. But I'm an oxygen person, is it okay with you? Hello? Is it okay with you? The carbon footprint that we're talking about, they're saying to... even with all the fertilizer, pesticide, nonsense, if you create one apple, to transport that apple, let us say three to five thousand kilometers, which is normally it is traveling that much for most countries, maybe in Paris, around you it may be growing. If it's a kiwi, you eating a kiwi? You eating a kiwi? That is traveling twelve thousand kilometers. So if it travels three to five thousand kilometers, that apple, its transportation is causing nine to twelve times carbon or fossil fuel, then what it takes to grow it. If it grew right here, that would be cut down significantly. But now it is grown somewhere else and from there it comes. A grain of wheat, a grain of wheat in transportation has seven to ten times larger footprint than its growth, than its agricultural imprint. We need to think, isn't it? Hello? Isn't it time? Hello? Isn't it time to reorganize ourselves a little bit? Where people are, maximum amount of food should grow where people are. Some things we can get the kiwi, it's okay. One fruit comes from somewhere, it's okay. But everything comes from somewhere, something wrong with us, unless you're living in a desert or something. So even there they're making attempts to grow food. Why have we become like this? Essentially, is it okay if I blame it everything on the European mind? No, it's not all their fault, but they played a significant role. One thing is, the European mind started thinking if anything has to be good it must be in straight lines like this. Everything like this. School means everybody's standing in a straight line like this. Even dead bodies are in a straight line. Now you're becoming little hippy, some of you. Otherwise neatly potted with oil and tch. This guy, see. Hey stand up man, let them see your hairstyle. Come on, come on. See this guy, see this guy can do well like this. It's okay. Because this is the design of nature. Simply like that. But everything like this, everything like this, everything like this. So in the same effort we made our agriculture also like this. Proper lines. It must be straight lines like this. Everything in that way. That's not how land is. Have you seen at least the contours of the land, how it is? In India if you, now they're also trying to imitate the European structure. Otherwise if you look at it in various places, in India the farm fields are made like this, like that, like that, why? Because the soil is like that. What the soil that's here and the soil that is just over there is very different. Accordingly they built the structure of the farm that according to the soil types they went like this, like that. Now whatever the soil, we ignored it. Boom, straight line. Because our machines demand straight lines. Well we could build different kind of machines. Hello? A damn machine which goes only straight. Why? We can build a machine which goes like this. We can imitate an ant and build a machine. It goes whichever way you want. Yes or no? So these straight lines and straight lines people did not understand nature there are no straight lines. Everything is like that, all right? To just to tell you that any number of examples one striking example is this. In the prairies of America the grasslands I'm talking about prairies because prairies is one of the biggest disasters on the planet. In 1930s you heard of the dust bowls in America. Hello? Where millions and millions of tons of dust are powdery soil flew with the winds and came to the east coast. People experienced the dust bowl in a big way because New York City and Washington mostly New York City I think New York City got inundated with sand and soil. The building stopped this soil and huge heaps millions of tons of soil landed on New York City. To see where this is coming from the president of United States at that time traveled all the way to the prairies to see what's happening and then he said this is we're losing America because once the soil is lost America is lost, we're really losing America we must do something and they formed a new institution to control that even today it's functioning to some extent but only to some extent. So why this happened was when the western farmers went there you guys it's okay farmers or European farmers went there they were in the straight line mindset they thought this whole land is left wild, nothing is made use of it is not in use but there were over 25 million native American people living in that land and they were forming for many many millennia but their farming was such they formed in tune with the nature and one important aspect is in the prairies there is what is called as a prairie dog a prairie dog is actually a rodent a larger size and these prairie dogs have dug tunnels like your lungs in the earth in that sandy desert semi desert kind of grassland they have dug tunnels millions of miles of tunnels right across the prairie so the native American tribes at one time said when the prairie dogs are not there to cry for the rain this will turn into a desert something like this I'm paraphrasing because the prairie dog was the indicator of whether the land thrives or not so they grew their food cultivated in such a way they don't disturb the prairie dog what what natural vegetation was there they just enhanced those plants which are more useful to them that they can consume and reduce the other things a little bit and manage this in a selective way they burn down a few things and manage this when you go there it didn't look like it was being formed but it was being found for thousands of years but without destroying the soil without destroying this they gave tremendous significance to the prairie dogs because they had dug up millions of miles of tunnels inside the grasslands because of this when the moon came up let's say a full moon or a new moon when that happened when the tide rose in the oceans here also a tide rose from within the water rose through these tunnels and