 Let's speak about that, go forward, go ahead, get ready! I think that's the greatest footballer, Selim Chetri. One of my economics teacher asked me, why do you keep wasting your time playing on the football pitch? Why were you wasting your time in the economic class? Whenever I play Pakistan, the moment the whistle blows, something happens. Don't kick the Pakistanis, kick the ball. And they message to kids now, sir. Whatever the hell you become, you better be good at it. Because they suddenly sprung Sunil on me, otherwise I would have come, you know, I have two English clubs have given me their t-shirts with my name on it, I would have come with that. They would love to know the clubs, sir. I got an Everton one and an Arsenal one, because we worked with Everton with their players for some time. So they made a... the Everton players made a t-shirt for me with my name and number eight on it. I didn't like it, I want to go two numbers up, but... How was the experience, sir, talking to the Everton players? Was it the first time you're meeting players? No, I've... we worked with the Indian hockey team and things like that before. But Everton invited us because their physio went through our programs and his life dramatically changed and he said that our players have to go through this. You know Tim Chahill and others who are there at that time. So we worked with them for a few weeks and they... I think they... that year in the Premier League they finished number seven or six, I think. That did well. And by the way, Tim Kale Superstar is here in India now playing in the Indian Super League. Really? Yeah, he just signed for Jamshedpur FC. Oh, I didn't know. I thought he was playing in China. He was. This year only, already signed for Jamshedpur FC. Oh. And we'll see him in ISL. I think a lot of... a lot of you guys do not understand how... how important words are for a football player. You know... I think I've watched about 30, 35 videos of yours in the last two days. And I have an honest confession. It's one thing to watch a messy or Ronaldo video where you can watch the video and keep doing your stuff because you're doing your own stuff and you're still watching it. But your video, everything has to shut. And I'll tell you why, sir, from my experience. Because you don't want to miss out number one. And number two, you will not get it. Tell me, please. Although so many things that you say are so simple, which we ignore nowadays, it has to be shut everything and then you're going to watch it. So, thank you so much. I can also kick a ball. But I'm sure we'll knock out something here. So the question that I want to ask, and I'm sure a lot of people will agree that when you're fighting every day to win stuff or to be a better version of yourself or to compete, you can keep yourself calm. See, this is the whole thing. We think it's been taught in the world that if you want to be successful, you got to do this. Not necessarily. Because in anything it is true. In every aspect of life it's true, but let's talk football. Even in football, well, there are some players who play very aggressively. They are not necessarily the greatest players. Essentially you don't have to fight with anybody. You just have to kick the ball in the goal. Well, I'm not trying to make it simplistic. Of course there are other people playing, but we are supposed to play with them. We are supposed to outplay them, not fight them. Fight them means we have to go against them. To play means to miss them. Essentially you have to miss those guys and get to the goal, not fight with them. If you have the intent of fighting with them, obviously you will go head-on. I must tell you this. This was probably early 2000, maybe 2003 or 2004. We had worked with the previous, earlier team in Purgat Singh was heading the hockey team. But later on all of them had retired and Dilip Turki was heading the team. He's from your region, right? So I was just passing through Chennai airport and this secretary of the Indian Hockey Federation came up to me and said, «Sadhguru, our boys, they're all going to champion's trophy to Germany. This is the first time they're even going out of the country, many of them. Please come and say something. So I walked down and they had some kind of a psychologist who was trying to pep them up. He was telling them, «Apka mabap ka ijjat hai is main. Des ka ijjat hai. One billion people, one billion people are waiting for you to bring champion's trophy. You cannot fail them. These are all 18, 19 year old boys. They're like one billion people and mabap ka ijjat hai. Then I looked at this, these guys are just terrified. So I, when my turn came, I went up and asked, I said, «You guys know, you guys like to play hockey? You said, I said, you know hockey or you just like, don't know, we know how to play? I said, the moment you get on the airplane, forget goddamn India and your parents and everybody else nonsense. All you have to do is, you must have lust to put the ball in the goal. You don't even count, somebody else will count. Your business is to constantly see the ball is in the goal, in the opposite goal of course. And no, but they have to beat Pakistan. I said, you don't have to beat Pakistan, you just have to hit the ball. Why do you want to beat Pakistan with a hockey stick? You just have to hit the ball. But these kind of things have been built up that we are fighting somebody. You don't have to fight anybody. People are always thinking, fighting spirit, killing instinct, all this not needed. If, if we train people from an early age, that they have to be just smooth as silk. Nobody should be able, even able to come near you. The greatest players were like that, they were just running away with the ball. All others running all over, not knowing where they're going. So, essentially you don't have to fight anybody. You just have to get the ball where you have to. For this you don't need fighting spirit, killer instinct, any of these things. All you need is, work on the skill, work on the skill, work on the skill, which doesn't come because you wish. Skill won't come because you desire. Victory will not come because you desire. Every fool wants to win. But only those who have the competence will win in the end. That really makes sense. In fact, India is playing Pakistan today, sir. And you won't believe in the morning, our 123 team has gone to Saaf Cup. Rest all the other Saaf nations, they are bringing their senior team. But all of us seniors are not playing in this tournament. Of course I'm here. So I had to send a message. Before a game I sent a message in the group. I did tell them, boys, no red cards. Do not get emotional. Don't think about it, it's a game against Pakistan. Don't kick the Pakistanis, kick the ball. But sir, why I message them is because whenever I play Pakistan, I did play Pakistan, it is very strange, sir. We are having lunch, everything is fine, brother, how are you? How are you? And all the stuff. The moment the whistle blows, something happens. And I want to be honest. Something happens and you think the game is more than the game. I think it's because it's ingrained in our brains. No, no, it's 70 years of negative emotion. And because I've experienced this, I send them a message. I know it's going to make no difference because they will get it in the pitch and they will think the same thing that I was thinking. But still I told them no red cards and stuff like that. And... Tell them just kick the ball. True. It's