Good evening. Namaskar. I must clarify beforehand that my questions do not need to necessarily make me out to be an intelligent man. I don't want to be intelligent or to be taken so seriously that that's Sadhguru's responsibility to answer them. My questions will have the curiosity of a child who wants to sort of know maybe I am representing all of you but I don't mind making a fool of myself as long as I get some answers. You are in a very advantageous position that is because there can be nothing wrong with a question. Only answers are a problem. So it's advantage you at the very beginning. Great. Let's start with my first question. There's a very intriguing people make these great prophecies about world coming to an end etc. Will the world come to an end in 2012? So all those people who firmly believe that the world is going to come to an end the coming year, what I would tell them is we have lot of work to do. I have lots of work to do. 2013, first January because anyway 2012 the world is going to end and 2013, first January all your wealth and money and everything please write it to Isha Foundation. There's work to do. The world is anyway going to end. What are you going to do with your money? For them this is just an entertainment. They don't believe enough to give away everything and get ready. They just want to play with it. All vain minds are always looking at prophecies. They are looking at predictions because they don't have a plan for their life. Those who are incapable of making plans always fall back on predictions and prophecies. Yeah, but I'll just request to give me two percent of that money that goes to you, our foundation. Do you believe that there is a God? Let's come to this. Before we handle God, let's handle belief first. Why do you believe something? One believes something because they are not sincere enough to admit that they do not know. There are only two ways to be. Whether you know something or you do not know something.  Instead of simply admitting I do not know, you want to believe something. Somebody believes there is God, somebody believes there is no God. Both are in the same boat. They think they are different, but both of them are not straight enough to admit that they do not know. What is the problem in seeing what I do not know as I do not know? They have a problem because they do not understand the immensity of I do not know. I do not know is a tremendous possibility. Only if you see I do not know, the possibility of knowing arises within you. If you see I do not know, the longing to know will come. If the longing comes, seeking will come. If seeking comes, the possibility is alive in your life. Something that you do not know, if you believe, you are destroying the very possibility of knowing. There are belief systems and belief systems and belief systems. But at the same time, the idea of God is universal. Why this has come is, it is perfectly alright for people to create a God. This is the thing about this culture. Here we have thirty-three million gods and goddesses because this is the only culture which understood God is our making. This is something called as Ishta Devata. You can create your own God today.   Nobody thinks anything weird about it in this country because we understand this is our making. After all in every piece of creation, the hand of the creator is there. Whatever you can relate to, you use that. It's perfectly fine. I don't want to argue on this. So do you think all our epics, Mahabharat, Ramayana, Shankar, Ram, Sita, they are fake? No, they were historicity. There are buildings to prove that they were there, still in dispute. The dispute is on means they were definitely there, isn't it? No, I will still want to probe a little further on this topic. We have major, Mandir, Masjid issue, Ayodhya issue, etc., etc., we are still fighting about that. So why is all that fighting in fighting going on? If there is no God or if there is a belief… I did not see that. No, you said there is a belief. People needed somebody as a belief of God. All the fight in the world is not between good and evil as people project it to be. All the fight in the world is between one man's belief versus another man's belief. If you saw, I really do not know, you wouldn't fight with anybody. Because you believe one thing and somebody believes something else. You are invariably going to fight today or tomorrow. It's just a question if you can manage them for some time, someday it will spill out on the street. There was a time when people worked with the instrument of belief when the human intellect was in a certain way. Today it is time there is substantial intellect on the planet. Today it is time that we establish a certain level of seeking in a human being rather than just pumping him up with belief. Why do people believe you? Who said they believe me? This is a whole full house. No, no, they are looking… Everybody is clapping… They are sitting there evaluating every word that I say. I don't think they believe whatever I say. To me, they look smart enough to understand and evaluate. I have performed in this auditorium, it's never been so full. So there has to be something in their belief in you which makes them look up at you. Why do they trust you? Why do they believe in you so much? Now let's take off the word believe. Yes, they trust me. Okay, I mean my word may be different. Do you think that Sadguru has powers which you don't have? They can't ride a motorcycle like me, I'm sure. What are those powers? What makes you different? What makes you special? What makes Pallavi Gupta writing a book on you and calling it you? What