came up and the surface got the moisture because of the prairie dog tunnels this is why they said if the prairie dogs are gone then there will be no rain because the I mean the moisture or the water levels came up and the moisture came up what is called as transpiration happened and it rained every time the water came up like this in the prairie dog tunnels it would rain now when the European farmers went there they couldn't understand they thought these rodents are a big problem and they tried to shoot them but they were in millions then they poisoned them then they did all kinds of things to eliminate those prairie dogs just one species just because of elimination of one species the prairies largely turned into dust when the wind blew it just picked up millions of tons of soil and it came and landed in New York City no it did not just a little bit got stopped by the New York City buildings rest of it went into Atlantic of course everybody was talking about this how New York City was piled up with soil and how it was a great disaster I said New York City stopped some soil that is not the disaster that is your fortune the real disaster is the soil that you did not see and the soil that you cannot measure which went into the Atlantic America went into Atlantic that's what it means your top soil went into Atlantic ocean means your livelihood your well-being flew into Atlantic only a little bit got stopped by the New York City buildings so these kind of things are happening everywhere in the world some of them may be very dramatic some of them may not be in our minds we have this silly idea that if something has to work it must be all lines factory lines even our schools are run like factory lines unfortunately children don't come one kind we must understand this see with every other creature the percentages I'm just saying off the cuff most creatures in the world 90% of their life is determined by nature how they should be only 10% latitude is there for individual dog individual tiger individual elephant to find its own little latitude 10% freedom but in the case of a human being only 10% is determined by birth 90% is left free this is what human beings are struggling with because see if you were born as a tiger if you ate enough food you would become a good tiger now you're born as a human being to be a good human being how much nonsense you have to do and still you don't know where you stand hello when you're just about thinking you're doing good your teenage children will come and say you are no good not happen to you yet hello yes, yes don't wait till teens they tell you when they're eight so a human being's problem is not of bondage human beings problem is that of freedom don't know how to handle freedom if you were also put between put between two lines this is all you can be it would be so simple now even to sit peacefully that's your problem because nature has left you free for everybody two lines for you no top line that's what human beings are suffering but nature trusted your intelligence and opened the doors of the prison that was there for every other creature shall we exercise it hello because only if you exercise your intelligence in favor of life not against life will this be useful when I say against life right now the narrative in the world has become like this oh my job is stressful okay I'll get you fired what about it let me see you joyful every day no being fired is stressful no I'm not married so I'm stressful get them married and see something I'm poor so I'm stressed get them rich you'll get very stressed about the taxes endless nonsense I'm saying you are stressed because you do not know how to hold the knife of your intelligence I'm saying the knife because I'm asking you a simple question whatever you choose I'm going to bless you if you don't choose anything you will get blessed like that would you like your intellect to be sharp or blunt boom if it is sharp if you have a sharp instrument you must know how to hold it isn't it if you hold it like this you'll be bleeding all the time this is what is happening with life why is it that we don't give a sharp knife to the hand of a child not because the knife is dangerous because a child doesn't have a steady hand hello children steady hand if you have a steady hand sharper your mind is the better it is isn't it so but if you don't have a steady hand is this or poke somebody or poke yourself are you happening in the world every day and a whole lot of people are creating philosophies around it romantic poetry around it how natural it is for you to be angry how natural it is for you to be stressed how natural it is for you to be crazy this is crazy when you are a child was it natural to be joyful or natural to be angry which was more fundamental to you then at the age of five if you are so joyful by the time you were thirty you should have become ecstatic no why because when you were a child I want you to know maybe other people called you a child but actually a slave they say eat this you must eat this even if you don't like it you want to play they say no go to bed go to bed you want to sleep they say no wake up wake up what's wrong this was childhood or maybe the you hugged you boo boo boo all that because there is a need that's different but when you become an adult you have your own life joyful as a slave by the time you become thirty you should be ha ha ha la la la let me tell you my problem shall I the upper regions ok don't fall off stay there ok it looks dangerous no I am saying it looks dangerous to people who are sitting below then I was twenty-five years of age I stayed there ok when I was twenty-five years of age one afternoon I realized if I just take my hand off my mind if I take my hands off my mind suddenly every cell in my body is bursting with ecstasy blissfulness is dripping out of me I thought I just you know went off my rocker something happened then I tried again and again as I experimented for a few weeks I realized all I have to do is create a little distance between me and my mind