 If this one thing everybody settles within themselves, we will use this mind to the best of its capabilities. Without a personality, you cannot function in the world, but you don't have to be stuck with one persona. When you consciously wear it, it is there for the function, but you don't become that. Because there is information everywhere nowadays and everybody is just one sitting like away from the information and there is this overwhelming information everywhere. So how to shape up our own individual personality and preserve our individuality? Like is there a balance between adapting to the change time or changing time and saying to yourself? Like how? See, when you say individual personality, see what the word personality comes from a root word called persona. Persona means a mask that you wear. To perform a certain kind of function, you have to wear a certain mask. Now you are a sports person. When you are on the court, you have one kind of mask that is needed. That mask must be aggressive, bringing fear in your opponent if necessary, whatever. You need to wear that kind of a mask. You don't wear that mask at home. You don't wear that mask with your friend. Because this mask means you must be able to wear by choice and take it off. In this virus time, everybody is masked, no choice, a different kind of mask. But that is what personality means. To perform different types of activities, we need to structure ourselves in a certain way. But what happens over a period of time? By the time people are thirty-thirty-five, they've gotten stuck with one mask. They're not able to take it off. Everywhere they are the same way. Now it will become a painful experience. If you see between a child, anybody, whatever their age today, when they were five, six years of age, if you see their faces were all like this, one big smile, grinning, you can't stop them from grinning. But slowly it becomes so grave and long, simply because they're stuck with their own personality. One mask they wore and they can't remove it. All the time it's stuck. So we don't have to crystallize our personality. It's very important we keep our personality so flexible. To perform different types of activities, we should be able to put on different kind of masks. Without a mask, you cannot work. Without a personality, you cannot function in the world. That's for sure. But you don't have to be stuck with one persona. You can be a different person. As the situation demands, you can be that kind of a person. That is when you will find full expression to yourself, otherwise you will get stuck within a structure that you created. It's a prison that you build and get stuck to it. If somebody impresses you, that is unfortunate but understandable. But if you imprison yourself, it cannot be anything more stupid than that. But that's what is happening to ninety percent of the humanity most of the time. But, well, to this... and sir, we just asked that, talking about masks, but I feel that it's not just to yourself. I know you want to be happy, you just want to remove your mask, be happy, stay happy. But it also depends on the other person that you talk to or you react to. So I'm sure, you know, that time your mask is again on. So what do you do for that? Like, for example, you're talking to a person and you don't like that person and you have to act accordingly to what he say. And you might say like, okay, you know what, that is what he said and I have to act in a way that, okay, I need to be nice to... So how do you react to that? Because a lot of times it happens like for everyone, I'm sure. Tell me, tell me, who is that guy first of all? No, no, no. This is going to be news in the country. No, no, no, no. I meant to say like, you know, with a lot of people, like, you know, when you're talking to a friend, you know, sometimes, you know, you might be angry at them, sometimes you might not like what they do. Like for example, your best friend is doing something and you know, you might not like it, but then you're like, it's okay, you know, never mind. You can't say it on their face saying that, you know, I didn't like it, don't do that. They might get offended, is what I'm saying. I'm usually saying it on that face most of the time. Because I have faced a few times, like, you know, you know, when you take talking to your friends or other people, you might feel that they are wrong, but you hesitate to tell them. You know, I sometimes can't tell or, you know, there are a lot of people who can't tell on their faces. See, Sindhu, the thing is, it is not about people being right and wrong. It is just that every human being is acting and living an understanding life according to their understanding and their intelligence. Not everybody can perceive life and understand life to the same extent. If you see people are the way they are because of the limitations that are there, you would strive to see how to help them to break their limitations rather than making a judgment they are right, wrong, good, bad, all these things. There are different types of people. Everything that everybody does, it is not necessary that you must like it or I must like it. It's not so. But there is no need for us. If you wear a mask to perform a certain function, you are still who you are within the mask. But right now the problem is the mask sits so tight on your face, you cannot distinguish which is the mask and which is me. So when I say a mask or a persona, what it means is you consciously wear. When you consciously wear it, it is there. It is there for the function, but you don't become that. See, when I say you don't become that, right now, you're a tall girl and any podium you stand, you're like taller than anybody. So you were not born like this. You were born just this much and now you became this much. This is just accumulation. Body is just an accumulation. Similarly what you call as my mind, my thought, my emotion are accumulations. What we gather belongs to us, cannot be us, isn't it? It is not us. Right now this clothing, it may belong to me, but it can't be me. Similarly the body, similarly the structures of the mind. If we become conscious of this, what is me and what is not me? If this one thing everybody settles within themselves, if they are conscious of this, all these are not a issue. We will use this body, we will use this mind to the best of its capabilities and that's all, especially for you as a sports person. Using your body and mind to the best of its capabilities, all that matters in the end. So right now you yourself would have noticed, as every human being would have noticed in their day-to-day activity, because you are a sports person I am saying for you, because the consequence of you not functioning at your best is immediately right there. For others, if they don't do something well today, it may take two years before the results come to them. For you it is immediate. There's a bad shot right there if you don't function well at that moment. So because of that it is far more easier for you to notice this that how many times in your life your own thought, your own emotion, your own ideas and opinions become a barrier to your function. So in the world there are many, many challenges. Right now we are in a very challenging time, alright? But you yourself, your own faculties, your own thought, your own emotion, your own functioning of your body should not become an impediment in your life. That is the most important thing every human being should do. What the world will allow us to do or not, we don't know. It depends on the times we are in. See today because you are in twenty-first century you're welding a racket, but probably if you were here a thousand years ago you would be welding a sword or something else, you know? I'm saying it is the times which is allowing us to do what we are doing. So at this time as there are possibilities there are challenges. In this if an individual human being, you know, is here without making our body, our thought, our emotion, our energies be a challenge by itself. If you just remove this one challenge, in your life you will perform to your best. Your best will be the best in the world, we don't know. That's... that is subject to various realities. But the important thing is whether I am the best in the world or not is not important. To your best you are always on. You are never a barrier to yourself. Other barriers in the world we will have to cross.