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There are times where inaction becomes more significant than action. This is a time like that, the less you do, the better. So in terms of work, in terms of travel especially, it's best that we all control our travel a little bit. Not a little bit, all the way. Because, well, we have seen many contagious diseases. India has been going through bouts of malaria and now dengue, chicken, guinea. In all these, the carriers were mosquitoes. So we always thought we must exterminate the mosquitoes. And we took measures to see that they cannot breathe, not a little pool of water is there anywhere in the ashram and like municipalities and city administrations, all of them going on a war footing to kill the mosquito. In the present situation, we are the carriers. So we cannot kill, so we must lie low. This is the time to sit back, look at our lives, reflect, strategize the trajectory of what we want our life to be. Above all, to realize the fragile nature of our existence. Most human beings don't understand this on a day-to-day basis. Our life is very fragile. A virus can kill us. Don't believe what is appearing on your phone screens that dig hobnobby ball with a multi-colored ball. It doesn't come like a cricket ball, it's microscopic. So the adversary that we are facing is invisible. That's what make them so dangerous. If they were all coming here, this be cricket balls, we would have taken a cricket bat and smashed them. They are invisible adversaries. For whatever reason it's happened, that's not the point. This is the time where we need to understand, because we are the carriers. If it is going from one person to another, one person to another, if one person is missing there, it will not go to the next person. That's what it means. So for all of us who generally, those who are inner engineering ishangas who travel extensively, we have grounded all of them including myself. Many used to complain about travel. Now they must enjoy just being here. And I'm sure many of you complain about your work. Now you must learn how to be without much to do. And above all, those who had no time to do yoga, here it is. Well, you couldn't close your eyes and meditate because you were busy, busy, busy. Here you are. This is the time to close your eyes and sit. But Sadhguru, even if I close my eyes, only the virus are coming. No, you cannot see the virus, so it cannot come in your dream. Hello? You have not seen one, so it should not come. You are making up things. This is very important. This is the time. It's a reality check for all of us. The fragile life that we are, have we kind of organized ourselves to understand and live here and knowing how fragile and how, you know, transient our life is, have we planned for a life like that? Or are we an eternal life, a make-believe world of your own that you think you're here forever? It is time at least now you don't create make-believe things in your mind. This is a reality check as to who we are. Let's make use of this. If you could not enlighten yourself by yourself, at least use the virus. Yes. Because it's making you realize just like that somebody sneezed and you died. It's a good lesson, it's a good reminder, I'm saying. This is not a time to be panicky, but we need to be precocious. So we are taking every possible step that we can practically take in the ashram. All of you should cooperate and be part of it. Hello? Every one of you? If you see anybody, even a bit little down, immediately you must report them and take them somewhere where they can be checked. Anyway, we're checking every one of you every three days from now on, okay? Morning, southern everybody should come and we will check you up because this is important. We want to go through this successfully. How about you? Successfully and gracefully. It's very important. We are making a tremendous effort. What India is doing right now is incredible for the kind of population that we are. It's an incredible effort. Nations across the world are appreciating what India is doing. Today we have tried to make the strategy of preparation and prevention not just to the nation, but to all the nations which share border with us. Today the Prime Minister is addressing them. Sometimes it's going on right now. All these efforts are not simple. This is going to cost us enormously. Yes. This is going to hit us enormously in terms of economic terms. People, businesses, the nation and the world are going to suffer an enormous economic is going to take an enormous economic hit. No question about that. But right now the focus is on staying alive. For staying alive you just have to be little missing in action. This happened. Shankaran Pillai was at his office and during the lunch time everybody was talking their problems at home. So Shankaran Pillai said every evening my wife picks up my shoes and carries it in her own hands. I said, wow, that's amazing. You have such a wife. Every day when you go home she will take your shoes and carry it. No, no, when I want to leave the house she takes away the shoes. Not when I come back. It doesn't matter which way. You need to keep your travelling shoes a little bit off. You need to be your friendships, your closeness to people. All this you must be missing for some time. The love should be nurtured in your heart. Need not be expressed for some time. Yes? Now there is a cost to this. There is an enormous cost to this. But any cost is better