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Are You Using Your Potential To The Fullest?

"I understand it does not matter how much I have, what really matters is what I do with what I have."

I understand it does not matter how much I have, what really matters is what I do with what I have. I can use my intelligence for the rest of my life and create a list of what all I am not good at? What all I’m inadequate at? I can continue to be extraordinary in creating my lack list. What all I lack in life? And it’s not going to take us anywhere. A “Beethoven” when he was still deaf, compiled the greatest music symphony and gave it to the world which he himself could never hear.

Demonstrating, it does not matter how much I have? What really matters is? What I do with what I have? And “Einstein” was a hunchback. And as an hunchback, he redefined the face of science demonstrating, it does not matter how much I have, what really matters is what I do with what I have. “John Milton” was blind when he wrote “Paradise Lost”. One of the greatest poetries is on nature and he demonstrated, it does not matter how much I have, what really matters is what I do with what I have.

When he sought his first few chances to act in movies. One of them sarcastically commented of “Amitabh Bachchan”, with your height, you can be used for clearing cobwebs, not for acting. And yet even today, several decades later, he is one of the most sought after by every camera in the world. “Sylvester Stallone” was rejected a thousand times, because his jawbone is broken and when he communicate it’s not very clear what he communicates.

“Arnold Schwarzenegger”, when he sought breakthrough in Hollywood, they all told him with your Russian accent unless you spend your own money and take a movie nobody will watch you. And yet with a broken jaw, and with that hardened accent, both of them demonstrated to the world. It does not matter how much I have, what really matters is what I do with what I have. “Rajinikanth” is certainly not the smartest looking actor, even he would vouch for it.

He’s probably not the most romantic hero, even he would agree to it. He’s not probably the best in terms of dialog delivery, he knows it too. And he’s not necessarily somebody who has been trained in martial arts for him to come and demonstrate great skills. Yet a superstar is a superstar. Because he demonstrated to the world, it does not matter how much I have, what really matters is what I do with what I have.

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Let Your Passion Be Your Profession…

"Find a work in which you find that inner expression, you find happiness in it."

This is the voice of Mahatria… Welcome to discover a new you… Wishing you most and more…

Find a work in which you find that inner expression, you find happiness in it. Make the world recognize that expression of yours, you find success in it. Offer the results you produce through that work unto him, you find God in it.

Which means when I choose an expression in life where, my work itself becomes my source of happiness, my work itself becomes my source of success, and my work itself becomes my source of experiencing the divine, because my self-expression gives my happiness, I’m making the world recognize. The excitement I get when I play snooker, somehow nothing in life gives me. You should be doing snooker parlor business. That’s what you should be doing. And isn’t it nice for what do you like playing others come and pay? Truth be told, I like talking, and I make the whole world pay for my talks. Isn’t it beautiful? You do what you like, and the world pays you for that.

Pele asked this question, when he played the first season of football and at the end of the season when he got paid, Pele asked this question. You mean I get paid for playing football? Isn’t it beautiful? You can do in your life what you like the most and for that the world pays you. Your hobby should become your profession. If eating is your hobby, that has to be your profession. If dressing; somehow even when I’m talking, you’re not listening to the talk you’re only checking whether I’m wearing the right pajama kurta, whether the combination is right, you should be in that business, you should be a designer.

Somewhere, wherever you see your eyes only looks at whether his shoulders are developed, biceps is OK or not, whether his equator is coming out or it’s in the middle, you should be in gym business, you should be a yoga teacher. Some of the fulfillment I get, when I listen to chanting, when I meditate, when I see people in faith, when I go to the ashram. Somehow the fulfillment that I get nothing gives me. That has to be your future. Set a goal 40, 48, 50, 52, create enough for the generation and walk the path of your peace. I repeat you get only one chance to be yourself.

In Jewish scriptures there is such a beautiful reference to it. They say, when you eventually die and go to God, God will not ask you why you did not become a Messiah. But he will ask you, why you didn’t live as you. I sent you to earth for you to be you and why didn’t you live as you. A time was there in the world when a Jesus Christ was required a Jesus Christ was sent. A time was there in the world when a Prophet was required, a Prophet was sent. A time in the world when a JRD was required a JRD was sent.  A time in the world when a Lata was required, and a Lata was sent. A time in the world when a Rafi was required a Rafi was sent. A time was there in the world when you were required and that’s why you were sent.

They all did something very significant with their life because they celebrated their originality. In fact I’ve asked this question whenever I watch a live music concert. Hey he sings exactly like Mohammed Rafi, why he didn’t get so much break-through? I realized he sings like Mohammed Rafi, he is not original. Rafi was original, he sang like him. In fact if he had sang like him, he would have a future. But he chose to be a duplicate in life, when he would have chosen to be the original. This is me. This is how I speak. A little South Indian Brahmin tongue in my pronunciation, this is me.

Just imagine even my speech will stink unto my own years, just in order to impress you, all try to put up an accent and speak as if I’m come just now from America and tell you guys and girls happiness man. I cannot say Orange, Orange… My own son asked me after listening to a speech of mine when he was six years old. Appa, spell water, ‘I said WATER, he said then why whenever you say waterrr,’ as if there are three four R’s there, but that is me. Don’t ask me to be anybody else, this is me.

I will keep a bearded photo and come without beard. This is me. In fact, you are peaceful only being yourself. Think about in all of you sitting here, I’m not asking you to celebrate me. In fact, in no program of mine I want you to come and celebrate me. I want you to come and celebrate yourself. You are my subject. Think about it, I don’t care how many programs you have attended of mine. Think about it. When you leave my program, you won’t think of me. You’ll think of yourself and your life and leave. Because you are the subject in my program. And I want all of you to realize, you want to be happy you have to be happy with yourself.  

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How to deal with temptations?

"You grow in your own eyes when you choose the ‘right’ over everything else."

In fact, yesterday I was telling her, how I got up in the morning and everything in me told me that today your back is very stiff, today you should not take a risk with your back, so you skip yoga today. Don’t do yoga. Everything in me convinced me about the entire thing and I was also absolutely convinced. And after five minutes, I said, “Aren’t you ashamed?” How much you talk about growth & development… tomorrow you’ll go sit and do all these things and now your body is saying, “No way!” So, I rolled the yoga mat, kept the cushion.

First two practices… after two practices, I was absolutely convinced my back is very tight and today I should not do anything. In fact, the problem is, Deepak, yoga mat is here, bed is here. Okay… Yoga mat is 4 mm, bed is 6 inches. And in yoga, last is Savasana, on the bed from the beginning it is Savasana. So, it was not difficult for logic to tell me, I think you should rest today, so much has to be done. Right now, you should not take any chance with the body and all. Religiously I rolled the yoga mat, took the cushion, went & kept it inside, came, lay down on the bed, covered myself with the blanket.

Adjusted AC to 18 degrees. Kept the fan at 5. Some of you will say it should not work together. For me, everything in life is This and That. And I also took my favourite position to lie down. And still one voice inside said, “Aren’t you ashamed?” Just your body has decided you will not do yoga today and you have decided not to do it? I threw my blanket aside and went back. I again rolled the yoga mat, again got the cushion back, again started. Halfway through the asana, the way I looked at myself changed. The higher won over the lower.

