He says in a manner which is more contextually relevant. He is always our inspiration. It's definitely honour for us. I am so happy that he is coming to our college. I said Namaskaram. I thought you are already not in talking terms with me. I haven't said a word yet. Well, why this youth and truth, how this came about is, in the last thirty-seven years that I've been active with people, one constant refrain has been that people, thousands of people asking the same question. Sadhguru, when I was twenty, where were you? You came when I'm sixty. If you had come when I was twenty, I would have done so many things, things like this. So we thought we will step out and meet all those people who are below twenty-five years of age. Because what we call as life is essentially a combination of a certain amount of time and a certain amount of energy. Time is rolling away for all of us at the same pace.  Time is rolling away at the same pace for all of us. Time rolling away essentially means our life is rolling away. We can't help that. We can't stop it. You can't say, yesterday I did not do anything worthwhile, so I'm going to roll it back. There is no such thing. But we can manage the energy. So when we say youth, youth is that part of life where your energies are at their peak. Most exhibit. Most youth do not understand this. They think this is going to be like that always. It's not going to be like that always. It's just this segment of life where your energies are at their best. When energies are at their best, people are confused to the core. Generally, I'm saying, not you. If only a little more clarity and balance can be brought to this exuberant sense of life energy, which youth carry, I thought many things could happen. One of the most important things is, say every human being has a certain genius, not just in an art school, everywhere. But in my opinion, tell me if I'm wrong. Maybe in art school the percentage is maybe different. I'm talking about the whole population if you take. Not even one percent of the human beings find an inner situation and an external ambience where their genius will blossom, not even one percent. That's a poor humanity. If we could only in this generation raise it to ten percent, let's say we would have a phenomenal world because societies and nations have happened either as a phenomenal happening or a mediocre happening, depending upon how many people unfolded their genius at a certain time in that particular society. Without human intelligence finding a certain expression, whether it's business of politics or art or music, spirituality, none of them will really rise and flourish. So the most important thing about this is, when energies are at their peak, how much balance do we find within ourselves, how much clarity do we have? Clarity essentially means or lack of clarity essentially means that our own thoughts and emotions have become an impediment in our lives. For most human beings, this is the reality. At the age of fifty, sixty, they've still not figured out how to handle their thought. When are they going to figure it? I don't know. Suppose you bought a phone, after three years you still don't know how to use it. Are you a nutcase or no, I'm asking. Hello? You don't want to use it, that's a different thing. You want to use it but you do not know which is front side, which is back side of the phone yet tragedy or no. This is the case with most human beings because of all the technology that you find, I see some third eyes rising. I know they are either these days Chinese eyes or Samsung eyes or some of them are Americans. I mean the phones are rising. Among all the pieces of technology that we have produced in this world, among all the gadgets that we have made, phones, computers, supercomputers, don't you find, do you agree with me that this is the most sophisticated machine on the planet? Hello? Have you read the user's manual? So somehow by accident handling it, if you handle by accident, anxiety is natural, isn't it? If you're doing something accidentally, let's say you're driving accidentally, isn't anxiety natural? And when you're driving accidentally, suppose the car starts going very fast, isn't fear natural? It started going very fast. Isn't terror natural? The problem is not the car, the problem is not the speed, the problem is you're driving it accidentally. If you knew how to drive it, faster it goes, the better it is. Why is that not true with this one? If you know how to handle this, more things happen out of this, more exciting it should be, isn't it? If two things happen in people's mind, they go crazy. The world is being taught today, all over the United States is popular for this right now. I think it's also reached Mumbai, after all you're on the west coast. I'm sure it's reached here also, everybody's going about telling you be in the moment. Huh? They're telling you? You're trying? So what does be in the moment mean? Well, please be somewhere else and show me. Can you? Can you be somewhere else right now? No. So what is the teaching about be in the moment? What they're telling you is do not think about yesterday, do not think about tomorrow. It took millions of years of tremendous amount of evolutionary work to get your brains to this level of capability. Yes? And now somebody's telling you don't use it. The beauty of this mind, the beauty of your intelligence is you can remember every experience of life vividly. Otherwise, if you artists have amnesia, they don't remember a thing. They can't produce a thing, isn't it? Hello? The visual memory, isn't it vital? We can remember things vividly, every experience, every sight, every sound, everything that came to us through the five senses. And we have a fantastic sense of imagination. This, these are the two most fantastic faculties of being human, isn't it? Now they're telling you, do not think about the past, do not think about the future, be in the moment. Any way you're in the moment, you cannot go anywhere. Can you? Try please. Can you go somewhere else? No. So they're telling you your memory and imagination, you must freeze it. The entire human experience is between these three dimensions. We have a vivid sense of memory, memory not just what you remember. What you call as my body is just a repository of memory. There's evolutionary memory, there's genetic memory, there is karmic memory, articulate and inarticulate forms of memory. Entire human experience and human form is because of memory, isn't it so?  Hello? Because this one remembers, there's evolutionary memory in this, you do what you want. This remembers, this has to take only this form, isn't it? And this remembers million years ago how your forefathers were, has it forgotten? No. No. So this is memory, they're telling you, do not be conscious about that. And they're telling you, do not imagine a tomorrow. Why they're telling you this is, a whole lot of people do not know how to handle their memory and imagination. That's what they suffer most. What happened ten years ago, they still suffer. What may happen day after tomorrow, they already suffer. They're not suffering life. They're essentially suffering their memory and their imagination. What they should be enjoying most, they're suffering. So somebody is saying, just be in the moment, do not remember, do not imagine. For this there is a simpler solution, if we remove half your brain, you will be just in the moment. Yes, you will be really being in the moment. The nature of human mind is, you can be here absolutely involved and still think of two dozen things. Yes or no? Possible or no? Because they have not read the user's manual, they're trying to operate the phone from the back cover. They think there is something wrong with this one. No, on this planet, this is a peak of evolution, isn't it? Hello? Some of you don't seem to agree. No, I'm not referring to you individually, I'm asking generally. Human beings are supposed to be the peak of evolution on this planet, isn't it so? So we have the greatest neurological system, we have a brain which is flowered into cerebral possibilities, but now we are suffering that one thing so much. Recently, about four or five months ago, you might have heard about this, it was all on the news, a television anchor from Hyderabad, anybody? Telecom people? A television anchor from Hyderabad, 34-year-old woman, a young woman jumped off the fifth floor and killed herself and she left a note saying, nobody's responsible for my death, my brain is my enemy. The only reason we are a dominant life on this planet is simply because you got some brains, isn't it? Otherwise, you are not comparable to any other animal in their capabilities. You're not as strong as an elephant, not as fierce as a tiger, as capable as a buffalo either. Yes, they're all eco-friendly on top of it. The only reason why your value believes because of your intelligence, isn't it? But that is the biggest problem. The only thing human beings are suffering is their own intelligence. Yes or no? If you're alone and you suffer, obviously you're in bad company. No? Yes or no? I am with you and I suffer. I can say it's because of her, I'm suffering. But I'm alone and I am suffering, bad company or no? So we thought as a part of this youth and truth, we will reach out to the youth and bring as much clarity as possible.  Please. Hello sir, my question to you is… I have not gotten any knighthood or anything yet. I believe that art is anything that expresses who we are as individuals. What are your views on that and how can one make the most of one's talent? See, please, I'm not an artist and if I say something abrasive, please pardon me. Okay? There are two ways to do any art, music, art, whatever expressions we make, even spiritual process or business or politics or anything that we do in the world, there are two ways to do it. One is it is a stamp that we leave on the world. It's a footprint that we leave on the world. This… I was here. Another is find expression, not to myself, but to a larger life that's happening here which is bigger than me, much bigger than me or you. Give an expression to that. Those who are intent on leaving a footprint, they shall never fly. So it's your choice whether you want to leave a footprint or you want to fly, that which flies leaves no trace of anything but it flies. It's very different. So if it's an expression of your individuality, you will leave a footprint. But if you become a conduit for something bigger, a phenomena that's happening here, then you leave no footprint but you don't have to leave a footprint because you fly and it'll always be celebrated. At this rate you're going to crush everybody, it's better to pass it. Namaskaram Sadhguru. My question is, as you have said for many times Shiva has explored all the dimensions… Shiva has explored all the dimensions of life, everything he has explored. In this age, when the energy is at its peak, how can we explore every aspect of the life without being untouched and getting attached to all the compulsive activities? We say I don't want to drink but somewhere we are afraid that we will be addicted to it. My question is, how can we explore every aspect of life without being untouched? See, nobody says I want to drink. Some people drink. Some people don't. Some people who drink may drink for the pleasure of it. Some people who drink may drink because they want to drown something within themselves. Some people drink because everybody is drinking, it's an evolutionary… it's an evolutionary issue, you know. When we were monkeys, if one did this, everybody did this. And some people don't drink because they think it's morally wrong. Some people don't drink because they're afraid their parents in society what they will say. Some people don't drink because they found something better within themselves. They found something far better within than a drink. So it never arose in their mind that they have to drink because they're doing wonderfully by themselves. They don't need any chemical help from outside. So these are different ways. If you want to explore life because you can only explore life, you cannot explore art, you cannot explore spirituality, you cannot explore something, you can only explore life. Yes? Yes. Well, you may look at it from a certain perspective. Somebody may look at it in an artistic way, in an etheric way, in a musical way, in a spiritual way, but essentially we're exploring life. Even if you are looking at inanimate things, you're only exploring life because nothing happens outside of you. Everything that happens happens only within you, isn't it? Do you see me right now even if you're not hearing? Even if you're not listening, are you able to see me? Can you use your one hand and point out where I am? You got it wrong. This light is falling upon me, reflecting, going through your lenses, inverted image in the retina. You know the whole thing? You know the whole story, right? Where do you see me now? Within yourself. Where do you hear me right now? Within yourself. Where have you seen the whole world? Within yourself.  