 ṢṢṢṢṢṢṢṢṢṢṢṢṢṢṢṢṢṢṢṢṢṢṢṢṢṢṢṢṢṢṢṢṢṢṢṢṢṢṢṢṢṢṢṢṢṢṢṢṢṢṢṢṢṢṢṢṢṢṢṢṢṢṢṢṢṢṢṢṢṢṢṢṢṢṢṢṢṢṢṢṢṢṢṢṢṢṢṢṢṢṢṢṢṢṢṢṢṢṢṢṢṢṢṢṢṢṢṢṢṢṢ the spread of the virus and the fatalities or death it's causing unfortunately as is picking up pace particularly in united states i think the last 24 hours have been the worst over 2,000 people dead the number who's tested positive has gone over 600,000 India also over 300 380 deaths but one if you can call it encouraging sign one encouraging sign is it is happening in small clusters Mumbai Pune Indore and Delhi together accounting for over 60% of both reported cases and deaths that gives us some hopefully some possibility we can contain it in small areas rather than spreading it across the country but at the same time at least one case has been reported in over 380 districts across the country so which way it'll fall all depends on how responsibly every citizen acts in this country unfortunately New York state is simply running away doesn't look like it can be managed within next week or two weeks looks like it's going to pick up more spare more pace definitely it'll pick up more pace in India and of course there is a severe lockdown till 20th of April after that a more relaxed lockdown till 3rd of May in this country but how effective the lockdown is simply this depends on how disciplined the citizens will be unfortunately I see a lot of people taking pleasure in spreading fake news creating confusion reporting things which never happened I don't know what it's really pathetic that somebody can take pleasure in these kind of things when the such immense suffering both health wise and financially particularly for the poor people in the country and in the world if we don't handle this right well if it really takes a large segment of population we would be probably pushing 150 to 200 million people back into poverty we got them out in the last 15 years we would be pushing them right back into poverty once again below the poverty line which is not a thing that we want to see this is not something that anybody should take pleasure in playing mischief and causing confusion simply because you have social media tools in your hands but unfortunately it's a small number but still it's painful to see that people take pleasure in such things when there is so much struggle particularly the medical professionals are going through enormous struggle and today I spoke to the Punjab I mean the premier medical institution in Punjab in Chandigarh so all the doctors their concerns and the kind of decisions that they have to make in in Italy when they had to make decisions as to who should talking please when they had to make decisions in Italy as to who should get ventilators and who should not they decided on the basis of age that means if you and your mother both were sick you will choose that your mother will die this is not a kind of decision that should ever come into the hands of any human being because if you make such a decision you will have to live with it for the rest of your life so unfortunately doctors were forced to make such decisions in some other countries that put lots a lottery who will get the ventilator there are hundred patients in the hospital but only five ventilators who will get the ventilator who will get to live who will get to die by lots so we should not push push the nation the world and the medical community and ourselves into that situation where you will have to takes that kind of calls and what basis will one live and what basis we will allow another person to die this is a this is not right but if things go out of hand that's how it will be those are the kind of decisions all of us may have to make so let's not push ourselves there it's very very important so as a part of raising funds for beat the virus campaign we are doing the numbers that need basic nourishment and help that number is increasing we did not think in rural India there would be so many people but the number of migrant workers they're all coming together now because of this food offering that we are making so the challenge of raising the funds and keeping it going we do not know for how many months this will be needed because even if government relaxes the lockdown for economic activity to get back into position get back into full bus will take a certain amount of time we do not know how much so as a part of this we are putting up a painting for sale it's not much of a painting nor am I much of a painter I'm just hoping based on my other reputations I will manage to sell the painting for a substantial amount not because of the quality of the painting we'll put it up now just for you to see because many people have been asking questions can you read a day is but a piece of time a piece that lets us live and die on this day let us live and live totally don't insult me by asking Sadhguru what is all this imagery going to mean if you ask me that question that means it's not making any sense to you let it be that way it's abstract painting so it's not supposed to make any sense because the image is large and you're not able to I mean image is not large enough for all of you to see we will go part by part somebody please decide in what order those of you who are suffering my painting long distance please bear with me so the insect value has gone up in the world I can understand that so probably in a couple of days we will set up a platform before 30th of April whoever donates the maximum amount for beat the virus fund they will get the painting and others if they want we will make copies of it they can also have a smaller copy