 of an oil lamp if you create a certain amount of fire it creates after all the entire existence the whole universe including yourself and myself and everybody else is just a play of five elements of earth water air fire and space so fire just you get fired up the chance and that was preceded by some motion and this is me being curious I'm sure there'll be a lot of other people curious so that you get a better understanding any curious people at all yeah almost everybody's curious so then the chant is about this but is sweet you know and life on and suddenly a child is bubbling with life it's a very sweet happening but death is compassion people think there's some kind of a terrible thing I want you to imagine suppose you can't die what would you do no I'm asking you suppose you could not die what would you do the best thing about life is the best thing about life is you never fail because everybody shall pass and the next part of the chant is we may understand life in so many different ways essentially it's a certain play of time and energy time is slipping away as we sit here it's slipping away we may think many things in our minds socially we may think we're doing many things but as far as this body is concerned it is making its journey straight to the grave without wavering for a moment as we sit here it is moving in the direction so the only way you can maximize life is by tweaking up your energy levels in certain way if you live for the same amount of time till still you lived more because this combination of time and energy time is anyway flowing but you can play with energy in such a way that you can raise the nature of your life the experience of your life the profound of your life and above all move from many entanglements which seem to define and describe life for most people towards a limitless sense of freedom or boundlessness within you this is not because you are but not bound by time you're still bound by time but because you have tweaked your energy in a certain way suddenly you look like you're above that thank you very much for making time to come to Uganda and the most obvious question he has a long beard described him described it to some people you're trying to So who's this guy? So when they come in here and there's this whole setup and there's this glowing tribute with someone saying that you're as powerful as the you know power extends across the universe I thought to myself is this guy God who is this guy and it would be interesting if you helped us understand that who you are and where you come from and how you ended up you're asking for a long story we have time I'm just saying how to average the story say grew up being a super skeptic super super skeptic I have a million questions about everything I did not identify myself with my family nor the local religion nor the social structures nor the political structures nor even the nationality of where I was born because I did not identify myself with anything though I was involved with everything I did not belong to anything which gave me a certain freedom of looking at everything the ways because the moment you get identified with something you become prejudiced in a certain way you look at everything from that context so I had no context I was just a bursting laugh and as I was telling you restless not because of anything I was very joyful and peaceful that was not a issue restless because I knew there is something more but I did not know what that something more is so it kind of drove me to all kinds of places at crisscross India on my motorcycle but then you know I was probably 19 almost 20 at that time I went to the Nepalese border till then I did not know there is something called a passport today a five-year-old kid would know I did not know I've been riding since I'm 11 without license when I became 18 I got my license and I thought that's my passport to the world certainly they stopped me and asked where's your passport what is that they said there's something else you need to cross the border so I came all the way back to South India then I decided I'll equip myself with the needed money and whatever the documents needed and I'm going to ride around the world so for this I started a business I thought I'll make some money then the initially I started a farm then I got into construction then I got into brick making and in about five years time I became very successful I had my hands in about half a dozen businesses for those days I was very successful by those standards so everybody's clapping their hands and saying you're doing great so I'm in this kind of state where I'm cocky and you know when everything is working your way the planets don't go around the Sun they go around you so all the planets were spinning around me and I'm everybody saying you're great so I'm going on like this one afternoon between two business meetings please if you can keep cameras down please it's it posted on the YouTube you can download it okay don't waste your time be with me one afternoon between two business meetings I had nothing much to do so I come from a town called Mysore people familiar with Mysore Mysore city so there's a small hill in Mysore called Chamundi Hill the culture and the tradition of the time especially for the youth was if we want to test our motorcycles we went up Chamundi Hill if you want to party you end up Chamundi Hill yeah right now I'm always in a party can't you see so if you fall in love you got to go up Chamundi Hill if you fall out you must go up Chamundi Hill and if you have nothing to do we have to go up Chamundi Hill so on this afternoon I had nothing much to do so I rode up Chamundi Hill I know this hill very well I've trekked in this hills I've camped in this hills as a seven eight-year-old child why am I telling you all this if I found 10 rupees in those days I would just leave a note and I would vanish into the jungle no no it was given to me if I had 10 rupees I'm gone and seven I earned my own pocket money right through never never took any money from my parents so don't worry about that the thing is I went off into the hills if I had enough food for four I'm gone for four days they're searching all over police complaints looking all over the town one thing they don't know is I'm in the jungle oh I walked around familiarized myself with every other life I caught a bunch of snakes I caught all kinds of insects I I was learning life paying attention to all kinds of life there's more life in the jungle than in a compola you know more variety I mean and more numbers too so I know this place very well so that afternoon I went and got up on a rock that I was fairly familiar to me my eyes will open I've been practicing yoga since 12 years of age but that was mainly physical progress and mental progress which it definitely did give me it did set me apart among any group of people but I never knew there is something else to that afternoon I sat there my eyes were still open till that moment I thought this is me and that is somebody I have no issues with that somebody but this is me and that is someone else suddenly I did not know which is me and which is not me the very air I breathe the rock I was sitting upon the atmosphere around me everything became me I thought this madness lasted for about maybe 10-15 minutes but when I came out to my normal senses about four and a half hours had passed for the first time in my adult life tears me and tears were impossible tears of flowing to a point my shirt is all wet I've always been peaceful and happy life is working out the way I want I'm young and successful and no problems it is that every cell in my body was bursting with ecstasy tears are just dripping like this so when I shook my skeptical head asked what's happening to me the only thing that my mind could tell me was maybe I'm going off my rocker so when I spoke to the closest of my friends and try to tell them something is happening to me they said the questions that came to me is only this what did you drink what do you do pop you know what why I'm saying this is I had no context of any kind something was happening within me for which I had no any kind of knowledge there was nobody around me to tell me what this is about all I knew is I have hit a gold mine and I don't want to lose it because if I simply suit like this two minutes I feel it's two minutes seven eight hours have just passed away like that once I sat like some I thought it's 25 30 minutes but when I opened my eyes 13 days gone by yes I I sat there only for 25 30 minutes in my experience by the time I opened my eyes there was a huge crowd India being what it is they were pulling my legs and asking what'll happen to their business whenever their daughters get married and all this stuff I don't tell them any when their daughters will get married it's it's the daughters business when she gets married that's an interesting story it begins hey I'm not ending up here Africa has been on my mind for some time but my schedules have been so killing that you know it's not been possible to stop over in Africa so when we thought which country or when people started inviting us here I always go everywhere by invitation so the invitations here were strong ambassador of India and the Mahathir family and many others who have done programs all the business magnets here they all did their inner engineering sometime ago because what some of our teachers came here and taught programs since then there has been a strong pitch so we took this week off and we're in Africa not just you but I'm also touching Kenya and South Africa let's give them what's that for yeah because you're welcome now let's talk about Uganda I was wondering why should I be talking to you about you because you know your reality is a difference I know Uganda very well and may not know Uganda very well I know human beings perfectly well wherever the hell they