Did you ever experience anything outside of you? Did you?  You may think this is color. You may think this is sound. You may think this is something else. No. In your experience, you're only experiencing the way different things imprint upon your life. That's the only way you can experience it. There is no other means of experience for you. So essentially you're only exploring life because nothing else you have access to. Yes? Right now I'm… I think I'm looking at this person. But no, I am only looking at the image that happens in my mind, isn't it so?  You only experience the sensations in your hand, isn't it so? So your entire experience of life is absolutely within you. That means you are capable of experiencing only this one life. So is it a trap that you can only experience this? No. If you experience this, then everything becomes a possibility because see when it comes to body, we clearly know this is my body, that's your body, hundred percent. This is my mind, that's your mind, one hundred percent, isn't it?  This is a living cosmos. You just captured a little bit of it.  So whether you call it art, whether you call it music, whether you call it spiritual process or whatever the nature of activity, activity is a means to open up your borders of individuality. Well, that first question, is it a way of stamping my individuality? No. It is a way of erasing the boundaries of your individuality so that something larger than yourself happens to you. Something larger than what you think as myself happens to you in your life. This is the purpose of love, this is the purpose of art, this is the purpose of sexuality, this is the purpose of spiritual process. Essentially, that something larger than myself must happen to me because only if this happens I feel trapped inside this. Yes or no? You interpret this in many different ways, but essentially what you're looking for is you want to somehow go beyond the limitations of your own boundaries. The word yoga, you've heard of the word yoga? Hello? The word yoga means people think twisting and turning is not yoga. The word yoga means union. Union means if you sit here there is you and the universe. If you sit here tightly fixed with your boundaries, it is you versus the universe.  Hello?  If you have any sense, you don't compete with the universe because you're a small speck in this universe. How do you compete? This is what individuality means. Individuality means you are head on with the universe. Yoga means you obliterate in the boundaries of your individuality. The distinction between what is you and what is the universe has gone down considerably. If you sit here, what is you and what is everything else is about the same in your experience. If this happens to you, then you will see there is no such thing as my life and your life. There is just one big life happening. This experience is needed. A tremendous experience is needed within you if you want to create something fantastic. If you want to create something brilliant, something unique, something truly of some significance, you need an experience. But this is not... If you find me too prejudiced, please tell me. I will tell you why I am prejudiced. The influence of European art on the rest of the world is disproportionately large. There is no joy in the art. The more miserabilities, the more profound it is supposed to be. It should look grotesque and... because this became a European trait that in their own thought, they... they thought their thought is so supreme. They went to the point of saying, I think so, I exist. I want to ask you a simple question. Is it because you think you exist or because you exist, you may think? Which way is it, please? Huh? Because you exist, you may think.  No, life is an ongoing process. Thought should happen consciously, isn't it? Now I'm here, I exist. Now my hand moves when I want.  Right now this is the state of most minds.  It's not normal. But Sadhguru, everybody is like this only. Well, that's how it is in asylum. Everybody will be like that only. Only the doctor will be crazy. Rest will be like that only, isn't it? So it's important that there is an experience of exuberance, joy, profoundness. But right now in the world a whole lot of people think only in misery you can be profound. Because it is true that for most people their pain is the most profound experience of their life. To know profoundness of joy, to know profoundness of love, to know profoundness of exuberance and intensity of life, it takes something more. But if we just stick a pin into you, just a pin, not a sword, just a pin, the pain goes to the core, isn't it? Hello? Just a little pin, one inch pin if I stick it, so deep. So pain becomes profound much more easily. So a lot of people think pain is the source of profoundness. This has to change. Indian art and the rest of the world must get liberated from the European art forms, because it comes from deep states of misery, very deep states of misery. Suffering has been celebrated. There is nothing celebratory about suffering. Maybe you can celebrate somebody else's suffering. There is nothing celebratory about your own suffering, isn't it? Please. So how Shiva... You still with him only? How Shiva explored his life, the different dimensions I wanted to ask that also. That's what I said just now without mentioning his name. But what you're referring to as Shiva means, Shiva means that which is not. That means he is not. He is not means what he is in a state of abandon. An artist should know a state of abandon as nothing phenomenal will ever come out of you. If you're doing it self-consciously, if I paint this, how much money will I get? Then you must be a street side caricature artist. If you want to produce something fantastic, what you consider as myself should go, at least for moments. If not continuously, at least for moments it must go. Shiva means that's what it means. He is not. He is simply not. He is in a state of exuberance. When he is still, he is not. Otherwise when he gets into movement, he gets into the most intense dance form. So then also he is not. He doesn't know the in between. He is on this peak or in this peak. He doesn't rest in between. So that's why exuberance and abandon is more important than control. Karam Sadhguru, my question is, what are we supposed to do when we are angry and how to deal with deep-rooted anger? It depends. Who is the victim?  Yes or no? So who is your victim right now? Accordingly you should do. But now you're asking this question as if anger is a natural part of you. Are you angry right now? What's your name? Rohini, are you angry right now? No. Then why are you bothered about anger? Once in a way you get angry. Yes? You get angry. Anger doesn't happen to you. You get angry. You like it? You don't like? Then why do you do it? See, around us so many people will do so many things that we don't like. Yes or no? So many things in Mumbai happening, things that we don't like are every day happening. But at least within you, only what you want should happen within this, isn't it? Huh? Within this person, only what I want must happen here. I cannot decide that only what I want should happen with you. But I can definitely decide only what I want must happen within me, isn't it? If you could decide only what you want should happen within you, would you choose anger or joy? What's your choice? Please choose. I'm going to bless you. You want the highest level of pleasantness for yourself, isn't it? Then why is such a thing not happening? As I said earlier, you never read the user's manual. How this function says, not been looked at. Do not go by the example of people who came here a few years earlier than you. That no, no, my mother also was like that, my grandmother also was getting angry, so I am also getting angry. They should not be the leading lights of your life. I want you to look at it.  Huh? If somebody else can decide what should happen within you, this is ultimate slavery, isn't it so? Huh? This is the worst form of slavery. I can decide what happens within you. This is not right.  If you decide, you would keep this in the highest state of pleasantness for sure, you wouldn't be battling with anger. It's not just about anger, fear, stress, tension, don't address them separately. Essentially, your mind is not taking instructions from you. Why?  We gave you a super computer, you do not know where the keyboard is. So one day you did this, something worked, another day you did this, something worked. You know, have you seen people? The radio doesn't work boom and it works sometimes. That's not a technology, that's chance. Have you seen this? If something doesn't work, people think tupped up, tupped, it'll work and a lot of people are using this for human beings also. Something doesn't work tupped up and it'll work. In Tamil Nadu there is a saying, naala kurtha illa sariya idu. That means if you slap them four times, everything will get fixed, doesn't get fixed like that. Namaskaram, Sadhguru. Where are you, where are you, where are you? So my name is Rajasvaka Sahu. I would first like to really give a warm welcome to you from the JJ campus on behalf of the students. Sir, I… So we are very… we architecture students especially were really aroused and excited about this event mainly because we are very well aware of your contributions to your Kalyan Patur ashram. So my question is a bit along the academic lines. Sir, I as a… we as architecture students have always been taught to build in the context, to look at the culture where in your site is or wherever your project is going to be built. But now when I see today the world in India especially urbanization is basically blind westernization where we simply build glass boxes which we know and understand that does not suit the climate or the context of India. So my question is that we as Indians have not yet figured out what India's modern architecture is about while we simply copy the western ones. So I… what do you think should be India's modern architecture? Why we copy the west? Not just in architecture. In just everything I see a whole lot of women in Mumbai have turned blonde. I have no problem if your hair turns blue or green or purple or red but blonde. I have no problem with that color either. It's just that they left us 70 years ago but they're still living in our minds. At least as a generation we must stay away from that.  