Every moment, Deepak, there are easy alternatives, wrong alternatives, tempting alternatives, desiring alternatives, other alternatives, every moment in life, and amongst all that is available, there’s one right choice. And the way you grow in your eyes, every time you choose ‘right’ over all the other options available, forget about scripture, hell, heaven, karma, everything else, the way you grow in your own eyes when you know, amongst all the choices you had, you chose ‘right’ over everything else. You know, in all these instances, the higher in you is prevailing over the lower in you. You grow in your own eyes. What yoga did to me is nothing in that moment.

What the decision not to yield to the pleading of the lower and still sticking to… that moment when I threw the blanket and got up…that moment of arrogance is worth a lifetime. And we all go through this every moment. Simply decide not to have coffee from today for one week, not lifetime and all. Three days later, you’ll feel today only you’ll die. Four days later, it’ll learn to live without a coffee. You drink coffee again. Immediately if I teach this people say, “I decided from now onwards I’ll never have…” For what? One week, small, small things. Just to establish mastery over the body. Just to establish mastery over the body.

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3 Traits that will lead you to Greatness

"Make yourself right. You don’t have to go in search of anything, everything will come in search of you."

‘The knowledge you gain from reading numerous books, the wealth you donated to others’ welfare, the happiness you feel in the progress of others, in all these deeds, God is present’.

Whether you read Valmiki, or you listen to Kannadasan, everybody is saying, when you develop some right qualities, it elevates you to greatness. If I can develop my intelligence through proper education…

And I see myself as a leader… who is a leader? Somebody who’s ready to share his prosperity for the upliftment of the world, and if you are a beautiful human being… who is a beautiful human being?

Somebody who genuinely feels happy when good is happening to others. If all these three traits, if you are a scholar, if you’re a leader, and if you’re beautifully hearted, in all these three, you will experience God. Essentially, Kannadasan is saying, practice the right qualities…

You don’t have to go in search of divinity, it has to come in search of you. Develop the right practices, you don’t have to go in search of money, money has to come in search of you.

Everything must be naturally drawn towards you, everything must be magnetised towards you, you don’t have to go in search of anything, everything will come in search of you. Make yourself right.

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Does Relationship Get Stagnant With Time

“Our relationship with time can grow and it will grow only to those who believe I am in a growing relationship.”

This is the voice of “Mahatria“. Welcome to discover a new you. Wishing you most and more.

The realm of marriage, industry average is two fights per week. So, I keep believing as long as I have at least two fights per week, Chaltha hey! it’s all going right.

And somehow it’s a compromise I can buy into and I can keep saying, now it’s already 10-years since we are married what to expect? You believe that there can only be a compromise in the relationship and they’ll only be a compromise in relationship or every relationship has the potential to keep growing and you find yourself 10 years later. There are more reasons to love each other than it was 10-years ago, because we are stood by each other for 10-years.

I remember an evening in Puna which expanded my belief about how I look at relationships. When me and a friend of mine had gone to see a colonel and we were sitting with an uncle in the lawns and discussing.

After about half an hour of discussion, the uncle asked us, do you care for tea? We never thought about it, it looked like he wanted tea and we were just a context by which he could ask for tea.

So, he said, ‘Do you care for a tea?’ We said, ‘Why not?’. He immediately turned in the direction to shout to Auntie who was inside the bungalow to ask for tea and there he saw she was walking with a tray in hand with tea and she approached us.

The uncle told the Auntie, I was about to ask you for tea and without batting an eyelid the Auntie said, after 14-years of our marriage, if you have to ask me for tea and only then I bring then there’s no meaning to this relationship. I know what you want even before you ask.

And somehow with that belief when I look at it, I’m sure that’s what “Mummy” is doing even today to “Papa”, understanding what he requires even before he spells it out, understanding that somebody there in the family is disturbed and you have not even communicated to her, and somehow that old lady knowing very well, you may sometimes get irritated and bark back at her, still comes and stands next to you and ask you, Beta, something is not okay? She can still read even your unspoken expressions and emotions. There is no need for us to believe, a relationship with time needs to diminish. In fact, our relationship with time can grow and it will grow only to those who believe I am in a growing relationship.

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Being Selfless

"The more and more you do God's work, God starts doing your work..."

This is the voice of “Mahatria“. Welcome to discover a new you. Wishing you most and more.

Dr. Robert Schuller said, “Selfishness turns life into a burden and unselfishness turns burdens into life”. I somehow feel a huge parenting responsibility is required to focus on grooming our children with some element of selflessness in them.

It’s really scary to be building a world where almost for anything that we do we first ask this question, what’s in it for me? If everything in life can only be done by answering what is in it for me, then entire life becomes very transactional. Everything becomes transactional.

It really pains to see such statements made even in the closest of relationships when friends communicating with friends when they say, I have done so much for you, what have you done for me? Are you saying you did all that to a friend, expecting a reciprocation from a friend?

I have heard parents in a state of emotion while scolding their children saying, I have done so much for you and for all that you can’t do this for me? If parenting becomes transactional, what’s left in life? I really think the most selfless thing is parenting our children, not expecting anything in return but for the sheer joy of what we can make them to become in life? If there, we start discussing I have done this for you, what you will do for me? Life becomes very transactional.

How will we ever create intimate marriages? If all the time everything is discussed in terms of, I did this for you, you do this for me. I am expressing my love to you, you’re not expressing my love to me. I am appreciating you so much but you’re not appreciating me.

I have to understand you all the time, why you are not understanding me? Come on yaar, let’s not turn life into just one long selfish transaction. Let’s go to another level and from there let’s operate. We don’t love for reciprocation of love, we love because we love. We don’t appreciate to be appreciated, we appreciate because we feel something is praiseworthy.

The reward of being good is being good. The reward of being good is in itself. We don’t have to receive anything in return. What sort of an organization will we build? If somewhere every employee will not do anything beyond for what he is paid for.

What sort of organization we will build? If the management all the time keeps thinking, I’m paying him so much, so let him do it. But instead, visualize the world where the management is genuinely interested in the development of his employees and there are Corporates like that.

That’s why they are the most sought after Corporates. They are genuinely interested in the development of your employees. There is a parental touch.

In fact, the bosses are more mentors and coaches than just functional professionals. When somebody works in my team, when somebody is associated with my organization, his life should be groomed in all the directions. A by product is a productive employee and a successful organization.

What a beautiful world we will build. If employees trust they will be taken care of by the management and put their hand up to assume a lot of unconditional responsibilities beyond the scope of what their profile is supposed to be.

How beautiful will it be? Then organizations will be families. It will be one collective integrated, responsible, selfless community. At least minimum the transformation can come at home. Home is not a place where we can keep saying, this is not my work that is her work. This is his work, why should I do his work? When you fold your blanket that is the responsibility.

When you can fold the blankets of your parents that’s love. When you can take a glass of water and drink that’s a necessity. When you can understand the need for water of your younger brother and take water to him, that’s love. If I keep doing, fulfilling my needs and  my own, that is selfishness, self centeredness, transactional living.

