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I'm glad you forgot all those questions. I forgot.
I'm not even looking.
We're not living. Do you feel like the pace is outrunning
us, forgetting to just breathe?
I think they're breathing, otherwise they would be somewhere else.
Because in your drama, you're the director, you're the producer, you're
side actors, everything.
That stupid drama should run your way.
No, I'm going all over. No, it's a conversation, you can go where you want.
What's the last thought that you feel constantly tends to enter your mind just
before you doze off to sleep?
People come and ask, Sadhguru, how to sleep?
It's like, God damn it, if you cannot even sleep, what can you do in your
huh? The easiest goddamn thing is to sleep. This is a serious problem in the
world. When I go to bed, whenever it is, I don't sleep, I fall dead.
And sometimes chasing dreams means success.
But a lot of the times it means seeing failure.
You can also talk about my failure. Yes, please do.
So my father asked me after some time, what does it feel like being a mother?
And I said, it's a combination of joy and worry.
A worried parent is not a good parent.
I was very glad that I had a girl, not a boy. Because when I was 10 years of
age, I would do all kinds of things. When I thought, if my child does this,
will I handle this?
Fortunately, it was a girl.
She never did those things.
Namaskaram to all of you.
Namaskaram. Yeah, I said namaskaram.
I thought you're not on talking terms with me.
Namaskaram to you ma 'am. Namaskaram.
Okay, so I had the honor of having a
conversation with you before we came on to this stage.
And one thing that Sadhguruji mentioned to me is, forget the questions.
Let's just have a conversation.
And I was instantly at ease because I can prepare all the smart,
intelligent, all those questions I can prepare and come.
I'm glad you forgot all those questions. I forgot.
I'm not even looking.
Everything is written here but I'm not going to look at it.
Because otherwise I'd be wasting a moment to have a genuine conversation
maybe some of the doubts that I have in life or some of the questions.
That I perhaps would ask the universe.
I really would like your opinion on... I always feel as women,
we have so many rules.
There's so much pressure.
So many responsibilities.
So many opinions on how we should be. How we should conduct ourselves.
What we should do. I don't like this word should. But it comes up pretty
in conversation.
But I think the women of today are thriving, growing,
learning.
I want to know from your perspective, where do you think women are today?
Truth. There are a lot of them here.
See, we need to understand and appreciate this fact that life,
physically at least, the physical part of the life has never been as good for
women as it is today.
Otherwise, being a woman on this planet has been hard, very hard, physically
I'm saying.
Today, because of variety of conveniences, technologies and many
has leveled the physical field between man and woman.
It's leveled it simply because of what is available to us in these times, 21st
century.
I think never before life has been this comfortable and easy for a woman as it
is today.
All of you women should celebrate this.
Hello?
I'm saying...
I'm not just talking about spacecrafts, computers, great technology, this one,
that one, all those things are there, definitely they're all big deals.
But I'm saying simple things, if you turn a tap, water comes. It's not a
thing, otherwise you had to walk two miles to get a bucket of water, all
Still unfortunately, for some segment of the population it's still like that,
but for a large segment, we have taken this for granted, if you turn the tap,
the water will come.
If you flush the toilet, everything is gone. These are not small things.
We think this is granted.
Just imagine, those who don't have such facilities, every day what they go
through. So, life is better than ever before, but in our experience, we have
make it fantastic. That's important.
In our arrangement, it's better than ever before.
In our experience, have we made it fantastic?
Unfortunately, I don't think so.
We should make it fantastic.
When arrangement is so good, experience should be made wonderful, isn't it?
Our experience should not depend on the arrangements, but if the necessary
conveniences are not there, your entire life goes in making those little things
going.
Today, all those things are taken care of.
It's important how a human being is within himself or herself.
That must be taken care of, but I feel… We have not given enough focus to that.
Ladies all getting together and wanting to learn, the most important thing to
learn is how to be.
How to be? How am I right now?
