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India SWOT Analysis Part 2 - Opportunities and Threats - Dr. Kiran Bedi with Sadhguru - YouTube
Channel: Sadhguru
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Kiran Bedi: Letās come to the opportunities.
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Weāve addressed strengths,
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weāve addressed weaknesses.
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What are the opportunities the nation has today in nation building with 1.2 billion people?
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Sadhguru: See, India is a
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this ā¦this nation is a tremendous opportunity,
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a possibility.
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This is something that anybody who looks at this nation withā¦ closely enough can clearly see here,
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rest of the world clearly sees that,
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that this is a nation of tremendous possibility.
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But what we need to understand is
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between a possibility and a reality there is a distance.
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Do you have the courage, the commitment and the conviction to walk the distance?
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Thatās always the question.
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Definitely it's a great possibility.
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We are sitting on the threshold
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but do not underestimate our ability to goof things upā
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I am not being pessimistic,
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I am the last person to be pessimistic about anything
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but I know our ability to goof things.
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I see it every day.
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The way they drive on the street,
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the way they do things,
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the way everything is made
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we have a phenomenal ability to goof up things because
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we are too much genius with very little organization.ā
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Yes, everybody thinks he is a genius.
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If you go, sit in a teashop in a street-side,
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in a ā¦rural India ā
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no, no, no I am not talking politics ā
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if you sit in a teashop in somewhere rural India street-side
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because Iāve driven across the country. Iāve sat in dhabas and teashops so much,
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Iāve ridden ā¦Iāve crisscrossed India on my motorcycle
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so I lived in dhabas and teashops all the time
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So you will see the guy who is making the tea there
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he will be telling how Tendulkar should have made the right shot
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you know how he tch,
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you know how his technique is not good,
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he is doing a wrong approach.
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Kiran Bedi: Or Bishan Bedi is sitting here, how he could have bowled.
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Sadhguru: (Laughs) Whatever, this kind of things.
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He will be talking about how the Prime Minister should have run the country differently.
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Only problem with him is he does not know how to make good tea
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So this is the problem, we are ā¦we are too exuberant.
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A society like this is generally considered a high context society
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with too much context, not enough content.
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It's a very beautiful way to exist on one level
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but if we do not organize
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if do not focus this natural exuberance of the people
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a certain intelligence which is free-willing intelligence,
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you will have a very ā¦a chaotic situation
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which seems to be going somewhere but not going anywhere.
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It's like whirlwind making its own rounds.
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So it needs a little forceful engagement of pushing it in a certain direction,
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a little authority to push it.
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People donāt understand what powers India.
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Itās powered by itself, it's just like a whirlwind
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but you must be able to direct it in the direction that you want it to go.
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That needs a little bit of authority
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but we picked up all kinds of fancy ideas,
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we donāt like authority, you know
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we donāt like any kind of authority.
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We would like to go all over the place.
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Just see ā¦just the driving on the street is a clear demo.
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I am not talking about authoritarianism
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but a certain authority which organizes this whirlwind of chaos
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is needed for this country to push it in one direction,
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otherwise we will keep going round and round.
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We comeā¦ see, weāve been sitting on a threshold.
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For me the economic development that everybody is talking about,
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I am not thinking about how you can transform your life from Maruti to Mercedes
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that doesnāt matter to me. I am not against cars, I like them (Laughs)
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but that is not the thing.
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There are over six hundred million people.
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Today night, after this is over when we go wherever we go,
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the table at which we sit
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there will be a choice of dinner that you and me can choose.
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There are six hundred million people who have no such choice tonight.
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The child who has to go to school tomorrow,
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he is not eating what is necessary for him to go and remember who is Mahatma Gandhiās wife,
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he doesnāt care a damn because he has not eaten right.
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The woman who carries a child in her womb doesnāt have the necessary nourishment
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to bring out something thatās worthwhile.
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Now this can change in next five to eight yearsā time,
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if we handle things right and it matters that we handle this right.
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Kiran Bedi: See, you really combined the opportunity with the threat
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because the same population,
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the same energy is goofed up as you said.
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Sadhguru: Yes.
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Kiran Bedi: Could be a threat?
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Is there any threat other than this?
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Sadhguru: See, this is the biggest threat for India.
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This also happened in the Economic Forum
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our people particularly the corporate and also the ministers were,
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you know everywhere you hear this ā I think everybody is repeating this chant
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āWe are the youngest nation in the world, we are the youngest nation in the world.ā
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I sat through this and I was amazed
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why everybody is gloating about we are the youngest nation.
