 When you analyze the making of a nation it's making of an organization making of a nation One of the first few things we do is a SWOT analysis We do strengths. We do weaknesses. We do opportunities and we do threats Any making of an organization or a nation? I thought let me put across to you What is the SWOT analysis of making of a nation? Let's say India what are the strengths of India? What are the weaknesses of India? What are the opportunities we have and what are the threats we need to? Let's first look at the strengths of India. I Would bring it down further to an individual What is needed to build a successful individual the same things are needed to build a successful nation? Not any different. Yes The one knows how to build a successful human being of himself In every way when I say successful not that just you made money not just that you get a ranking not just that you got elected No, a successful human being means in every way. You're complete If you make this you the same replica is for the nation in the sense If you want to be a good human being to start with all your four limbs should be limbered up and nice strong and fine The four limbs of a nation is just this the executive the judiciary The military and the civil services all of them has been limbered up and agile Then we must do some yoga with all of them. We must need them They've all become you know, if you can't fold your elbow your elbow is stuck here You're dishing sake these are useless limbs when you have pain in your limbs. You will wish you did not have those limbs, isn't it? That's what is happening right now. Absolutely. We wish we did not have them many times because they've become such a pain So keeping them limbered up these four limbs is very important. See always a nation will be successful only when People's aspirations are kept alive. If people lose their aspiration. It's a finished nation. Okay There must be enormous aspiration and people should see a piece of the sky. They must see it's a possibility It is not an empty dream If it becomes an empty dream, they'll go to hallucinogenic drugs They must see a piece of the sky that it's worth making the effort always so to Nurture an aspiration and to create the possibility that within your lifespan you can get there is very important and Also make people's aspiration into national aspiration and nation's aspiration into people's aspiration And a strategic sense as to where we are Is not living in a utopian idea of well-being which we have done unfortunately Having a strategic sense of where we are what are the things to make a nation happen for example when we made the nation This is not a commentary on Some mistakes that people might have done because in retrospect we can say many things in those times They did what I believe they did whatever they thought was best for example We have been trading with the rest of the world for over 10,000 years If you go to Syria in many parts of Arabia particularly Syria unfortunately, it's in such a mess I wanted to do this Indian trading route the Indian traders how they travel so I drove to Syrian desert by myself and we went It was a fantastic thing experience wherever you go stories of Indian traders eight thousand years ago The Aleppo Aleppo city, which is completely in rubble right now one of the most beautiful cities Was built only on the taxes that the Indian traders paid Okay Everywhere in the Syrian schools They're studying about how Indian traders and engineers and all kinds of people coming eight ten thousand years ago Is there any such story in India? Do you know? No Indian child ever reads about it You go to Lebanon, there's a place called Baalbek Which is a four thousand three hundred year old finish in tempo Every child in fifth sixth standard in Lebanon in school They all study that Indian builders Indian sculptors Indian elephants Indian labor and Indian yogis came and built this a Huge massive temple each stone some of the foundations where stones weighing 300 tons They transport it up the mountain and built this Indian engineers of that time We have lotus flowers hanging from the ceiling. Obviously. There are no lotuses in Lebanon. It was sculpted by the Indian sculptors every Lebanese child knows this does any Indian child any of the Indians have they heard about it? No Over a thousand years ago Tamil Kings Went to Angkor Wat and Angkor Tom If any of you most many of you might have seen this you will feel proud of being human if you see the work That's been done. It's a largest religious building on the planet Angkor Tom There's any Tamil child in Tamil Nadu up to 12 standard read a line about it in his textbook. No When you don't build pride, how do you build a nation? If you do not build pride you cannot build a nation if you're not proud of who you are Why the hell should you stay here? Right now if the more advanced countries western countries open up their visa policy 80% of the Indians will swim across the oceans and go away That means if 80% of the people want to go away and you're holding them by force. It's a prison. You know about prisons We're holding them. No people should want to be here. Everybody wants to go away and We're holding them. That's not the way to run a nation So is that your main weakness from strength strength is healthy people inspired people is your weakness is It is a serious weakness in the country. You're talking about people who have no roots. They don't understand their roots They don't understand the history. They don't