are fundamentally they are same it's just different cultural expressions different languages different styles of doing things but fundamentally wherever you go human problems and human aspirations are same the most fundamental problem with human beings is what they need to fix within themselves they're trying to fix the entire world for that this is happening everywhere people are talking about world peace but they can't sit in one place for one minute peacefully but they're talking about making the world peaceful it's never gonna work if you don't know how to keep your mind free peaceful how you're going to make the world peaceful what you see in the world is just a larger manifestation of what's happening in individual minds so if we just want to do a political slogan we can shout world peace and go away but if you're truly interested then we have to have a life long commitment of bringing peace to individual people without individual salvation there is no universal salvation so when you say a long way to go where do you want to go do you want to become another state in United States is that what you're aspiring for no mr. T is coming okay so what I'm saying is it's very important when I look at a country like this which is naturally so beautiful nature has been immensely kind to you you don't know what it means to live in harsh conditions of nature this is a beautiful beautiful country I know if you go by right now the world is on a madness of everything bigger bigger home bigger car bigger this bigger that instead of all this everything making bigger I think you know Ganda you should think how to have a bigger lake bigger lake because if you have all these other things bigger your lake will shrink this has happened in India we are beginning to suffer this seriously in 1947 when we got independence how much per capita portable water we had today we have only eighteen percent that they're saying by 2025 we will have only seven percent this means Indians will be having bath in bottles not in tubs so this is where the world is going when nature has been good to you keeping it that way is the most important thing for the well of the people if the thing is for the human beings if they're well-nourished and there is a beautiful atmosphere around them and their aspirations are tailored according to the nature of what's happening around them it's better than to go the way America has gone because I want you to understand those aspirations and those standards were set up when they believed five percent of the people will rob the ninety five percent of the people to create the comforts and conveniences that they have today the living Earth statistics says that if we have to provide what an average American citizen has to seven point three billion people we need four and a half planets but we have only half of it left this is why in the world if if we really want to want to be giving a world to the next generation of people or we want to hand over a ruin to next generation of people this is something we have to make up our minds because this is one of the most important responsibilities we have as a generation of people that is the first of all we need to understand we are just bet on carriers we're just a small pop-up on this planet and we will pop out okay so this small pop-up lives here as if you are the last generation on the planet no one of the most important things in our lives is how the planet was given to us how life was given to us how we are we must leave the next generation in at least one step better place than where we are otherwise we have failed as a generation there's no question about that's why I'm saying yes to have food in the stomach you don't have to destroy the planet you have to finish the planet food comes from the planet not from the supermarket so to to feed the pollution on this planet the way I see the soil and the atmosphere and the climate the way it is I'm telling you this East Africa can be the bread basket basket for the entire world because 12 months of a year you can grow crops if you destroy this you will not be able to grow food even for yourself to sometime this is happening seriously in India we have a 12,000 year history of agriculture in South India this is probably not known to most people 12,000 years of agriculture certain communities have been farming the same land for over eight ten thousand years but today in one generation the soil condition is becoming in such a way there's an alarming situation that in 15 years time we may not be able to grow anything because the animals have been removed chemicals have been pumped in machines are roaring all the time machines don't replenish the soil it take animals it takes plants it takes trees to replenish the soil so who we are the very body that you carry is just soil isn't it hello you must get it from me now otherwise one day you will anyway get it from the maggots and it'll be too late it's very important to understand who we are is just the soil now it is easy to talk when there's food in the stomach this is what i'm saying to put food in the stomach for all the seven billion people is not a challenge if we creep the planet in a certain way and above all at the beginning of 20th century we were 1.6 billion people why have we become 7.3 billion people in one century what's wrong with us irresponsible reproduction isn't it now the reason one main reason is the life expectancy has increased on an average all across the world which is a great thing but when we learn to postpone death should we also not learn to postpone birth does it make sense to you i'm asking it's a class throats competition everybody's competing for the resources we are everybody's trying to be a mentor everybody's trying to deal and as a result you know it becomes very difficult you know so how do i as an individual then make sure that my contribution to society is one that benefits everybody i know you've talked about it but how how do i do that see whoever you are right now whatever you are right now you would like to be something more than what you're right now yes or no hello i'm talking to all of you yes if that's something more happens what something more if that's something more happens what something more so in installments you want to go somewhere you want to expand so because you are going in installments let me hasten you up a little bit and i will make you the king or queen of this planet don't look at me hopefully do i look like someone will commit such a blunder if i make you the king or queen of this planet will you be fulfilled i'm asking you you will look at the stones so there is something within a human being which is longing to expand because right now you are so limited in your identity with your biology with your physicality because of this you're trying to expand physically physical expansion means if it finds a very basic physical biological expression this is called sexuality if you find an emotional expression this will be called love what all these things mean is something that is not you you're trying to make it a part of yourself if it's a physical process it's called sexuality if it's an emotional process it's called love if it's a mental process it gets labeled as greed or ambition or conquest or simply shopping these are all different ways to make something which is not a part of you part of yourself in some way but if it finds a conscious expression it's called yoga that's why we are here sir it's next but right now your identity that your identity is so much with your physicality you're trying to expand physically because you're trying to expand physically you will see it doesn't matter if you get the solar system in your hands you will not be fulfilled if you get galaxy you look for other galaxies because what a human being is looking for is not more when you pointed out these people and said i want to be like this you're talking about how can i have more what you're looking for is not more you want all if you want all physical is not the way isn't it if you want to expand in a limitless way physical is not the way because the nature of your physicality is defined by a boundary we can call this physical body only because it has a boundary if you remove all these boundaries it is no more a physical thing physicality is always defined by a boundary but there is something within you longing to become boundless this longing to become boundless is being misunderstood as longing to have more more is not what it's looking for this life is looking for a limitless expansion if limitless expansion has to happen one has to transcend their perception beyond their physical nature if your perception rises beyond physical nature then we use this horribly corrupted word spiritual say when we say politics what we are talking about how to govern a nation or what we are talking about is how to make the lives of larger mass of people who are around us that is the fundamental how it is conducted today is another matter that is because of variety of things because we chose democracy once you say this democratic nation what this means is any one of you tomorrow could become the leader of this nation that's what it means don't don't be so hopeless yes in in uh in indian languages democracy is described as jananayakam what this means is people are the leaders that's what it means well right now we have a prime minister in this and our country proving that a t-seller can become the prime minister of a nation so anybody could become only thing is you have to learn to work the system and the god damn system is too convoluted in so many ways because we must understand even if for hundred years we're practicing democracy it is new in human mind it is still new we somewhere most people i'm telling you most people in the world are still looking up to somebody like a king because democracy is a functional reality