Sadhguru on Natural Calamities

“I want people to become sensible that even if calamities happen they know how to handle their life sensibly.”

—Sadhguru

In the last few years the volume of rain in Tamil Nadu has gone up by almost 100%. Excessive rains will turn the land into a desert much faster than no rain. You see almost all the cities in southern peninsula have flooded in the last few years including major cities like Mumbai, Hyderabad, Chennai and Bangalore. This is something unheard of in the past. Because of global warming, the southern peninsula will get more rain as days go by unless the reversal happens; which I don’t think will happen instantly. Even if we take corrective measures, it will take years for it to reverse itself.

The one beautiful thing that has happened in this country is that since 1964 we have never had a famine. Before that every two or three years there used to be horrible famines which took millions of lives. This is not because somebody did a yagna or a pooja, but because our agriculture got a little more organized. Instead of calling for the Gods to take care of our crops, we started taking care of our own crops. That’s the reason why in these 40 years or so we have not had any famine.

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