between me and my body and that's it I burst forth I thought this is it I have discovered something fantastic and who in the world wouldn't want to live blissed out then I sat down and made a plan at that time the world's population was 5.6 billion people then I made a plan in two-and-a-half years time I will get the whole world blissed out because who will not want it so simple all you have to do is sit here you get blissed out see forty years forty years and today they say we have touched over two billion people but two billion people is not my idea of the world and because of this terrible failure now with soil I have come to four billion from eight billion is asking the whole population I am just asking for half the population will you make it happen only half the population now it is not even for blissfulness just for survival for the future well-being of the people that we bear well today UNFFO is saying that the soil or the food that we are eating right now belongs not even to the little children that you see here it belongs to the unborn child in my heart if we are eating up the food that belongs to the unborn child I feel terrible I think this is a crime against humanity I would like to see we don't continue this way and there is a way to do it this is what is safe soil is about to bring about the needed policy change when I say policy change once again people are propounding complex policies which cannot be implemented anyway they are good conference material a whole lot of people make living out of conferences I want you to know because I used to go to this world peace conferences for a few years then I realized it's their profession I am the only idiot sitting here thinking there is going to be world peace they are all thinking more conferences and more conferences I stopped going to those conferences so right now this environment also should not become more and more conferences action needs to happen means action must be simple enough that we should be able to implement it globally not some complex mechanism that nobody can even understand properly the simple thing we are asking is this raise the organic content don't talk about organic farming regenerative farming this, that, science about it leave that, that science is for scientists to propound the simple thing is this beneath our feet in the first fifteen to eighteen inches of soil there are trillions of organisms who are the foundation of our work they are our ancestors really without them life would not have happened I can go into various scientific aspects of it how it is but you know even in your very body right now sixty percent of your body is actually microorganisms only forty percent is your parental genetics sixty percent is just microbes because your body is just a reflection of the soil upon which you walk it is a consequence of that approximately a billion years ago one very smart fungi have you seen a smart fungi? hello? have you seen a smart fungi? you must or maybe it was an algae we don't know what do you say it in French? fungi and algae? what? okay but this algae or fungi did not belong either to they were not French or English or Indian so we are okay okay just life this very smart fungi found a way to cook its food using the perpetual energy of the sun at that time the oxygen level in the atmosphere of this planet was only one point one to one point two percent today it is twenty-one percent it is because of twenty-one percent you and me are breathing even behind the mask you have been breathing because it's twenty-one percent if you make it simply probably three-four percent less with your mask you will die twenty-one percent oxygen in the atmosphere so you are breathing closed windows, closed doors, still you are breathing because of twenty-one percent oxygen this happened because of this very smart fungi or algae which started this process of cooking their food with sunlight today we refer to this as photosynthesis that's how these people turn green oh I'm sorry that's how the leaf happened so it is this photosynthesis which took carbon from the atmosphere and took the carbon alone and it was in the form of carbon dioxide it took the carbon alone and made carbon into carbon sugars and pushed it into the soil so that it can use this carbon sugar as a currency for exchange with nutrients with other organisms it started trading only when this trading began really life started becoming complex and oxygen was waste material it just threw it out and we are grateful hello it is from this slowly we came to a place where complex plant life happened out of that many very very complex animal life happened and we happened all right as human beings now their exhalation which is waste for them is our inhalation our exhalation fortunately for them is inhalation I'm saying the whole construct of life is so fantastically organized don't try to make every damn thing into a straight line that's not how it works hello this oxygen content content is now under threat under a big threat because in the last thousand years the photosynthesis on this planet has come down by eighty-five percent because over seventy percent of the land is plowed and over four point two percent of the plow land is paved there is no photosynthesis eighty-five percent drop in photosynthesis and nobody is talking about threat to our oxygen everybody is talking about carbon footprint in the sky I am not saying carbon footprint is not an issue but whatever the carbon footprint if we increase the green cover on this planet by approximately ten to twenty million square kilometers then this carbon that is there in the sky what we have emitted in the last one hundred years can be sequestered in the next twelve to fifteen years time well we can go on calculating this one reason why everybody is talking about carbon footprint and not oxygen levels why everybody is talking about carbon in the atmosphere not carbon in the soil soil has three to four times more carbon than the atmosphere but nobody is talking about it because it's not easily measurable