If somewhere I can expand my perspective to life and think beyond me, mine, myself and start thinking about you, us, the world and see what is that I can do to fulfil your needs, your wants… not even entertaining the thought what I will get in return. That is selfless living.

And of all the creations man can be that by purely being selfish. We are just giving expression to the animal within us. It’s by creating a context of selflessness in our life. For the first time we are allowing the divine to manifest through man.

It could be as simple as having a potted plant in the balcony of your house, watering it every day, just to see it grow, not even desiring the flower that will come out of that plant, not even wanting to pluck the flower from the plant, purely, a satisfaction that I was able to contribute to the growth of something, to probably one day in a month buying a loaf of bread and just giving it to every stray dog that you cross by knowing very well they can never thank you for that. But yet the satisfaction that I could do something without expecting anything in return.

Probably as you walk through, a piece of paper on the floor in the corridors of your office, not even thinking who has thrown it, but feeling spontaneously responsible for it, picking it up and throwing it into the dustbin as you walk by for the sheer satisfaction you contribute it to the cleanliness of the office.

What you could do you did, not bothered about blaming what somebody else should not have those little acts of selflessness. Probably one relationship in your life, let it be your dad, your mom, your child, your spouse, your best friend, one relationship in life. They’re expecting nothing, but only focusing on what you can do? How you can serve?

A state of mind that is thinking service, “Seva” an opportunity that I do something with what so ever not expecting any reciprocation in return. There is no motive. Every moment a human being can gift to himself where there are motiveless moments.

You’re making a great contribution to your own evolution in the process. I really think we will experience a paradise on earth if selflessness in a man is much more dominant in him than selfishness in man. I really think we will experience heaven on earth if somewhere a portion of us is all the time having a spirit of service to whom can I add value? Whom can I serve? What can I give? Whose life can I enhance.

The thought is not what is in it for me but the thought is, what can I do? And it’s my firm conviction, any work done with selfless intent you are doing “God’s” work. Any work you’re doing with selfless intent, you’re doing “God’s” work. Could just be in living in a tropical country like ours, ensuring a pot of water is kept outside our house for any passerby to quench his thirst and go, that we won’t be able to do it? So, many little things can be done to the world selflessly and it will mean so much to the world.

I’m not only telling you doing any selfless work is doing God’s work, but I’m also telling you this, the more and more you do God’s work, you will experientially see, more and more God starts doing your work. Please, live selflessly. Please, parent children to live their life selflessly. Let’s build a new world.

Loving you so much. Thank you.

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Why do we waste time?

"There are no lazy people in the world, there are only people with impotent goals!"

This is the voice of Mahatria.  Welcome to discover a new you.  Wishing you most and more…

Question:  Supriya, from Illinois is asking me this question.  How should I stop wasting time even when I know perfectly well that it is not the right thing to do?

Supriya if somebody else is taking a knife and chasing you I can come in between and save you. If you are taking a knife and running to stab yourself how am I supposed to come and save you?

When you say that you know it’s not the right thing to do, and I know you’re an intelligent kid. So, you know that the potential you have is not going to take you anywhere if you keep wasting time.

In fact, this is such a stupid expression a lot of people use, they say, killing time. You cannot kill time, time kills you. But I will tell you why we waste time. We are not holding a goal, an ideal in front of us, which we are too passionate about.

There are no lazy people in the world, there are only people with impotent goals and the impotency of their goal does not make them look forward to life.  When you hold a goal in front of you which you are excited about, think about it, those of you find it difficult to wake up in the morning, for all the reasons that you can give when your loved one is coming by an early morning flight and you have to go to airport to receive, do you have a problem in getting up? In fact, without the wakeup call, you wake up five time, why you have something to look forward to?

When you played a game when you played a sport that you are passionate about, did you ever go through this experience where you felt that you are not able to give your full energy to it, you are not able to do it with full intensity, did you ever go through that experience, Never, Why? because you have something to look forward to.  So identify yourself with a goal that’s truly challenging.  It can be physical, it can be academic.

It can be professional, it can be spiritual, it can be social.  Identify yourself towards an objective larger than yourself and get passionate about it, get excited about it.  Decide to give everything you’ve got.

You heard about the story, I know it’s a slight detour, but it’s linked to what I’m attempting to answer here.  It seems the man was walking in the desert and with what little bottle of water that he had, he knew he was left with just a few ounces, he came across a hand pump and somewhere when he tried to use the hand pump to get enough water to fill the bottle to tread the remaining distance as usual air was coming, water was not coming and just then he saw a board written there by somebody kept on the hand pump pour all the water you’ve got into the hand pump and pump rigorously you will have enough water to fill your bottle, the man who was in a dilemma, he had a big mission to make does he preserve those few ounces of water that he has that can carry him through the remaining distance or risk it so that he can get a full bottle of water.

He knew that whatever he had was not enough for him to survive the remaining distance in the desert so he decided to risk so he poured whatever he had, in fact he poured all that he had into that pump and started pumping it rigorously and there the fountain of water gushed, he fills the entire bottle, took a pen and wrote under that board the above advice really works, it has worked for me and he kept walking.

This entire episode demonstrate a moral of life and that is if you want everything from life you have to give everything you have got to life, I repeat if you want everything from life you have to give everything you have got to life, you the resource, human potential, the time, the resources, your life.

The passion with which you pursue, your goals, your objectives of the future, you got to give everything you have got to life and in reciprocation that you gave everything you’ve got to life, life will reciprocate by giving you everything in return.

In that sense, identify yourself with a goal, an objective something beyond you.  I remember one of the times you sharing with me that you wanted to pursue your MBA and if you really want to be that, you have to give everything you’ve got, your parents, your loved ones, your teachers.

In fact, Sunday after Sunday and for you Saturday evening at Illinois I have given myself to you.  Everybody’s invested so much of their time and their life on your growth and your development then how can you even think you can waste your own life which can contribute so much to your own development and the development of everybody else.  Think, they could have done a lot of things in life what we call is wasting time.

I could have played a game of golf every Sunday morning.  I could have stayed with my family every Sunday morning.

Your mother could have pursued her career goals and aspirations, your teachers could have probably taken lucrative, information technology career instead of continuing to be schoolteachers, but all the people executed the choices to put their time and life to count in the growth and development of you and everybody else who came in contact with them and the only way we can reciprocate all of them is to become something worthy in life, something substantial in life and you can only do it with this resource called time so identify yourself with something larger than yourself, resolve that you’re going to give everything of yourself to it and never again even think about wasting time, it’s possible.  Most and more times have begin.  Thank you.

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Why is there a craving for recognition?

Question: Why is there this craving in people to be recognised for everything they do?

Human nature has always been human nature.  Most of our relationship-based troubles aren’t because of human nature, but because of our ignorance in expecting human nature to be other than what it is.  If we are willing to accept others as they are, and if we are willing to change our approach towards others, then there can be no relationship-based disturbances.  Unfortunately, we expect others to accept us as we are, and we expect them to change their approach towards us.  In the latter, you are at the mercy of the world.  In the former, you are in control.  When you have a choice, why settle for a consequence?

One such quality in human nature is the “Because of me only…” craving.