What's my experience of just sitting here and breathing? If you don't change
this, even if you put you in a palace, you will suffer.
Lot of people in palaces have committed suicide, hello?
Right through history, not just today, all the time.
Because human experience is caused from within.
If you take care of that one thing, then we can enjoy the outer things that we
have created. Because everything that we have created today in our pursuit of
comfort and convenience, it has all come at a great cost for every other
creature on the planet.
From a microbe, to a worm, to an insect, to a bird, to an animal, to a tree,
every one of them have paid an enormous price.
I'm saying just to build this hall, there's a genocide of worms, insects and
other life which is the basis of our lives.
So, when we are burning the planet like this, at least it must be a celebratory
bonfire, not a funeral pyre.
Because most people, if you look at them, how they're going on the street,
looks like they're going to a funeral.
They're driving their dream car. I don't see them driving joyfully, unless it's
a stolen car or something.
Most people are going, you know, grumpy like that, sitting in their dream car
and in case the Chennai traffic stops you and makes you enjoy your dream car a
little while longer, you freak and go through the ceiling.
So I'm saying this needs to change. Life has never been this good physically.
Rest of it we must make it wonderful, isn't it?
And I just want to take off from that a little bit. You said we should… forget
women, we should just… Learn how to be.
Do you feel like we are all just running in a direction?
And actually while we're running, we're not breathing.
We're not living. Do you feel like the pace is outrunning us?
Whether it's the youth, whether it's adulthood, whether it's even... I don't
know. Is there a pace that we are kind of constantly putting up ourselves
against and we're...
forgetting to just breathe?
Oh, I think they are breathing, otherwise they would be somewhere else.
I understand what you're trying to say.
They're not enjoying their breath.
They're definitely not.
Because most people don't know that they are breathing.
Doctor has to check and see whether they're not breathing or not breathing.
This is because fundamentally, your focus on life is gone. Your focus
is on our...
in your psychological mess.
You think what nonsense is happening in your head is life.
It's not life, it's your drama.
You don't know how to run your drama, then how will you know how to run your
life? Because in your drama, you are the director, you are the producer, you are
all the side actors, everything.
That stupid drama should run your way.
When you get out into the world, you will do one thing, I'll do one thing,
may do something that I don't like, he may do something that I don't want.
There are thousand people, they will all do many things in the outside world.
But within yourself, your own drama doesn't happen your way. You are a bad
actor, bad producer, bad director, bad everything.
Time to fix that, isn't it? At least your drama, your dream at least should
well.
Well, I mean, I can definitely say that there are days when I wake up with some
sort of energy and it's amazing.
And there are days where I feel like I'm… Oh, those days the sun came up on
day. That one?
To me the sun is always shining. I like to look at life like that.
Yeah, the sun is shining and even if the clouds come in, it's when the sun comes
back you learn how to appreciate the light, right? So that's what I like to
at life like that.
But I, speaking from my experience and speaking from where I am today, I'm a
mother to a three and a half year old.
And she's the joy of my life.
But I'm so worried at all time.
So my father asked me after some time, what does it feel like being a mother?
And I said, it's a combination of joy and worry.
I'm always worried if I'm being a good mother.
Am I being a good enough mother?
Am I saying the right thing?
What would your advice be to...
me or any parent today, because children are so beautiful, they're so curious,
they're living and they're engaging, but they learn life through you, at least
for the first couple of years.
And of course, on their own, but what would your one advice to a parent who is
worried if they're being a good parent be?
A worried parent is not a good parent.
I don't think you can take a worry out of it. I mean, you would admit.
I'll come. I was very glad that I had a girl, not a boy, because when I was ten
years of age, I would do all kinds of things. When I thought, if my child does
this, how will I handle this?
Fortunately, it was a girl. She never did those things.
I did totally wild things, which were dangerous many times, very dangerous,
I couldn't be stopped from that.