than being dead. Hello? Any cost is better than being dead. So ensure that yourself and nobody around you should fall a victim to this. This is the commitment with which you must live till this is over. Neither you nor anybody around you should put to this risk. You have to take care of this. Because the adversary is invisible Who is that? Who is the coughing person? Hello? No, really I'm telling you. Who is the coughing person? Let him sit out. That's what you need to do. This is exactly what I'm telling you. Hello? Just sit out separately. It's okay, you don't have to go away. This is what you need to do. Now this is not discrimination. This is just sense. Those who are sensible will survive these situations. Those who are senseless, they will be brave and dead. So if somebody... You must pay very intense attention to them. Wait for thirty seconds and see are they going to cough once again. If they cough the second time you must come. This please come. And we are setting up stations everywhere. Take them there, let them be checked up. This is what you need to do. Okay? Well, a missionary who was on his mission of saving souls in Africa was captured by a tribe and which doctor was looking at him up and down. The missionary asked, why are you looking at me so intensely? The witch doctor said, well, I'm the food inspector here. Hmm? You must pay that kind of attention. Okay? Means you must pay attention to them. Another thirty seconds if they do one more they must go for a check up. Please take care of this. Okay? All other requirements will put it out. And for everybody else who are connected with us right now on the web keep yourself minimum don't... this is not the time to travel the world. And the simplest thing you can do is if you stay away from everybody as many of you are so busy you could not meditate, do some of it. This is the time. We can also instruct you in the next few days how to do long meditation so that the time that you have you can use it to build yourself up because it doesn't matter what life throws at us what we make out of it is ours. What life throws at us we cannot decide. What we make out of it is hundred percent ours. So right now for some reason nature is throwing some deadly virus at us. Let's make the best out of it. It's not going to be there forever. It will go. We don't know whether the summer will kill it the mangoes will kill it or it will die by itself. We don't know. But it will not last forever. In the meantime because it's an invisible enemy we just bow our heads down and just sit around for some time. Let it pass. If it was a big giant we would have fought it. Right now the only way is to because they need us for transportation we don't provide the transportation. That's all we need to do. Okay? You must take this commitment. You will ensure that you will not be the carrier to give it to another human being. If it comes to you it must stop with you. Huh? Take care of this. So that's about it. There is no need to cause too much panic about it. There is a differences. There is a difference being between being precocious and panicky. Panicky means you will do all the wrong things. Precocious means you do the right things. That's the important aspect of this. So here we are. Any questions please? I've read many of your books and I've learned a lot. I've also been touched deeply by kriyas in hatha yoga. I was wondering why is it that you don't teach kriyas in hatha yoga through books wouldn't that reach more people? Thank you. Yoga is not something that you teach. Yoga is something that you transmit. A book cannot do transmission. A book can give you information and inspiration. So we are writing books to inspire people to take to yoga. Not to instruct people into yoga or transmit yoga through the book. Well as there are many many forms of yoga, there is also one form of yoga called book yoga. That is people want to learn yoga through books. Well if you don't have any trouble in your life even if the virus did not so interest in you humans pick up a yoga book and try to practice yoga with the book. There are so many books wanting to teach yoga to people. Fortunately people who buy these books generally they flip through, they don't read through. If they read through they don't practice. If they practice within first three to five days they will give it up. But there are a few people who will take this up seriously and do it. There are thousands of cases or many more who have caused immense damage to themselves by doing book yoga. Because when you do yoga through the book you won't start with the basics. Whatever they are saying is the highest practice that's where you start because of course you're eligible because you can read. Well I forget which year 86 So some of them might have been cases why is that man moving like that hello you're trying to spread the virus huh what is that oh then you must fly I thought you're trying to do relay virus relay So in 1986 when they made a survey in the Nimhans institute in Bangalore Nimhans institute is a premier neurosciences institution or it's a mental asylum on one level not really an asylum or hospital more 8% of the inpatients that year were improper yoga cases there are thousands of ways for you to drive yourself mad there are if you want I can tell you how many ways you can do it or maybe you yourself are an expert but 8% of the people choose yoga as their path to madness that's incredible what should be an ultimate