 Shiva shiva shamho shamho shiva shiva shamho shiva shankar shiva shankar virus from one effectively managed in a few nations, in a few other nations it's bursting forth. Unfortunately, United States has crossed hundred thousand confirmed cases with probably 2700 deaths and in the world the deaths are nearing or today it's crossed 28,000. India still doing well. There is lot of apprehension that it may burst forth in the next few days, but mortality rate is considering the population it's very good. Various reasons some of them we've looked at it. I think one important thing that we need to acknowledge is the governments particularly the central government and the state governments together rather they've done what is called as sealing the drastic borders. So wherever infections have happened the borders of each district which is like a county have been sealed. So because of that even if it is in the next district it is not really coming into this one. They kind of localized everything rather than allowing it to spread across the country which is a wonderful way of managing this and the medical professionals, health workers, they are doing a great job the security agencies, the forces doing a great job, armies on standby but not deployed yet. Hope there won't be. Certain groups of people not cooperating but largely citizens have cooperated wonderfully well across the nation but this is only the fourth day inconveniences, frustrations and struggles will grow by the day. We need to manage that. Well the only choice we have is that we come out of this as better human beings than what we were before this. Well one thing is one has become famous so I think today there are lots of questions let's address the questions. Sir Guru the first question is from Mark. This is a very challenging time both physically and emotionally for healthcare professionals on the frontline of coronavirus epidemic. Being fatigued and feeling drained it is very difficult to know appropriate limits to maintain proper self-care while still continuing to provide the best possible attention to all those in need of our services. Sadguru what is your advice for all of us overwhelmed healthcare workers to keep us going during this crisis? First of all for all the healthcare workers starting with India, now United States, Italy, UK, many other nations where it's flared up. First of all we bow down to them because they're putting themselves and their families to risk. I want you to imagine a scenario where if healthcare workers they were not they did not take the job to die. They took the job to serve and to make a living. If it becomes too risky because in every nation where there are deaths a significant percentage is healthcare workers. If they say we don't want to do this you can imagine the plight of the rest of the population. So Mark to you and to many others like you who are out there in every nation doing this we bow down to you. Not only that now about 20 of our Isha Yoga Center volunteers have come up and we put them outside from tomorrow. They are going out in the villages assisting the local authorities in identifying and treating these cases. So our volunteers also stepping out to do this we are choosing young people so that they will be able to withstand this process in case they get infected they should be able to come out of it. So we're trying to do our bit but we are not doing what you're doing putting yourself and your family and if you have children at home putting them all to risk. So at a time like this this is not a time for me to tell you do this meditation do that meditation come and do in engineering I will not do such things. But for doctors and nurses who are working in such conditions in United States to start with we will offer the in engineering online free of cost and and the app the Sadhguru app is anyway there in which there are some practices particularly Isha Kriya and there is Upayoga if you can pick it up and do whatever you can it'll be good for you. Here for all the local people in the rural areas in Tamil Nadu we are going to teach them a new very simple practice a Kriya which is very simple. We will be demonstrating this after some time you can also look at it and we will send a video for you this also can be done one thing is this will enhance your lung capacity this will increase or push up the immune capabilities and above all the practice that we will demonstrate after some time now if you start doing it now let's say you're able to do it well right now and after five days you're not able to do you are very sure that you have some lung infection may not be this virus from one but maybe something else but you have some issue in the lungs that will be very clear it's almost like a test whether your respiratory apparatus are functioning well or not that is the nature of the practice we are mainly doing this in the rural areas but we will also put it on the national television here we will put it on website and wherever else in all the other properties please pick this up and do it but for all doctors and other health workers who are the frontline health workers who are exposed to possibility of infection voluntarily for all of you we will offer this in engineering online free of cost I know this will not compensate for the risk that you're taking sir sir guru the next question is from Alex from triple IS Tennessee the latest statistics show that United States now host the largest number of coronavirus cases in the world this has introduced a new level of apprehension amongst us here in the Asia Institute what can those of us residing here do to best reduce anxiety levels and maintain focus I thought all of you are spiritual seekers and you're anxious well many times in many different ways I've told you if you just remove one thought from your mind ninety percent of your spiritual sadhana is done this one thought is what about me you can't get rid of this one stupid thought then you will slog for lifetimes and not much will happen this one thought goes away sadhana will fly sadhana will make you fly without removing this you must understand this this is like you get into your boat you tight the pier and then row hard scenery will change you will get old and die one day that'll be one scenery but incremental changes may happen nothing phenomenal will happen in your life because you tied up what about me what about me what about me is a tie-up Alex your young man huh you worried about what will happen and you're anxious you