When you said, I would like to look at life like that, that you must take it
away from your life. The most important thing about life is to see it just the
way it is. Not my way, not your way, not somebody else's way. This is the
problem. In this hall, there are one thousand worlds.
Each one have their own world in their head and they will clash at some point.
It's very important we see life just the way it is.
Only if you see life just the way it is, effortlessly you will navigate your way
through life.
If I see it in my own way, I will bump into your walls. If you see it your way,
you will bump into my walls.
No, we must see it the way it is.
Eyes are given to us not to see something, to see what's there.
Hello?
So just take it as it is.
No, no, don't make a philosophy out of it. It's an active life process is that
if you look, You must see what is there.
You must not think, oh, they're great, they're beautiful, they're this, they're
good, they're bad, they're ugly. No.
You must see just what is there.
I'm saying, your eyes are like a camera, let's say.
A camera should capture what is there. It shouldn't Photoshop you by itself.
So right now, because you're contaminated by your own memory,
you will Photoshop it.
I would like to see… I'll put a filter.
More than that, it's Photoshopped.
Filter just changes the color.
You can change the form, everything.
So then, what about my parenting advice thing that I asked you?
See, when you have a child, first thing is drop this idea that you have to teach
something.
I know you are a wonderful woman, but between you and your three -and -a -half
-year -old, what's her name?
Raha. Raha.
Between you and her, who is more joyful?
She. Who should be a consultant for life?
She. Then what's there for you to teach?
You must listen, you must watch, you must see how a child is, because a child
far closer to life than you are.
So your advice to me would be?
You don't give her any advice, you take from her.
You must learn how to be life.
Because she is just life.
You become mental case.
Yeah. No, I am not saying that to you.
Yes, no, of course. Every human being. Yeah, I totally agree. They are all
psychological cases.
They got their own stuff going, they see it in their own way.
If you are seeing it your own way, that's called hallucination.
That is called a psychological ailment.
If you go by the standards, really by proper standard, really 99 % of the
population should go into the institution.
Because there are not enough institutions, we let them free.
But I'm saying, when they were all children, when they were all three and a
half, not even three and a half, even up to five, six, seven, many of them, they
were like this, bursting with joy, you can't put them down.
They still have children, they know.
You had… somebody had to work hard to make you unhappy.
Today, somebody has to work hard to make you happy.
This is very difficult.
Can I tell you a joke?
Please do. Is it okay? Yes, of course.
One day, Shankaran Pillai was sitting in the backyard of his house, grumpy and
miserable.
His neighbor, another guy came and said, Hey, what's the problem? Why are you
sitting with this end -of -the -world look on your face?
He said, you know, one of those womanly questions.
I got the answer wrong.
So, what was that?
He said, my wife came and asked me, when I get old, fat, unattractive,
will you still love me?
So, that neighbor said, hey, that's not a problem. You just have to say, yes, I
will.
He said, I know, but I said, I do.
to actually now pivot a little bit to this age that we are living in, which is
the internet age.
I'm very curious as to what your opinion is on the various opinions
that is very easily available out there. I'm not made of anybody's opinion.
Some people say you're God. I'm not impressed by that. Some people think
a devil. I'm not bothered about this because who I am is who I am.
I know exactly what I am doing.
Every step, every breath, every step is conscious for me, so I'll do what I have
to do. But for everybody else, this problem… See, first thing is to learn
ease. It's very hard for people to understand. It takes lots of discipline
come to this place, that if I sit here with you, if you sit here with me here
for twenty years, thirty years, forty years, I won't form an opinion on you.
Because the moment I form an opinion, my work is defeated. My work is human
transformation. If I say, Alia is like this, I have destroyed my own work.
My work is to see human beings can be transformed.
It doesn't matter who they are, where they came from. If they are willing,
can transform themselves.
So I have put myself to extreme discipline.
People who have been with me for thirty, forty years, working around me every
day, I don't have an opinion on them. When I look at them, I look at them just
the way they are right now.
This will take lot of work. This is some work that every one of you must do.