solution to your life becomes the pathway to madness this is simply because without preparatory steps without any transmission just picking up odd instructions and trying to do something fortunately most of them don't practice after some time those who take it seriously will pay a very huge price it is I know I will invite a lot of lack for this but that's not new to me so let me say this in a way teaching intricate yoga or yogic processes which are inward directed processes through a book is a crime it's a crime it is like there are some people you know sometime ago it was there now it's been removed there are some people who have access to scientific information and at the time just about before this probably before 2003 or 4 at that time there was clear instructions as to how to make a nuclear bomb on the web on the internet you could get everything as to how to make a nuclear bomb only problem was assimilating the material but if you had access to material every bit of information how to make a nuclear bomb was all there now they removed because whatever the security situations are such so using knowledge in this manner is not a responsible thing it's a crime first of all nuclear bomb is anyway a crime unfortunately it is needed because somebody else has it you are nervous about it so you have it because you have it somebody else has it because they have it somebody else has it well this is an unfortunate reality in the world but putting it out on the net how to make a nuclear bomb is definitely a crime isn't it in a way yoga is much more than nuclear science it comes to you as a individual person because this can make something else happen within you it can transform a human being into another possibility if it's mishandled it can also destroy a human being so when it comes to transmission it's made in such a way even if thousands of people are in the same hall not everybody will receive the same thing you can check the experiences of people not everybody will receive the same thing even if all of them are sitting in the same session because that is how it is transmitted each according to their own receptivity that they have that's the way it should be so that is the nature of transmission subjective transmission but putting all that in a book and thinking it's going to work no this book is definitely written by somebody it has no experience of any kind because they've read something somewhere and they put it here anybody who has experienced the potency of what it is will never do that ever so please don't do book yoga but please buy the death book this is the first time I'm advertising for a book because all the other books had a choice whether you can read it or not read it this one this is for all those who shall die we will leave the immortal ones the rest must read please put out lots of books out in the ashram so that people can pick it up and read don't do book yoga what you call as life is packed between two dimensions called birth and death if you do not hold the two ends of life properly life will spill out of your hands it won't be in your hands this is why death birth happened without your permission sir guru you talk about collective karma for example tribes and clans that suffer certain things together sir guru this corona virus that's going on later right now is it like a temple of collective karma for us global society wow if we behave irresponsibly five people here behave irresponsibly everybody will suffer isn't it collective karma no somebody does something everybody suffers please but about tribes and clans what we've talked about the kula as it's called in India is has a genetic connection virus is an infection irrespective of your genetics it may get anybody this is a different kind of collective karma suppose a thousand years ago in the woom city if some deadly virus came we wouldn't know and it wouldn't come here yes or no now we have a collective karma of travel and trade hmm we have a collective karma of trade and travel so what happens somewhere probably one is some four thousand and odd miles from here but virus that come there you can't stop it it goes everywhere is this our collective karma or no definitely it is but not in the context of kula because that happens because of genetic reasons if ten people here suffer the rest of the tribe somewhere else they will also suffer because of genetic connections that's of a different nature that is to erupt the playing out in a collective manner but this is right now the virus is global karma everybody has to pay a price for it let's pay the price gracefully but let it not be life other kinds of price we all have to pay there is no choice about it whether you have it you don't have it everybody has to pay a price in terms of restricting our lives losing money, losing opportunities many many things only thing is make sure it's not life that we are losing so many times in society you are often told what should make you happy and in a way we are followers I wanted to find out your opinion what should we do what should we do what should we do what should we do what should we do what should we do what should we do what should we do what should we do what should we do to find out your opinion what should make a person essentially happy so what is it what does it mean to be truly happy namaskaram kejji I am sorry to tell you that my April trip to South Africa But about happiness, I was just telling them, this is mango season in