so it is like this you want to measure the depth of the ocean but you have a foot scale with a foot scale you did this this this and said okay it's ten thousand feet what is this just admit that we cannot measure this hello should we not admit when it comes to nature and creation there are many things we are not able to measure we are not able to quantify openly the top scientists in the world the soil scientists in the world are openly admitting that we do not even know one percent of the species which exist in the soil when you know one percent what right do you have to make big decisions about it keep it the way it is damn it that's all there is so this this talk about environment ecology we must stop this and we must understand we are ecology we are just an extension of this planet alright just a lump of soil just nature gives us the freedom to prance around that's all otherwise we just pop up and pop down hello you are thinking you are one great life as for a soil is concerned it is just trying to recycle itself you are just one blob yes the self significance of the human being that as if we are here forever or we are top of everything we are not on top of everything we are on a tiny little mud ball in the middle of nowhere we don't know where the hell it begins where the hell it ends somewhere one tiny little bit mud ball and we are thinking we are everything this must go right now the problem with humanity is this see in this cosmos we don't know where it begins where it ends in this cosmos this solar system itself is a tiny speck in that tiny speck planet earth is a micro speck in that micro speck Paris is a super micro speck in that you are a big man this is a serious problem this is a very serious problem that we don't have a context as to who we are we are here for a speck of time before you and me countless number of people have walked this planet they all took the great people hello where are they all top soil hello you and me also will become top soil unless your friends choose to bury you real deep fearing you may raise from the dead you know there have been such campaigns this happened there was a couple in Texas anybody from Texas I'm making sure before I tell the joke okay because Texas carry guns Texans carry guns you know so there was a couple in Texas they got married and it was their dream to go to Jerusalem the holy land but you know marriage, honeymoon then after that children came and children, children, children then children went to school then children, children, children their children came and you know how it happens it happened like that now they are in their mid-seventies now they got a little break they decided we must go to the holy land this has been our dream they went to Jerusalem they were overwhelmed they are walking the same streets that Jesus walked they went to that place where he walked upon the water all you know Jerusalem is a place where every cobblestone is bleeding history so all this is happening then unfortunately the wife had a heart attack and she died this also happens then the man was planning how to transport her body back to Texas the local people came and said no, no, no you should not do anything like that because she has done the right thing she has died in the holy land which is the quickest route to wherever she has done the right thing don't bother about taking her back to Texas and above all transporting a dead body from Jerusalem to Texas cost eighteen thousand dollars plus whatever local charges of funeral burial everything in Texas here because you're so distressed and you're American and you're our friend we will do this for sixteen thousand dollars everything let's do it the man thought about it and then he said no, I will take her to Texas and they said see you're too distressed you lost a wife of thirty-seven years so you're not thinking straight all right because you're from Texas we'll give you a super discount twelve thousand dollars let's do it come on then he thought about it and said no, I will take her to Texas see it doesn't make sense what you're doing eighteen thousand dollars plus local charges there unnecessary stress for you travelling with a dead body you know let's do it here all right six thousand dollars let's finish it come on, come on let's do he said no, I will take her back to Texas then they threw up their hands and said what is this? what's the matter with you? we offered the best deal and you're going on saying you'll take her to Texas then the man said in Texas dead stay dead everywhere dead stay dead and that's how it should be the living must live as full-fledged life full-fledged life means if you are a mango tree you must bear the maximum number of mangoes that is a full-fledged life if you are a butterfly you must be more colourful as colourful as possible and flap around as much as you can if you're a human being oh it gets complicated what is full-fledged human being? no description, no definition that is why it is so beautiful to be a human being because there is no definition you could be anything you want hmm? will you be that one who is cribbing about oh she is not okay, he is not okay, she is not okay, he is not okay her nose is not okay, her colour is not okay, her somebody's this is not okay or will you be a joyful, blissful human being doesn't matter how somebody else is your wonderfulness you don't surrender to any damn thing in the universe hello? you know we are a volunteer organization that means everybody is super enthusiastic but nobody is trained for anything and because they are volunteers I can't fire them they were employees you could have said fired they are volunteers you can't fire them they are there with their heart hanging out how do you fire them? you can't fire them if you work with such people you will go insane in no time but that's my job so people come to me and say sir guru I can't work with this guy he is so horrible oh she is like that I can't work with her I said see in this world this is how people are like this like this whatever you tell