 Namaskaram to everyone. Well, why this youth and truth, how it came about. In the last thirty-thirty-five years that I've been active with people, this has been a constant refrain. Thousands of people ask me this question. Sadhguru, where were you when I was twenty? You have come when I'm sixty. If you had come when I was twenty, I would have lived like this, I would have done this, I would have done that. I've been hearing this continuously, so I decided we'll step out and meet all those people who are below twenty-five in this country and also outside. That's why this youth and truth, this effort is... See what we call as life, essentially is a combination of certain amount of time and a certain amount of energy. Time is passing for all of us at the same pace. If we sit, it passes, if we stand, it passes, if we do something, it passes, if we lay the round, it'll pass, awake, asleep, time is rolling for all of us. Only thing we can really manage is our energies. When you are youth, when you are in that segment of life which is called youth, you are at the peak of your energy. This is something most of the youth will not realize till it passes, that you are at the peak of your energy, life is not going to be the same way as year's roll. So when this energy is at its peak, which is the only manageable part of our life, time is not manageable, it just rolls. This is the only manageable part of our life, when it is raging at its peak. If only if we bring a certain level of clarity and balance in our life, this energy could become a phenomenal force in our life, this energy could become a possibility to unfold. Our genius, when I say our genius, every individual has a certain genius within them. Will they find the necessary atmosphere, necessary attitude, necessary situation within themselves and around themselves to unfold this or not is the only question? Unfortunately, I could be wrong with my percentages, but unfortunately I think not even 1% of the human population managed to really let their genius blossom in their life because they all get concerned with their livelihoods and other stuff. Very few people remain unconcerned and explore the possibility of what can be done at its peak within themselves and around themselves. So it is only 1%. My endeavor is in this generation, if we can raise this to 10%, we will have a brilliant world. We will have a phenomenal process happening in the world because after all the nation, the world, the society are the products of human genius. Whether we live as a mediocre society or as a brilliant society, is not decided by the masses on the street, but a few brilliant minds which come. If we increase the number and percentage of those brilliance, that brilliance to unfold in a society, that society will rage and flourish in a different way. In this culture, that's always been the focus, always individual genius has been the focus because ultimately that is the determining factor, that is why we are in the universities seeing how to assist you in this process, not just learning engineering or technology, but how to unfold the greatest technology that we already have, which is human mechanism. Thank you very much for having us here. Good evening everybody. I welcome you all here to the Youth and Truth Program at IIT Bombay. First of all, I would like to thank Mohit Chauhan sir for his splendid performance. He has infused so much energy in the audience here, around our classroom. I would also like to thank Isha Samthiti and Sound of Isha for their amazing display of raw talent. It has been mesmerizing. My name is Sahil Saklein. I am a PhD student, first year chemical engineering. Satguru, let me just say, we are honoured and blessed to have you here in our presence. Now, without further ado... It's a privilege for an uneducated man to be in our educational institution. It's perceptive. I didn't go there at the right time, so now I'm coming. So yeah, without further ado, I would like to comment this conversation with your permission. Yes. So, very often in lives we come across crossroads where we are compelled to choose between two options which were equally pleasing. For instance, I just graduated my B-Tech this year and I had a few options. I had options to do MS in Cornell and Johns Hopkins University abroad or to do a PhD here at IIT Bombay. My heart was leading me towards the US lifestyle but my brain told me that this is the right thing, a PhD at IIT Bombay is the right thing for my career. But every time, evidently I'm here at IIT Bombay but every night when I go to sleep, I fantasize and I think about how my life in the US would have been, how, you know, I wonder how it would have been. So when I'm at such a stage, could you tell me what exactly this conflict of interest is? What should I be doing? So, we must understand this. People are always thinking when it comes to education, career, choice of partners, marriage, at various points, what is the best thing to do? Let me tell you, there is no best thing to do in the world. Really there is no best thing to do. Even if you take a very simple thing and put everything that you have into it, if you throw yourself into it, it could become a great thing. Is it the best thing? No, there is no best thing because how do you decide what is best? What I am doing is best or what you are doing is best? There is no such thing. Is spiritual process the best thing or chemical engineering the best thing? It will be foolish even to ask that question, isn't it? It is just that if you throw your life into something, it can become a great thing. So don't look for best things because you will waste your life. Always wondering what's the best thing. People come to me, they've been married for thirty-five years, have three-four children. Sadhguru, I don't know if I made the right choice. I said, well, it looks like you've not been thinking, you've been acting four children. So till the end of your life you can go on thinking what is the best thing, what is the best thing, there is no best thing. Whatever we put our heart and soul into and do it, it's a great thing. It may be a simple thing in somebody else's eyes, but in our experience it's a great thing and that's what we should do. Namaskaram, Sadhguru. My name is Hyya and I'm a first-year student here, studying in the Aerospace Department. Being a college student, we live in dorms and hostels and we're surrounded by people day in and day out. And with people comes openings and ideas. So, for instance, let's say I got up in the morning and I got ready for class and I'm about to leave and one of my friends joins me and she casually commends that your hair doesn't look very good today, like what's wrong with it. So, some of us are out the time that we'll rush back to our rooms and just fix it somehow, that might even mean that we're late for class. But let's say, I didn't even do that, let's say I didn't even do that, but that thing would keep going in my mind, like throughout. I would be in the class but I'll be thinking about my hair. So, it is... Others' openings and ideas have a very deep effect on... Although it varies from person to person, the amount of effect it has, but how do we take the good out of it and still not lose our individuality and uniqueness in the process? Now, in this world, more money, probably ten times or even hundred times more money is being spent on hair products than on the brain products. So, it looks like a whole lot of people don't care what is inside, they only care what is outside. So, for those people who are in a certain state of their life where they need to intensely focus on something, very intensely, where they need undivided attention to achieve what they want to achieve, normally we shave their heads, you know. So that they don't have to stand in front of the mirror every day. See, I don't have to stand in front of the mirror, every day I look the same. So, I don't have to check, how am I looking today. So, when you are focused on something else, certain things get less significance. How we look, is it important? Yes, it is. To some extent, it is important in our lives. But right now, you are not going to walk the ramp, you are going to the class, okay? So, all you have to do is bundle up your hair, tie it up on top of your head so that they can't see your hair, they can just see the knot and they can see the size of your head, that's a good thing. It is not that one should not be concerned about their appearance, of course it matters. But where does it matter, where does it not matter, is something we have to decide. If it matters too much everywhere, I have seen people about twenty-seven times in a minute, that if you are adjusting your hair half the time in your life, what the hell are you going to do of any significance? I am not saying you should not have hair, I am not saying you should not keep it well, but if you are so concerned about your appearance, obviously you are a bit empty inside. There is some more stuff within you, you wouldn't be so concerned about your appearance. Taking care of our appearance to a certain extent is important. Well, if you are going into the films or you are a model or something, you have to take care of it much more maybe, but for an engineer, if you are presentable, it's fine. And sir, it doesn't end at the appearances, it's about the general opinions of life and about ourselves. Let's say anything about us that they have, that people have, they somehow... Whatever kind of opinions. Maybe behavioral traits, like somebody tells me, you speak very loudly, maybe. You speak very loudly all the time, why do you do that? Maybe, I mean, it hasn't happened with me, I am just giving an example. So, how do we take... I was about to tell you your trousers are torn, but I didn't tell you. There was a time when I lived in Denims, nothing but Denims, okay? Only Levi's. And because of motorcycling and all kinds of things, they would get torn. We had to get it from United States, otherwise they were locally not available in sixties. So, we used to patch it up, but now people are tearing it up and then wearing it. So, obviously, obviously the message is, you don't care a hoot, what other people think about you. Let that come into every aspect of your life, you don't really care what other people saying about it. That's the idea, isn't it? The idea of tearing up a new pant and walking is, you don't really care, but