India and maybe in some parts of Africa also, but you can't compare Indian mango to anything. Well, now when we go near a mango tree, this is a time when all the young boys and girls are looking, parrots are also here, they're all looking up for the mangoes. This is the direction we are looking because that's where sweetness is. Suppose you go under the mango tree and start digging, is there any chance of you ever eating a mango, I'm asking? Is it possible? So what we need to understand is, human experience is caused from within us. No matter what, joy or misery, agony or ecstasy, pain or pleasure is caused from within us. But we are trying to fix the world so that we are happy. See, we thought we are fixing it, just a silly virus. Our whole life's going to an upheaval. So right now, all our programs cancelled and much financial loss all over the place because we booked major event spaces and so much has been done, volunteers have worked everywhere. Now, it's just up in the air, we cannot even say when we will do it. This is the time to get into depression because everybody says if things don't happen the way you think they should happen, you must be miserable. Nothing in the world will ever happen 100% your way. This one person must happen your way, 100%. If this one happened 100% your way, would you keep yourself blissful or miserable? That's all the question is. I know what's your choice. You're asking this question because as you said people say this will make you happy, that will make you happy. Fix this, fix that, fix that, fix everything. Still it will not happen because you're trying to dig mangoes from the roots. That's not where it comes, it comes up there. So what is within you, if you search for it outside, it's going to be an endless search. This is why we are talking about inner engineering. You fix this one. Being joyful is assured. Rest of the life we have to do to the best of our ability. No two human beings can do outside life to the same extent. It's never possible. No two human beings can ever do it the same way when it comes to the world. But if you're joyful, you will do your best. And that's all that matters in this life or you're doing your best in every possible way. You can only do that if you're happy and joyful by your own nature. If your happiness depends upon what is happening around you, whether you get a wicket or not, you're just about to play Australia, is it? Got cancer? Were they about to play Australia, the South African team? Were they playing India? Now I can't even wish you luck. Hahaha... Now, you can bowl and play the game to your best only when your physical body and your intelligence cooperates with you. It doesn't take any scientific understanding. If you make a sensible evaluation of yourself, you can clearly see that your body and your brains cooperate best only when your experience of life is pleasant which is what you're calling as happiness. Happiness is not some quantity, it's just that you're feeling very pleasant so you say I'm happy. Your pleasantness should be determined by what's happening within you, not by what's happening around you. This is not difficult to fix, you see people who are miserable or so many different ways. All kinds of people who can't laugh, who can't sing, who can't dance, who can't do nothing sensible, they have a drink and suddenly, so I'm saying chemistry can change one's experience. This being the most complex chemical factory, we can teach you how to be a great manager of this factory so that you're always absolutely blissed out. Now your body and brains will function at your best depending upon what sort of work you're doing, how much success you find, depends who you're playing the game with. Now you're playing with India cancelled but if you did, then whichever way you bowl some of them hit it out of the boundary. The boys have become like that these days. There was a time in five days if once the ball crossed the boundary without pitching I mean if it's a six, oh the whole country celebrated. Now in five minutes if there is no six everybody is getting frustrated what's happening here. So things have changed, bowlers get battered, battered at the same time because they're trying to go so fast, bowlers also have a good time because the pace is so high. So your happiness should not depend on how many Indian batsmen get out. I don't like that. Your happiness should be that you're just happy because of that you are doing the best possible bowling that you can do. K.D. all the best for you. These are dangerous things. Talking to a South African player now. Anybody please? What's up? I'm from Russia and I heard that you are coming in Russia in June for the first time in Indian German completion. Wait, wait, wait. I'm also excited about this. But our country is now going through difficult times right now. ఙేయ్ జ౐ఙత్టు కేకరి పనీలుందు. బఆధగమ చ్ౚకిం。