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India SWOT Analysis Part 1 - Strengths and Weaknesses - Dr. Kiran Bedi with Sadhguru - YouTube
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Kiran Bedi: When you analyze the making of a nation,
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its making of an organization
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making of a nation,
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one of the first few things we do is a SWOT analysis.
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We do strengths,
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we do weaknesses,
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we do opportunities
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and we do threats.
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Any making of an organization or a nation.
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I thought let me put across to you
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what is the SWOT analysis of making of a nation, letâs say Bharat, India.
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What are the strengths of India,
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what are the weaknesses of India,
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what are the opportunities we have
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and what are the threats we need to
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Let's first look at the strengths of India.
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Sadhguru: I would bring it down further to an individual.
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What is needed to build a successful individual,
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the same things are needed to build a successful nation,
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itâs not any different
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Sadhguru: If one knows how to build a successful human being of himself in every way
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when I say successful, not that just you made money,
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not just that you get a ranking,
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not that you just got elected,
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no.
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A successful human being means in every way youâre complete.
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If you make this, you⊠the same replica is for the nation, in the sense
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if want to be a good human being to start with
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all your four limbs should be limbered up and nice, strong and fine.
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The four limbs of a nation is just this
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the executive, the judiciary, the military and the civil services
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all of them must be limbered up and agile.
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We must do some yoga with all of them. We must knead them.
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They have all become,
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you know if you can't fold your elbow, your elbow stuck here,
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your this thing is stuck here â these are useless limbs.
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When you have pain in your limbs, youâll wish you did not have those limbs, isnât it?
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Thatâs what is happening right now.
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We wish we did not have them many times because theyâve become such a pain.
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So keeping them limbered up,
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these four limbs is very important
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See, always a nation will be successful only when
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peopleâs aspirations are kept alive.
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If people lose their aspiration, it's a finished nation, okay.
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There must be enormous aspiration and people should see a piece of the sky.
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They must see it's a possibility, it is not an empty dream.
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If it becomes an empty dream theyâll go to hallucinogenic drugs.
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They must see a piece of the sky that it's worth making the effort always.
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So to nurture an aspiration and to create the possibility that
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within your lifespan you can get there is very important
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and also make peopleâs aspirations into national aspiration
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and nationâs aspiration into peopleâs aspiration.
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And a strategic sense as to where we are,
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is not living in a utopian idea of well-being,
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which we have done unfortunately
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having a strategic sense of where we are,
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what are the things to make a nation happen?
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For example: when we made the nation
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this is not a commentary on some mistakes that people might have done
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because in retrospect we can say many things.
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In those times they did what⊠I believe they did whatever they thought was best.
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For example we have been trading with the rest of the world for over ten thousand years.
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If you go to Syria â in many parts of Arabia,
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particularly Syria, unfortunately it's in such a mess.
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I wanted to do this Indian trading route,
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the Indian traders how they travelled,
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so I drove through Syrian Desert myself and we went.
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It was a fantastic thing, experience.
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Wherever you go stories of Indian traders, eight thousand years ago â
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the Aleppo City, which is completely in rubble right now
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one of the most beautiful cities was built only on the taxes that the Indian traders paid, okay?
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Everywhere⊠in the Syrian schools theyâre studying about
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how Indian traders and engineers and all kinds of people coming
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eight â ten thousand years ago.
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Is there any such story in India?
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Sadhguru: Do you know?
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No Indian child ever reads about it.
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Kiran Bedi: Yes.
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Sadhguru: You go to Lebanon
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thereâs a place called Baalbek
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which is a 4300 year old Phoenician temple.
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Every child in fifth, sixth standard in Lebanon in school,
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they all study that
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Indian builders, Indian sculptures, Indian elephants, Indian labor and Indian yogis came and built this.
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A huge massive temple,
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each stone âŠsome of the foundation stones weighing three hundred tones.
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They transported it up the mountain and built this,
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Indian engineers of that time. We have lotus flowers hanging from the ceiling.
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Obviously thereâre no lotuses in Lebanon,
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it was sculptured by the Indian sculptures.
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Every Lebanese child knows this.
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Does any Indian child
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any of the Indians, have they heard about it? No
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Over a thousand years ago Tamil kings went to Angkor Wat and Angkor Thom.
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If any of you⊠most âŠmany of you might have seen this
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you will feel proud of being human if you see the works thatâs been done.
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It's the largest religious building on the planet, Angkor Thom.
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Does any Tamil child in Tamil Nadu up to twelfth standard read a line about it in his textbook? No.
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When you donât build pride,
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how do you build a nation?
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If you do not build pride,
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you cannot build a nation.
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If you are not proud of who you are
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why the hell should you stay here?
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Right now if the more advanced countries,
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western countries open up their visa policy,
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eighty percent of the Indians will swim across the oceans and go away
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That means⊠if eighty percent of the people want to go away
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and youâre holding them by force, it's a prison.
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You know about prisons
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Weâre holding them.
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No, people should want to be here,
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everybody wants to go away and we are holding them.
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Thatâs not the way to run a nation.
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Kiran Bedi: So is that your main weakness from strength?
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Strength is healthy people, inspired people.
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Is your weakness is un
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Sadhguru: Yes. It is a serious weakness in the country.
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Kiran Bedi: Rootless people.
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Youâre talking about people who have no roots.
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They donât understand their roots, they donât understand their history,
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they donât understand their culture.
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Sadhguru âŠit is not that⊠no, they are not rootless people, they have root.
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They know their roots but theyâre little ashamed of their roots,
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theyâre hiding their roots and theyâre all wearing denim pants just to hide their roots
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Kiran Bedi: Sadhguru, they donât know the roots.
