Mankind needs to eschew ambition to think truly global: Sadhguru, founder of Isha Foundation
Mankind needs to eschew personal ambition in order to be able to think truly global, said Sadhguru, the founder of Isha Foundation.
«The world is so integrated with technology, connectivity, and transportation, yet we still think of our own personal ambitions. Earlier, we used to pit ourselves against people we knew in our neighbourhoods, now, we pit ourselves against people we don't know,» he said.
This constant competition will break people down, and as long as mankind holds on to personal ambition, well-being will be a pipe dream, Sadhguru said, speaking at the summit.
Mankind is digging the planet inside out and accumulating wealth at great cost to every other life on the planet, but people are not any more well than they were a hundred or two hundred years ago.
Sadhguru told the audience the story of the potato farmer who one day wanted to eat mangoes, and went looking for a mango tree. There, out of sheer habit, being a potato farmer, he started digging the ground for mangoes, and when he did not find any, dug even more furiously. As he went on, the tree slowly came down upon him.
Mankind is like the potato farmer, constantly digging away for happiness, said Sadhguru, but the need of the hour is to turn inward.
«We are the product of millions of years of research and development, which many people dismiss with the word 'evolution'. Essentially, we do not know how to conduct our own intelligence and it has turned against us,» he said.
Never before in the history of the world has mankind had so much
