 Jnanam Sukadham, Marnamka, Milanam, Smarnamka, Leveshadiha, Sakalam Karu, Samayadhipate, Akilamka Namaskaram to everyone. The nature of life is such, in the same package that we think is me. Life and death packed in the same package, not separately, same package. Love and hate, people can hold in the same heart. At the same time they can love and person and hate another person. Termoil and tranquility, also held in the same package, like this, whatever you thought or what you normally think as opposites of life, all packed in the same package. It's only a question of what you choose to pick. If you pick love, you're one way. If you pick hate, you're another way. If you pick joy one way, if you pick misery another way. Oh, Sadhguru, why couldn't they pack it in a separate packet? No, it's your choice. The creation is so compassionate. If you want to suffer, you have freedom to suffer. Yes. And a whole lot of people choose to cause pain and suffering to themselves and of course they will share it with people around them. It's just a question of choice, because everything is packed in the same package. If it was, you know, people have this right brain, left brain, right side, Eda, Pingala, everything, suppose it was like that, right side was all joy, left side was misery, right side was life, left side was death, that would be easy. But that's not how it is. It's all packed together. If you're conscious, you will choose what you want. If you're unconscious, randomly you're picking up whatever you pick up. And when you cannot explain why you're miserable, why a calamity has struck you, why things are going wrong, no, you're searching for God. Because you did not find God up there, you settle for stars and planets. I want you to understand. Next to God, people's choices, planets and stars, they decide. God decides, but it's too vague. At least they're little tangible, they're spinning the wrong way for you. Your Saturn is spinning the wrong way. Your brain says, brain is spinning the wrong way, for sure. Well, do other things have influences on us? Of course they have. But will you let them influence you or not? That is also your choice. Becoming vulnerable and becoming strong, both are in the same package. Right now, with the virus, it's up to you, I didn't do anything, how did I get it? That is the whole thing, you did not do anything, you did not wash your hands, you did not sanitize yourself, you did not take care, you got it. Well, this happened. This is in Tennessee. Why I keep talking about Tennessee again and again is because Isha Yoga Center or Isha Institute of Inner Sciences is located in Tennessee. Here also it's Tamil Nadu TN and there also Tennessee TN. Things are made a little easy for me like that. The postcode, the highway, everything, numbers also matching a little bit. Easy for me to remember. If I remember one, the other one is just a reflection. So this happened in Tennessee. A man who was standing for a minor office in the city was going door to door campaigning. So he knocked on a door, a lady opened the door for him and he said what all he intends to do for the town and she should elect him. She smiled at him and said, you are my second choice. Oh really? Who is your first choice? She said, well, just anybody. You need to pick. What is your first choice? So right now, life situations are confronting us in a certain way. Probably like never before for this generation. United States crossing 15,000 fatalities. Spain crossing 15,000. Italy nearing 18,000. France crossing 11,000. UK crossed 7,000. India nearing 200. Well, it's an exceptional job by the authorities in India. The doctors, the forces and the government decision makers, for as dense a population as we are, this is a phenomenal work. But still, in the next week to ten days it could ramp up simply by permutation. It will ramp up naturally. But still compared to how it's happening in some of the nations, we are way better that way because we acted little preemptive action. But about five hundred people who are infected because of a certain religious group, they've gone missing, they're searching for them, they're just not traceable. These five hundred people by themselves can infect probably a hundred thousand people in the next month or two, all by themselves. And those people that are infected, how many more they will infect, the permutations will happen. So unfortunately, there are situations like that. I hope they lie low, they won't go here and there, infecting too many people. So this is where we are. At a time like this, what you pick, what is your choice is very important. It's always important. But most people do not understand the significance of their choices unless there are some stringent or very acute consequences. So this is a time where the choices we make, how we behave, is going to have acute consequences. While young people who are little strutting around saying that they won't die, only old people die, but it's getting them also. Now, a few young people have died, maybe it is because of other conditions that they had or maybe the virus is learning to work on them also or maybe there was not medical care, we don't know, but it's beginning to happen. But those people who got sick, some of them that we know, it's more than a month since they were infected. After ten, twelve days they came out of it. But after over a month, now almost thirty-five, thirty-seven days, they're still not able to breathe properly, young people. Their breath is very short, even if they walk one hundred and fifty feet, they will have to stop and rest. They are in that condition, though they are young and healthy and fever is gone, everything is gone, but their breathing capabilities have not come back, at least for the people that I know. I don't know, for all the other people who have recovered in the world, the situation is same, we do not know. They may be out of danger, but still there's a lot of work to be done in terms of health. There are complaints that I am not answering enough questions because so many questions have been sent from various quarters and I have not answered. So today we'll focus on answering some questions, please. This question