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Sadhguru, this is a fact they don't know the roots.
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Sadhguru: They may not
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Kiran Bedi: No, no in our schools which we run,
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in our schools which we run, many of that ninth standard,
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tenth standard coming from different kinds of schools.
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Primarily government funded schools.
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First thing which one of my director⊠teacher said
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âCan you write an essay on Mahatma Gandhi?â
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Sadhguru, youâll be shocked to hear
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I am talking only of Gandhiji â
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the essay⊠the question was what is
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what is the name of the wife of Mahatma Gandhi?
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Do you know one of them wrote
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can you guess?
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I donât even want to mention the name
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Sadhguru: Donât tell me.
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Kiran Bedi: So Sadhguru, you can goad just now
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what's wrong with our⊠so thatâs our weakness you are talking about, itâs rootless.
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Sadhguru: IâŠI would like to repeat this. We are not rootless
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but people who occupied us for so long
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somehow managed to bring a certain sense of shame about our roots
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which is⊠which has to go.
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See, Mahatma Gandhi is part of a movement,
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which is not even history,
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which I would call it present, okay?
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It is just the backend of our present stage.
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He is not really history that way.
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He is still so close to us in time, Iâll say.
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all I am saying is tch, this is⊠picking up names, this-that is different
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but everybody knows Mahatma Gandhiâs face
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and everybody knows he was important for our nation,
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that much even a village child knows it,
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which is I feel all right.
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But I am talking about a much deeper thing,
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that is as a land,
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as a people
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what are we good at?
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Have we been good at something?
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No.
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Weâve been only occupied for thousand years;
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weâve been looted, weâve been raped, weâve been robbed
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this is only weâve done.
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Weâve done nothing thatâs worthwhile.
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Thatâs not good.
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We have to educate our children to show
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that we have done tremendous things.
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Just two hundred and fifty years ago we were the largest economy.
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Whole of Europe was thirsting to come to India
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and even, you know wherever they went, they called people Indians.
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Whether they went to North America or wherever
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because they were all aspiring to come to this place
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because it was the wealthiest nation,
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it was the most knowledgeable country,
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it was the best place to be.
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Everybody wanted to be here.
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Kiran Bedi: Who teaches them?
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Who teaches these youngsters?
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Sadhguru: These things have not been taught
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because our history has been written by
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Kiran Bedi: Who is at fault?
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Sadhguru: Because our books are written by the English. Okay?
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History is written like this to dominate you.
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Kiran Bedi: No, but itâs NCERT.
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It is no more English writers,
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it is Indian writers.
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You bring yoga in.
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Sadhguru: But your brains are in Greenwich Mean Time.
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You ask anybody â
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I see on the news channels,
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inâŠamong the ministers everybody talking
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âOkay I was in Cambridge in this year, where were you?â
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âI was in Oxford.
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Only now I am seeing people who studied locally seem to be somewhere
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You will see this is the pride
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âOkay I went to Cambridge where did you go?â
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âOh I was in Oxford.â
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Okay?
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Recently⊠I will tell how it is.
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I was in Hyderabad, a journalist wants to interview me
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and she is telling me a piece of information
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it seems the Sheffield University in UK made a study on the vibrations of the sun
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and they measured these vibrations,
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they are exactly the same vibrations which will happen when you utter the sound AUM.
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She said, âSadhguru, you must say this.â
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I said, âI will not say this.
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I am not going to say this.
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Iâve been telling you for thirty years
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many yogis and mystics have been telling you for thousands of years
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and itâs not valuable,
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Sheffield University tells you it's valuable,
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I am not going to⊠I donât need authentication.â (Applause)
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It works for me.
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You just look at me, it's worked hundred percent, okay?
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It's worked.
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Everything that we do,
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the sciences of this nation,
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the essential aspect of what this Samskriti is
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has worked brilliantly well for us for thousands of years
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and we know it works,
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we donât need any authentication
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but right now we have created a world,
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unless it's authenticated by the West
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even the yoga that youâre doing here is only rebound from the American coast.
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People (Laughs)
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people think yoga was invented by Madonna
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Kiran Bedi: I recall in the prison assignment
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when I brought in yoga as a part of the dayâs regime
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many persons of certain communities or certain people didnât want to do it.
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They thought it is linked with a particular faith.
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Till their own teachers came and explained to them
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that this is for your larger good, it's mind, body, soul in harmony.
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How do you dispel this?
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Sadhguru: See, this is what I want to tell you.
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For thousands of years weâve been the biggest traders,
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okay,
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from this country.
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The largest exports were from India for almost many thousands of years.
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Nobody ever thought of exporting in such large quantities.
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So both with goods and gods, weâve been very good, okay?
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We can export both,
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we donât have to import either
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Weâre very good both with goods and gods.
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Our ability to create goods was systematically broken,
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our industry was broken,
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our business systems were broken.
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It's all right,
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I am not complaining, let it happen because
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we let it happen because we did not take care of one of the limbs.
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There was no military wing.
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Kiran Bedi: Military wing?
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Sadhguru: Yeah when invaders came
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you could not defend your people because...
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Kiran Bedi: Thatâs right.
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Sadhguru: âŠyou were singing music,
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you were meditating,
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you were doing things (Laughs).
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Kiran Bedi: Exactly, yes.
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Sadhguru: Nice, you were in mathematics,
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you were in astronomy,
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you were all this.
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Kiran Bedi: You were not united either.
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You were not united,
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there were so many, they were fighting each other.
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Sadhguru: That is also there
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but Iâm saying essentially you didnât have the martial power to defend yourself.
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Kiran Bedi: Correct.
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