that's not the truth with a whole lot of people. How is it torn? Your pant is torn better than mine. So, we've gotten into this mess essentially because we have not dealt into what this is. There is no profound experience of yourself. Who you are is a bundle of opinions that other people have given. You are... If ten people say you are good, you will become very good, it's like this. You went outside, somebody told you, oh, you are the most wonderful person on this planet. Then you are floating on cloud number what? Twenty-nine. Twenty-nine, huh? In Tamil Nadu, we do eleven. So, you are floating on cloud number whatever and you came home, they told you who you really are and suddenly it will crash the cloud. Floating on a cloud is not a wise thing, you are bound to crash, isn't it? Hello? Floating on a cloud is not a safe thing to do, you are bound to crash. So, whatever this floating on cloud number whatever is not a good thing because somebody blows you up, I must tell you this, if you have to settle this within yourself, one important thing is, this happened to me in a certain way. My daughter started travelling with me when she was three-and-a-half months old alone. So, I am driving my little Maruti all over the country, this is the time when I am building Isha Foundation and my right leg is always heavy. So, I keep one hand on this little baby and drive full-on on the highways, going from town to town, various programs and stuff. So, she grew up in many people's homes, every... every week she is a new home. I made one rule to all of them, never teach the girl anything. You are not going to teach her ABC, you are not going to teach her 1, 2, 3, you are not going to teach her Mary had a little lamb, because I don't care whether Mary had a lamb or not. Nobody teaches her anything. So, because nobody is teaching her anything, she is all eyes and ears. By the time she is eighteen months, she is speaking three languages very fluently. Nobody thought her anything. I said, no rhymes, no 1, 2, 3, no ABC, nothing. She grew up like this and I wouldn't have sent her to school, but my schedules were crazy, plus no company of that age group around, she is the only girl. So, I put her into school. When she was around twelve, one day she came home little disturbed because of what happened at the school. And she said, you are teaching so many things to everybody, you are not teaching me anything. I said, well, I am not known to do these things unsolicited. Now that you have come, we could try something. I said, see this all you need to know. You never look down on anybody. Nor do you ever look up at anybody. Then she looked at me like this, what about you kind of thing. I said, see if you look up to me, you will miss me completely. If you look up to me, what will you do? You will take my picture and nail it into the wall. You will miss who I am. The value of who I am will be completely missed. If you look up to me, you have to just look at me for what I am, for everything that I do. Not look up to me. If you look up to me, you know. Nailing is all that will happen. So, this is a simple thing, never look down on anybody, never look up to anybody. As simple as it sounds, this means you have no judgment in your head as to what is good, what is bad, what is high, what is low, what is virtue, what is sin. You are willing to look at life just for what it is. If you see life simply for what it is, you will effortlessly navigate through life. All these things will not even be a issue in your life. I am Gaganpreet Singh, pursuing Masters in Geoinformatics and Remote Sensing in CSRE department at IIT Bombay, sir. Sir, I... I am sure this guy is popular out here, right? Satguru, I belong to land of five rivers and now wherever I go there, for all the able people I see, everyone dreams of going to land of maple leaf right now, that we call it Kannada. And when I interact with them, they have the one motive, we will go there, we will earn in dollars and send back and build, adopt one of the village, build roads, all hospital schools. What is harm in it? Then I see soldiers, farmers, social activists, teachers, who are working at grass root level. So if I get opportunity, because in IIT we will get some good opportunity to go abroad and earn Canadian dollars or work here and whatever we can contribute in the tax, that is quite minuscule as compared to the funding which we get from abroad. Which route should I take? Oh! Say India is an ancient culture. An ancient culture means there are many benefits because there is immense wisdom and there is also a heap of bullshit. To sift through this bull and get to the wisdom takes some effort. The five rivers are in a pathetic state. Yes. And the land has been ripped through completely. So naturally people want to go elsewhere and do the same to another continent. Well Punjab was an important part of the green revolution in this country. That's very wonderful. But at the same time this green revolution became relevant in our country simply because we were in a desperate state. We had every three to four years bad famines where sometimes millions of people died in the last century. But the last famine we have had is probably 1962 or three. After that we have not had a famine. We have had droughts, bad agricultural years but no famines, no mass deaths at least. So it's fantastic. But these were desperate measures what we took because to beat that situation. So we exploited the land in a certain way which is not healthy long term but we did it because it was kind of emergency for the nation. So now should I go abroad and send Kennedy and dollars? I'm not saying you should not go abroad if you think you're going to learn something better there acquire some more skills than you can gather here. If there are possibilities or even if you're going to work there but don't think in terms of you'll earn dollars then come back and build your village. That's a long shot. Actually what we need in this country is not necessarily dollars. What we need in this country is a corruption free clear focused and dedicated people. That's what we're missing. Money is there. We don't really need money from outside really. It is just that we are constantly busy working against each other at so many levels. Okay. Our energies are simply spent throwing things at each other all the time. If I if you don't understand what I'm saying just turn on one of the English news channels and watch in the evening. How much energy is simply wasted simply saying rubbish against each other endlessly. And slowly we are losing all sense of civilization in this argument. We think we are debating. No we are just shouting abuses at each other and think we are debating. A debate means to explore. To use two brains instead of one to explore something. That is a debate. Not simply throwing things at each other is not debate. We can as well as well throw stones at each other. Instead of hurling abuses at least it will end soon. So this is going on immense waste of energy no cleanliness when I say no cleanliness I mean a whole lot of people are simply innocent of integrity. They're not corrupt. They're just innocent of integrity. They don't know what it is. Because we are a nation who are not controlled by any moral code. Nobody told us thou shall not do this or that. Nobody told us. But in this culture we managed ourselves by constantly stirring up human consciousness in every generation. Well you also come from the land of gurus because the idea is to stir up human consciousness rather than give you a set of morals that to follow because morals can be subverted by anybody but when it arises within you it's a natural expression of who you are. So this has been the process but over a period of time because of invasions and occupations this system of transmitting consciousness or invigorating human consciousness those systems have largely collapsed. Today anybody can read a half a book which is considered sacred can become a guru and do whatever they want. All right? You have lot of them in land of five rivers because this system has collapsed people have not invested their life into knowing something they're just reading half a book and trying to preach. Reading book and preaching was significant when everybody else was illiterate. Now that literacy has grown you read a book and tell somebody it doesn't mean a damn thing they can read it themselves. So this is going to be become irrelevant even in a school and college in the coming years as technology develops reading a textbook and telling them what it is all about will become irrelevant in the next 10-15 years. So similarly reading scriptures and telling people what it is has already become pretty irrelevant because everybody can read and understand better than the preacher most probably. So this process of what shall I do should I go there and send dollars if you are going there to pursue something it is fine if you think there is some form of skill or education or knowledge or even a profession which is not available here you want to go there it is fine but you are going there to make dollars and send it back please don't waste your life like that there is so much to be done here if you have integrity why I am focusing on integrities this has been a scarce thing I must tell you this about seven eight years ago I was in united states and somebody told me sir guru if you type the word spiritual on the net every day over hundred thousand people are typing the word spiritual I said is that so that many people are typing the word spiritual because I never typed that word I said type it let's see what comes so on the google if you type spiritual first thing that comes up is a spa in Mexico second thing that comes up is a call girl in northern california she has spiritual sacks spiritual whatever whatever she knows the seo you know she's used spiritual in 25 different places in her website so if you say spiritual she comes up then I thought this is a shame for thousands of years anything spiritual means people looked east towards India so I said let's open a platform as the spiritual gateway to the world India so all the spiritual whatever nonsense you have everybody put their official page on one platform if they want to put more they'll have to pay but one page is free for everybody if the world types out spiritual this big site will come and every form of spirituality is there people