Sadhguru who is a world renowned yogi, mystic and visionary humanitarian is addressing the points and concerns around inclusiveness raised by the panel of VPs and Googlers. Sadhguru speaks about how individuals can create a quality of inclusiveness within them. Elaborating on how that can impact our work places, homes and communities, he provides practical thoughts and tools on how to create a more inclusive consciousness which he says is the most important aspect that’s needed in the world today.

With many recent tragic events at home and around the world, there is a deep concern and yearning for us to prevent more tragedies and find solutions to problems that appear to be outside what our two hands can do. Sadhguru has established an infrastructure for developing human consciousness and fostering global harmony through individual transformation.  He refers to this as “Inner Engineering” and will dive deeper into the mechanics of how one can bring balance to the mind, body, emotions and energy.  Millions of people across the globe have been touched by his Inner Engineering programs whereby they experientially feel connected to the people around them in ways they had never felt before.

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Never before has our generation been so assaulted by the Images from the media, Stories from the internet that seem to touch a nerve in us personally.

Seems like every week, whether you are black or white, straight or gay, from a rich background or a poor background, there's a story that elicits a reaction in us.

As long as the human spirit is alive on this planet, there will always be hope.

We only have to think of names like Mahatma Gandhi or Mother Teresa, now Saint Teresa, Anne Frank or Martin Luther King to know that it just takes a single passionate individual who has the courage to risk it all to bring light into this world.

If you would, picture 1 of their iconic faces in your mind right now.

Before them, there have been numerous beacons of change that have walked from all walks of life.

Milarepa was a Tibetan monk who was very revengeful in his youth, but then he became 1 of Tibet's most loved and cherished figures of history.

Saint Francis of Assisi Was a rich, disillusioned young man who left it all to pursue a Life of compassion and generosity towards everyone.

The prophet muhammad was also born into a noble family and Grew up to be Rich but then turn contemplative.

What these 3 individuals have in common is they all had the courage to do the inner work first before they brought outer change.

Speaking of inner work, how many of you might have had a little twinge of emotion when I said 1 of these names?

Well, these names, these last 3 ones are associated with world religions.

And some of these religions have been associated with violence.

We're not talking about spirituality today.

We are talking about taking a moment to reflect on the times that we live in and what they require of us, what they require of us as individuals, and what they require of us as a company, 1 of the most influential companies on the planet.

If you felt a twinge of emotion when I mentioned 1 of these names or even the word religion, that's normal.

If you feel outraged by the things you see on TV or read in the newspaper, that's normal.

If you have passionate feelings about the election that's coming up in a month, that's normal.

In fact, if you don't have some of those passionate feelings, I'd say that's not normal.

However, we have to learn to deal with these emotions.

We have to learn to find ways to integrate our thoughts and Our emotions more constructively so we can more skillfully navigate these dynamic times so we can have impact.

Today we hope to give you both the permission and the tools to do just that.

He's a man whose passion spills into everything he touches, including, I learned yesterday, golf.

With a keen mind and an unbounded heart, his presence alone gives you a taste of what the natural state of the mind can experience in terms of love and joy and freedom.

Sadhguru's vision to transform the world has been unfolding over the last 30 years.

The Isha Foundation which he started has numerous programs to promote inclusive culture and establish global harmony.

Named 1 of India's most influential, 50 influential individuals, He has deeply touched the lives of millions worldwide.

He's spoken at forums like the United Nations and Humble Villages throughout India.

He's equally known for his transformational yoga programs as well as his large-scale social projects.

The projects address things like quality education for the poor, environmental stewardship, holistic health, peace, and well-being.

Sadhguru says, joy is our nature, misery our own making.

This is a provocative statement that he addresses in his new book, Inner Engineering, A Yogi's Guide to Joy, which there'll be a few copies for sale in the back.

My brains don't work if I don't cross my legs.

Thank you so much for joining us today, Sadhguru.

I think The audience is very interested in what you have to say.

I guess to start, they define inclusive consciousness.

Well, I was just going to ask you what's missing.

With all due respect, they spoke about intent, right intent.

They thought… they spoke about right kind of thoughts, emotions, attitudes, and to some extent actions.

If we are understanding that the way we think, feel and act is of a consciousness now.

It is like we are mistaking a plant, we are mistaking the flower for the soil, We are mistaking expressions for the source.

This is something that's happening everywhere, not just here.

People think by changing attitudes, their consciousness will change.

By changing attitudes, certain actions will change.

Yes, positive, beneficial, but it is not truly transformative.

Change will happen, transformation will not happen.

If I have to define a distinction between change and transformation, change means the residue of the past will still remain.

A transformation means nothing of the past will remain, which is what is needed today if you want to create a new world, if you want a new generation to have a fresh life.

Being in this part of the world, what they are familiar with generally, Someone said, leave the dead to the dead.

But this is coming with the concern that you must be a fresh life.

