 Let your colleagues grill me, I just wanted to kind of say why this movement called Youth and Truth. Literally thousands of people keep telling me in the last many years that I've worked with people, they come up to me and say, «Sadhguru, we only wish we had met you twenty years ago. Where were you? If I had met you when I was twenty-five, I would have done this. If I had met you when I was thirty, I would have done that, but you came so late. So I thought I'll catch you now so that you don't complain later. Because youth means a time of life. Most youth don't understand this right now, but this is the time of your life when you're at your peak energy. Energy-wise you're at the peak. If only there could be little more clarity and balance in your life, this energy could become a phenomenal process both for you and for the nation and for the society and for the world. So this is an endeavor to see if we can bring a little more clarity and balance to the youth so that their exuberant energy will work for them, not against them. Because lot of energy without necessary balance can work against us. It's my endeavor that your life energies should work for you. If they work for your well-being, naturally it'll work for the well-being of everybody else around you. But right now, the only thing that people suffer is their own energy, their own intelligence, their own emotion. This is what people are suffering through their entire life. So through this movement we thought we will bring clarity and balance to the youth of this nation and the world. So here you are. I'm curious to ask questions and we are waiting for answers to come. And I'm Vijay, doing fourth building for cross-engineering. I am Kartika. I am Kartika K. doing my second year in B.C. Honours Agriculture. I'm Sreecharan, doing my second year in B.C. Honours Agriculture. My first question to you is, when you say stress management, most of the people who come here don't say stress management. Stress, when we think about our future, when we are in a relationship, when we have interest in a subject, we get stressed. At the same time, if we have stress, we can complete our work. How to manage stress? How? What is the word for stress in Tamil? What? Manahalattham. Manahalattham, should we manage? Or should we manage happiness, peace, happiness? What should we do? Should we manage the respect we have? If we don't need it, should we manage it? I'm asking. If we don't need it, should we manage it? Or should we manage the respect we have? Tell me. Should we manage the respect we have? I'm asking, what is Manahalattham going to manage? When I went to America for the first time in a few days, they were talking about stress management everywhere. When I look at it like that, what is this? Why are they managing stress? We are managing our family, we are managing our property, we are managing our money, we are managing our business. They are managing stress, right? Why are they managing stress? I think they have a lot of love and care for stress. After that, after a while, they came to a conclusion. They came to a conclusion that stress is a part of our life. There is no such thing as stress, nothing else. Your brain works as expected from you, that's all. Now, if you sit like this, you should experiment and see some people. Your hands are shaking. What should we do now? What should we do? Should we hold it in our hands or should we manage it? I'm asking. If we hold our hands and shake it, what should we do? Should we hold it in our hands or should we manage it? I'm asking. If we have a disease, if we shake our hands, we have a disease, right? I won't talk about it. If we shake our hands, we have a disease, right? Should we manage our disease? Should we fight with each other? Should we fight with each other? Now, everyone is in stress. Now, everyone has this. Everyone is in stress, that's not normal. Even doctors say, stress is not normal. For me, they are in stress. We, our Buddhists have started working as expected from us. So, how do we use it? We don't learn it. We have many business partners. Some of them have phones in their hands. Some of them are looking at me with their hands. We have to create many business partners. How did it come? It came from this side only, right? That's why the big computer is sitting here, right? It's sitting here. But there will be a user manual for that. We have to understand how to use it. Otherwise, it will get us. If our mind starts to get us, we say we are in stress. If we get the one next to us, we can do something, we can manage it. If we get us, what will we do? This is a way to do it. Can we manage it? Can we manage it or can we cure it? We have to cure it. The problem is, how can we do it by ourselves? We don't know about it. We didn't tell anything about it. How can we… You saw all the things that are hidden in the ice-cream. How can we work in this? No one would have seen it. If we understand this, our life will go well. If we understand the problem, what will we do? It will be a sin. If we understand the problem, how will we live? We don't understand the human being. How will our life go? Don't think that there will be any other reason for this stress. Many people come to me and say, «Sadhguru, I can't bear it. My mother-in-law, my husband, my boss, he is not a human being. He is like this, 100 complaints. My husband, he is like this, he is everything. I say, come and sit for yoga meditation. I will give you good food and a good place to stay. No need to do anything. Just be happy. That's all. But then I will come and check. If you are in a problem, you won't be healed. What for? You have to heal yourself for a very long time. If you are happy, I will take care of your life. Leave him alone in a room for a day. He will become like this within a day. Why? Because he is sitting alone. If you sit alone and experience many different effects, you are a wrong person, aren't you? Hello? You are wrong person, aren't you? If I am with you, if I have a problem, I can say it is because of you. I am sitting alone and the same problem is happening. I ask, who is going to deal with this? We can do this, we can do another. How is this feeling happening? How is this body happening? How are these rations happening? How is this power, how is this life power happening? If you live without sense of this, I ask, what will become of you without stress? Something, studying in this college has become stressful. If you work for another day, what will you do? I ask. There is nothing. You have to study only in a textbook. For whom is the textbook written? It is an average. Isn't it? You don't need anything to be in an instant to study in a textbook. It is written as if you are studying from an average, isn't it? If you study that and become stressed, what will you do? You shouldn't come to our mouth to stress. You should take care of it. My end, my feeling, my life power, my body, my mind, should happen like I said. My mind should happen like I said. My body should happen like I said. There is a kind of ignorance for this. There is a kind of ignorance to live like this. If we act with ignorance, our body, our mind will never act like we expected. Then we won't get sick, we won't get stressed. If our body and our mind act like we expected, I ask, can you save us from any kind of debt? Can you save us from any kind of debt? Your mind has started to act against you. I ask, can you save us from any kind of debt? Can you save us from any kind of debt? Should I tell you from my mouth? I can't. So, this is such a big issue. Why is this a big issue? In this land, in the Parimannath village, in the year of Lakshakanak, there was a certain Amibaba, it happened like this. Look at how much work they have done on you. How much work has been done to bring this situation to you. Now, the whole problem has been solved. Now, what do you think, Hyderabad? Four months ago, a TV anchor in Hyderabad, 34 years old mother, jumped from the 5th floor and made a mistake. After doing it, she wrote a note. No one is responsible for my mistake. Only my head is against me. My brain is my enemy, she wrote. How many lakhs of years have passed to develop this brain? Now, what should I do if this is against you? Who is the best friend for all of us? We have brain, right? Hello? But this is against us. This is all stress. Our brain is against us. No, it's not like that. Our brain is a very necessary friend for us, right? Our body is our brain. We don't know how long we will be friends for all of us, right? Is that so? Today, we will be very friendly. We don't know what will happen tomorrow. But this body, this mind, should be with us till we die, right? Should be, right? If they are against us, then you are saying that it is stress. We are not coming out of stress. We are making it. We are not in Tamil. Because we are not in Tamil, everything seems to be stress. Whatever we do seems to be stress. Without anything, we are sitting and feeling stress. You don't need this. This college is very stressful. You can