 Jaya Jaya Jaya Mahadaya Jaya Jaya Jaya Mahadaya Shiv Shankar Adi Anant Shiv Shankar Adi Anant Jaya Jaya Jaya Jaya Jaya Jaya... Greetings to all of you! Greetings for everyone! Have you ever been like this in Tamil or in Tamil? No, no! You shouldn't scream. There is a situation in the country, which is dire. Grim, we can use all the words. Thousands of people are dying, instead of complaining, we need to understand no nation on the planet can provide medical infrastructure to all its population at once. Right now, this is what is happening, too many people falling sick, there is not enough infrastructure to meet that. Well, too many people are busy giving commentaries about how we are ill-equipped and this and that. Well, would you prefer to build endless number of hospitals when everything was okay, instead of building schools, roads, ports, whatever else the nation needs? So, we must understand this is not a time to go about complaining, criticizing, wasting our breath on anything other than positive action. I know right now the word positive has become negative, but action should be positive, your COVID test must be negative. This is very important. Well, as Isha meditators and volunteers and many others who support us in various different ways, it's very important that at a time like this, you must understand the significance of the practices that have been taught to you. Maybe you never saw these yogic practices in a way that you thought it will spiritually enhance you. Maybe take away your backache or headache or improve your performance in day-to-day life, variety of other things, but you might have never looked at it as a life-saving device, but that's exactly what it can be. If your practices have been normal and you're keeping it on all the time, definitely your body will take this ravaging that virus may cause much, much better than most other people. Being in touch with the earth, being in touch with the elements and the yogic practices along with that could make a huge difference. So at a time like this, those of you who know the benefits of this, it's very important that you must keep up the practices that's most important. Every one of you must spend at least ninety to hundred-and-twenty minutes per day doing some practice. Either Surya Kriya or Shakti Chalana Kriya, Shambhavi, if not anything else, at least the Simha Kriya, all these practices make a difference, especially those of you practicing Shakti Chalana Kriya. There will be a massive difference in your system in the very way the body arranges itself. So keeping up the practice is very vital and also this is the time, I am well is not good enough because everybody around us are ill means, one where the other they will give it to us. So it's important everybody around us is also well. So for this, these simple tips for immunity, what we have given out in terms of how to eat food, simple practices to do about Sastang, about Simha Kriya, all of you should take it up. Don't leave it to the foundation, all of you should take it up to see that each one of you that, you know, you make sure you spread it to as many people as possible because this is a time this is most needed. This is not a time. Pandemic, one thing the pandemic is doing to us as is, it is what I was trying to do all these years. Your individuality is a myth that you have created. There is a universal nature to life. Well, this virus is giving you teachings that I've been giving but, you know, you will learn to ignore many things but here you are, the virus is teaching it in a very virulent way unfortunately. But I'm saying this is the time to learn how connected life is. This is not something that you can think you're in isolation and everything will happen to you separately because you've got a few things organized, that's not how it works. So spending a certain amount of time every day at least, at least you, these tools you spread it to three to five people per day. If you have more capacity, please do that at least a minimum. If you don't have any contact, still you can spread it to at least five people a day. This is very much possible and International Day of Yoga is coming this year. It rises to a completely different significance altogether. The significance of yoga, the yogic practices in the world will go up significantly. So online we will be offering yoga, Vira, training processes. Please go through this. I want thousands of you or hundreds and thousands of you to go through this and make sure it is offered to as many people as possible because you need to understand. Well, I don't want to be a doomsayer. I never am that. But not confronting the realities for what it is will be a foolish way of addressing life. I've been talking to various scientific, you know, people of science in this area and many important doctors in the world from what I gather and also I've been saying this myself because from the basic nature of what's happening, it's simply common sense also to see this that this virus most probably will not be over either this year or next year. Very easily it can run to four to six years before this pandemic becomes an epidemic. That too, if the world invests enough and we are fortunate enough to come up with a very efficient treatment protocol, till that happens, this pandemic can keep coming back in waves as you see from the first wave to second wave that viruses come back much more equipped to harm us than what it was in 2020. This 2021 virus is almost doubly or tribly effective in terms of causing harm to human beings and in 2020 we had an assurance that below a certain age young people will not be affected but it is no more so. So many people in their 20s and 30s unfortunately have lost their lives. So virus will may get better and better. We have to get better. This is very important. The solution is not elsewhere. It is with us because this is a virus where the soul carrier is the human being. It is not mice, it is not mosquitoes, it is not birds. In all these years, fevers have been coming. We are thinking it is chicken flu, it is this flu, it is that flu. This is nothing like that. This is essentially carried by human beings. So human beings are the only solution. Conscious, responsible human beings are the only solution really. Otherwise wave