Why 'Madhira' ?

The word Madhira in Sanskrit translates to ecstasy, nectar, inebriation, or a state of intoxication, which is referred to as spiritual high in Yoga.

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The wise said, 'An apple a day keeps the doctor away'. But a drink a day keeps the doctor with you. Whatever variety of drink you have, it plays on your chemistry to make you feel peaceful and relaxed; it is just soothing you a little bit. If a small quantity of it is so relaxing, then if you drink a bucket of it, you must be really relaxed. But it doesn't work like that.

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We are not against drink or pleasure. The question is not about, 'Is this wrong or is this right?' this is not about a moralistic stand point. It is just that it is very limited. It is just that it is a pity that human beings are settling for such small pleasures when something far bigger is possible within themselves. The fundamental question is: Are you for life or against life?

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Right now you know you are alive because you are alert enough. Essentially in your experience of life, awareness is aliveness. How aware you are is how alive you are. But any kind of intoxication, lowers your aliveness or awareness. This is why they are telling you, you cannot drive with a drink because it lowers your awareness.

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If you become fully aware, instead of existing here as a piece of creation, as a piece of flesh and blood, you will exist as the creator himself. That is the choice you have. Either you live here as just a piece of creation or you live here as the creator himself. If you want to exist as a creator, your awareness has to spread.

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But your depression, unhappiness, confusions, alcohol, everything is putting your awareness down. If all you are seeking is a little bit of pleasure, we are not against it. But if you are a pleasure seeker, wouldn't you be interested if you are given an opportunity to have a much bigger pleasure? If you could learn how to be drunk all the time and fully alert, wouldn't you be interested?

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So you can be drunk all the time. Free! No hangover and no doctor! The human system is the greatest chemical factory. If you want intoxication, you can generate it from inside - a kind of intoxication which makes you inebriated and super aware at the same time. This is the kind of intoxication we should introduce to our children and youth. This is why we are striving to bring the technology of Yoga into everybody's life.

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If you go into certain states within yourself, you will know intoxication that no drug and no drink can ever create. At the same time, you will remain super aware, and it will do miracles to your health and wellbeing.

It is time that we learn to do things in a more technologically enhanced way.

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We have ways that people can turn inward and know the highest pleasures of life. We must make our youth experience this. Unless you give them an alternative, they will go back to the bottle or pill.

 

Right now, you need chemical help to be healthful, peaceful, joyful, or to experience anything within yourself.

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When a generation uses chemicals like this - if 90% of the people start using pharmaceuticals and other types of chemicals on a daily basis - the next generation that we produce will be less than who we are in many ways, and this is a crime against humanity. All of us should wake up to this fact and do what is needed.

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