makes people over here so many people I know who will not come to a function like this? They are here and they are here on time. What is it in you that makes you different? Because they know if they don't come in time, I won't let them in. But they dare not do that. So what makes you different? So what is different? It is not a question of something being different. When you don't try to be special, when you just live as life is that you don't try to make yourself special because wanting to be special is coming from a certain unemptiness or a certain inadequacy within a human being. Where is the need to be special? Every human being is unique in his own way. If he tries to be special, he will only end up aping somebody, he will not be himself. So when the life is unique, every leaf on the planet is unique, every atom in the existence is unique, where is the need for you to be special? Being unique is better than being special, isn't it? You have not yet answered my question. I feel that it's important for me to know what is unique about you. See, the very nature of the existence is like this, the very nature of what's happening around you is like this. If you convert mud into food, we call this agriculture, it's the same mud. Can you eat the mud? Can you take it on your plate and eat it? No. You put a seed and wait, the same mud becomes food and how we value it and eat it. But it is something else.  So this is the way of the life. What is filth will become a flower. If only you mature it in the right direction, this flower, its beauty and its fragrance comes from filth. The more filth you put at the root, better the flowers will grow. So the question is not about what is different, the question is not about what is special, the question is just about will you allow yourself to mature or will you let yourself just roll in filth? I feel very proud to be an Indian and I'm sure a lot of people feel but corruption bothers me and I'm sure you also spoke about it. Do you think spirituality can help get rid of corruption to some extent? So let's understand this corruption properly in its right perspective rather than reacting against a bunch of people who are in an advantageous position, okay? Why I want you to understand this is because for the first time in the history of independent India, the sixty-four years, that means two generations of people, they have at least fifty to sixty percent of them have had such a bad deal, today you and me will talk all this and go home and eat well. There's a whole bunch of people, almost four hundred million people who cannot do that. So if we handle the next five to ten years right, we can change that. It's a tremendous possibility which is on our threshold. There's an economic possibility sitting on the threshold. If we conduct this right, we can change their lives. Those people who have not eaten properly, those children who are malnourished which have the highest level of malnourishment, those who are not educated, those who don't have opportunities, those who are in that horrible social and economic pit, their lives can change in the next five to ten years if we conduct our act right. Everybody Indian should understand this. It is not just about economy means stock market. It is about hungry people who will have food on their plate. Economy does not mean stock market. Economy does not mean foreign cars coming into India. Economy does not mean you wear better clothes or this and that. Improving economy means there will be no hungry children in the country which is something all of us should do something about. That possibility is being jeopardized. Wherever I go, I speak to various economic and political leaders around the world. Everybody says we want to come to India. India is a big possibility but the humiliation of corruption, we can't bear it. Because it's not just about money, they're willing to pay a percentage and get the work done but the humiliation that they put through on a daily basis which we have gotten used to, they're not willing to go through that. They said it doesn't matter if we don't do business, but we don't want to come there and go through all that rubbish. So this possibility is being jeopardized by a handful of people or it is wrong to say it's a handful of people, it's a nation full of corruption. Because how many people in Mumbai streets, if there is no policemen, will stop at the red light? I think only ten percent will stop. So these ninety percent are corrupt people. If they make… if you make them the chief ministers and prime ministers, you know what they will do? So instead of just calling it by one bad word called corruption, we need to understand we as a society are trying to move from a feudalistic way of managing our lives to a democratic way. The democratic way has still not sunk into us. So I'm saying in our psyche we are still feudalistic in nature but we are trying to run a democracy. Democracy will not happen with an active sense of education as to what is democracy, what is the power of democracy, what it means, what is the responsibility of living in a democratic society. This has not been done. We just took democracy from the British and we think if they just put their oat and get their fingers dirty once in five years, everything is settled. No, we have not educated people. We are still a feudalistic society acting to be democratic. Suppose… hypothetical question, I must announce that before that. Suppose you were made the Prime Minister of this country for one month, how will you change things? See, there are enough instruments in the democratic process. Making me or anybody a