When you look at somebody, you look at them how they are today, not what they
were doing yesterday.
The whole… See, for many companies we are changing this. We are changing the
nomenclature of their… what is this?
Human resource.
No, human resource department.
I'm changing that name for them. It's called human potential.
Because a human being is a potential.
Can you nurture it to its fullest possibility?
See, I'm saying, not to insult you, you're a very good actress and all that.
us say, in this Chennai city, there may be thousand possible alias, but they may
never become that because nobody nurtured it, there was no situation for
Absolutely, yeah. That possibility does not get the needed nurture.
So that is so in every field, in our world, everybody, whoever we are right
is because of many things that happened to us at the right moment.
Our own capabilities are there, but still, it's the times in which we exist.
what happened?
A thousand years ago, if you were here, you wouldn't be an actress.
You would be something else.
So I'm saying, many things nurture us. That nurture, if we can provide to every
human being, because this is what you call equal opportunity means.
We can never bring equality to human beings, but we must bring equal
opportunity. So, self -transformation is that possibility, no matter who you are
today. I see tomorrow, if you want, you can be an absolutely spectacular human
being within yourself.
So, I will never form an opinion about anybody around me, even if I know them
for twenty, thirty, forty years.
I don't form an opinion.
It will take a certain discipline.
Everybody should work on this, because the moment you form an opinion, You have
closed that human being. It's like a grave, you close it.
No possibility.
Human is a possibility.
Human is not a resource.
Resource means it has some defined quality.
You can exploit it in a certain way.
A possibility means it needs nurture. You have to nurture and see where it
go.
That is excitement of life.
People come one way, if you work with them, you will see in three, four, five,
ten years' time, they've become fantastic.
That is the beauty of it. That is the beauty of raising a, you know, bringing
a child in your house because it is nothing, two selves.
Just two selves to start with.
Today it's three and a half. We don't know.
But do you feel somewhere now, today, we've kept aside this nurturing.
you know, only people who mattered to us, their opinions would be something
we take very, you know, seriously and close to our heart because they matter
us. Now all kinds of people making comments on me.
See,
but the advantage of this is, see, suppose you lived in a neighborhood
years ago, those five people, your mother, father, your aunt and
mischievous another person, their opinions you could not escape because
were right there.
Today, somebody is commenting about you from Timbuktu, if you don't like it, you
can cut him off.
It's wonderful, huh?
So you're saying use the...
Use the wall to your advantage, actually put up a wall. No, you don't have to
put a wall. I'm saying, that guy who's talking rubbish about you, he's not
to come and sit next to you anywhere.
What are you bothered about?
That's not what you're seeing.
Yes. So don't get bothered about it. And if you see it, that's what you're
seeing. Maybe that guy doesn't even exist.
He may be an online existence.
He may be a bot, you don't know. That's true. So just ignore him. Move forward.
But I'm saying, even if a donkey speaks, listen.
Because sometimes donkeys speak intelligent things.
They do.
You must listen.
You don't have to, you know, take it as the truth.
But you must listen.
I think one thing that you said has really stayed with me, that you see what
you're actually seeing. There's no need to put a Photoshop version of it and
deal with it as the day goes.
It is what it is.
Life is not to be dealt with.
It's not a… it's not a problem to be dealt with.
This is because… See, this has become such a common lingo, oh, we'll deal with
it, oh, we'll take it in, take it in your stride. That's just now how people
talk to each other. Because they're all thinking they're targans and phantoms.
They're not.
All the time they think, let's fight it out.
Why are you fighting?
What are you fighting?
If your navigation is good, without any friction you must go through this world,
isn't it?
If your navigation skills are good, if you're a bad navigator, you're hitting
everything, then you think you must grow muscle, you must bump everybody.
There are certain fields and arenas of life, maybe there it matters.
But for most human beings, you don't have to get into any fight.
Your intelligence is in not getting into a fight, isn't it? Hello?
