 India also faced, you know, invasions and colonization, but here it's still alive. It has not been written enough in the history books, but very brutal invasions. One of them had a real discussion with the people and said, how do we just burn out this Hindu way of life? But still it didn't die. Even if you kill the god, these people won't give it up. Namaskaram Satgavam, if you look around the world, all the countries had their own indigenous practices, like Egypt, America, Iran, all had their own practices. But after the invasion that happened, everything is completely wiped out. India also faced, you know, invasions and colonization, but here it's still alive. More actively it's still alive. So how did it manage to survive here? Like, what's the one thing that… See, because you're still wearing a sari. That's how it's survived. Thank you so much. What's the thing that kept this culture alive for thousands of years? Thank you, thank you so much. See, innovation is just a simple word, but when you experience it, the brutality of it is another thing. What happens in those times are unspeakable stuff, especially to women. Men get killed, they're fortunate. In many ways, they get tortured sometimes. That's a little unfortunate, but generally women get to live and they'll be tortured for the rest of their life, usually. So, innovation is not just a simple word. There are two ways of taking people and property or the world itself. One is by invasion, another is by inclusion. If you take something by inclusion, it becomes beautiful, isn't it? If you take something by invasion, it is the ugliest, unspeakable thing that you can think of, whether it's on the level of an individual or a nation or a culture or a civilization. So, what is it that made this culture survive through nearly a thousand years of brutal invasions, brutal? It has not been written enough in the history books, but very brutal invasions. So, what is it? One thing was the people who invaded, power by the force of their religion or by their economic interests. One thing was the culture and the civilization was so complex and profound, they could not figure it out. See, I forget the name of this particular invader. Sometime, no, no, I'm thinking of a particular name. I'm not good at these names, anyway. So, one of them had a real discussion with the people and said, how do we just burn out this Hindu way of life, Hindu thing? Because they thought it's another religion. Just like they believe in one religion, somebody else believes in another religion. That's because I belong to one religion, so you must belong to another religion. How else? Because you do something different, but that's what they never figured out. So they looked at this and where is the religious head, who is the pope, let's kill him. That's the idea. So they said, no, there are hundreds of them. So they killed all the hundreds, but still it didn't die because there was never a leadership for this. It was never an organized approach. It's every individual seeking their own thing. And everybody accepting that, that was the only organization we had. You're, you're worshipping the tree. I'm okay with that. She's worshipping the rock. I'm okay with that. I'm not a tree worshiper, I'm not a rock worshiper, but I got no problem. I am a sky worshiper. Somebody else worship, doesn't worship anything, but we are okay with him also. So they never figured this because they always believed you must belong to some entity. Here people did not belong to any entity, so there was no leadership. As many people as you want, you kill, but still it is on. In every home, in in human hearts, what is on, you can't kill it, all right? It did not need leadership. It did not need a book. It did not need an ideology. It did not need a God. That's the most important thing. So they went about demolishing temples systematically all across northern India. Southern India, you come and see glorious temples are still here because they didn't come this far down. So you will see phenomenal temples here, you don't see that in the north because they were all largely destroyed. So even if you kill the God, these people won't give it up. You destroy the temple, they got their own little God in their home, they will worship there only. You destroy their home, they carry it on their body and they'll worship here only Atma Linga they got. What do you do with these people? So because this is the most important thing you need to understand. India is Bharat as you know or you do not know is an organized kiosk. People don't understand this. So if you look at India, it looks like it's going nowhere because we are not like an arrow. Arrows will fly for some time and go down. We are like a swarm of bees. Every bee seems to be going in a different direction, but in the end all of them go in the same direction. It's happening very effectively and they also produce honey, you know.