#1481 - Is It Time to End Reservations in India?
5/7/20267 min
Sadhguru answers a question about the need for caste-based reservations in India, exploring how caste discrimination worsened during British occupation. He explains why reservation is still necessary today but must be gradually calibrated down over the next generation.
Conscious Planet: https://www.consciousplanet.org
Sadhguru App (Download): https://onelink.to/sadhguru\_\_app
Official Sadhguru Website: https://isha.sadhguru.org
Sadhguru Exclusive: https://isha.sadhguru.org/in/en/sadhguru-exclusive
Inner Engineering Link: isha.co/ieo-podcast
Yogi, mystic and visionary, Sadhguru is a spiritual master with a difference. An arresting blend of profundity and pragmatism, his life and work serves as a reminder that yoga is a contemporary science, vitally relevant to our times.
Learn more about your ad choices. Visit
Clips
Transcript preview
First 90 secondsSpeaker 00:00
You don't brag about your car's resale value until years later when it proves you made the right call. And Toyota makes that choice easy. For the sixth year in a row, Toyota was named the Best Resale Value Brand by Kelley Blue Book, with Camry, Tacoma, and 4Runner all earning best in class. Because when you buy a vehicle that's built to last, you drive away with value you can count on. Shop toyota.com to learn more. Vehicles' projected resale value and best resale value awards are specific to the 2026 model year. For more information, visit Kelley Blue Book's kbb.com. Toyota, let's go places.
Sadhguru· Guest0:29
[gentle music] Reservations were made to give them a little better chance. But I must tell you, there is another way. In some of the states in India, there is religious reservation. This is illegal as per the Constitution. This is government-funded conversion project. [laughs] It's a very cruel discrimination that has happened. From being nearly 27% of the world's economy, we became three and a half percent when, by 1947. So it all got exaggerated. We have to fix it in this generation.
Speaker 2· Host1:08
Sadhguru. Um, Sadhguru, there's been a lot of controversy around reservations in our Indian education system, and all the more in light now because of a recent incident where a student actually cut off his own foot, um, just to be considered disabled and get a medical seat under that reservation. And