not the green players. It actually really makes sense because whenever I am down in my sports, whenever I think I haven't played well or haven't scored goals or I'm getting abused or stuff like that, I go back to myself and think why did I start playing football? It's because I enjoy it and I love it. And suddenly when I do it, the whole thing goes numb and I play better. But then again I forget it. After like six, seven months of good football and again when I start playing bad because you play good and you play bad. That's why I put up so many videos on the YouTube. Though I'm saying the same thing it looks like I'm saying something new to you. That's true. That's true sir. I have watched a lot of videos of yours and what I think and I'm sure a lot of people agree to it it's so many simple things said in such a simple manner but because we want to complicate our lives suddenly we think, wow! Please tell me. Can you hear me? Every one of you? So when I see your videos I think at that moment I think, wow! What a point. Then I go to my bed and I think that is basic. Why didn't we think about this? You know what I mean? And the beauty of it is sir you experience it in such a simple way it's so easy to understand and I just hope when you're fighting so much in our lives you understand that and take it on board. I don't know all the people what they are fighting maybe domestic stuff. See even if let us say you're in a fighting sport let's say you're in boxing so all you have to do is stamp on his foot and he gets so angry after that he's nothing. Once he gets angry he's nothing he can be knocked down in no time even if they're much bigger than you it doesn't matter they're gone so the moment they get emotional the fundamental efficiency and competence of your body and your mind drops in that state how are you going to win you're only going to dream of winning you're not going to win any game you're just going to dream about it. So when there is substantial medical evidence today to show that only when you're in a pleasant state of experience your body and your mind functions at its best it doesn't matter what is the nature of sport or academics or music or whatever we are doing what is the nature of activity doesn't matter whatever is the nature of activity essentially success in the physical world is just how well you harness your body and your mind that's all it is and these two things you can do best only when you're in a pleasant state of experience you must we would like to see you next time and I come and watch you in the game I will definitely come we want to see you running on the football field with a big smile on your face and my favorite player is Ronaldinho that makes so much sense sir you said stepping on the foot and making the other guy crazy do you guys remember Zidane Zidane? do you remember him? he's probably one of the best players in the world and you know what happened with Matrazi and France didn't win that game so that makes so much sense it's so difficult to keep your calm when somebody is elbowing your face and your eyes are about to pop out see what counter-action you need to take I won't suggest now but if you need to take that action also you must be in the best form of physical and mental state so well people provoke you people poke you in the ribs they do all kinds of things not just on the football field all over Bangalore they're doing it every day yes at least there you have an empire if he pokes you very badly there is a card here nobody to give you a card people are poking you all over the place so it is not in any one arena it is there everywhere in some places it may be physical in some places it may be mental or emotional or whatever kind but people are poking you in the ribs all the time one way or the other so question is just this are you competent to live in this world or not essentially it comes down to that isn't it well the football game as it was in 60s and 70s people broke their thigh bones and hip bones that's not there anymore there are more red cards out there little bit of violence means he goes out any intentional violence they're going out these days but that was not the case if you played a game with Uruguay or something you come back with a broken hip or something like this so how do I do this it's very simple say suppose suppose we give all of you let's say soup making ingredients if I give all of you the same soup making ingredients do you believe that all of you will come up with the same kind of soup similarly that's all that's happened with us all of us are fundamentally same ingredients see in how many ways we've become so it's a soup making skill the question you're just a chemical soup I'm saying this is a chemical soup because whatever is the human experience of peacefulness of joyfulness of blissfulness of ecstasy of agony of misery of stress anxiety whatever you name it all human experience has a chemical basis to it so this is a chemical soup question is only are you a great soup or a lousy soup and to become a great soup how much do you think meditation helps so I'll tell you why I'm asking this sir so when I was going through this bad phase and I'm 30 plus now so you tend to overthink so I went to this guy who told me that you go to meditate and it'll help you and he gave me some ideas of how to meditate so the way I meditate is in a no noisy room alone I speak to myself and I've realized that it helps me and I also realized that how much I never spoke to myself I'm speaking to my team I'm speaking to everyone just now you were saying you were listening to my videos so that is that is binge watching sir that is now I'm talking about eight months back and then I realize when I'm talking to myself I realize how much I've ignored myself when it comes to talking so could you please emphasize on how important it is to meditate and to actually talk to ourselves talking to yourself well that happens in him hence let me tell you what you're trying to do is to talk yourself out of things you're trying to talk yourself out of certain things which tend to happen repeatedly some compulsive actions and compulsive behavior you're trying to talk yourself out of it but you must understand this the nature of human mind is such what you don't want is what will happen in your mind right now as an experiment we'll include the children also next ten seconds nobody should think of a monkey what did you think monkey so if you say I don't want something only that will happen because in the very nature of our mind it is made like this there is only addition and multiplication there is no subtraction and division in this mind in terms of thoughts I'm saying if you say I'm having too many thoughts let me divide it or let me subtract it there's no such thing if you touch it it will plus plus plus it will go if you try hard it will become multiplication plus will become like this it will multiply because this is a vehicle where all the three pedals are throttled whatever you touch boom so in this mind you do not employ such methods there are some things psychiatrists, psychologists and others are giving cathartic ways that you talk yourself out what you would abuse that guy you abuse yourself and be done with it here before you go on the football field this kind of stuff but there is no abuse hidden in you there is no anger hidden in you right now is there there isn't right now once in a way you create it why do you create it why would you create something