Synopsis: On the note of what we’re consuming and what we’re putting in our bodies, one of the things that I would like to know the truth about is the increase in addiction. I would say, in the US, is the length that I’m looking at. It’s something that has personally touched a lot of the loved ones in my family and friends. And I see it as a growing trend amongst my generation...

Synopsis: You cook yourself. I believe Isha has also published a cookbook. Can you talk a little bit about food from the yogic diet perspective? Or what are things that we should be actively doing on a daily basis when it comes to food? What are tenants of the diet that we should be looking at? And, if you have a favourite recipe.  

Synopsis: You thoroughly enjoyed watching the football. But what do you think about, what is your take on sports? It’s competition, it’s, isn’t it based on one-upmanship? Aren't you telling young kids that it’s about winning, you know? As a child, I didn’t get any kick from winning. It was very minimal for me. I used to really just enjoy playing cricket, playing football....

Transcript: Most of the yoga being taught in the world is not right

Transcript: The way the water has to be kept in one's home, there is a whole science about it. How to keep it, in what kind of material, how to treat it. Nobody drinks water, traditionally in the East, without first bowing down to it. Because how the water behaves, depends on how you treat it. The volume of memory and intelligence that the water carries, and every molecule of water, and every body of water, is...

Transcript: So my question, it's a little personal, based on where I live. So I live in Montana. Much of Montana is very rural, they're only about 900, 000 people in the whole state. There are more cows than people in Montana. But there's a lot of poverty in Montana, people really struggle to earn a living there. So people often are working 2-3 jobs, very busy, not such great access to fresh food or good food,...

Transcript: See, you see. Right now, I'm sure even in Ahemdabad it's true. Every city, it's true. At 40 degree centigrade, he's selling fruit. How much of it will be left? Even if the fruit is there, nothing is there in it because fruit is 90% water. There is substantial medical evidence to show you, any food that you eat, its water content should be higher than your body's water content. You must eat water, not...

Transcript: So fruit is an important part of our diet. As far back as, Megasthenes, when he came, and Hsuan Tsang, when he came, and Kautilya, when he wrote his treaties. All three of them have mentioned how in the Indian diet there is an unusually large segment of fruit. It seems, Hsuan Tsnag somewhere says, I have not read it myself, it seems he says that Indian people are unusually intelligent mainly because...

Transcript: Dealing with the spine, being a chiropractor, I'm just wondering if the physical body can put limitations on what you commented on. I really don't know what a chiropractic does. I'm not aware of it, I just see the boards, chiropractic clinic, I just inquired what this is. And whatever people have told me, that's all. I really don't know what they do, but whatever they may be doing their knowledge of...

Transcript: Well, from the age of 12, I started a process. A powerful system of yoga called Angamardana. Angamardana literally means to have complete mastery over your limbs. This is a powerful way of strengthening your sinuses. This has kept me intact through the various rigours of life, variety of injuries, all kinds of mad things I have done with my body. Well here's my breakfast. It's very important that every...

Transcript: If you observe the natural cycle of the body, there is something called a mandala. Every 40-48 days, the system goes through a certain cycle. Every cycle of this, every single cycle, in this, three days will appear, where your body does not need food. If you are conscious of how your body functions, you will become aware that today my body does not need food. And without any effort you can go without...

Transcript: Most people develop relationship with the soil only after they die. But it's very important to develop relationship with the soil when you're alive. I would say especially now, with this virus around, believe me, those of you who are in some way in contact with the soil. Here we call this prithvi prema seva, that means getting involved with the soil in a very loving manner. Well, your ability to live,...

Transcript: Of all the things, a ground nut, you know. I'm particularly passionate about the groundnut because there was a period of my life when I just lived on groundnut and banana. That's all. Because it has everything you need. Just soaked ground nut, one handful, this much of groundnut soaked overnight, one banana. My entire day would go and perfectly active, more active than most people will ever imagine....

