 Satguru, I am a native of Kerala, so in Kerala we had floods two to three weeks ago and I always had my mother calling me up and telling about all her suffrage that she's going through this, she's going through that, obviously I'm disturbed because you are safe here and you see your parents and your loved ones in there and I had a thought, if had I been ignorant to this fact that my state is entirely drawn in water, I would have been happy if I have not known that this fact. So if ignorance is a bliss, then why do people seek knowledge? Ignorance is bliss like this. You can do one thing. Okay, you can come to Vellangiri Malai, go up there and there's a cliff, you jump off. It's so wonderful. Till you hit the ground. Ignorance is like that. If you jump off, have you… you've never done skydiving? If you jump off an airplane, it's so fantastic, really. Only thing is, if you look down, the damn planet is coming at you at great speed, that's the only problem. Otherwise, falling is very nice till you hit the ground. Ignorance is like that. It'll catch up with you. It'll catch up with you. Suppose it happened when you went for a vacation, it would have caught up with you, isn't it? And what guarantee that it won't come here? There's no guarantee. It can happen anywhere. So, ignorance is not a solution nor is it a bliss. Ignorance protects you from suffering a few things. But suffering will accumulate and come to you in large scale at some point. Right now, this flood itself is ignorance is bliss only. Because people thought if you… if you don't know anything, everything will be okay. No, you will drown. Now the flood is happening for variety of reasons. We have not seen that kind of rains particularly in this area in the last eight to nine years. This is the first time I'm seeing after about nine years full-fledged monsoon. This is how monsoon should be, you understand? There is no such thing as bad rains. They're all good rains. Only in England rain is bad. Only they sang rain, rain go away. Okay? In India in a tropical country rain is always good. Are we prepared to handle the rain or not? How can we prepare to handle the rain? Can we catch it in a bucket? No. When we live in a monsoon country, when we live in a tropical country, it is a simple thing that we must have a certain level of vegetation to hold the water. In Tamil there is some saying, I cannot repeat it verbatim. Something like only if Kaveri comes walking, she is fortune. If she comes running, she is a disaster. Why will a river run, tell me? How to make a river walk, not run? There must be vegetation. If there is substantial vegetation, the catchment areas when they get it, it will hold and slowly it'll come down to the river. Now there's no vegetation, it's coming straight in. Similar situation happened in Kurg also now. In the last thirty years time, they've removed sixty-five percent of the vegetation in Kurg which is the catchment area for Kaveri. Now as a part of this in collaboration with Karnataka government, we are planting twenty-five crore trees in the catchment areas of Kaveri. Now we are fighting for Kaveri between Karnataka and Tamil Nadu but the problem is this, that vegetation in the catchment areas have been removed, sixty-five percent in the last thirty years. At one time I floated down Kaveri, 163 kilometers over thirteen days on just about six or seven bamboos and four truck tubes. I just floated down, lived off the river. At that time how I saw Kaveri, today it is only approximately forty percent of it. No wonder you will fight for water. But now when the flood comes, who can hold it? So, ignorance is bliss means it'll get you one day. It took some time, it took twenty-four years but it got you. The same is true with Kerala. In the Ganga banks, in the Ganga basin, Ganga basin accounts for twenty-five percent of the nation's geography and thirty-three percent of India's agriculture. In the last seventy years, we've removed ninety-four percent of vegetation in the Ganga basin. What is our plan? Ignorance is bliss, is it? Yes, it is. Bliss will get us. Our ignorance may somehow make us escape but it'll get our children. They will not get away. Next generation will get it.