You can produce very great intellects, very great energy individual human beings carrying phenomenal sense

e of energy, intellect and capability if you create large consecrated spaces.

Questioner: Sadhguru, the volunteers and brahmacharis in the ashram seem to be so active and doing everything so well. They never seem to slow down. What is the secret?
When for him, handling his body, his mind and his emotion is not an issue he is not an issue only then he can do everything well. A few years ago, I was in Lausanne at the Blue Brain Project. The project is a phenomenal effort which has been going on for the last six years and it will take another ten to twelve years to complete if it is well funded. The idea is to map the human brain and to understand the potential that the brain carries. Already, what they have discovered or what they have uncovered is quite phenomenal for the scientific community, but it is a cruel joke on the yogis because we have been saying this for thousands of years.When human beings, out of whose brains all these damn super computers came out, said it, people said No, such things are not possible. But now that machines are saying it, everyone is raising a thumbs up. Today, there is enough proof to clearly say that irrespective of your genetics, irrespective of who your father or grandfather
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was, irrespective of the information that you carry in your DNA, you can rewire your brain completely in a moment. The possibility is there. How? They dont know, but they see it is possible because everything is so flexible and mobile inside. Everything can be changed. One more thing that they are saying is that each neuron in the brain is processing some trillion and odd number of functions per second. Just a handful of neurons could do the normal activity of our life twenty years of education and running your career or profession. But we have billions of them. What for? If ever even a reasonable number of them are put to use, human beings will live like gods. Actually, in this culture we have always been saying that many human beings lived better than gods. When gods had problems they came looking for the sages. That is what the culture says, repeatedly. These are not just stories. There are many real life examples. People who have been reared in a certain atmosphere have shown phenomenal capabilities. This is a culture where mathematics was never really pursued as an academic subject, yet the greatest mathematicians have always come from India. You got a zero from India. Without a zero, what mathematics would you do? And in more recent times, Ramanujam came from Tamil Nadu. At the age of twelve, just by chance he came across a book full of formulas. Someone had left it somewhere. He picked it up and flipped through it, and he just understood the whole science of what is being said through these formulas. Then he sat down and wrote down a book full of formulas of his own. He looked at every aspect of nature and made a mathematical formula for it a whole book full. He closed his eyes, looked at himself and wrote formulas. Nobody could understand what he was doing, but just looking at the boys focus and intensity,

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they sent this book to a British Officer who happened to be a mathematician. He looked at it and could not understand it, but he could see the whole pattern was something incredible. So he sent it to one of the greatest mathematicians of that time in England. That man looked at it and saw that there seems to be something to it, but he could not make it out. He looked at it in the night and kept it aside and went to sleep. Some time later, he suddenly realized what he had seen. Literally, Ramanujam had described the whole universe through his formulas. Even today, many of the topmost scientific physical theories are explained by Ramanujams formulas. There are still so many of the formulas which are yet to find a theory. So they took Ramanujam to England and this professor kept him in his own house and asked him to write, because he saw Ramanujam as a man of exceptional capability. And the man wrote pages and pages of formulas. Many scientists firmly believe this could be the ultimate answer to everything. I am saying this because every single human being has this capacity. There is an inner strength in this nation that stems from a whole science and technology on inner wellbeing right now the whole world is crying for it. They have outer technology with which they have done wonderful things on the outside, but they are struggling inside. This is a technology we have known for thousands of years. It is from this context that this whole culture evolved. You see temple towns where they built huge magnificent temples that we would not dare to attempt even today with all the machinery we have. The whole state of Tamil Nadu is built like this. Every significant town in Tamil Nadu had a grand temple and around that, a little town. Because the kind of dwelling you live in is not important. Whether your house is 10,000 square feet or just 1000 square feet is not going to make an ultimate

