Women Who Choose Not To Have A Child Must be Awarded – Sadhguru
Questioner: So what are the arguments that you would give
for a woman who doesn’t want to bear a child? Sadhguru: She needs to be awarded. We’re ensuring that our children cannot live
well on this planet by producing more children. Superscript: Women Who Choose Not To Have A Child
Must be Awarded – Sadhguru Questioner: For a woman who chooses
not to be a mother who doesn’t want… Sadhguru: Oh I will give you an award (Laughter). Questioner 1: So she has chosen you as an advocate
for a case and you have to fight her case. So what are the… Sadhguru: I am sorry. I didn’t get that. Questioner 1: So there’s a woman…
who doesn’t want to be a mother, Sadhguru: Yeah, she doesn’t want to have a child.
Questioner 1: And she has chosen you as an advocate
for her case and you have to fight her case. So what are the arguments that you would give
for a woman who doesn’t want to bear a child? Sadhguru: I said she needs to be awarded. I have already announced this in India. Young women who are capable of childbearing,
chose not to do it, we will institute an award for them because right now the greatest
service you can do in the world is you are not extra populating this planet,
okay (Laughter/Applause)? If… Suppose you were a tiger woman, I mean to say a female tiger, then I would have encouraged you
to please breed, please breed (Laughs) because it’s an endangered species. Well you know see we are not endangered (Laughter).
Wherever you go there is a crowd. Well, to protect a nation you have to build
a wall otherwise people are coming. There’s too much (Laughter/Applause). There is too much
population everywhere, isn’t it? So this is something we need to
look at in a very fundamental way. This is happening because the need, the need is inbuilt. The reproductive need is very inbuilt. Whatever arguments they have
at one point the body dictates. Fortunately, there’s a lot of pain and stuff involved. Otherwise, I don’t know what would have happened. So this need if one has to transcend
instead of forcefully putting it down, if your identity naturally shifts beyond your biological self, you will see these needs will completely disappear. Right now I want people to understand
what you’re looking for is not a child. What you’re looking for is involvement. Right now your problem is you simply cannot involve
with people unless they came out of your body. Your identity in biology is so strong
you can’t simply include this person as yours. Oh, this one came from my body, this is mine, this (Gestures).
This is because you’re trapped in your biology.
That’s all it is. Why should it fall out of your body, not necessary? Human being has the ability. This is an animal instinct. This instinct is needed for the
survival of the race of course but now the survival of the race depends
on consciously controlling the population a little bit. From the beginning of the 20th century, in 1910
our population was just 1.58 billion. Let’s Say 1.6 billion. Today we are 7.6 billion. By 2050, they’re estimating we will be 10.3 billion. When it’s 10.3 billion,
I don’t want to be around (Laughter). Hello? I wanted you just to imagine,
another rise in the world’s population. You can imagine all problems you will face. We’re ensuring that our children cannot live
well on this planet by producing more children. It is very, very important. We must understand why this has happened
not just because of unbridled reproduction.
No, that is not true, it’s controlled. It is simply because our life expectancy
is extending itself. It’s fantastic. For example in India, when the British left India
our life expectancy was twenty-eight years. How many of you are over
twenty-five, twenty-eight I’m sorry. So you are all dead (Laughter). That’s what it meant. I want you to understand, twenty-eight years. Today it has reached seventy which is a phenomenal achievement
in seventy years of independence. (Applause) So when we take death into our hands,
should we not take birth into our hands? I’m not propounding any philosophy.
I’m just talking about simple arithmetic. Hello? When we take death into our hands,
should we not take birth into our hands? If we don’t do that, if we do not consciously contain our
population, nature will do it to us in a very cruel way. Do you want to wait for that day? You can but being human beings it
will be nice if we do it consciously isn’t it?
