 आदस मास, आदस मास दास कवीर ने आजी यो दास कवीर लास देव the fools month, well, we thought we were very smart, but this invisible virus is making us all look like bloody idiots, huh? So a little poem for you, the fool. A fool is a fool, being too full and unable to receive or perceive and hence a fool. A fool is a fool, being too full and unable to receive or perceive and hence a fool. To be a fool is not cool, but everybody is somebody's fool. Everybody has to live, there is a whole month for the fools, it's getting over, we better get smart. Now, well, compared to most other nations going through the works, India is doing well, very well I would say. Considering the density of population, very well and this partial relaxation is going to be bit of a challenge but these Indian people will feel homesick if there is no certain amount of chaos. But they have been such a disciplined way, fantastic, most of them. Of course we have our share of, but largely very good. When situations like this, challenging times, whether it comes in terms of natural calamities, wars or changes sometimes in terrain and atmosphere or like this, pandemics, when they come, that is when, when most human beings feel inadequate to handle simple aspects of life. This inadequacy can become a, not just the pain of that period, can become a lifelong pain. I see many people who've been through war like, not war like, war, situations of war, where they everyday lived under the threat of, could be death anytime. Things were exploding all around, people were falling dead all around, but somehow it didn't hit you. But after twenty years, their reaction to certain situations is still from that memory, they might not consciously remember, but you know, they will respond with that kind of memory within them. That karma is so strong of fear and imminent mortality and a sense of absolute helplessness, feeling totally inadequate in those situations because anybody would be, nobody is on top of those situations. But the problem is it lives, very human being, very few human beings can keep it aside. Most of them carried for a lifetime. It need not even be as big as war. Somebody was mugged, somebody was attacked or they went through a horrific accident but they survived. When any kind of challenging situations come in their life, they tend to respond from that experience. I'm joking but we have lots of Lebanese friends here, in case they act little crazy, you must be nice to them because they've been through a bad war. Is that a Lebanese person laughing? Oh yeah, then it's good. Then it's good, you can laugh, others cannot laugh at it. Because war is not, see India has seen a few wars. Well Americans have seen many wars but they always fight their wars elsewhere. For Indians, the war is fought at the border. It's not fought here in Coimbatore city but I'm talking about a war which happened around the place where you live. I think among our people who are here, it is largely the Lebanese who have gone through that experience. That war happened in their towns. You're sitting here in your home, the next building collapsed right in front of you with a big explosion. This is something they have witnessed and that experience is deep rooted. So this virus situation, for those who are substantially exposed to this or continuously taking in news and information, you kind of live it in your mind whichever way it happens. This should not leave a long term damage, rather it should strengthen you. Because it is also true, many people who have been in battles and even in death all the time hanging. In terms of situations that human beings can go through, a battle is the most extreme situation. Being in that situation, many many people will come out fearful and damaged for life but many others come out very strong, stable and balanced, wise like sages. People have been through wars, come out like that also. So it's important when challenging times comes, how we are. What is it that makes one person ride through difficult times, effortlessly, what is it that the same situation crushes another person? I'm not talking about the physical damage. Well, if the virus hit me or you and something else happened, that's a different matter. But what happens mentally, psychologically, emotionally, one dimension of this is I'm only addressing one dimension because there are people but what about this, what about that, we're not going to that today because it's the last day of the fool's day, fool's month. We will handle only one dimension because this is all the problem with life is essentially. People don't learn to handle one aspect of their life either properly but they know everything little bit. They read scriptures, they read newspapers and of course social media. They know something about everything but they don't know how to handle one simple aspect of themselves. If they knew how to handle their body, they would manage this one way. That would be your karma yoga. If you knew how to use your body to handle challenging situations, that would be one way. If you knew how to use your intellect in a challenging situation, that would be another way. If you knew how to use your emotion, that would be another way. If you knew how to use your energies, that would be a completely different dimension. They don't learn any one way, they know little about everything. Today especially the challenging times, every... I'm not saying with this, saying this with any disregard but it is both amusing and distressing to see that just about anywhere and everywhere everybody is propagating their own meditation. Listen to the sound of water and you're meditating. Listen to the breeze and you're meditating. I'm not saying it's not good. All I'm saying is all this is becoming meditation. Let me put this one way. This is something everybody can do. This is something everybody has the power to do but most people don't use it is there is something called as your thought process which for most people always it's overactive or out of control. This is a dimension of activity within you which can give you understanding. Understanding is not an ultimate force because understanding happens out of limited amount of data we have. This is why our understanding of the virus is changing every day because little more data comes, little more data comes, every day our understanding changes. Well, this has been the way of the entire scientific process as more data comes our understanding changes, as more data comes our understanding changes, it's happening over hundred years. So understanding is not an ultimate process but understanding if you understand something even in its limited possibility