should be stepping out maybe not right now if things go totally out of control in the community around us I will ask you to step out and do what you can do as they're doing here in India well spiritual seekers if you're a seeker of any worth then you should not be bothered about this but what will happen what will happen what if I die we don't want you to die but unfortunately you will die anyway the only choice you have is either you die for nothing or you die for something I prefer to die for something so should I go and sacrifice myself for this one virus no you must be cautious cautious being cautious is one thing becoming fearful and anxious is another thing anxiety means I don't know what practice you've been doing above all if you're doing your practices even if the virus comes I would say for every Sadaka those who are doing their practices properly even if you get an infection I'm quite confident you will pass through this effortlessly unless you are unless you're over a certain age group which is vulnerable I should be worried you a young man is worried about this please drop this rubbish because I can't believe this anyway for 100 people you got nearly 4,000 acres of space and you worried Isha and should have inner sciences is nearly 4,000 acres 100 people you be should put you on the streets of New York City yes well Alex I'm telling you in case it so happens in McMenwell or in the local community in any of those towns if things get really serious and overwhelming for the medical community to handle no hospital beds no nothing then you're going to vacate your room and there will be virus infected people staying in your rooms I want you to know this this is my commitment to the world when I said I'm a mother to the world when I said I'm a mother to the world I didn't say it just to pass through some stupid program that I did I meant it and I live it you also better learn to live it so anyway if you have not done any other practice today we are going to teach a simple practice for the rural people in this area you can also pick it up and do it also teach it to some medical professionals all right and I think we are taking a few decisions about how to run the triple eye in the next 24 hours to prevent any infection but at the same time the young people below 50 years age of people you must be ready do your sadhana well keep yourself strong in case outside situation goes totally haywire in the community I want you to step out and do something useful out there if it goes absolutely out of control in Tennessee state we will offer the triple eye facility for the government or the medical services to use it I want you to know that we've already done that here we have offered isha yoga center for the state government fortunately it's not going in this direction right now but in case it goes out of control yes we will use the premises for everybody's well-being and we don't have four thousand acres out here and we have lots of people your four thousand people not acres this one here demo song and take another question sir guru the next question is from Evelyn from Indonesia namaskaram sir guru namaskaram how can people who are affected by death recover from the trauma and grief of losing family members during this epidemic how can people affected by a death recover how can they recover from the trauma and grief of losing family members well I am not trying to make light of the situation situation is of enormous gravity it's not that I don't understand this I get this better than anybody and I know more figures than what is in the news so I understand the gravity of the situation absolutely but this is what life is about that situations can become very heavy but if your mind also becomes very heavy you are part of the problem now when situations are heavy you must be light-hearted light-headed doing what you have to do sensibly if you also become heavy you are enhancing the problem you are not a solution world will be better without you this is not what a human being is made to be we claim or even scientifically it's proven that you are the peak of evolution at least on this planet I don't know if you'll pass the test elsewhere because even here most people are not passing the test but you are the peak of evolution that means you are the highest level of intelligence understanding perception everything if you're all this you must be able to handle life situations well gracefully wonderfully people are not dying only because of this virus right now unfortunately it's become a wave it's become a wave people are dying unnecessarily that's a problem otherwise every day nearly a quarter million people are close to that maybe hundred fifty to two hundred thousand people die now unfortunately extra what's the number per day worldwide six thousand maybe five six thousand people extra are dying there is a possibility that this can continue and grow into numbers which are unnecessary so I want you to understand death is not new in the world death is not new to families I'm not trying to be little whatever grief you have but I want you to understand this is what it means when things go wrong in our lives will we handle it gracefully or not this is the most important thing otherwise when everything is well of course everybody's wonderful well there are a lot of idiots even when things are going well they're nasty there is no salvation for them but when things go dead wrong in our lives still we are there doing what we have to do I want you to understand that those people who are consciously putting themselves to risk that's where our empathy should be really well it got me it got you we either made it or we did not make it that's a different matter yes when you lose a dear one in your life it's not a simple thing because your life gets dislocated you lost something precious in your life not easy but this is the nature of this existence this is the nature of your existence that you come and you go either you go first or somebody goes first unfortunately they're becoming victims to this spread of this virus whatever but we must understand this many many waves of epidemics have happened like this this time around it is going everywhere in the world but in cities in villages in countries in the past century if you look back there have been plagues there have been malaria there have been even influencers which have killed thousands and thousands of people this one is getting all the publicity because this has an ability to spread rapidly and without