You can make it whatever color you want. You want paint seven colors in your hair, please do it. I have no issue about that but you shouldn't be doing it because some color is superior to your color. That's apartheid, isn't it? Unfortunately when I see even in United States a whole lot of African American people have blonde hair these days. All this fight about civil liberties, here it is in the form of hair. What you like you can do but you are not doing what you like. There's a compulsiveness about doing certain things. So this compulsiveness has definitely come to architecture also. I'm glad to see that at least in the school of the many universities that I've been to, this is the first one they're able to sit on the floor. Most people are stuck like this, you know. See, I can't sit without a chair or I can't walk without a crutch. Is it very different, I'm asking? In some way you crippled yourself, isn't it? What are you going to do if I leave you in the forest?  Yes, because people think there is some kind of fashion in crippling yourself. So this has gone into every aspect of our life and architecture. What to say, see, if you look back at ancient India, tch, what aesthetics? I'm sure you're all students of, many of you are students of architecture or even if you're an artist you notice many things. This is my problem. When I look at something even if it's little off, even if it's minutely off, my eye doesn't miss it. So all the time everything bothers me.  Because my experience of life is largely geometric. For me, colors, textures, everything comes later. For me, something is geometrically right, is very, very important. Because this is their sense of creation. In the physical world, the most important aspect is geometric perfection. The planets are going around the sun for quite some time, not held together by a steel cable or something. Geometric perfection is keeping it going, isn't it? If the geometry goes off of this solar system, that's the end of it. It'll all fly into oblivion. So geometry is very important in the yogic sciences. The entire yogic sciences on the physical level is just about aligning your geometry, your individual geometry to the cosmic geometry so that at some point there is no difference between you and the cosmos. You experience everything as yourself simply because you have attained to a certain level of geometric perfection. It's not just in the body. In your physiological structure, yes. But in your chemical structure, in your energy structure, you get your geometry aligned with the larger geometry so that you and that larger phenomena feels just the same because they're properly aligned.  If we say it is well engineered, essentially we are saying it's geometrically perfect. Yes or no? It is geometrically so perfect, there is least amount of friction. The same goes for this. If it is geometrically perfect, there is least amount of friction. If there is least amount of friction, there is very little wear and tear in terms of life. So architecture is dwellings and usable buildings that we build. In some way, in some way they must find their place with the rest of the creation. I think we've lost this completely simply because we got certain liberty with material. One steel and concrete came. We thought we can build like this, we can build like this, we can build like this, whichever way we want because of the strength of the material. Doing things with just sheer force is all right sometimes for utility. But if you do everything like that, your life will become ugly.  Life is beautiful when we can do things with minimum force and maximum impact. Yes or no? Anything that we do, we do it with minimum force but with maximum impact, then life feels aesthetic and beautiful. If you exert maximum force for minimum impact, that's a crude way to live. So our architecture has taken to this mode simply because we found material where the strength of the material is such, we can do observed shapes and still make them stand. Something which has no right to stand up geometrically is standing up simply because of the strength of the material. If we withdraw from that excitement of finding new material to more sensible geometry in the world, well you will see world will feel much better. People will be much healthier physically and mentally if they live in such buildings. There'll be many other benefits.  So when we started designing buildings, now everybody is in appreciation and in agreement but when I first started talking about it, our own people who are around me, they look at me like this and once I turn back, they roll their eyes at each other, he's… he's gone crazy. I have… it's not the… I have a rear view mirror, they don't understand this. But it took lot of talking and talking and talking and talking endlessly to make them understand that it'll work. Some of you said you've been there, is it so? So today all the utility buildings, other things that are being built are being built in many different ways. But fundamentally anything concerned with the spiritual process in the temple that was built there, mainly they're standing because of geometric perfection, not because of the strength of the material. For example, the dome is the largest elliptical dome of its sort, seventy-two feet in diameter, it's not semicircular, it's elliptical like this and there is no cement, there is no concrete, there's no steel. The simple technology is all the bricks are trying to come down at the same time. But they cannot come down. It's just like if ten of you try to go through the door at once, you cannot go unless one person has some courtesy and they step back. It's my confidence in the bricks that they don't have courtesy, none of them will ever step back. So they stood there. The force of gravity, which is supposed to bring it down, held it up. See, right now this building any flat roof, for that matter, right now there is a fight going on between this structure and the gravity going on. Right now going on or not? It is going on. One day somebody will win. Who do you think will win? Gravity will win for sure. But we built buildings in such a way, because of gravity it is staying up. It is not something, if you observe things in nature, it's all... a whole lot of things are built like this. So we've never used any steel, just brick, soil, sometimes a percentage of lime, that's about it. And the feel of these buildings is very different because there is no tension in the building. There's no stress happening all the time. So I keep joking, see the building itself is meditating, at least you'd better learn something. The buildings are meditative because there's no stress in them. They're using the forces which are trying to pull them down as the force to stay up. This is something every human being should learn. What are the forces which try to bring us down? That is what you must use to go up. In a way, if you know something about aerodynamics, you would know aerodynamics is not against gravity. It is just using gravity to take off in a certain way. An airplane with the right kind of wings is not necessarily against gravity, but a rocket is against gravity. It's just the kind of thrust it has is like a forceful way of getting away. But an airplane is not made like that. Simply is carrying tons and tons, you know. It doesn't matter how many times you've seen an airplane land and take off, you can still go on watching because there is something amazing about it that some hundred, hundred and twenty tons simply takes off and flies. If it is, see there are two kinds of flying machines. There are rotary wing machines and there are fixed wing machines. That is fixed wing airplanes and the helicopters. A helicopter is taking off with sheer force. If you don't know this, I'm a licensed helicopter pilot. So helicopter when you fly moment to moment you have to keep it flying. But when you fly an airplane, all you have to do is take off and just leave it. Landing you must know unless you're a bin laden pilot. Landing you have to learn. Those guys didn't want to learn landing. They are different. But it's only the landing which is really the challenge. Rest of it is just child's play. Actually if you put a ten-year-old boy, he will make a 747 take off. Only landing is a problem. But landing today machines are doing better than human beings. I was you know like when I'm flying this air India from Mumbai to New York three, four times in a year, sometimes I'm there with the pilots talking to them. Then I was just discussing these things and said to what extent are you using the autopilot. He said, Sadhguru, we feel ashamed in front of you to say this, but she lands better than us. You just let it, it lands by itself. It has all the data how Mumbai airfield is made. If you just set it and sleep, it will land. People are talking about driverless cars, that's never going to happen in Mumbai traffic. But a driver, a pilotless airplane is very much a doable thing. It's only people's fear you have to manage that the airplane is flying without a pilot. You have to manage the passengers. That's the only problem. Otherwise it's very easy to make a pilotless airplane. Lot of pilots are sleeping. Now there is by law, if the flight is more than some four hours or so a pilot can sleep for 40 minutes or 50 minutes something, there is a law now that they can actually officially sleep. Because it's a big sky, it's not going to hit anything. Why I'm saying this is the same goes for buildings. You can make the building either come up like with some exuberance or it's standing like a depressed person.  That's how a building should be. If you look at their face, you must feel joy. How essentially it's a geometric manipulation, how geometrically perfect it is will give that much sense of completeness to people when they visually see it. Because the human eye is one eye on the planet which catches the maximum amount of detail. Because it catches so much detail, most important part of any physical structure is geometry. And some people can consciously catch it, others unconsciously react to it. They like it or they don't like it, that's all they know. But some people can consciously see, okay, this is the reason why it feels like this. So when it comes to architecture, it should not be in terms of European, Indian, this, that, these styles are established at a time when materials were limited, all right? The material available was so limited in those regions, accordingly they structured it. And most of the time everybody copied one architect in that area and that became the culture. That need not be the future of Indian architecture. But India having a history of tremendous aesthetics.  