that you don't want you create it because one thing is somewhere you believe it's a kind of power most people believe anger is power but when it overtakes them they suffer when they give a little dose to somebody and they get scared they enjoy it you know I did boom and that guy got scared it's nice so once you think it's power when it becomes overpowering over yourself then it's a disaster so people can propel themselves into action with negative emotions like anger, resentment, hatred hatred is a fire which can make people do many many things a whole lot of people have done intense conquering and you know invasions out of hatred powering yourself with negative emotions like this is you know in the villages and small towns in Karnataka this used to be there at one time fortunately it's ended I think these days when the Diwali comes it's coming right now what they will do they will find a donkey and tie a string of crackers to its tail poor donkey when the crackers start bursting the donkey will run faster than a resource terrified but this is not the way to perform this is going to cost life this is going to destroy you in many ways well Mr. Bolt runs very fast not because his tail is on fire because he's prepared his legs and lungs because behind those legs and lungs there is a dedicated life a life that is devoted to doing what they want to do this is one thing we must understand whatever you want to do whatever it is whether it is music, art, sport, business, spirituality it doesn't matter what unless you're absolutely devoted to what you're doing you will never do anything significant you will do mediocre stuff you will survive, make a living but if you want to do something significant you must be absolutely devoted to whatever you're doing only then it will bring you to a place where you're significant in what you're doing otherwise nothing so Mr. Bolt people know him only like this you've not seen him training day in and day out they'll be training they can't eat what they want they are careful about everything every drop of water he drinks or what everything is measured and taken care of but his glory is just nine seconds those nine seconds has years of preparation that really makes sense sir and of course I didn't want to interrupt you but the reason why I asked you this and it makes sense is because when I was talking to myself I do talk to myself I'll tell you one thing you come to me for three weeks because you said I'm over thirty which is that's a concern for a footballer it is for a sports person it's always a concern because the life of a sports person is short brief you have to rise spectacularly otherwise if you go step by step like you were in a management you know thing you're not going to get anywhere you have to rise like that so over thirty is a concern if you spend three weeks with me I'll make you five years younger how's that sounds like a deal don't be happy the offer is only for me I'll tell you why it makes sense sir because when I'm talking to myself the most I'm doing I want to be honest the most I'm doing is do this, do this then why say this because right now it's about food so my talking right now maximum is tomorrow you've got five meals make sure you eat whatever is prescribed and don't eat something that your body doesn't need and so in the last six months and food is one of the biggest thing in my career right now has given me so much of better results in terms of the way I think first because we all think it's about six packs and stuff like that it is not in the last eight months I've realized I'm more happier just because I'm taking care of my food and right now when you said that four years the guy eats right and people don't see it and just the nine seconds that makes so much of sense and that's one of the reasons why I talk to myself a lot make sure you're disciplined make sure you're thirty plus make sure you don't waste time you spend three weeks with me I will talk to you once after that you don't have to talk to yourself that sounds like a deal but for normal people so what is the best way to meditate what makes you think they're normal for everyone who is not playing for BFC what do you think is the best way to meditate now we must understand the English word meditation does not say anything specific in the sense if someone sits here with eyes closed people think he's meditating but as you said you could be sitting here and talking to yourself you could be thinking you could be contemplating maybe you're chanting a mantra it's called japa you may be doing thapa which is a way of generating heat in the system you may be doing dharana, dhyana, shona, asunya, samadhi samyama like this there are many many things English language is not descriptive when it comes to inner dimensions English language is very good outside technically where materially it's a very good language but when it comes to inner experiences there are not enough words to describe the various dimensions of human experience that happens so the word English meditation is very general doesn't say anything specific if we if we understand if we want to understand the word meditation as dhyana or dhyana being in Karnataka it's dhyana okay if you go to Tamil Nadu it becomes dhyanam so if it is dhyan or dhyana that you're talking about what it means is if you sit here your body is here your mind is out there what is used somewhere else that means there is a little distance between you and your body between you and your mind once there is little distance between you and your body and your mind suddenly everything is crystal clear what you think is so complicated is very very simple it's just like right now I came through what a city you've created we you know there was a time when I lived in Mysore if we just thought about it like that this 140 kilometers those days it was a single track road but we would we would race to make it like in one hour thirty-five minutes one hour forty minutes like this and we would come to Bangalore ride down MG road and again turn back and go straight back to Mysore impossible now what a beautiful city it was and what have you made out of it in these last few years it doesn't even feel like Bangalore neither the temperature nor the visual you know visually nor the traffic nor the people most of them are talking India so nothing feels like Bangalore and I see you and Hitler is back on the shelf so this this dimension of what you call as meditation is essentially a little distance so you're in the traffic how bad it is suppose you took off in an airplane or a balloon you know hot air balloon or something you look down this stuck up traffic looks quite nice really in the night especially it looks quite nice when the traffic is jammed up have you seen this from the airplanes but when you're in it it's a totally different affair when you're in it the way you suffer it is one thing once there is distance is a totally different affair see for example this planet is round though Bangalore people think it's flat so only from Bangalore they started right but earth is flat once again you know this somebody wrote a book called earth is flat for Bangalore yes yes about Bangalore so forever we argued we would have continued to argue because if you walk up and down this floor you can feel it's flat of course but we started flying we looked down clearly it was round then we went and stood on the moon and looked down 100% it is round no argument anymore this is what you need to