is from Shekhar Reddy. Sadhguru, it seems like it is a time for prophecies. While many are referring to the foretelling of Putuluri, Vir Brahmam, a saint and seer from Andhra who wrote about corona in his Kaala Nyanam, others are referring to French apothecary, astrologer and seer, Michel de Nostradamus. What is your comment on such predictions? Wonderful. These predictions are wonderful, but they always happen after the event has occurred. So all these people who are reading all these prophecies, why couldn't they prevent it if they knew beforehand? If you know beforehand and if you do not prevent a pandemic, that's called a crime of the worst kind. So it is a human fad that they want to have a scope into the future. Isn't it wonderful? You don't know what will happen next. Otherwise, could you live? So there are a whole lot of people, astrologers are attacking me all over the place because I am not good for their business. So a human being is the peak of evolution on this planet. From the lowest level of creatures to as you come, you will see they become less and less available to the influences around them. Let us say there is an earthworm. If something changes here, he will die. He is not going to take a swim and go to Africa and live there. Or he is not even going to go ten miles away and live there. He will die because that's how much capability he has. If this terrain or if his habitat goes bad, there is nothing he can do. This is why we've been talking about rejuvenating the soil because these microbes and worms which are vital for our survival, they will not migrate somewhere else. They do not have the capability of a corona. Corona doesn't have the capability. It is just that you're providing free transport. Human beings, the most mobile creatures on the planet are providing transport. Our mobility, if we do not make it a little more conscious, nature will control it. See right now it's happened, we can't move. This happened. This was in Los Angeles. A hotshot corporate CEO had a pretty secretary. This is in early 20th century, since then much has changed. So he said, I'm going for a weekend in Palm Springs. Why don't you come with me? She said, I know I'm your typewriter but I'm not portable. Your portability needs to become little more conscious. It is human mobility which has empowered the virus the way it has. If this had happened thousand years ago, if where there was no air travel, no much sea travel, all this, then it would have been just there, wherever it happened. One or wherever it happened, it would have been just around there, maybe adjacent villages, something and it would have died out. But because human beings have become so mobile, today they're in China, tomorrow morning they're in Italy, next day morning they're in United States or wherever. Because of this seamless mobility, suddenly Corona has taken on a huge form. By itself, it would not have because it needs you. So this urge to always predict something, there was a man, he is no more, there was a man like this in Tamil Nadu. He predicted 500 years later, there will be a big flood in Tamil Nadu. I said, that's wonderful. People came and asked me, said, Guru, what do you think, 500 years later there's going to be a major flood. I said, that is why I'm sitting at the foothills in case the flood comes, we will go up the mountain. You are in Chennai, you will go. So it is that so. I said, yes. But I can also make some predictions. 700 years later, this hill is going to become a volcano and blow. I said, what really? I said, see, 700 years later, I will not be there, you will not be there. We can predict whatever we want. Please tell me what is going to happen in the next five days. Not even five months. Next five days, tell me what's going to happen. This could be useful. Like a meteorological report, if you tell me what's going to happen in the next five days, it would be of some use. 500 years later, anything can happen. And of course, people have such a fad about these things, they will adjust the time and the prediction just about everything that can ever happen on this planet has already been said by Nostradamus. I'm not a French, you know, I'm not conversant with French, but I like the word damas in English language. I don't know what it means in French. So this will go on and on, people making predictions always of the past. Well, if you look at certain projection of how populations are growing, how things are happening, what kind of ecological damage is happening, you can make some calculation and predict something that even this trajectory, if you go, this is what you will hit. We can say that. But 500 years of trajectory is a different matter because we do not know what all forces will influence things. People say, you know, after the world war is over, they say, we knew this is going to happen. You know, somewhere it is written, after the nuclear bombs, atomic bombs were dropped, people say, we knew about this, two ugly spots will happen in the world. What about the test explosions? You missed all of them, you don't know how many hundreds of tests have been done. Maybe human beings did not die, I'm sure a whole lot of creatures have died. So this is a wasteful thing. Instead of doing what you have to do now actively, you go on talking about how we already knew. There are two problems right now with coronavirus. Like somebody said, it is dense population and dense population. We are already a dense population. Don't also be dense up here. Let's do what best we can do. Don't predict how many people will die. It's just stupid. How many people we will not let them die? This is important. Next question is from Karthik. Namaskaram, Sadhguru. Generally it is said that once you are on spiritual sadhana, you should not get involved in action. But you are making volunteers go out and serve, distribute materials to health professionals, raising funds for rural people's ration. Is all this worldly activity needed on spiritual path? No, no, it's not needed. It's definitely not needed. But morning, evening, is this very worldly? Hello? Is it very worldly or no? If you stop all that, then I will not ask you to volunteer. I will not ask you