divide from your college. You can just sit at home and be happy. Can you? Can you? No. If you are in college, if you are out of stress, then you are asking that you are not in stress. Everything is stress. Whatever should be happy, everything is stress. This is not because of external stress. We are faced with it. Even that should be like desiccant, there is an ignorance about it. Even a dog is walking on the road. If someone sees it, it is like this. What is it? It is like a dog wants to love us. It has a dog, right? Isn't it a dog? Similarly, it is like this dog wants to love us. It is like this dog wants to love us. It is like this dog wants to love us. If it is in a right way, we can do that. Otherwise, it is like a dog. If we have a dog, it is like stress. that guru, since we are studying in agriculture university, my next question is related to agriculture. Agriculture was an industry which supported the GDP more than thirty percent in the medieval times, but now it has come down to sixteen to seventeen percent. But when you see the scenario, it is the only industry which employs more than two third of the population. Isn't this contradiction creating a constraint in the economic development of the country? See, it's a… it's very progressive to call agriculture an industry, but human ability to do agriculture is the basis of our civilization. If we were hunters and gatherers, we would have never made this civilization grow. It is only because of our ability to pull food out of mud. Because of that we build cities and towns and settle down and many other arts and sciences and everything grew. If we were running after an animal wanting to spear it, we would have never developed a civilization as such. So agriculture is the basis of our civilization, we should not forget this. And it's a kind of a magic, when I say magic, if you don't understand what I'm saying. The soil that you walk upon is being turned into food, isn't it? Huh? It's not a small magic, if you… if I don't understand what magic I'm talking about. Tonight in your dinner, you eat the rest of the food, instead of pickle, just have little bit of soil on the side and touch it with it and eat. You will see how terrible it is. If we have to eat the soil and that soil which we cannot eat, we make it into wonderful food, which nourishes us and makes us… makes this flesh and blood. This is not a small thing. Transforming mud into food is agriculture. This phenomenal process that human beings discovered by observing plant life and harnessed it and as far as I know, tell me being in the college if I'm wrong, this is the only country except probably some patches of South America where there is over a twelve thousand year history of agriculture. This is the land here, southern India in Tamil Nadu. We have plowed the same land for over twelve thousand years. It's not a small thing. We have a deep relationship with… in America they call soil as dirt. Here we say thaymanu, because we have a profound relationship with this soil. So about two-thirds of the population being in agriculture, I must tell you this happened around two-hundred years ago or a hundred-and-seventy, hundred-and-eight years ago. India was a very industrialized country, three-hundred years ago probably we were the most industrialized country on the planet. One of the major industries was textile. We were exporting sixty percent of the world's textile we were exporting from this country. Between 1800 to 1860, the British saw that they say over sixty-five to seventy percent of the European money was coming to India just to buy clothing. The Arabs bought the Indian cloth and sold it ten times over in Europe. So all their gold and silver was ending up in India. So that is when they started their expeditions of all these Columbus's and Vasco de Gamas. Everybody started taking risk to find a sea route just to avoid the Arabs charging them ten times over for everything. So when they came here and they saw the industry, how simple and ingenious it was for a man to sit and do tuck, tuck, tuck, tuck, and you know, cloth just comes out of it. How do we… when they saw this, they saw that this is such a simple industry and they can do it with machines on which they started establishing. And in sixty years time, the export of textiles in this country came by, came down by ninety-four percent. Only six percent was left because they put such taxes and in some places very fine cloth they cut off their thumbs, they destroyed the looms. One of the British government generals goes out to say that in 1960, 1860 he says this, that the fields of India are bleached by the bones of the hand weavers. Millions of people died. It's estimated somewhere between three to four million people died out of starvation because their industry was destroyed. That is when a large population moved back to agriculture and agriculture was mainly became subsistence to just make some food for yourself and your family. They started plowing the land. That is how over nearly eighty-seven percent of India's population was in agriculture in 1947 I think, somewhere around that percentage. Today it has come down to sixty-five. What this essentially means is, if ten people have to eat, six-and-a-half to seven people are cooking, not a efficient way to use human resource. In fact, if you look at our nation, the only true resource we have is human resource. We don't have anything too much, we have people. If only if we can train, focus, inspire this population, we can be a tremendous miracle. If we fail to do that, we will be a big disaster. So sixty-five percent being in agriculture is not a right thing to do. We have to move the population. But moving the population does not mean moving them geographically into cities, but moving them to other trades and crafts and skills has to happen. No determined effort and organized effort has happened. So our main problem with agriculture has been we started moving from subsistence farming to cash farming or commercial farming approximately thirty-five, forty years ago, the journey started, still it is happening, not fully done because it was not done in an organized way. Because of this, one thing that you will see is rural populations are heavily undernourished. If you went into a village thirty-five, forty years ago, everybody wore torn clothes, there was no water, drinking water, they drank from the same pond where the buffaloes drank, all kinds of problems. But men and women were strong. Today if you go into a village, sixty percent of the rural population, their skeletal system has not grown to full size. They are shrunk simply because moving from subsistence farming to cash farming. When they were doing subsistence farming, they had no cash, but they were eating variety of food. Today the staple diet in southern India has become rice, tamarind, onion and chili. They know how to concoct something tasty. Resam saddam itself is enough. No nourishment, just staple diet going like this, in the north it's just wheat, chili and onion. In the south we have tamarind, extra. So because of this, the nourishment levels have dropped dramatically and this is a serious concern because we are producing a generation of underdeveloped humanity. A whole lot of people have not eaten well in the early stages of their life and they cannot make it up later. The development of the body and brain is gone. So this has happened to a huge number of people in this country. So one of the most important things is to organize agriculture, to bring technology. Above all the economy of scale is needed. Right now average land holding is a hectare, which is two point two five acres, which you cannot do anything worthwhile. You cannot really do anything significant with such small land holdings. So we are trying to do many things to bring farmers, producers, organizations and other things to bring some kind of a scale for both for cultivation, irrigation and marketing purpose you need scale. Because the farmers are so small, the farm volumes are so small, there is no solution for this. So right now there is a serious effort. This was part of the Rally for Rivers movement that we want to, you know, multiply the farmers' income in about five to six years time. Very easily you can multiply the farmers' income anywhere between three to eight times. If you adopt certain technologies, an integration of irrigation is most important for this, using water resources properly and bringing animals back on the farm. A tractor only plows the land, it doesn't fertilize the land, okay? You need animals. Without animals there is no way you can do farming in future. So these efforts are being made, but it's a large diverse country, nothing positive or negative can ever happen without protest in turmoil and struggle and everything. For every small thing there is a struggle. But if we don't do this now, India's agriculture can be in danger because if you make a survey of the farmers, how many of them want their children to go into farming? Believe me, it's somewhere around two