Prime Minister for one month is a cruel thing. Okay, for five years. Yes. So you admit that one month is not sufficient. No, because one month is a very cruel joke. It doesn't matter who, who comes to power for one month, he can't do anything in a nation as diverse as India. To get this nation moving, you need to understand this, you cannot move this nation with policy, with rules. You can only move this nation when anything that you want to achieve in this country, you make it a movement. If you do not make it a movement, if people do not emotionally connect to that, no rules, no policy is going to work in this country. It is only people who have been implanted from somewhere who have not grown up with Indian people who do not understand this. They think if you make a rule, everything is going to work. This is not Switzerland. If you announce on the notice board, everybody will follow. Here you have to make a movement out of it. You have to make emotionally people connect to what needs to be achieved. If you are not able to do that, nothing is ever going to happen. So whoever becomes the Prime Minister, I don't want to imagine myself there. What do you think should be done? It can be very easily done. There are examples of states which are going leaps and bounds ahead. If you saw Bihar just ten years ago, it was just… I've driven through Bihar just wanting to see what Bihar is. It just looked like Afghanistan, large parts of it. Today things are happening. Wonderful things are happening. Just one man. Things are happening in Gujarat. Just one man. So can't we produce twenty-five men or women like that in this country for every state? Are we so important that we cannot produce twenty-five human beings with some integrity who will do something straight for this nation? And today you don't have to do much. India is sitting on a boom time. You just have to just manage a few things and let it happen. That's all. You just have to see that economic process do not go out of control. You just have to manage that. You don't have to do anything. It's boom time. The whole world is looking towards you. The only two economies everybody is banking on is right now China and India. India is better equipped because it's a democracy because all the numbers are scrutinized. But what is in China cannot be scrutinized. So many people are very suspicious and fearful because it's supported by the government. India has a proper corporate structure. India has a reliable stock market which is a reading. Indian market is open. You can study what you want. You know where you're putting your money. So definitely India would be a natural destination for every investor in the world. Only thing is they're afraid of our corruption, not the system. They like our system. Our corruption… Corruption. System is not corrupt… Corruption. Corruption. The reason… It's the people who are manning it. The other way of making me say things that he wants me to say. No, no, the people who are manning it. The people who are manning it are the problem. But how to find them? You mentioned two states. You mentioned Gujarat and you mentioned Bihar. And strangely they are not the states which… which we have in the center. So how do we… are we politically corrupt… politically completely bankrupt? How do we do that? No, no, no. It is… it is only because common people are not participating in the democratic process. Participating in the democratic process does not just mean once in five years you cast your vote, most people don't even do that. But I'm saying even if you do that, that is not enough. Democracy is an active sport. It's not a spectator sport. You can't sit back and say, let somebody do democracy. Democracy means you are the boss. You can't sleep on it. You have to be active to everything around you. If you do not bring that consciousness in people, that awareness and activism in people, it'll not work. At the same time, for everything you protest, for everything you call a band, for everything, you know, it's our culture. People have understood the technology of how to stop the nation, band, hartal. But how to run the nation, it's a different technology. I am saying at least once a month in your street, in your region, whatever is the sticking points in your area, in your street, just make a list of that. Get a few people together, whoever the counselor, the MLA, call him for a meeting, talk to him what needs to happen. Casting out once in five years is not good enough because you employ somebody and you don't see that he works. That is not... That makes sense, isn't it? I grew up in a lower middle-class family, small town. As a child, I had a great sense of wonder about everything. I till today have a great sense of wonder. I'm very happy to be talking to you. I don't see that in today's children. I don't see a sense of wonder in today's children. Because they replace the wonder with W-W-W. Exactly, exactly that's right. They know the whole universe before they are six. Exactly. They know everything. They just have to press Google and all the information. But information does not necessarily translate into knowledge at all. So how do... And they always say this, that's the way I am. I don't see my grandfather even at the age of 84 said, that's the way I am. So what is this, that's the way I am, I'm bored, dude, cool. I think that to be bad is being cool.  