Without the goal scorers, the match would not have been won.  Without the goalie saving some of the kicks, the match would not have been won.  Without the strength of your defence, without the weakness in the opponent’s defence, without the referee’s efficiency, without the linesman’s fairness, without that coach in the background, without the crowd’s cheering, and many more intangible factors to add to this list – the match would not have been won.

For a phenomenon like Mahatma Gandhi to happen in bone and flesh, was it because of his mother’s parenting, or was it that incident in South Africa, was it his principles of Satyagraha and Ahimsa, was it his spiritual alignment, was it a divine providence, was it the contexts the British provided for the transformation of Mohandas Karamchand into a Mahatma – which one factor can you isolate?

Too many factors, tangible and intangible, play a part in the making of anyone or anything.  Everything has to be in sync to cause success and even if one factor is not in sync, it can cause the failure.  Yet, when success happens, everybody wants a share of credit, and there goes, “Because of me only…”

Like all relationship-based issues,

the solution is two-fold;

one, an approach for yourself and

two, an approach for the others.

When it comes to you, give up and transcend this “Because of me only…” craving and you will cease to be an emotional beggar.  The joy of giving is in giving.

Find a way to be useful in everything and with everybody and leave it at that.

Being useful is a purpose in itself.

Even with your children, with your organisation, with anything and everything… give up and transcend the “Because of me only…” craving.  There is true emotional freedom in it.

Of course, when it comes to others, never ever miss an opportunity to tell them, “Because of you only…” and say it with all your heart.  It gladdens the hearts of others so much, the sheer joy and fulfilment it brings to others is worth saying a million times, “Because of you only…”

The greatness is in the painting, and not in the painter’s signature.

That’s the secret to maintain good relationships.

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How to overcome this present ‘Corona scenario’ in a matured way?

"If God ever has to help anyone in the world, He can only help through another human being."

How to deal with the present ‘Corona scenario’ in a matured way?

Neither the business scenario, nor the health scenario…

Nor the governance of government, or this live webcast, we don’t have a perfect scenario right now in the world.

We can see a blessing even under these circumstances, in all the aspects and all the dimensions of life, or we can find a reason to complain.

And keep complaining, keep cribbing all the time about everything.

Generations to come in history it will be written that you and me were a generation that passed through a time, where the world experienced a transition where, from the most powerful man in the world to the most enlightened soul in the world, to the poorest of the poor, to the most immature, to the animals…

Everybody had to go through a transition where nothing is perfect, this scenario is unprecedented. Everybody can blame everybody now.

Blaming comes when you feel you are not in control. Whether it is the president of a country or a prime minister of a nation or an individual, the moment you feel you are not in control of the situation, we search for what and whom we can blame.

So we can do that.

We can blame China for the virus. We can blame the government for not dealing with this properly. We can blame certain events that happened in the country for whatever has happened. We can criticize, we can do whatever it is.

Even the medical fraternity considered corona warriors, so much criticism, there is so much about hospitals making money… In a world of social media where everybody judges everybody, whether you’re an atheist or a theist, to all theists, let me say this.

If God ever has to help anyone in the world, he can only help through another human being.

Human beings are instruments of God, divine instruments of God. Divinity touches human life only through a chosen instrument, and the chosen instrument here is people!

God, through teachers teaches you, God, through doctors saves your life, God, through enterprising people provides you with a job and God, through a teacher explains life to you.

Every time anybody in any form has reached out to you, they are divine instruments, no question about it.

Without God, we cannot. Without us, God will not. God plus a human being, miraculous combination.

We can keep blaming.

We can show such cynicism, sarcasm, negativity, pessimism.

But this is not matured living. I received an email yesterday. It goes like this.

“Because Mughals have ruled us for two hundred and fifty years and British have ruled us for hundred and fifty years, Indians are not naturally entrepreneurs.”

So here I am working for an Indian entrepreneur who has now come and told me, due to COVID situation, you have to take a salary cut. Am regretting that I am working for an Indian entrepreneur.

Employees are struggling, so are entrepreneurs! At least employees are struggling, there is an entrepreneur to take care. Entrepreneurs are struggling, there is no government to take care.

So if inflows do not happen, and the economic scenario world over is very bad, very bad… Entrepreneurs will have to make the decision. In fact, trust me, the scenario for a lot of entrepreneurs if they simply close down the business with immediate effect…

They will not become poorer.

A lot of entrepreneurs are still holding on to their business, knowing very well it’s not going to be a profitable scenario, it’s not going to help them.

But there are hundreds of thousands of employees and their families which are dependent on the organization.

These are the people who have stood by me in our growth phase. So now let me stand by them.

And if they decide not to close down the business, scenario two!

They have to let go of a few employees and at least reduce the cash outflows so that it’s manageable.

Because unless the economy revives itself, we are only talking in terms of slow death. In how much time will they die is the only question.

So in case they have to drag this longer, they have to take measures to cut down the cash outflows.

And probably the only way to do that is maybe lay off some employees. Scenario three, don’t lay off employees, they might have to cut salaries. It’s like how a diabetes doctor at some stage decides that he has to amputate a finger or a portion of the leg to protect the rest of the body.

We might have to divide this entire sacrifice so that at least the organization can be saved. It’s not an ideal scenario.

And maybe scenario four is a combination of both. Some people are laid off, some people take a salary cut, and this should not even need explanation.

Anybody who is in a senior management level, anybody who has been an infinitheist for a long time, will have the basic maturity.

This has nothing to do with Indian! This is a global scenario. Some atheists had, in taking to social media and they were all saying, “Look at the power of the virus.”

“It has closed all the temples.” And one of those evolved, spiritually evolved souls so beautifully replied to this cynicism saying that, “True, virus has stopped people from coming to temple, but it’s also true, so God has turned every home into a temple.”.

We need maturity!

So to conclude, I don’t think we have an ideal scenario. Every time life demands us to make a compromise or a sacrifice, we can react to the situation. The pinch is hard on everybody. As individuals, as entrepreneurs, the pinch is hard on everybody, but I think it’s time for us to show certain maturities.

Maturity one. Just because you are not in control, don’t start blaming.

That’s a very immature response to life. Just because you are not in control, don’t start blaming.

Maturity two. Expecting anything ideal in a non-ideal circumstance is only going to lead you to unwanted emotions.

The scenario is not ideal.

Maturity three.

But this need not become an excuse for you to be the best that you can be, in spite of all these constraints. You can take care of your health. In spite of all these constraints, you can develop your competence and be future-ready.

God cannot reach out to creation without picking up another creation as his divine instrument.

So every time your life has been touched, every time you said my prayers were answered, your life was touched and your prayers were answered through a divine instrument chosen by God and through them only you were touched. And just recognizing this, the way you look, whether it’s teachers or doctors or parents or friends or employees, everything will change in those moments.

Everything will change in those moments.

There’s no time for selfishness right now.

The scenario right now in the world is, even if all of us, to a marginal outlook become unselfish…

On the collective strength, we will sail through this.

But under the circumstances, if all of us stoop down even marginally a little more selfish, all of us will struggle a little more in this phase of life.