can choose where they want to go and we thought we will bring some kind of a standard three things you must do three things you must not do when people from outside the country come to you so I for the first time I had never met any spiritual leader in the country I had never seen them I had never shared platforms with them nor I had visited the Rajshams I never had time for those things I was just busy with what I was doing for the first time I made an attempt to meet a lot of people well I met many absolutely wonderful people who are doing great work but it was also amazing to see that a whole lot of them are completely innocent of integrity they just don't know what it is really it's incredible if I walk into an airport or a golf course I meet better men who don't know anything about spirituality but they are better men just to give you an example I am walking in this ashram of theirs somebody a big man as an organization they are way bigger than us so I am walking with him and then I see some nice trees in the ashram then I say you really have some nice trees big trees is it without looking at the trees aha that's our punctivity I looked there there were only four trees then I said but there are only four trees there said aha four five aha you know this four five is all maya four he he's just he's just surprised that I'm actually counting four when he says five it's five four and five is all maya you know there's only zero on the infinite in between all is maya so whether it is politics or any profession including spirituality unfortunately one ingredient that is really weak in india right now is integrity if you think you have integrity please stay in india we don't want one more to escape sir guru I spend lots of time on my phone ridiculous amounts of time it helps me with my notes it keeps me updated with my calendar and connected with the entire world but the the more we depend on it the more it replaces our menial task now technological advances are so steep and rapid that it is predicted that one day humanity will pass through a time period called singularity it is that time period when machines will be intelligent enough to devise machines which are more intelligent than them and this will happen recursively so my question here is do you think that these technological advances which are happening will ultimately cost mankind's doom not necessarily see you must understand hundred years ago how many things we had to do with our body and today how many things we have to do with our body has come down 10,000 percent what do you think at least because everything had to be done using human muscle now if you press the switch everything will happen you have seen in all those period movies two guys will be standing next to your Maharaja and doing the fan see all those guys hanging there like this so many things every time something new came people felt threatened who are doing that pankha job they felt threatened their jobs will go away of course they found something else now nobody is doing pankha anymore like this you don't have to worry you will find something else to do if it is uncanny that you asked this question because in the last last one year I have been invited to various international conferences to speak about artificial intelligence I said why me I am a natural intelligence why are you calling me to speak about artificial intelligence their whole thing is these are all I am talking about top level people scientists and others their whole thing is sadguru if this intelligence unfolds if artificial is AI they are calling it we think air India but if this AI unfolds we will all lose our jobs I said how fantastic find an AI like that for me so that I lose my job and I will just live for isn't it fantastic if all of us lose our jobs and we are on a holiday for the rest of our lives everything we have to do if a machine does it isn't it great that human beings can use their intelligence and time for creating something else altogether rather than doing menial jobs on a daily basis if I ask you to go right now and if I ask you to hold pankha for me because there's no fan is not working is it not a waste of your intelligence hello huh yes it's good for me but is it not a waste of your life in so many ways so similarly it's a waste of life right now that most people are thinking how to earn a living how to earn a living God damn it even earthworm is earning a living a grasshopper is earning a living a bird is earning a living a every other creature is earning a living with such a big brain what is a human being concerned about earning a living it shouldn't even be a thing but right now human problem is it's not about earning a living you want to earn living like somebody else then there is no end to your life you want to earn a living for this life there's really no problem I want to live like you now this is a problem this is an endless pursuit this is not going to end at any time see the most affluent nations why does a human being seek affluence either an individual or a society why do we seek affluence at the first level it's a choice of nourishment that you can eat whatever you want that's the first step of earning money the next step is a choice of lifestyles now countries like united states you're only going to canada countries like united states have a choice of nourishment and a choice of lifestyles but 70% of US population is on prescription medication with such a choice of nourishment and lifestyles they should have at least if not the most conscious and wonderful at least been the healthiest generate plan ever population on the planet isn't it so their health care bill is 3 trillion dollars people estimate by 2030 their health care bill could be anywhere around 7 to 7.5 trillion dollars already it is bigger than our economy one thing that can sink that nation is a health care bill so just affluence is not going to help so when artificial intelligence comes and does all the things that we want to do that we are no more concerned about earning a living every human being on this planet their living is taken care of i think human genius will unfold it's a tremendous possibility of course fools who don't know what to do with themselves they'll bum around they'll get drunk they'll get drug they'll lie here and there but a whole lot of humanity will come to terms with it and fire up in a different way i think it's great times we don't really have to worry about your phone can i tell you a joke you're okay yes yes because you look serious side oh man came into the office with half his face burnt out show me the other side of your face okay so his boss asked what happened to you why is your face burnt up like this no no i just took a call i attended a call so what you taking a telephone call will burn your face like this no i was ironing my clothes phone rang so right now the problem is not technology technology is a tremendous enabler i remember the time when i was building this foundation like once in a fortnight or so i have a telephone call date when i stopped somewhere on the highway that blue colored tin box metal box you seen them std local international whatever is written on that so i get into those things and start making hundreds of calls but today if i just tell my phone it calls oh i'm glad technology is advancing life has become so much easier and better but some people don't know how to use it they're always stuck to it many people are getting killed using the phones so many people are getting killed so the problem is not of technology the problem is of compulsiveness so many people are getting killed see it is still unfortunate there are so many children and people dying because of malnourishment we have the highest malnourished population in the world but more people on this planet die because they don't know when to stop eating yes compulsiveness food is not the problem isn't it hello is food good or good for us or no hello yes food is good for us but if you don't know when to if you start eating you don't know when to stop eating then it becomes a serious problem the same goes for the phone you start using it but you don't know when to stop using so the problem is not technology the problem is not anything in our lives fundamentally we are living an unconscious life we are living a compulsive life when you live compulsively then everything is a problem there is no one specific thing which is a problem everything is a problem all the great wonderful things that come our way become serious problem in our life simply because we do it compulsively in society when something goes wrong for let's say someone is not well so there are three types of people ones who go to the hospital then there are the ones who rush to the temples and then there are the third ones who rush to the astrologers so we are actually taught from the beginning that inanimate objects and things around us have the power to control our lives for example the this for example my mother when two to three years back told me to wear a ring which had the gemstones I still have it on because of course because that's what mom has said oh you need to take it over the way the boys will think for good luck you give it in the pocket if it's on your finger they will think you're so that's another issue to it I really do not understand like how can an inanimate object control so much going on in in my life or in anybody else's or can it really do that see human life is made in such a way particularly human life for all the animals nature has fixed clear cut path what they can do what they cannot do their lives happen within between two lines they cannot go below that they cannot go about that within that they live that's why they look so sure and certain and they're peaceful once their stomach is full they're all peaceful do you see this hello are you on talking terms with me or no one do you see all the animals once their stomach is full they're peaceful but human beings are thinking are they being thought that peace is the ultimate goal of life a buffalo full stomach he sits peacefully and for you that is the ultimate goal what a shame what a buffalo can do with the stomach full of grass or whatever else he eats you have to hold it as the ultimate goal is it not a shame I'm asking you but this is being thought like this peace is the ultimate goal of your life but coming to more fundamentals if you're not peaceful