I'd like to know the truth about the increase in alcohol usage and addiction. In my generation, my younger generation, very young, kids in school are starting to use substances as a haven and an escape for them, and that feels very scary and dangerous. I want to know why you think kids are using this, and I want to know what you think is the best way most organic way to get people out of it
Sadhguru reply:
I like your name Cobras have always been very dear to me. And if you do not know this Cobra, when I'm also is an intoxicant, if it's used in a certain way, why the need for intoxication is going up in society? There are many reasons, one basic thing is, people are no more fighting for survival. A large segment of society has moved out of survival. When people move out of survival, they must find other areas of interest and passionate involvement. If that doesn't happen, the need for pleasure and the need for intoxication will naturally go up in that given Society. This is why it's very important that even if the parents are affluent, the children should not know affluence till they come to a certain age in this culture. Even the Kings sent their children to gurukula, where they studied with other children, where everybody lived with very basic needs because the necessary sense of discipline and involvement and engagement with life has to happen before wealth Comes into somebody's life. Otherwise, wealth will become a burden that you carry on your head and this is what is happening to this generation. And one more reason is that these days both parents are working largely at an early age, and the needed attention that the child needs is not happening to the child. So naturally, various deviances are taken to
There is not enough physical activity. When you don't enjoy the fitness of your body. Then the only other thing that you will enjoy is intoxication. If you do not enjoy the Vibrance and vitality of your system, then intoxication becomes the only way. And now drugs are not only intoxication, they'll also make them feel vibrant for a few hours. So, massively, the generation is moving in that way. And one more significant reason why This generation is moving towards these drugs is In their minds. The heavens that were promised are collapsing. Maybe still, they're not able to articulate it very clearly. They don't have the clarity or the courage to say it, but for a long time, we have managed people saying that if you abstain from all these things in heaven, all of this will be available in huge quantities. Now, the Heavens are collapsing. So they trying to drink it up right here. So then I like this, there are many aspects. Fundamentally there is not in if there is, there is no need for an individual human being to physically strive for his survival which itself makes the need for intoxication more.
What are the solutions is very, very important? Those of you who have growing children, you involve them in sports, Other activity which engages them with nature like trekking mountain climbing swimming, some intense activity, and also engagement with nature art music. They must become passionate about something, they must learn to know, the pleasures of the intellect, their emotion, and their Consciousness. When one begins to enjoy the pleasures of the Mind, the pleasures of the sharpness of your intellect, the pleasures of emotion, the pleasures of your Consciousness then indulge in the pleasures of the body will naturally come down dramatically. So this is very important that children should go through a variety. Variety of activity and involvement. And It involves various things. This will bring down the need for alcohol and drugs, but we must understand this today, it is being heavily marketed and I'm sorry, the movies are promoting it everywhere. It is being made like it's a social thing unless you drink. You're no good people.
Ask me so Guru you drink. I said, yes, I drink water. They look at me. Like I'm a strange creature just water. Yes, that is the most fantastic. Think that you can have water because this body is made of water. No alcohol. 70% of this body is water. Not alcohol, but above all. I am a different case because I have found within my system, that this is the greatest chemical Factory. If you want intoxication you can generate it from inside a kind of intoxication that makes you aberrated and super aware at the same time. This is the kind of intoxication. We should introduce our children and youth to it, this is why we are striving to bring the technology of yoga into everybody's life. If you go into certain States within yourself, you will know intoxication. Like, no drug is not drinking ever create. At the same time, you will remain super aware and it's it will do miracles for your health and well-being. It is time that we learn to do things more technologically. The enhanced way we have ways for this that people can turn inward and know the highest pleasures of life.
We must make our youth experience this, unless you give them an alternative, they will go back to the bottle. They will go back to the pill right now. To be helpful. You need chemicals. To be peaceful. You need chemicals to be joyful. You need chemicals to experience, anything within yourself. You need chemical help.
So, you must understand when a generation uses chemicals like this. If 90% of the people start using Miss utricle and other types of chemicals daily, the Next Generation that we produce will be in many ways. Less than who we are. This is a crime against humanity, all of us should Wake up to this fact and do what is needed.
