 When you think of Indian wisdom two images come to mind first a golden age you know the Mahabharata the Ramayana the you know Vedic gods and goddesses the Buddha sitting under a Bodhi tree You know this this image of Indian wisdom is the first one The second one is our very modern Indian gurus now when you think about our gurus I mean in the last hundred and twenty years our gurus have been one of our major exports from India You know we are great at producing gurus. There's no doubt about that and here's a little family of them But you know Indian wisdom has a far more sort of you know messy You know history than that and when you think about it It's it's full of rebels and reformers and rethinking and reimagination and that's what I want to talk about reimagination So when you think about it look at all the concepts that we share around the world today karma yoga tantra You know these are all products of the Indian imagination. They are not something sealed in some golden past So when I look at it look at the Buddha for example You know here. He was he found a cure for suffering and then he shared it and his first students Where the rich kids of Benares the merchants children and he was the first therapist in a way You know when you think about it you look at 1893 Swami Vivekananda Goes to America to the Parliament of religions in Chicago and he becomes the first American guru That is the original poster of America when he went there and when you think about it then in 1952 We have bks. I anger who takes a small school of yoga called hatha yoga from India takes it to the West and today It's a 64 billion dollar industry. I mean we this reimagination has had a tremendous impact So what is it about Indian wisdom that keeps it being reimaginable? What is it that Indian wisdom can give to today's world? You know social network quantum entangled, you know high-speed broadband this satisfied world We live in today, so I have thought about this and I've come up with five concepts I want to share with you that starts with the first one is that Everything is mind Consciousness now this is a fundamental Indian idea and the idea is that Tatvam assi Your consciousness and the consciousness of the whole universe are one you are that and you can climb through different Stages of consciousness to realize that that's the big Indians message number two is the idea of Everything is interconnected the karma the law of causality Something happens here a ripple a goes through the whole universe Whatever you think or do or say has consequences. We're interconnected The third one and and this is you know shows you the interconnected of dance and the world the third one is This idea of yoga. I mean think about it there We have tried and tested methods of traveling both inwards and outwards to the farthest end of the cosmos or to the DNA to the String level and vibrating at that level, but all in our mind We actually can train our minds to do that. So that's a huge contribution The next one which is the fourth one is this idea of a conscious evolution that means You actually can evolve your consciousness with this practices You can become a better human being you can become nonviolent. You can have compassion. You can develop kindness These are all fundamental to evolution. That's a very Indian idea And finally the biggest promise of all is this idea that if you know that Everything is mind that you are part of this Cosmos that's evolving that you can connect to that and that you can evolve to be a better human being then Indian wisdom makes a huge promise to you It's called such it ananda and such it ananda is translated as Truth consciousness and ultimate bliss. So what is it that Indian wisdom can give us? Well, if you follow Indian wisdom, you don't need to just follow your bliss as Joseph Campbell would say But your bliss will actually follow you. Thank you