her she keeps shooting me like this like this like this like this this is how people are in this world if you think what you are doing is very significant you have to work with all these horrible people but if you want to work with ideal people you must go to heaven and today hello? those of you who know there is a better place than this must go today isn't it? why are you postponing her? hello? this is a very horrible thing that you are doing to yourself and to others that giving them the idea there is a better place than this no this one this one if you make this one into heaven you will make your surrounding also feel like heaven if you think there is a better real estate than Paris you must go hello? you shouldn't hesitate see if you are sure there is a better place than this you should go ahead of me because if I a horrible guy like me comes there what will you do? there also I won't leave you alone I will keep on pointing out what's wrong with you so you must go if you know there is a better place if you do not know whether there is a better place or not make this the best damn place to live in in this effort soil is the most important part there is just a little time left if somebody has a burning question really burning question that you can't go to sleep without being answered such a question if you have please raise your hand and take the microphone question time showing will do like this I know you are beautiful this is a child come come come as they are asking questions you can come this is question okay put that where are you here here is here where okay okay first of all thank you so much for your energy and your time I really you open my eyes in a lot of senses and you spoke about keeping your your hand out of your mind when you were 25 and I would love to know how you do that because sometimes our minds make us crazy and I think it's a it would be amazing to know how you do it in our engineering that's what we're calling it see what see right now if you say if you say this building is well engineered what do you mean by that it means functionally for us it is at its best right if we say these microphones are well engineered what does it mean it's working the way we want it yes or no if you say a car is well engineered what does it mean it drives the way you want so if you had a car you drive what do you drive what do you drive okay a car is not just a car there are many things to it anyway you're driving that car which doesn't have a name suppose you're going like this you did like this but the car went like this you want to sit in that one no right now this is what you're saying about your mind oh it drives me crazy but you already told me you want to be blissed out but it drives you crazy this means your vehicle is out of control or you don't have the steering wheel in your hand that's the whole problem maybe you're handling one of the wheels and thinking it'll turn that way but you need to hold the steering wheel when you're driving you hold the left front wheel and drive no steering wheel right so it's important you must know how to hold this how to hold this body how to breathe how to sit how to be first of all with the body just knowing how to manage this people are asking me Satguru at 65 how are you riding 30,000 kilometers if there are motorcycle riders they will know what it means Satguru I rode for 3,000 kilometers and my back broke I said this is an advertisement for a yogic back because in the physical body there are many many aspects to it many many aspects to it one important aspect is the geometry of your body how you stand how you sit how you breathe how you hold yourself similarly there is a geometry to your mind how you hold your mind see in any machine least amount of friction is considered a good machine isn't it hello if something is well engineered with least amount of friction it is functioning if you start your engine if it's like then you know too much friction so right now what you call a stress what you call as anxiety what you call as it's driving me crazy is too much friction so friction means the different parts are not well engineered they are not geometrically congruent so any moment hurts so people think their work is causing stress get them fired will they be happy no they think their marriage is causing problems get them divorced will they be happy no most of the time no they will just suffer they'll suffer this they'll suffer that so if you're suffering this and that both situations it means you're suffering yourself isn't it so so this needs to be engineered this is a very simple process but the problem is we want to conquer the world if you don't take charge of this you can go and sit on top of the North Pole and say I am the emperor of this planet and still be miserable happening or no already to people so this is one thing as it is important to arrange our outside well because if we arrange our outside well we will have comfort and convenience in our lives which is also important to function well in the world but if we arrange this properly we will have joy and well-being which is the most important for you to function well in the world take a microphone I know I know you have a big voice but people think you have a domestic situation if you shout like that Thank you so much for everything that you've done for the world and I... I'm an engineering practitioner What is that? I practice in engineering Okay I have a question about chanting the yoga, yogeshwaraya chant I've been doing it and it kind of comes really quickly Oh, have all the neighbors vacated? Yeah It just keeps repeating it quickly and I was wondering if there's a difference between doing a chant on a normal and slow pace or doing like yoga, yoga, yogeshwaraya Buddha, Buddha, Buddha, shwaraya No, it depends if you want to evict the neighbors you do it like that Thank you It all depends what's objective Last question let's take just one question Hey, have some gender parity I'll give it to a man Please, poor man Hello, Mr. Sadguru My name is Kovatranan Kalyapan