Transcript: You must take enormous care about the water because it's 72%. And it has tremendous memory. If I open this water, or even without opening, if I say something to this water, it remembers. There have been lot of experiments in this direction. So, if you take this water, from wherever the water works is, and pump it to your house. Let's say, it went through 50 bends, forced. Pumped forcefully, with a...

Transcript: One thing is, I must say this, you know, we are a sacred ash people. We're always ash-made, one way or the other. There are different types of ashes, if you know how to use it. I can't go about giving you instructions of this, over the, on the web. But, if you learn to use it properly, it helps. Neem is available almost right across the country except in the mountainous places. Daily consumption of...

Transcript: This question is from Chaitanya. Sadhguru, the cases in India are increasing and with the lockdown opening, it might pick up the pace. I would like to know, if I get Corona, how do I deal with it emotionally? Oh! The virus does not understand your emotions. So, don't deal with it emotionally. First thing, don't get it. But it may happen. Once you're out on the street, it may happen. So please don't...

Transcript: He kept his fist just three inches away from the journalist's body and hoo! The man went and fell in the pool. Because you're using the Manipuraka, hoo. The man will just fly. Bruce Lee, heard of him? He was not a yogi, okay? He gave a demo. So a journalist came and asked him, he was still not yet so famous in Hollywood, he had just come to Hollywood and talks were going on because he gave some demonstrations...

Transcript: Everytime I hear this, particularly when I'm in United States, I still can't come to terms with it. People calling earth as dirt. Dirt is trash, isn't it? Yes or no? Even in America dirt is trash. No? Something that you don't want. But soil, here we call it thaimanna, mother earth. And, when I hear this word dirt, I've heard it a thousand times. But still, something cringes in me. Once you make the...

Transcript: If you cook honey, it'll become poisonous. Honey should not be cooked. I know people are baking it, cooking it in cakes and other things. It's not a good thing to do. Certain part of the honey turns poisonous if you cook it. You should put it in warm water, not in boiling hot water. If you put it in hot water, it sets off a certain kind of enzymes, behave in a certain way in the honey, that it tends...

Transcript: In Karnataka there are certain tribes called Jenakurubas. Jenakurubas means they're honey shepherds. Sometime ago I had the opportunity to live with them for a short while. There diet is like this. First thing in the morning, one bamboo glass, you know, bamboo's shoots sliced off like this. He takes about 3/4th of a litre. 3/4th of a litre of honey in the morning, that's all the diet. You drink 3/4th...

Transcript: A very stable and effervescent physiological condition is very, very important to have a certain level of psychological freedom. Otherwise, every little thing you do, you have to think. Once you think, inevitably you're confused about every damn thing that you do. This is, this is kind of a compensatory activity. That, you know, you will see this in the cinema theatres and everything. If you have nothing...

Transcript: I want to tell you, there is no such thing as good habit and bad habit. Habit means, you're functioning unconsciously. If you're functioning unconsciously, that's a bad thing. Because the whole thing about being human is, we're capable of doing things consciously. That is the beauty of being human. That we can do everything consciously. What an animal does unconsciously, we can do the same thing consciously....

Transcript: Your selection of food and consumption of food also must happen consciously. More than what you eat, how you eat it is also equally important. When I say how you eat it, these are all live substances. Every one of them had a life of their own. Whether it's a plant, animal, vegetable. Every one of them had a life of their own. Now, in some way, you're making food out of it, you must consume it with...

Transcript: When you, when you don't touch the food, you do not know what it is. If food is not good enough to be touched, I don't know how it's good enough to be eaten. So we should not listen to our mothers, and eat with our fingers, because touching our food helps us stay in contact with it. You can, the cleanliness of your hands, is entirely in your hands. The cleanliness of the fork, is not entirely in your...

Transcript: Empty stomach and hunger, are two different things. Hunger means your energy levels are dropping, but empty stomach is a good thing. In the yogic sciences, today modern science also is coming in line with it. But what we know by our experience, you will spend a billion dollars to come there. Because research is all about how many million dollars, that's how it is. Your body and your brain, work at...