even if your understanding is limited in a way you cracked something, you cracked one aspect of it. You understood what it takes to make this tree grow well. This does not mean you figured out everything about this planet. It is just that you understood how to make this tree grow well so you are a very successful coconut farmer and your life becomes comfortable because you understood what it takes to make a coconut tree grow at its best. Maybe many of you have no clue you're walking under the coconut trees all the time but probably you never looked up nor did you sit under the coconut tree and meditate you must try. There is many possibilities of enlightenment. Yes. Because each tree has minimum sixty to seventy nuts so nut and nut there could be a fusion but those who are into that may be that they also many of them do not know for example everybody thinks kerala means coconut because they have seen the tourist brochures coconut trees but yes trees are there they grow in the sand on the beaches and people have made plantations of that also but on an average today these averages might have changed a little bit I'm talking from another time on an average one tree in kerala gives about sixty to seventy nuts per year one tree in Tamil Nadu gives anywhere between eighty to hundred nuts that average in Tamil Nadu I know has gone up now one tree in Karnataka gives anywhere between hundred and eighty to two hundred two hundred twenty-five nuts depending upon the farmer one tree in Bengal gives up to two twenty-five to two fifty nuts they are not different species it is just a different understanding so I'm saying similarly if you are a nut I'm sorry if you are a coconut tree how much yield this will generate depends on a little bit of understanding how this functions if you don't understand this if you don't crack that within you this is what makes it work then this is a low yielding tree so when challenging times come this will feel terribly inadequate when everything is comfortable you can strut around like you know king of the jungle kind of strut but when challenging times come things fall down into places this always happens that in many countries right through history this happens when really challenging situations come leadership changes just like that without even a word being said simply because those who are there as leaders because of social selection will sink those who are competent will rise when things are comfortable people or the society will not allow such a thing happen because by sheer entitlement many people become leaders but when challenging times come competence is the only thing which will rise people those who are there by entitlement will naturally sink so what is it that you can do within yourself one important thing is whenever you can't figure out something for what it is right now we don't know exactly what this virus is bits and pieces of information coming we thought initially we will only cough dry cough only if you have little flum that's not it then they said no you may sneeze that means something will come out then they said you may not cough sneeze nothing but you may still have it now they are saying your liver could be going bad your heart could be going bad your brain could be going bad that is if it's still intact now they said only infants below one year of age and the older generation of people will be affected youth need not bother then they said no youth will also have to bother it'll get you if you have this this this and this that this this this and this covers almost the entire thing of life then they said no children no problem children have immunity but now they are saying children are developing a completely different kind of symptoms other than what the adults develop what is it is still not absolutely confirmed but many scientists around the world are beginning to say the kavasek is in Rome which gives a certain kind of digestive and stomach related troubles and it could be serious and there could be inflammation around the heart this is happening to lots of children and they suspect it is only because of this virus that it's happening so like this our understanding goes piece by piece so essentially we're in a situation where we don't have the whole picture so definitely this is a time you can panic or get depressed or get defeated or be terrified or petrified or in some way crumble within yourself this is a time when you need to spark with maximum energy you cannot have more understanding because that's all the information that there is unless you're a scientist and you're deeply investigating that process only what comes out in the news channel social media or a newspaper that's all the information you have and you know on the social media there are a whole lot of clowns who stretch the month of April for all the twelve months who are always having some pleasure in giving all the wrong information they take great pleasure in misleading people there are people so definitely not just you and me even those who are on the job studying they also don't have a full picture now they said this is one virus now they're saying the ten varieties now you're fighting a Ravana so when there is no understanding and then there is no room for understanding better than somebody else well with the same data some people may have a little better understanding than the others but still there is no room to extend your understanding beyond that because data is limited one thing that needs to happen within you is you must be bursting with energy if you're bursting with effervescent levels of energy within you then even if you have no intellectual understanding your system and even yourself even in your conscious action we will do all the right things without even knowing why you're doing it because as your brain or your intellect is intelligent so is body intelligent every cell in the body is intelligent so is your energy so is your emotion they have their own levels of intelligence and energy is the fundamental intelligence it is making everything happen if you keep it at a certain level of buoyancy and effervescence then the chances of you doing wrong things doesn't arise when I say wrong things it does not about the virus this is about you I'm sure you're not interested in the virus or you're not a student of virology that you want to know about every virus in the universe you're only interested because it could affect you so your interest is this because your interest is this the fundamental aspect of your life being the life energies if you fire it up in a big way then you will see the system will function in a certain way without even thinking about it you