 Paranj, where ever you are, well, there's been a wonderful downpour, it's been more than probably two months, since it rained last night, there's been a downpour, everything is looking fresh green and wonderful out here. I wish you were here too. But if you come now, you'll have to go into twenty eight day quarantine. that they serve the center. So don't come right now. So yesterday night all the... all the, you know, still raw mangoes, all of them who didn't have the necessary strength to hold on to the tree have fallen down. Those who have survived yesterday's rain are going to become ripe. No, I'm not talking about mangoes only. About this is the nature of life. Will you fall off because you're tired? Will you fall off because you're bold? Will you fall off out of weakness? Or will you fall off due to lack of focus? Or will you fall when you're ripe? This is a big difference. A fruit should fall when it's ripe. So it should be with a human being. You should detach from life when you're fully ripe. Not halfway down because of ill health or because of virus or because of rigors of life or you worried yourself to death. Well, today also happens to be the world health day. When the pandemic is dancing across the planet taking a huge toll some countries are really hit. Some are waiting to be hit. Some are struggling to contain. Some have given up and they're looking up at God. One must understand if you're exuberant, joyful and wonderful, your immune system will function much better than when you're worried and distressed. It's a simple thing. Will we be able to 100% contain this virus from entering our homes and our bodies? We do not know. We are making an attempt. But this much we can do that we remain as dynamic as the virus. It's very dynamic. It's doing its job really well. We must do ours very well as human beings. One fundamental thing is to keep this life exuberant and alive. It may find expression in the form of joy, in the form of love, in the form of meditation or ultimate stillness. But this life should be kept exuberant not depressive at a time like this at all times. But now it will have a consequence, a positive or negative consequence depending upon how you are. Of course there will be people who say, this is not science. Of course, there is no definition of what is joy, what is health in any science book. But people are joyful, people are healthy. At least some are. Others are giving commentaries about it. Okay? But this is something that every one of you must strive. Especially now, you don't have much work to do. We have a lot of work to do here. Only thing is we are not traveling. But those of you who are homebound because your office, your business and other things are closed down, I know it has economic consequences, various social consequences. Keep that aside right now. Because economy, society and many other structures in the world are all created for this life's well-being. Keep this well, alive, exuberant, joyful. Your body's ability if not ward off, at least to fight will be in a much better state. This much everybody must do. Rest of it is left to various situations. Not just about you, how everybody else behaves is also going to affect you. So all that may not be 100% in your hands, but keeping yourself well, keeping yourself as alive as you can keep yourself is most important. This you must do because this is in your hands. Say everything is looking fantastic out here, but the world is not well. At least the human beings are not well. Well, a certain number of human beings are already ill. Unfortunately, in some countries the leaders in the nation are being hit, especially in UK unfortunately the prime minister has been moved into the ICU. This is not good because this could cause a huge depressive mood in the nation when they see top-line leadership goes down in some way. That could affect the whole nation. So it's very important the leaders must stay healthy and remain an inspiration for everybody. But unfortunately it's happened in a few countries. This has gone a little extreme. Even the tigers in the zoo are getting it. Well, that brings another dimension to the whole virus business. Till now everybody tried to believe, tried hard to believe it is only from human being to human being it will not happen any other way. Now those of them who are playing with the pets, pets were keeping people happy. Now that also becomes suspicious. Your dog becomes a suspicious character. Your cat definitely belongs to the big cat family. Now that the tiger one of the most ferocious cats that you can find on the planet or the most ferocious cat you can find now it started coughing. Now it brings a whole new dimension to handle. If animals around us start getting it well what we cannot do to human beings we will start doing to the animals a lot of them will be put to sleep all these problems will come and human beings will suffer from all these things. I am saying there are many many dimensions to this we don't know how it will play out. But at the same time we have repeatedly been saying with conscious responsible action we can contain it. Obviously we cannot prevent it we can slow it down but if a vehicle moves fast it will reach its destination quickly if it moves slow it will take a long time. Right now we are slowing down well a few states in the country in India have already taken this stance even without a central government's directive by themselves they have decided they will extend the lockdown maybe with