In conversation with Prasoon Joshi, Sadhguru links the world's nuclear stockpile to a more fundamental problem — limited identity, which makes more power equal more destruction. He describes the consecrated Adiyogi space and laments the systematic uprooting of older mystical traditions.
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See right now we are talking about a nuclear conflagration. The United States of America has some 5,600 nuclear warheads. Russia is supposed to have 6,500 nuclear warheads. Chinese are supposed to have 1,800. We have enough nuclear power to burn Earth, Moon, Mars, wherever else we are planning to go. Once you have a limited identity, the more empowered you are, the more destructive you become. What is it first of all, consecration? Consecration is not an authority, it's a device. Both the Annalinga and Devi, they are intelligent enough to recognize you. If you go into Adiyogi Alayam, there this is a knowledge space. Everything you wish to know about yoga, Hatha Yoga particularly, is all there. Mahavutas or yogis or whatever, they just lived like that, like deities. That's why people worship them. Jain monks came and stayed there some 1,900 years ago. And I couldn't sit there if my body was just like vibrating like that. This culture does not exist in many parts of the world, at to my knowledge. >> everywhere. In the last 2,000 years it's been systematically uprooted. Some 6 million women burned in Europe simply because they exhibited other kinds of capabilities. What you are experiencing and you're chronicling in this world, it's it's it's invaluable.