do with your mind and your body there's a little distance suddenly everything is crystal clear simple things for people have lived here for 50-60 years and they still don't know how to handle their thought and emotion when are they going to learn after thousand years when if you do not know how to handle your thought how the hell did you live till now I don't know by accident when you live by accident anxiety is normal how else can it be suppose accidentally you just you don't know how to drive ride a motorcycle or a car let's say accidentally it started rolling anxiety or no picked up speed fear or no became very fast terror or no but if you know how to drive the faster it goes the better it is the same with your mind and body because you are enmeshed in it haven't figured a damn thing about it it looks very complicated little distance this is dhyan this is meditation in a way so if you create that little distance suddenly everything is clear what looks so complicated is just a simple thing that makes so much of sense man everyone of us make sure we try this but while trying this sir and I want to be honest and I all of them want to say this while trying this we're still going back to the cocoon still the same problem the same issues how do we see that is because you think meditation is some kind of an act it is not an act it is a consequence if you cultivate your body your intellect your emotion and your energy in a certain way meditation will happen as a quality not as an act people are doing ten minutes meditation they will freak themselves after some time for sure a whole lot of people this survey was done I think in ninety-four or ninety-six I'm not very sure about the date but sometime in the nineties early nineties the Nimhans Institute did a survey and they found eight percent of the inpatient who inpatients not outpatients inpatients who come and stay in Nimhans for a period of treatment eight percent of them came because of improper yoga and meditation because if you forcefully try to do something with your mind it will freak it's very important when you have been given do you agree with me this human mechanism is the most sophisticated machine on this planet do you agree with me have you read the user's manual then how then how do you use it just by accident So just few tips of not doing this mistake how to go about it see it is this tidbits which have destroyed people the reason the reason why spiritual process has become a ridiculous circus I'm saying this consciously it's become a circus because everybody is trying to do it on the street side on the street side they want to teach Gita Krishna waited for many years Arjuna and Krishna Arjuna and Krishna were intimate they know each other so well but Krishna waited till the last moment where there is an extreme situation where Arjuna's mind is being crushed he waits for that moment to give the teaching but all kinds of idiots are reading it on the street corner without creating any situation nobody knows what the hell it is simply words and words and words as you said when you listen to it suddenly you find you have to shut down everything and listen because as simple as it is you don't get it because it is not its complex but the simplicity is a problem for the human intellect if you're trying to grasp thing through intellect complicated things you will grasp simplest things people around me are always freaked because I'm telling them the simplest thing but they are thinking through many things most simple things because it is very simple birth is not your doing death is not your doing it happens both of them happen in between you just have to be huh just have to be Bindas that's all you don't have to give birth to yourself nor do you have to kill yourself both will happen naturally what are you doing here everything is happening you don't have to spin the planet and make it day and night you don't have to do this and that everything is happening for you to be just here be in tune with everything and receive the bounty of life such a big mess because they are looking at everything intellectually when I say intellectually the nature of your intellect is such if I ask you a question do you want a sharp intellect or a dull intellect you must choose I'm going to bless you right now so essentially you want a sharp intellect that means it's a cutting instrument it's like a knife the sharper the better you don't want a blunt knife you want a sharp knife now this is the only instrument you have in your life for everything you use a knife if you want to stitch your clothes you use a knife where has that girl gone I think she used a knife on her pants if you use your knife to stitch you will leave it in tatters isn't it that's all you are doing to your life that is all you are just leaving it in tatters simply because you are using a knife to handle everything I must tell you this experience of mine that was the time when I literally lived on a motorcycle I rode across the country without without a destination simply till I hit the borders and turn around and ride here there just wanted to see the country almost five and a half to six years I literally rode across the country so I was somewhere I'm not sure whether I was in Madhya Pradesh or Uttar Pradesh whole night I was riding I was known for this even now that I could ride for three nights and days continuously without sleep every day covering like anywhere between 800 to 1200 kilometers please do not do it yourself it requires a different personality altogether not advice please see now anything you do you have to put a warning young people have become like this otherwise they will go and fall into the ditch there is a ditch danger do not walk when you are young nobody need to mark anything you have to have everything open and you know what the hell is happening but you have to tell them caution speed this that this is for old people over eighty-five when they are shaking you tell them where is the drain where is this where is that but now young people are becoming like this because they will walk into anything so true do you do that when you are playing football no sir no so I was somewhere somewhere between either Madhya Pradesh or Uddhara Pradesh early morning after a full night's riding I stopped for in a dhaba for a tea and to eat something and I always fix my own motorcycle because when you are so much on the road you do not want to give it to anybody so my chain has become little slack this is a problem with the old bikes yes these days every bike even now it happens except the Harleys they have belts terrible how could you ride on a belt so chain has become slack you need to take off a link and tighten it up so I saw a garage Mubarak mechanical works it was written a handwritten board then I thought there is a young strapling young youth I thought okay let him do it I said hey why don't you tighten my chain then he full of confidence he came out the only tools that he was carrying in his hands was a chisel and hammer I looked at his tool thing I said wait before you touch my motorcycle you don't have anything else no no I can do it chain I can tighten it I said wait I got up and walked into his garage and looked around there was no other tool except chisel and hammer with this chisel and hammer he fixes everything but after he fixes that's the end of it nobody else can open anything or close anything after that so if you are using your intellect only disregarding other dimensions