to five percent. That's not good for the country. Sir, we portray our India as a woman and call mother India. Yet we see many rape cases, even in which we see a man raping his own mother, daughter or a sister. What drives a man with such madness of pleasure to do such an inhuman act? And what is the thing that drives him? So there are many aspects to this. Instead of linking these brutal acts to mother India, please. As I said, we call it mother earth. Does it mean to say all crime on this planet will stop? No, there is crime, variety of crime. Social assault on women is very much there. There are many aspects to this. One thing is we can get angry and say, okay, hang them. Well, if you bring hanging as a thing for rape, you must understand in a rape case the only witness is usually the victim, always, almost always. The only witness is the victim. If you guarantee a rapist that if you rape and if you get caught, you will hang for sure. What do you think he will do? He will eliminate that only witness. Yes or no? So before we say something, we must be careful. What we are saying, this does not mean we are supporting them, it just means are you looking for a solution or are you looking for a kangaroo coat? Hang everybody. No. Why is this happening? We must look at it. Why is it happening if you look at it? One thing is India is a culture. This is the first generation that women are actually coming out on the street and walking with men and working with men and you know, close proximity. People are not used to this and millions of young people are moving from villages to cities. In their village, their idea for women was their mother who was like this or their mousy who was like that, their atte or somebody at the party, it was like that. Now they come and see young girls walking on the street, it's very new for them. Let us not simply discount things and act like we are some kind of a drop down somewhere. Human beings have sexuality in them. Between the ages of fifteen and twenty-five, it may be in maximum force the hormonal influence. Unless one is disciplined with a certain cultivation of intellect and other avenues of expression in their life, like sport, art, music, education. So many things are there to engage you, nothing to engage you. Just your hormones are bursting within you, from your village you came to a city. Suddenly you see young girls, the kind of people that you saw in the movies are walking on the street, the guy goes crazy. And above all, you have… you have been encouraging alcohol everywhere. The moment two drops of alcohol fall into him, he goes absolutely crazy in the evenings. If he thinks nobody is watching, he will punch on somebody. There is also sociological issue in this. If he was in the village, his mother, his aunt, somebody will be talking, you know that girl, we are going to get you married to that girl. Whether he marries that girl or not, in his mind, there is a solution for his needs. He comes to the city alone, he just sleeps in some… in one room, ten boys are sleeping, working through the day and night and rubbish atmosphere, okay? In human atmosphere, it's like a concentration camp. Most of them are living in that kind of conditions. And there is no solution for him. For his hormones, for his life, for his body, for his emotion, for his life, there is no solution. There is not one person who is going there asking, okay, what are you going to do? Who are you going to marry? How are you going to settle your life? Is there any one human being looking at him? No. In the evening with friends, if he drinks, the guy goes wild, all right? And of course, people are selling all kinds of wild pornographic videos, he sees those things and he thinks that's a thing to do. So well, when somebody commits a crime, you have to punish them, that's another matter. I'm not going to get into that. But sociologically, what is the solution? Are you teaching them to become ascetics? Are you teaching them yoga, sadhana so that they will become brahmacharis and walk free of these things? No. You have not taught them anything like that. Are you going to give them a solution? If he was in the village by eighteen, nineteen, he would be married to somebody. Now he has no hope, he's simply there and he will do wild things. This is the nature of a human being, we must understand. So as a generation, as a culture, this situation that has changed. Just fifty years ago, almost every girl was married by the time she's sixteen, seventeen, a boy was married before she was twenty. So before he was going out of control, his things were settled. Now there is no settlement for his life. So just being puritanical is not going to work. We must at least be willing to debate what are we going to do with our youth. Youth means there are many aspects. One aspect is there is an influence of hormones in them. Are you going to address it or are you going to just close your eyes and say, no, nothing like that, just hang a few people, everything will be okay. It is not going to be okay. So we must address it, a time has come we must address it, rather than linking this to Bharatmata. Please. Satguru, I am an active of Kerala. So recently, Kerala has witnessed humans… Do you know how to swim? Not really. Oh! What did you do in the flood? I was here, no. So in Kerala we had floods two to three weeks ago and I always had my mother calling me up and telling about all her suffrage that she's going through this, she's going through that. I… After hearing to all that, I obviously I'm disturbed because you are safe here and you see your parents and your loved ones in there and I had a thought, if had I been ignorant to this fact that my state is entirely drawn in water, I would have been happy if I have not known that this fact. So if ignorance is a bliss, then why do people seek knowledge? Ignorance is bliss like this. You can do one thing. What is the tallest building in Karmatocity? How many floors I'm asking? Ten floors? Maybe that's it? There's no very tall building, right? Okay, you can come to Vellangiri, Malay. Go up there and there's a cliff. You jump off. It's so wonderful. Till you hit the ground, ignorance is like that. If you jump off, have you ever… you've never done skydiving. If you jump off an airplane, it's so fantastic, really. Everything is… if you look down, the damn planet is coming at you at great speed. That's the only problem. Otherwise, falling is very nice till you hit the ground. Ignorance is like that. It'll catch up with you, it'll catch up with you. Suppose it happened when you went for a vacation, it would have caught up with you, isn't it? And what guarantee that it won't come here? Hmm? There's no guarantee. It can happen anywhere. So ignorance is not a solution, nor is it a bliss. Ignorance protects you from suffering a few things. But suffering will cumulate and come to you in large scale at some point. Right now, this flood itself is ignorance is bliss only. Because people thought if you… if you don't know anything, everything will be okay. No, you will drown. Now the flood is happening for variety of reasons. These sort of rains that you saw this year, hmm, I don't know. Meteorological department is saying what, how many years ago was this kind of rain? That's what. I think it's around twenty-twenty-four years ago, when I was on those… out on the streets riding and doing things, if it rained, every street, every highway would be fully drunk. I would be one of the few who's still driving or riding, everything else would have stopped. We have not seen that kind of rains, particularly in this area, in the last eight to nine years. This is the first time I'm seeing, after about nine years, full-fledged monsoon. This is how monsoon should be, you understand? There is no such thing as bad rains, they're all good rains. Only in England, rain is bad. Only they sang, rain, rain, go away, okay? In India, in a tropical country, rain is always good. Are we prepared to handle the rain or not? How can we prepare to handle the rain? Can we catch it in a bucket? No. When we live in a monsoon country, when we live in a tropical country, it is a simple thing that we must have a certain level of vegetation to hold the water. In Tamil there is some saying, I cannot repeat it verbatim. Something like, only if Kaveri comes walking, she's fortune. If she comes running, she's a disaster. Why will a river run, tell me? How to make a river walk, not run? There must be vegetation. If there is substantial vegetation, the catchment areas when they get it, it will hold and slowly it will come down to the river. Now there's no vegetation, it's coming straight in. Similar situation happened in Kurg also now. In the last thirty years time, they've removed sixty-five percent of the vegetation in Kurg, which is the catchment area for Kaveri. Now as a part of this, in collaboration with Karnataka government, we are planting twenty-five crore trees in the catchment areas of Kaveri. Now we are fighting for Kaveri between Karnataka and Tamil Nadu. But the