only when each individual is having a considered vote but in most countries it is a committed vote already based on religion caste creed tribes it's a committed vote once it's a committed vote it is feudalism in the guise of democracy it is not just in you know asian countries or african countries for example if you go to america people say my grandfather was a republican my father was a republican i'm a republican i'm saying it's a committed vote there is no consideration otherwise how could uh how do you describe a good leader do you know as a matter of fact i'd like me to do that with an example of a leader who you consider is a good one and describes it traits the elements that make him a good one see a leader in a democratic society means because his powers are limited and his duration did you say his powers are limited? they're limited it is not like being a king or a dictator where he can do what he wants even if he's well-intentioned his powers are limited because you have to convince i don't know how many members of parliament and stuff you have here in india for example you have to convince this five hundred and forty two people oh my god you can't it's about four minutes okay you're getting there so by the time you convince these five hundred people to think in one direction five years are over so democracy is a limited amount of power and you have to convince everybody you have to be able to inspire the population to rise about their personal needs and work for the national need which is not simple it's a very complex process and in a democratic process for a leader to come to that place the very process of democracy is such it's an obligated process by the time he reaches there he or she reaches there they're so super obligated to various you know people who supported them when they come there they are supposed to take care of all these people that's what is called corruption by other people they're just paying back corruption essentially means for me that your self-interest has risen above the larger interest for which you're standing up self-interest rises above the interest of the whole I think that would be a very unfair judgment on all politicians it is it's not a good thing to say I know a whole lot of them are like that but not all fortunately fortunately not all I'll accept that but it's a corruption some say it's a system of room others say it's an accelerator other say it's sort of bad thing it's redistribution of wealth what do you think it is? there are other ways to redistribute wealth but what has happened is let me talk about corruption in India because I don't know what variety you have here what has happened in India is we inherited a whole bunch of laws from the British and they were all so ambiguous made probably by intent when I look at many of those things these are intentionally ambiguous so that if I want to pick you up I can anyway pick you up for some reason or no reason because the law is so ambiguous whichever way you walk on the street you're committing a crime okay it's designed in such a way if I want to fix you there is some law because you're not doing anything that's a crime you're doing something that's a crime somewhere there is some law for every citizen is committing some crime so the laws are so ambiguous particularly I've been talking to the lawmakers about the business laws the laws are so ambiguous without corrupt people business won't happen if you stop all the corruption tomorrow morning in India half the business will stop or more will stop because these corrupt people are facilitating things unfortunately because the laws are ambiguous nobody understands I meet the top most corporate lawyer in India and I was discussing something with him and I asked him do you really understand this law he said don't tell anybody but I don't have no clue all I know is my client comes he tells me what he wants I will argue for that powerfully in the court that's all that's what I'm saying if you if we want to remove corruption now they're talking about bribe givers and bribe tickers both should go to prison so I said ninety percent of the people will be in the prison because almost everybody has paid at some point who is not paid everybody has paid so this corruption as a industry I'm calling it an industry because it's pretty well organized and well oil this corruption as an industry has thrived because nations have not invested enough in taking away the ambiguity in law clearly everybody knows where they stand now if I'm doing my business and I know my law properly you come and ask for money I'm not going to pay you now you come I don't know what kind of loss you got I'm doing my business I'm doing my best but you come and if I don't pay you I don't know whether you're going to just find me or handcuff me and take me I don't really know I could talk about politics and corruption all day but I'm very keen to talk about we are like you said at a place where technology is extremely advanced we're very concerned about trying to stick around a little longer that your lifestyle is healthy it sounds like a question from your point of view no a lot of doctors are not healthy lots of doctors are not healthy they're not so there are many ways to look at this one fundamental way the most fundamental way with yoga looks at health is like this this body as a composition of things is made up like this it is 72% water 12% earth 6% air 4% fire remain space Akash it's called now if you manage one element that is water 72% of your health and well-being is taken care of there are two kinds of health issues one is infectious another is chronic infectious means it's an invasion from an external organism which for which you need a doctor if you get an infection you need chemical warfare but 70% of the ailments on the planet are self-help that is they grow their own pet project within themselves because they've never paid attention to how the body functions what is the nature of my existence no attention has been paid they're living by accident so they're being healthy or unhealthy also is by accident when we say health it is just that medically if you if someone says you have no ailment it does not mean you're healthy when you wake up in the morning are you feeling alive and bouncy or not it is a certain sense of wholeness the word health comes from the word whole you must have a certain sense of wholeness of body mind energy and the fundamental nature of your existence if all these things are in alignment now when you wake up in the morning you feel like you're just born if this happens to you that means you're healthy you may not be medically certified healthy unhealthy but still you cannot be healthy because this is not health health means there is a certain sense of wholeness all ingredients have fallen together properly and it's alive if this has to happen one thing is there is a most fundamental process in yogic system called as bhuta shuddhi that is you start taking charge of the elements within the system if you control the elements in the system if you master the elements in the system health is not even an issue i can show you thousands of people who walked out of their chronic ailments without any treatment we don't give them any treatment just align your system in a certain way this settles another way of looking at health is question of alignment every physical object in the universe including your body has a certain geometry to it all physicality has a geometry to it if geometry arrives at a certain state of perfection everything functions smoothly if the geometry is little disaligned everything becomes friction so what people are learning in the form of physical forms of yoga is not exercise it is not stretching it is not about having abs it is about understanding the geometry of your existence today there is a theory in the scientific community which is called as a constructional theory what they're trying to say is the design the fundamental design of the atom and the cosmos is essentially same we've been saying this for thousands of years and up in danda you know because the way the amoeba is made and the way you are made essentially the design is same complexity and sophistication has multiplied many times over but fundamentally it is the same design if it's the same design getting the geometry of your body right in alignment with the larger geometry is important if you get this geometry then suddenly you find everything is happening smoothly within you everything is in alignment there is no friction the functioning of any machine the efficiency of any machine is just a question of how friction free it is if there is friction the machine is inefficient if there is no friction it is functioning well it lasts longer it is a joy to have that machine otherwise it's a misery to have that machine that's a very interesting point i'm not coming to one of my final sessions does anybody have any questions at all if you do please put your hands up because i'd like to identify you there are a few questions there are a few hunks paying up at this point but right now i'm not talking about love i'm not talking about marriage i'm not talking about family love you decide which one love or marriage or that's interesting that's very interesting because that was again the converse which i was looking at it marriage of love not importantly not necessarily tied together see love love is something that happens within you marriage is something that you do in the society with somebody the two different things i'm saying there may be love in your marriage there cannot be marriage in your love when we say love we're always thinking love means with somebody i love this person i love that person i love that person no i want you to look at this carefully love is something that happens within you when your emotion comes to a certain sweetness then you say