 It's wonderful to have you. Happy morning. I feel like we have to… This is good. Do we say namaste or no? Namaste is good. Namaste. Essentially, this is a way of, you know, when you look at a person, you tend to recognize their gender, their caste, creed, color, or good, bad, all kinds of things. To look beyond that, that fundamentally the source of every life is the same thing. So when we do namaste, we recognize only that dimension of you. You as a possibility, not as what you are today. So we're talking about like kind of re-engineering ourselves. I don't know if you notice, but New Yorkers tend to be a little high strung. How can you miss it? You notice. So what do we need to do to kind of reset ourselves, re-engineer? Well, it's in our engineering. See we have engineered the outside world the way we want, but what have we done about ourselves? As a generation of people, we are living in the highest level of comfort and convenience, but we are whining like nobody else. So we're not finding that inner peace, the true happiness, success. These birds have become very cliche, inner peace, inner joy. But tell me, all human experience, joy or misery, where does it happen? It can only happen within us. It never happens in the air, okay? People say love is in the air, but it's not true. When you are in love, it looks like everything is like that. When you are in joy, it looks like the whole world is joyful. So fundamentally all human experience comes from within us. What happens around us, there are too many forces, we can't control all of it. Some of it happens our way, but what happens from within us must happen our way. Right now this is the only problem human beings have. What happens within us is not happening our way because we are not engineered the way we want. Good engineering simply means it works the way we want, isn't it? So how can you achieve that? There is a scientific process, as there is a science and technology for external well-being. Similarly, there is an entire science and technology for inner well-being. Say, do you agree with me that this human mechanism is the most complex or sophisticated machine on the planet? But have you read the user's manual? That's very funny. That's very funny. So by the way, you do online courses, right? Yes, there is online in engineering process, which is more of a preparatory step. And then there's a completion process, which is always direct transmission. So you're very socially savvy, you know? I mean, you have almost two million followers on Twitter. I've been… There are over five hundred million people on our YouTube imprints are there. Wow, it's incredible. But you know, when you say, savvy, I've been living in this world for over six decades. So I know this world, the way it works. And what about also the Isha Foundation that you have? Because people can visit there, spend several days. Yes. We have two large centers. We have city centers, over 350 centers across the world. But we have two major centers, one in Southern India and one in Tennessee, near Chattanooga. Okay. So this is over a, over 2,300 acre property, which is a large meditation center. In India, it's over 500 acre property, which is one of the most important places. It's an incredible India platform right now, as a tourism place also. And I know that you're also in town because you're, I guess, a fashionista. I don't know, are you? I'm not okay. You look great. You've got every a styling from the top down to your toes. So you're doing something that fashion meets peace or...? This is a 150th birth anniversary of Mahatma Gandhi. So this year we are doing many things, whatever was dear to him. One thing was old life. So we are doing a lot of work with the farmers and creating model villages. Another thing is the clothing because one symbol of Mahatma Gandhi was always spinning wheel and hem because this was a protest against the destruction of textile industry in India by the occupying forces of the time. So we're trying to put this back because India has over 136 distinct varieties of weaves. No other culture has ever done this. It's taken a few millennia to develop these skills. But today, most of them are on the verge of dying because it's almost the last generation doing this weaving. Their children have all become software engineers probably in San Francisco. That's right. That's very funny. That's right. We're trying to put this back. To put this back, one of the most important things is to create a market. So we are exposing these textiles. We brought 120 varieties of distinct weaves to be presented to some of the top American designers so that they get familiar with these weaves and also how to use it. It's their choice. Oh, that's so nice. So if somebody is watching right now, can we do something to make them feel better? Is there something that we like a thought that we can kind of like think, you know, get our minds around today to kind of reset our day? The simple thing is just this. See, what people are struggling with is not their life. People think they're suffering their life. No, they're suffering their own thought and emotion most of the time. Either their body or their thought or emotion. Most of the time, unless they have an injury or an ailment, it may be physical body. But rest of the time, it's just their own thought and emotion. What I'm asking you is, when will you learn to handle your thought and emotion at what time in your life? Because even if you're 50, 60, if you've not figured how to handle your thought and emotion, when are you going to get it? Maybe you never do. So if you never do, what you're saying is the basic faculties that you have, which is unique to the human being, this level of cerebral activity is unique to the human being on this planet at least. So your most fundamental instruments, which is what makes us human, you will never get to use it the way you want it. Isn't that a disaster? That's a tragedy. Yeah. So can you do that? Can you do that by we, you know, meditation? Does that help reset the emotions? The word meditation doesn't really mean anything because it's too generic. It's not anybody with eyes closed, we think they're meditating because there are many dimensions to it. Right now, how to use the thought? There are some things which are constant within us for most human beings. Breath is happening, of course, and there is a thought process going on. So you can link these two, and because you asked right now what we can do, right now what you can do is simply this, see what you call as my body is an accumulation. It's a food that we've eaten, which slowly gathered like this. We were not born like this. And what you call as my mind is the various impressions we have taken in from the world around us. So this is a heap of food, this is a heap of impressions. So where is you? So the simplest thing is just this, that you create a little distance from what you call as my body and what you call as my mind. So you just do this, people can do this, there is also a guided meditation called Isha Kriya, which is available on the app and everything. All you have to do is with inhalation, you just remind yourself, I am not the body. With exhalation, you remind yourself, I am not even the mind. I'm not the body and I'm not the mind. So what are you? But with inhalation and exhalation. I'm not the body. Why do you ask me, huh? So what's the matter? Yes, exactly. I'm not the body, not the mind. See, the most important thing is, at least you know I do not know, all right? I do not know is a tremendous possibility. The moment you see, I do not know, the longing to know and the possibility to know naturally happens. Because if you think you know it all. The moment you see that I do not know, you ask the question, then what am I? But you asking me, what am I? You should not ask me, you should ask yourself, what is the nature of my existence? If you do not understand or know the nature of your existence, your existence is going to be accidental, isn't it? It is that which is causing so much anxiety. Suppose you're just about to get into an accident of some kind. Is there anxiety? I've heard you talk about fear, desire, that these are all... You're a veteran. That they're from the environment. No, I'm saying... See if you're getting into an accident, is there naturally anxiety in anybody? Natural, isn't it? Yeah, of course you're raising yourself for an accident. Right now, most human beings are existing accidentally because they do not even know the nature of their own existence. So anxiety, we are beginning to think is natural. Anxiety is natural. As a child, when you were two, three, four years of age, joy was natural, isn't it? Exuberance was natural. Now we are beginning to say anxiety is natural. No, anxiety is not natural. This is because you're existing accidentally. I'm not my body. I'm not even the mind. Inhalation, I'm not the body. Inhalation, I'm not even the mind. This is a guided process available on the app and... Sadguru. Nice to have you. Thank you. Check him out on all his social media platforms. He's got to go now because he's going to the United Nations. He's a busy man. Very. Thank you for something. Thank you. Thank you. Good day. Probably. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you.