of intelligence within you this is how life will be Mubarak mechanical works Mubarak I hope you got the point I'm actually speechless I made some points in my head that's because you're good at talking to yourself that's a valid point it's only sometimes guys next time I miss a goal it's alright man he talks to himself he's not going to score that's only sometimes there are so many kids over here and one of the questions that I thought of asking you sir is the same question that I asked my teacher when I was young one of my economics teacher asked me why do you keep wasting your time playing on the football pitch and you're not on time I was just about to ask why were you wasting your time in the economic class so that's exactly what I did so then I spoke to her I said ma'am I want to become a footballer and that's why I was there and I apologized that I'm late then of course she said me things that I can't say right now and then she complained to the class teacher that there is one guy who has lost his mind make sure you tighten him so the class teacher came to me and she's like what are you doing what are you thinking so I told her I actually want to be a footballer and there's only one class which is called PT class for two periods in the whole week there are kids who want to be in an IIT, a doctor whatever they got 8-10 classes every week to to encourage them but I only had one that too with white shorts and white t-shirt, PT there was no football class and you're not supposed to dirty those white shorts that was an instruction from home but I never listened I was always dirty but then I told her then my chances of becoming are so dim because there's no practical what I do on the pitch nobody comes and tells me you know what this is what you did and this is what you're going to do of course like my economics teacher my class teacher said shut up think about what other kids are doing so then I realized that it's not I'm not going to get helped and now when I meet kids from different schools they have the same issue they have the same issue that sports wise we aren't teaching them more and I believe I may be wrong nothing else can teach you to be a better person than sports is what I believe I may be wrong like the way I talk to myself but anything that could happen in my life is only because of sports and I'm not even talking about all the the accolades or stuff I've got he has made me a better person and then I realized why couldn't we inculcate that in school why couldn't we teach them how bad were you before this okay no no that's true and you know I wasn't thinking of what I'm going to do and I was I was one of the kids where the parents are fighting it's your mistake it's your mistake it's because of you because of you and then suddenly because of sports everything changed so everything changed only football made sure that I left everything and not think about anything else so whenever there was football it was all me there thinking concentrating trying to become my better self rest let's not talk about that no the best thing about sport is I think we have to acknowledge because it was two days ago that it was the 125th anniversary of Vivekananda speaking in Chicago well most people would have not noticed this aspect of him he said one thing he said you are closer to the divine in kicking a ball than in prayer that made me happy because you can pray without involvement you can go to school without involvement you can work without involvement you can even get married without involvement yes but you cannot play a game without involvement and the sense of life is only in involvement without involvement there is no life how profound is your involvement will determine how profound is your experience of life the question is not in what well you found that involvement in sport but it doesn't matter what if somebody finds absolute involvement in something they will know life in a certain way which others will completely miss those people who are goal oriented that they want to get there they want to get here they want to become something at the age of three you ask a little girl what do you want to be I want to be doctor so from the age of three she is praying lot of people should be sick I'm saying market development is needed right so this goal orientedness has this is a very western way of looking at life always the goal the finish line is more important than the step that you are taking right now it's a foolish way to live if you get to the finish line you will still not be ecstatic your only ecstasy is somebody is behind you it's a sickness that you enjoy other people's failures it's a sickness but if you make it you will not be exuberant if you don't make it of course you will be broken the important thing is to be be absolutely devoted to the process what we are doing right now how far will it get us depending upon our competence it will get us as far as it gets how far we go in the world is also determined by the situations in which we exist the times in which we exist if you are kicking a ball really well a thousand years ago you wouldn't be a national captain or nothing okay because a thousand years ago you kicked a ball really wonderfully wouldn't mean anything can you kill a deer can you chop down a tree or can you get this or that that would have been the skill wanted so it is the times where we get how far we get the times will decide but the question is only this everything that you have is it finding expression or no that's all it is are you better than somebody that is not even the question everything that you are is it finding expression or you yourself are a big problem for most human beings they don't need any enemies they are just doing great by themselves yes they are every day their own thought their own emotion their own ideas their own stupid philosophies they are just destroying people see every human being has a certain genius in them every human being only thing is unless they find the right atmosphere and right level of involvement that genius will not flower and the sad story on this planet is 99% of the population never opens up their genius they will live mediocre lives simply because they are interested in the goal what will they get in the end they want to know what will they get in the end they are not interested in what is happening now what will you get in the end we will bury you so I think to all the parents who couldn't open their own geniuses make sure a kid has the chance because a 3 year old kid cannot say I want to be a daughter unless you tell the kid that's a great message so this is so common nowadays I know it's so simple when you say it but even when the parents meet after like one session and I go and see them and I play with them Sir, will my son become a football player? Sir, I have no answer I will become Ronaldo not Sunil Chitri right away Sir, I have got no answer Sir, because one beautiful thing that my parents did for me was they never asked me what are you going to be so whenever in my head I wanted to be the next they let me be you tell them at at 15 yards if your child can kick the ball into your face he will make it no but to all the parents that is very very true I hope there was a formula where I can give you and your kid can be someone he or she but there is no formula let them be and they will find the way as Guruji just told us they will find the way if your children's lives matter to you if they really matter to you if their happiness