That you never get into a fight, that's an intelligent thing. You got into a
fight and you won, that doesn't mean anything.
You never got into a fight, that's a good thing.
Though everybody is trying to pick fight with you, you didn't get into a fight.
They're fighting from their end, that's their problem.
Yeah, you can't fight if you don't indulge in the fight.
You know, one of the things that Jito has done so successfully is empowered a
lot of the youth to chase their dream.
And sometimes chasing dreams means seeing success.
But a lot of the times it means seeing failure.
I want to talk a little bit about failure.
I want to talk a little bit. I can also talk about my failures.
Yes, please do.
I feel we fear failure.
Even now, as my daughter is growing up, she's always trying to
win. I came first. Even if somebody else came first, she said no, but no, she
cheated. I said no, she came first.
Fear of failure
is real.
So what would you say to the youth that is, you know, wanting
to chase their dreams and wanting to succeed and perhaps not seeing success?
I'll cry on your shoulder a little bit, please.
Okay?
Nobody's seen me crying, so let me cry a little bit. Please do. I think crying
is very healthy.
Oh, don't tell me that.
No, it is not.
We'll come to that.
See, when I was twenty -five of years of age, I'm just a few years older now,
okay?
So, when I was twenty -five, one day I'm sitting in one place and suddenly I
realized, if I take my hands off my psychological process, every cell in my
bursts forth with ecstasy, literally.
Every cell in the body drips ecstasy.
Today, we have done lot of scientific research to show in the top universities
in the world, the Harvard Medical School, the Beth Israel Hospital, which
teaching hospital for Harvard Medical School, has done a lot of research and
other universities to show simple things that I have taught them, the bliss
factor changes in the body to a point where it's 70 % higher than normal.
The endocannabinoids are on by themselves. You're feeling… all the
wonderful. The measurement shows, there's something called as BDNF, which
about 230 % higher than normal in the brain.
And the bliss factor in the body is 23 % higher for just
doing six weeks of practice, 23 % higher than what happens in a sexual orgasm,
just sitting here.
So if you're like this within you, What is working, what is not working is not a
concern. You'll do everything to your best.
But when I was twenty -five, I realized if I keep my hands off my psychological
activity, I burst into ecstasy.
Then after a few weeks of experimentation, what am I doing, why is
happening to me, when I understood the mechanics of what is doing this to me,
then I sat down and made a plan.
And that day, the world's population was 4 .82 or 8 .4 or something like that. I
sat down and geographically I made a plan in the world that in two and a half
years' time, I will make the whole world blissful.
Because who wouldn't want to be blissful?
No price, no cost, no drink, no drug, simply sit here and boom, you're gone.
Who wouldn't want it? In two and a half years, I'll make the whole world
blissful. See, it is 43 years.
Here I am, working seven days of the week, 365 days, non -stop on, 18 -20
a day, and making a few thousand people work like that every day.
In spite of that, today people say we've touched over 2 billion people, but
that's not my idea of the world. Now the world's population is 8 .5… 4… 8 .4 or
5 billion people.
So I know I will die a failure, but I am a blissful failure.
This is my blessing to everybody.
You must be a blissful failure.
Because you set up petty goals for yourself and say, I did it, I did it.
what's that?
For human potential, you must think what you cannot do in this lifetime.
You must aim for something that cannot be done in this lifetime.
If you take a few steps, next generation will take the next step.
So, my blessing is, May you be a blissful failure. If you're blissful,
hell cares?
Somebody thinks you have failed, somebody thinks you're successful,
the point.
May we all be blissful failures, that's a… Yes, let's be blissful failures.
Because what we want, because human capacity to imagine, human capacity to
aspire is such that it cannot be fulfilled if you live here for five
years or a thousand years, unless you have a piece of your brain.
Random question.
Yes. How many hours do you sleep?
Well, for almost 27, 28 years, I managed with two and a half, three hours.
But, you know, last two years ago, I broke my head twice.
