India, Jan. 2 -- By Sadhguru - Founder, Isha Foundation

A nation isn't its land and buildings - it is its people. If we, as a nation, have to rise and become empowered, the first thing we need to do is to empower the people.

Empowerment is not amassing of material wealth or technology. It is an entirely inner process, a spiritual process. Without the necessary sensitivity, inner balance and the faculty of discrimination in individuals, widespread negativity and perversions creep in. This is how a human being or an entire culture sinks to its depths.

Never before has mankind been as comfortable as it is today. The kind of comforts and conveniences that even kings did not have a hundred years ago are now available to the common man. Toda...