Interstellar star asks Sadhguru about technology of Yoga

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let's can you open up your definition of expansion um you know you you what most people would say would be your teaching you call it technology i like that that clicks with me with me too um but can you open up to talk about your definition of of expansion for us everything right see uh i mean before that what you refer to as technology why this is technology is see if i give you a belief system you may believe it you may not believe it if i give you a teaching you may like it you may not like it if you give a philosophy you may agree with it you may not agree with it now i give you a technology all you have to do is learn to use it whoever learns to use it for them it'll work it's as simple as that so it doesn't matter right now you know some people were complaining when that isis war was going on in uh syria and iraq in america some people that i know were complaining can you believe it they're using our iphones and doing all these attacks i said this is technology whoever learns to use it it'll work you don't have to say any of your religious slogans to make it work you learn to use it it works so this is yoga is a technology you just learn to use it it doesn't matter who you are what you believe what you don't believe all this doesn't matter you just learn to use it it will work so what is expansion see word yoga means this while you already came to a little verbal meaning of that which simply means union or actually that other definition you said i'm sorry i'm i'm neither latin or uh greek so uh you said something about you okay all right together again to bind together the word yoga literally if you go back to its original meaning it means to yoke you yoke together see right now what yoking means is see when you sit here you are an individual person this is why i said the greatest magnanimity of creation is it gave us an individual experience there are swarms of insects here for them they don't have an individual experience they experience themselves as a swarm as a species but we experience ourselves as an individual unfortunately instead of enjoying this privilege we have made this into a point of conflict conflict between each other all the time me versus you but this is the greatest privilege that we can sit here i want you to just imagine suppose you looked at you or me from let's say galaxy z what are we even through a telescope or a microscope we are not visible it doesn't matter what they have we are not visible with such a tiny speck of dust literally but we have an individual experience it's not a small thing we can look at the universe and wonder what this is all about this is not a small thing so this individual experience or the sense of being an individual when you take it too seriously then you get lost then you have to yoke with the creation you have to become one with it only then you know life otherwise you are misunderstanding your psychological world as existential right now this is all the problem with human beings somehow nature trusted that if we give you so much intelligence you will make the best out of it tell me matthew in your experience or in anybody's experience does intelligence spell uh solutions or problems intelligence means solutions isn't it unfortunately today it's human intelligence which is causing all the problems simply because we are too stuck with our individuality we don't understand this is just a privilege tomorrow morning if they bury us in the land we will become one with everything all right all this countless number of peoples who walk this planet and they also thought they are great people where are they all topsoil right now you and me also will be topsoil unless some friends choose to bury you real deep thinking you may raise from the dead you know fearing rather so i'm saying we are anyway part of this without taking a breath we cannot live without food water we cannot live without constant interaction we cannot live but we are acting like concrete block individuals we are absolutely individual yoga means you obliterate the boundary of your individuality so that you experience your universality once you experience your universality if i experience everything around me here everybody around me here is a part of myself after that do i need any moral morality does somebody has to tell me don't drop them don't kill them don't do this don't do that once i've experienced something as a part of myself with that i have no conflict this is yoga see right now for example these five fingers i have five more okay i'm only showing you five these five fingers you also have five not bad [Laughter] so these five fingers right now i experience them very much as a part of myself but this is just the food i've eaten food i've eaten means it's just the soil that i'm walking upon right now it's just a piece of the planet but right now this is very much me in my experience this is totally me now why is this so see right now there's a glass of water here the water in this glass is this me no if i drink it will it become me of course more than 70 of my body is water so what is it that happened all that happened was you have a as you have a physical body you have a sensory body your sensory body is the boundary boundaries of who you are see if you touch your right you do this uh matthew with your right hand just touch your left hand is that you 100 isn't it touch the chair on which you're sitting is that you no no how do you know it's just that here there are sensations here there are no sensations so essentially what you're saying is what is within the boundaries of my sensation is me what is outside the boundaries of my sensation is not me so the sensory body has a presence of its own we can just do this experiment right now just close your eyes just for 20 seconds briskly rub your hands like this hold them about three to four inches away from each other something happening between them isn't it yes so what is happening is just that because of uh exuberant movement now your sensory body expands so you know why people are rubbing each other all the time because somebody who is not you you begin to experience them as a part of yourself maybe momentarily but it happens so right now what yoga means is you make you sit here without any outside activity just sit here and make your life energy so exuberant and active that your sensory body expands if your sensible sensory body expands to the size of the room in which you're sitting you will experience everything around you as a part of yourself if your sensory body expands like like the universe then we say you are a yogi that means you become one with everything today if you go to a yoga program in a studio people are calling themselves yogis that's not what it means it means that you obliterated the boundaries of your individuality and you became one with everything in your experience even if this happens for a few moments in your life after that you are never the same again because everything that you see man woman child tree animal bird everything somewhere deep inside you know this is part of me when you know this you don't have to be driven by commandments or morals or values or ethics no you are running out of your humanity the life that you are and that's the way you should be if your humanity is dead then you need lot of morality if your humanity is alive and overflowing everything will be fine you will do the best that is for yourself and everybody around you and we would completely live a different life and right now with this pandemic and everything this becomes very essential this is the time for us to stand up and show what kind of human beings we are yes yes individually and what you just said about the individual experience is all that's who we are that's all we have but the yogi is connected with the universe all right so the i it's where the i meets the we the yoke of the i and the we would that be fair to say that's how i i phrased it uh is it i and the all we means there are still multiples all right so all i and the all yes you are the all right now you know i launched a whole program an ecological program in india based on this i saw that we had to increase the green cover in the state in which we were which was at about 16.5 percent at that time the aspiration was 33 so i told them see you have to plant uh 114 million trees in the next eight years they rolled their eyeballs and said how is that possible do you know what is 114 million how can we plant that many trees so i told them what is their population it was about 62 million i said of all of you plant one today and one more after two years then it is a done thing only thing is all of you will not participate that's the whole problem so i made a simple process i made people sit under trees and made them breathe i set up a spiritual process for them where i clearly made them experience see what you exhale the trees are inhaling what they exhale you are inhaling literally one half of your breathing apparatus is hanging out there once they felt this experientially you can't stop them they're still planting trees all over the place today we've planted millions of trees and it's still going on right now our goal is to plant uh 2.42 billion and the mark came in between mark banyoff came in between and now he's telling me trillion yes what's after that is there such thing as a zillion or does it go straight to google no no after that uh you know one day to be buried under a tree so that you become good man or for one tree at least because that's all the flesh i carry only for one tree