matters to you if their life matters to you do not look at your children as some way of fulfilling all your failed ambitions about yourself it's a child is a fresh life it doesn't come from you it only comes through you you don't own it it's in your custody it's a privilege that this bundle of joy has come to you it's for you to learn it's not for you to impose your stuff because if the next generation becomes just like you what is the point of having a next generation they have to be something different they have to do something else otherwise what's the point very true kids take the YouTube video of this whenever parents are forcing you make sure yeah whenever your parents are saying sorry parents be a doctor be a this, be there be a Ronaldo, be a Messi this I want to be myself and I'll make my own way that's a great, that's a great rid one paka with the video aspiring to be a Messi you know if just one alphabet goes you're a mess that's a really good one sir because all of us would agree that we want our next generation to be better not in better in the sense that they're competing but just better things that but sir tell me one thing why parents and that age group people say you things and it's so true the things that they couldn't do like whenever you do want to do something no, no, you won't see this or whenever you want to try something no, no, don't do this yeah, this can't happen stuff like that see parenting has become a very fear based thing their idea of love is to be anxious all the time anxiety is being misunderstood as love affair and most people their love affairs whatever kind with their children with their parents with their lovers or whatever for most of them love is beautiful only in the initial face after that it's only anxiety they're just anxious what will happen what will happen what will happen so when you have children of course there is concern because it's a fresh life it needs protection it needs an atmosphere to grow your business is just to you're the soil for this new plant you're not the sunlight you're just the soil provide a rich soil an atmosphere of love, joy enthusiasm you know children if you really concerned about your children's lives this is all you have to do in your home that your children should never see moments of anger resentment, frustration depression all these things your children should go up in an atmosphere of love, joy and exuberance of life if you're really really concerned about them this is all you have to do so what you need to do is not work upon them but work upon yourself to see that you create that atmosphere because I want a coconut tree to grow but I place it on my head it's not going to grow I have to find it good soil only then it will grow, isn't it so your business is just to create the soil there is an atmosphere outside you cannot prevent it there are other people outside who will influence them a child is not a hundred percent under your influence it never was but much more so now because they're exposed to various other things there are technological ways of accessing the world they may not even be listening to you there is somebody else talking to them from somewhere else, all right but if you provide them the soil of a very loving, joyful and exuberant atmosphere you will see you will be the biggest influence on them otherwise somebody else will take over that is so nice and and with your permission, taking clue from that I could go back and speak to my parents about everything good, bad, whatever my dreams, whatever I wanted to be how stupid it may sound because kids are stupid when they are young they say whatever they want to say but I had the liberty of going to my parents and speaking whatever is there in my head if your kid cannot come and talk to you actually we have already lost the battle if your kid cannot come and talk to you about what he or she wants it's gone that was a great, great thing make sure that we listen to this and again the video, it works whenever you are down and you are angry and whatever the video the kids know it, they'll show you for sure and they messaged the kids now sir before they messaged the kids before they get, you know what sir Guruji has said, now you can't shout at us you can't discipline us, you can't say this, you can't say that the children must understand this because there are various levels of children here the very young ones leave them there is no need to tell them anything but others, they need to understand this you don't have to become what your parents want you to become I personally don't care a damn what you become but whatever the hell you become you better be good at it that's all that matters and being good at something will not come because you desire there is a striving, there is an involvement there is a certain devotion to what you're doing people misunderstand I'm specifically using the word devotion because people think devotion means going to the temple, church or mosque or something like this no, just look at life and see whatever the arena of life sport, art, music, business, whatever has anybody gone to any significant levels without devotion no so devotion means unconditional involvement not comfort and discomfort when it's comfortable I will do it when it's not comfortable I'll not do it while we're sitting with a sports person if you want to use that example it is not comfortable to be a sports person every damn muscle hurts yes, everything hurts it is all nice for you to see in the television they're just falling up and you know flipping up and falling down do once like that you won't get up for a month yes most people don't know and India being a cricketing nation largely most people have only seen cricket matches very few people have unfortunately have seen football, hockey and other matches which should come back I think it is to some extent making a thing it was very wonderful you made that appeal we all responded for you see among the many games for example, because India a lot of people are playing cricket many of them on the streets are playing with a tennis ball they won't understand what it is when you play with a cricket ball it's one of the most dangerous games you can play it's a hard ball and it is coming at like over 120, 130 kilometers per hour at you and the biggest problem is it pitches and changes direction as it wants it has a mind of its own most of the time even the bowler does not know where it will go not just the batsman yes, the pitch and the wind and so many things decide how it goes so people are watching on the television and advising how Tendulkar doesn't know you know it's not that when you're there out there it's a dangerous thing sport is a dangerous thing in many ways people... it could break your body just like that and above all even if you don't break every day it's painful it's painful and painful and painful no matter what the hell is happening in your life morning five o'clock you get up and run and do this and do that and all kinds of things most people cannot keep such discipline in their life so the important thing is there is a certain devotion to what you're doing otherwise you will not go through that pain first bit of pain you will turn back and sleep and you know like we trek in the mountains every year I think just now I came back for three weeks of being in Himalayas both in Nepal and Tibet we are going up to seventeen five to eighteen thousand feet every year I think enough I've done from the age of