i'm in love that with whom are you in love you're just using the other person as a key to open up a certain dimension within you but what i'm telling you right now is why are you using the key when there is no lock so the choice is just this all the things which are most significant for you in your life you being peaceful joyful loving blissful these are important for you these things would you want them to be on push start or self start you know in fifties if you had if you bought a car along with that you need two people morning push start early sixties crank start one person would do now everything is on self start so things that truly matter to you in your life your joy your peacefulness your love your blissfulness everything about you that is beautiful about you would you want to put it on self start or push start self start so if you're loving this is not about anybody if somebody's here you can express nobody's here you can sit here lovingly i want you to watch what i'm about to do right now how many india new gandals are in here today india new gandals put your hands please that's all india new gandals okay how many black gandals are here african new gandals yeah i knew you were watching looking okay how many can we just see the india new gandals again i think that there are more than those hands i saw up right so how many of the indian new gandals have been in a relationship with an african new gandals hi this is not a confession there is one here no no the thing the thing about indian sees they will never confess such things in public i'm afraid my question how many indian new gandals here know an indian new gandals that has been in some sort a relationship with our so there are more hands going up black new gandals or african new gandals have been in a relationship with an indian new gandals and there's such a small percentage 0.01 percent where you find an indian been falling low so my point is that guru i need to report to you this you know i need to report this to you indians just don't let us near that is not just for ugandans they won't let even indians get close to their daughters social integration doesn't take place social integration need not mean sexual integration now first of all let me define that word relationship why is relationship always of the body so probably for most instance and i'm true i'm sure it's true for many new gandals we have you can tell me who you're aiming at then i can let's redefine the word relationship unfortunately everybody has picked on the word relationship as it is said in the american b-grade movies okay relationship is of many kinds we hold various kinds of relationship with people and maybe one relationship is of the body rest may have nothing to do with the body but we have very intimate and close relationships with people where our bodies are not involved so we can difference but i can't marry your daughter you can maybe marry if you pass the test but you want to just take her for two days that's not allowed but but but because i think it's very important i think if for example the indian community into the greater part until you gather and if because don't you think surely where i come from when you get married you you bring him on another family become a little more cohesive you become friendlier become warmer you create a better understanding isn't this something that the cultural hybridity that results is something that the country would benefit from yes but the indian problem is if they marry a Ugandan girl can she make dokla tomorrow it's not that simple it's too complicated no it is not about i mean if you're looking at it as are we in some state of discrimination i don't think so i'm telling you even in india even if they're in india the whole lot of them are gujaratis they won't marry Tamil person within their country they won't marry Bengali person they won't marry an Andhra person somewhere if somebody falls in love it may happen but generally they would like to marry in their own community in their own thing because this is the way they have known life for thousands of years about preserving talent and culture within that so why this was so is see we are we are talking about times when there were no universities to impart skills and knowledge so right now if there is a blacksmith he wants to marry only a blacksmith's daughter not a goldsmith's daughter because she will be a little dainty and fanciful she won't last in the blacksmith's house she won't last so if this marriage has to be enduring because they're looking at children till the children grow up the husband and wife should be together i mean they're thinking of a lifetime they're not thinking of a few years so they are very conscious about putting it through all kinds of screens because they are thinking of marriages a lifelong partnership not a brief encounter i'm not saying it's good or bad i'm just saying why they may not be opening up their doors of marriage they don't open their door gujaratis will not open their doors of marriage to Tamil Tamil people no way will marry Gujarati yes they will not now maybe individual people out of interaction young people meet each other it may happen but families will not do it now things are changing a little bit because it's becoming difficult to find your own kind so people are doing something but it will still take a long time because there are many aspects to this it's very difficult to explain because see if i go if i go in united states so somebody's house i just smell the seasoning in the house and i say you're this community isn't it they say sir guru how do you know you said the seasoning because in a particular community it smells in a particular way another community we just lives in the neighborhood they make seasoning in a different way and these people can't stand that and they cannot stand this their tongues have been you know cultured to lack only this i am i saying is this good is this bad this is not the way it is great that there are so many varieties of people and they've distinctly maintained this for some time today at Tamil's come in the world where people have to integrate but it need not be made compulsory let it happen at its own time i didn't know you were you i was your favorite now i'm getting little because you said you stopped chasing her and now you're saying i'm your favorite no no no no i shall i shall not go there i shall not go there but um you said this morning that um bullshit can get you there but it won't keep you there yeah in the context of destiny in the context of trying to get to where they're going how do we make sure that you're doing the right thing and that when we get there we're going to stay there and i must explain that statement following a story and there was a story behind it wasn't just an independent statement say uh when we say destiny when we say life life is in the way you experience it not in the content of life it is in the context of life the way it happens within you you may you may be sitting under a tree and blissed out you may be sitting in a palace and be depressed possible or no so the quality of life and the destiny of your life is the way it happens within you what the world throws at you is not always your choice it is a consequence of times in which we exist but whatever it throws at you what you make out of it is essentially you this is your destiny that it does not matter what the world throws at you you know how to make it a good thing for yourself and everybody around you this is taking charge of your destiny destiny need not necessarily mean all the physical situations that i dreamed of happened but my experience of life happens the way i want it this this means i'm in charge of my destiny well here a whole lot of people have been sharing their stories with me that in this country they prospered one time and they had to leave the country for eight ten years and then they came back that's what i was telling them if somebody was asked to leave many people would hang from the trees not being able to take it but people went wherever they went and they came back and recreated what they had a whole lot of them maybe many of them lost it but what i'm saying is what they created physically is not the thing i must tell you a story okay for a for a mythological story recently i was talking to a large group of school children in a small town in Andhra Pradesh which was a strange thing for me i was wondering whether they will understand english but they were all highly perked up they were over five thousand children and i was speaking to them then one little girl stands up a 14 year old girl well i'm sorry i shouldn't call her a little girl because she doesn't think she's little she stands up in our sattguru you know ram in Ayodhya his wife gets kidnapped from Sri Lanka where is he he kidnapped so this king's wife was kidnapped and then he walked all the way to Sri Lanka fought a battle set fire to the entire city got his wife back went back home the big story so this little girl asked sattguru is it practical for a man to walk from northern india to Sri Lanka is it just a story or is this real then i look at her and say you're still a little love one day you will get a man of your own when you get this man would suppose you got lost somewhere would you want a man who'll walk all the way or who will think this is not practical and find solution in the neighborhood well she knows she wants a man who'll walk all the way that she knows now if you you know many of them are ram worshippers they worship ram if you look at ram's life it's a continuous disaster yes he's a king because of some particular reasons he goes off into the jungle with his newly married wife she's a princess not trained to live in the jungle seeing their plight their brother his brother leaves his wife and children and travels with him to support him in the jungle it's