I cracked my head twice. I went to… went to emergency surgeries.
After that, they gave me lot of sedatives and stuff, only for about four
So I got used to sleeping and now I am sleeping four and a half hours, four,
four and a half hours, depends on the day.
That's it.
What do you mean, that's it?
Four and a half hours.
That's a fourth of the day.
I sleep for nine.
Oh. Or like eight. When will you live?
No, but all we are told is sleep and… rest and sleep and it's where your body
repairs itself, right? Everybody's nodding away. That's all we're told. No,
no. Why did you damage your body first of all?
See, people ask me, Sadhguru, what do you do to unwind?
See, I don't wind myself up.
Why do you wind yourself and why do you go and unwind?
Oh my God!
That's true actually.
Why are we so wound up? But we are always wound up. Okay, I can speak for
myself. You reach the end of the day and you're tired and you want to sleep. And
in fact, even after I've slept eight hours, I want to sleep more.
Then I have to wake up. I have to wake up.
So I love sleeping.
Nobody loves sleeping because when you're really sleeping, you don't exist.
So what's there to love about it? You don't love your existence.
You may like the restfulness it creates for you. But if I teach you a way, if
you sit here for 15 minutes, you feel like you have slept for 3 -4 hours. If I
teach you something like that, would you like that?
Yeah, I mean who wouldn't?
Then why the hell you are all in Tamil Nadu only? Why have you not come and
learnt? No, but… No, so okay, so what time to what time do you sleep?
Like say 12 a .m. to 4 a .m.?
Okay, fine. What are you doing? It's a very busy day.
Sorry. Now I'm going all over. No, it's a conversation.
You can go wherever. I want to know just before sleep.
When you shut your eyes, I feel like I ask these people this question a lot.
What's the last thought that you feel constantly tends to enter your mind just
before you doze off to sleep?
Is that thought for you consistent?
Is it no thought?
Is it just, you know, what is it?
See, that's what I tried to articulate in the beginning.
See, when you have no opinions, you have no thought also.
When you have no conclusions.
See, right now I'm looking at you, I'm just looking at you.
I'm not thinking all your butt, this one, that one, that one.
No, just looking at you.
That's all.
And I know you're like a scenery, you keep changing.
I'm just looking at it.
So if I make an opinion, she's like this, she's like that, then my mind gets
busy.
I don't make an opinion, I'm just looking at what is there.
Okay, can I tell you what I'm doing, thinking right now? I'm sitting here,
looking at you, I'm looking away, I'm thinking, okay, there's a flight to
oh no, we have to leave, what am I doing tomorrow, I have to wake up at this
time. This is my brain.
All the time. No, no, that is not your brain. That's the way you're conducting
your brain. That's the way I'm conducting my brain.
It's like this, you're a bad driver. You go take your car and bump into
everybody and go.
And then you say, this is what my car does.
You're a bad driver, it's as simple as that.
So I'm not driving well right now.
No, it's not just about you.
90 % of the human beings most of the time are thinking some rubbish that
mean a damn thing to them. If they thought what they want, they would have
created something wonderful for themselves and for everybody, isn't it?
I'm saying using 5 to 10 % or 15 % of the brain, they are doing so many
If they use 100%, they would be spectacular human beings, everyone.
Because everybody's got the same brain.
Reasonably, reasonably everybody has the same brain.
See, I don't know most people, you know, they're all city people, they might not
have spent… In my life, I've spent so much time with animals, small animals
ants, a grasshopper, a bee, like this I've lived with them, I've spent so much
attention. They live a brilliant life.
They are so focused, so organized, what they want, they will do.
They will not do anything other than what they want, unless they are
threatened and something.
Human beings are not doing what they want.
If they had the brain of an earthworm, they would all be peaceful.
They got this big brain and they're struggling with it.
So people are not struggling with stupidity, they're struggling with
intelligence, isn't it? Tell me, is intelligence a solution or a problem?
Should intelligence be a solution or a problem?