today can you enjoy your dinner today no can you just enjoy walking down the street can you enjoy the company of a few people around you no if not ecstatic at least you must be peaceful to enjoy anything in your life so I'm asking should it be the first step in your life or the last step in your life such people will only rest in peace now do other things have influence on us particularly inanimate objects the gems and the diamonds and things like that and also the planets see the nature of the planet has a certain influence on the life upon it you will see on full moon days and new moon days many animals behave in certain specific ways simply because they're influenced by it you know the whole ocean is rising when ocean which is millions and millions of tons of water is able to rise when 72% of your body is water you think it won't rise at all it does so I don't know if you're conscious of it but in India most people are not only in India anywhere wherever there are mental asylums and things they are conscious of it on full moon days and new moon days people get exaggerated levels of disturbance in their minds so people think new moon and full moon will cause madness no that's not the truth if you're very loving full moon day you will become more loving if you're very joyful on a full moon day you will become more joyful if you're little crazy you'll get little more crazy whatever is your quality gets little hyped on that day so those who are romantic they want full moon day those who want to meditate they want full moon day those who are little mad they don't want full moon day essentially it's hyping things up a little bit of course today there is another kind of textbook science which is going on which doesn't absorb anything except what happens in the laboratory these people are going on saying this is all rubbish this that no if you pay attention to your own body you will know without looking up without looking at the calendar you will know when is full moon day when is new moon day by yourself simply if you pay sufficient attention to your own system because it's visible in your system certain behavior is there but with the human being the problem is or people seeing it a problem any possibility if you do not explore that possibility in your eyes it looks like a problem what is a problem is always a possibility isn't it you don't like it no if you're not willing to say yes no something you can at least say hmm what is a problem is always a possibility or no what is a possibility if you do not explore it if you do not realize what is the possibility it seems like a problem to you so do inanimate things have impact on you yes if you allow it because this is the human predicament that who you are is not determined by nature it is left open for you left open for you means you are the only creature on this planet who's been given the freedom to shape your own life is it a small thing this is a product of millions of years of evolution that today after all these creatures from a single-celled animal after this millions of forms here we are sitting this is the only creature which can shape its own life the way it wants every other creature has to live by the laws of nature we can shape our own lives it is this freedom that human beings are suffering if you're suffering your bondage it's all right if you're suffering your freedom you're a disaster isn't it you're suffering your bondages you're chained to something you're suffering that understandable but you're suffering because you're free most human beings are suffering because they are free they're always trying to bind themselves to something or somebody all the time because freedom scares them because freedom is a pathless path freedom is a open terrain there's no fixed line because there is no fixed pathway most people feel terrified but the highest value in human life is freedom isn't it so hello in this culture the highest value in this culture is not god not heaven mukti moksha liberation freedom is the highest value established that no matter what you do you must seek mukti you can do whatever you do with your life but all that process should be towards your liberation you must be moving towards higher and higher levels of freedom on a daily basis otherwise your life is not worth it because you're getting entangled with the process of life even if you go to heaven it's an entanglement see I'm sure before you joined IIT you're still keeping Bombay right I see before you joined IIT when you have written your you know whatever entrance tests and stuff only thing is somehow I want to get in I want to get in because it's like heaven entering heaven no matter what I want to get in that's the only thing I want after you get in see how many problems I'm asking you a simple question being on this planet do you have any proof that you are not already in heaven and making a mess out of it do you have any proof suppose you took off from this solar system and looked down at this solar system whatever these 12-14 planets and satellites and works does planet earth definitely look like a heavenly body among all these yes or no so you are already on heaven and making a mess out of it and now you want to go to another heaven yes like he wants to go to Canada this culture does not value heaven does not value god values only freedom we want to be even free from the creation and the creator mukti moksha is the ultimate value because this is not a philosophical value this is not a religious value this is something every life is longing for only thing is most human beings are short-sighted that they long for it in installments see whatever people are seeking right now if they have nothing they will say if i get 100 rupees per day shiva that's all i want that's a prayer 100 rupees fell 100 rupees fine fine fine three days 100 rupees fine fourth day only 100 rupees shiva what's the problem with you are you so stingy at least a thousand rupees a day okay thousand rupee not fair is it in legal tender thousand rupee not no no okay two thousand rupees fell i don't want to get into trouble with that where is thousand rupees falling for sath guru where does he have no no two thousand rupees fell you asked for thousand two thousand fell wonderful shiva fantastic after ten days only two thousand rupees it doesn't matter how much it falls something more something more something more isn't it this is not about money people think it's about money think people think it's about wealth power pleasure love knowledge know these are all different currencies essentially you're looking for expansion because you feel suffocated if you keep you in the same place for too long you feel suffocated you want expansion you want to be something more all the time yes or no always something more if i make you the king of this planet not just canada if i make you the king of this planet will you settle with fulfillment no you will look at other planets you look at the new galaxies so there is something within a human being which wants to expand limitlessly that means it wants to be free nothing else looking at this carefully observing the nature of the life within that it wants to expand in a limitless way the only thing it is longing for is to become boundless that means it's seeking freedom that is why in this culture we established the highest value is mukti or moksha which means liberation or freedom not heaven not because heaven is just another place maybe little better accommodations but same trouble after some time isn't it satguru i can proudly say that i am in the top institute of eminence which we now call heaven and every student who has come here has burned himself inside out to come to this place and that can be said about each and every institute in india and after coming to this heaven also our days and nights are same working very hard to achieve the so-called aim i want to know but still our careers are not assured we don't know about our career and we don't know whether our luxurious life of our dreams whether we will ever achieve now when we say about the other aspect seeing the politicians most of them and rich criminals most of them at least almost fifth pass not more than that but they and their dependents all having a assured career they don't go to canada they go to london they go to london yeah citizenship of london is assured and at the same time they are having best of luxuries so my point is education and working day and night hard for it is it worth for this society where we have poorer graduates and richer illiterates well we must understand literacy is on many different levels abc is one kind of literacy on the street there is another kind of literacy in the political sphere another kind of literacy in the business world another kind of literacy so literacy is not just abcd that's a very simplistic way of looking at it somebody may not know abc but he is very literate with something else and above all you come to an indian institute of technology not for a luxurious life because of thirst for knowledge to know to become competent to be able to create something to be able to create something in the world which has not been done till now not to somehow amass something at somebody's cost and live somewhere wherever you think is luxurious look at their faces and see do they look joyful well they look like they have been fed like pigs that you can see but do they look joyful do they look fulfilled do they is there some great energy about them do you want to live a life like that hello do you want to live a life like that I am asking please don't ever seek a life like that because all you have in this life is as I already said in the very beginning this is just a certain amount of time time is going away since you sat here you are about 35 minutes or more than that an hour an hour closer to your grave right now you know this since you came here yes all of us yes or no mortality is one thing that we have forgotten that is why we are thinking of all these funny things life is just going away if you really if they second to you actually minute by minute minute by minute you are closer to your grave it's going to be over so what will be the most important thing how profound is your experience of life and when it comes to activity how profoundly can you touch life around you this is all that matters isn't it your experience of life is profound when you sit here in your