a disaster i know you might have seen some movie where sita doing that in the forest no you do one thing just by yourself you go and live in a forest for three months you will see what will happen to you it's another game altogether so then she's there and this guy comes and kidnaps her and takes her to Sri Lanka and then he goes fight the battle brings her back again some political situation she's pregnant and at that time she he again takes her and leaves her in the jungle all by herself and no sonogram so he doesn't know if it's a boy or a girl or boys or girls she delivers twins two boys he doesn't know children grow up in the jungle then unknowingly he fights a battle with his own children he could have easily killed his own children it was very close suppose unknowingly you killed your own children do you need a bigger disaster in your life i'm asking the worst kind of disaster it almost happened fortunately he could not kill them but then she died in the jungle she he never ever got to see her again this is not a success story but they worship him not because he's a big success on the outside no matter what happened he did not lose his balance he did not become resentful he did not become hateful he did not become angry he did not lose his composure no matter what life throughout him he maintained who he is so this is what we call as destiny his destiny is totally in his hands life can do whatever but he will do only what he has to do this is taking charge of the destiny as a culture they all learn to bow down to that quality not just success in the world he's a big success as a human being within himself but that we're bowing down my name is old man of the clan i am told that you are a world of yoga i would like to know from you what animal is yoga what what animal any animal is yoga and then how can you be useful why should an old man like me care about it and uh no i didn't get that part of the what animal is your what is yoga okay all right why should i care about it what is this bad man i'm very seriously ignorant about it the second question what is the purpose of life how do i know that purpose how do i pursue it how do i find it and how do i live it thank you it seems to be a popular question his name is andrew andrew okay uh andrew when when you ask what is yoga i'm sorry initially missed the animal part i get it what is this yoga first let me tell you this is the only practice on the planet which has lived for over 15 000 years without any papacy without any authority enforcing it on anybody never in the history of this yogic culture has it so happened somebody put a sword to your throat and said you do yoga otherwise you're dead no something ever happened out of sheer efficacy because it works it's lived today over two billion people are doing some form of yoga what is it many ways to look at it i would like to explore two different ways so that it brings some clarity to you one is you agree with me that this human mechanism which you call as myself right now do you agree with me that this is the most sophisticated technology on the planet do you i'm just asking you such a complex technology you have with you have you read the user manual so one dimension of yoga is to explore the user's manual which is written in this system so that you know how to explore the full depth and dimension of what this life is about if you explore the full depth and dimension of what this life is about the second question what is the purpose would be very easily answered or in other words to make simplify your question what you're asking is what is the nature of my existence because you are certain that you exist but you do not know the nature of your existence if you think one way become one way if you think another way you become another way if you feel one way you become one way you feel another way tomorrow you feel become another way because what is human is not defined if you had come as any other creature we know what is a earthworm we know what is a grass grasshopper we know what is a tiger we know what is a lion but we don't know what is a human being isn't it being human beings you don't know what is a human being because nature has left a certain freedom for you with every other creature nature has drawn two lines within which they have to live and die for the human being there's only a bottom line there is no top line this means there is a limitless possibility of exploration when we talk limitlessness definitely we must leave the physical behind because physicality is the dimension of the limited physicality is always of boundaries when we utter the word limitless we must understand we want to transcend physical nature what is the purpose suppose right now all of you i'm asking you if you're feeling really ecstatic would you ask what is the purpose of life no it's becoming little burdensome it's a little drag when you get up in the morning what the hell am i doing here kind of feeling now it comes up what is the purpose your idea for purpose is you want a meaning i want you to understand meanings are a psychological problem you want to find a meaning there is no meaning anywhere in the existence but meanings are important for you intellect if you keep your intellect aside there is no meaning to anything the existence is simply on what is the meaning of it there is no meaning this is just an intellectual pursuit right now because of the nature of your education the only dimension of intelligence that you're exploring is intellect intellect is like a scalpel whatever you give whatever you give to your intellect it will dissect right now the very question that you're asking is to dissect what is the meaning of life what is the purpose of life means we must dissect this life and see why this life why am i here what should i do where should i go this is simply because right now life is not being experienced most human beings have become a bundle of thoughts emotions ideas opinions and prejudices these are all you're making this is not life this is your making your psychological drama has overtaken the existential drama creation such a magnificent creation but right now your psychological drama has overtaken the creation itself today sun came up on time hello so what no i must tell you this sometime ago a year or little more than that i was to i was flying a helicopter in united states and it was a good day weather wise so it took off doors and we are flying a open helicopter well every aviator knows for every thousand feet that you go up how much temperature and stuff but we just went up there suddenly a cloud cover we hit a cold front the temperature dropped dramatically where you know even hold the controls it became difficult so we decided to come down as we were coming down we were just discussing suppose tomorrow sun doesn't come up what happens oh we thought maybe in three months this will happen six months that will happen we came down and did a bit of research and we found if sun does not come up tomorrow morning in eighteen hours time almost everything that you know as life will be gone except the microbes deep in the earth almost everything will be frozen and gone so sun came up today morning i want to hear appropriate noises yeah it's not a small thing but sun came up on time planet is spinning on time the entire galaxy is going on without any accidents everything in this cosmos today is going great but you have one little nasty little thought crawling in your head and it's a bad day so when your intellect overtakes your experiential dimension then you will start thinking what is the purpose of life because life is a purpose unto itself if you experience this life in mindfulness right now your psychological drama is hijacking life most of the time you're thinking about life not living life i want you to go back to the greatest experience in your life whatever was the most accelerating experience in your life suppose right now you were in that moment would you ask me what is the purpose of life a moment you ask this question immediately people will come up with this god given purposes that everybody has the moment some whenever i have seen whenever someone says god told me this you can be very sure the disaster is unfolding yes whenever people spoke these words disasters were unfolding around them so i want you to just look at this first of all this this convoluted idea has been thought to human beings that existence is human centric no this solar system is a speck in this cosmos tomorrow morning if the speck vanishes nobody will miss it believe me in this tiny speck of a solar system planet earth is a micro speck in that micro speck compala is a super micro speck in that you are a big man now this is this not a simple problem thank you very much for that we need to tell him about the animal the zoo of yoga yes another dimension of yoga is as you sit here this is me that's you distinctly clear isn't it no confusion between you and the person sitting next to you 100 it's clear this is me this is somebody else but you are inhaling and exhaling what you exhale somebody may be inhaling what they exhale you're inhaling at least what you exhale the trees are inhaling what the trees exhale you are inhaling if you stop this transaction because you thought you're too much of a solid state this is the end of you this is not just in respiration this is happening even in your subatomic subatomic particle level that there is a transaction going on with the entire existence i want you to just look at the reality we are in we are sitting on a planet round in shape that's on the equator we're sitting like this you know suppose you got your school your high school globe to your house and sit on it you will be sitting like this it's an odd way to sit on the equator at least you must migrate to north pole where you could sit firmly you're sitting like this in the damn