The new ones that they have built is all put up in a hurry. When they got a chance, they put it up like, you know, how they put up Ramlala suddenly in two days, like that. But if you come to the south and see one amazing thing you will see is their sense of geometry, unbelievable. How they arrived at this sense of geometry, thousand years ago, two thousand years ago, absolute geometric sense in their mind. Well, you have seen the Kailash, I'm sure at Ellora, the Kailash temple, you have seen Bailur Hallibid, have you? Karnataka temples? Oh, it's a must see. It's just a must see for any human being, especially those of you who are in architecture, art, whatever you are into. Some aesthetics you are into means this is something you must see. It's more than seeing those sculptures. You must look into the minds of people who did this. If you want to look into their minds, you must withdraw yourself into that time zone. It's over thousand years ago when there were no cranes, when there were no machines, when there are no trucks, when there are no any kind of mechanical things all by hand. Why would somebody endeavor to do something so phenomenal and so almost superhuman in terms of engineering and the physical difficulty of lifting these huge rocks and doing this carving business? Why would anybody do that? What, what kind of passion should be firing those people to do this is unbelievable. If you see the Tanjaur temple, have you seen? This, this Gopuram ways, I think, what 180 tons, 180, is it? Does anybody know? I think somewhere in that range over 120 tons for sure. And it is at a height of 160 feet. They put a ramp of ten miles, a mud ramp and they brought this single piece of stone 160 feet high above and made a Gopuram out of it. Exquisitely carved, well in Karnataka what they carved is soap stone. In Tamil Nadu, Tamil people are crazy. They carved granite into very fine structures which is far more difficult than carving soap stone and they put it up there. What is it that's firing these human beings? Before you take up any project, you must visit this and see what kind of human beings are these, you know?  Not for livelihood. It's not a factory shed we're building, just for aesthetics. They were willing to invest their lives absolutely, everything they got. I think we need that culture back if we want to create a beautiful India, very important.  When you know that something is like saying yes would affect you in an adverse way. You must send your WhatsApp message, no. It happens with me a lot of times that I want to say no, but thinking of what the other person would feel I tend to say yes. So how do we stop that? I know in what context you're asking. No, no, no. That's not what I meant. That's not what I meant. I meant to say small things in life, this and that. But I have been always encouraging people to say yes and yes for everything. Yes or no, if I ask. People around me always say, Sadhguru, it's always yes. Tell us what. So for you to say an absolute yes to everything, one important thing is you must create an atmosphere of integrity and trust. If you create an atmosphere of absolute integrity and trust, all of us can say absolute yes. When we know nobody will misuse our yes, we can all say hundred percent yes for everything, isn't it? That's what we should strive for. If it's not possible in the whole world, at least we must create small circles where we can say yes and there is no problem. Nobody misuses a yes. Very important, very important for healthy unfolding of every life that you need at least a small cocoon of life around you where you can be a total yes.  This you must create. If you don't create this, you will always live in fear. Being exploited is one thing. Being living in a fear of exploitation is actually more damaging than exploitation itself. So today we are creating a world where well there is some reason for it also. There is reason for it also. I am not trying to live in some utopian world. I know how the world is, but I am saying you must create your own little world where you can say yes. Without any consequence to the yes, it's important. If we do not do this, then we will always live in walls. No is a wall, isn't it? In India nobody says just no. They'll say no, no, no, no, no, no. Have you seen this? Nobody else it happens, only in India. No, no, no, no, no. They think one no won't stop them. No is a wall. Yes is a doorway, isn't it? If you open your door, a devil could come in or the divine could come in. The fear that devil may come in, if you close the door, you have also closed the door for the divine, but in unfortunate life. Yes or no?  Don't do that to yourself. Once you live here, there are dangers of life, of course.  The walls that you build for self-preservation are also the walls of self-imprisonment. If you build a wall to protect yourself today, after some time this is your prison, isn't it? So no, no, no, no, no. You built a wall around yourself. Can I say yes to anybody for anything? No, that's not possible. We've still not created that kind of a world. That's too high up there. That's why you must create at least a little world where you can say yes without consequence. Very important. My question is, how does one deal with insecurities? Oh, please. How does one deal with insecurity? Life is insecure. There is no security about life because shall I reveal a secret to you?   Is it okay? Is it okay? No?   Yes or no? If you say, I don't want to die, today you start the chanting, I don't want to die, I don't want to die, I don't want to die. All that will happen is you will not live but you will die. Yes?   Coming to terms with mortality is one very important thing. If you don't come to terms with mortality, you're living in a fancy world of unreal world, not in the real world. The real world is, we come and go. So many countless number of people have come and gone before us, isn't it? You're an institution from 1857. I was just wondering how they started an institution in that year because in that year there was such turmoil all over the country. 1857, lot of upheaval in the country but somehow somebody managed to start an institution. The soil that you're walking upon, we don't know how many people are buried. Yes or no? All these countless people, a number of people who walk this planet before you and me, where are they? They are all topsoil. Yes or no? This will also become topsoil one day unless your friends choose to bury you real deep. Fearing you may raise from the dead. There have been certain instances, this happened. There was an old couple in Texas, over seventy-five years of age. It was their dream to go to the holy land or the Jerusalem. But because of business and then children, children growing up, going to the university and their marriages and da-da-da, they never made it. When they're over seventy-five years of age, they made the trip to Jerusalem. Jerusalem is a place where every cobblestone reeks of history. So they walked that pathway where Jesus is supposed to have walked. They went to that place where he's supposed to have walked in the water and many things like this. They were overwhelmed by this whole experience and unfortunately the lady had a heart attack and she died. Then the man was preparing to take her body back to Texas. But then the local people approached and said, see, Jerusalem is the holy land. This is the right place to die. She's done the right thing. So let's do all the rituals here and bury her here. And it just costs you twenty-five thousand dollars. Because if you take her back to Texas, just the transportation costs eighteen thousand dollars and local charges and in America the cemetery charges are very heavy. All this put together you will spend much more money and above all she's chosen to die in the holy land. This is where she must be buried. Let's do it. The man said, no, I'm taking her back to Texas. They said, see, you're very distressed because of your wife's death. You're not able to think straight, we can understand. So we will give you a super discount, fifteen thousand dollars. This is a haggling place, you know. Let's do it. The man thought about it and he said, no, I will take her back to Texas. Then they said, see, it doesn't make sense. I can see you're very distressed.  So obviously you're very, very distressed, you're not thinking straight at all. We can understand this just because of that.  So we give you an absolute super, super discount, ten thousand dollars. Let's do it. Come on, let's do it, let's do it. You must… what I'm talking, if you want to understand, you must go to Kashi or Haridwar someplace. How these things happen, you know. Then the man thought about it and he said, no, I'm taking her back to Texas. And they threw their ends up and said, why? What's the problem with you? Ten thousand dollars, let's do it. He said, see, in Texas dead, stay dead. So if you come to terms with your mortality, security, insecurity, all these things will go.  The fundamental awareness that this is mortal, this is here only for a limited amount of time. If this was a regular… you know, a normal conscious thing for you, you would put your life to best use for sure. And if you come to terms with that one thing, there would be no insecurity because there's nothing to gain, nothing to lose in this life. You came with nothing.  Yes or no? Huh? Isn't it so? Did you come with investment? No. You come with nothing.  And anyway, they don't allow you to take a container in the end. So all you have is how profound, intense and beautiful is your experience of life. So don't make too much fuss about it.  No. There's nothing to lose, nothing to gain because you come and you go.   You've seen these pop-ups? You just pop-up and pop-up. In the meantime, will you rise and shine? It's the only question, all right? So if… any way you shine, sometimes you may be seen by people, sometimes you may not be seen by people. The important is you're shining within yourself and that's all that matters. If people have eyes, they will see it. If they have no eyes, they won't see it, that's their problem. But you are living an intense and profound life. That's all that matters here. If you understand this and if you bring this into your life, insecurity will not happen because security can happen only in death, that's all. People keep asking me, coming to me and asking me, Sadhguru, please bless us, nothing should happen to us. I say, hey, what kind of blessing is this? My blessing is let everything happen to you. Everything that's life must happen to you.  Please, you must make a decision right now. Have you come here to avoid life or to experience life? Experience life. All the different dimensions of what this life holds must happen to you, isn't it so? If you come to avoid life, there's an ocean right here, you can jump into the ocean. See, if you want to avoid life, you must die. It's a more efficient way of doing things, isn't it?  If you feel insecure, that's what you will do. You will try to avoid life. When you're alive and try to avoid life, it will cause immense misery.  