problem is this, that vegetation in the catchment areas have been removed. Sixty-five percent in the last thirty years. At one time I floated down Kaveri, hundred-and-sixty-three kilometers, over thirteen days on just about six or seven bamboos and four truck tubes, I just floated down, lived off the river. At that time, how I saw Kaveri, today it is only approximately forty percent of it. No wonder you will fight for water. But now when the flood comes, who can hold it? Nobody can hold it because Nadan Dvandhada Kaveri, Valam. She must come walking. So ignorance is bliss, means it'll get you one day. It took some time, it took twenty-four years but it got you. The same is true with Kerala. In the Ganga banks, in the Ganga basin, Ganga basin accounts for twenty-five percent of the nation's geography and thirty-three percent of India's agriculture. In the last seventy years, we've removed ninety-four percent of vegetation in the Ganga basin. What is our plan? Ignorance is bliss, is it? Yes it is. Bliss will get us. Our ignorance may somehow make us escape but it'll get our children. They will not get away. Next generation will get it. Is that what you want to do? Ignorance is bliss. Don't know. It once happened, Shankar and Pillai fell off from the third floor and he screamed. People gathered around him and asked, did the fall hurt you? He said, you idiot, it's not the fall, it's the stopping. So fall never hurts. When you stop, it hurts and it will stop somewhere. I'm just seeing which girl is he talking about. I'm just seeing which girl is he talking about. There are many types of needs, there are many types of needs, there are many types of needs. If we think about the needs that we have, there are many types of needs. If we get something that we don't get, then it's a little bit. It's getting old. Because you have to be very happy. If you don't get angry at this age, if someone else gets angry, then you should be happy. Vijay is a veteran now. If he is a veteran, he should be like that. Sir, in the reference with Indian mythology and considering the past, past we had a chance to identify between good and bad. Like, good can be named as a god and evil can be named as a demon. Who told you this? But in the present era, if we see, human is incorporated with both good and bad. How can we identify the inner demons, find and fight them to let the good prevail? See, the distance of time will blur many things. Human beings always struggled. You're talking about mythology. If you look at the whole Mahabharata, for example, the whole thing is struggle within human beings what to do and what not to do, what is the right thing to do, what's the wrong thing to do, they're always consulting. They said, no, debating and consulting. So it's not that in those days they were clear-headed and today you're muddled up. It's not true. Then also they were muddled. But the distance of time, only a certain facts are written. All their struggles are not written, but your struggles are real and here. But after a hundred years, people will look at you and say, Pacharan, you're such a clear-headed, wonderful man because your dead man's pose is there, one photograph is all they have. They look at you and you think, oh, see how peaceful and wonderful he said, no struggles. That is because of distance of time. So this problem with good and evil. See, if you really want to look at it very sincerely, what is good and what is bad, I am good, you're bad. This is the case with everybody. What I am doing is good. What you're doing is must be not okay. So don't go by good and bad. The actions that we're performing right now, is it appropriate to the situation in which we exist? Does it benefit you and everybody around you? This is all the question is. Because nobody can decide what is good and bad. Those who are doing terrible things also think they're doing very good things. Those who are doing most horrendous things, they think… if they believe 100% they're doing God's work, they sort of know. Is it true or no in the world? So do not go by good and bad because anybody can think they're good. Please every day measure what you speak, what you do, what you… whatever actions you initiate, is it leading to maximum well-being for people around you and yourself too? This is all. Because what is good in one time, at a certain time in history, may be totally wrong at another time. You heard of Virupan, hello? Virupan, hmm? Heard of Virupan. See, Virupan it is said killed over five hundred elephants. So he was shot dead as a criminal. They took a long time though. But in Tamil culture, a real hero, a true man means a man who slain a thousand elephants, he's the real hero. Virupan got halfway, but he's a criminal because wrong timing. If he had come a thousand years ago with a Magnum 400 rifle, people would have worshiped him because there were too many elephants all over the place. But today he is a criminal. So what is good and bad, don't go about deciding because people who believe they are very good, they are the people who do most terrible things. You don't have to be good, you just have to be human. That's all is needed from you. Be a living human being, sensitive human being to every other life around you, that's all. You don't have to be a good human being. Good human beings are terrible people. Yes. Humanity is more important than your goodness, isn't it? Satguru, since we have time constraints, so I'll go with my last question of our set. What is it that… an issue it can be, what is it that the youth needs to concentrate on, but they have not yet? See, because you're in agricultural university, articles are also is here, right? In India, the mango farmers have some wisdom in them like this. I have been a mango farmer in the past. Just after twelve, fourteen months after planting, if it's a well-grafted plant, within fourteen months flowers will come when the season comes. First thing we do is we'll pluck off the flowers. If you leave it, a few mangoes will come. But we will take it off. Next season again the flowers come, we'll take it off. We will wait for the plant to grow because we know if the fruit comes out of that plant, that plant will never grow into a full-fledged tree. It will not bear as much fruit as it could if it bears too early. So this is something youth must remember. Don't try to live too early. This is the time where you build yourself. In body, in mind, in competence, in capability, you build yourself. Time to live will come. If you live too early, then you will see you will not live a full-fledged life. So right now we have imported this from western societies. By the time you're fourteen, you must have a boyfriend or a girlfriend. By the time you're eighteen, you have had three heartbreaks. Where the hell are you focusing on building yourself? These things are taking so much time and energy. Build yourself up well if you want to live well. So there is a certain time to grow and there's a certain time to live. If you live too early, you will not grow. And if you don't grow, the scale and scope of your life will be very limited. That should not happen to you. Thank you, Sadhguru. Before going to audience questions, there are some of the social media questions which are more popular. The first question is given by Prashant Narayan. I feel very anxious to open up with people whenever I need someone. I feel uncomfortable and I just run away. Is it some mental issue or I fit in… or I don't fit in the society? What do I do? So you're overly anxious about meeting people, interacting with people. You have heard of a word called yoga. When I say yoga, you are immediately thinking of twisting yourself. No. The word yoga means union. Union means, see in your perception of life, there is you and there is the world. So it is you versus the universe actually. You versus the universe is a bad competition to get into. Hello? Do you have any chance of winning this? You get into competition with the universe. Is there a chance to win this competition? No. You don't compete with the universe. So we found a way called yoga. Yoga means union. That means consciously you obliterate the boundaries of your individuality. So there is no such thing as you and universe, it feels like one. You need to do little bit of yoga, otherwise your mind will get twisted out with all kinds of ideas, emotions and opinions. If you open it up a little bit, if you obliterate your boundaries of your individuality, it's very easy because when you sit here, you see this person as a part of yourself, you have no nonsense about this one. Whether it's a man or a woman or a child or an animal, you have no problem. With everything, you will communicate absolutely because you have opened up your boundaries. If you have concretized your boundaries, this is me, this is me, then with this, you'll always have a problem. If it's a man, it's one kind of problem. If it's a woman, another kind of problem, it's an animal, other kind of problem, I will tell you. This may sound... I've been telling people, whether