Sadhguru LIVE from London Excel | 20 March | 2 PM GMT | 7:30 PM IST

Speaker: Welcome everyone, to this historic moment – the first Conscious Planet, Save Soil event, here at the ExCel Center in London (Cheering/Applause). In the last few weeks, we've seen a huge support for the Save Soil movement, both here in London and around the world. We'd like to take a moment to play you a short video showing you some of these moments. Sounds of Isha music – English and Hindi Soil Song Lalale Lale Lale… Speaker: Good afternoon, everyone (Applause). Before we welcome our distinguished guests to the stage, we hope to take a moment to highlight the significance of this event and the movement that Sadhguru is launching here. Rather than a doomsday warning, the Save Soil event is a rallying call. We have a window of opportunity to be the generation that brought ourselves back from the brink, rather than the one that let us fall over. With this in mind, tomorrow, Sadhguru will be starting a hundred day journey across twenty-seven nations as a lone motorcyclist (Cheering/Applause). Meeting global leaders, influencers, citizens and their elected representatives, he will be raising awareness to restore soil health. Are you with him? Participants: Yes! Speaker: The Save Soil movement's aim is to unite and inspire 3.5 billion people to support long term policies to revitalize soil. Ultimately, not for ourselves, but for future generations, whose future we have the opportunity to protect. We would like to show you a short video now, on the Save Soil movement. Speaker: We would now like to request the Right Honorable Lord Karan Bilimoria of Chelsea, the seventh Chancellor of the University of Birmingham and the current President of the Confederation of the British Industry, to please come to the podium (Applause). Lord Karan Bilimoria: Sadhguru, Your Excellency. Wow, look at this! Welcome (Cheering/Applause)! It was, it was my great honor and privilege as the seventh Chancellor of the University of Birmingham, and the first Indian to be Chancellor for Russell Group University in Great Britain (Applause), to welcome Sadhguru yesterday, at Birmingham. We had two events, and you saw some of the film from those events, and they were spectacular. And he was spectacular as always (Cheering/Applause). If I may humbly say, the greatest thing that you can do in your lifetime, is to change the world for the better. How many people, looking back at history, have genuinely done that? And I think… I think of just a few weeks ago, I had the privilege to make a speech at the memorial service of Archbishop Desmond Tutu, a fellow Fellow of my college at Cambridge, Sydney, Sussex, where I was yesterday evening after Birmingham. And when I spoke at that memorial service, and you think of what that one man did, to remove apartheid, from South Africa with Nelson Mandela, and he changed his country, and he changed the world (Cheering/Applause). Yesterday, when we hosted Sadhguru at Birmingham, in one of the rooms, I pointed out to him, there was a statue of Mahatma Gandhi. And if you've been to his ashram – I will never forget this – there's one of his sayings written on a wall, "Right versus might," and that one man took on the biggest empire in the world at that time, and he won. Right prevailed (Applause). So, Sadhguru, what he has achieved, when I first met him years ago, he came to Parliament. And I've seen, over the years, how he has always, always spoken such sense. How he's been able to relate to everyone he meets with, whether it's one-to-one, whether it's thousands of people, whether it's at Mahashivratri, the other day, when 140 million people watched what Sadhguru was doing (Cheering/Applause). So, he rightly has this amazing ability, he is one of the best communicators I've ever come across, ever, ever. He has this amazing ability, and we are blessed to benefit from that. But if you have that ability, you have the ability to change the world for the better. And I, as President of the Confederation of British Industry, was at COP26, the UN Climate Change Conference in November. I was there for one-and-a-half out of the two weeks. I spoke at about thirty different events, not one person mentioned soil, no one. 130 trillion dollars of investment is going to be available for climate change and the environment and biodiversity and climate change, and not one person mentioned soil. So, here is Sadhguru, highlighting one of the biggest challenges ahead of us, and that is Save Soil, and make it happen (Applause). He has said yesterday and you heard on the film, that soil is a source of life. He is talking about a living soil. So, we've now all got to make this happen. And I'm so delighted, as an entrepreneur, I think Sadhguru is a great entrepreneur. He sees a problem, he sees the solution. And he wants to act, and he wants to act quickly. And that's what entrepreneurship is about (Cheering/Applause). And the other thing about entrepreneurship is, there's one word that summarizes entrepreneurs, more than anything else, than other people is, they have guts. They have the guts to do it (Applause). And they have the guts to never give up when other people would give up. Sadhguru never, ever, gives up (Applause). So, now, all that remains for me to say is this – Sadhguru, thank you for what you're doing. We wish you every success as you set off tomorrow. And thank you, as a Zoroastrian Parsi, for choosing Navroz day, the 21st of March, New Year's day for us, to set off (Cheering/Applause). The spring equinox and as it happens, it's my younger son Josh's twenty-first birthday on the 21st of March 2022 (Applause). So, thank you, Sadhguru (Applause). So, twenty-seven countries, 30,000 – 30,000 miles, 3.5 billion people, Sadhguru you're going to change the world and make it a better place. We wish you every success. Save soil. Let's make it happen! Thank you very much (Cheering/Applause). Speaker: Thank you sir, for your insightful words. We now invite Her Excellency, Gaitri Issar, the current High Commissioner of India to the UK, to the podium (Applause). Gaitri Issar: Namashkar. Delighted to be here (Applause). I wish Lord Karan Bilimoria on Navroz day tomorrow, the Parsi New Year. Sadhguruji, a warm welcome to London. We are looking forward to the launch of your solo journey from London. I had the privilege of welcoming you at the Indian High Commission, where we spoke about how this kind of energy can be channelized and must be channelized to the lawmakers and to the makers of policy. And in that direction, it's wonderful that we have Lord Karan Bilimoria here, and over the last few days we have been interacting with such eminent thought leaders and thought influencers in London and the other cities in the United Kingdom. Friends, we are going to be hearing from Sadhguruji, a unique thought leader who reminds us of the value of humanity; how we can be happy, healthy and conscious citizens of the planet, that we must share in harmony with all the other gifts of natu