Don't get up from the dead. Namaskaram, Sadhguru. I am Alina Jacob, student of third-year architecture. My question is, we live in a society where people are half… where we find people who are extrovert and introvert in nature. So the people who are extrovert, they are confident enough to express themselves. But meanwhile, in this competitive world, people who are introvert, will they ever be able to make a stand or mark as good as the way the extroverts do it? And even if they manage to reach somewhere in life, will they continue to be an introvert? See, the difference between this extrovert and introvert is these. Or what these two things are is, it's like mistaking your exhalation for inhalation and inhalation for exhalation. There is no such thing as extrovert or introvert. Do not classify people like that. Some people see that they need to act and reach out. Some people see there is not much need for that. So maybe they are not on the Twitter and Facebook and whatever. This doesn't mean they are introvert. They have a life of their own. We should not judge people like this. Every human being has a right to be whichever way they want. But now the question is, if I am not extrovert, will I be able to do things in the world? That's the main aspect of the question. See, your ability to do things is not because you want to do things. I want to do something is my desire. Desire is just an intention. An intention won't make things happen. An intention will only set direction. Still you have to make the journey, isn't it? Now one important thing, especially because you're an artist, you're not in a business program or something like that, I think you should look at life like this. You must see how to enhance this one. Enhance this one means not blow up your ego in a big way. Enhance the life that you are. When I say life, I'm talking about the life that you are. I am not talking about your body. I am not talking about the structure of your mind. I am not talking about see, when people say life, you are supposed to decipher. They could be talking about their home, they could be talking about their relationship, they could be talking about their car or their dog or something. My life means something. I am not talking about that. I am talking about the life that you are. Are you alive? Are you really alive? Or just a bundle of thoughts, emotions, ideas, prejudices, opinions? Most people are just this. Because of that we make conclusions. This is an introvert. This is an extrovert. Because without conclusion you can't have a thought. You need conclusions and conclusions and conclusions about everything. Now I need to conclude this is introvert, this is extrovert.  But human faculties are such, I don't have to conclude. I can just look. This moment how she is, that's all that matters. Yesterday how she was, doesn't matter, isn't it? And tomorrow how she's going to be, you have no clue? Yes or no? Do not fix life, either yours or anybody else's. Do not fix it because what you're calling as human life is a possibility. To make this possibility into a reality you have to travel a distance. Do you have the courage and the commitment to travel the distance? That's all the question is. It doesn't matter what is your level of intelligence, what is your level of capability, introvert, extrovert, this, that doesn't matter. Do you have the courage and commitment to make the possibility into a reality? That's all the question is. So if you focus whatever you're doing right now, it doesn't matter what it is. How simple an act you're doing right now, it doesn't matter. If you're absolutely devoted to that that you're doing right now, depending upon various aspects, things will unfold. But because of Western influences, we become too goal-oriented. Goal-oriented means we are interested in the consequence, but we are not interested in the process. If you are not interested in the process, you should not be an artist. If you are not interested in the process, you should never design a building because it's going to land on somebody's head. Yes? Process is an end in itself. If you are absolutely devoted to the process, depending upon various aspects, something will come out. But now we are interested in the consequence, not in the process. This goal-orientedness, I want to get there, I want to get there. Where the hell do you want to get? No, I want to win the race. See, if you treat life as a race, if you have to win it, you have to get to the finish line soon, isn't it? You want to? Hello? If you get to the finish line ahead of all these people, you won the race. You know what the finish line is? We'll be negotiating where to bury you. So, particularly being in creative arts, don't ever think of a goal. What should I become? How should I be? What should I create? Don't worry about these things. If you're devoted to the process, something will come out. Something more beautiful than you imagine will happen because you're devoted to the process without devotion. I'm specifically using the word devotion because people think devotion means going to the temple, church or mosque. No. Without devotion, either in sport, art, music, spirituality, politics, business, anything, any arena of life, has anybody done anything truly significant without being absolutely devoted to what they're doing? Have they? No. Mediocre things you can do. So, do not think of art and aesthetics as a way to earn a living. Living will happen. Living will happen. This is what I'm promising people of all professions, no matter what, especially if you're an artist. If you have a problem with bread, you come to me. I will make sure you have a roof and a bread. Only thing I want to see is you're focused on something. I don't care what. Nothing came out of your focus. I don't care. But I want to see you focused on something. I can't stand unfocused people. That's all. I'm making an open-ended offer. Anybody who's worrying about bread, you just come to me.   I won't ask you what you're focused on, but I want to see you focused. Because if a human being stays focused on something, inevitably it'll yield. How can it not yield? The universe will yield to you if you're focused. Namaskaram, Sadhguru. My name is Muskaan Bhavna. And my question to you is that many times in life we face situations where we don't know what next. We don't know what is going on right now. We are completely blacked out. And at that point of time, our friends, our parents, we are given this one suggestion, be positive. But when I don't know what's going on, how do I be positive? And at that time, clarity seems more important than positivity. So how do we place the two? So what they're calling it as positive is confidence. I have confidence, don't worry. Confidence without clarity is a disaster. Yes. If you cannot see clearly, at least you must be hesitant. If you're confident, you're going to walk into something. By chance you may escape sometimes. But what comes your way, you don't know. So it's not about being positive, negative. The important thing is at this stage in your life, you just focus on enhancing this life. Don't worry about what it will yield. You should not worry about what this life is going to yield. What it yields depends on times in which we are, many other aspects of life. But if this is an enhanced life, it will yield something worthwhile. Doesn't matter what it yields. Who knows, maybe you won't become an artist, maybe you will become an engineer, maybe you will become a doctor, maybe you will become something else.  As long as you enhance this life, something worthwhile will come out of it. What will happen in the end? What will happen in the end, the same thing? In the end, as we told you, this happened. A hardcore criminal was given death sentence in America. Death by electric chair. So always the priest comes in the end. And the priest came and said, my son, just tell me what do you want me to do, whatever you wish I will do. A very unrepentant convict said, father, when they pull the plunger, please hold my hand. So very positive. There are various ways to look at this. I had a nasty joke, I'm trying to scale it down so that it fits into the institution. See, when I don't know what is future, that's a very insightful statement, because nobody knows what is the future. Do you know what's going to happen in the next five minutes? No. No, Sadhguru, my astrologer, well does your astrologer know what is going to happen in the next ten minutes of his life? Does he know? No.  It's a fantastic thing. So you don't know future. Isn't that a great thing, fortunately? Suppose you know your entire future, would you not want to commit suicide right now? Isn't it wonderful that in spite of all your brains you can't figure what is next moment? Hello? Isn't it wonderful? Have you ever seen a suspense thriller movie? Have you? See, right now there's a very wonderful, wonderful suspense thriller in the local theater. None of you have seen it. I have seen it.  Okay, the whole story is going to take too much time. So I'll just tell you the last suspense part of it. Okay? Shall I? No. Why?  I think he's going to do this, that guy's going to do that. Oh, this director, most probably this how he's going to go. Then you go inside, see all those still images. Then you said definitely this guy is going to do this, that guy is going to do this, all kinds of projections. You go and sit in the auditorium, first few scenes and said, this is it, he's going to do this, but he did something different. Then you said he's going to do that and he did something different. You said this is going to happen and something else happened. Halfway down the movie you discussed with your friend, last scene is definitely like this. When the last scene came, something totally different happened.  Yes? You went there, sat, you saw the first scene and you said this is what is going to happen and that's what happened in the last scene as it happens in most movies. Then you come out and said this is not good, isn't it? So essentially what you're saying is, if all your predictions go wrong, it's wonderful. If all your predictions come true, it's not good. Then I'm asking, what's wrong with your life? Your life is fantastic. You can predict whatever it all goes wrong, goes wrong, goes wrong. Wonderful, wonderful, wonderful. Only problem is you lost your ability to enjoy the suspense, that's your only problem. Yes? You want to know the end.   You want to know the end before you play the game, match fixer or no? Today it's a crime in this country, match fixing, you know? So don't try to match fix your life.  Whatever happens, you came here with nothing, you'll go with nothing. So what the hell? The only thing is, did you make your life's experience profound enough, intense enough? That's all there is. What's there to happen? So what will happen tomorrow? What will happen tomorrow? I'll give you a simple thing. The best thing about life is tomorrow never happens. Yes?  This moment if you know how to manage your thought, your emotion and your body, rest drama outside happens. But if this is like this, this will be joyful and wonderful, no matter what's the drama around you. Yes? Oh, what if this happens, what if that happens? Yes, all those things can happen. But you came here to experience life, not to avoid life, isn't it? Are we sure? Are we sure? You want to right now go into the museum? No, no. Oh, you're misunderstanding my question, you're art students. No, no, I'm not asking you to go for a visit in the museum. I'm as an artifact. Do you want to go into the museum right now yourself? No, this is the time to live.  Anything. Either you must be excited about it or you can be fearful about it. You're fearful about it because you already fixed what should happen. You're afraid what you think may not happen. But first of all, I'm asking you, why are you thinking what should happen? If you're dedicated to the process, depending upon what process we are doing, accordingly life will unfold tomorrow. Yes? There are many dimensions to it. If you explore all of it, if you just explore your biology, life will happen one way. In the sense, if you take charge of your physical self, your body, 15 to 20 percent of your life and destiny will happen the way you want it.   This is a choice you have. I think I must leave before I'm ousted. What's your time, please? Namaskar. My name is Kausto. I actually wanted to ask you that after all the knowledge you've gained over time, do you believe this community, the society, the very system we are living in is correct or I'd say appropriate? I mean, whatever we are living in is just an imaginary concept. I mean, I feel we're designed and are capable to do a lot more than we think. But instead, our efforts of our body and literally who lives are wasted on what, earning for life, which is already given to us.  