It should be, but… Everybody is making a problem out of it.
This is why in the evening everybody is soaking it in alcohol or drug or
something because otherwise it will freak the hell out of them.
Your intelligence should make your life, not destroy your life, isn't it?
This is the greatest thing we have.
But it's turned into enemy for most human beings, this miracle that we call
mind. has become a misery manufacturing machine.
Tell me, where is all the human misery manufactured? In Chennai?
Hello? In human mind or no?
Hello?
Hello?
It's manufactured in your mind.
For what?
Your mind should work for you, for your well -being.
But constantly it's bothering you. People come and ask, you're telling me
sleep for nine hours?
People come and ask, Sadhguru, how to sleep?
I say, God damn it, if you cannot even sleep, what can you do in your life,
The easiest goddamn thing is to sleep.
You can't even do that.
This is a serious problem in the world.
Without a drink or a drug or a tablet or something, they cannot sleep.
No, one thing is you don't use your body enough. When I go to bed, whenever it
is, I don't sleep, I fall dead.
Yes. You're supposed… See, these are all things, your body, your brain,
everything, it gets better with use.
With use it gets better. If you're trying to preserve it to go to heaven,
sorry, they're not allowing this body there.
Should I tell them what's in heaven?
You know what's in heaven? Oh yeah.
Please. I think that will be a great way for us to end this conversation. What
is in heaven?
See, in Hindu heaven, food is very good.
Food is good?
Yeah.
There Akshay Patra is there, Nala himself cooks for you gourmet Indian
In another kind of heaven, those white -gowned ladies, legless ladies, they
float in the clouds.
If you like that kind of ambience, you can go there.
In another kind, there are virgin problems that you'll encounter.
If you wish to go there, that's what you're seeking, you can go there. But
thing is, when you die here… See, first thing is you got to die, isn't it?
Hello? To go to heaven, you got to die. You never heard of anybody living going
there.
So you got to die. When you die, depending on your culture, customs,
either burn your body or bury it or…
make it into pieces and throw it to the birds, whatever, different ways of
getting rid of it.
But the important thing is we put it back into the earth because what we call
our body is just a piece of this planet, isn't it?
What we've eaten is just a piece of this planet, we have to put it back. If
you've not done anything eco -friendly, that's one goddamn thing you must do,
put the body back into the planet because that's a contribution. We took
we must put it back.
So you left your body here.
Then now what do you do with good food, virgins and other nonsense?
You don't have a body.
Hello? No wonder they remain virgins forever.
And the Akshaya Patra is always full because nobody went with the body.
Food is cooked and kept, it's always full only. Only if you eat, it gets
I'm saying we're doing a lot of con job with ourselves, lying to ourselves in a
thousand different ways.
So if there is one thing you can do about your life, all of you are mostly
Jains, I believe, Mahavir.
He's called Mahavir, a very valiant man, not because of the battles he fought.
Because the most significant battle that you can fight is the investment
that you made in ignorance.
To defeat that, when I say, You know, I thought I'll make everybody blissful
because what's the problem? Who wouldn't want to be blissful?
But the way they're invested in their misery, even if you show them a great
possibility, they will not go.
And I'm asking you, do you have any proof that you're not already
in heaven and making a mess out of it?
Do you have any proof?
Hello?
You're already in heaven making a mess out of it.
It's your choice. You don't have to make a mess out of it. As I said, the
physical comforts and conveniences we have, no generation ever knew.
Yes or no?
We as a generation. Did any generation have this kind of things?
And now we're still complaining, still cribbing like cavemen and women.
It's time we understand everything that we have. A light bulb burns, it's coming
at a great cost.
to every other life.
When that is the nature of our life, at least we must live in absolute gratitude
and joy.
Otherwise, everything is burnt for nothing.
Absolutely.
Thank you so much for speaking with me today.
Ladies and gentlemen, can we please have a huge round of applause for you.
Thank you so much.
I think we all took home something today. Thank you.
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