experience this is the most profound experience because this is all that matters the intensity and profoundness of your experience when it comes to activity what a difference can you make you may not be thinking like that right now but think through this suppose you cook something do you ever Maggie he's on msg or something no no no not that msg what is that chemical that's all so if you cook something even if you make Maggie noodles and you give it your friend he's back he spits it out do you like it if he eats and says this is fantastic then you say huh nice because for even doing the two-minute job it's two-minute right the ad says it's two minutes I don't know how long it takes huh even for the two-minute job you want to touch that somebody's life if that guy spat it out that's the last time you're going to give him those noodles that saves his life that's another matter so if you build something let's say you built a hall people look at this and say oh my god terrible and nobody wants to come into this hall you want to build such a hall no you want people to come and say wow yes you want to write a book that nobody reads huh no you want to make a movie that nobody wants to see no you want people to see and walk out with tears in their eyes yes or no when you do something you must understand this human activity is meaningful only in some way we touch another life how many lives is the question you heard of Richard Bach no as a generation you've never read Richard Bach nobody oh i'm surprised in our generation there was nobody who did not read Richard Bach please look him up Richard Bach wrote a book called Illusions another one called Junathan Livingstone Siegel it's all about flying his entire life i was supposed to fly with him three years ago but at the age of 74 he was flying a small plane and he had an accident and broke some 16 bones in his body so after that he's not flying so his entire life was about flight and all his books are about flight and how flight relates to our life and in one of the books he writes of all the joys of flying i thought this is after that i stopped reading him after of all the joys of flying that he elogized all his life he said the greatest joy is when you see another pilot and you roll your wings and he responds rolling his wings that's the greatest joy after living an absolutely adventurous life this is the greatest joy because touching another life always is like that whether it's music or dance or cooking or writing a book or building something everything is because it touches another life it matters isn't it a criminal does not touch other people's life like that you have two ways to live that is people are people are joyful because you're here or people will be joyful because you're gone there are two ways to live please what will you choose first one first one people are joyful because you're here yes yes yes that's good so about somebody is living better than us i'm saying you should not even look how somebody is living because it's a bloody brief life believe me before you know what's happening it'll be gone you may not think so right now you think you have a lot of time on your hands but if you intensely get involved in something before you know what is happening life will be gone because it's such a brief life have you noticed on a particular day if you're very intense and joyfully involved in something twenty four hours just pass off like a minute is it so another day you're little depressed and looking around at everybody that day twenty four hours feel like a yawn so time is a very relative experience only miserable people will have a long life because in misery time stretches itself but if you're living an intense an exuberant life poof it'll be gone hundred years will be gone like that shall i bless you with a long life no even if you live to be hundred it should feel like you lived for two days and that's how it will be that is how it will be if you focus on creating something worthwhile but if you're looking at other people who is wearing better clothes who is driving better car whose house is better than mine if you look at this your life is ruined because forever somebody will be wearing something better than you somebody will be driving something better than you somebody will be living in a better home than you yes or no forever you will become enslaved to that nonsense don't ever start your life like that all of you you're being empowered through education you must think in terms of what is it that i can create what can i create in this life don't worry about how to earn a living with so much education and this many cerebral cells you think earning a living is a problem when earthworm does it the youth and truth program has such wide and intense coverage internationally that social media has been buzzing and flooded with questions we have the difficult job hand picking some of the questions so sath guru with your permission i'd like to convey their questions to you so one pradeep asks we are often reprimanded for using swear words it is nowadays used as colloquial slang what what is the big deal with using slang words when i casually use it without intent see um this happened a nice catholic girl got married and went after three days she called her mother and said mama i can't be here with this guy all the time he's using four letter words then the mother asked what kind of four letter words he's using she said he's talking about cook clean wash iron so what is wrong in using words essentially what you're calling as swear words is largely today we have our own swear words which are very generic to our languages and some are vulgar some suggest certain intentions some refer to our families and some are just simply poking fun at each other kind but largely your swear words in english language that you use today are essentially picked up from america it's either toilet or bedroom okay i must tell you this this is way back many years ago someone a guest came from australia i'm talking about nearly 40 years ago a guest came from australia and i'm supposed to take this person around in my short you know my short is a touristy place you're from bangalore it's a touristy place there are many places to see so i'm taking this person on my motorcycle if i if i ride hard i hear in my ears shit i think what if i break shit they see something beautiful shit if the the food is very spicy oh shit i was thinking why this person whole day chanting shit like mantra i thought maybe constipated trying to invoke because what should be done in the morning whole day why are you dragging it through the day then i observed they're getting angry shit and they become little calm oh then i thought oh it's working for them i should not disturb this because i don't believe in disturbing anything that's working for anybody if it's working let's leave it so i just thought through this see we have looked at the looked at the whole science of uttering sounds in a powerful manner what it can do to your consciousness what it can do to your body what it can do to invigorate your energy many many aspects of this and then we say Shiva with the necessary preparation if i make you utter this one sound you don't have to believe in any god or anything just the sound it'll blow your brains out i can show you this then i thought shit shit oh we arrived at it scientifically they somehow got it in even in Shiva it is only she which is the powerful part Va is a dampener so that people don't blow up too much it's like to balance where instead of va they put tea i thought it's okay it's working so why because usually when they say when they keep saying too often the tea doesn't come they say so even me when i say Shiva the va doesn't really come out it just so i thought it's okay what does it matter then immediately some people got very interesting shud guru you are saying Shiva and shit are same highest and the lowest i said see this high and low is all your business but as far as your mind is concerned in case your vocabulary is stored in an alphabetical order Shiva and shit are close together you cannot store Shiva here and shit here you don't have such a capability i don't know how it is stored in your mind suppose it's alphabetical they are right next to each other so you can't separate them so the question is not about what is good what is bad what is right what is wrong the question is will it work everywhere if you keep sitting all over the place is it going to work for you that's a question so it's all right among young people you're saying shit shit everywhere but now it's come to a man in united states it's come even the top administrators are uttering these words just like that in the international community when they utter such words it's finished in many things in many ways okay not because of anything else simply because people are you know if you watch this some of these american movies and stuff and stand-up comedians they are making the whole sentence with one word yes whole sentence is just one word repeated in many different ways and they're energizing that i'm saying to develop or to evolve a complex language it took such a long time it taken thousands of years for human mind one of the most complicated things that we have come up with as a civilizations in the world is language language is not a small thing that way in india we have 1300 languages how much genius must have been there that right here you speaking marathi somebody speaking telugu somebody speaking canada somebody speaking kongkani and for thousands of years though you lived side by side you maintained your literature they maintained theirs like this they managed this takes a certain level of genius to develop the language now a language which had hundreds and thousands of words you want to reduce everything to one word and you think it's a forward step i'm sorry sadhu again my next question is about the four letters love is in the air what's happening out here when people say that they are in love they think they are in unconditional love but still in most of the cases it's not working they it doesn't lead to happiness so sadhu when is unconditional love truly possible when you say love your experience of love means you feel certain sweetness of emotion within yourself either by looking at this person or this person or this person we don't know who stimulates this in you it doesn't matter who helped you