I'm from Coimbatore I would like to start my speech in Tamil No, no, don't want I would like to be that person everyone in the city is yours and everyone is your Kith and kin citizen It's told by Purana Noor 4000 or million years back This is a question time Yes, yes, I'm coming I apologize for it So the question is I appreciate your effort for saviour, soil and all the No, no, this is no problem What's the name you said? Kovatranan Kalyapan Kovatranan Yes Listen to me This is not my planet All I have to do is if I want to avoid the 2045 when they're expecting food shortages and civil wars I just have to die ten years early No problem with me It's you and many others So it's your planet Don't tell me it's my project Of course, everyone's project Everyone who's involved in it Don't say everyone's project Just say my project You say My project Yes, let it be so I'm honored, thank you So for save the soil I find a lot of introduction A lot of people investing around getting into that or save the soil movement I would like to invest myself and come over for a trip along with you to Paris, to Belgium That's your next schedule if I'm not wrong Just for a ride over there Maybe if you have a Pillion Rider back a free space or a bike I would be glad to join with you if you wished to Thank you Hi No, no, you've got work in the city I will tell you what you should do Okay You should be here And that goes for everybody You should be here and follow Save Soil Journey on Instagram, Facebook, Twitter and YouTube And yes, welcome to you Namaskaram sir You must enhance the message because right now the immediate need to get the policy changes in the world is the world needs to speak Oh, the world is going to speak Hey, damn it, you're the goddamn world Hello? You are the world, isn't it? The problem The problem is just this You know, today Hmm, that's right Wait, I'll come to you Today we Today we have signed an MOU Yesterday we have signed an MOU with four per thousand organization here in France This four per thousand is a commitment that they made in 2015 to increase 0.4% of organic content in the soils around the world particularly France So that in ten years time it'll be four percent apart from what is already there about 1.48% is there plus four percent would be nearly six percent which would be a fantastic development So yesterday I had conversations with them and when I asked them is it being implemented No, from 2015 you made the decision but it is still going on the debates and conferences are going on It's time to implement it for that to happen the people need to speak why the government's hesitates is if they invest in something which will bear result after ten or fifteen years are the people with them or not they don't know hello they don't know you have to give this confidence to them right now it's election time especially you have to speak on the social media in whatever way the toolkits are there on thesavesoil.org how to do it you go there, educate yourself or find a person who knows something about it and speak this is the time to speak I am not asking you to go and form at least speak instead of sending silly messages on a smart phone use it as a powerhouse to transform the world it's possible to do that please share the savesoil.org website with as many people as you can how many friends do you have in Paris? Go over then ah that is a lot of bullshit, come on no, no, believe is fine how many do you have on your phone man? I have quite some how many? a thousand may be okay so you ask this thousand people to reach at least each one of them hundred people each oh you got a big number going man yes, yes, fine so make savesoil song which we will play right now reverberate everywhere you sing it yourself or if you sing if people are going to fall dead just play it okay but learn the jig if you look funny it's okay it doesn't matter if you are if you are a source of laughter for this city it's a good thing, hello instead of you being a nuisance you are a source of laughter people laughed at you it's alright have your children in India the Isha Home School children took a commitment that they will make ten million children in India right to our Prime Minister right now ten million have not happened a few hundred thousand letters have inundated Prime Minister's office you think he can ignore it hello even if a million children in France write to your new Prime Minister or the same Prime Minister whoever comes after the election if even a million children write you think they can ignore it please make it happen, huh already the one progressive thing about France is France was the first nation to talk about this four per thousand that is zero point four percent increase in soil organic content and they committed to this they tried to push the world towards it they have not been successful in terms of action but they will not be successful in action unless people of you know the French people say we are hundred percent with you if you do this you have to express that if you don't express that how will government do it because the governments are not here to do something fantastic the governments are here only to fulfill the people's mandate you must give them that mandate mandate is not just oat your voice is also a mandate just raise your voice and say you care about the soil and you are concerned about the future well-being so as a part of this you can download the save soil stickers and make sure your vehicles that that nameless car it must have save soil sticker at the back and front okay hello put it on your automobiles whatever you drive if you don't have any put it on your shoulder alright hello let's make it happen here there is a save soil anthem please this ready body is soil my body your body everybody is just This is a generational responsibility, save soil, let's make it happen. Your nightlife, promise me next eighty nights. It is going to be about awakening the world. Keep the world awake about soil, that's what your nightlife is for next eighty days. Let's make it happen.