you are at complete ease with life or not, how to find out, somebody asked me recently, I said, we can give you a cobra test. Cobra test means... Right from my childhood, I have been in the jungles of western gods. In the wild, many of these animals, particularly if they're venomous, their way of perceiving life is through the chemistry. This... they're looking at your chemistry. If this... if you show a little bit of anxiety, they will go for you, otherwise they won't. So if you can just pick up a cobra like this, not by holding it by its head and all that, simply like this. And if he's not disturbed, that means you're at ease. If he goes for you, you are not at ease. This is a cobra test. I'm putting some people through cobra test just to check if they're really at ease. I can go and pick up a cobra anytime he just comes to me. Huh? Seemingly alive all of a sudden. Of course, she's asking if they're alive. Is there any picture? Is there a cobra picture? See, when I lived in jungles by myself, no outside support. The only technological equipment I have is a HMT watch, okay? And no phone, no torch, no nothing in the jungle by yourself and food. So people always wondered, how does he survive for weeks? Well, I drank up a lot of honey. Honey beehives are there. Beehives are always built on that branch of the tree where a bear cannot get. Western gods is full of slot bears. They will go there and drink up the honey. So the bees will build it in such a branch where if the bear goes there, the branch will break because of its weight. So now I slowly creep up. I always kept a little extra tube on my petrol tube in my motorcycle, just fourteen to eighteen inches long plastic tube. I will go stick it into the hive and just drink up half a liter to one liter of honey. Just keeps me going for the day. But the bees think I'm just one more big bee. If you show little anxiety, they will bite you. If eight, ten of them bite you in your face, you will suffocate to death. If they bite you inside your mouth, even one will do, it'll kill you. But I always drank honey and I survived. They never ever bit me because they're looking at your chemistry. So it's time you work upon bringing yourself to ease, not just with other people, just with life. The life that you are must be at ease. If you are not at ease, you will never realize your full potential. Above all, see in every human being, there is a certain genius. But ninety-nine percent of the people live and die without ever opening up the genius within themselves. If it has to open up, if the true potential within you have to open up, your life should come to ease. There is a whole science and technology called yoga, not just twisting and turning, approaching how to handle your body, how to handle your chemistry, how to handle your energies, how to handle your mental fluctuations. If you bring this to a certain level, you are at ease. When you are at ease, if there is this person, that person, animal, devil, whoever comes, you're at ease. You being at ease is most important. Otherwise, you will not experience life the way it is. In agitation, everything is distorted. So many dreams and thoughts are pushing me in different directions, that's what. What is it? Many of us have come to this kind of disease. The phone is getting tensed because of the phone. It is turning off, isn't it? Hello? It is turning off because of the phone, because of the technology, isn't it? Whatever it gives, we are expecting it. We are given such a beautiful rose. If not, we would have eaten and sat without any tension. If we take half of the rose, now, everyone would sit in peace. The rose is the problem, isn't it? The problem now is, our rose, our oil, our owner, we are not able to use it for our own good. We have given all this for our own good. For what we have given everything, we are given this for our own good. We have grown up without knowing how to use it. Even an oil, I am telling you, it is only for the oil, many people are 60 years old. I don't understand how he has managed the oil and the feeling. When are they going to understand it? They are going to be there for a thousand years. When are they going to understand it? How to use our hands and legs? How to use our oil and our owner? Shouldn't we take it in our hands? Which age do you think we should take it? It will be very good if we take it for 8 years. If we don't, we should take it for 16 days. We should take it for 18 days. We should take it even before the voting. In our hands. The dream is coming. The dream is not only coming. It is coming sitting and standing. The oil is going to be gone. What is the reason for not listening to us? We shouldn't run without listening to us. Like we said, we shouldn't run. But we didn't do anything for that. You do one thing. You don't know the motorcycle. You just started the motorcycle on the stand and you were outside. You came out of the stand and went away. I started running. I was tensed, right? I ran a little fast. I was scared, right? I ran very fast. It was a terror, right? That's what is happening. No matter which vehicle it is, whether it is a vehicle or a motorcycle, if we don't understand how to run, we will get this. You know the same well. You don't have a motorcycle. It is good to run fast, right? It is good, isn't it? You are scared because you don't understand. That's all. You are not scared because of your heart. You don't know how to run, how to walk, because you don't understand how to run. You are scared, you are anxious, you don't know where to go. Everything. Because if you run freely, you are free, right? You don't have a ticket, right? Do they put a ticket? No. You are not free to run, right? You are happy, right? You don't have the courage to run, right? Okay, you are running freely, right? You don't have a ticket, right? You are running, right? What's the problem? So this is the third question. How to overcome laziness and stop procrastinating by Girishnathan? See, if you are postponing something, you are obviously doing something that you don't want to do. If there is something that you really want to do, will you postpone it or pre-pon it? Hello? Do you see somebody is waiting for someone they badly want to see? Only ten minutes. In the ten minutes they will look at the watch twenty-five times. Why they want to pre-pon it? You are doing something that you don't want to do, so you want to postpone it. I'm asking, why the hell are you doing something that you don't want to do? No, because if I do this, I will get that, I will get that. That's not the point. There's nothing to get in this life. There's really nothing to get in this life. Either you lived this life in a profound and intense manner, or you did not. What will you get in the end? Huh? If somebody dies in the agricultural college, do they bury them or fire them? How is it? What's the tradition? Burying is good for agriculture because human beings make good manure. So in the end what will happen to you and me? They will either bury us or burn us. That's all will happen in the end. You think something else they'll give you a price? Nothing will happen in the end. Only thing is the process of life. How wonderfully did you live? That's all there is. So if you are doing something really wonderful, do you want to pre-pon it or postpone it? Pre-pon only. So you must find what is it that you really want to do. If you find that one thing, you will always pre-pon everything not postpone. I have an additional question regarding that. Isn't societal pressure should be considered when you are telling that you have to do whatever you want to do in your life? See, when I say you should do what you want, I'm not talking about the whimsical things that you want to do. If you really… If you really, really look at yourself carefully, somebody thinks I want to play a game, somebody thinks I want to get married, somebody thinks I want to get this education, somebody thinks I want so much money. No, they don't want all these things. They believe if they get to do those things, they will live a life of fulfillment, joy. Yes? So I will teach you a simple technology with which you can be joyful. First you become joyful. Suppose you are absolutely joyful right now, then what will you do? You will do what is needed. Only when you are in pursuit of happiness, you are very particular what you should do and what you should not do. When you are an expression of joy, you will do what is needed in the world, isn't it? So this is what needs to happen to humanity. Unfortunately, most of the world is in pursuit of happiness. What this means? They want to squeeze happiness from the world. No. Happiness is not in the world. Happiness is possible within the human being. If you make this happen, if your life is an expression of your joy, what will you do? Have you… have you noticed with yourself, one day you are very happy? Do you see how considerate and wonderful you are to everybody around you? Yes? Another day you are little frustrated. Do you see how nasty you can be? Isn't