Sadhguru: The best thing about sport is you cannot do it without absolute involvement. The essence of life is in our involvement. Sport demands involvement. You can go to school or college without involvement, you can go to your office without involvement, you can even get married without involvement, but you cannot do sport without involvement.
When you kick or hit a ball, it will not go where you want it to go unless there is absolute involvement. In society, whatever does not happen, you can cover up by blaming someone else. But in sport, it stands out starkly – in your face – that you are responsible for what you are doing. This is the best aspect of sport. Should this come into our life? Absolutely! For 1.4 billion people, we do not play enough sport in the nation. For the population that we have, we should have a team for every game on the planet. When a country like Costa Rica, with a population of five million, can send their team to the Football World Cup but we cannot, it is simply because we have never seen sport as an important part of our lives. In many ways, we have dropped our playfulness in this country, for which we are paying a very heavy price.
It is time we bring back sports on all levels. It need not always be a competitive sport; it can be just fun games, but people should play. It is very important for the physical body and the brain to develop. Only if this happens, you will develop a humanity that is competent.
Without taking sport to villages, India will never be a sporting nation. The 65% of India in the ruralscape has to be involved. Towards this, Isha is conducting #Gramotsavam where thousands of villages participate in sport. I request all our senior sportspersons, who have passed their professional sporting life, to help take this to the whole nation and bring sport into rural India. Let us make it happen.
Highlights from #IshaGramotsavam, 2015
Bharat’s Biggest Rural Sports Festival
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