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difference in your life, but being around a consecrated space is going to make a phenomenal difference in your life. With this understanding, they built human habitations like this: if there are 25 houses, there must be one temple. Whether you go there or not, whether you pray or not, whether you know the mantra or not, is not the point. You must be in a consecrated space every moment of your life. Consecration is a live process. It is like this: if you transform mud into food, we call this agriculture. If you make food into flesh and bone, we call this digestion. If you make flesh into mud, we call this cremation. If you can make this flesh or even a stone or an empty space into a divine possibility, that is called consecration. Today, modern science is telling you that everything is the same energy manifesting itself in a million different ways. If that is so, what you call the divine, what you call a stone, what you call a man or a woman, what you call a demon, are all the same energy functioning in different ways. For example, the same electricity becomes light, sound and so many other things, depending upon the technology. So it is just a question of technology. If you have the necessary technology, you can make the simple space around you into a divine exuberance, you can just take a piece of rock and make it into a god or a goddess. This is the phenomenon of consecration. An enormous amount of knowledge about this dimension of life was perpetuated particularly in this culture, and this was held as the most important thing. Because it does not matter what you are eating, how you are or how long you live, at some point a need will come that you want to get in touch with the source of creation. If that possibility is not created across the planet and is not available to every human being who seeks, then society has failed to provide true wellbeing for a human being. It is with this awareness that in this culture, every street had three temples

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because even a few meters should not pass without there being a consecrated space. The idea was not to create one temple versus the other; the idea was that nobody should walk in a space which is not consecrated, nobody should live in a space which is not consecrated. It is my dream that someday the whole of humanity should live in consecrated spaces. Your home should be consecrated, your street should be consecrated, your office should be consecrated. Wherever you spend time, those spaces must be consecrated. There is a certain beauty. Your evolution need not stick to the Darwinian scale. You can simply leapfrog and go if you live in a charged space. We can actually scientifically establish this, in just one day of initiation, like brahmacharis and others who are going into various other processes here not just the basic processes, but people who live in the ashram who are going through many other things in a single day we can show a phenomenal change happening in their brain function, in their physiological function, and in their genetic material. This is the significance that when someone takes brahmacharya11 or sanyas,12 he will do the kriya that he is supposed to do after his parents are dead, when the parents are still alive, because he is even washing off the genetic material from his system. His father has no influence anymore. Maybe my nose looks like my fathers nose but none of his stuff is in me. I cleaned it up. That is what a sanyasi is saying. When he leaves a tarpana for a live father which is an insult because the man is alive and you are doing death rituals for him he is
11 The path of the divine. A life of celibacy and studentship on the path of spirituality; the first of four stages of life as per the Varnashrama Dharma. 12 On the path of spirituality; the fourth of four stages of life as per the Varnashrama Dharma. The spontaneous withdrawal from the world in search for Self Realization.

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just saying, I am not wishing death upon you, it is just that I have no father anymore because I have washed off my genetics completely. This has happened in many ways with many different people. On a certain day when Jesus was giving a sermon, his mother came and she could not find her way through the crowd, so somebody said, Your mother has come. Jesus said, Who is that woman? Who is my mother? He had washed off his genetics. The very fundamental building blocks in the system can be changed very rapidly if one lives in consecrated space. If you walk on the street, if you do business, if you live in a town, everyone must constantly live in a consecrated space because if you want to produce generations of enhanced human beings, you need this kind of space. Otherwise only by accident or by personal dint someone may become something, but you will not produce a generation of beautiful people. This culture produced a galaxy of knowledge, a galaxy of Enlightened beings. Every generation produced this simply because they took care of a number of aspects like this. Nowhere else on this planet have single generations of people risen to such glorious heights of knowing as this culture has known. You can produce very great intellects, very great energy individual human beings carrying phenomenal sense of energy, intellect and capability if you create large consecrated spaces where the whole generation of people are in touch with that kind of energy and space. The most important thing is that you must live in a consecrated space. Either you consecrate your home or you consecrate your own body so that you constantly live in that sacred space. Only then a human being will know wellbeing in a completely different way. It is not something that you can

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articulate and tell people, I am also well, I went for a medical check-up yesterday, not that kind of wellness. If you simply sit here, you are blissed out. It is a different kind of wellness which every human being is capable of. If a large number of people are constantly touched by consecrated spaces, you would see, human beings would blossom with a completely different sense of wholeness, homogeneity and organic way of looking at life, and above all as full-fledged human beings. a

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