You're telling me or? I'm asking you, what do you think? You're wondering whether… What's your take on this?  Yes. My, my, not… See, it once happened. Shankaran Pillai was running a small street side restaurant and then his chicken cutlets became so famous, people started queuing up for his chicken cutlets. He sold in hundreds, made a lot of money. Then because there were other loss, somebody said, he is mixing beef with chicken cutlet and selling it. So they investigated and they found, yes he was, then he was taken to the court. The judge asked, now that it's proven that you have been mixing beef and chicken in your chicken cutlets and deceiving people, how much of these both things were you mixing? Shankaran Pillai said, 50-50. The judge asked, what do you mean 50-50? He said, one chicken, one cow. So, the chances of your life being useful or wasted in a society is 50-50.  My name is Ipsita Zadhav from First Year Architecture and my question is that in our society, religious beliefs are very sensitive. Let me see if you can hold it this way. In our society, religious beliefs are a very sensitive topic and we come across many people who blindly believe in things. So, how do we talk to them and ask them to think rationally instead of just believing in things? See, there is no such thing as blind belief and seeing belief. Belief is only because you cannot see something. You don't believe things that you clearly see, isn't it? You see that. For example, do you believe that you have two hands or do you know that you have two hands? Huh? You know.  One slap in the face. They know you've got hands. Proof, the power of proof. But let's say, say I'm walking into trouble. Let's say if I ask you, do you believe in God? Some people say yes, some people say no. Why do you believe? Because you're not sincere enough to admit, I don't know, isn't it? The fact of the matter is many things that we do not know, we believe in. Because fundamentally, we've lost the sense of being straight or fundamental sense of integrity is not there in us. We believe things which we do not know. It is so wonderful and human of you to simply admit what you do not know as I do not know, isn't it? What I know, I know. What I do not know, I do not know. Isn't it wonderful? And I do not know is a tremendous possibility. Only when you see I do not know the possibility of knowing arises in your life. The longing to know, the seeking to know and the possibility of knowing becomes a living reality in your life. And when you see I do not know, when you profoundly realize I do not know, you will have an awakened intelligence which is always on. If you believe something, immediately it will go to sleep. For example, you're all architect students, architecture students, what do you think is the planet round or flat? Tell me whatever you think it's okay with me. Is this planet round or flat? Round? Flat? You from Bangalore? Bangalore book became popular, earth is flat, you know? Is it round or flat? It's round. And the damn thing is spinning all the time and you're not even on North Pole, you're at a certain latitude. If you look up, inevitably you're looking up in the wrong direction, isn't it? I'm talking about the upper vala. You don't know what is upper. Can you know? Do you know which side is up in this cosmos? Is it somewhere marked this side up? Are you capable of knowing which side is up? No. So you do not know which is up, but you know who is up. This is very dangerous. It's caused immense disturbance and hatred and violence and wars and all kinds. But it has its benefits because it's a very inexpensive psychiatry. When you feel scared of life, don't worry, God is with you. You feel good? If you have to go to psychiatric counseling, it's very expensive and you need lot of furniture and it's inefficient one-on-one, one-on-one. It's not like that. This can be dispensed, large scale. It is useful for people. So there's no point destroying it, that's what I'm saying. There's no point destroying religion, but you must transit from religion to responsibility. It's very important. Once your basic problems of fear and anxiety are handled, you must move from religion to responsibility. This entire movement is just this, to move people from religion to responsibility, from looking up to looking in, because everything that a human being can explore is within, not up in the sky. Yes or no?  If you don't explore this interiority and you're looking at the sky, sometimes the birds may decide to do something on your face. That could enlighten you. Yes.  In the evolutionary scheme of things, if you look at it, since when your cerebral flower expanded like this, if you look at it, in terms of the life of this planet, it's just a few seconds before it came to action. So this intelligence is new, that's what you're struggling with. Your suffering, your pains, your stuff is simply because you have not come to terms with how to handle this intelligence. Once your intelligence turns against you, no force in the universe can save you, isn't it? So religion is a certain face of humanity where we are learning to handle and temper our own intelligence in a certain way. Is it bad? I don't think so. Is it good? Not at all. It is a question of individual need, where they are in their evolution. Accordingly, one must use it. But because intelligence is new, it hurts. This happened. Once a pirate, you know pirate? You know pirates? Not today's modern Somalian pirates, they are different. They have no romance with them. The pirate, a classic pirate of the past, his name was Jack, he came to an Irish bar. He came, he had a wooden stump for a leg, one leg and he had a hook for his right hand and he had an eyepatch. The bartender looked at him and said, hey Jack, what happened? Last time I saw you, you were fine. What happened to your leg?  But no problem, our ship carpenter fixed up with this wooden leg. He's just doing great. I can even dance. Then he served him a drink and then asked, what happened to your hand? Why this hook? He said, once again, you know I was in a sword fight.  But no problem, our ship blacksmith fixed up this hook. It actually works better than the hand, then served one more dink and asked, but what happened to your eye? Oh, I was just trying to navigate the ship in the night, looking at the stars. A bird pooped in my face.  No, the hook was just two days old, you know. Right now that's all that's happening. Your hook is just two days old. So you're scratching yourself all over the place. This is the first thing you must learn, that you learn to handle your intelligence in such a way that it works for you, never against you, never against you. Right now it's working against you.  But essentially your intelligence is working against you, isn't it? If your intelligence works against you, there is no hope. You don't need any enemies. Most people don't need any enemies, they're just doing fine by themselves. I think. So I would like to make use of this opportunity to tell you that as we said earlier, India has been a land of tremendous aesthetics thousands of years ago. But today if you look at the homes that we're building, all the seventy-two shades of Asian paints are used in one two-bedroom house. I want all of you take this on a mission mode that you must bring aesthetics back into this land. It's very, very important because the quality of our life is not just determined by what we eat and what we wear. The shapes and forms and the aesthetic around us, have you, many of you travel to Nepal and Bhaktapur and only one? No, you can't do this. You must visit Bhaktapur, you must visit Dwarka in Nepal, you must see because this is, you know, with simple things that they have, whatever they had thousand years ago, it's all brick and terracotta. With this, the level of aesthetics that they've created a thousand years ago is something so amazing and fantastic. Only a small part of it is remaining. That remaining part still amazes us. How did they do this? So you're most welcome. Please make use of Visayoga Center in whichever way you can. Those of you who focused on something, if you want to go into hybrid nation but focused hybrid nation, we will offer you a place and then two meals a day because I feel artists and creative people must not be thinking of timelines. By the time I am in twenty-five, I must have produced hundred pieces of art.  Maybe there will be times to hibernate, maybe there will be times to wait. Please make use of this. We are available to you in whatever way. I wish all of you a possibility of finding access to the world in such a way that whatever your talents are, finds expression in this country and the rest of the world. Thank you very much. It was really nice. I mean, how we think and how he thinks is completely different and it just gave us a, you know, a point of view that, you know, how actually you should start thinking about our culture and how we should promote it. Thank you. Thank you, Satguruji.


listed in this stock at all today, so I guess unless it was shortable it wasn't really worth the shot. Now at least from yesterday I had an email come in from one of our students, they had sent in their journal, they had sent in so many separate entries and exits, so it's very tough for me to go over each and every tiny trade that they had taken. But what I wanted to do was really just show you this chart here in full and basically just go over the move. So on the A&Y stock, again this was a move that we ended up catching from yesterday, it was a stock that was on our morning watch list yesterday, it was on the pre-market watch list from yesterday, really quick, gonna take a quick snapshot of that, you could see A&Y there from yesterday morning from the 9th, right? I mean the stock was really active in pre-market, it was the top percent gainer for a good portion of it and then even after 9 o'clock it was still like the number 2 or 3 percent gainer across the whole morning here. Alright, let me delete this line really fast and we'll kinda do a full review of this stock at least in terms of the pre-market prep, what you needed to do, what levels you should have been watching going into the open for this trade and then at least seeing what happened once the market did open for this one, right? Alright, so I'm gonna bring up my book map here in just a second folks but let me ask you, what's the direction of this stock here? Going into the market open, what's the direction of this stock? Got a few of us saying flat or sideways, got a couple of us saying down, just notice that no one's saying up, I appreciate nobody saying the answer up, right? Just notice the commonality there, like you could say flat and you could say generally from like 8.15 a shear dropping down, ain't nobody saying up. So what I mean by that is at the market open, if this stock is not trending up right away, I'm not expecting it to pop right out the gate. I think we got a little time here, I think that this is more likely to continue dropping or maybe just coil up and consolidate. So that's my first thought, right? Now otherwise again we'll look for the big strong levels, I mean it seems like pretty quickly I'll just line this up for us to expedite time but right around 5.65, I mean that's a really good looking support from the chart. I mean maybe there's an iceberg order right there, we'll find out shortly, otherwise I would still keep your focus on the 50 cent levels and the whole numbers like $5.50 and then eventually 6 bucks and perhaps 650 up top, looks like 650 was near pre-market high, it topped off right around here at 6.45 here, right?