will do the right things with your system when you do the right things with your system you will do the right things in the surrounding atmosphere also but if you're only going by data at a time like this because anyway we have limited data this happened at one time Shankaran Pillai was a single parent he had a small baby and wife and he got very worried because the child was losing weight then he took the child to the doctor and he told the doctor doctor my child is losing weight drastically by day by day child is losing weight I'm giving enough sunlight air water the doctor asked but what kind of food do you give him oh my god I knew I miss something we missing lot of things right now because we don't have enough information so one best thing we can do is to keep the energies effervescent well for those of you who invested certain amount of time in your sadhana this will come easy but for those of you who have not only want to become better when there are dire situations in front of you for you also there is a way I think Simha Kriya is out there in the form of an app is it where is it it's on the videos for sadguru on the youtube video okay it's on the youtube it's called Simha Kriya I'm saying those of you who don't have any other practice to do any yogic practice which concerns your energies at least three to five times in a day you do this you will see your life energies will be effervescent when your intellect cannot function because your intellect cannot function without necessary information and right now there is no necessary information when there is no necessary information intellect feels helpless when it feels helpless it will trigger emotions of depression helplessness frantic reactions to things if you want to stop this the most important thing is you keep your energies in an effervescent way one can use this may be hard to teach you just like this in a few minutes but right now this you can do not at this time alone at sometime later you can use this in your life see the sound right now the sound my voice is the sound music is the sound the birds are making sounds when an intellectual process which cracks something very small let's say you understood why the mango is falling down you know it's a big discovery alright but after many hundreds of years after Isaac Newton saw it you saw it today and you understood why the mango is falling down though it's such a divine fruit it's not going heaven word it is falling down if you understood that at that time if you have a key sound that you can use if the sound and a certain dimension of intellectual process come together there will be a burst of energy always this is why in this culture we developed this process if you sit down you say Shiva if you stand up you say Shiva you see something good you say Shiva you something bad you say Shiva the idea is when a certain process happens with you intellectually and emotionally if you add the right sound to it there will be a burst of energy in the system so a series of bangs like this you become a very creative process you know creation happen like that big bangs so if you keep on creating bang bang bang within you your ability to create you being a creative human being in whatever little things that you do will become a living reality for you so it's best if one is initiated into a powerful sound that you simply utter the sound need not be for public you don't have to say it loudly this is not a campaign this is not some kind of religious campaign or something that you have to say to everybody like there are some people if you pick up the phone they will say what they will say hariyom or they will say hariyom na masivaya or somebody will say hariyom na masivaya or somebody will say hariyom this is propagation that's their choice I'm not talking about you propagating anything I'm talking about using a powerful sound to fuse with a certain intellectual process or a certain emotional process or even a physical process the whole change in the system you sit down how the system is functioning not just physiologically and the level of chemistry and the level of energy how it's functioning and if you stand up how it will function is completely different so when such a shift is happening you say one consecrated powerful word within yourself there will be a burst of energy this series of bursts if you are creating throughout the day your ability to create will become big and you don't have to stretch April for the 12 months this question is from Vasini if one has a deep yearning for nothingness and one is doing all the sarnas and becoming emptier each day but the experience still has not happened what is one to do sath guru emptiness does not come in installments because emptiness means that which is not why emptiness is because fullness there is no such thing it's just a word if you really look at it let us say I will put one billion dollars into your pocket no I have no such plans I am raising funds right now suppose just to titillate you I will put one billion dollars into your pocket it feels very full for one day but then you see her walking with ten billion dollars you have then suddenly your pocket feels empty with one billion dollars then let's say we'll put another nine for you you have ten billion dollars then he is walking with hundred billion dollars suddenly it again feels empty so your pocket can never be full no matter how much we put we'll take your head when you passed your first standard you felt like what's more what's there more to know in this world you know then they told you there's a god damn second standard and you went through this went through this then they told you ten standard is public exam that's it if you do that this is the your parents went on telling you this is the key aspect of your life ten standard is very crucial you believed and you finished your ten standard and you feeling chest puffed up and you thought you really know it then the next day they started bothering you which college will you join which college will you join what college I thought I number ten I reached perfect number champion number but no good like this at every point so how much ever we put into your head your head will never become full well initially you just fell in love with only one person then when you fall in love with one person you know she produces one or two or three then you fell in love with all of them but then they produce grand children like this that also you loud actually more than this one so your heart also cannot become full you go in a constipated instalments that's different if you fall in love with everything in the universe still it is not full still it