 This question is from Jose. I have done Inner Engineering online and I live in South America. I have been eagerly wanting to get initiated into Shambhavi and I thought initiation would be denied to me as I can't afford to travel as I thought the initiation can only be done in person. Last week, you mentioned you could even initiate us online. This filled me with joy as so many people who have been longing for it have this chance now, irrespective of where they are. But may I ask, what changed? Most importantly, how can I make sure I receive this as powerfully as I would in person? I don't want to miss out. Well, nothing changed Jose. And anyway, we are not initiating online. There is no such thing as offline initiation and online initiation. Initiation process, particularly for Shambhavi, is more like a consecration of a human form. Or if we want to put it in more mechanical terms, you've heard of these days many motors have or no more induction, but most electric motors or induction motors. That means there is a process of induction. Though there is electricity, though there is a mechanism, still it doesn't go unless induction happens. So this is like an induction. Does this happen offline or online? There's no such thing. As I have said repeatedly many times probably, I have initiated more people who have never seen in my life than people whom I have seen. This doesn't mean I initiated them online. This happened well before online came. This has been happening forever. The important thing is just this. The entire program, the physical programs we've been conducting or now the online programs we're conducting, essentially is about knocking on your door. How much knocking do you need on your head is different from person to person. There was a time when our initiations had long preparation. We were going through a thirteen-day program preparing people to be initiated because that was a different sort of initiation which now is happening as a secondary program in the form of Shunya. At that time the basic program was Shunya. So we need thirteen to fourteen days. Without that we could not do it because we needed that level of openness. All programs, let's look at it this way. All programs are just a knock on the door. When we... See if we want to make you open the front door, talk, talk, talk. But some of you peep out of the hole and say, Who is that? I said, No, I am Sadhguru. What do you want? No, I don't even want to enter your house but just open the door. If you just open the door I'll go away. No. Who is this guy saying open the door? What do you want? No, I don't want anything. Then you're really dangerous. You don't want anything? You need to understand this. This is the nature of dimensions beyond physicality. In physicality everything is transactional. You give this, I give that. You take this, I take that. It's a world of give and take which has its usefulness, which has its own pleasures and beauty to it. But transactional world is one thing. Transformational world is of a different nature. So initiation is a transmission. Without transmission there is no transformation and transmission is not a transaction. A teaching is a transaction. In some way it is a transaction. So the programs that you have gone through are kind of transactions, sit there, talk to you, you ask question, I answer you and you ask one more question, I answer you. For that you ask another question. Oh, how many have you asked? I am showing such enthusiasm to pick up every question and hit the ball every time with full enthusiasm, not because I think it is a great question, it's a dumb question. But I know that is the way you open your door. That is your code, I must do tuk, tuk, tuk, tuk, tuk, tuk. Then you open the door. Who is it? A familiar voice, you'll open the door. Unfamiliar voice, maybe it's God but you will not open the door. Because you are that kind we have programs and programs and more stupid programs. This virus, phew, gone. All programs gone. So now we're just waiting that this constant threat of mortality and you know as Allama said once you have money in your head, we can't talk to you. I hope money stays in your pocket, it's necessary but maybe it will drain out of your head because you have money in the bank but you can't travel anywhere, you can't spend on anything. So realization is slowly happening, willingness is slowly happening. As this willingness happens knocking on the door becomes less and less relevant. The transaction of teaching and trying to make you willing will become less and less relevant. This I found, you know, in a very stark and painful way I realized this when I first went into to conduct a prison program now it's mandatory in southern India in all the prisons happening even during this pandemic our teachers are doing the online programs in the prisons in southern India. We did some here also in United States. When I went there I just realized I announced a ten-day program thinking I will do a basic simple program thinking because most of the people in the prison many of them have you know almost everybody is a school dropout ninety percent of them many of them have never been to school, language, all these issues how much they can understand but when I went there I what I was supposed to teach in ten days I was done in two days then what to do? I did Bhavas pandana in another two days I did Samyama right there everything, all these programs which happen in different stages for the free people who are imprisoned by themselves for the imprisoned I could do everything within a few days six, seven days everything over after that we were just together enjoying each of this company absolutely joyful, fantastic atmosphere out there in ten days time all programs got over in a brief time because no knocking was needed the only problem in the prison is the door is not open somebody else has closed it home you have closed it so you don't realize in your heart you have closed it so you don't realize in your mind you have closed it so you don't realize when somebody else has closed the door upon you the only thing that you want is door open yes or no only thing that you want in your life is door open this is what I realized with the prisoners convicts they if you look at their things that they have done terrible things they have done but they became such fantastic spiritual material for transmission boom it just went like that even now they're writing to us writing poetry programs have been going on for over twenty years now in the prisons many of them who are there for life or in India unfortunately there are many people who are sitting on the death row and waiting for over ten fifteen years their lives are fully transformed because opening the door was the only thing that they wanted now you are very cautious about opening the door as mortality knocks from not from outside but from inside now opening the door becomes natural so this is one part of it another part of it is the preparatory part preparation is one thing is on the level of the body which our teachers our ishangas will do it with small groups of people online taking much more time what was being done in about three-four hours time will be done in much more elaborate way to ensure that practices preparatory practices get across and knocking we will knock you more than we were knocking when we were in physical presence we are seeing technology wise we are still exploring various methods with which every hundred participants could be monitored by a dedicated volunteer seeing that all of them are focused there are some issues to talk to them stay focused stay focused don't go to the bathroom now you must see the incredible thing after going through seven days of program we've been telling them continuously see all the circus is only to initiate you just when initiation is happening simply somebody gets up what? well some volunteers stop what? I want to go to the bathroom well just now you went and came no I like to go once again this is called karma because inside your compulsions rule you we don't have to go through all these obscenities if you go to the bathroom you go all right you just won't get it that's up to you if that's your choice it's fine with me so openness to create the necessary door opening we are doing many things if you sit there now that you're in Peru what is this? Peru now you're in Peru and you're thirsty you're not a problem I'm sure you will come and sit there ten minutes ahead of me tch waiting if you're like that you are not a problem I am not initiating you online I'm just initiating you individually as a person which is how it is always done there is no offline online initiation is a direct transmission it will happen that way and it will be as effective as ever only thing is your family, your pets, your children, husband, wife must be kept out you are absolutely there with the process we will ensure it works wonderfully well without your neighbors screaming your neighbor falling on you something else happening in the crowded class all those problems gone just by yourself as it should have been actually it's ideal condition if you are absolutely open in fact it is a much better condition than an assembly of five ten thousand people five ten thousand people there are many issues which are hard to manage now I think these are better times in that way you're sitting by yourself you're thirsty if you're not you're in the bathroom it's okay it will work wonderfully well