after wave will keep coming back, could decimate human populations, disturb our life. The way we have known it may be completely a thing of the past if we don't take care. And it's very, very important that every one of us must understand our responsibility in not only supporting ourselves and ensuring we don't get infected. This is a fundamental commitment everybody should take. I will not get infected. If I do get infected, I will ensure it doesn't go on to one more person. Now I get COVID and then like you call your children and you know like you get COVID and then you call your children and your spouse and you get emotional and you hug them and love you know. Love is not going to save us. Sense is the most important thing right now. In a situation like this, it is sensible, responsible, conscious behavior, which is going to be the winner of this. There is simply no other solution that anybody has come up with. We have only learned to postpone. Vaccination is a good way to postpone, but vaccination also is not a permanent solution. But at this time, it is very important that everybody gets vaccinated. There's a whole lot of people who are internet scientists who are picking up bits and pieces from all over the place and talking about all the different negativities of vaccination. I want you to understand every vaccination you have taken in your childhood of diphtheria, of smallpox and whatever else you have taken, all of them had an element of harm, an element of risk in them. But we took them. It's because of that most of us are alive today. So the same goes for this vaccine. Does it have an element of risk? Yes, but it has been substantially established. The element of risk is minuscule and it is worth neglecting it right now because right now the risk of infection and fatality from that is much, much higher. We need to understand health is not an absolute thing. Health is something that we achieve incrementally. So the same thing goes for the vaccination. Right now, vaccination is a must for everybody. Nobody should evolve philosophies of anti-vax. This is just rubbish right now, putting everybody's life to risk. Well, if you want to be anti-vax, go and live on a Himalayan peak where you are not in touch with any human being, it's fine. But if you're living in a city, town or a community, you must take vaccination right now. Is this an final ultimate solution for this pandemic? No. At least it'll give us a break of six to nine months. We can postpone it. In this postponement, probably a little more awareness and consciousness will come and we clearly understand the risk that we're putting ourselves into and putting everybody else around us, especially in the yoga center. There are many people who are over sixty-five, seventy years of age. As I've told you, all the young people there, it's your responsibility to ensure that we will not have a single fatality in the yoga center. I want that commitment to spread to the rest of the meditator community. You have to ensure you will not die and nobody around you dies. This is the only way. This is the only way. There is no magic wand solution anywhere. This is the only way. And this may be a long haul. How long? We don't know. But it could be a very long haul. It may change the very way we exist on this planet. It's possible. Or if virus just decides and just fades off as sometimes it has done in the past, some of the viruses have done that. If such a thing happens, well, we are very fortunate. But if such a bonus comes our way, we will definitely enjoy it. But right now, thinking of such fanciful dreams is not the right thing to do. It's very, very, very important. Everybody must see how to bring aspects into their life, how to eat properly so that our oxygen levels and immune system is good. How to live properly so that our oxygen levels and immune system is fighting fit. And how to do what practice is to do to achieve the same thing. This should be the focus right now. And the whole country or the whole world should move in this direction. And international day of yoga is coming. It is very important that all of you become instruments because you are not just teaching a simple practice, you could be saving their life. Please make this happen for yourself and everybody around you. This is the time to stand up and show what kind of human beings we are, what are we made of. This is not a time for frustration. This is not a time for depression. This is not a time to become… come into a state of despair. This is a time to stay calm, to stay equanimous and do the right thing. The right thing is not a spectacular heroic act. Right thing is simple. Wearing a mask is not heroic, but it is heroic, believe me. Keeping social distance doesn't look so spectacular, but it is a spectacular act because this can save your life and everybody's life around you. Please, these things you must maintain. Having been on a spiritual path claiming that there is awareness in you, that you are spiritually oriented. If you can't manage these things, it means nothing. All spirituality will mean nothing because you will be risking your life and putting everybody else to risk. So it's important that in different regions, meditators organize support groups and in the support groups, it is not a must that everybody must be a meditator. If you make them to Simha Kriya, they have become meditators. All right? Do not think meditator means they must have gone through an engineering program. They are doing Simha Kriya, they have watched three videos, they are meditators for us or they did nothing. Still, if they are willing human beings, they can be part of this and ensure that we are able to facilitate a few things. We are not doctors, not all of us are doctors, not all of us are in the administration to do some significant things, but wherever facilitation is missing, right now the biggest problem is the number of medical personnel we have is not enough for the number of people who are falling sick. When I say medical personnel, don't think only of doctors, the most important care workers in this are the nurses and the next level of paramedics who are there because they are the ones who can do this work. Because there is no diagnosis involved, just a test is negative and all the symptoms