respecting national borders or whatever it's going everywhere and above all it is also the level of media and social media we have so this is getting a lot of publicity I'm not saying it's not dangerous it is dangerous it's unfortunate if you've lost somebody in your life and many of us may lose somebody in our lives or we may lose ourselves it's possible if it goes out of control so now that you know how painful it is let us do something so that many many more people need not go through the same pain when you lose somebody very dear to you how painful it is if you know this one commitment should be you must ensure this doesn't happen to another person and another person as far as possible all of it is not in our hands but we should not every citizen has to just take this commitment I will I shall not be a carrier I will not carry this virus and give it to another person first thing I will not let it come to me just in case it comes to me I will ensure it doesn't go to another person this much commitment we must take because there is pain pain is not just of somebody dying the pain is of people losing so many things people losing somebody who's dear to them is more painful than their death itself so we're sorry that you have to go through this unfortunately many many thousands of people are going through this present statistics say every day five to six thousand people but this number could multiply just like that it can just burst forth into a hundred thousand a day it's possible this is not to create fear and panic but we must understand what we are confronting we need to know what we are confronting right here what we are confronting right here is an unprecedented kind of situation at least in our generation we have never faced anything like this is the first time such a thing is happening whatever comes our way let's ensure that we handle it gracefully and make sure what happens to us doesn't happen to one more and one more and one more endlessly grief is not just a psychological process if you're very closely connected with another life grief will be in every cell in your body it'll hurt in every possible way yes it is like that that's why we are human we are human because we can hurt for somebody else's tragedy somebody dies and we hurt this is what makes us human suppose somebody dear to us dies and we don't hurt this is not human this is inhuman so yes it hurts to be human but that is why it it is worthwhile being human so I know I'm not doing anything to bring soulies to you but this is the nature of life and what's her name Evelyn Evelyn wherever you are whoever it is that you lost if you can send the latest picture of that person we will see what we can do and your picture also we will see what we can do I know this is a crazy thing I'm taking up but because now we may be flooded with thousands and thousands of this but because you asked as I said if somebody is hurting if it doesn't hurt you at all that means your forsaken your humanity it's out of that I'm saying this this one so this is a simple practice this is not relevant to people who are doing Shakti Chalana Kriya it's not necessary to do this but it could be done if you're doing Shakti La Chalana Kriya in the morning in the evening you can do it or in the afternoon if you're hungry enough you can do it otherwise for those of you who do not know any other powerful process this will help one thing is it will enhance your lung capacity another thing is it'll enhance your immunity and above all if you can do it today if you can do it for next five days and suddenly one day you're not able to do it this means definitely you got some respiratory problem it may not be this particular one virus but it could be anything else it doesn't matter what it is you must have yourself checked if you suddenly find you're not able to do it what it involves is that you have to fully stretch your tongue out with your mouth fully open and then breathe as powerfully as possible without jerking the abdomen but powerful pushing in and pushing out both inhalation exhalation twenty-one times and when it is done you roll up your tongue upward push it as further back as you can you don't have to use your hands it's not a good time to use your hands so roll up your tongue fully as much as you can very self like and still with your mouth open again breathe the same way inhalation exhalation as powerfully as possible but you must get the sound by making a constriction in your throat like this the sound must be there it's important that you make form a constriction at the throat level at the pit of your throat and make the sound and inhalation exhalation fully exhaling fully inhaling as powerfully as you can but without jerking the abdomen another twenty-one times with the tongue rolled up after this is done you close your eyes and inhale I'm sorry throughout the whole process you have your eyes closed you inhale fully you inhale fully and simply sit there with the fullness of breath for one minute if you are beyond a certain age or your breathing is not that good at least 30 seconds if you're not able to do one minute a minimum of 30 seconds you stay there when the day you're not able to do it you must understand that there is some problem with your respiratory system and you must go for a checkup Swami will demonstrate microphone one second Swami Swami Swami can you set up a microphone if you keep it that will it pick it up so what's being done is you one has to sit in a cross leg posture whichever way you can whatever your body permits and then use both the arms to push it up in such a way that your rib cage lifts off the diaphragm region fully pushed up and now extend your tongue fully out like this 21 times when it's done then close your mouth that also 21 times then close your mouth you exhale with your mouth closed making the sound at the pit of your throat by creating a constriction and then if you wish to sit quietly for some time with your eyes closed do that and then you can do whatever you're doing this is a simple practice that anybody could do you ensure your stomach is not too full you must be somewhat hungry even if you are not totally empty stomach at least you must be somewhat hungry kind of situation so this is a simple practice particularly those of you who are exposed either because you are medical personnel or your police or you're in some other service where you're exposed to infected people please make sure you do this this will make a lot of difference for you because