mild modifications but they will extend the general lockdown particularly travel aspect of it mass transport aspect of it will remain for sure. So at the right moment I am sure this will come from the central government also so I am saying many of us will be home bound for much longer unless you are in specific type of activity or industry so it's time that you invest in your well-being well-being of this life because after all our work our wealth our business our social interactions were all essentially towards one's well-being so let us focus on that because human well-being your sense of well-being comes because you are peaceful you are joyful you are loving you are feeling wonderful that's well-being and all human experience comes from within you this is the time to understand and get some mastery over this aspect there are many aspects already available but we can transmit directly cannot be done right now but whatever directions we can give online many are there we could provide many more if you have any specific needs we can do that but the important thing is make use of this time because never again you may get another time hope you will not unless you consciously choose never again in your lifetime you may get four weeks or six weeks or eight weeks of time just for yourself this happens only in the life of serious spiritual seekers now nearly two-thirds of the world has this opportunity this is a good time well this is all the choice we have that is what the world throws at us is not always our choice what we make out of it is hundred percent our choice this should become a time of rejuvenation this should become a time of heightening the value of your life this should become a time where you truly enhance the quality of who you are as a life as a being and as a person too let's make this happen saaguru this question is from Maya dear saaguru I once heard a french idea that translates a dictatorship of sages is better than democracy of idiots what are your thoughts on this if you were ever to rule a nation would you opt to be a sage-dictator Maya means illusion first let me negate one thing I am not planning to rule any nation I was thinking of the world not to rule but to inspire because only one whose ways of being is not naturally inspiring will think of ruling people I've never thought of ruling people because I think it's too crude well can be inspire the entire world saaguru you yourself have admitted you are a failure yes I am can be inspire the whole world some people need to be ruled maybe right now it is true but it need not remain that way are you a hopeless optimist no I am not but I know a human being is a possibility well the period of treatment that was needed for me was a bit long but I know what kind of a human being I was and today how I am within myself so if I could be transformed I am sure you could be too yes and I am sure everybody can be only problem is some people have invested heavily to their own belief systems their own scriptures, their ideologies heaven bound people you know just like to inform them though all mass transportation in the world is largely down transportation to heaven is not down I am just informing you so those who think this is not a good place to live there is a better place to live somewhere else they are the only people who take a long time to transform hard to inspire them because only one foot is here another foot is up there only one year is here the other year is there making up things that they don't hear so because of that inspiration in the right direction may take much longer otherwise this virus time is a good time actually because virus is reminding you I have been you know constantly talking reminding you of your mortal nature but look at the efficiency of the virus I took thirty-eight years and I have convinced of you know maybe nearly a billion people today that you are mortal but in one shot in two months I don't have the efficiency of the virus but the virus has done this job it has reminded us how fragile and mortal we are as a life let's use this well because if you do not know this in the yogic culture the first step towards spiritual process before initiation always was the seeker or the sadhakar should go and spend a certain amount of time in the cremation grounds you will always see Shiva himself sitting like this in the cremation grounds because the idea is to bring home the fundamental reality that you are mortal why is this so important it is the most important thing because you have limited amount of time that's what mortality means otherwise in your silly mind you go on thinking what will I do tomorrow what will I do day after tomorrow what will I do next day next day next day as if you are going to be here forever if you go sit in the cremation ground one body after another one body after another who look just like you are all being burnt to ashes burial will not do that because you will imagine that they are down there and they will do something cremation does that very clearly brings it home that you are mortal so in a way this first part of the sadhana that the yogic culture demanded from everybody now a pandemic like this unfortunately such a thing has to happen for people to realize it's coming home that lot of people who thought they were immortal rich and poor are beginning to poor are always generally conscious it's the rich who think they are forever because in the comfort of the four walls you're not even alive you're preserved when