this is this painting is five by five in size so before you bite you must see if you have a wall it's five feet by five feet anyway we'll leave it there please questions this question is from jay namaskaram Sadhguru couple of days back you spoke in darshan that you or anyone can intervene post death only if karmic shell has become really thin but earlier you had mentioned that if one sits with you there is no coming back for that person I'm little anxious are you going back on your promise promise now now you're some kind of a disciple whoever you are instead of telling me Sadhguru I will make it as thin as you want I'll make it as thin as it is needed for you instead of that you asking me so you promise then will you stick to the promise or are you going back this is the same position that Ananda Tirtha took well this needs to be understood see the problem with people is they have taken their individual experience of life rather too seriously they don't understand that this individual experience that you have of life is just your magnanimity of creation that's all there's nothing to it they can just pull the plug anytime see right now the virus you gone today you're fine and tomorrow morning you may be gone entire world nearly the entire world is under lockdown just an invisible virus so you understand that's how fragile your individual existences at the same time it is built in such a way that it can last and persist its persistence how persistent this individual life is simply depends upon how identified it is with its individual self and the fundamental what to say the structures which form an individual life see you are a you as a life you're essentially a life then a body then a little bit of mind out of this combination you become a person because you become a person you got a whole lot of stuff in the world you have a home you have a family you have this you have that you even have a guru full all the accessories you have full on but you need to understand you're essentially a piece of life when it comes to body we can say this is my body that's your body when it comes to the structure of our mind I can say this is my mind that's your mind but when it comes to life there is no such thing as my life and your life it is one great phenomena of life happening you can capture a little and claim it is mine or you can continuously enhance the volume of life you can only enhance it if you are not identified with the little that you have gathered little that you gathered is because of variety of parameters just by the privilege of birth then with growth some may grow some may not grow I'm saying as life body grows mind grows activity grows but this this life become more depends on many things if you capture a little bit of life and get identified with that you will just stay as that you say you're a spiritual seeker I also believed you as you believe me when when I said after you came and sat and you said Sadhguru we're really seekers we're genuine then I said if you sit with me this is it for you so are you going back and your promise that you're a seeker if you are a seeker that means you're always seeking you're not just identified with what you have if that is so if this life keeps expanding the karmic structure becomes thinner and thinner if you really allow it to expand it'll become flimsy I said if you make it very thin and flimsy it'll be easy for me but now you're holding me on my promise doesn't matter Sadhguru I am thick as a ball but you promised I am not going on back on my promise let me explain the process to you after that you choose whether you want to be thick or thin this question is coming because little thick here also I think thick means strong you know the most popular maybe popular is not the word most prevalent nut in Isha Yoga center is the ground nut I took back the word popular prevalent so a ground nut is not really a nut it's a legume it's not really a nut but because it grows in the ground and it needs some protection nature gave it a nice shell because it has a shell it is pretending to be a nut just like you it's not really a nut but acts like one so throughout throughout your entire life you can go about like a real nut which most people manage to do but what death means is they crack the nut death is a nut cracker so the shell is cracked physical body and this mind has come apart but you know it has an inner layer of protection you have seen that little papery thin another layer on the ground nut it's called testa this is very important as long as this is there though the outer shell is broken once again it can become it can sprout become a plant and again become one nut will become many nuts they say there were only two nuts Adam and Eve look at you now so this one nut if you leave that skin it can sprout and become many nuts those many nuts again will go through the same process and become many many nuts so what I promised you is that when the time comes this thin layer papery layer I will skin it for you if you're well soaked simply easily we can remove if you're not well soaked I have to use my nails and do if you want that I will do it hurts that's all if I forcefully remove a layer from you it will hurt but if you have soaked it nicely and it become loose then simply if I touch it it will come away that choice is yours I said if it's become really thin very easy it will come off now if you remove this cover still there is a nut only thing is it cannot sprout anymore once you remove this such a fragile papery thin cover if you remove after that it becomes incapable of sprouting