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So I asked them āWhat happened to the old people?ā
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They said, āWhat? No, no we are the youngest nation.ā
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I said, āThatās okay but what happened to the old people?ā
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I want you to know India
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in India nobody gets old, people die young.
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Thatās why we are the youngest nation in the world
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Yes.
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It is a tragedy that we donāt have old people
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but this tragedy can be turned into a tremendous possibility right now
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because compared to the rest of the world we are a youthful nation.
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We have the opportunity to power ourselves into well-being.
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But we must understand why we are the youngest nation.
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Suppose we are saying right now sixty percent of the population is below thirty and we are very proud,
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tomorrow you find sixty percent of the population is below fifteen,
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something wrong has happened or no?
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Why are we not looking at it?
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Weāve not run it properly.
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Why donāt we see people are not growing old,
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people are not living,
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my great grandmother lived to be hundred and thirteen.
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Nobody is living like that.
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Everybody is dying in their fifties and sixties or even less.
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So we are
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we have the synergy of youth right now
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though our poets are eulogizing many things about the country,
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I want you to understand, for 1.25 billion people,
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you neither have the land
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nor mountains
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nor forests
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nor rivers
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nor even a piece of sky for 1.25 billion people.
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If all of them have to live in decent housing, almost literally,
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you know huge occupation will happen,
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thereāll be nothing left.
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Only reason why we seem to be managing is
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because theyāre living like cattle packed up - in one room twelve people are sleeping.
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Weāre managing.
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If every one of them has to have a decent bedroom you wonāt have place.
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So, only thing that you have is people.
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If you have this population educated, focused, balanced and inspired we are a miracle.
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If you leave them uneducated, unfocused, uninspired, unskilled,
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we are the biggest disaster waiting.
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Kiran Bedi: Do we need money for this?
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Sadhguru: We have the money.
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We have the money.
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Weāve not had a determined leadership.
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What has been lacking is leadership.
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Becauseā¦ Iām not somebody who takes any political stance
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but Iām just looking back,
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Iām seeing
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leave the first twenty-five years after independence,
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they did whatever best they could do with little that they had and itās a heady times, okay?
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But after the passing of Jawaharlal Nehru, weāve not really had a Prime Minister.
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In the sense, somebody always becomes
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except that Lal Bahadur Shastri for a short period
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and maybe Narsimha Rao for a little period which was
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government was tottering all the time ā
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rest of the time somebody becomes a Prime Minister only because somebody dies
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and Indian emotion, like a cinema it overtakes everybody,
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and somebodyās daughter,
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somebodyās son,
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somebodyās somebody becomes the Prime Minister.
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Weāve never really had someone who has roots in the nation,
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who knows what this country is
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and who is burning with aspiration to make this nation something,
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weāve never had that.
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Itās only by default that people have become Prime Ministers in this country.
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Kiran Bedi: But donāt the leaders come from within the community,
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within the people?
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Sadhguru: No, no tch, Iām saying
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Prime Ministers happened only because somebody died.
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Kiran Bedi: But you also have certain states.
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Weāre talking aboutā¦ even state governance,
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weāre not only talking about central governance.
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Sadhguru: Yes, but
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Kiran Bedi: India has twenty-nine states today.
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State governance.
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Look whatās happening with Uttar Pradesh today.
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Uttar Pradesh what is happening
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itās a leadership which was elected two and a half years ago with overwhelming acceptance.
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What happened?
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It comes from within.
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What is the present state?
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Iām not saying itās gone wrong or right.
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So arenāt people responsible for it?
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Sadhguru: We are a democracy in paper.
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But our mindset is essentially feudalistic.
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Because even... Iām saying even among the elite and educated,
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suppose you do well tomorrow,
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suppose our present prime minister does really well tomorrow,
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people will cry āI wish we had a son.ā (Laughter)
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You understand?
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People will cry āWe wish he had a son because when he goes,
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his son could become the Prime Minister.ā
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Iām saying in our mindset we are still feudalistic.
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So when you are feudalistic, things are run in a certain way.
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What essentially it means is,
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being feudalistic or democratic is,
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feudalistic means who your father was matters;
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democracy means I donāt care a damn who your father was.
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I donāt want to know.
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This is why I said Mahatma Gandhiās wife, I donāt want to know who she is,
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I donāt want to know who Mahatma Gandhiās father is.
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We bow down to him for who he is and thatās all that matters to us.
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And thatās how it should be in a democratic nation. We care who you are,
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we donāt care who your father was.
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You may care who your father was,
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I donāt care who your father was.
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I only care who you are.
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