 wanna come. It's been a sure joy to be here. Thank you very much for this opportunity. Let me start by congratulating Shree Sadguruji and Isha Foundation for doing such a fantastic job. And you all by being here it has made even special. I noticed couple of matches here and what I appreciated the most was in the spirit that both the matches were played. They were competitive but played in the right spirit. If the referee gave a decision they accepted so which was very very good to see. More than 7000 participants make this event a special one and you can see the response. It's been simply incredible. I've heard so much about this but to be actually present here and to witness is even better. Being a sportsman sports mean everything to me. Sports for all is something that I encourage. Encourage everyone in India because sport taught me lot of things in life. To be disciplined, to be focused, to have your routine organized. Not always I went out and I succeeded. There were number of occasions when I could not do well but sport taught me to get up on my feet again and to compete in the right spirit. I really like this idea and that's why when I landed here and saw video again on this I suggested to Sadguru Ji why don't we start something like this in the village that I've adopted near Nellore, Puttam Raju Kandriga because it is helping the community to come closer, stay tighter in difficult times and that is what sport teaches you. Sport teaches you teamwork and teamwork can never fail. It teaches you to take care of one another, to sacrifice for your colleague, to back him up when he's not doing well and I saw that here as well. I mean you played in partnerships there was a lot of understanding when you played volleyball and handball and that if you apply it to your day-to-day life most of the problems are taken care of. Sports for all is important to me because it is about changing our lifestyle. I find something that I'm not really proud of is we are the diabetic capital of the world and that is all due to our lifestyle, our habits. We have to change those habits, we have to learn to lead a healthy lifestyle and healthy lifestyle means going out and engaging yourselves in some or the other outdoor activity, some sporting activity which takes care of your health. I still remember as a youngster my grandmother always told me take care of your health because health is your true wealth. So in all what I'm trying to tell you is if you all look after our health and respect what we've been blessed by the Almighty, our nation will get healthier and the healthier you are better results you are going to expect and consistent performance in whatever you choose to be in life be it a lawyer doctor or sportsman engineer whatever it is. Fitter you are more consistent results. So all I want is fitter and healthier India. In return you know we'll all be smiling for times to come. I just want to share one more thing which possibly most of you wouldn't know. As a child in my building I did play volleyball and I had a lot of fun and that continued all the way even in Indian cricket team before the game started we played volleyball. So it's all about playing sport and sport is something which will give you a reason to smile and I'm smiling today because I've been able to spend time with you. Once again thank you very much for inviting me here and to all the to all the champions you've really done well and to the guys who have participated in this tournament you're all winners because you've won my heart by participating and being here playing sport in the right spirit continue to do so and give us all a reason to smile. Namaskar. I know this is an unpopular thing to do trying to speak after Sachin. So as all of you know Sachin has become the jewel of India is our Bharat Ratna and a cricketer without compare the only cricketer who has overshadowed who has overshadowed Don Bradman and above all more than just being a cricketer he is a sporting phenomena who has inspired a whole generation both in this country and everywhere in the world to what extent is quite immeasurable. Today the people of Coimbatore all of you are demonstrating how much he matters to all of us. There are many many things you can go on saying about him because I think nearly two generations of people have had the joy of watching him play. There are many ways to describe him but I think it was very amusing for me to see that the president of United States Barack Obama said I know nothing about cricket but when Sachin plays I watch and let me finish. When Sachin plays I watch but I still don't understand anything about cricket but I watch because whenever he plays my country's productivity goes down by five percent. It's a it's a great privilege it's a great privilege that he has come to inspire and to endorse the spirit of rural Tamil Nadu to inspire sport in rural India. A ball can change the world and this change is slowly happening last fifteen or sixteen years the Grammotsavam events have been happening building from strength to strength but we really want to take this to the very roots of every village. Seventy percent of Indian population being in rural India if they if they do not play or if they cannot play we have a nation which will become stagnant and sick over a period of time. So this Grammotsavam and Sachin being here today recognizing the spirit of rural India revitalizing our villages through sporting action. We have seen where I could say dozens of incredible stories of youth transforming themselves simply because of the simple games how many youth have transformed themselves. Situations and villages have transformed themselves many conflicts in the villages have been overcome many people have come