because it's a die-quarter ridden and it becomes two and after that it cannot sprout the fundamental mechanics of re sprouting is taken away simply because this thin layer was peeled I said if you sit with me for a moment this doesn't mean you just came and sat here and left it means you really maybe sit was not the word if you be with me maybe I should have said I believed if you're here you're with me because I'm like that I'm not when I'm here with you I'm here with you I'm no other way I believed you're also like that and I said if you sit with me then you come and sit there like this ok I said what happened what can I do so anyway I'm not going back on my word if you really sat with me be if you were being with me for a moment it's a mechanism that naturally the peel will come off whether it'll come off effortlessly or little painfully that depends on you but it'll come off but the nut is still there cannot sprout but hangs around this is the promise we made that we will see you don't sprout back again but two days ago when we were talking we were talking about totally dissolving something for dissolution without some cooperation now preventing you from sprouting back again so that no more nuts come out of you well I promised you I'll stick to the promise but I thought we will raise your aspiration instead of just not sprouting you are able to when you're freshly dead we were talking about post death only right yes other day okay when you rely if you do it it's most fantastic but you could not you worked on it became loose but still could not so you are freshly dead maybe that's wrong terminology but I like to use it freshly born freshly dead so when you're freshly dead at that time to completely dissolve is a good possibility so whether you will let me do that or just take away the peel so that you cannot sprout and take your own time to dissolve but cannot take on one more body that I promised you I will stick to that now I was upping my promise I am upgrading my promise not taking away the promise I am upgrading the promise not just not sprouting dissolution itself can be done if only you are in a mode of cooperation you think being like a rock like this and you want to dissolve how to dissolve a rock it'll take million years not that a rock cannot be dissolved it will take a million years but if you become sweet like sugar or at least like salt within minutes we can dissolve you that's all I was saying not going back on the promise so what will make you work or strive little more with stronger intent so that you can also reduce the labor for your guru this also you must think hello this also you must think not only about how you will get liberated you must also think how can I reduce the work for my guru such a thought never occurred to you so if that is the way you are then there are ways to hasten your sadhana this happened a jewish boy he will be your old boy studying in a school he was doing great with all the subjects but only in mathematics he was not doing very well jewish families are like this one subject not doing well is not okay others would say wow he's doing great in everything else math he doesn't like it's alright that's not how Indian families and jewish families work if you get 98 Indian mother will ask you where is the other 2% what happened anybody else they will throw a party and celebrate my son got 98% not in India they will ask you where is the other 2% because we come from cultures where human striving is of the highest value not 98% 99% are you striving or not so they decided though they are a jewish family they decided to move him to a catholic school where the math teacher was supposed to be good so the boy went there and after 4 months the boys 100 out of 100 in every test then the parents were so happy then they thought they should give a gift to the math teacher then they said we want to come and meet your math teacher he's really done miracle for you you're getting 100 out of 100 in mathematics which you are not able to do for the last one and a half years in the other school the boy said it's got nothing to do with the math teacher then how is it happening they said well i saw a guy in the school who's been nailed to a plus mark so that's it we can do something like that for you one of these guys will nail him or hang him upside down see the snakes like this if we do to one of you others will strive if that's the only way you get it what can i do i believe in doing things the way it works next question is from richa can a disciple have two masters in case one is initiated by two special masters is it advised to stick to one way and one master or practice what is taught by both of them if i follow one master then does it mean that i'm being disrespectful to the other one who choose to initiate me on the path well being with a guru or a spiritual master he's not a question of loyalty but it's a question of integrity what is the difference between loyalty and integrity loyalty is coming from certain emotions that you have integrity means that you are dedicated to the purpose for which you are there any place you are in some place what is the purpose of that place you are absolutely dedicated to that you will not do something else there this is happening to lot of you you came here really to do spiritual sadhana but you're falling in love with somebody getting married and all this happening happening something something will happen either you will get headache or you will get back kick or you will get a worm in your head or your heart pulsates like that so many things will happen