planet is spinning and in the middle of nowhere you don't know where it begins where it ends here we are sitting here i'm thinking what is the purpose of life now who you are right now it's like this let me give you an analogy as school children when you were children you might have blown soap bubbles did you Andrew Andrew so bubble did you blow soap bubbles that's okay so when you blew a bubble this was your bubble this was somebody's bubble distantly there but when it burst what was the major content of this bubble the air within where is my air and where is your air there is no such thing even now there is no such thing you are just imagining that this is me that is you till you bury till you're buried it looks like you won't understand if you understand right now your life will transform if you get it at that time it's a bit late yoga means to obliterate the boundaries of your individuality as you sit here if you can obliterate the boundaries of your individuality and begin to experience everything as myself or myself as everything suppose you sat here in this hall and experienced all the people in this hall as you experience the 10 fingers on your hand because i want you to understand whatever the content of this body was not you sometime ago it's just the food that you've eaten it is the soil which has become food it is the food which has become flesh it was not you yesterday today it is you so what is not you you are able to make it yourself simply because you included into the boundaries of your sensations so yoga means to be able to expand these boundaries in such a way that if you sit here you experience the entire universe as yourself if you sit here and experience the entire universe as myself then we say you are in yoga not doing yoga then you are a yogi so this is the purpose of yoga because not that this is something that we've invented this is the way life is happening life is not happening as individual this is one big cosmic life you can blow your own soap bubble and have a sense of individuality the magnanimity of creation is such though you're a puny little nothing it gives you a great sense of individuality for a period of time so enjoy that but don't get lost in it because that is not your nature right now you've blown a bubble enjoy the bubble but you must know this air is constantly in moment if it is not in moment it'll suffocate so yoga means to consciously obliterate this as i was telling you whether it's sexuality or love or ambition or conquest or yoga essentially the goal is same in some way you want to make this bigger than what it is but if it becomes bigger it wants to become bigger so yoga means you learn to obliterate the individual boundaries so that you can experience the entire universe as myself this is not a philosophy this is not an ideology this is the way existence is happening if you experience life the way it is then you can handle life most efficiently if you do not experience it the way it is but you have your own psychological drama which tells you something else then with the simplest things people are confused people don't know how to handle their thought and emotion even today after fifty sixty years of life simply because they have not seen life the way it is they are imagining things which are not there in their psychological space so yoga means to know reality to perceive reality just the way it is if you perceive everything just the way it is your ability to conduct life is greatly greatly enhanced to a point where other people think it's superhuman essentially it is about realizing the immensity of what it means to be human can i see the hands of the arm again please lots of hands this question is not i've heard the answer before but i would like this question to be answered as a group benefit of a lot of Ugandan friends and colleagues and associates who have been invited here because during the time of the past immigration many of them point blank big line so this is yoga is to do in Hinduism so if you can please explain is yoga specific belief system or a particular religion thank you so for the followers of Christ let me say something he said many things or today people say he said many things but some things we we are sure he said rest of it we all know on the way there are entrepreneurs you know but the important thing about his life is he talked about taking people to another dimension of life which he referred to as kingdom of god everybody thought it's up there people gathered let me say people gathered when enough people gathered he turned around and said the kingdom of god is within you whoever says that he's a yogi i'm not saying anything i'm saying whoever says the ultimate nature of the existence is within you he's a yogi that's what yoga means so what he said what he did not say i have not made a study of it i do not know but people have been telling me this is what he said if he said this he must be a yogi because unless you're in that experience of inclusiveness you wouldn't say that he definitely did not read a yoga text he must have experienced i was going to say that yeah maybe he didn't read it he didn't he he did not read that it is from an inner experience that he's saying it's within you if he says it's within you this means he's a yogi so what kind of a yogi is well he's middle eastern so he's of a certain kind he speaks the language of the time and the area whoever came anytime in india thousands of yogis came the reason why thousands came is this land developed a discipline that if somebody talks about dimensions beyond our experience we should never persecute them this discipline they brought into the culture because of this every generation produced thousands of enlightened beings everybody is saying their own thing in their own way but ultimately talking about the same reality but in this part of the world or wherever he came he stood out because generally persecution was the way apart from organized religion if everything was anything else was said he would be dead that's a normal thing well it happened to him also anyway it happened to him also a horrible way of ending his life even today i see when i go to certain countries i'm not abusing anybody i'm just asking a few questions if i ask a few questions in some countries they stand up and tell me you will leave this country head first that means horizontal that's what they mean i tell them everywhere i go i always go head first you also should learn this head first now about this yoga being hindu it's like this this is a profound understanding of human mechanisms if you say yoga is hindu gravity must be jewish the word hindu means this there is a range in the northern part of india in the south there is an indian ocean this is called himalaya this was called hindu sagara hindu means the land that lies between the himalayan ranges and this indian ocean was called hindu this culture prospered and flourished for over five to six thousand years undisturbed by invasions undisturbed by other wild tribes which are outside so people slowly developed reverence to these two geographical features because they knew their well-being was mainly because of these himalayan ranges and the ocean protected them so they called the land hindu start with later on they called themselves hindu so anything that's born in this land because it's a geographical identity an earthworm born in that land is a hindu earthworm this is not a religious identity this is a geographical identity like right now a lion born in africa is called an african lion so why is an earthworm born in india not a hindu earthworm but somewhere along the way when external forces came they had a religion of their own they had a god of their own they had a book of their own we didn't have any because we were not believers at any time in history even today india is not a land of believers it is a land of seekers the highest value is not god in india even today if you do not know the highest value is mukti which means liberation or freedom freedom is the highest value god has never been the highest value we know the technologies of god making we made 33 million gods and goddesses because we understood how to create a form and energize it and make it work in a particular way for us but never ever that culture propagated a god up there a book which tells you what to do everything is a debate even when people who were recognized godly when they came there were no commandments there were only debates endless debates even today indians are still debating in the same phase you want to know what happens after death some things you know best by experience no no no the thing is everybody wants to know what happens after death but actually what they're asking is what is the nature of my existence i'm here right now but i know one day people who are here before me they died and poop they vanished what happened to me what you're saying is what is the nature of my existence will my existence end with this body or will something else happen will i go to some place will the accommodations be good there how is the climate all these things see if you want to know the nature of your existence this is the best time to know isn't it you're here alive with an active intelligence this is the best time to explore another dimension of yoga is this not by not by dogma not by not by belief but by systems of exploration is this is this true that your body that you have right now you gathered over a period of time hello whatever you gather you can claim it is mine but if you say it's me kind of lost it isn't it hello understand what i'm saying see right now i say this glass is my glass then you will think oh sir the guru has some problem but let's listen some more everybody says he's wise after some time i say this is me then you will say let's go because this amounts to madness but right now there is water here if i