but essentially it happened within you isn't it yes did it happen only within you or was it in the air i'm trying to clear this air combination of both really it was in the air no it only happened within you maybe what was happening within you was so exuberant you saw it everywhere you're in love you thought the flowers bloomed for you the birds are singing for you the clouds are moving for you all right i don't want to destroy all the romance okay but essentially it's happening within you it's wonderful that you're experiencing such sweetness of emotion stimulated by somebody you're using the other person as a key to open up an experience within you essentially i'm asking you why are you using a key when there is no lock when there is no door when there's no any kind of barrier it is just that you are a push start machine you know what's a push start machine if you have owned an ambassador 25 years ago always you parked it on a gradient like this because morning two people have to push it if you park it like this nobody will come your family will not come out of the house if it's like this somebody will come and push it now all the cars are self-start many of them remote start what does it mean technological upgradeation you're an institute of technology all right i'm asking would you like to upgrade your technology that you are on self-start if you wake up in the morning you're overflowing with joy and love and exuberance by yourself you don't need anybody to stimulate you would you like to be a self-start machine then you must come to me uh whoever is right now doing the love in the air it's fine with them you don't have to tell them anything you say all right it's okay but it's very important you're a self-start machine otherwise after sometime you try to extract happiness from the other person that is when these love affairs become tedious and horrible because you're trying to extract happiness from the other person no life should be like this when it comes to joy when it comes to love when it comes to exuberance of life you must be the source of this isn't it you must be the source of this well other things are shared in life there are two ways to enter into a relationship one way is because you want to extract something from somebody another way is because you want to share something with somebody these are two ways if you're out to share your life will be good if you're out to extract when they close the tap it's going to get terrible and nasty you have seen people who thought they're absolute lovers how terrible it becomes for many of them not because there's anything wrong with them simply because you started off on the wrong footing thinking this person is the source of my joy no joy or misery the source is within you yes or no whether it's joy or misery the source is within you it's for you to decide if you're a joyful human being they will also want to be with you if you're a misery they will endure you for some time shall i tell you joka are you okay on a certain day shankar and pilai was walking in a park in the evening sunset time he saw a young pretty looking woman sitting on a stone bench you know the park benches he also went and sat down settled down on the same bench after some time he moved little closer she moved little away he allowed a few minutes and again moved little closer she moved little away again he moved closer now there was nowhere else to go for her because she was at the end of the bench she pushed him away then he waited for two minutes just the sun to get to the right angle then he went down on his knees and he said i love you i love you like i have never loved anybody in my life you know our woman is a fool for love and the sun was setting if it was middle of the afternoon she wouldn't believe a damn thing sun was setting the ambience was right and she kind of healed it nature took over things happened between them then he looked at his watch it was eight o'clock in the evening he got up and he said i need to go i need to go she said where are you going you said you love me he said my wife is waiting i need to go so i love you for a whole lot of people he's like that you know open says may you want to get something maybe your needs are physical psychological emotional financial social or we don't know what else you have needs to fulfill so you use this mantra and it works half the time it works okay i'm saying it's important it is important you know the joy of being loving because sweetness of emotion is needed for you if you want to take really big steps in your life if you do not have sweetness of love in your heart believe me if you try to take big steps in the world particularly in india you will end up frustrated and go to canada in canada you meet only moose in most of the country so it's okay now i would like to open the forum to the audience so that if they have any questions they can ask sath guru directly so let's let's start with the audience questions for now sir guru we have some submission me and my friends would plan in advance and we would try to stick to it but somehow ultimately it happens that we end up finishing it in the very last minute so before i used to think like why i wasn't starting it early or why i couldn't finish it early but then i realized that almost everyone around me is doing the same thing and everyone is procrastinating so my question is then what's the reason why do we knowingly procrastinate see the longing that you had when you wanted to get into the institute you have not maintained that longing please sit down you're not maintained that same level of longing how badly you wanted to get in if you maintain the same level of longing you would prepone everything that you're doing slowly you slacken up and other things interest you education things down a little bit if you're doing something that you really want to do will you prepone or postpone will you prepone or postpone you'll prepone if love is in the air will you prepone or postpone prepone so in a way intellectually knowledge is a love affair it's really a love affair if you get involved it'll become much bigger love affair than emotional love affairs so if you conduct your education like a love affair that you really involve then you will always prepone not postpone but if you finish too early that means your faculty is not setting you tight enough time they must set more stringent time because this is the time of your life where you have to learn how to stretch yourself physically mentally in every possible way otherwise life will crack you when you go outside unless you find a garment job for yourself otherwise anything else should take up in your life if you do not know how to physically and mentally stretch yourself without breaking then life will break you somewhere so education time the time of being youthful is not a leisure time unfortunately you know this may sound like this little difficult for you but you must come and visit and see how it happens this children came and performed here just now the calorie and we have a homeschool all these are seven days of the week school we have planned four to five days in a month as activity days which the children won't know someday it will be in student academics it'll be some other kind of activity but those activity days are more intense than the academic days when you're growing up when you're young you should not be thinking about leisure unfortunately this culture from united states has come what is that tg tgf thank god it's friday so if you're going to enjoy only weekends and weeks you're going to suffer that means you're doing something that you have no love for i'm asking why the hell are you doing it why the hell are you doing something that you don't care for because it's your life your life is just a certain amount of time if you're doing something that you don't care for that means you don't even see that your life is precious isn't it i'm asking is your life precious if it's precious you must invest it in what truly matters to you if you invest it in what truly matters to you you will always pre-pwn not postpone you're also tgif if you can hold it like this you know i'm like you know you've seen lady gaga like this that good yeah i'm very excited to have you here with us my question is when i was growing as a when i was growing as a child both my parents were working and there were times i was feeling lonely and very miserable although my parents did give their part of comfort to me it was there were times i was feeling lonely in the on the inside and what can our future parents or what can we do to our kids not to not feel the same way thank you well in india this is the first generation where women have stepped out to work professionally otherwise because we were largely an agricultural community women worked but in and around the house and if they went somewhere to the field they took the children and went so always like you see ducks and chicken if the hen goes behind that the chicks run like the children were always running behind women so she she was always doing her work and still managing and tending to them and there was a certain cohesiveness to that but today women are going to the office or to the factory or to some other business so they can't take their children there this is the first generation of women who stepped out so in the society we still don't have arrangements proper arrangements where children can be properly tended to that system that facility and that arrangement has simply not happened in the society yet i hope it happens quickly because it's very important it doesn't matter whether it's a biological parent or somebody else but children need a loving caring atmosphere it's very important just putting nourishment into their stomach is not the only thing they need some tending attending to somebody should smile at them somebody should laugh at them somebody should do something with them play with them this is very needed otherwise children will grow up a little sick in their head it is not necessary only a biological mother should do it but there must be a committed person doing this it's very very important for the child unfortunately in this society we still don't have those arrangements that's kind of sad guru i want to know that when a student steps into college all of a sudden he gets he or she gets access to a huge amount of pornographic material which so far was