Yeah, they are for the world, for the marketing part of it. Making news after every 15 minutes for millions of channels is never about good things. It's only about disaster, rape, swindling of money. We are marketing fear. We are becoming people who are constantly made to fail, suddenly in India also that we are living in a world which is not very, very peaceful, which is not to be, which is a dangerous world. We are becoming, pardon my saying, like America where we don't look at somebody for a little longer. In America, two years back, I was looking at somebody thinking whether should I ask him my hotel, because in my hotel there was a mall, so I went into the mall and when I came out I could not see my hotel, because I must have got out from somewhere else. So I was looking at somebody to ask him whether should I ask him where my hotel is. So he said, what are you staring at? I being an actor I said, am I staring at you sir? I'm sorry. I did not know. I was staring at you. Poor fellow actually dropped me to my hotel. What my point is, how do you retain, how does one in today's time, in these times retain a certain amount of innocence, a certain amount of sense of wonder, how does one do that? See now, there are two things you said, wonder and innocence. Wonder does not necessarily come from innocence, okay? See for example, when you were a child, you definitely looked up at the sky, isn't it? Absolutely. Did you ever count the stars? I used to do that and it seemed like it was nothing to do. How far did you go? Oh, no, no, nothing. I could not go beyond hundred or two hundred. So I meticulously sat down and the terrace counting, counting, trying to make you know segments of the sky and trying to count, count, count. I have gone up to seventeen hundred and then you get mixed up. What was there is not there, what was not there has come, you know, it gets all mixed up. But today, that itself was wonder, seventeen hundred just blew my mind. Today scientists are telling you there are over hundred billion galaxies, not stars, hundred billion galaxies. So as you explore, as you know, the wonder will increase because you realize the nature of the existence, then wonder will just explode.  Today people are carrying their attention deficiency like a qualification. Anything in this existence will yield to you only if you pay substantial attention to it. But now people have become like this. They can't look at anything, everything is chuck, chuck, chuck. Now in this condition, there will be no wonder, only conclusions in your head. There is no perception, there is only, you know, monologues going in your new head. There is no perception. If there is perception, all noise in your head will just stop. If you're looking at something absolutely beautiful and engaging, everything stops.  It is the attention which is making the difference. It is not what's playing on the screen. It is what is playing on the screen is instrumental in grabbing the attention. But it is the attention, continuous attention which is making the experience of being there. So this is a rudimentary form of meditation, it's called dharana. So how does one in today's time retain that attention span? One simple thing is everybody must do something about themselves. Every child, every school should bring this dimension that a child is required to pay attention to something continuously. It could be music, it could be dance. See, you cannot do music or dance unless you pay attention to it, you know.  But you can pass an examination without attention.  That's right. I have seen this simple thing. Children came to us, we have a Isha homeschool which is a very, run in a very different way. I one day went to the assembly, all these six, six-and-a-half-year-old kids, they're all like this, like this, like this. I said, why are the kids like broken tops? Why are they shaking around like this? Then I just brought this thing. Simply every day in the morning, sari, gamma, padan, isha, fifteen minutes, everybody must do. You go there after two months, they're all sitting like this. That's all it takes. You just take them into the jungle, make them walk for a night without torches, without cell phones, without anything. In a protected atmosphere, you will see, within one night, there will be a tremendous transformation in the sense of wonder in the child's life. But we are making them physically incapable of these things. Sitting just in front of the computer, they're becoming physically incapable. When physically it hurts, they will protest, they'll not do anything. So it's something that parents must take care of.  Your child, he, body and mind should grow up to full capabilities. That is when he will manifest in his life as success. Just marks will not manifest as success. For that parents also have to be… Of course. Peaceful and blissful. Do you get angry? You want me to write, ma'am? You can. It's not that I'm incapable of anger, I'm capable of everything. It is just that I have not given this privilege to anybody that they can make me angry, they can make me happy, they can make me unhappy, they can make me miserable. I have not given this privilege to anybody. If somebody need to be shouted at, boom, I'll go. So what makes you angry? It doesn't make me angry. If they need a shouting, I'll give it to them. See, there are different kinds of people in the world. There is somebody here, if I just look at them, they'll understand why they're being looked at. There's somebody else here, if you look at them, they'll just stare back at you. If you tell them gently, they will understand. There is somebody here, if you tell them gently, they won't get it. You have to shout at them. There's somebody else here, even if you shout, you won't… they won't get it. You have to knock them on the head and tell them. Different levels of sensitivity in the world.  