is capable of taking more so your pocket cannot become full your head cannot become full your heart cannot become full so fullness is an illusion that you chase there is no such thing but emptiness is possible what is empty is never partially empty fullness is always partial emptiness is always total when something is empty it is absolutely empty so you don't do that in instalments if you try to do it in instalments then you you will never catch emptiness because you cannot catch emptiness this happened one day a lady was having a neighbouring woman another lady from the neighbourhood who is also about her same age both of them have children so of course she wanted to you know boast a little bit she said we bought a few litres of olive oil and we soaked our baby in this olive oil then the other lady asked really must be very expensive but his skin quality has must have really changed then the man in the house came out and said I don't know about that we've not been able to catch him till now so don't try to catch emptiness you can't catch emptiness it's not anywhere but it's total so what do I do how do I empty myself you understand this if I take a bucket I can empty it by throwing a mug after mug out if I take a well I can take you know take buckets and buckets and buckets and empty it well that is not the way it happens you become empty not because you have nothing you become empty because you're dispossessed you're not possessed by the things that you carry right now you're possessed your money your home your relationships your god your religion your philosophies your love affairs anything and everything everything possesses you when you're dispossessed you're empty so this is the purpose of sitting with eyes closed not praying to somebody not calling out some god not something just cut off lockdown this is you know all over the world the governments are now initiating you into a spiritual process so that you're not possessed by what is around you you're simply all by yourself but of course many of you are behaving as if you're possessed when you're dispossessed you're empty otherwise you'll go on and on and on I'm saying you're looking in the wrong direction you're looking at a few tidbits that you have gathered in your life yes that's all you've gathered and thinking if I leave one I will become empty okay I leave one more I'll become empty people go to kashi it's a tradition that in ancient times they said when you go to kashi you must become dispossessed there's nothing more every day you see hundreds of bodies burning there you sit there for a few days or few months when you come back you're dispossessed you are not entangled with anything then people made it little more you must leave some money and come you must leave something else and come nowadays they leave only pavakai and come the bitter god anyway they were not eating it so that one they will leave it and come you must leave something and come so I left bitter god because I don't like it anyway that is not the way to leave it because you're aiming at the wrong target even if you shoot it not going to go away this happened one day Shankaran Pillai was newly married so he made it a point when he's coming back from his office he always stopped in a restaurant and made sure he ate reasonably well and then came home because home was an experiment still so he came home and his wife was as soon as he came home she opened the doors she hugged him and cried bitterly he asked what happened she said just for you I went through so much from morning I've been online taking instructions from a cooking instructor and I made chicken biryani for you I think it turned out well but the dog our dog ate it up I just went for a shower by the time I came out our dog ate it up Shankaran Pillai said it's okay, don't cry I will buy a new dog so what's her name Vasini Vasini if you want to become empty what is needed is to get dispossessed there are methods for that how to do it don't try to empty one thing after another it'll take even if you go for a million years you will always be finding something new because how you gather it you never know you can get rid of this you can get rid of that but you keep on gathering other kind of things so don't go that way there are proper methods you should get initiated into something which will work anyway today as a part of the work that's happening in the villages our volunteers are doing a fantastic job and I see that the local officials the police and the village the farmers everybody in huge appreciation of the ISHA volunteers with the discipline and the commitment and the focus and the competence with which they are doing what they are doing is being hugely appreciated most important thing is over 260 farmers have joined the movement now and they are also working along with us providing free vegetables free inputs and everything but at the same time the after this has become a success now many many people migrant workers who are stuck in various other areas they are all coming here now because the food is good and they are being taken care of well and there is also an emergency beds are there in case of any infections and things like that so a lot of them are moving in I think right now we are from today or from tomorrow onwards we are servicing over 12,000 people daily with food so as usual I am asking for more money and anyway the painting was put up for auction I think all of you should be aware of it what is the last number 2 crore 75 lakhs okay so very generous of them they are not paying for the artwork they are paying for the beat beat the virus service that our volunteers are doing not for one moment am I assuming they are paying for the artwork and I truly appreciate your generosity it's right now at 275 still there is a few hours about four hours I think left four plus hours five hours okay about five hours left that is still midnight there is time for whatever price it goes to you will be supporting our volunteers to serve better and more people unfortunately the red zones the lockdown most probably gets extended beyond May 3 at least till 15th probably or may be end of the month and Coimbatore district is right now a red zone so we may have to carry this on for next two to three months probably this food distribution even if the lockdown goes away before they find employment and be able to stand on their own feet it may take anywhere between 60 to 90 days so we need your support thank you very much and whoever is bid for 275 I thank you very much and all the others who brought this to this place and those of you who will take it much beyond this in the next five hours thank you very much