Dr. Robert Schuller would say so beautifully. “Unselfishness turns even burdens into life and selfishness turns even life into a burden.”

Collectively, we all need to be a little unselfish, and that’s the only ray of hope.

That’s the only light at the end of the tunnel for all of us.

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Why should we live for today?

"Today is a providential gift!"

Today is a providential gift which either He gives it to you or nobody else can give it to you.

There’s no other way to have it. Money cannot buy a today in your life. A man, who all his life, saved his money, saved his money, saved his money and right now he was having 50 crores of saving with him, decided now I’m going to enjoy my life.

And the day he decided, now I want to enjoy my life and use this 50 crores, somebody was standing in front of him.

He asked, who are you? You have come without my permission and he said my name is death. I only show up to people to whom I have come. He said, this is not fair. When are you planning to take me? He said right now. No, no just now I counted, I have 50 crores with me and only now I’ve decided to enjoy it you cannot come.

Death said, but I don’t come with invitation, I come and invite. You have to come. Man said, see, please if you want you take 25 crores, give me at least one month of life, I’ll enjoy that remaining 25 crores and then come.

Look at the mentality of man. Even on the threshold of death, he is willing to give only 25 crores, not complete 50 crores. So, I’ll give you 25 crores negotiation. Death said, I don’t think you understand how I operate. I don’t negotiate. Your time has come, I have to take.

Man says, I will give you entire 50 crores yaa. Just give me one day in life. Death said, I can’t give you another moment in life. Man pleaded, at least give me one moment in life. Death yielded said, okay, whatever you want to do, do it for one moment.

He ran to his scribbling pad and wrote there in the scribbling pad all of you have money immediately start enjoying it. And then he added a note. I just now realized, even with 50 crores, I could not buy one minute of life with it.

If He doesn’t give it, you don’t have it. Then how should this today be received? With frustration, with negative thoughts, with anger, shouting at people, making an issue for small, small things, should there not be peace in the house in the morning? Should not the fragrance of a morning in the home be one of gratitude?

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Where is God?

"The formless presence is present in all the forms! "

The second-most profound realization that happened in HDB was, After ten chapters, when Arjuna closes his eyes. In the eleventh chapter he experiences the vishwaroop. The revelation in this HDB was, It’s not that Arjuna is saying to Krishna, “I saw all the forms in you.”.

That’s not what he is saying.

As we have a very cinematic expression of the vishwaroop, “I saw all the forms in you.”, that’s exactly not what Arjuna went through. Arjuna is saying, he’s not saying, “Krishna, I’m seeing all the forms in you.”. Arjuna is actually saying, “Whichever form I see, I see you in it.”.

It’s not “All the forms are in you, Krishna.”. His vishwaroop is, “You are there in all the forms!”, which is so scientific. The formless presence is present in all the form!

Kakkai chiraginile Nanda laala, ninthan, kariya niram thondruthayya Nanda laala. Even when I see the black feathers of a crow, Krishna, I am able to see you in it. Somehow I feel a crow is a very localized view. So I feel maybe it’s an optical illusion. So I decide to look around and look at all the greenery which is encompassing. As we would say in Sanskrit, a crow can only be atra (here), tatra (there), anyatra (somewhere). A crow cannot be sarvatra (everywhere).

It cannot be everywhere. So I look at greenery, which is everywhere.

And I realize in all the green that I see, I see only you, Krishna. Parkkum marangalellam, ninthan,Pachai niram thondruthayya , Nanda laala. Then Arjuna says, “I think my eyes are cheating me.”. I’m borrowing the words of Bharathiyar’s Kakkai Siraginile Nandhalaala. He feels, “My eyes are cheating me.”. So he decides to check his ears. Ketkkum oliyellaam, ninthan geetham isaikkuthayya, Nanda Laala. OK, I think now I’ve listened to different sounds, but in all the sounds I hear, I hear only your music Krishna! Can’t be, every sense of mine cannot be betraying me. So let me try touch. Most authentic.

And let me not touch something that is pleasant. Let me touch something that is unpleasant. Let me put my finger through fire.

Theekkul viralai vittal, ninnai theendia inbam thondruthayya, Nanda Lala. Even when I touch something unpleasant, even in that, the pleasant thing is, I still experience only you, Krishna.

So essentially, vishwaroop is not “I saw all the forms in you.”, but vishwaroop is, “Whatever I see, whatever I perceive, in everything I perceive, only you.”.

So if in whatever I am trying to see, in whatever I am able to hear, in whatever I am able to smell, whatever I’m able to taste and whatever I am able to touch, if everything somewhere if I’m able to experience you, then you are omnipresent, which is what vishwaroop is. You are present in every form, Krishna.

So which means, there is no point in me being deluded in seeing the form in front of me. This is one of the manifestations of you, but you are there in everything.

So instead of searching for that one who is all-encompassing and losing your whole life in that search, learn to experience that one in everything that you are able to already perceive.

And then suddenly, you don’t have a father and mother at home. You have the divine as father and mother at home and an opportunity to take care of them. Suddenly, it’s not a husband or a wife, but it is the divine as your spouse, an opportunity for you to love.

Geetha Krishnaraj, in one of her poetry, would say, “God, why did you come as my parents?” and God would reply, “To take care of you and to tell you I love you.”. “God, then why did you come as my children?” “So that you can take care of me and to show you I love you.” “Then why did you come as my teacher?” “To show you, you need me and to tell you I love you.” “Then why did you make me a seeker?” “To show you, I also need you and to show you I love you.”

Suddenly, it’s not the plants, it’s not the trees, it’s not a dog, it’s not a fish, it’s not a father, it’s not a child. Suddenly, you have realized, literally, I will show my love to the Creator by caring for all the creation in all the possible ways, because the Creator is present in every creation. All of a sudden, vishwaroop has a very, very different manifestation to how you see life. Just one paradigm shift from, ‘I saw all in one’ to ‘that one permeates in all’. The reverence with which you begin to live your life from then on is so different. So one, keep growing in maturity materialistically. Preserve your innocence spiritually. Preserve your innocence spiritually to learn to see that one in all and you have a very, very different reverence to life.

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Unspoken messages from the Road

"In the entirety of the universe, there is nobody like you. You're the only one of your kind. You're uniquely different. There's no one like you."

This is the voice of “Mahatria“. Welcome to discover a new you. Wishing you most and more.

While driving on the road it is the lessons that I can learn from the road. For example, I really cherished the L board sign that is given to us when we apply for driving license, learner’s license and it’s taken away from you one month later, because they consider you as a learned person right now.

But I firmly believe that L board from life should never be removed. The day you stop learning, you have stopped growing. Somehow L board when it comes to life should be a permanent reality. I have this firm belief that when you go to learn your driving, the first thing the driving school teaches you is A, B, C – accelerator, brake and clutch. It starts with ABC.

There was a Brazilian coach, every time Brazil loses a football match, the next day morning in coaching he’ll hold a football in his hand and tell the entire team,  this is called football. Now it was his belief that if you have lost a match, it’s not because you failed in some advanced skill, somewhere on the fundamentals of team support, you have missed out on the whole thing.