it? So, the most fundamental thing we have not settled, we have always been trying to produce good human beings. This is the greatest mistake we have made. We need to produce joyful human beings because joy is an insurance. A human being who is joyful has no needs of his own. He is fine. Wherever you place him, he is fine. He is no more of vested interest. He will do what is needed in the world. Those who are in pursuit of happiness will do what they fancy, whether the world likes it or not. Tell me, human action is about creating what is needed now, isn't it? Human action is not about your happiness. You are supposed to be happy when you are a child. You remember when you are five, six years of age? No? Have you seen your pictures? Your face was like this? Always? Somebody had to make you unhappy. Slowly as you grow, it becomes like this, now somebody has to make you happy. Huh? You go stand on the street, main street in Coimbatore or any city and watch all the people who are driving their dream cars and everything. Leave the very poor people, they have not eaten properly. We'll excuse them, okay? Well-to-do people who have eaten well. How many people are driving their car or motorcycle with great joy? It looks like when I see them, I think they're all practicing their last pose. They're trying to get that pose when they go into the grave, how they must look. I'm telling you, don't worry, you will get that pose naturally. You don't have to practice it all your life. You do not have to practice it all your life, you will get it. Joy is not a goal by itself. Only if you are pleasant in your experience within yourself. See, this is all it is. If your body is pleasant, we call this health. You want it or no? I'm asking all of you. You want health or no? You must clearly say yes or no, I'm going to bless you. Yes. If your body is pleasant, we call this health. If it becomes very pleasant, we call it pleasure. If your mind is pleasant, we call this peace. If it becomes very pleasant, we call it joy. If your emotions are pleasant, we call this love. If it becomes very pleasant, we call it compassion. If your very life energies become pleasant, we call this bliss. If it becomes very pleasant, we call it ecstasy. If your surroundings become pleasant, we call it success. Only for success, to make the surroundings pleasant, you need the cooperation of many people. But to make your body pleasant, mind pleasant, emotion pleasant, energy pleasant, it's one hundred percent your business. Yes? Yes or no? It is one hundred percent your business. Right now, your body is feeling very pleasant, your mind is feeling very pleasant, emotions are pleasant, your energies are pleasant, surroundings are not so pleasant. Is it such a big problem? You will see how to sort that situation. If you are joyful by your own nature, you are always a part of the solution. If you are miserable, you are part of the problem, isn't it? This is a choice that every youth has. You must exercise this choice. Somebody else, somebody else should not decide what should happen within you, isn't it? Huh? Hello? What's happening? Should somebody else decide what should happen within you? This is the sleeping time usually in the… Huh? Is it in the college, is it the sleeping time usually? Usually in the kindergarten, this is the sleeping time. Should somebody else decide what should happen within you? You should decide. If you decide what should happen within me, will you decide that my inside should be pleasant or unpleasant? Pleasant for sure, isn't it? So if unpleasantness is happening, unhappiness is happening, frustration is happening, anger is happening, what it simply means is you are enslaved to somebody. Somebody else decides what should happen within you. This is the most horrible sort of enslavement, that someone or something can decide what happens within you. No, you decide what happens within you. What's around you, everybody has a say. We can strive to create that situation. That is not totally in our hands. But what's within us is our space. Here only what I want must happen, isn't it? If here only what I want is happening, I will keep this in extreme states of pleasantness. When I'm so pleasant, outside this and that issue is not going to determine the course of my life. Thank you, Sadhguru. Now it's time for audience question. Namaskaram, Sadhguru. I am Sushitra from 2nd year B.S.D. Honours Agriculture. Today my questions are about the social media used by youngsters. In the current scenario, youngsters use social media a lot. In the social media rumors spread as news. So many crimes and even murders are taking place. So what's your opinion on this? How can we overcome this in the future? Thank you. Since we are in this business, we have received many kinds of messages. The messages we received are not used for our own good. We are using them for our own benefit. In the… what's gossip, eh? Gossip. That's not it. In Tamil, what is gossip? Vadanthi is more rumor, right? That's a rumor. What's gossip? Yes, I don't know a word for that. Okay, it's not a daily thing. Today, if you know something, if you know something, if you don't know something, just say something. This is not new. In the human society, this is not new. What's happening in that? Now it's a bit high-tech. That's it. So, if you want to say something to these three people, you have to go to these three people, you have to go to them and beat them up. Do you know what to do? You don't have to tell anyone. Then you have to go to them and tell them. You don't have to go to them and tell them. You have to say it like that. It will take some time. It's not good to tell everyone. Now, if you forward it, it's all over the place. If you beat it up a bit, it will go fast. But, what is this social media? It's a bit new. It's all over the place. At that time, a majority of people have come. This is either fake or true. It's a bit… It's obvious that a majority of people have come at that time. See, this is not true. This is fake and this is true. It's true that a majority of people have come at that time. I have an important thing to tell you. I was interviewed by a Twitter company. I told you that. You have a very different business. But, half of the accounts in this are fake accounts. You have to take this. For me, it's all over the place. But, I'll tell you what I'm going to tell you. You have to tell me what my name is, right? I don't have the courage to tell you my name. But, I'm giving you a big commentary on your life. I'm asking you what this means. If I have to tell you something about you, I'm going to tell you this. I'm going to tell you if it's true or not. I'm going to tell you if it's true or not. If you have a lot of fake accounts on Twitter, Facebook, etc., I'm going to take it. You can tell me whatever you want. But, I'm going to tell you courageously. I'm telling you, you don't have to have courage to do that, right? Huh? You have to have the wrong name and say something. You don't have to tell anyone what you want. You don't have to do that. You have to take this courage. If we have this courage in our society, it will be good. Or, you have to bring a law. Now, discussions are taking place to bring the law. Now, Twitter has taken a lot of fake accounts. But, I have a lot of them. What I want to understand is, now, all the country's leaders, all their policies are sent to Twitter. It's there, isn't it? When it's like this, this is a great courage. We can grow. Hmm? Our society, our country, our world, to take it to a new level, this can be a courage. But, there are so many people like this. They have other people's accounts and are telling me something. I want to take all those things first. Huh? I want to take it, isn't it? Tell me anything. But, I want to stop and tell you. I have always seen from the beginning, if in a society, they sit there and shout something. I want to stop and tell you something. They are saying it. I want to stop and tell you something. I want to stop and tell you something. I want to tell you something. That's when we don't even have the time to say anything. Something is coming. This is very important. This is not a social media problem. This is a great courage. A person who uses it should have the time. Anybody, please take the microphone. Hi, Sadhguru. My love. My question is like, so much billions of… Okay. Thank you. Oh, my… From my four years of age, huh? So, my question is, so much billions of amount of money has been put into agriculture, right from food and agriculture organization to many R and D units. Many researchers are constantly working on this aspect. But, why haven't we completely elevated hunger? Why is this so? I'm really grief-stricken and you are the correct person to address this problem. You are. And can spiritual science combat this problem? Does it have a correlation? Can it bridge the gap? Thank you. People on the planet are hungry. Many are malnourished and hungry on the planet. It's estimated nearly 30% of the population is malnourished on