life you don't understand that deviating from what is the purpose for which you are there is just a question of lack of integrity does it mean to say i should not do any of these things well you must make a conscious decision that's why you have come to build a life around a spiritual center it's okay with me i'm not expecting everybody on totally on fire but you came here with fire and then compromised that's a little bit of adjusting integrity loyalty is a different thing loyalty is not needed in this affair so whoever you are if you are here and you've gone somewhere and you're struggling please don't struggle just dump me and wherever you are just do that because the very fact you've gone somewhere is in some way for whatever reason it did not work here so you've gone somewhere at least there you do well as long as you grow what's my problem or if you were somewhere and now you're here and you're struggling here dump the nonsense that you carried from elsewhere and do what you require to do here because this is like you know there are coconut gardens and mango gardens you don't go into a coconut grow take one of these trees and plant it on top of the mountain it won't last for a month that's not where it works it can only work here nor will you take a mango tree and plant it in a desert not going to work so the very fact you moved from one place to other either by your own choice or some other compulsion or maybe that master is dead or i'm dead when it happens well once you find the need to go somewhere give yourself absolutely there wherever that is because you can't be in this place and dig in that place it doesn't work like that does it mean you're disrespectful to somebody no see it's like this you have a mother she took care of you well you loved her immensely well for some reason she passed on now your aunt has come or maybe your wife or maybe your neighbor maybe somebody else let's say your aunt because other things will evoke emotions which are not we cannot settle within this question now your aunt is taking care of you but you love your mother but you must eat the food that your aunt serves you cannot eat the food that your mother serves it doesn't matter how much you cherish her how much you love her you can love her respected everything but you must eat your aunt's food otherwise you will not be nourished as simple as that so if you've gone from here somewhere else long distance it's very easy to love me yes very easy to love me long distance close up it's big trouble you can sit there and love me and have regard and respect for me so that your conscience will be settled because i want it settled quickly because this is not a very long life it's a brief life handling all this rubbish when will you get there settle it quickly i have no issue you can love me or hit me both ways i have no issue but settle it somehow and focus on what you need to do but if you come from elsewhere to here the same thing goes you can have as much love and respect for anybody you want i would say have that for just about everybody in the world i have been telling you if you walk on the street because i have seen people doing this they'll be going like this suddenly somebody say sadguru sadguru i say dammit this not going to work for you this is not going to work for you that if you see sadguru you're like this otherwise you're like this this not going to work for you no spiritual path is going to work for you like this in some way you must see the same quality in everybody man woman child donkey i'm particularly picking the donkey donkey cow dog tree rock you must if you really we'll going back to the first question if you've really sat with him for sure okay then you must see that in everything you must treat everything like it's sadguru then there's no problem so where you are what practice you're doing when it comes to practices as i said now your mother is gone you're in your aunt's place you must eat the food that she serves you can love your mother as much as you want nobody can stop it but you must eat and nourish yourself only from the food what your aunt serves don't sit there thinking your mother will serve you once again she will not and she cannot so do not bring such conflicts because it's a brief life with all this complications of emotions where will you go the fact that you moved somewhere obviously something did not work for you wherever else you gone please make it work at least there when you are here you are thinking how to escape now you're somewhere else you're wondering maybe i should have been here don't do this once you leave a place wherever the hell you go make it work there at least just don't give up your striving that's all that matters when you give up your striving i'm deeply disappointed with you yes if you go away and your striving is intense i don't care it's okay with me that's less trouble for me hello if you are deeply striving and you go away good for me if you give up your striving this is wasted life for you wasted effort for me don't do that this happened a boy came home from school and said dad do you remember you told me if i pass my math tests you will give me 50 dollars the father looked up from the magazine that he was reading and said yes i remember son well father i have saved you the expense already life is invested now don't try to save my life the moment you sat here we invested i invested my life into you in some way now don't try to save it if i wanted to save it i would have saved it myself it's already spent don't try to save the money that's already spent seven o'clock