So, he used to always believe correct people on the fundamentals, the advanced things will take care of itself, so always he’ll start the next day morning coaching by saying this is football.

really believe when they teach us A, B, C they’re telling us, no matter how much you grow in life, if you lose out on the fundamentals of management, fundamentals of team building, fundamentals of leadership, fundamentals of language, fundamentals of health and fitness, you lose big time in life. I really love the number that is given to every car, every vehicle.

In the entire world there is no other vehicle that holds the same number. Which means, there can be billions of vehicles all over the world of all forms and yet your car, your scooter, your bike has a number which is the only one of its kind.

And I think it tells me so are you. In the entirety of the universe, there is nobody like you. You’re the only one of your kind. You’re uniquely different. There’s no one like you. When I drive, there are a lot of people who overtake me and go, not only on the road, in life also it happens.

But somehow I smile and tell myself, just because he’s driving faster than me and he will reach the destination before me doesn’t mean I will not reach. He will reach earlier than me, I will reach a little later but I will also reach.

The question is not will I reach? The question is only, by when will I reach? Sooner or later? I love that road sign stop, look, proceed.

Somewhere in the process of entire growth and development that we go through in life, every now and then you find occasionally the rhythm of life gets disturbed and whenever the rhythm of life is getting disturbed, the best thing that you can do with human awareness is stop.

Look, somewhere something is going wrong. Somewhere something is getting distorted, stop, look, make the corrections and then proceed. Which means, in building an organization, in building a team, there is a growth phase and there is a consolidation phase.

Every now and then we have to keep growing, every now and then we have to keep consolidating.

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Celebrating Motherhood

"When a child grows up, a mother also matures!"

This is the voice of “Mahatria”. Welcome to discover a new you. Wishing you most and more.

When you’re a little one, she was called mother and she was your need dependency, nothing you could do without her. When you were eight, she was still called mother, but now she was a source of security to you. When you were 14 and 15, she was still called mother, but she became your best friend with whom you can fight all the time.

You can argue with her all the time. In fact you fought with her the maximum in that period. When you were 26 you became a mother and in parenting your child you began to understand your mother a lot. In fact, your love for her grew multiple times and you became a mother. You understood her much better right now. Suddenly turned into love.

When she becomes 72 and you are 50, she’s still called mother but she becomes your child. Because now it is the privilege that you get to do everything for her which she used to do for you. That you could do to your mother everything she did to you at one stage.

For some reason, when the game ends and she leaves, there’s a photograph that is hanging her of her, you still refer to her as mother but she’s your “God” right now. How you call her has not changed at all, but what she means through the same name to you change at every stage of life only for those who can renew their perceptions.

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Mahatria Addresses Millennials My Mother is an Over Perfectionist

My mother is an over-perfectionist; sometimes I get irritated, even she is not in the mood to accept.  I am trying to be perfect but I cannot satisfy her. How to handle this?

A lot of children ask this question: my mother irritates me about discipline.  She keeps finding fault with everything.  My father is nagging at me; he does not allow me to play… a lot of children say this.

This problem you go through because you are exposed to only one set of parents; so that appears to be a problem for you.  I really think all children must be sent to neighbour’s house for two to three days and neighbour’s children should come here for two to three days.  After two to three days, you will come and kiss the feet of your mother and call her an angel.

Each one of us has to learn to deal with the imperfections of the other.  It is just part of all loving relationships.  Freedom of expression will be there.  Even if you think you can correct yourself in everything, she will still find something else; don’t tell me you do not criticize her cooking…

When you love someone, you actually keep telling them ‘I am expecting more from you’; it’s a freedom of expression.  This is not complaining, this is not about curtailing your freedom.  A little imperfection is what makes a relationship so beautiful – that is the unpredictability factor.  When you think she will fire, she will not; when you think she will praise you, she will scold…  Such arguments in a family are called normality.  What is normality, it happens in all the homes.

Freedom to disagree and be true to your emotion is called family.

If you think your mother is too nagging, that is her imperfection you need to accept it.   If your mother ever thinks that you are not living up to what she expects out of you, she has to accept this as imperfection.  That is only one part.

The other part is you will have to understand something even more important.  You will have to understand you only expect more from people whom you believe are extremely capable of.  She is expecting more from you because she believes you can, so live up to it.

Then she will be a great inspiration for you and not a source of hurt for you.

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A Mother’s Love is a Special Gift

"Can we mother the mother, independent of whether you are a son or a daughter, or a daughter-in-law, or a grandchild?"

I have always said this so many times in the past. I really wish we didn’t have to have a Mother’s Day to remind us, on the value of a mother. I wish we never have to have a Father’s Day to remind ourselves of what a father does, a Teacher’s Day for us to feel for a teacher.

But in a world where we get so lost, and sometimes we don’t know what is today’s date! So, I’m happy that at least there is something there in the calendar that reminds us of these. I’m not speaking about the glory of a mother,

I think all of you know that. I’m not speaking about who a mother is. I think all of you know this. I have a very different appeal, as I stand here to address all of you. I think culturally, especially in an Indian society, many of the mothers had lived a very sacrificial life.

She probably sacrificed herself for her family she was born into, the family she is married into. Maybe some of her aspirations. If many husbands sitting here are absolutely honest with yourself, you’ll know that your wife is as much, if not more potential than you.

But culturally, you probably found avenues by which you can actualize and maximize your potential a lot more, than your woman is about to… able to do it. Vishal, by virtue of playing a role in building himself into a thousand crore company, can excuse himself of some of his parenting responsibilities.

No matter what role Keerthi plays in building that into a thousand crore company along with Vishal, she cannot still excuse herself of her parenting responsibilities. What her children become will still be her responsibility!

And probably, we’re talking about a time, I know, in my case, with the sort of potential that she has, if my mother was probably born in some culture, in some society, which gave her the opportunities and exposure that were required, she would have been chairman and managing director of a company.

And yet, all I think that woman has done in her entire life is, served her family, served the family she was married into. Served her husband, served her children. Today, serve her grandchildren.

And I’m not even saying that there is any regrets. She has done this with great fulfillment. She has… She probably feels more fulfilled with her life, than probably many people, whatever they would have achieved. That’s not the question.

But the question is, I know the deprivations she has deprived herself of, in the entire process. You know how many of your mothers must be going through this even today, serving the food for all of you? Hot, hot roti. Hot, hot dal rice, kadhi.

And after everybody eats and we go into our own business, what is left over, is probably what she’s eating, and maybe sabzi is not left. And she would not, if not enough sabzi is left for you, she’ll cook for you. But if not enough sabzi is left for her, she is not going to cook for herself.

Maybe she is just going to use pickle and roll in two rotis and finish it off. There is never been any one of us to sit next to mother and find out what she’s eating!

Father has back pain. Mother would press it. Mother has back pain, who in the house has volunteered to press her back for that? She has to probably spray something on her own back and lie down. Because even if you want to do it for her, she will not allow you to do, because she thinks she is born to take care of all of you.

And she feels guilty if anybody else takes care of her. Maybe mother has a desire to go to Kashmir. Maybe she wants to go on a trip to Singapore. It has never happened because father feels it’s a waste of money.