drink it it does become a part of me isn't it this is how you gathered whatever number of kilograms you have right now with you yes or no this entire body was gathered from outside the content of the mind and the content of the body you gathered from outside this is a heap of food this is a heap of impressions what you gather can be yours can never ever be you so there must be something beyond this body beyond this mind don't assume why don't you explore how can you live here without knowing the nature of your existence you want to know what happens after death don't you want to know right now what the nature of your existence you must know if you don't know you will be eternally confused human being thank you any more questions please yes that's the leading you're asking anybody at the back okay and then i'll come let's move to the back of the room next okay can you have the lady here first please yes i think there are very many microphones being around at the moment the lady here i wish i could tell you briefly but i want to tell you briefly about obuto of course is the fact that we are all human beings and we are all we're all one oh you're talking about yoga what do you call that unduo that's yoga yes but but the difference may be in yoga we have systems and methods through which we can experience we can bring it to an experience of undo the methodology but right now you may have a philosophy of oneness but you don't have a method the thing is to teach a scientific process through which you can come to that state of what you call us wouldn't oh no no no no no no i won't take that seriously no no no no no do do not try to reduce everything into your slogan this is a dangerous process can i have the lady that stood up under the gentleman please i'd like to have as many female voices in the world and then and then yeah what's your name and what's your question okay so uh namaste saibyo um my name is roshelle batelda and uh my story teller you talked about the body's ability to heal and i heard this question in mind it's uh about the kundalini now can you ignite the kundalini to heal the health and body of diseases and would you encourage somebody with really complicated illnesses like uh had the least to ignite their kundalini to heal themselves thank you are you a gander yes i'm a gander i'm most in goclata she's a mukanda she's from my tribe what she just talked about i have no idea about what did she just say man this is uh the thing is the indian languages have an elaborate vocabulary to describe different dimensions that function within you the english language has phenomenal vocabulary to describe the outside but when it comes to the inside it's very poor but the indian language is particularly sanskrit she's picked up one word from that it has an elaborate huh yes yes so kundalini means uh i said right now i'm speaking this is kundalini the energy behind this is kundalini you're listening that is also kundalini a dog is barking that is also kundalini a flower is blossoming that is also kundalini or in other words that energy which makes everything happen in the physical creation is called kundalini so what they're right now referring to is there is an entire system called kundalini yoga to maximize this energy because generally in most human beings to eat sleep reproduce and die a minuscule of this energy is active means it's good enough if you raise this energy then what is happening is in the composition of elements you're trying to change the fundamental composition of how you're made that is you're trying to increase what is called as aakash this means your perception will enhance because only what you perceive you know rest is just imagination right now our modern education systems have surrendered to information after sometime you will see information means nothing because you seem to know everything but you don't know anything right now we know about health but they tell me the world's food industry is seven point six trillion dollars the world pharmaceutical industry is seven point true two trillion dollars they're saying by the end of 90 i mean 2017 the pharmaceutical industry will overtake the food industry that means we'll be eating more medicine than food on this planet and we are healthy we we know so much about health but we don't know how to be healthy like this because information only gives you a sense of knowing something but you cannot really make it happen in life that way it is it's okay with material things but when it comes to life information doesn't take you anywhere probably your grandmother your grandmother lived with much more life sense than with all the intellect and education that most people have today simply because there was life sense everything was by experience Kundalini when we talk about it we are trying to raise the energy now can it heal ailments and this we must understand this much this entire body was created from within right whatever i hear you eat a lot of bananas but by eating all the bananas you didn't go bananas you became human all right so whatever you eat there is something inside which is capable of manufacturing this body when the very source of manufacturing this body is within you if there is a repair job to be done is it best to go to the manufacturer or to the local tinker if you have access with the manufacturer you would go to the manufacturer if you've lost access you will go to the local tinker tinker the i saw they're building a huge Toyota showroom and a repair shop so if you have access you will go to the Toyota showroom when you have a Toyota otherwise you will go door to the local guy who fixes everything with a hammer in times of yoga exist how do i do which i just write on a certain day four people were walking in the forest one of them was a karma yogi another was a nana yogi another was a bhakti yogi another was a kriya yogi what this means is if you employ your body or physical action to reach your ultimate nature we call this karma yoga yoga of action if you employ your intelligence to do the same we call this nana yoga yoga of intelligence if you employ your emotion to do this we call this bhakti yoga yoga of devotion or emotion if you employ your energies to do that we call this kriya yoga transforming energies so these four men were walking together usually these four people will be never found together because they cannot get along because a man the yoga of intelligence has a very sharp intellect those who have a sharp intellect can't stand devotional people have you seen this yes or no they can't stand devotional people who are doing rambam all the time they cannot stand them yes he's for nana yoga candidate so these are the only four types of yoga you can do because these are the only four instruments you have on your hands so these four people were walking suddenly a thunder storm broke loose and they started running looking for shelter the bhakti yogi the man of devotion said in this direction there's an ancient temple let's go there well they trust him with the geography of temples there's an ancient temple where the walls have all collapsed just four columns and a roof and there's a deity in the center they all rushed into the temple not because of their love for god simply escaping the storm then the storm became very severe started lashing from every direction there was no other place so they came closer and closer then they just hugged the deity and sat down all four of them just to escape the rain not because they love god and suddenly god appeared in all their minds the same question why now we did so many things you didn't come now when we're just escaping the rain you turn up why now so god said at last you four idiots got together i've been waiting for this for a long time so yoga you are not just body just mind just energy just emotion you're a combination of these things unless they come together in the right way there is no yoga for you so you are one kind of combination somebody else is another kind of combination accordingly it has to be mixed that is why a live guru is important because he mixed the right concoction for you thank you very much let's go to the back of the room please yeah move against the microphone fast you must take you must take the microphone please the very back of the room yes hello hi i have a question about faith traditions i'm actually a former graduate student in religious studies and one of the biggest challenges i have is this dichotomy that exists in religious faith especially bourbon religious faith in religions that are or rather in people who choose to believe in their religion a certain way and what i mean by that is there is great beauty when you go to particular countries you go to a mosque and there's incredible adherence to faith that can be inspiring and you can see that in all traditions across all countries but often that faith is coupled with negative attitudes homophobia islamophobia fear of the other and my question for you is how do we see the beauty in religious faith while also avoiding some of the problematic things that happens within dogmatic belief no it's very simple yeah the thing is just this right now i'm going to this is just an experiment is it okay can i experiment with you this is just a simple experiment how many of you believe in god all such people raise your hand that's good how many of you believe you have two hands all people raise one hand how many of you believe you have two hands okay do you believe you have two hands or do you know you have two hands you know you have two hands isn't it if somebody who starts an argument with you and tries to prove to you you have no two hands and suppose the argument becomes becomes too overwhelming and he's about to prove to you that you have no hands one slap in the face he will know that you got hands so with hands you know with god you believe i'm i'm not trying