confused uneven in listening today. and if you asked readers what the way to think. ఇవవి�住 if you seeen that the couple is哪 number number five to make up for that. పాక్ఘ lord Voice Almighty. no bare hug, it's null slapping your shoulders. Hello? Namaskaram? Safe, hmm? We've been doing this for a long time. About now everything is a question mark, whether I'm coming to Russia or not also is a question mark. We don't know yet. As of now, schedules have been called off only till 15th of April. But we just don't know how this will pan out. Many scientific projections talk about various levels of cycle for the virus and how it plays out. If we go by that, we're not sure if it will settle before 15th of April or will we get tired of this virus caution and just go out of business at a cost, of course. I don't know. But we will go by the directive that is there among all the nations. So we don't know what Russia will say by June, is it? I'm supposed to come there in June. Most probably it should be clear by then, hopefully. But about is this the time when there are struggles in the nation, is this the time to turn inward and tend to myself? Tell me, when is your balance, your intelligence and your competence is of utmost value? When life is in crisis, it's of utmost value. In some way, if life around us is in crisis, then your intelligence, your physical health, your sense of balance, your wisdom, everything becomes a premium. When everything around you is going well, you can be a silly fool and still manage. When things were good, well, you know, now we are looking for alcohol to wash our hands, we are not getting it because you guys drank up everything. We are looking around in the country, we need alcohol to wash hands for everybody who comes here, but they say Russians drank it. This happened in a... All the Russians, are you watching for me? This is just a joke, okay? I'm sure you can take one. I don't know if you understand a joke before six in the evening, but I trust you because this happened. An efficiency evaluation person in a Russian factory arrived in the morning and they were just randomly checking. So he called one of the workers and asked him, he was operating a machine. He said, if you have one shot of Urka, would you be able to operate this machine? He said, I guess so. Suppose you had two, would you be able to operate this machine? Well, I think so. If you had three, would you be able to operate this machine? I think I can possibly. I'm quite confident about that. If you had five shots of Urka, could you operate this machine? Well, I'm not doing it. So, this is the time when things were good, you are doing something else. Especially if there is a crisis in the nation, this is the time every citizen in that country should use their bodies, their brains, their wisdom and above all to be balanced and ride through the crisis. This is most important. All the Russians, if the virus allows, I will be there. People usually say God willing, but I'm saying if virus willing, I'm coming. I'm coming, virus willing. Sounds good, huh? Namaskaram, sir. As she's holding back a cough. As the song goes, and I want to say thank you. On behalf of myself and everybody here, thank you for everything, sir. Hey, what you got elected of? So, Guru, I wanted to ask you something vague, so I apologize. But what do I need to know right now? You must know that you must sit down, right? And you must know that mangoes are up in the tree, not in the ground. And you must know you must not open your mouth so big and laugh. You must hold like this. You must laugh. You cannot laugh like this because laughter is as bad as cough. Hello? I'm telling you, these are the things you must know for today. I want to ask you that I see, you know, when you work and you do so much for everyone, I want to know why you are, other people also, I know who are, you know, like, much needed in the world. Why do they get so much opposition? Why do they advise this this group of people and a significant, and I see whether it's you or, you know, like I said, people who were always waited for and they think that they need. And a significant part of your energies goes to clarify or address those concerns or doubts. And that way what you intend to do, it suffers so much more, especially for people who have no doubt about, you know, what you are here for and what they can get from you. So why is it that there is this huge, very powerful section of people who's always opposing? Don't go by the noise that they make on the Twitter. They're making so much noise on the Twitter means it's a little birdy, you know, because they have no footprint on the ground, they have no substance. All they have is full-time on social media platforms, particularly Twitter. Here we've left tweeting to the birds, because they must tweet. So we should not overestimate them, but at the same time can we ignore them? No. Well, you must know this, Gautama was poisoned three times. The last time it killed him, the third time it killed him. Well, you know, Jesus was nailed. You know Manzur was stoned to death. You know our Socrates was poisoned. This has been the history of humanity, but at least they're only tweeting against us, because that means they're not as powerful as the enemies of the past. They've been defanged in many ways. They can only write rubbish and obscenity about you, because my chest did not swell up when somebody praise me. When somebody abuses me, I don't shrivel up. It makes no difference. At the same time, I think the organization has become alert and agile because of these people. Otherwise, a lot of them would be sleepwalking, now everybody's alert. See how the virus has made everybody super alert and conscious of everything that they do. Just like that, this kind of virus also, this is also one kind of virus. They're only wanting to go viral because they don't do anything of substance in their life. Their only joy is, for a few minutes in the day, they went viral somewhere about something, because they said something shocking