you continuously live among the four walls you get the false idea that you're preserved for good one day for most of you one day or one night of let's say fierce weather I refuse to use the word bad weather that's from English culture we don't have bad weather some days the weather is fierce and fantastic like yesterday night it's pouring rain one night like that you spend in the forest I've spent many one night you spend like that it will come home to you very strongly how fragile a worm you are worms know how to survive you will not you will struggle with all your brains how to manage if you don't have any kind of equipment which is how I went into the jungle without any equipment only my HMT watch the industry itself is closed down I think now the damn thing would get fogged within five minutes of the rain can't even see the time you can't read the stars you can't feel if sun is coming up not coming up because it's overcast and pouring then you will see you don't know the directions because everything is almost you're blind in terms of your direction so either you keep going round and round or you try to sit down in one place and you see the worms the insects and of course the tigers and the elephants they are all well equipped they are all managing you are the only creature who is really struggling to find your place there you clearly clearly it comes home how fragile you are one mistake you will not see sunrise one mistake you will not see sunrise that's how it is so living in the comfort of four walls most human beings have this feeling that they are preserved because in a box you always feel like that so cremation ground and then forests were two instruments which were always used in the yogic culture as a way of bringing this home to you because if one has to become a genuine spiritual seeker this is the most important thing that you know that you have a limited amount of time people are more cunning than that they started talking about eternal life elsewhere well in India you came up with I will come back another hundred lives well people try to find ways in their mind how to be more than this life there are ways to be more than this life but not psychologically you can't make up something it's not going to work like that even if you believe that you are going to heaven if somebody points a gun at you at your head you will tremble well you must be ecstatic you are going to heaven but such a thing won't happen because the life knows in your head you can make up all kinds of rubbish but the life inside knows that if it leaves this shell of this body then what is next has remained so inspiration whoever the French man who said this definitely if a sage or a group of sages as it is as the idiom says who are ruling the planet or the nation would be definitely better than all kinds of fools ruling but would those group of sages be dictators if they are sages they won't be dictators because maybe a sage and to dictate won't go if they are sages if there were so many of them in France I don't know how you would find so many in France they would inspire see changes happened in France of an inspired revolution maybe not sages maybe workers but inspiration not because of dictatorship but democracy which is a fantastic idea has its problems because slowly political parties individual people those who aspire for power have understood the mechanics especially I think in the last 20-25 years they have understood the mathematics and the mechanics of winning an election which which is no more democratic it is becoming a kind of a a professional expertise of how to manage the numbers but still it is a better way essentially democracy and dictatorship democracy versus monarchy democracies versus dictatorship the most useful aspect of this democracy is you can change power without blood flowing on the streets and it changes all the time which is both a plus and a minus most of the time there is no continuity of effort for the upliftment of the nation because every four years five years when they change what one group of people have done another group of people want rivers we are seeing this across the world so many calamities happen because of that but in spite of that you only have to endure these whoever is elected only for five years max in the world I think some governments are six I think four, five, six that's it but if you get a dictator or a monarch you will have to endure them for 25 to 30 years at least this change of scene that's the best thing about democracy next question is from Kodishvaran Namaskaram Sadhguru we are seeing repeatedly in the outside world that people don't listen and follow even basic rules how is everything in Isha so perfect and how do people follow the steps given to them who said they are perfect to me it is very magical can you shed some light on it see anything that you are not able to do if somebody does it will look magical or fantastic or divine or whatever suppose suppose suppose see suppose somebody walked upon water that would be magical that would be divine or at least son of divine so similarly because you had never seen anybody doing that and you yourself could not do it let's say nobody knew how to swim in the world suddenly one day one man jumped into the river and swam across ha would it look magical would it look divine one hundred percent now living just with a little bit of sense not absolute sense little bit of sense is looking magical to you ha I can imagine what sort of atmosphere you