the planet, not in a food. Not because there is not enough food. In the year 2014, the statistics taken shows that in that year, we produced food for 18 billion people. We were only 6.8 billion people on that day. But we had food for 18 billion people. Still 30% doesn't get to eat. So, it's not because of failure of agriculture. It is because of failure of human heart. So, you stood up and used the word love. Instead of just directing at me, I'm doing fine. If you can direct it at the world and see what can be done out of your love, if love finds action, this 30% wouldn't be hungry. If there was no food on the planet, that's a different matter. When we are having food three times over, then what we actually need, and still 30% is hungry, it is just a human failure, not agricultural failure, isn't it? If you ask the farmers to produce double of what they are producing right now, I'm telling you, within two years it will happen. But how to get it to those people who don't have food to eat, that's a big question because there are markets, there are vested interests, there are nations which will come in the way. So, at one time, when I was at the World Economic Forum, the leaders of the World Economic Forum heard me in many sessions and then they said, «Sadhguru, if there's one thing we can do for you, which will transform this world, what is it? I said, see, I will name twenty-five people. You give them to me for five days. You will see within two to three years, there will be a phenomenal change on the planet. They asked, who are these twenty-five people? I named the five, twenty-five heads of states of the important nations on the planet. I said, give me these twenty-five people for five days. If you are regular human being, in two to three days I can do it, because you are a politician, I need five days. I need five days. Five days. Leave them with me. I will see that in two to three years' time, the world is a different place, because all the resources there, all the food is there, all the technology is there, all the means are there, only human willingness is not there. How long should it take to make human beings willing? If twenty-five leaders are on the planet, make up their mind, you can make sure everybody is eating enough. Every child can go to bed with a full stomach. It's possible, in a matter of two years it can be done. It doesn't take decades to do it, because food is there, technology is there, transportation means are there, everything is there. Never before in the history of humanity we had these things. Even twenty-five years ago it was not possible, but today for the first time, we have it all. The question is only you and me, as a generation of people, will we make it happen, or will we just sit at home and crib? Will we just sit at home and complain and cry about it, or will we stand up and make it happen in whatever capacity we can? That's all the question is. Hello and good evening, sir. Myself Parahat from Afghanistan. Where are you? I have a question regarding decision, taking decision of my life. So means taking decision of my life means going for a new job, or like starting a new business, or going for educations. So for that, what should I do? And what should I consider, and what should I think before that, to think about that decision, to take that decision? So, please. So glad to have you here from Afghanistan. That's nice. So essentially what you're asking is, what should I invest my life in? But the way you're putting it is, what job should I take, what education should I do? That's not the point. Essentially the important thing is, this is a life. For every one of you, your life is precious, isn't it? Hello? It's a precious life. If something is precious, where do you want to invest this life? Into what do you want to invest this precious life? If this is a worthless life, throw it somewhere. If this is a precious life, what do you want to invest this life into? If you look at it this way, you will find something truly worthwhile to do. If you think in terms of how to earn a living, how to get this kind of thing, that kind of thing, then you will do something silly that you will regret for the rest of your life. Most people are a regret. That's why they're going around joylessly, because they're not doing what they want to do. They're not creating what really matters to them. They're doing something for a living. Earning a living is not a big deal for a human being. Every creature, every worm, insect, bird, animal is earning their living, isn't it so? With such a big brain, what is a big deal about earning a living? But unfortunately, because of ten to twenty years of generations, not years, ten to twenty generations of poverty in this country, because of external occupations and invasions and stuff, because of that people have gotten into this mode, how to earn a living, how to earn a living, parents are constantly grilling their children, how will you earn your living? With such a big brain, when an earthworm can earn its living, such a big brain is earning a living a issue? No. What is it that you're going to create? This precious life, where are you going to invest it? Are you going to invest it in something that's truly worthwhile, or are you going to throw it away as a worthless thing? This is the important thing, because what you call as my life is just a certain amount of time and energy, isn't it? Yes. As you sit here, your life is ticking away or no? You're young, you may not be thinking like this, but actually it's ticking away. What is ticking away is not time, what is ticking away is your life. Yes or no? Since you came into this hall, you are an hour and a half closer to your grave. Yes, you are. Isn't it? So time is going away. So this energy that you call as my life, how are you going to invest it? Because it's going to... If you're doing something truly worthwhile, it gets over before you know what happened. Only if you're doing something worthless, it feels like a long life. Have you noticed this on a particular day when you're very happy, twenty-four hours, poof, it went off like that like a moment? You're miserable, twenty-four hours feels like ten years. Have you not noticed this? So only miserable people will have a long life. Joyful people, life goes away like that. As if it's a couple of days, it passes away like that. If you are creating what you really care to create. So one thing that every young person should do is, without the influence of the peers of your own age group, without the influence of your professors and your parents, without the any kind of influence, somewhere you must stay by yourself, at least for two, three days. And look at it, what is it that I want to invest this precious life into? What is it that will be worthwhile today and worthwhile after fifty years for me to invest myself into? You invest your life into that, whatever it is. However small, big, it doesn't matter. If you see that this is something truly worthwhile and you invest your life in that, this will be a life of fulfillment. Namaskaram Sadhguru! Namaskaram Sadhguru! I am Subhash, studying B.C. Agricultural. In this period of time, it is okay to call it the Tamil Nadu. It is also okay to call it the Suya Archie. What do you think about this? What will be the impact of this? Thank you. This is new. It was like that from the beginning. If we think that we are not good for the good of the good, we think that we are good for the good of all of us. We are united. We will come back little by little after the good starts. If you want to understand this, even now that generation is still there. In 1948, the partition was built. When that partition was built, three parts were built. India. We started to fight all night. We used to fight in refrigerator us. The refrigerator was even for us in our house. See this, it was summer, we used to take Uri N ending of MacBook Air. So, I went and I will show you today that we had left Uri N ending long time back. There is no way to explain it, all these things have happened, it has been just for sixty-nine to seventy-nine years, we have forgotten it, we wish to go back and forth again and again. In that partition, both sides, both sides of India and Pakistan, they have suffered in that. Even now, many people are in the same camps, after seventy years. There are many who are unable to stand on their feet. There are many who have run away from home, house, wife and children to save their lives. Do you think that we should go back and forth again? If we get a little better, we will get better, that's enough. What should we think now? How in Europe? In the second world war, everyone fought a big battle. It was not a common battle. They fought like that. If they fought like that, they grew up a little bit more. What did they do? Whenever there was a battle like this, because of that, all of us united and united as a European Union. Without countries. Because I think there are twenty-seven countries. All of us united and united as a European Union. Because of this, they