or obscene or utter lie which shocked people and it went viral. Doesn't matter. All I'm saying is, my only concern is this that today, for the first time in the history of humanity, we have tools with which we can reach the entire human population. I want you to imagine, when a gautam buddha came or even when Adiyogi came, how many people could they talk to? They walked from village to village, village to village, village to village, to talk to five people, ten people. That's all. I'm telling you, I was at the Mahatma Gandhi's Sebramati ashram. I was always so intrigued by this salt satyagraha, you know. What a brilliant idea. Just salt, just going and picking up a fistful of salt, chained the whole national movement in a certain direction, which led to various things which are now history. I asked them at the ashram, how many people walked with him? Though I lived in this country and I'm reasonably okay with history, in spite of that, I did not know. I thought thousands of people must have walked. When I asked them, they said seventy-two people walked with him. Can you believe it? Seventy-two people. With seventy-two people, he changed the trajectory of India's freedom struggle. Seventy-two people, we have millions of people. We can change the trajectory of how humanity lives. So, this is the very first time many great beings have come, but they were hugely handicapped without any technology to speak to the world. They had to physically go from place to place. Who they are, they may be big today in the human consciousness. That has happened over hundreds of years or thousands of years. During their time, most people of that time who lived on this planet were not even aware such people existed. When Adiyogi walked, do you think anybody knew? Such a great being. When Krishna was fighting wars up there in Uttar Pradesh, you think South Indian people even knew about it? When Gautam Buddha walked, you think anybody knew about it? Much later, when Jesus was there, you think anybody in America or South America or Australia, now everywhere there are churches, did anybody know about it? Hardly, twelve people, all right? In that one of them freaked. That way we cannot complain. We're doing too well. Never before it's been this good. Hello? Never before it's been this good. What are we complaining about of you? They have no employment, so they're they're self-employed in abuse. It's okay. But they're not just leaving it at abuse. They're trying to hit wherever it hurts most. Not me. They can't hurt me. They'll hurt the work at various places. But it's okay. I think if you keep the throttle on, these kind of things will fall off. We just need to keep the throttle on, on, on. If our commitment to create human well-being as we're committed, if we remain strong in our commitment, these things will not only fall off, they will be here also tomorrow. And I'm telling you, in Tamil Nadu, in late 90s, certain sections of media who started campaigns against us, our struggle started because we tried to stop a few things that were happening in the forest. Why we are always accused of damaging the forest is because those who are hunting, those who are poaching, those who are cutting sandalwood trees, we made efforts to stop them. So they turned it against us and said, these people are just cutting the forest. And even now it sticks. Maybe a small percentage of population still believes that we could have done it. They keep commenting here and there. They say, oh, he cut all the forests. Now he is planting trees. Because we stopped them, because they were having a free run, when we came and established ourselves here, we became a big sore point for them. We were the big trouble because this was the only road available for them to go into the jungle and do whatever they were doing. So they're not able to eat venison, they're not able to eat buffalo meat, they're not able to hunt, they're not able to wild war. They're missing all that and of course the sandalwood and those who are clearing trees and cultivating maruana up there, all of them we stopped. Because of that, 25 years later still it is going on that we have destroyed thousands of acres of forest. Well, you ask any forest official who's working in the area, is forest doing better because of us or worse because of us? You can just ask anybody and you can ask any village person out here. People who lived here for long enough, they know everything has become safe and secure because of us. So because of that, they're going on about that. Everything that you can accuse a man of, a man can do and cannot do, they accuse. These days they're also trying to give a commentary on my courts and my talks and everything, how stupid I am and that is good. This is a good angle they've taken, I'm very much excited about this angle. Because some of them are writing, he's an inicum poop, he's a nitwit, this is good for me. Very good for me. You don't understand how because there is a certain thing to it. It's good. These accusations of forest and killing elephants, all these they have stopped because it's not flying. All government agencies have put out what is the information. So they know they can't go on saying that. Now they're stopping that and talking about how foolish and stupid I am. That's a good advertisement for me. That's very good. So at the same time, we should not, you know, like virus. Virus is okay. We don't want it to get into our nostrils. So we must keep them little