to serve. I will not ask you to do anything. If you simply sit like this, no food, no movement, no toilet, if you simply sit, I will also come and fall at your feet. You don't have to do anything, we will worship you every day. Yes, we will. I'm not joking. We definitely will. But you are very worldly, but when others eat, suddenly it is worldly. This is spiritual. You eating is spiritual, somebody eating is worldly. So, my meal is very spiritual meal. Your meal is worldly meal. No, no, no. We must decide. If you are oblivious to your own suffering, then you have a right to be oblivious to everybody's suffering. Absolutely nothing matters to you. But when this matters, everything matters. So, the reason why there is a certain amount of negativity against spiritual movements is because of this, because largely they have been perceived as irresponsible people, people who live on the society. It's very, very important. If society gives you ten rupees, you must do hundred rupees of work. Yes. Only then you have a right to close your eyes and simply sit like this, otherwise you have no right. So, when situations happen, like this, right now. Okay, this is a pandemic, but I hope this question is not from within the yoga center. Kartik. So, suppose we are here in the yoga center, two hundred, I mean two thousand, six hundred and forty-two people right now. Not a single infection. But they're all happy, peaceful, very wonderful. But I have offered the premises to the state government. Now they're examining how much space can we give them. So, the space that we give them, they will bring infected people. You need to understand infection is not going to just fly and get you. Infection will be there with them. We have to provide a protective atmosphere and some of them will be idiots. We have to lock them in, if necessary. All kinds of people are there. They will get paranoid, they want to run out or they will fall in love with you, they want to hug you. Yes, all these things have happened. All this we have to manage, ensuring nobody here is infected. It's very important because your compassion is not about causing more problem. If you get infected, you're just multiplying the problem. So, compassion is not a stupid thing. Compassion is a very intelligent process of life. When you're all inclusive, you will see what is the best thing to do. The best thing to do is not something that can be decided today just like this. This is the best thing to do. This is an evolving situation as life always is. In the given situation, what is the most sensible thing to do, we will decide accordingly. We are already clearing some premises and making it ready in case it just bursts out. Because Coimbatore city also has a few people who got infected in Delhi and they came here, I think a few of them are not traceable. We don't know where they are, how many people they're going to infect. It's come very close, just twenty-five kilometers away. I think Kovai Podur is segregated, is it today? They've started, you know, doing localized segregation. Wherever there is one or two infections, they're just segregating that little little societies so that it doesn't spread. That's exactly what we will also do if people come from outside. But we want to ensure, we want to keep this record by the time this virus is over. However long it takes, we don't want to see even one person here infected. So our Chinese volunteers, thanks to them have sent material for us. Just today, morning it has arrived. The gloves, the protective gear and various other things. So you will have protective gear to go on self. It's just that you have to maintain certain distance and certain sense. There was an artist. One day he got a female model to paint. So she sat there and he started painting. After some time he went and kissed her. She said, what? I'm sure you're doing this with every model who comes your way. He said, no, you're the first one. Then she asked, how many models have you had? He said, four. First one was a rose. Second was an onion. Third was a banana. You are the first female. So what you touch, what you don't touch, what kind of distance you keep, you just have to take care of this because this is serious business. This is life and death business. Your enemy is invisible. Don't know where it is. You don't know who is carrying it. There is no guarantee. If someone is young and sturdy, they may be carrying it, not showing a single sign. So you just have to treat everybody like an onion. So about to serve or not to serve. This is not even a question. This is not service. This is just basic expression of your humanity. If you think forsaking your humanity is your spirituality, I'm sorry I don't want such spirituality. But if you become like this, nothing about you is material. You simply tch, then we will not ask you to serve. You don't have to. As long as this is there, you must serve because for this to happen, behind this there are so many people. There are people out there still working in the field. The poor farmer may get it. The shopkeeper may get it. The one who brings it here may get it. Our volunteers who are going out to procure, they may get it. So when all of them are sticking out their life for you to eat, you not willing to do even a little bit doesn't sound like spirituality to me. This question is from Mimi. Namaskaram Sadhguru. In the last few weeks you have been speaking about making home a sweet home to live in. However home cannot be sweet for many who are victims of domestic violence and cannot escape anywhere. This is a man complaining or a woman? Mimi. Mimi, am I am I? Sounds like a woman. In Lebanon the number of victims have increased by 100% since March 2019 and the same is happening across the world after the lockdown. How can we help them in these difficult days and what can they do to survive this period? Domestic violence, I thought it could be a man because these days women are more fit than men. So I thought it's the man complaining but it's still a woman unfortunately. Well, see this is what we are trying to change. This is what the world is trying to change because, because a woman or a female human being has certain biological