have lived well. We should think like this. We should unite like this. All the countries around are Sri Lanka, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Afghanistan, Nepal, Burma. All of us united and united as an Asian Union. We can live well. If not, we can do it one by one. We can go back and forth like this. We should live well for the good of the people. If we have to do something, it is time to go back. It is time for me. Can we go back and forth? Not just India. If we unite as a whole, everything will be fine. Everything will be fine. Everything will be fine. Thank you, sir, for your valuable words. Thank you all. Hello, sir. I have a question. Yes, ma'am. So, you are able to come to many colleges and give many, many more speeches. And I think it is just a single life, right? And you are able to achieve more than what one can imagine. A big foundation. Eesha, yoga, many more. And many more centres, many more disciplines. It's all in a single life, right? If a common man wants to take this by simple efforts and hard work, I think it will take at least up to three generations. And you have done it within a single life. So, what's the secret behind your success? What's the reason for your speedy growth? Then, have you heard any English, Tamil or not? No, because the question was half. So, the percentage of English was more, so I will choose English, okay? See, as a child, what's your name? Mohini Hashri Abhi. As a child, did you blow soap bubbles? Soap bubbles. Soap bubbles. Did you ever blow soap bubbles? Never. Sure, sure, sure. You did. So, when you blew soap bubbles, have you seen somebody got this big bubble, you got only this big bubble? We must hold our breath and leave it slow, then we'd get a big bubble. Everything has… Everybody had air in the lungs. But somebody got a big bubble, somebody got a small bubble. What is this about? See, when it comes to body, this is my body, that is your body, hundred percent clear, no confusion about this, isn't it? This is my body, that is your body. This is my mind, that is your mind. But when it comes to life, there is no such thing as my life and your life. This is a living cosmos. How much life will you capture within your system will determine the size and scope of your life? Somebody got a big bubble, somebody else got a small bubble. Poop, it went off. You cannot identify where is my air and where is your air, isn't it? So similarly, when it comes to life, there is no such thing as my life and your life. But distinctly my body and your body, my mind and your mind, but no my life and your life. There is life, abundant life. This is a living cosmos. How much life will you capture within yourself will determine the scope and range of your life? What one person can do in hundred years, somebody may do it in ten years. Because of the sheer intensity of life, when I say intensity of life, it may translate in many different ways. See, there are times, for example, certain businesses have grown. Let us say some business like, you know in United States this become a fad, within three years somebody's billions of dollars of worth of business. Let us say Microsoft has grown or Facebook has grown or something like this has grown. This is largely because of technological breakthroughs and somebody writes that technology. At another time, that would not have happened. So that is different. But if you want to create something really large, really significant, large or small is not the point, significance, then you need intensity of life. One thing is the scale of life that you capture. There are... This is what I said earlier when I said yoga, obliterating in boundaries of your individuality means, in a way you are allowing Universe to invade you. When Universe is not against you, but it invades you or it's a part of you, then you have abundance of life. When you have abundance of life, you will not hesitate to share. When you share big time, your life with everybody else, people will naturally value it immensely because everybody is trying to hold it, somebody is willing to share it. So naturally there will be a big upsurge around you. This will lead to many things. This will make many friends and many enemies. A lot of people whom you have never met, they are your soon enemies, but you don't know why. You never met them. You never had a word with them. But they are swearing that I am his enemy. I don't know why. But it goes on in the world. So when we talk about how so much can be done in a short span of time, it's not a short span of time, it's thirty-seven years. Incessant work, seven days of the week, twenty hours a day, almost for twenty-five years, more than twenty-five years. On an average I slept only for two-and-a-half hours a day. Not deprived of sleep, just kept my life energy so intense that sleep was not even an issue. There are times when I've gone without sleep for three days, four days, full-scale working. Not because you're on some kind of a drug and not sleeping, simply because of the intensity of purpose and commitment to what you're doing. Today I can proudly say I have created thousands of people around me. All of them have gotten crazy like that. They are all beginning to work like this. Most of them, you don't know when they will sleep, when they will wake up, on, on, on, seven days of the week. No holidays, no vacations, but everybody is joyful. If you come to the yoga center and see, you will see the most joyful faces. But they've never been on a vacation. They don't own a damn thing. They don't have money in their pockets, but they're just joyful. Because drunk with life, literally, well, it's like this, have you noticed on a certain day if you're very, very joyful and blissed out, you are willing to do whatever is needed, no problem, isn't it? Any amount of work. But little frustration, your feet will drag. So I have not known frustration at all in the last thirty-seven years. Not that everything goes right, many things don't happen the way I want. In fact, nothing happens the way I want. That's a fact. Because what I want is up there. It is always an incremental success of everything. But because of the sheer intensity of purpose and focus, when some moments we started and people gathered in millions, somebody told me, a very prominent person in the country, Sadhguru, this kind of crowds happened only when Mahatma Gandhi came. I said, no. See, don't compare. Because Mahatma Gandhi had a huge advantage. He had an enemy. There was somebody to fight. When you have an enemy, you can gather masses. Now, my whole thing is, I'm constantly reminding people, there is only one enemy in your life, that's you. If you fix this one person, everything is fine with you. Yes or no? You have only one enemy, that's yourself. If you fix this one person, this is a wonderful life. So, when there is no external enemy, moving people towards a purpose is very difficult. But people have moved wonderfully, not just in India, around the world. People are putting a lot of pressure in various countries. Sadhguru, you've done enough in India. You must come and stay here, stay there, do this, do that. Why I'm telling you this is, you are young people, each one of you, if you become a dynamo of energy and activity, this country, which is a nation of young people, will prosper and become a miracle like no other. Because we have the largest number of young people. If you get the necessary intensity and balance within you, this is important. Intensity without balance will make you go crazy. If you have intensity and balance, we can make a miracle out of this nation. All the problems that we're seeing in this country can be a thing of the past in a matter of ten years' time, not too long. If you look at nations, if you look at the history of this world, the only country which has moved a large segment of population from poverty to affluence in one generation is the China. But they did it with lot of force and pain, too much pain. Millions have died, so much pain, so much force. But today, India as a nation, we are sitting on a threshold that through a democratic process, if all of us do the right things in the next five, ten years' time, through a democratic process, without a gun, without bloodshed, we can move a billion people from one level of living to another. This kind of thing has never happened in the history of humanity. Right now, India is sitting on that cusp that if we do the right things in the next five, ten years' time, you will see this nation transforming. Without guns, without blood, without those kind of revolutions, simply through democratic process we can do, we are sitting on the threshold. It is just that we should not sit on the threshold for too long. We must take the next step and the next step and that is in our hands as a generation of people. We need to do that. Friends, I understand that you have a lot of thriving energy coming up. Since it's a busy schedule, I think we should wind up the session now. Thank you, Satguru, and thank you audience for their questions.