Transcript: Swami ji how to come off the addiction? I'm sorry? Addiction like smoking, like drinking, something like that. No, because we know that's bad thing but we are addicted to that. I don't know, because I do go for tennis, I go for. I'm sorry? I go for sports also but sometimes we smoke regularly in three hours once, or two hours once, or something like that. But I know it's a bad thing, I have to come...

Transcript: Particularly some of the things were very, very positive are the ashgourd. The ashgourd is very, very highly positive. You, I think these days you're only hanging it in front of your house or breaking at three corners of the road and giving it to the buffalo but you are not eating it. No, this is to be eaten. Because the vegetable has such high pranik energy, you put it in front of your home so that...

Transcript: See the food consumption has been looked at very carefully in this country. If you just bring this back, the world will be healthy. You understand? Here we have identified different type people, what they should eat. If you're doing menial jobs, how you should eat. If you're doing trading, how you should eat. If you're into spiritual process, how you should eat. If you're into education, how you should...

Synopsis: Sadhguru tells us, that it is very easy to bring water and air in our control. If we take care of this, along with a little bit of care of what we eat, we may never need to see a doctor. Today, scientific experiments show that water has tremendous memory. Just with emotion, and the way one touches it, it's molecular structure changes. So, how we treat water, the memory remains for a long time. And,...

Transcript: So, health, one of the simplest things about health is just to use the body. If you sufficiently use the body. Body is everything to create health for itself. Does it mean to say that's the only thing? And nothing else will happen to me, I'll be perfect? I would say, if we physically used our body as much as we should, I would say 80% of the ailments on this planet would just disappear. 80%. The remaining...

Transcript: At a young age, if a girl gathers abdominal fat, she's asking for it. There's simply no two ways about it. Hows onn or how late depends on various genetic and other aspects of life. But once abdominal fat gathers, then a young woman is definitely inviting trouble for herself. It'll come. Not enough activity, physical activity I mean. They may be working in office, that doesn't mean anything because...

Synopsis: There is no magic wand to deal with the corona virus. The only way is to enhance the immunity in our system to deal with the virus. Sadhguru shares 5 tips to boost the immunity in the system. #1 - Consume Neem leaves and turmeric balls on empty stomach, #2 - Chewing Amla (or Gooseberry), #3 - Consuming hot drink (honey + turmeric + mint + hot water), #4 - Yoga practices (Sadhguru teaches a chant and...

Transcript: If you take this neem and turmeric combination early in the morning, and drink something warm, it cleanses the stomach in a big way. If there are any minor infections in your stomach, it will go away. And it also kills the cancerous cells in the body. When I say cancerous, it is not that you must be diagnosed as having cancer. All our bodies have cancerous cells. Only when this percentage of cancerous...

Transcript: When it comes to food, one of the most important things that you must be conscious of is, on a certain day when you eat a certain type of food, whatever you eat, you must consciously notice how quickly does it digest and become a part of yourself. Any food that you eat, if it lasts over 3 hours, that means you have eaten bad food. And that is something to be either avoided or reduced in quantity. If...

Transcript: If you don’t feel thirsty, if you don’t drink water, nothing is going to happen. You are going to be fine. It’s only in America you will die if you don’t drink water. Nowhere else do people simply drink water. When they get thirsty they drink water, otherwise they are fine. Even in a desert. It’s only in America, in cold climates, everybody is carrying a bottle and sipping continuously because...

Transcript: In America everybody drinks water with ¾ of the tumbler being full with ice cubes. Now what I say will be unpopular. In the yogic culture, if you are a yogi, if you are on the path of inner transformation, if you want to transform your system to another dimension of possibility then you drink water only which is within 4 degrees variation, upward and downward. That is, your normal body temperature...

Transcript: So the water today, we know about it in so many ways. In India - teerth. In every temple there is a teerth because water is capable of memory and intelligence. Today much research has gone into this. Every molecule of water, water molecules which gather and make into water cells, have phenomenal capability to remember things. Everything that happens around the water, it remembers. Everything that it...