away. That we should always take care. There's no problem. But that we should take care of that. It's a certain amount of energy and time is expended on this unfortunately. But what to do? That's part of living in the world. There was a great Kannada sage called Basava. He said, वूरलन्तु मनेमाडी, सब्दगन्जिदन्ते, वूरलन्तु मनेमाडी, मात्गन्जिदन्ते. That is, you build a home in the forest and then you're afraid of wild animals. What are you? You make a home in the marketplace and you're afraid of noises. So what's wrong with you? You live in a town and you're afraid of other people's comments. So what are you? No, this is excellent. At least this you must appreciate. All these people who are giving commentaries on how stupid we are, they're avidly listening to us. One day it will transform them. So they're listening. This is nice. They're reading every quote of mine and they're trying to find what's wrong with my quote. Every talk they want to give commentary, I have confidence that one day it will transform them for sure. If it would transform you. We should close another five, ten minutes because Divya Darshanam is there, please. I was volunteering for Inner Engineering program and we were looking forward to you coming to Mumbai. But unfortunately it has been postponed. Beside me and other volunteers, it's mainly the participants who are feeling bad for this. So is there any message for them that we make for the program? Oh, the message is as I told you, you must be missing in action. Don't be the carrier. Till then, we will come. We will come to Mumbai anyway. All the places that we had fixed and promised, anyway we will make it up now. What we had to do in four to five months, we'll have to do it in two to three months probably. But we will do it, we'll keep that commitment, subject to availability of halls and everything else. But till then if you are a super hungry seeker, you've already been through the Inner Engineering online, please download the app and there is Ishakriya. Start doing Ishakriya. It'll be a fantastic preparation for the Shambhavi. We are coming for you. Namaskaram Sadhguru. My question is about milk, that milk is coming from the cows which is very torturous way. How old are you? I'm 32. Too late for milk drinking. Sadhguru, I didn't understand. Then you can drink milk. Just to get the milk from them and it's about their reproductive system and we are dependent on the milk which should be given to the her children and this has been happening since ages and also in the yogic system and in the temples the milk is getting used for theas and also for the lingas. So I'm not sure how good it is. I sometimes I feel very bad about it. I don't know where you saw theas burning with milk. Anyway. So it's better to slaughter them, not torture them, right? Oh, that will not happen. The only other option is slaughter them. So we think it's better to milk them rather than slaughter them. We think it's better to put them to work than to slaughter them. This is my understanding of cruelty. If your understanding of cruelty is milking the cow is very cruel, so we will kill the cow and eat it up. That's exactly what will happen. Whatever your intentions are, that is exactly what will happen. Yes or no? That's all that will happen. So if you think that is more humane, just to slaughter them and eat them up, that's not my understanding of cruelty, my understanding of cruelty and compassion is first thing is right to life. There is cruelty everywhere. You were sent to school. It's a bloody cruel place. Yes, it's very cruel on a child. But can you leave the children on the street and say, don't go to school? We have to put them through that cruelty because otherwise they will go and kill each other on the street. Yes? So many negative things will happen in their life. They will become poverty will take over, crime will take over, other kinds of things will take over. So it's better put them through 12-15 years of cruelty to avoid a lifelong suffering. Yes or no? We know certain things are cruel, but we still do it because the alternative is worse. First and foremost thing for every life is right to life. After that, whether it should be milked or not, whether it should be worked or not, I'm sure the next thing is the bulls are drawing the cart. Some people are coming, activists are coming and saying, they're doing very cruel, these bulls are being treated very cruel, they're drawing the cart. Flat ground, football bearings, easy breaks and everything so that it's not very hard on him, but he needs to work. If he doesn't work, we will just keep him and you will feed him. Such a thing won't work. So we will leave him. Where will you go? Straight to the slaughterhouse. Straight. Because they want him to go quick before he loses his muscle. That's what will happen to him. We want him to live. That's why we're making him work. If it's a male, we make him work that way. If it's a female, we milk her, it's good. Otherwise, you will not give them any chance to live. Anything that's not useful to human societies, have we allowed them to live? Are we in that kind of condition? Are you in that state of compassion that things which are not useful to you, every day you will feed it with your money and keep it alive? Are you in that state of compassion, I'm asking you. If you are like that fantastic, I would bow down at your feet, okay? If you are like that, you are not like that, I know. I know you are not like