are there, everybody knows what the symptoms are. So you... there is not too much work for a doctor except in emergency situations. Largely it is nursing work. I'm saying all of you in some way can very easily learn a few things that when there is an emergency, when somebody gets sick, should we rush everybody to the hospital, not necessary, or can we teach all the families around us as to in case it happens to your family, what are the things to do? Because panic, when somebody in the family gets sick, the panic is causing... costing too much for the country. Somebody panics and they rush their people to the hospital whether they deserve... whether they need... deserve is not the word, I'm sorry. Whether they need the hospital bed or not, whether they need the oxygen or not, family will demand, we want oxygen, we want bed. But somebody else who really needs it may not get it because somebody else who could manage without it unfortunately is occupying the bed. But this is happening out of emotional reactions for family well-being. So educating people, we will put out more and more notifications, make sure this reaches maximum number of people, educating people how you can nurse COVID sick person at home without taking it beyond a limit, what are the things you can do, what support you can get because more and more people get treated at home. More and people... more people are nursed to health at home will be a simple way of avoiding thousands of deaths which are happening in the corridors of the hospitals. This is very, very important, this is a responsibility that all of you take it up. And we will see in the region how the Ishangas can come and organize or by video or audio, they will organize these things for you, help you through this, but form self-help groups of your own so that among yourself there is strength, there is no panic, there is no sense of being lost, you know, lost in this world by yourself. There is a community around you strong, willing to support you on all levels. And we will see what we can do. And of course, we've released a little bit of fund, but this will not be enough. Please those of you who can raise fund, crowdfunding, whatever other resources, please do whatever you can because there is much to be done, particularly in the rural areas which doesn't come into media glare, but there are people there. There are more people in rural India than in urban India, so there are real people there and their lives are also at risk. Fortunately, generally they are far more resilient, their immune systems are better than the city people, but still this does not mean they're not at risk because deaths are happening in rural areas also. So we want to see how we can support this not so privileged society in the country. And this is also the region of the country where there is not too much medical facility at all. Most of the India's medical facility is in urban areas, in rural areas there is very little and educating that population, ensuring it doesn't happen in any big wave doesn't happen through this is important. This taking care of the rural population is very, very, very important because one thing that needs to happen, whatever pandemic is happening, crops must be planted on time, harvest must happen on time. If this doesn't happen, then nation will go into another level of crisis or food shortages. Once it goes there, it will become uncontrollable. So we must ensure the rural population is healthy and well so that agricultural patterns are not broken, that it continues to happen the way it has been happening. When the monsoon comes, they must be ready to plant, they must be healthy to do it. This is very important for the survival of this nation at this point that we have to ensure rural populations are doing well. The youth among us, we will see how to organize them. Maybe we cannot do it all over the country, but definitely in Tamil Nadu we will see how to do. Maybe we can extend to one or two more states if that is possible. There are various things, as you have seen heart-rending scenes in the news channels of people either taking their sick family members from hospital to hospital to find a bed, not finding it, or people taking the dead relatives from place to place not able to find a place to cremate them. So we will see how to organize this. If necessary, if things are going that bad, we would like to organize makeshift cremation grounds somewhere close to the cities where some with some dignity, this can be handled. We can teach the volunteers what are the simple things they can do for a dead person and be able to provide this cremation service. This is not a time to think of expenses. We will see how to organize this. It shouldn't cost us too much, but it is important that the dead find some dignified closure so that the family doesn't live in that pain for the rest of their lives. It's very, very important to provide this service. We are seeing what we can do. In Chennai, we are organizing a few vans to shift the dead similar things. If you want to do in other cities, we can see how to support you. And one more important thing is the medical teams are stretched beyond their limits, physical limits. So we are seeing how to do this. In each city and in each hospital, it may be a different situation. Particularly we want to focus on the garment hospitals where the facilities for the doctors may not be as good as it is in the private hospitals. At least, you know, through the day and night if we can provide something as simple as tea and biscuits. Just a place where somebody will smile at them and serve them a cup of tea and they can't smile back at you because they're in a PPE suit for twenty-four hours, many of them. I want you to understand. Except for this sleeping time, they are in PPE suits all the time. Those of you getting frustrated with the masks, I want you to understand what is the condition of the medical people, medical personnel who are standing up for other people's lives. They are in a PPE suit through the day. If you don't understand what I am talking, our own doctors in the ashram are in the PPE suit almost eighteen hours a day. Please understand what is the difficulty. As summer begins to warm up or heat up, which already it is, the PPE suit is nothing short