Sadhguru

We eat well, we nourish ourselves well, so the brain grows to its fullest possibility.

As you know, malnourishment of the body leads to maldevelopment of the brain.

There's no question about that.

So, how is it that it's difficult to connect these two dots of nourishment and mental well-being?

They're very directly connected, because this bifurcation of what is physical and mental is a very wrong idea, because mind is functional in the physical body.

And what is physical body is the mind.

Where is the separation?

There is intelligence, there is memory and there is functionality at all levels.

Right now, the misunderstanding has come because people are classifying only intellectual activity,

or psychological activity, which is thought process and emotion, as mind, which is a very wrong thing, because that is a consequence of various things that are happening in the system.

The human system is complex.

If you want to look at it just as a chemical process at one level, because medical sciences today are largely focused on this, I'm talking in this context, this is not my context.

Because any... any ailment, physical or mental, they have a certain chemical which will bring some relief, if not cure.

Definitely, it's brought relief to millions of people, otherwise people will not be popping pills.

Obviously, it's brought relief to people.

So, thanks to that, because when somebody is in deep suffering, whatever you say they will not understand, all you need to is put a pill or an injection into them.

But chemistry is deciding your experience of life.

So every human experience has a chemical basis to it.

Now, in other words, this is a chemical soup.

The question is, are you a great manager of this chemical factory or are you a lousy manager?