off limits for him or her and in the process he or she enjoys that and as we said he experiences where she experiences heaven on earth but and we even have nicknames for those people who overdo it they masturbate we overdo it sometimes so how do we know how much of that is good or bad and so can we have the truth about masturbation looks like a popular question see we have a biology we cannot put it under the carpet it's there it's best we address it for what it is but right now the problem in the world is because certain religious institutions in the world took this attitude that the very biology of the human being is wrong because of this cultures started hiding it under the carpet well in this culture we never had it but after the british came and left we became more prudish than the british but before that if you look at our temples all the outside temple art is all pornographic if that's what you want to call it but we don't call it pornographic we are only talking about the various dimensions of human biology because we don't see it as wrong but we see it as the periphery of life if you stay there only you will stay on the physical dimension forever you will not explore anything else so in the temple art always it's the periphery you are supposed to look at that and understand it's the periphery of life and try to make an attempt to go deeper but at the same time not to be in denial of it not to glorify it or not to be in denial of it is the most important thing but in your college watching these things on the whatever your internet or whatever people tell me that someone told me i i don't know if this percentage is so correct when i was asking what is the content i was trying to understand the internet and its content what is the real content on the internet they're telling me you should know they're telling me seventy percent of the content on the internet is pornography is it so is it so you must be the expert somebody doing phd on it they told me seventy percent i said seventy percent is unreasonable and sick levels of pornography if it occupies a small percentage it's okay seventy percent of a technological platform which could do millions of things unfortunately is pornographic just biology of life it's very unfortunate because once you come as a human being your biology is not the front end of your life it is one part of your life this cerebral capability came so that your intelligence becomes the front end of your life and if you become conscious your consciousness becomes the front end of your life biology is the front end of a bull it's okay for him that's all he knows but biology should not be the front end of a human life it is part of our life we are not denying it so at a certain stage in your life it's like this a 95 year old man went for a medical checkup with his doctor the doctor did a thorough checkup and said hey old boy you're doing great for 95 no problem with you then the old man asked doctor but what about my sex life then the doctor looked at him and asked thinking about it or talking about it so at different stages of life there are sometimes you only think about it and talk about it there are sometimes you indulge in it these are passing feces of life how much of it is needed for you you are the best judge but at the same time you came here not to explore your biology at least you should have gone to msn biology you shouldn't be wasting your time in a technological institute exploring biology does it mean to say you don't have biology you don't have biological needs you have it's fine but it must be on the periphery it should not become the core of your life because it will reduce you in the sense a creature which was purely biological evolved into a place which has an intelligence of its own beyond its biology see animal intelligence works for its biology alone how to get its food how to get its mate this is all its entire life is if human intelligence also functions like that you are billing the evolutionary process you are seeing how to go back take the evolutionary process backward not necessary this does not mean you do not have a body body has its needs as it as there is physical hunger so there is sexuality you have to address it in some way but to what extent is your choice but definitely it should not be the front end of your life because you're rolling back evolutionary scheme of putting your intelligence and consciousness in the front instead of that you're putting your biology in the front sadguru i've been watching your videos and they have really changed me a lot so today sir sadguru i'm a guitar player and i'm doing engineering i'm in second year so often like obviously my Indian parents want me to have a steady life so they sent me to an engineering college he gets settled but they even support me for guitar but both are getting so hectic for me like i can't keep my focus on one thing like when i'm studying i think about guitar and all the players and music and similarly when i'm playing i think about other things and even social circles and all i don't have a steady mind and i can't focus uh at one thing even if i try a lot even mobile is a very big distraction apparently so so how do i focus on one thing at a time i i fear that if i give too much time to one thing i might lose or lack in other things see uh human mind do i have a few minutes to answer this question see the nature of human intelligence is such that it can do many things at the same time as a process when i say intelligence most people are misunderstanding intelligence or is intellect intellect is your thought process thought is just one dimension of your intelligence thought is only happening because of the data that you have gathered in your mind you cannot think about anything for which you have no data isn't it so isn't it so isn't it so you're getting sleepy because usually we put children to sleep at eight so uh human intelligence is made like this we in in the yogic way of looking at life we look at human intelligence 16 parts out of these 16 parts we can for the sake of understanding we can see it as four segments these four segments are buddhi ahankara manas and chitta buddhi means the intellect intellect when it comes to your intellect would you like your a sharp intellect or a dull intellect you must choose i'm going to bless you right now sharp intellect so obviously intellect is a cutting instrument it's like a knife it's a scalpel it's good for cutting if you want to dissect something you need a good sharp intellect but suppose you want to sue something all you have is a knife if you sue with a knife do you know what will happen you will leave everything in tatters but right now this is the way we are going about because our education systems are focused just purely intellectual basis this is a cutting instrument if i want to really know you shall i dissect you hello i want to know you so shall i dissect you well some of you in your maybe pre university studies you dissected the frog and you are very excited how the heart was beating the frog was not excited believe me it was looking at you what's wrong with you yes or no so intellect is a certain instrument it is a cutting instrument it can be used for certain aspects of life but unfortunately we are using it all pervasive because other dimensions of intelligence have not even been touched the next dimension of intelligence is called identity the next dimension of the mind is called identity or the ahankara identity means depending upon what you're identified with that's how your intellect will function this is a knife in the front this will always try to protect what you're identified with you say i'm a woman it'll try to protect your gender you say i'm an indian it'll try to protect your nationality you say you're some religion it'll try to protect that whatever is your identity your intellect is always working to protect that identity so how we establish this identity consciously is a very important part of education which we have completely ignored today for which we are paying a huge price in the traditional education from 0 to 12 is balavastha that means just to play eat sleep so that the body and the brain should grow till their 12 years of age you should not try to teach anything extract anything from 12 to 24 is focused learning this is called as brahmacharya discipline of how to learn learn is not just learning other disciplines but above all learning about the nature of my own human mechanism my intelligence my different faculties how they function because if i don't understand this i cannot really apply myself into anything so we always establish this you might have heard of this there is something called as a hum brahmasmi at the age of 12 this is taught to a child before we initiate a child into education first he must take a universal identity that my identity is the larger universe maybe today i'm an indian maybe today i belong to this religion or that religion maybe i belong to this caste clan or whatever but my larger larger identity is with the universe because education was seen as an empowerment we don't want to empower you when your identity is narrow because all the crime on the planet all the corruption on the planet all the horrendous things that people to do to each other is only because of limited identity isn't it i can do it to you but i can't do it to myself because this is me isn't it i can't do it to my own child but i can do it to somebody else because this is mine and that is not mine so before you are empowered with education which we seen as a powerful tool for life first thing is take a universal identity unfortunately we've neglected because of this today if you see the cutting edge of technology and science always goes first for military use yes or no so how to kill people how to dominate somebody how to destroy somebody this is where our knowledge is going simply because we did not establish a universal identity before education came to people so the third dimension of your mind is referred to as manas manas means it's a silo of memory when i say memory it's not just what you remember your entire body is memory there is evolutionary memory here there is genetic memory here there is karmic memory here there is articulate and inarticulate levels of memory conscious and unconscious levels of memory various dimensions of memory we identify eight different forms of memory right now