that. I know who I am dealing with. So this kind of rubbish keeps coming up, this misplaced compassion without knowing the realities of how the world works. Somebody is complaining about this. If the dogs are tied up, they said, cruelty to the dogs and suddenly they would write blogs about us. Okay, if I let them lose, this happened. Let this happen. In Bangalore, one case happened, in Madurai or some place, another happened. Packs of dogs, they attack school going children and ate them up because dog is a carnivorous animal. If they are there in packs, they will get their instinct back. Only when they are separate individual, they don't have that sense. But if 10-15 of them are together and roaming around, when they see a child below four feet of height, they will go for him. So school going children were attacked and eaten up. Now what do you do? Now municipality comes and just culls all of them. Isn't it better that they're tied? Hello? We leave them when nobody is there. When people are there, we tie them up or put them in a box. Otherwise the only way is to cull them. You will say we put him to sleep. Generally people say we put him to sleep. No, you just killed him. Hello? You just killed him and you want to satisfy yourself. I put him to sleep, send him to heaven, whatever nonsense. Why don't we send you also? This may sound cruel and absurd, but I want you to know this. Every other life values its life as much as you value yours. Even an ant doesn't want to die. Yes or no? Do you think an ant is wanting to die because it's a small life? No, even an ant sees its life is as precious as yours. So if you don't milk the cow, it will go straight to the slaughterhouse. That's where it's going. That's where they're all going. Those who don't have milk, those who don't have the ability to work, that's where they're going. Namaskaram sathkaran. Thank you for everything. My name is Rakeshwara. I just completed my PhD from Stanford last year and I came for Sadhana Pahatha and I also had the fortune of doing Samyama with you. Thanks you once again. So during Samyama you said people who are naturally sensitive, they tend to be fragile. So this has been kind of true my whole life. So for example even now if somebody touches my back or my left side, I feel like punching them. Oh very sensitive you are. That's the instinct but I control it. Okay because of 10 years of inner engineering. So anyway not just that when it comes to smells, foods, electrical man, radiation etc. So this limits my ability to function in the world. So I was wondering if there is any Sadhana that I can do of people like me so that they're not just sensitive, they're also strong. Like Hanuman, he was very sensitive but he could take one-fourth of the Lankana on his single-handed. So they said he had the blessings of Shiva so I'm also seeking the same. Sensitivity should be you must be life sensitive. People become ego sensitive. Physical body becomes sensitive. Now you must become life sensitive. If you become life sensitive, how would you think of punching this guy in the face? If you became life sensitive such a thing would never occur to you. Now body has become weak, not sensitive, weak. Right now you see you're all right, I'm saying any of you. We're not talking about the PhD guy. If you're right now you're all right but let's say this is not the time to say this. Let us say you're having a flu and feeling a little like that. Not corona before. Pre-corona flu you had, feeling like this. Somebody as much as such as you feel, yes or no? When you're well, it's okay, you can rub shoulders with people. When you're unwell, everything matters, small, small things. This happens to you not only physically, even when you're mentally suffering with something, smallest things set you off. So do not understand that as sensitivity, that is weakness. When you're weak, you become fragile. That fragility is different. Sensitivity which makes your body fragile is different. Fragile not in terms of weakness, like Hanuman. No, no, I don't want to talk about Hanuman in South India, you should not talk about him because we have lot of issues with him being who he is. The Tamil man, you made lot of misinterpretations about him. We don't like it. So let's leave it there, let's not get into one historical problems that we have. But sensitivity should be of life sensitivity. If you sit here, your life reverberates with everything. With those crickets which are going cram, with a bird which is sleeping, with people who are sitting here, even a little tiny insect that's crawling, your life reverberates with all that. Now, your sensitivity becomes a means to know. Right now, your sensitivity will push you into a corner in the world. Yes, it will push you into a corner where you cannot do anything after some time. Your sensitivity should be an empowerment to life. If you become life sensitive, sensitivity becomes the means to absorb and know everything. Right now, this sensitivity will create allergy for life. More and more, you will not be able to bear with people around you. Everything irritates you. This is not sensitivity, this is irritation, agitation. This comes out of a certain level of weakness in the system. So, if you want to become like a Hanuman, I have a sadhana for you. If you are here for long enough, slowly will make the tail grow. I think we should close. There is a... there is Divya Darshanam today. We need to get there, okay? Eight o'clock.