nineteen almost every year I've trekked in the mountains and I think it's enough this sore muscles and bad bathrooms and everything I say enough of it but within two months mountains are again you're calling you and at this stage in my life it could be very painful painful means because we're pushing at a certain speed it can be painful but there is an acceleration there is a certain joy there is a certain indescribable experience of life which others will never know so it is not necessarily you have to climb a mountain or play football you will know this if you know that level of involvement in something where it brings you to a sense of abandon where it's almost like you're hanging between life and death at certain moments those moments are an experience beyond anything there are no vocabulary for that when you touch that place you know you can cross anything I'm sure any number of times in the games it happens that's actually so true so whenever you guys find that thing make sure you give it your best that's always required so we spoke to the kids about the importance of parents and the combination just for a healthy, happy life few tips sir I'm putting in a spot now because that's all they want to know trust me see if you want a healthy, happy life it's a lot of thing to ask for you think you're going to settle it with two tips it needs a little more involvement that's what I'm trying to say if you think your life is worthwhile if you think you are a worthwhile life are you? if you are a worthwhile life come on guys say yes at least they're having a little... are you a worthwhile life? if you are a worthwhile life it doesn't matter what somebody thinks for you this is the most precious life isn't it? it's not just for you you just try to catch an ant an ant doesn't think I'm just an ant, let him catch me you think so? he does everything possible because he thinks he's worthwhile life yes or no? he's the most precious life on the planet as far as he's concerned that is true with every life isn't it? that's true with you but because we have a certain level of cerebral activity we've gotten all mixed up this is essentially a evolutionary issue that is this kind of brain is new in terms of evolutionary scale of things in these millions of years of existence this kind of brain is new to us and most people don't have a stable enough base to handle this kind of intelligence that's what is driving them crazy they don't know how to handle their own cerebral capability what is the greatest gift has turned against people simply because of this otherwise being happy is it even an issue when you were a child you were naturally happy, isn't it? what happened? brains became bigger and you didn't learn how to handle it see, once you come as a human being you are not as strong as an elephant you can't run as far as as fast as a cheetah or a tiger you can't even do tricks like a monkey in every department you are weaker than other animals the only thing is you got an intelligence but right now that's the only thing human beings are suffering only because human beings are suffering their own intellect and their intelligence that even stupid spiritual teachings are going on to be peaceful to find peace of mind is the ultimate goal of your life such people will only rest in peace to be peaceful is a challenge essentially your intelligence has turned against you that's all, isn't it? otherwise what is the big deal about being peaceful if you don't do anything you're peaceful no, all the time this is happening this is an evolutionary issue, isn't it? so you must understand this that for this intelligence you do not have a stable enough base if you do not work towards a stable enough base your intelligence can create so much mess for you it's unbelievable you can call it stress you can call it anxiety you can call it madness you can call it whatever you want essentially your intelligence is working against you once your intelligence is working against you no power in the universe can save you yes or no? suppose your right hand starts punching you in the face only ways to tie it down if it doesn't work we'll have to amputate yes or no? somebody else is punching you there are many ways to handle it my own handy is punching me how to handle this? right now tell me do you need any help from outside or you can cause a lot of misery to yourself you don't need any outside help, isn't it? so that's all you need to fix you don't have to aspire for peace or happiness or meditation or bliss nothing your body and your mind should take instructions from you and nobody else but you you get the point so advices are open from other sides but eventually you think about for yourself it's not about you think for yourself I'm saying it's intrinsic and essentially this mechanism is built this way that this body should work for you yes? if it is working with opposite team you know in this world cup there were four or five self goals or if your mind is working against you or for somebody else this is ultimate slavery, isn't it? somebody can decide see if we decide young people are here if I tell them you must read only these books you should not read these books so what we don't have the freedom are we slaves to you but now somebody can decide what happens within you is this not the worst form of slavery? somebody can decide whether you can be happy or unhappy is this not the worst form of slavery? but you are accepting it as romance oh I cannot live without you tomorrow's headlines thousand people were in central mall without that founded broke up the next morning don't do this I cannot live without you or I cannot walk without a crutch is there any difference? I know we all are laughing right now but this is serious please understand this this is serious this is very very serious I've got few friends who are like that and they are miserable on a serious note this is please understand this if they are helplessly in need of somebody they are in love no love is a conscious process that you decide to turn your emotions into a certain level of sweetness if you can do it with everybody it's fantastic not possible at least with one or two people this but right now most people are not capable of doing that unless they're biologically involved one way or the other they must be parents or children or husband and wife or you know partners or something but biology essentially what this means is your intelligence is on the back burner your biology is the front end of your life as we already looked at it if you compare yourself to any other creature biologically you are a much weaker creature than most creatures on the planet yes or no so if you use biology as your front end your life will be obviously a mess you will see grasshoppers are living better than you they are got the point sure I see a big smile on this gentleman's face again sir I have to there's so simple words and suddenly start thinking like me I see so many faces they are thinking hi yaar you the seetha you know it made sense no that is the whole problem they are all thinking that is the main problem I have no thought in my head I am simply looking I am just looking at life I am not thinking up life what can you think about life it's there for you to see and experience it's not for you to think and write a PhD paper on it is there somebody who is doctor life I have to be honest but this is difficult why this is like the way you say I look at life and it's difficult for non tell me do