you may not remember how your great great great grandfather looked like ten generations ago but his nose is sitting on your face body remembers yes or no body absolutely remembers everything so this memory is the basis of your intellect if we take away the memory or delink the memory from your intellect your intellect will become without activity this is one important dimension of yoga that we understood that if we see if you want to continue the knife analogy the intellect is like a knife the hand that holds the knife is identity knife is useful or dangerous depending upon not on the knife's quality but the hand which holds it isn't it if you're identified one way this knife will poke you if you're identified in a different way this knife can save your life so the same knife every day saves lives and sometimes takes lives depending upon who holds it or which hand holds it so we dealing the menace with the intellect now intellect simply there without intention so essentially yoga means this to build an intensity within you without intent right now i want to become an engineer i want to become rich i want to make money i want to be this i want to be that you become goal oriented this is the fundamental flaw in the education system we've become goal oriented because we want to get there we're doing all this we are like circus monkeys circus monkeys are like this you show a banana and say you do all those tricks i'll give you a banana so it will do all the tricks banana no banana you will simply sit there so once you become human you should not behave like a circus monkey it is not because of a carrot and stick that you're driving yourself because you're seeing that what you're doing is of some consequence to you and to the world around you that's why the action so if you're dealing the knife and the hand and the silo of memory then your intellect will shine with sharpness it will not be rusted with memory it will shine with sharpness see it's like this there are some people who are when you go to restaurants you will see and maybe in some homes also you ask them to cut a mango they will use the same knife with which they've cut onion and they cut the mango and give you you can't keep it in your mouth the sweetness of the mango is gone if the residual impact of whatever the the knife has touched is there in it slowly it will lose its purpose isn't it the same goes for your intellect if the memory sticks to your intellect after sometime it will become a useless intellect because it becomes a highly prejudiced intellect so the entire yogic system is about this to dissolve your identity and simply sit here so that your intellect will shine like a razor without any intent intensity without intent if it comes into your intellect you can do 25 things at the same time just like that okay people keep asking me sadguru you you have been busy the whole six months not a day's break then how did you write this poem how did you think about this how did you come up this plan how did you design this one and that one i have 12 14 tracks running all the time i just initiate and leave they will run by themselves see when a computer is able to process something if you feed and leave it processes isn't it isn't this a better computer than anything that you have ever used hello only problem is you did not read the user's manual for this one you must read the user's manual so just listening to videos is no good we can teach you a simple practice you start the practice of delinking the intellect from the memory at least for a few minutes a day you will see your intellect becomes super competent i want to ask you that what is logic and and why and why it looks us logical means because whenever i start thinking means how it seems that here i am means this is logical and this is logical but when i do the math so there is a ambiguity so so if it is logical then why it is not coming to the math or the second question is how how to express means of myself the feeling which i have don't have words so how to to create means words for my feeling that yeah means what i actually feel and means how to understand the others that what is going on in me okay that's it see whether somebody else understands what's happening within me or not is not the issue whether i perceive what's happening within me or not is the main issue whether this person understands me or not is his problem the question is what's happening within me is it clear to me this is the important thing if it's clear to me whether i find words for it or not doesn't matter about logical and illogical and the mathematics even the mathematics is only logical to a certain point that is why they came up with calculus it's quite illogical yes or no so because they want to explore dimensions of existence which don't all fall into simple logic that is why we came up with mathematics or the type of mathematics that we are doing right now which is not really logically correct but it articulates certain aspects of the existence so instead of worrying about what is logical what is illogical life is absolutely logical material is logical so only handling material aspects of life we have to be perfectly logical when it comes to other dimensions of life it's not logical and in fact all the most beautiful aspects of your life are not logical if you if you try to logically find expression to every dimension of your life you will feel silly suppose you fall in love with somebody and you write it in prose you look stupid but you write in poetry suddenly it's beautiful because poetry allows illogical expression prose does not allow logical illogical expression so you cannot do illogic in arithmetic or geometry but trigonometry is there illogical so in every sphere of life people have understood that logic has its limits and they have found ways to explore life through means which are not necessarily 100 percent logical your logic your logic fits into this life perfectly well but don't try to fit the life into logic it doesn't fit give me this opportunity i want to ask that when we are roaming on the street even the dog also not happy and we are also not happy let's hold this little closer to you yeah it's quite safe mother nature give us a brain but we are responsible for everything to take care of plants birds but we are not taking care even we are not happy for ourselves and not we are keeping happy to the mother nature so what we have done for our life means it's our responsibility mother nature give to a responsibility to a human to us to take care of everything but we are not taking care and not even we are happy okay thank you i don't know where you saw an unhappy dog it must be a Mumbai dog must be a Mumbai street dog where too many of vehicles and things are moving around poor guy is just surviving day to day otherwise dogs are happy if their stomach is full they're really very happy go in the villages and small towns and see they're just romping around happily as long as they're well fed they're happy so human beings also not that everybody's unhappy there are happy people and unhappy people they always were still are we are seeing how to increase the percentage of happy people so that we can live in a joyful world it's out of my greed that i'm insistently active in the world because i want to live in a joyful world but a lot of people are looking like carrying the end of the world expression on their face as if the world is going to end today especially if the world is going to end today it's time to be joyful isn't it so we are living irresponsibly for sure for various reasons we are like this for us in this country we we have an enormous culture enormous no nation on the planet has twelve fifteen thousand years of history and culture this culture we can use to become wise and wonderful but a whole lot of people use it in a different way because you said everybody's unhappy i thought i'll tell you a joke you okay it once happened the iraq the iraqi ambassador to india met sankaran phila when people of two ancient cultures meet it's bullshit time always how our culture you know because we've got nothing much to show in the present we talk a lot about the past well we can be proud about our past but we can't live this we are proud about the past history of this nation the culture of this nation but you cannot live there you can only live here but this is the usual thing so the mesopotamian culture big so the iraq ambassador started off and he said our culture is so great that we have excavated sites in iraq where the site is over 2500 years ago 2500 year old sites and we found copper wires it proves that we had telegraph 2500 years ago sankaran with the half that is nothing we have excavated sites which are five to seven thousand years old and we found nothing that means we had wireless because we are engaged in debates like this we are not taking care of many immediate things that we need to take care of how to keep our street clean how to keep our city clean how to see that everybody's fed well you know we are not taking care of this because we are a little in the wireless state thank you very much so being in a premier technological institute like this which hundreds of thousands students want to get into this institution and barely a couple of hundred or three or four hundred people are getting is it so getting into a courted place like that where even internationally the institution is recognized as one of the premier institutions not just in india so when you're in a place like this it's my wish and my blessing that you must really acquire knowledge and knowledge is no good unless it is dispensed with love and compassion in the world just pure knowledge without love and compassion without involvement in life around us can become a very cruel force technology is the best thing that's happened to us and the worst thing that's how it happened to us unfortunately you have to make sure that technology is the best thing that's happened to us in the coming generation the previous generation all of us have used technology in a negative way yes we've made bombs we've made pollution we've made terrible things it's for you to create a wonderful world with the knowledge that you're garnering here being here in this premier institution do not forget so many would like to be here but you are here please make use of this and create something really fabulous for this world thank you very much