Decade of Action | Sadhguru & Isha in 2010-2020

Voiceover: Isha Foundation, a non-profit organization founded by Sadhguru, that has been dedicated to the well-being of the individual and the world for the past three decades. The last decade has been a dynamic and diverse period of activity for Isha and Sadhguru. Social projects of global impact, spiritual processes touching over a billion people globally and powerful consecrated spaces to raise human consciousness have had a profound positive impact on individuals and in turn on the world. Voiceover: In the last decade, Sadhguru has offered tools for transformation available free of cost through in-person programs, online, large-scale celebrations, in schools, colleges, offices and homes. These simple practices help people from all sections of society take their lives into their hands. Voiceover: Sadhguru was also invited to lead the International Day of Yoga celebrations in the UN Headquarters in New York and has been part of the United Nations effort to utilize yoga in the goal to achieve the UN Sustainable Development Goals. Interviewer: We would like to understand your vision of how the underlining principles of yoga can be applied here in the greater UN system. Sadhguru: Yoga means you obliterate this individual boundaries. Bringing this experience into people that what you think as myself is not within the boundaries of your physical nature. If this becomes a living reality, then fulfilling these goals that United Nations has for the world becomes much more possible. Interviewer: Sadhguru, you were in Siachen on International Day of Yoga. What was your experience there? Sadhguru: The whole world is turning towards India for inner well-being. We must bring it to the access of our forces, that our soldiers and our officers must have the best capability to manage their mind and their interiority. Voiceover: The Mahashivratri celebration at the Isha Yoga Center is one of the largest on the planet. Hundreds of millions of people on television, online and at the center itself experience the power of this night through the meditations and processes conducted by Sadhguru. Prime Minister: Adiyogi will inspire many generation to take up yoga. Place where we have gathered is going to be a source of inspiration to merge and discover truth. Truly remarkable thing that Sadhguru has done, he has made yogis out of ordinary common people. President: I am experiencing the very same feelings when I visited Kailash-Manasarovar. Vice President: I pay my respect to Sadhguru for organizing Mahashivaratri celebrations on such a grand scale. Sadhguru: My work is to make the mystical – simple, approachable, accessible. You need to grow and establish your logic and then cross it. If you do not cross the logic, the magic of life, the mystery of life, the mystical nature of the existence will never ever touch you. It is not that human being is incapable of attaining to the highest without going to this place or that place. He can attain within himself. But still, going to the right places at the right time of your life definitely hastens the process. If you can make this flesh or even a stone or even an empty space into a divine possibility, that is called consecration. Your evolution need not stick to Darwinian scale; you can simply leapfrog and go if you live in a consecrated space. If I am given the necessary support and situation, I could consecrate the whole planet; that's what I am good at. I can just turn thin air into a very powerful vibrant space. We have established a very powerful teerthakshetram here at Isha Yoga Center. Necessary consecrations and energy establishments have happened for this generation and for the future of mankind. What we have done here in these last three days, all of you have a role in making this happen; this will transform the entire region in the coming years. Entire Isha Foundation, this has been the stress always – integrity not capability. I will give them the capability; capability, we can infuse it into people, but they must have basic integrity of body, mind, energy. People who are willing to dedicate themselves for other's well-being are needed in the society. So, Brahmacharis are an investment for future – to keep spirituality in its pristine purity and to transmit it from generation to generation. If you can do something which is way bigger than you, that is the greatest privilege a human being has in his life. So, once you start imparting yoga, many other things will happen that you yourself will not understand. So, to create those kind of people who are spiritually strong – that spiritual process is not morning and evening thing, it’s simply on like your breath and is as real as your breath because without these people there can be no spiritual movement. Voiceover: Isha Yoga programs have continued to expand. The flagship Inner Engineering program is now available online in fourteen languages. 0Sadhguru: Your joy and misery, 0your love and hate, your pain and pleasure or just all experiences are your making. You can and you must take it into your hands. You are the maker of your life. Inner Engineering is a process that is designed to give you the tools to make your life the way you want it. Voiceover: The Inner Engineering process has touched the lives and benefited people 0from various backgrounds, including businesspeople, students, housewives, public figures, rural communities and prison inmates. Prof. Balachundar: We have also done some research in the last three years or so with Isha Yoga. Prof. Swaminathan: It is activating the genes, which are critical for restricting the corona virus from infecting the cell. Dr. Senthil: We saw even bigger effect size, in terms of 50% reduction in depression and anxiety. Voiceover: Sadhguru also began the Isha School of Hatha Yoga. Sadhguru: Those who want to keep a certain level of mental capability and want to make themselves in such a way that their body is not a barrier in their life all of them are slowly shifting to yoga across the planet. If all of us do the right things, in the next fifteen years, there will be such a huge shift in the human consciousness. Voiceover: Sadhguru has opened up the Sadhanapada program, where participants can stay at the Isha Yoga Center and go through powerful processes for inner well-being. This program is offered free of cost to participants from around the world. Sadhguru: They will volunteer in various aspects but all of it used as a sadhana for your growth. In six months' time – in your body, you must be stronger and younger; in your mind, you must be sharper and much more stable; in your emotions, you must be very lucid; in your energies, you must be intense and stable. We want to bring these kind of people to the world. Speaker: Sadhguru is internationally known for changing lives. His mission, to spread spiritual, emotional and physical well-being recently brought him here to New York. Interviewer: What do we need to do to kind of reset ourselves, re-eng