you know okay when you are playing football do you see the goal and ball ball and goal or do you just think about the ball and goal that's the only time when I don't think I just play so that's the best time of your life yes by far so I am saying why is it not like that every moment of your life I made my life like a football game every moment of my life no actually that is that is very true because the guy who helped me in meditation he asked me when is your mind not helped me so he asked me he asked me when is your mind not thinking about anything and calm so I was thinking there is no time you are thinking about whatever but then I realized before a game and during a game I am thinking nothing I am just reacting to what is happening that's the only time when I am thinking of nothing see you can you can be doing many things and thinking and doing many things you are a mess with general life but it doesn't show up in the sport if you are thinking it will show up immediately everybody will boo so you will get it that you are thinking about the ball you are not seeing the ball that's a dangerous thing to do so I can't play for 24 hours but make sure you inculcate sports in your life at least for that moment of time you are not thinking I am just reacting 24 hours should become a game intense involvement just like when you are in so called important match this is an important match hello is this not an important match today no I am not talking about that India-Pakistan stuff right now for all of us is this not an important match every moment of your life is your life an important match and in this match you are playing all by yourself others may play with you but you are not really playing against somebody you are not really playing against somebody this is more like golf so I must tell you this because you are a sports person I never took a lesson ever I have never been to a driving range I don't take a single practice swing my golf buddies are here they are playing golf so just by keep keep playing you no I just hit the ball people are trying to beat somebody I just hit the ball and my handicap is below ten now I have never been to a driving range most people won't believe but I have never practiced on a driving range I never once take a practice swing on the course never taken a lesson that requires little bit of talent also don't get fooled I just go and hit that requires talent also no no see it needs some physical balance of course which a whole lot of people have it's not that they don't have they just don't have mental balance so I described this you know I was featured in the golf digest in the United States so this guy came and said he is a good player he is a scratch player I said how do you do this see, seventy percent of golf in my perception is just mental I am just playing seventy percent remaining thirty percent golf I don't know damn thing about it I don't play that I have just play the mind game sir but that's so true for any sports any sport but more true where there is no competition competition means nobody is trying to grab your ball at least that was lovely sir of course one more video for me guys just take all the cue make sure you don't forget it if you do forget it grab the youtube video and just stay happy so I feel it's very important that football should go to rural India we have been kind of pushing the government for this as a part of this now they announced one thing the central government it will take still a long time to implement but they announced this already a month ago saying that only fifty percent of the time that a child spends in the school will be dedicated for academics the remaining fifty percent will be for sport music, art so beyond your time as a player we would like to see that you make a difference in rural India because that's where the people are I would love to sir they can't run don't take it the wrong way but that's true with my sport at least sir Alex Ferguson was asked this question sir that if you have what is the best thing about football so he answered that if you have two kids at their birth with the same talent everything same you give one to the rich family and one to the poor family and give them everything same the nutrition, the food, the training the one who is from the poor family will make it big in football so I truly believe that's so with most things unfortunately because unfortunately this has become the reality of the world because human beings are living so compulsively see the idea of wealth the idea of affluence is so that obstacles of survival are removed but daily I don't have to fight for my bread means if I want to play football all out but unfortunately most human beings don't make use of their affluence like this as societies become affluent as nations become affluent you will see that we just producing a whole lot of people who good for nothing people do not use their affluence their comfort levels for excelling in something they will use it against themselves so Bangalore city I want you to understand though you have a messy traffic you're living better than most people who live in rural India you must appreciate that and and see that you don't have to fight for daily bread when such a relief is there you must use this life and this energy for doing something significant I don't care what you do but you must do something well it's important in this life you must do something that you can really do it well whether you can kick a ball or you can meditate or you can act or you can sing or you can be a doctor it doesn't matter what but you must do something really well if you don't do that the problem with life is even if you don't do anything it just passes by it doesn't stop and the problem with life is or the beauty of life is even if you live a life of a bum you still pass they don't detain you for bad life that is so wonderful thank you so much guys I must say this that when the entire country is you know basically sports star don't think people are watching a cricket game know something about sport they know only the runs on the score board they don't know much about the game even the cricket game I'm saying largely most people know only the what's the end score who won is there some spectacular action or no this is all they're looking at that is why from a test match we've come to 2020 because spectacular action but at a time like this when India is not so much of a sporting country and particularly football is being laughed at Sunil has taken football to a different level has brought well in this country when there is no culture of football he's taken it to a different level not only in the field not only on the football field but he did a fantastic thing in touching the conscience of Indian citizens that you being stupid not supporting the Indian football team when the matches are happening in your city you don't even know it's happening and that was a fantastic thing and I think after your you know goalscoring days are over because I'm going to put you back five years so you may be there for a long time but after that we want you to dedicate your time and energies to bring football to rural India because that is where the youth are strong and that's where the people are 65% of the population is there if you ever want to create a football academy in the south we may facilitate it for you thank you so much for the kind words and the urban kids do not lose heart even you can become big players thank you very much