Chances are! There are lot of things that is never part of her life because, dad did not believe it’s worth it. The family did not believe it’s worth it, or she grew up in a culture where, she felt guilty if she did anything for herself. I want all of you to reflect it, I’m not asking you to listen to this as a philosophy.

I want you to feel one with your mother and listen to what I’m saying. Culturally, it did not permit mothers to do something for herself, should feel guilty doing it.

In fact, eve n today, if probably anybody else in the house is sick, you know you’re going to be taken care because mummy is around. It’s scary even to think if mummy lies down what’ll happen to the rest of the family, because we don’t even know where salt is there, or sugar is there, or from where milk is coming, we don’t even know that. My appeal is only this, on Mother’s Day, I don’t want to keep talking about motherhood and glory of motherhood. My appeal is this.

In more than ninety percent of the cases sitting here, probably your mother never had the life that she deserved. Maybe many of her desires never got fulfilled. So much so, that she has learned to suppress, chances are she doesn’t even communicate to you anymore.

You means, to anybody in the world. She doesn’t even communicate what her desires are. Simple thing I’ll tell you, you can reflect. Can your mother sit in front of television and keep watching something, and continue to watch that after you come?

Not possible. Doesn’t matter what she’s watching. Any one of you sitting here, son, daughter, grandson, granddaughter, daughter-in-law, what is your first move when the old lady is watching television when you come? The remote control will shift hands, and you’ll shift to the channel you want to watch.

She can either continue to sit and watch. She has to get up and go. But I don’t think, even that choice for her to watch what she wants, even that choice does not exist.

Think about it. How many times have we gone and asked a mother, that tonight we are going out for dinner. Where do you want to go? It’s always a communication to her. In fact you can tell, “I’m planning to go to Sangeetha.”, and father will say, “No, we are going to Saravana Bhavan.”. But, have you ever asked mom where you want to have dinner today? That’s all, my appeal on Mother’s Day is very simple.

I don’t know how many more years are left. For those of you where the mother is still around. I’m just expecting this one change from you.

You will go out of your way to understand what your mother needs. Which she may not express, but you will find a way to understand. And take care of whatever years that are left in her in fulfilling those dreams of hers. That’s it.

You will just go out of your way. It means, she wants to be taken to a doctor’s place. How many times, in whatever years, let’s say she is there for another twenty years, twenty-five, thirty, whatever let be the age.

How many times you think she’ll go to a doctor’s place? Can you find the time, that instead of a driver taking her to the doctor’s place, it’ll be you who’ll take her to the doctor’s place? Just for that feeling, because she never sent you as a child to the doctor’s place with a servant, she took you personally to the doctor’s place.

Can you do that in return? Can you just make that one phone call which you’ve never failed to make to your friends, in a course of the day, to say hi to them?

Can you just make that one phone call to your mom on a daily basis, and just ask her, ” Mother, did you eat? Have you finished eating? How are you?”. Just one… Can you, before you go to sleep at the end of the day, just give her that quality? I know, there is tremendous demand on your time.

Not the time to remind you. But if I don’t remind you now, I don’t get another time to remind you. People who cry the loudest in the funeral are always those who did not express and demonstrate their love enough when the other one was still alive.

I just do not want any one of you sitting here to be the loudest one to cry in a funeral of a mother. Instead of saying all the things that you would say when she can no more hear, can you say all the things that you must say when she can still hear you? Can you go out of your way? Now, mother says she doesn’t want anything! That’s what she will say.

But it’s not difficult for you to find out. What she has sacrificed. Yes, she’s definitely going to say, “I don’t need.”. In fact, when you buy two sarees to her and give it to her, she’s going to say, “Why you are buying all these things?

I don’t have even time to wear the existing sarees, so why you have to buy?”, she’s going to say, but don’t you know that she is going to wear those two sarees in the times to come, and go and tell at least hundred people, “My son bought it for me, my daughter bought it for me!”? And can we create that fulfillment? Could we do a little things, could we probably sit and tailor-make exclusive songs which your mother will enjoy, and create an iPod out of it, and give it to her so that she can listen to the music that she enjoys listening to? Can we invest the time and effort and do it for her?

Exclusive entertainment for her? Could we probably buy another small television and add it to parents’ bedroom, so that they can watch? So much you’re spending, one more television? And so that let them watch what they want to watch, you keep watching your…

So they do not have to continue to sacrifice even at this age? Maybe she doesn’t get excited about you talking about Singapore and Switzerland and European holiday, but probably is it going to be difficult for you to arrange for an exclusive cab and taking her to Tirupati, which she wants to go and bring her back, or to Nagoor and bring her back?

A pilgrimage trip, which probably will mean a lot to her. Do what you have to do. Arrange what you have to arrange. Maybe she wants to just go and trek up to that Vaishnava… No, at her age, she can’t trek! Let’s get two people to carry her up. Give her that experience and bring her.

And for her, probably that will be Jannat. That will be her salvation. That’ll be her fulfillment. I’m just indicating a direction to you. Probably, she is one woman, who has cried more for you than anybody else has cried, for the wrong reasons.

Can we ensure she no more cries because of us? Can we bring respect in the tone? I know you have great freedom when you speak to your mother. If in that one relationship, you can’t take that freedom, where will you take? But can we bring that respect and affection and the tone of our voice in the way we speak to the mother? In a single sentence, whatever years that are left, can we take care of her, like you take care of an angel? Can we listen to her once, before she goes? I don’t remember all the ways I have cared for you all these years, but I do remember all the ways you cared for me.

In these years. Can we start parenting our mother, rather than just remaining a child? Can we mother the mother, independent of whether you are a son or a daughter, or a daughter-in-law, or a grandchild? Can we mother the mother? I think your way of celebrating your Mother’s Day, will be to ensure that you recognize that lady has not got the life she probably deserved, and you’re going to do everything in your capacity in the days ahead of you, in gifting her a life that she truly deserves.

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How to make your child self-accountable?

"As adults we are not able to completely live up to our own expectations, then how can we expect children to live up to our expectations of them."

In fact, we are working with these eleven-year-olds and fourteen-year-olds.

And because we understand, a lot of us have been groomed to adult age, even without being aware that we need to groom this power of awareness.

So we just give them a self-awareness chart. For the very first class they are taught they are just given a self-awareness chart, which is nothing but multiple squares every day. And the assignment is very simple to them. Just stick it on the wall and whenever you think you have been right in a situation, give yourself a tick mark. Whenever you think you have been wrong, just give yourself a cross mark. Let tick marks start from the top of the chart. Let cross marks begin from the bottom of the chart. And the challenge for every day, the child is told, “First of all, by giving the child the freedom to cross himself when he is wrong, I think you’re making a very profound statement to the child.”. We are not expecting human beings to be perfect.

There is an allowance for imperfection. You are human and there is an allowance to imperfection. There’s no point in selling certain ideals to people which they will not be able to live by, and you will throw them on a guilt trip for the rest of their life! When it’s a honest adult reality, as adults, we are not able to live up completely to our own expectation, expecting those little ones to always live up to our expectations is just running our adult trip on them. So we are giving them the allowance. We are not expecting you to be perfect. There will be imperfections. So whenever you catch yourself wrong, give yourself an into-mark right at the bottom. Whenever you catch yourself right, give yourself a tick mark and your challenge every day is, you have to ensure the number of tick marks are greater than the number of into-marks. Which means every day ensure you do more right than wrong. And the day you get yourself right, everywhere on the chart, please come and share it with us. We want to tell you how proud we are about you.