You can learn many things from the past about how to conduct yourself, but there is nothing to learn from the past about how to be.

Because you are a complete life by yourself.

You don't have to learn how to be a life from the past.

Maybe you have to learn how to be a good engineer.

Maybe you have to learn how to be something else in the society from the past, but you don't have to learn how to be a life from the past, because past has nothing to do with this.

This is a fresh life and this is a complete life.

Consciousness is that dimension which is the very source of who we are.

Our intentions, our actions, our thoughts and our attitudes are a consequence of that.

Or in other words, we are trying to fix the consequence without fixing the source.

Now all these distinctions of variety of things that they said, gender discriminations, racial discriminations, every kind, OK?

Somebody is a Hindu, somebody is a Muslim, somebody is a Googler, it becomes a religion after some time, believe me.

Second generation, they will become a religion by themselves.

I'm saying, you see a football match going on.

They're willing to fight and kill each other.

See our… the nature of being human is this.

In modern societies, the nature of our education has constipated our mind in such a way because we are just largely using just 1 dimension, which we call as the intellect.

The other dimensions of mind, if I have to use Indian terminology, it means buddhi, ahankara, manas and chitta.

The nature of the intellect is to slice things open and see.

If you leave the world in the hands of your intellect, Your intellect will chop it into a million pieces and will want to chop it into further micro pieces and want to chop it into further micro micro pieces, depending upon how sharp your intellect is.

The sharper your intellect, the more you dissect the world.

You cannot stop it, because that is the nature of the intellect.

So you must apply intellect only to know the material aspects of life.

If I want to know you, can I dissect you?

So, but if I want to know, if a doctor wants to know some aspect of you materially, what's wrong with you, he will take a biopsy and in a way he opens it up and looks at it.

But I can't know you as a person by dissecting you.

I can't know you as a life by dissecting you.

Similarly, I can know parts of the world to make use of it, but I can't know life as such.

In the last 100, 150 years, this is a European impact on the rest of the world, where we think our thought is supreme.

Someone went to the extent of saying, I think so I exist, or whatever.

I want to ask all of you a simple question.

Tell me, is it because we exist we may think?

Because people are in such a state of mental diarrhea all the time, nonstop it's going on, they think it's more of an existence than existence.

But my head is all the time empty, unless I want to think about something.

I can just live here without the thought.

Similarly, you must be able to do this with your mind just because you lost control over your mind and you think it's everything because it's entering into every aspect of your life where it has no business.

Thought has been over-elegized by people.

And the very nature of the thought is such that if you think, it must be logical.

Well, what somebody is thinking may look illogical to you, but they have found their own logic.

The most extreme person that you have met.

Within himself or herself, they have their own logic.

They are not speaking illogically as far as they're concerned.

Now with logically you're trying to arrive at inclusive consciousness, it's not gonna happen.

Because you're using a knife to stitch, this not gonna work.

If you use a knife to cut, it's efficient.

You use a knife to stitch things together, you'll only tear it up further.

So my thought and your thought, I'm telling you, whatever great meetings you have, I've been to every kind of peace conference on the planet.

They all get drunk in the evening and they go home.

If you make them stay there for a week, I'm telling you right there, there will be a battle.

I made a sincere effort to participate in all these conferences at 1 time, believing they are going to lead to peace.

But 8 years ago, I decided I'll never again go to these events, because people are professional conference attendees.

So the next dimension of intelligence is called as ahankara.

This is important that in modern societies, we have not cultured our children to culture their identity.

When I say identity, the fundamental identity for you is always your body.

This racial thing that concerns him and concerns all of us.

I face it all the time, joyfully, but I face it everywhere I go.

I have extra features which make me further discriminated.

When we identified with the body, the color of the skin also becomes part of it.

Because our experience is limited to this.

Because your experience of life is limited to this, naturally you're identified with this and this is you and this is how you look.

Somebody looks so different, whether in gender, or because of race, or because of maybe just fashion.

But suddenly, this is me, that's you, is established.

But we sit here in this hall, whatever the color of our skin, whatever our religion, whatever our gender, We are inhaling and exhaling the same air.

We have not cultured our children right from an early age that your identity should be universal.

This is something in India traditionally, before you start education for a child, there's something called as Vidyarambam, where the first chant that they must do is that my identification with the entire cosmos.

Without this you should not give education to a child, that is the understanding.

Because education is seen as an empowerment, you should not empower a person who has limited identifications.

Because it doesn't matter whether it's of individual nature, or of family, or of community, or race, religion, nation.

Once you have limited identity, you will cause disharmony.

You will cause cruel things, thinking you're doing the right thing.

I know the debate, the source of, I mean, the debate always goes to ISIS and things like this.

I want you to understand this, these people looking at their actions, you may be sitting here.

Sitting here, all of us think these are horrible people.

They believe they are doing the greatest thing that a human being can do.

But I'm saying, you should have seen this.