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Well, thank you so much for coming up here and having the boldness to share your testimony Can you just begin with what happened a few months back and then just your journey coming to hungry generation? I'm nervous y'all, but I know the devil don't want you guys to hear what I'm about to say A few months ago. I lost everything I Lost my home and I was homeless and I Started losing friends friends. I have been friends with for years We just fell apart and then my son he went to college and I became very depressed I started having anxiety. He's here now. That's my son there. Go go Cougs And I started having anxiety really bad it took over my life and at that point I was like all I have had left was my job my boyfriend that had been in my life for eight years and my daughter and a Few weeks after that. I lost my job and my boyfriend left me and My heart was broke. Like I thought this was my husband y'all And so I became so depressed I got scared and I was like I need to go to church and I remember Soul Mia had invited me a while back and she sent me a message and she said if you ever want to come to church Just give me a call and I'll save you a seat and I took her up on that offer and I came to church and when I got here man The message that pastor gave was so powerful. I could not stay in my seat I ran up to the front right here. I was the first one up here And I was just like please somebody pray for me and Glenn prayed for me I had never met him in my life and he told me he said you are going to be okay, and I believed him I was like this is the man of God and he's telling me I'm gonna be okay and When my boyfriend broke up with me He told me some things and I started to believe I was those things and Glenn told me he said Also, I just want you to know that those things that person told you you're not those things He doesn't know who you are God knows who you are and that just took so much It just made me feel so much better about myself and and Glenn didn't know you at all and he was praying this I've never met him before and so Before I came here I was used to going to church on Sunday Feeling good and then going home and then waiting until next Sunday to feel good again Because I didn't know what to do during the week like what do I read? Who do I talk to? I had questions about the Bible and I was just Here I could not get away from this church. There's so much going on here. I downloaded the app I went through the prayer line I started going to home groups and that's where my healing started is is during home groups with Kelly Shout out to Kelly. That's my girl We had a conversation last night and she said do you remember what you told me when I first met you? She asked me and she said what are you afraid of and I said I'm just afraid that I can't Live without this person and I'm never gonna get better I'm always gonna feel this way and she said girl gold look at you now look at what God is doing now and it's just so amazing and I Got the book the get the break free book. Don't just buy the book read the book this book It helped me so I would read this book during the week and then I didn't know there's things I don't know I mean you go to church and they tell you love God with all your heart And I'm just like how resist the devil. He will flee how I didn't know so I started to read this book And there were things in my home. I'm at home praising God. I didn't know I had stuff from the devil on my dresser Like there's stuff. I had to get out of my home. There's things I had to do. There's prayers.  So now you're doing the same thing So tell us a little bit about how you brought your friend and then you got baptized. I brought my friend She's actually here Laquisha I Just invited her and saved her seat and now she's here. We got baptized together. We go to home group together and It's just been amazing and when she met me She was just like how do you drive all the way to Benton City for Bible study and I had to remind her I said girl we used to go out and spend hours getting ready for the club go get an outfit Buy a bottle. I said we can go give God some time and we'd be out all night This is just a few hours to get the word that you need in your life She's giving me chills right now.  Wow. Wow See the enemy is afraid for you to share your testimony He's afraid for you to speak up and to have that darkness be removed in it to expose it into the light And I know and I was telling her beforehand that you were touched by social media now Just watch that your video your testimony is gonna go out there and people are gonna come because of your testimony So never be ashamed of your testimony where God has pulled you out from the darkness and into the light because he Wants you to touch other people so that they can receive salvation. Amen So Jania, please tell us your last few words of encouragement Your whole thing was encouraging, but I just want you just to share just a few words for those that maybe are afraid They're in a very dark place those that are watching or maybe are here Well, what would you like to advise them? I would just tell them to come to church and come to this church There's stuff going on here Yes Also, just get involved like I really I don't understand how people do this alone Like I've had so many people reach out to me Even Kelly just would call me for prayer and get involved go to the home groups and just do it Amen. Amen. Thank you so much, Jania. Thank you


One of the things that I wanted to do, wherever I was, was to not just carry out my research and writing and publish and teach, you know, in the classrooms, I wanted to be involved in programming, scholarly programming that bridged the university and the community so that we could take this knowledge outside academia and let people, everyday people, enjoy, benefit from interact with scholars and learn from the work that we're doing. And so at Davis before I left, I went to the department chair and the dean maybe of the college. I said, I would like to hold a conference because I was feeling like I also needed to connect with my colleagues, you know, in different places and to come together and create this notion of a mission. We're on a mission to really make African-American studies visible and especially now we want to make Black working class studies as visible as Washington Booker T and W. E. B. Du Bois and all those leading figures that so much history, we want to make ordinary people more visible in the study of African-American history. And so I said, I'm a historian of the North so far, you know, I studied Milwaukee and I've got friends who study in Seattle, San Francisco, San Diego, Salt Lake City. I said to my department chair, I said, let's bring these scholars here. And I know that people living out here in the West, they must be very interested in learning more about Black Western history. Because so far most of what our images are about Black Western, about Western history is about white cowboys and Native American warfare, you know, not much about the Black urban experience in the West.  And we'll see what we can do to get some money to make it happen. And we put on a conference. And it was an extraordinary conference. My wife helped to really publicize and get all that stuff done. And it turned out to be a really good conference. That conference was probably in 1983. By 1984, and after I left for California, I decided wherever I go, we need to be doing these things. And if we're not doing them, I really want to be a part of trying to make that happen. So that's part of why, you know, we decided to do cause. But before we did cause, we did what I would consider a unique program in 1989. It was a program based upon the Smithsonian Traveling Exhibition entitled Field to Factory. And it was a major exhibit in Washington, DC, curated by Spencer Crue, an extraordinary curator and museum public historian. The Smithsonian made the decision to create a traveling version of the larger exhibit. And I said to myself, we ought to try to be the first visit. And we were. And guess what? Your library was a partner. And a woman named Sylvana Ford was on board there as a librarian. And she and I worked together to bring that exhibit here. But we transformed some floors of the library into exhibit spaces. And from that exhibit, we brought a lot of people to Carnegie Mellon and we did a major conference. And we brought several young scholars who were beginning to really make an impact on the field to give lectures on different facets of the Great Migration. We went forward and put together an edited volume of essays called The Great Migration. And it ended up being one of the most influential edited volume that I've been connected with. We had to work with the authors to produce revised essays. We had to find a publisher, which ended up being Indiana University Press. A press that Darlene Clark-Hine had a lot of relationships with. And so in 1991, it came out. And that's a really nice turnaround, you know, in terms of these kind of books. In that interim period, that's when Peter Stearns and I started to have our conversations about creating a center for African American urban studies.  And then there was a lot of discussions about whether I would stay or whether I would leave. I decided to stay because Peter was very forthcoming and trying to make it possible to get some new hires, get the center up and running, all kind of things were falling into place. And I just felt that this was not a time to leave Carnegie Mellon because there's a lot of potential here. And so within four years after we published that book, we launched the center.  And when we launched that center, we had Earl Lewis come back to give the keynote address. 1995, we opened the center. And you know, the center never had a building or space of its own. It's pretty much been a kind of in-house center in which we use the resources that we have to do a number of things. I think one of the major things that we do is speaker series that we've brought in lots of speakers over the years. We've been bringing in roughly four or five speakers, sometimes more, now for over 22 years. But then we've also had a post-doc tour fellow for most of these years. People who have studied the African American experience in a lot of different contexts. Third item is the oral history project, where we very much indebted to the Falk Foundation, not only for helping us start the oral history project, but for helping us start the center. The Falk Foundation was our first funder, outside funder for the cause center. The Falk Foundation put in an extraordinary amount of resources in enabling us to hire a director of the oral history project and to keep that person on board for about four years to really coordinate not only the gathering of oral history, but the teaching of oral history to graduate students to enable them to develop expertise in that area. His name was Ben Houston. And I think the other part is graduate studies support. Any graduate student who has a project that falls within the framework of cause, we provide some modest research funding to help them get to all kinds to work on their dissertation and research project. So that's another part of what we do. And the other thing is that we do a lot of special programming. When Hurricane Katrina hit, people were interested in talking about the issue. And so we organized a forum to talk about Hurricane Katrina. When Obama became president, people were interested in talking about the issue. And we helped undergraduate students organize a forum to discuss the implications of a black president. And then there are a lot of people who just come to us and say, will you support this or will you support that? And when we can, we do, like the International Film Festival, we all, historically, we've always supported them in some kind of way with films that would diversify their offerings within that context. So yeah, so this has been exciting for cause. And it's been exciting for me personally, because I get a chance to invite young people here who may not be known beyond their university and they produce, especially the postdoc one, they produce a book that eventually makes them household names. And then we can look back and say, we helped to make some of this possible. And they always graciously acknowledge that they got some fuel for their work when they came here. We're really happy about that.