are living in people here are not perfect they are striving to be better just because of that striving they our volunteers everywhere stand apart from a crowd simply because there is a striving to be better this is all you have to bring into your lives nobody is expecting you must be perfect but are you striving to be better this is important as long as you are striving to be better life will go on getting better forget about life you will slowly get better and better and better when you get better and better and better everything around you will be better so that is all it is but maybe this question is coming because of the few irresponsible things that a few people are doing in the world especially in the country maybe that's the reason it's coming but we also have to acknowledge majority of the population in the country are right now following instructions and doing a wonderful job of slowing down the virus or the spread of virus when in countries like united states where it has quarter the population that we have and three times the land that we have it's going wild like a wildfire I think fatalities have crossed eleven thousand our fatality rate is still just crossed hundred has it crossed hundred? not yet it just crossed hundred with 1.4 billion people with one-third of the land and four times the population obviously we have to congratulate the citizens and the leadership so let us not paint them all that bad maybe they behave little badly around you because your name says you have millions koti suren means one who has crores of rupees or millions of millions and maybe you're not sharing it so they're nasty with you you must also understand if this is something this is something all of you please bring it into your life if suddenly you find people are behaving little badly around you walking on the street even a street dog wants to come and bite you if such a thing is happening you must stop and look at what is it that's wrong with me you must don't think everybody in the world is gone crazy if you find continuously people are reacting to you doing nasty things to you you must stop and look at it why is this happening to me this is very very important if you don't do that there's no room for transformation maybe you must share your millions koti suren if you have millions I need you too right now because we are thinking how to expand this voluntary work in this virus times so if you have kodi kodi we also need you next question is from Meera I am a devi devotee but I cannot visit ashram now ever since the lockdown I feel very anxious and fearful all the time is there a way I can invoke devi's grace on a daily basis well what is consecrated as devi is a physical form here the mulasthanam or the root form is here but if her influence was just limited to the temple she is not worth wasting our time and energy on her influence is not determined by the physical space wherever you are if your doors are open it's available any genuinely you must understand there are two different kinds of images or two different kinds of consecrations one is just a reverberation you can even make this vessel reverberate but you cannot access this vessel from elsewhere because it's simply reverberating without specificity of what it intends to do it has no intention or intelligence but consecrations which are as complex as the devi or much more with the dhyanalinga is they are not limited by physical space many many people the first time it happened in united states I think this was just the second program inner engineering program we were doing there was a lady who was involved in all kinds of you know whatever certain type of work from caribbean islands she went on doing something with her pencil in the book you know we have a problem with people taking down notes I said no you cannot take notes just be with me she will be looking at me not even looking at the book just looking at me and just doing this with her pencil then at the end of the three hour session she said I don't know why this came something came out of this and this is the thing that you know the form that came out of me I didn't know what happened as I was looking at you I was trying to sketch you but this is what I got it's a clear proportion of the dhyanalinga that must be still in our archive somewhere she just got the image of dhyanalinga like she completely the whole page she scratched with her pencil what was left unscratched was just the form of dhyanalinga exactly the same exact proportion but she was trying to make a picture of me so I'm telling you consecrated forms are not limited to its physical space and you being anxious well you have this choice every one of you have this choice you can use this mind either to create well-being or misery for yourself this is one thing you have to come to terms with you must understand if you're feeling wonderful right now it must be because of you if you're feeling terrible right now it is because of you other things may stimulate but essentially all human experience is caused by you, you and you alone how much are you enslaved to external situations is simply determined by how compulsively reactive you are if you're very reactive what is around you will determine how you are right now if you are a conscious response to the world in which you live well-being will be very much in your hands Devi's grace can be used for something much higher than just beating your anxiety Ṭhāleśvarāyaśivaśivaśar Ṣambhau Ṣambhau Ṭhālaśvarāyaśivaśivaśar