You know, I'm sure you guys can Google anything.

You must see there is a press meet that the Afghan Taliban is conducting with the international media just before United States invaded Afghanistan.

All these young guys with long beards and big, big turbans, they're all sitting like this, and they're asking questions.

Just then they had, you know, bombed that Buddha statue, and they made this thing that girls should not go to school and many other things.

Whatever you ask them, they say, in our book, in our holy book, our prophet, our God said this, this, this.

I was just watching these guys, I had tears in my eyes.

These are guys who are willing to die for what they believe in, but they've been screwed up by the scriptures.

Yes, these are wonderful people who are willing to die for what they think is right, all right?

A man who is willing to die for what he thinks is right is a great man, but look at the consequence.

So this ahankara, this identity is what wields the intellect.

If you hold the right identity, from an early age, if it's brought into us, that your identity is with the entire cosmos, because nothing happens here without everything's involvement in you.

We are sitting on this round planet which is spinning and moving at a great speed in the middle of nowhere.

You don't know where it begins, where it ends, this thing.

How many forces, how many forces in the existence are keeping you and me in place on this chair?

So there is no way we can exist without the involvement of all this.

But Talking about this intellectually is not going to help because if you try to understand intellectually, you're using a knife.

So there is another dimension of intelligence within you which can make you come to an experience of this.

The next dimension of intelligence is called as manas.

These 8 types of memory are referred to as elemental memory, atomic memory, evolutionary memory, karmic memory, sensory memory.

And in the karmic memory There are 2 types.

There is a bank of memory which determines the very shape and size of your body.

There's another 1 which is right now in play.

Inarticulate memory, that there is memory, but you can never articulate, but it's finding expression.

When you see a chair, you know this is where you should sit, not there.

You didn't think about it, because there is a memory in you that this is where you must sit.

When you see a glass, you know this is how you must hold.

Without this knowledge, you cannot do this.

There is an enormous memory which allows you to do almost everything automatically because an inarticulate memory is constantly in action.

And there is articulate memory which is very minuscule part of your memory.

The next dimension of intelligence is most important.

This is an intelligence without an iota of memory in it, unsullied by memory.

You guys are always dealing with information.

I think memory does not mean what's here.

What I do not know is a limitless possibility, isn't it?

We have misunderstood the power of ignorance.

Our knowledge is always bound within boundaries.

So always in the yogic system we identified with our ignorance, never with our knowledge.

This is something we must do in a technology company because that's where the possibility is.

That is where the new terrain is in your ignorance, not in your knowledge.

Right now, if you eat an apple, it turns into a human being.

Even your brains were created by what you eat, isn't it?

There is an intelligence here which is capable of transforming anything to this because it is making use of the memory in the manas and making this happen.

But the most important dimension of your intelligence is chitta.

In today's education systems, in today's social conditions, there is no effort to dip into deeper dimensions of our intelligence.

We're just too enamored with our own intellect and now using this knife to stitch everything.

Well you should know that even at Google when we interview people we have something called GCA that we look for which is general cognitive ability.

I suppose that that would fall into that intellect dimension.

Most of us weren't raised where they were… we were told from an early age to identify with the cosmos.

So, is there any hope for us or are we… are we lost?

Sadhguru – See, identifying with the cosmos is just another thought.

As a thought, it doesn't do much, it makes people little airy-brained and they'll start acting funny.

You become new agey, you know, I love the cosmos.

It's very easy to love the cosmos because it's not here with you.

You got to love somebody next to you, there's lots of problems.

See this wanting to set up boundaries, the instinct of wanting to set up boundaries is so deep.

You see a dog peeing all over the place, not because he has some urinary problem he is building a kingdom you know it's a peaking but it's a kingdom all

is building a kingdom every human being also doing the same thing because there are 2 dimensions of your intelligence.

1 is designed to create self-preservation.

1 aspect of your intelligence is designed for self-preservation, which is your intellect.

The chitta, that dimension of the intelligence, is designed to make you expand.

Once you have come as a human being, this is your issue fundamentally.

Whoever you are, whatever you are right now in your life, you want to be something more.

If that something more happens, you want to be something more.

I'm sure you guys want to set up Google Maps for Mars.

Yes, if that happens for the entire universe, if it's possible.

Because this is the nature of being human.

There is 1 dimension which always wants to expand.

Another dimension which always wants to build walls.

After 2 days, you feel you understand the walls of self-preservation are also the walls of self-imprisonment.

You break it and you put a new wall there and you think this is great, this is freedom.

After some time you feel that's not it and you want to expand it.

These 2 dimensions are not opposing each other.

They are not diametrically opposite to each other.

There is only 1 thing about you which needs preservation.

This body must be preserved, because if you break it, you can't fix it.

Everything else in you right now, suppose I take out all your thoughts, all your emotions, all your ideas, all your philosophies, all your belief systems, and trash them right here, break them into pieces.

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