Synopsis: In every cycle of one mandala, 48 days, there will be three days, when the body does not need food. In Indian culture, ekadashi, 4 days before the full moon, and 4 days before the new moon has been fixed for fasting. This would cleanse the system.

Synopsis: Sadhguru says that inertia levels in the body will increase if energy does not enter the system at the cellular level. The combination of neem and turmeric acts as a 'dilator' for the cells, so that energy can enter. Sadhguru elaborates on the benefits of consumption of neem and turmeric.

Synopsis: What is Fire Wash (or Drishti as known in local Indian culture)? Is it just a superstitious ritual to ward of Evil? In this talk, Sadhguru explains the science behind this ancient Yogic practice of cleansing the energy body of the human system and how many chronic ailments have been cured simply by this process, especially in children suffering from ADH ailments. The Yogic sciences prescribe - "Panch...

Synopsis: Indian Yogic wisdom has always prescribed fasting as a way for health and well being. Infact, there are many rituals and religious practices in India built around this. But its only recently in 2016 that the modern medicine has recognized the power of this wisdom, when Japanese cell biologist Yoshinori Ohsumi was awarded the Nobel Prize for his research on how cells recycle and renew their content,...

Synopsis: One should not sleep with head in the North direction. Sadhguru explains the science behind this ancient Yogic wisdom and how it leads to many health problems including death.

Synopsis: The five basic elements that make up the human body (Water, Earth, Air, Fire, Space) needs to be taken care of for a healthier body, of which, Water, being 72% of human body is the most important element. Watch Sadhguru as he explains the significance of these 5 elements and provides simple tips that can be incorporated at home in day to day living for cleansing of these five elements for significant...

Synopsis: Health means much more than just absence of ailments. Instead of waking up feeling groggy and tired, a truly healthy person would wake up bouncing, full of life and energy just like a new born. Unless one puts the right kind of fuel, the machine does not work properly – same goes with the body.  For most people, their body is a big drag for them, simply because of the kind of food they eat. The...

Synopsis: Sadhguru elaborates on the significance of water. He says, that water is one of the most significant aspects of the physical life. Over 72% of human physical body is water. Modern science today tells us that water has both memory and intelligence. For you to live a healthy physical life, it is very important that the water within you responds well to you.

Synopsis: What is the right food to eat? In response to a question by a student, Sadhguru explains the impact of food on human system. Elaborating on the human digestion process, he tells us the right kind of food to eat to sleep less, stay alert, focused and efficient.

Synopsis: Since 5000 years, Neem, a medicinal herb, has been an integral part of traditional remedies in the Indian Ayurvedic system of medicine. On the eve of World Cancer day, Sadhguru explains how Neem can be used in fight against cancer.

Synopsis: Sadhguru explains that during the lunar eclipse, one can see all the 28 phases of the moon. So, in a subtle way, what happens during a month, happens during the lunar eclipse. This has an impact on food, especially cooked food. It will deteriorate very quickly. Sadhguru performs an experiment with the rudraksha mala demonstrate this!

Synopsis: This body is nothing but an outcrop of this planet - the mother Earth. Just being in regular touch with the Earth has miraculous affect in improving one's health. Sadhguru explains in this talk how just this simple technique can cure most of your ailments and offers simple tips and techniques on how to achieve this.

Synopsis: A good sleep is essential for a healthy body and mind . It is during this restful phase that the human body repairs, nourishes and heals itself. Do you wake up every morning bubbling with energy or have to drag yourself out of the bed? These simple tips from Sadhguru on how to sleep better will significantly improve your quality of sleep leading to health, vibrancy and well being.

Synopsis: During a talk with famous bollywood celebrity Manisha Koirala, Sadhguru explains the physiology of how cancer develops in the human body and how Yogic sciences provide a very simple and effective remedy to prevent it.

Synopsis: In India, traditionally it is well known that one should not prepare or eat during the eclipse. Modern societies dismiss this as mere superstition. In this talk Sadhguru elaborates on the scientific reasons why cooking or consuming food during eclipse is bad for health.