responsibilities in terms of bringing us all forth here. Because of that, there were certain social handicaps which evolved over a period of time. These handicaps have been exploited too harshly in many societies, almost everywhere. But not everybody, but everywhere it's happened. In some places it has religious backing. In some places it's free enterprise to dominate and exploit a woman. Individual people will always do. I want you to understand it's not just about a woman. Individual people have a tendency to exploit anybody who is little weaker than them. Well, people all over the world this used to happen, fortunately it's come down considerably now. When we were growing up also, every day at the school you can get beaten for something or the other almost every day. Why are you beating a child? Simply because they're smaller than you. Even you and I had sayings, spare the stick and spoil the child something, something. So you are not beating them because you know something better. You are not beating them because you evolved and they're unevolved and you want to hasten evolution with a stick. Simply they're smaller than you. How come when they grow up you don't beat them because now you know the consequence. So similarly, they're not necessarily beating somebody because they are women. They're beating them because they're physically weaker compared to a man little smaller and weaker generally at least. So this exploitation of anybody who's weaker than you, either physically, financially, socially whichever way if you're little weaker, you get robbed around. You know once I was... there was some kind of assembly near in Malanadu that's near Shivmagga in the western gods. There's some camp there and this way back I'm talking some little yoga thing going on and they wanted me to come there and spend a day with them. So I went naturally. My mode of transport was always a motorcycle at that time I went there. Those days the 250cc single stroke machine was a big motorcycle. Today when I park it next to what I have today, it looks like a joke but that day it was big motorcycle. On the road it was the fastest thing on the road. So I went there and some other people were there who were serving that place. So on a little Luna, there used to be one little machine called Luna, kinetic thing. So on this Luna this guy goes to purchase some vegetables from a faraway place and comes because this is in a remote jungle and then he was coming with all these bags and some truck was going and truck pushed him off the road. So he fell down and little damage, no big damage but some damage, some skin lost, no bones. So he came and he was saying what happened and you know, because I didn't have power, he pushed me like this. On the road you must always have some power. I said not just road, just about anywhere. If you don't have power they'll push you around. Unfortunately the world has become like this. This is why, this is why a spiritual space is very important where people are not seen for their strength. People are not seen for their physical strength or financial strength or something else like that but people are valued just for what they are. We need to build a society like this. This violence within the house, I know a whole lot of people are trying to address it like it's a man-woman problem, it's not a man-woman problem, this is man versus anything problem. Anything that's weaker than you, if it's very small you will stamp it out, it's little big you throw stones at it, if it's little bigger you take a stick and beat it, just about anything. Why do people, why did people go about just shooting whatever they saw wild animals and stuff like that. Not always for food. If they're just shot for food because of their survival that's a different matter. Most of the animals were shot simply for pleasure because they can't shoot back at you. So you shoot a buffalo because it can't shoot back at you, you beat a child because he can't beat you back, you beat a woman because she can't beat you back. So this is on everywhere but today women have choices, it's time we must make those choices. We can't fix everything right away but all of you who have children, empowering. The girl child in your house is the most important thing. Empowerment does not mean she should become the exploiter from tomorrow. Empowerment is this that you have no need to exploit anybody, that is empowerment. A human being is truly empowered that if I sit here I feel wonderful by myself. I don't have to have ten people behind beneath me for me to feel great. This is empowerment. This empowerment has to happen means you have to look at the spiritual process, the whole world. Spiritual process does not mean looking up, looking down, it's about turning inward and getting in touch with the essential nature of who we are. If we don't touch that, we will be like every other animal. This happened one day. A lion was walking in the forest and he was feeling like this man in the domestic violence scene, little strutting around thinking like that. He saw a fox, he caught him and he said, hey, who is the king of the forest? Fox, you know how? Oh my lord, you are not only king of the forest, you are the king of the universe. He felt little more, it got puffed up and then he was strutting around. Then he saw a leopard, caught him. Who is the king of the forest? He shivered because he is not a match for the lion. He said, no, no, you are definitely the king of the forest. There is no two ways about it. If I had two choices, it would be you and you. Then he was feeling really wonderful, even a leopard is shivering in front of him and he came to a little opening. There he saw a huge tusker standing and he rode. Who is the king of the forest? The tusker without a word put his trunk out, picked him up, twirled him around and thrashed him on the ground. With his back hurting very badly, you could have just told me. The tusker said, but I had to make my point. So this problem, that wherever you find somebody who is little weaker than you, physically, financially, socially, politically, you want to rub them in, this is very animalistic. It's okay for the animal kingdom, not okay for human beings.