to take it somewhere else i just want you to understand belief essentially comes still because humanity has not become sincere enough to come to this what i know i know what i do not know i do not know yes everything everything that you do not know you must believe because belief gives you confidence this is the biggest disaster on the planet confidence without clarity what you need is clarity about life not confidence if you cannot see here right now i want to walk through you all right but my vision is not clear but i'm a very confident man i'm going to walk through you but i can't see properly am i a disaster or no if i can't see properly i must at least go gently i cannot see properly please help me through this if you do not have clarity at least you must have hesitation about what you're doing you have no clarity but you have confidence is a disaster humanity has suffered immensely for this maximum amount of bloodshed maximum amount of hatred things have happened like this i want you to know this people may be predicting it this way that the fight in the world is between good and bad like you also tried to describe this good part this bad part there is the fight is not between good and evil the fight is always between one man's belief and another man's belief why is it why is it we cannot come to a place that we can admit what i do not know as i do not know what is the problem you will have a much more sincere straighter world once you realize i do not know the longing to know the seeking to know cannot be put down it is the nature of human intelligence if you do not know something you will want to know it now we're talking about see you're not talking about god you're not talking about heaven you're always talking about the nature of your existence isn't it who the hell are you how did you happen this is the question because you have no answers you're inventing all kinds of things and believing it it may give you confidence it may bring you together with people you may sing you may dance but you will also fight because it is invariably bound to happen for the last two three thousand years you have seen how many wars have happened because you believe one thing somebody believes something else i think it's time humanity matures into this level of sincerity what i know i know what i do not know i don't know i want you to realize the immensity of i do not know if you see i do not know the longing to know the seeking to know and the possibility of knowing becomes a reality otherwise you just believe something can i tell you a small just can i tell them a small joke allen because this is serious stuff you know there were two young boys very energetic when young boys are very energetic they're in constant trouble and they are the parents are very embarrassed because the entire community is discussing their children but you know you know how to produce them but you don't know how to fix them isn't it so not knowing what to do they decided to take them to the local parish priest because together they're very strong they decided to take them separately so they took the younger boy first made him sit down in the priest's office and the parents left the priest walked in with his long robes and he walked up and down you know it needs some drama otherwise these things don't work so he walked up and down with a grave face the boy sat there and did the ping pong act looking at the priest and this priest worked up a strategy if i remind this boy that god is within him all his mischief will go this is always the problem people who have never raised children they have fantastic ideas those who have raised children they know none of your goddamn ideas will work if you have the commitment if you have the love and commitment you can read out the problems but you don't know how to fix the problems of your children isn't it so anyway he came up with the strategy and suddenly in mid stride he stopped and with a booming voice he asked where is god the boy looked bewildered he looked all over because he must be somewhere in the priest's office then the priest saw he's not getting the point then he leaned on the table pointing at the little boy he's giving him a clue the god is within you where is god the boy looked even more bewildered and looked under the table then the priest saw he's not getting it so you walked around came close to the boy tapping on the little boy's chest he's giving a clear clue where god is tapping on his chest he asked where is god the boy got up and bolted out of the room he ran to the place where elder brother was and he said we're in real trouble the elder brother asked why what happened he said they have lost their god and they think we did it to take a few more questions with the priest for time so i'm going to try to find out this conversation and there's so many hands still going on going up i'm not sure what to do about that very many hands going up how much more time do i have okay we shall find out we're addressing all those questions and at some point but let's just find out our conversation i've always wanted to ask you what's with the pier where did that come from i'm sorry what's with the pier you're trying i can see uh i thought everybody knew about this this is something that grows on every man those who removed it you must ask them why did you remove it why are you asking me i did nothing about it i just didn't do anything about it because i thought everything that's given to me particularly around my head has a specific purpose you can try you're trying i can see no i can say something further on that see if you ask people why they have cut this left this cut this left that whatever all the distortions they've done why if you ask them they said this is my fashion all right so it is not about fashion it is essentially wherever there is no pain in your body this is what you do suppose there was no pain in your nose i'm sure in the name of fashion you would have stripped it in many different ways suppose there was no pain in your entire body i'm sure in the name of fashion you would pull out your intestines and swing it if there was no pain you think people wouldn't do it you would do all kinds of things or in other words right now for most human beings it is not their sense which is preserving them it is their pain which is preserving them which is not a good way to live you're riding riding fast cars what's the fastest you've ever driven? 342? 342 kilometers an hour what are you trying to do kill yourself? no i i'm not a foolish driver i'm a good driver and i know that you're in europe you love Indian classical music um what other music do you listen to? do you listen to Lady Gaga? there was a time when rock and roll was everything my parents were steeped in classical music but we hated it the children me and my brother we would turn up rock and roll at full volume just so that this classical music by accident doesn't enter my ear and pollute me okay this is how i was but it happened to me i became meditative over a period of time one day i was on my motorcycle it was in the maestro university this was such a distinct and powerful experience for me and i was just riding i heard a powerful sound you know some musical instrument that i can't recognize it just it just me like that and just drew me it's not like i decided to go there i just when there's an open air theater i just rode up that place and i parked there and i just looked and somebody was playing today i know it is a rudra veena it's played in a very mild slow way it's not like dang dang dang it's like this sound just gripped me from within i just sat there on my motorcycle tears were coming out of my eyes just the sound was just destabilizing everything inside me it just shook me through and through from that day suddenly my ear for classical music just evolved into a big possibility and today we are one of the major music festivals in india happens in the yoga center the rock and roll was important because it moves your body and boom boom boom but once you become still within you suddenly this classical music when i say classical the indian classical music is made in such a way if you listen to it carefully you will see your body will become still and erect you will see people unknowingly will sit like this i must tell you this this is about 10 years ago when i when we first started this school homeschool i went there all these six six and a half year old children in the morning assembly i went there to see them they're all like this like this like this like this i said why are these kids like broken tops and i thought what to do with them i just taught them the seven notes sari gama padanesa the seven notes 12 minutes a day i'll tell you after a month and a half i go there they're all sitting like this unmoving that's the impact it has on the system a proper arrangement of sounds because sound is a reverberation today modern science is proving to you everything in the existence is just a reverberation of energy your idea of physicality is a myth if you get the sounds right you can make it coincide with who you are you can make it relate to the larger reality this is called as nada yoga that means coming to your state of union within yourself just by using sounds so the music has this when you're young you like something that moves your body so it was rock and roll now you're saying it's hip hop i want everybody to be so blissed out that they wouldn't care to remember me miserable people always remember joyful people may have things in memory but it's not such a big thing so if people are always at gurus at gurus this means they're not still complete i want every one of them to be so complete that i'm unemployed and they don't have to remember me it's a good thing two moments about how we can interact with the south guru again my name is alan kosuji and thank you very much thank you