“We have a youthful population and if you have a very focused, competent and inspired youth, this will be the greatest miracle that the world has ever seen,” says Sadhguru.
December 01, 2025 ( TGN ): “India is buzzing like no other country. We have a youthful population…(and) if you have a very focused, competent and inspired youth, this will be the greatest miracle that the world has ever seen. But if you have an unfocused, incompetent, uninspired population, it will be the greatest disaster,” said Sadhguru, speaking on Day 2 of INSIGHT: The DNA of Success, a business leadership intensive hosted at the picturesque Isha Yoga Center Coimbatore.
Highlighting the need for urgency and direction in national growth, he said, “What is demographic dividend right now, if you just wait for 25 years, what we think is a youthful nation will have one billion old people,” highlighting that the future of India’s growth depends on how this generation responds to the opportunities of today.
Acknowledging the changes happening in Indian villages, Sadhguru emphasized the need to accelerate growth. “It’s great, but it’s not enough because this generation’s life has to change. For that to happen, everything has to buzz.”
Outlining the developmental pathway for the current and upcoming generation, Sadhguru stressed the importance of nourishment, education, and soft finance for aspiring entrepreneurs. “Unfortunately, finance in the country needs coercion. It’s changed a lot today, but still it’s not happening by confidence, it’s happening still by a little bit of coercion or corruption or influence.”
Sadhguru called for freeing the education sector from excessive government regulation. He remarked, “This is an idea, which is only approximately hundred years old, that with a certificate, doors will open. Never before in the history of this world, a door would open because you have a paper in your hand. People would check whether you are competent or not, one way or the other; they had their ways of doing it.”
“Once again, the world is moving in this direction. In the next ten years, a whole lot of people will not ask you for a qualification. They will ask you, ‘What are you competent with? What can you do?’ So the education has to shift. For this to happen, the government should just take its hands off.”
Pushing for more dynamic alternatives, he shared, “Don’t set up all these boards, they are dead boards, all right? So if the rural population has no other means, we are not able to provide schools for them, they want to study in the government board, they can study. But those who can afford, should move to more agile education. More dynamic forms of education, which need not run by any rules, except children and parents are happy with what they’re doing.”
Comparing India’s startup environment with that of the United States, he noted that while failure rates may be similar across countries, the consequences in India are far more severe. “If somebody falls down (in the United States), they don’t die because there is a net. As I said earlier, somebody is willing to refinance you immediately if they think your idea is good, but here, if you fall, you crack your skull.”
“So it’s very important that the whole startup ecosystem should go with a little more judiciousness rather than simply enthusiasm. More judiciousness and competence need to be instilled. If somebody fails, the results are devastating for that individual. That has to change.”
Referring to entrepreneurship as an act of nation building, he said, “You must be looking at the society and seeing what is the problem here. How can we solve this person’s problem or this group’s problem? If that needs to happen, you should be looking at finding solutions for a variety of things.”
He urged the participants to be proactive in shaping policies that impact development. “If you have ideas, you must write a letter at least once a month. If you’re genuinely interested in the movement of this population,” he said, encouraging them to communicate frequently and consistently with the country’s various levels of leadership.
Sadhguru Academy is currently hosting its annual business leadership intensive for business owners and C-suite executives from November 27–30, 2025, at Isha Yoga Center in Coimbatore. The program features more than 200 participants from over 20 nations, including the United States, the United Kingdom, Japan, and Singapore, and delves into the science of scaling one’s business as well as one’s inner capabilities.
About Sadhguru Academy
Established by Sadhguru, Yogi, mystic and visionary, Sadhguru Academy offers the highest quality of leadership education by integrating external skill sets with tools for wellbeing. Its aim is to create leaders whose human potential has found fullest expression, who are deeply rooted in their inner well-being and are able to operate from a sense of inclusiveness, resulting in more incisive actions and decisions.