of hell. But unfortunately, they're in that K state and fortunately they're willing to do that, still doing it. And doctors in the last fourteen months, doctors and nurses in the last fourteen months have been stretched to their physical limits. It is time we support them in whichever way possible. It is time whichever way you can think of. I'm just saying a few things. I just spoke about tea and biscuits. You can support their families. You can see if you can cook for them. You can do something for them. Whatever we can do, wherever we are, we must do it. This is the time. This is the time to show our humanity because this how well we come out of this does not depend just on the government, just on the organizational capability of the state. It is important how each citizen behaves. And I expect that those of you who call as Ishaas, those of you who call yourself as spiritual people, I expect that you show different level of responsibility and commitment for all the life around you, including your own. This is very important to do this at this time. If there's any question, please. Once again I'll repeat this for you. This is a fundamental commitment everybody should take. I will not get infected. If I do, if it so happens, I got infected. I will ensure I will not give it to even one more person. This commitment, if all the citizens take it, we will stop it in its tracks. Please, if there's a question. I know that it's very difficult for me, whether it's outside, in our business, or any job, I know that it's very difficult. But what we have to do is, we have to be around ourselves, we have to be around ourselves. How many people have died, what has been going on, what is the most important thing in this, we have to take this commitment. I will take this virus as if it does not come into me. I have to take this commitment. Another thing is, I have come here because, I have to take this commitment as if it does not go to anyone else. If we take this commitment, according to what we have done, we can control this virus. Because of this virus, whether it's an L or a K or a Par or a K or a K or a Par, it's not a Par. We are the only Par. Because humans are the only Par, we can stop it if humans take it. If not, we can stop it and leave without a chance. Because of this, I have come here from the beginning, you all have to take this commitment. We have come here to say that we need to keep our body in a stable state. Now, many people have come here to say this. Now, this Simha, Kriya, this Shastra, if we do all this, we can increase the amount of oxygen in our blood. Another thing is, we can say that we need to keep our body in a stable state and we can use our strength to keep it in a stable state. We have done many kinds of tests and we have said that Simha, Kriya, this is very important. So, we can consider how long it will take for us to do this. You all go and ask for Jyothisham. All these things are not done by Jyothisham. You ask Jyothisham, how long it will take? When will it be done? No, it will be done. Whether it is right or not, it is right. We, Puruppa, Vlipunar, Wali, we should take this as our victory. Not only this, we should all go and join in this Koli group and go to a city like this. We should think a little. Some people should be in a city. We should all be in a city. For this, we have started to make many types of medicines for yoga. In another two years, in two to four years, we have decided to make medicines for 50,000 people who live there. This will be very necessary for me. Now, the reason for this need is that one is lost. Another is that we should look for health, we should look for food. Another is that in a place that is open, instead of going to every city, if you are in a place that is a little open, there is a change in this. Because of this, there are many types of medicines. Now, what is the plan? To plan, you should understand the whole situation. No one understands the whole situation. They just say that everyone is one. The important thing is that this can be for two years, four years, six years, or our life can be complete. They say that it is a chance to come back. This is not what I am saying. Vignani is saying this. Because of this, no one knows who I am talking to and who I am talking to. Everyone has come to know how to adjust. Because of this, we should strengthen our bodies. We should be able to develop further. We should take care of this. At the same time, we should not sit idle without doing anything. We should be able to do whatever we can do. We should see how to help others. It is a good situation to express our human self. If we have human self, how to see another person, how to save another person, how to help them. If we feel that we have come to everyone, we can overcome this. If we want to get out of this quickly, we have to be open-minded and happy. Everyone has said this. Whenever a person is happy in the future, the strength of this expectation in his body is good. Because of this, we have come to a difficult question in our life. But we are calm and happy. We should see how to get out of this quickly. We cannot win without everyone's help. We Tamil people should take this opportunity and be open-minded in Tamil Nadu. We should take this opportunity to get out of this without going to a very big place. Whatever help we need, we can do it without any need. We will be open-minded for you. Well, many of you who just beginning to do yoga because now pandemic has come. Sadguru, I came to your program twenty years ago but I discontinued the practice. Now I want to start. We have many requests like this. Well, we've been telling you in many ways but well, this is the reality. This happened, all right? A kangaroo from Australia was visiting United States and it called the emergency number 911. And the other end the emergency workers asked, what is the problem? This kangaroo said, I can't find my kids. Then the emergency person at the other end said, have you checked your pockets? The kangaroo patted its pocket and said, oh, never mind. I want you to understand this. I've been telling you in is the only way out. This is the time to understand this fully because only your responsible behavior can save your life and other lives. Let's make it happen, hmm? Yes.