Hello, hello How are you gonna set a 25 minute timer? We're gonna answer questions. It's Vitamix days. We're live While there are no questions. I'll probably be editing a cookbook We have a soft foods cookbook that is available for pre-sale in a couple days, it's half price for a paperback and then Free for the e-book version Pre-sale limited qualities that can flip over to that QR code if you want to grab that the Deadline for that is like today and then yeah, it's Vitamix days.  I'm here to answer questions. I have a 25 minute timer set. So We don't go on and on I will Park it here and do some editing of The cookbook looks like we are live things are working and Yeah, like pop in a comment. I have the chat thing here if you want to say hi like Say where you're from and what's up? I will say hi and answer your questions. If you don't have any questions just Pop in or don't I'm not one to fill the air with Talking So I have some music I was playing Kind of sounded nice. Where did it go? My music go. I don't know where the music went It was nice, but hey, we're here. We're hanging out I'm here answering questions. So What we're doing over here is We're working on our cookbook So this is our cookbook cookbook presale. You can Hit that QR code and it'll take you to a thing which says yeah, like I'd love to get a free copy of this cookbook And I'll show you what we're working on right here. We are Basically, I'm adjusting Textboxes to make everything spaced nicely kind of part of the job I Was in a really nice flow doing this a Minute ago. Now I need my layers. Here we go So basically I'm looking for this rectangle. Let me go away Because I'm gonna make these text boxes have the rectangles on Their own and have them adjust. I know it's super boring, but this is gonna help us kind of maintain the book We're here Editing our soft foods cookbook before we get it up and available for sale. There's just a few finishing touches I'm adjusting the spacing right now and you can see it's gonna adjust right there a little less on top auto size the height Boom, and I think that's good and we'll keep doing it with these boxes guys I'll flip it over to the other scene right here. It's Vitamix days. You can take a picture of that QR code It'll take you to the best of Vitamix days the best deals There are a handful that are around 50% off. There's one in particular. That's like so just delicious The v1200 super pack It's a new machine.  So you can get that one. You can get the reconditioned a 3500 if you're here, I would love to Say hello if you want to pop something in the chat or you can just hear me blab, I guess Love to have the music back Can we replay the music we were like rocking out to some nice jazz? Yeah, we want See if it'll play it YouTube might prevent us from playing music It might be smarter than There it is. Yeah, can y'all hear the music? Now we're hanging out y'all like jazz All right Vitamix days, here's the QR code holler of your questions. I'm gonna be editing this cookbook It's the pain in the mouth cookbook pre-sale You can grab a copy ebook copy for zero dollars it's normally 10 or Softcover copy for seven bucks. It's normally 15 So I'm gonna go back and keep making adjustments if I zoom in here You can kind of see what I'm doing So I'm gonna make this box the same size as the rectangle behind it find the rectangle Delete it just some background. Basically. I kind of had to teach myself how to use this program It's an Adobe product not sponsored. This is our everyday green juice Why did I decide to do this myself? Because I'm not the best at sort of Delegating tasks and managing projects. I like to just do and learn if I'm being totally honest So set the opacity to 80 and then we're gonna adjust the text frame options to make eighth of an inch Excuse me except for on the top and auto size height And it's good and keep going chugging along Hey, if you're here and it's Vitamix days and you have a Vitamix if you have a blender if you have questions If you want to know my favorite food And these one-way conversations are kind of weird, but I have a 25 minute timer set. So I don't need to do this forever We can just hang out. I'm wearing my Vitamix apron today. It's a work day big day Vitamix days 50% off most well Several full-size machines 20% off nearly all containers and attachments Up to 40% off on some of them. All right, let's focus. So we got Get find that rectangle deleted fill it with paper color 80% opacity When I was doing this earlier, I was like, oh, this is Really busy work that I In reality should have someone help me do I wish I was better at that But Thought it'd be more fun to do it together. We're hanging out.  I hope you guys are seeing What's going on on my screen? It's actually not adjusting sort of Hmm, maybe it'll come back You guys seeing the cover of the book Let's see if I flip over All right, you guys are not seeing the cover the book. So let's try this again I bought a Vitamix from Costco and it's with her. So it was worth it. I mean a 2,500 includes the 64 and air S M U T and you are I yeah I'm not going to tell you to return something to another thing I think you're with the with the v1200 package today and I'll put a link to it You're getting more years warranty You're getting a more useful accessory set in the eight in the 20 The air disc container is something we only use every Now none And you'll probably save a little bit, you know, we we work As a partner of Vitamix and so does Costco. So Costco's they do their own thing You know, I'm not it's hard to say I would say It's up to you. Here's a link for it. Let me know what you think if it were me I Would choose the v1200 because I'm gonna save a ton of money I'm gonna have a better accessory set a different more useful accessory set and I'm gonna be able to support an indie creator Instead of Costco But that's just me. All right, let's see if I can get this screen up to date. Let's make this go away Let's add a new video video capture device No, no, hang on new Screen capture. There we go. There's the cover. I'm gonna adjust this Here put this here this like this boom So now you can see exactly what I'm doing That go away There it is now we're working. All right, so that's it. That's the pain in the mouth cookbook Well, let me see if I can get it here. Here we go. I Want this bear with me people. All right screen capture Existing to boom Over here. How we doing guys put a little bit of struggle with the technical stuff But I think we're okay. All right Where did my music go? How we looking on timer 10 minutes, I'm here to answer questions So let's answer some questions. There's gonna be a Challenge of which one should you get the v1200 super pack or the recon a 3500? We love the recon a 3500 because of the look it's got Dampen sound it's got programs. It's got a programmable timer But at the same time the v1200 super pack has most of that It might be a little louder and it doesn't have the preset programs But in this particular package, it's got double the warranty and it comes with more stuff So it's a tough one a Really clever pick now people love the v1200. So if you look at the turbo blend three speed That's the one with it looks like the 5200 it's a tall container I can show you a picture of it. So it's this one the turbo blend three speed People really like the 5200. I'll put a link to that right here Here's the three speed. It's an interesting pick because It looks just like a 5200 except for the dial right here Instead of 10 speeds. It's three low medium high But it's a hundred ninety nine dollars Bob your warranty. I mean that's entertaining bundles great if you're getting a bundle and then 7500 a Great pick if you just want a classic machine. This is one.  So It looks like the gifts are already added to the cart. Let's take a look add to cart pretty good They're already in there for you Excellent free extras Super good. Good job team at Vitamix I like that this QR code right here Below we'll take it to this page right here Best of Vitamix days deals picks This is moot there's a third sort of gift of purchase it's our Vitamix starter kit It's kind of a PDF file with all our recipes are best tips and tricks. There's some coupons. There's it's It's your ticket to success of the Vitamix It includes our VIP support all you have to do is use one of the links over here and then Register VIP this link right here Register VIP that tells us That you bought through us and then we'll be able to look up and see like oh, yeah They bought through us and then we'll send you our starter kit We have six minutes left in This Vitamix days slash I'll edit the cookbook See if Here's the cookbook. Here's a QR code of the cookbook. I recommend that you I mean it's It's a free book Free cookbook 34 soft food recipes if you have braces or are ever going to get braces We're gonna try and make it the window that you can get it We're gonna try and open that up on This weekend Sunday, hopefully I see there's a handful of people still here now if you want to say hello Drop an emoji I'm sipping on our everyday green juice. Oh, and here's um Here's a finished copy of said cookbook That we're doing a presale on it won't have this spiral bound. This is kind of the wholesale version for doctors to give to their patients But if you get a Sort of a physical copy, it'll be a soft cover and then we also have the ebook version too We have five minutes left and In this time, I want to take you through some of my favorite Recipes my favorite Vitamix recipes to do that We're gonna go to life is no. York comm bringing up here Who's that bearded weirdo? We're gonna go Vitamix recipes green juice This is what I'm drinking right now Whole food green juice. This is from a couple days ago. So it doesn't have that as Bright of a color it's fruit Greens seeds lemon ginger and ice on top blended up whole food green juice loaded with fiber If you think you need more protein you probably need more fiber Everyday green juice. We make some every other day because we make a 64 ounce batch I'm gonna flip the QR code right below to Vitamix days. That's Right here that QR code will take you to Our Vitamix days page with our picks and links When you use our links We should get credit for your purchase and that helps us make videos like this make the whole library of videos that you see in our YouTube channel helps us provide the VIP support Laurie Dawson says is the the grains container worth buying? Yeah If you what we say is if you are grinding your dry grains today Yeah, but if you're if you're thinking about like what do I need to make peanut butter? You can do that in the container that you already have you don't need a dry grains container Excuse me for peanut butter if you want to make your own flowers if you want to make your own Spice grinds the dry grains containers really good. It's purpose-built to send ingredients up instead of pull them down. I Hope that answers your question Laurie. Otherwise Seminole, I think we've spoken before we have two minutes before I have to get back to real work of Trying to get this cookbook Up and available for everyone Most full-size containers guys if you are already a Vitamix owner, we're just hanging out today This is the time to pick up a Secondary container Maybe I can go maybe I can find one Just show you Really any container? Except maybe the stainless steel container is a hundred bucks 99 dollars unless you're in Canada, and it's 129 So you can get a replacement full-size if it has gotten its fair share wear and tear it's ready Cloudy you can get a purple one. You can get a yellow one. You can get blue our containers Personal cup adapter if you have a classic machine and want to make little tiny smoothies The cookbooks you guys if you're looking for one cookbook the hundred anniversary cookbook We have one of our recipes in there, and I'll show you that's where I started the our Wild rice soup is featured in the hundred-year anniversary cookbook an absolute Stunning recipe our cashew queso This is how we most often use the soup setting in our Vitamix cashew queso hot plant-based cheese dip Dairy-free delicious The So put us on the map our cash your queso Any Vitamix you can get can make this detox salad. It's a coarsely chopped Vegetable salad. It's the best it'll fill you up without making you feel full detox salad We love that especially in the summertime And then Chocolate ice cream all the machines. That's our timer all the machines can do all the things So don't sweat it too much about picking which one you want to get if it were me I would probably get the v1200 super pack. It's just it's an unbelievable deal For a machine with a 10-year warranty under $400 and you get all these extras that That's what I would do I'd be shocked if they didn't sell out of that one But the recondition 835 hundred is an excellent pick to Turbo blend three speed for $200 Awesome our music is gone again. I miss our music. What should we play on the way out you guys? Do you play country song? This is where I get all my music from For our videos. It's in the YouTube's library. It's all free. It's all licensed This one's in a bunch of our videos. It's calm. It's nice. I love this one now that I had this set up The whole studio thing with the picture the QR code my screen Maybe I'll do this again soon. This was nice It's good to see your faces and hang out one way check Happy Vitamix days. Let me know if you have questions Have a wonderful day Bye Let me go life is no yoke. I appreciate you