overcome their addictions to alcohol and other substances. There are any number of stories that I could say but the most important thing today is the very jewel of India is endorsing the spirit of rural Tamil Nadu and from here on there should be no looking back for Grammotsavam. We don't want to limit it to Tamil Nadu we want to take this across as Sachin requested in he has only one village I would like to see that he has at least a hundred villages and we will make sure sport will be the fundamental of these villages in the next coming years in the next few years. This village in Andhra Pradesh what? Puttam Raju Khandrika that's a village he's he's managed to learn the name and we will make sure this village and the surrounding areas there will become basis of sport and Andhra Pradesh government is already invited us to do this in that region and definitely we will start in this village. The most important thing of this event all of you the people who love Sachin who are screaming Sachin all the time okay I got it yes yes we know we know you love Sachin but if you really if you really love the sports person that he is he is saying that all of you should at least learn to hit a ball straight yes because Sachin is not PhD in sports he just can hit a ball not a small thing just hitting a ball seems like a child's play you get into it it will take all that you have and more to hit a ball where you want it to go so the youth who jumping Sachin Sachin I want all of you to take to some spoke you must be able to hit a ball a catch a ball a throw ball properly all of you tell them today they must take a vote they must take to some sport Sachin is saying that all of you all the young people if you are not dead you're young all of you if you're still alive that means you're young enough to live everybody should take to some simple sport hit a ball throw ball catch a ball do something every one of you must do this not just shouting Sachin if you want to honor him you have to take to some simple sport it need not necessarily be professional or competitive but every one of you should take to some sport at least in your neighborhood tell me yes now that's good because a game a game is like this if you want to play a game you can you can go to your job half-hearted you can go to your school and college half-hearted you can even get married half-hearted but you can't play a game half-hearted you have to be all out hundred percent or nothing this is what it takes to make life happen that you're hundred percent on everything that you do and the beauty of the game is you want to win you want to win like your life depends on it but if you lose it's okay with you if you just get these two things everything that you do in your life you're 100% not 99 100% and you want to win but if you lose it's okay with you if you just get this much you got the fundamentals of a good life so everyone should take to some simple sport every one of you don't think somebody is too old if you're alive you're too young otherwise you wouldn't be here if you're too old you have no business to be here if you're here that means you're young enough to live young enough to play just bring this into your life your lives will change if you can't play in some other field in your own home a simple game throw tennis ball at each other i'm telling you your relationships will change at home especially if you have children don't try to make them read a stupid book play with them that's what is needed if you can play with your family many things will behind out you can even play with your mother-in-law why not a whole lot of things will be sorted out if you just learn to play because that is the nature of a play it makes everything light and beautiful this is what we need to do our to our lives and a game is a way of practicing that aspect of life that we know we want to win nobody wants to lose but if we lose it's all right because we understand we can't determine the nature of the result before we play the game this is something that people are struggling with every day everything that you do you want to fix the result before you play the game that's called match fixing that's not a game if you want to play a game you don't know the result that's why it's beautiful it can go anyway but the thing is you're still a hundred percent so I want all of you to make use of this iconic presence of Sachin Tendulkar here in Coimbatore to bring to bring game to bring sport to bring playfulness into your family into your street into your neighborhood into your villages and into towns and make India a playful nation because this is good this is important for our physical health our mental health for our presence in the international committee in the committee of nations above all for your own physical mental and spiritual well-being you need to learn to play I hope this day will be an inspiration for everybody to take up to your game and just see Sachin didn't do anything except hitting a ball from the age of fourteen or fifteen see what's happened to your man so learn to hit a ball it'll do things to you you may not become a Sachin Tendulkar but the joy of doing something with some precision is it cannot be matched by anything money wealth food these things won't do that just learn to do something in a precise way the way you want it if you just throw a ball to exactly the place that you want it to go the joy of that is something that everybody must experience playfulness is not for children alone it's the adults the grown-ups who must play children are anyway playful it is you who have to learn to play both on the field in your office in your home above all in the world in which we live thank you very much for being here here I'm going to