And the striving that child goes through and it’s so beautiful.

I got up from the bed and went and suddenly remembered I have not folded my bed sheet.

I know what so many of you are thinking, can adults also be given this chart? If you look into the content of eleven and fourteen-year-olds, I wish we can put all of you through that program first.

Very simple effort! And children have not yet learned to lie, at least to themselves. They can lie to you, a very innocent child, but they have not yet learned to lie to themselves. And this… And what are we doing? Doing nothing. There is no adult monitoring, nothing there. They have to just keep ticking themselves.

And they have to just… Building the power of awareness within them.

That’s all.

Now, it’s so complicated, this whole system of diet that we have created is one of the most complicated thing because, you don’t know whom to trust!

Because today you read an article that says you should eat potato. And tomorrow, you get another author writing to you saying that you should not eat potato and it’s not good. And then next day somebody says, ghee is very good because it goes and fuels the fire within you and as a result, your entire digestive process is better. And then day after tomorrow, somebody says that ghee should not be used.

It’s so confusing. So what do we do with children? When we cannot trust the dieticians, we trust God. Now, somehow in the scheme of creation itself, God has created us in such a way, everything has been so beautifully designed. One, in the Creation itself, everything that has been created has been so beautifully categorized into multiple colors. And red can-do certain things to your body, yellow can-do certain things to your body. Purple can do certain things to your body. So the design has already been done where, those various colors have already been incorporated. Also, the design of the Creator has been so immaculate, like if you see walnut, the shape of the walnut is the shape of your brain.

And walnut is good for brain. The almonds have been designed in such a way and almonds is good for the eyes. It’s been designed. If you see papaya, I don’t feel like saying, papaya is the shape of stomach, because very few stomachs is still in the shape of papaya. For most of us, it has taken the jackfruit size. But originally, when he planned, he did not expect this. Papaya is good. Grapes, good for the lungs. And that is how in the design itself, if you can look at how it is kept in nature, that directly relates to an organ in the body.

But the design has been done like this, so we give them a simple chart. Colour your diet. Today, you should have had something in red and tick, and it should not be Gems. M&M, Skittles, that is not allowed. Mentos… It has to be God-created.

And give a tick mark.

Today, you had something in yellow, give a tick mark. Ensure that today, you’ve had all the colors and all the nutrients that are required in a very balanced diet, already gone. Just awareness. And the idea is to groom these children in such a way that they realize, they can lift themselves by themselves through the strength of their own awareness. Yes, knowledge is required, yes, teachers are required, yes, reflections are required. Yes, we have to discuss the philosophies of life. But all this has any relevance to you, they are going to become living realities in you only through your awareness. Otherwise, they’ll just enhance your memory. You will become another scholar who understands Bhagavad Gita, but you will not be living by it. You will just become another very intelligent person who can quote philosophies.

Basically, you will be one of those who cannot walk your talk, but you will give a talk and take a walk. And that’s how you live your life.

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There is no excuse for mediocrity

"You show your respect to the manufacturer, by using the product properly. You show your respect to your creator, by manifesting your potential to the best of the possibilities, in the way you live your life!"

One human life well-lived, can become a turning point to the world. An ordinary barrister, to mid-forties of his life, awakened to the potential within him, became a turning point to the world. An ordinary school teacher awakened to the potential within her. In three decades’, time, became a phenomenon in the world. Garage startups have become presidents, garage startups have become world-class brands… A Colonel Sanders was able to start a KFC only at the age of sixty-five, and still build a multi-billion-dollar food chain across the world. Take industries, take politics, take spirituality, take social revolutions…

Time and again, people have demonstrated to us, once you’re awakened to the potential within you, even two to three decades of living your life, in that awakened state of consciousness, actualizing and maximizing your potential continuously – One human life is enough, to be a turning point to the entire world. And somewhere here, the power of belief is, for one of you to believe, “I think he’s talking about me.”. You missed the entire program if you’re sitting here thinking, “Yeah yeah, that are such great people.”. And I’m telling you, and there is a reason in citing this.

It can be you. Your past is not equivalent to the future. What your grandfather has achieved, what your grandmother has achieved, and everything is insignificant to what you can achieve in the life that is left, for you. What you have done with your entire past is insignificant to what you can do with the rest of your life. Your past is not equivalent to the future. Till the age of thirty, Jesus Christ lived his life as just a carpenter’s son. He was not even aware that he can be an awakening in the world. Jesus Christ delivered his first-ever sermon only when he was thirty. If you are not at thirty, there are still possibilities.

Prophet Muhammad heard the call of Allah, only when he was forty. And till forty, he was just another citizen, and once awakened to the spiritual potential within, the possibilities were limitless. He was sacked from the very organization he founded, Steve Jobs. Because they did not see that, a series of his products had failed. And yet he came back and gave the world a technology the world has never experienced. Every product of his became the benchmark of technology to the rest of the world. Abraham Lincoln did not test his first major success till he was fifty-two.

A lot of people in the world have bloomed very late in their life. A lot of people were awakened to the potential within them, in their thirties and forties and fifties and sixties, and still created world-defining phenomena in life. That’s the power of belief. It’s not about the talk. Something within you should beat. I’m not here to be a statistical entity. I’m not just here to be another one in the world population. Whether it’s a Saina Nehwal, or it is a P.V Sindhu, from very humble beginnings, or a Deepa…

And these are all people who have shown that you can come from modest beginnings, small middle-class families, smaller towns, and still do something, where the world can take notice of you. Name the field, and I’ll give you an inspiration. And the power of belief is not about the talk. It’s not about all the points I discuss. Something within you should know that, you’re not here to be a caterpillar, you’re here to be a butterfly. Something within you should, there must be this positive restlessness within you, that you are not comfortable in your comfort zone.

You’re not settled down into a satisfied stagnation in your life. Something within you is still feeling, life is incomplete, something within you is still breathing that aspiration within you, that the best period of my life is ahead of me, and it’s not behind me. Something within you is still telling you that, I don’t belong to the crowd, I can be the one above the crowd. Not for egoistic reasons, not for arrogant reasons, not to prove anything to the world, but to do justice to the potential that is inside you.

You show your respect to the manufacturer, by using the product properly. You show your respect to the creator, by ensuring the creation manifests its potential to the best of the possibilities in the way you live your life and something within you! And the beauty of every human life is, when a common man achieves uncommon results in life. When somebody is able to show this transformation of what can be done in ten years’ time, twenty years’ time, thirty years’ time… You inspire the next generation to see what is possible. Inspiration for children should not come from history books.

Inspiration for the next generation of children should come because, they know an aunt in their family who has achieved this. They know that their elder brother has achieved it. They should know that their uncle has achieved this. They know somebody, a very close relative of theirs who has achieved this. We need neighborhood inspiration, and you are that neighborhood inspiration. Something within you should wake up.