understand their culture No, they're not ruthless people their roots. They know their roots But they're a little ashamed of their roots They're hiding their roots and they're all wearing denim pants just to hide their roots Sadguru, that's a fact. They don't know the roots. They may not know in our schools Which we run many of the nine standard ten standard coming from different kinds of schools Primarily governments funded schools first thing which one of my director teacher said can you write on a Nessie on Mahatma Gandhi Sadguru, you'd be shocked to hear I'm talking about only of Gandhi G That essay said and the question was what is being what's the name of the wife of Mahatma Gandhi, do you know one of them wrote? Can you guess I? Don't even want to mention the name Don't tell me Sadguru Sadguru, you can go just now. What's wrong with us? So that's a weakness you're talking about. It's ruthless I would like to repeat this. We are not ruthless but People who occupied us for so long Somehow managed to bring a certain sense of shame about our roots Which is which has to go see Mahatma Gandhi is a part of a movement Which is not even history, which I would call it present. Okay. It's just the back end of our present stage He's not really history that way is he's still so close to us in time All I'm saying is This is picking up names this that is different, but everybody knows Mahatma Gandhi's face and everybody knows He was important for our nation that much even a village child knows it, which is I feel all right But I'm talking about a much deeper thing That is as a land as a people What are we good at? Have you been good at something? No We've been only occupied for thousand years. We've been looted. We've been raped. We've been robbed This is all we've done. We've done nothing. That's worthwhile That's not good We have to educate our children to show that we have done tremendous things Just 250 years ago. We were the largest economy whole of Europe was thirsting to come to India and Even you know, wherever they went they called people Indians Whether they went to North America or wherever because they were all aspiring to come to this place because it was a wealthiest nation It was the most knowledgeable country. It was the best place to be everybody wanted to be here Who teaches them? Who teaches these youngsters these things have not been thought because our history has been written by that fault Because our books are written by the English Okay, the history is written like this to dominate you know, but it's NCRT It's no more English writers. It's Indian writers. You bring yoga in but your brains are in Greenwich meantime You ask anybody I see and the news channels in the among the ministers everybody talking, okay I was in Cambridge in this year. Where are you? I was in Oxford What now I'm seeing people who studied locally seemed to be somewhere You will see this is the pride. Okay, I went to Cambridge. Where did you go? Oh, I was in Oxford Okay, recently, I will tell you how it is. I was in Hyderabad a journalist wants to interview me and She's telling me a piece of information. It seems the Shafiil University in UK Made a study on the vibrations of the Sun and they measured these vibrations. They're exactly the same Vibrations which will happen when you utter the sound arm Said Sadguru, you must say this. I said I will not say this. I am not going to say this. I Have been telling you for 30 years Many yogis and mystics have been telling you for thousands of years and it's not valuable Shafiil University tells you it's valuable. I am not going to I don't need authentication It works for me You just look at me It's worked hundred percent. Okay It's worked Everything that we do and the sciences of this nation the essential aspect of what the Sanskrit is has worked Brilliantly well for us for thousands of years and we know it works. We don't need any authentication But right now we have created a world and let's just authenticate it by the West Even the yoga that you're doing here is only reborn from the American coast People people think yoga was invented by Madonna. I recall In the prison assignment when I brought in yoga as a part of part of the day's regime Many persons of certain communities on certain people didn't want to do it They thought it is linked with with a particular faith Till their own teachers came and explained to them that this is for your larger good It's mind-body soul in in harmony How do you dispel this see? This is what I want to tell you for thousands of years. We've been the biggest traders Okay from this country the largest exports were from India for almost many thousands of years Nobody ever thought of exporting in such large quantities. So both with goods and gods. We've been very good Okay, we can export both. We don't have to import either We're very good both with goods and gods our ability to create goods was systematically broken Our industry was broken our business systems were broken It's all right. I'm not complaining. We let it happen because We let it happen because we did not take care of one of the limbs There was no military wing Yeah, when when invaders came you could not defend your people because you were singing music you were meditating you're doing things Nice you were in mathematics you were in astronomy was all this You're not united you were there was so many they wouldn't fight each other That is also there, but I'm saying essentially you didn't have the martial power to defend yourself