I am not bound like this, I will not say this, I will be gentle, I will be nice, I have no such things. I am just appropriate to the situations in which I exist. What you need, I will do. If you need only shouting, I will do. What's my problem? What's your shortcoming? My shortcoming is, I'm not tall enough. You're the tallest man right now, you're here. We know that. I came little short. Do you feel lonely? When you're alone, if you feel lonely, obviously you're in bad company, isn't it? It's a great journey to be talking to you, I must say. If you have to describe before we go to the questions to the audience, if you have to describe yourself in one word, what will that word be? Apart from mystic. Okay. Yes. Would you consider wildlife as two words or one word? For you it's one word, one word. Life uncultured, uncultivated, just wild and as it is, that's me. You're very warm also. Just life, nothing else. It's been very enriching talking to you, I must say that I feel it, I feel rich. Okay, so questions from the audience? Yes, please. Kiranji wants to ask a question, yes. I'm sure it's for him. Not for me. All the questions for Anupam still remain unanswered even though I've asked them very often. So, I won't attempt it again. But I want to say that I'm very privileged to finally see you in person. Your book, Mystic Smusings, which I read many years ago when I lost my brother, my younger brother and it was a great tragedy in the family and something that I was finding very difficult to cope with. It gave me great amount of courage and made me feel much better. Also it talked a lot about spirits, it talked a lot about life being a continuous process. In that you write about when you and your wife, everybody was constructing the Dhyanalingam. And you talk about how the thread of life or the grasp of life, something to that effect became very fragile when she could not hold on to it and she passed away. What exactly did you mean by that? The life within you manages to stick to the physicality of who you are. Physicality is something that you gathered. It is not you, it is material.  What you gathered from the planet, if it has to stick to the life that you are, you must be in a certain level of reverberance. If you drop an intensity below a certain point, you can't hold it. That is called as dying of old age. If you have seen anybody close up who are dying of old age, you will see his eyes become feeble, life becomes feeble. It's like the body is struggling to hold it, but it can't hold because it's become too feeble. If the reverberation goes below a certain level of intensity, it can't stick to the body, it will leave. So that is generally understood as leaving peacefully because without struggle it just passed on. So that is if the intensity drops. Another way to leave is you raise the pitch of life's intensity to such a pitch, it went beyond normal pitch, then also you leave the body. So spiritual sadhana is trying to get the pitch of your life to the highest point because only if the intensity of life is high, it's like the old age is high, that's why the lights are bright. If your old age is low, the lights will be dim, your awareness will be dim, your perception will be dim. All you will know is just survival process. So you want to pitch it up. So when you pitch it up beyond a certain point, there is always a danger that you will slip out. So we will fix certain things. We will fix certain things when a spiritual aspirant is progressing with a certain rapidity, we will fix the body in a certain way so that that cannot happen. Just yesterday, ashram satsang when we were there, one lady asked why women are asked to wear torings when they get married? Because marriage was supposed to be such a huge experience that they could leave the body. At the age of eight, they would marry them, they will never see each other till they are fourteen or fifteen. But emotionally, psychologically, she is cultivated and cultivated to believe that her husband is like God when she meets him, life will explode, that possibility in the child's mind has built up. When she is physically mature, she is brought into marriage. Because in this country, in this culture, there is no business, there is no marriage, there is no child, there is no family. Everything is just a tool towards your liberation and mukti. You get married because you want to use that as a tool to your liberation. You raise children because you want to use that as a tool to your liberation, you become a sanyasi because you want to use that. It does not matter what you do, everything is towards your mukti or liberation. Because of this, they nurtured this girl and boy in such a way that for four to six years, they have not seen each other but they are made to believe when they meet something is going to happen.  Something does not mean like how today's teenagers are thinking, something means there's only one thing, there's no something, okay? They are not thinking about that one thing alone. It is not just two bodies meeting, not just two minds and emotions meeting, two lives being merged into one. So we created various devices, you know there's something called as Mangal Sutra. Sutra means what is a kite in Hindi? Patang. Patang is it? You have a sutra for that? Yeah, door. So if you have the right kind of sutra, the kite will fly. So the Mangal Sutra is that, that you prepare it in certain way. It's an energy thread and you're supposed to replace it every year.  Matches the husband and wife, their energies in such a way, they are not just bound in body, mind and emotion. They're bound as two lives. Any number of events have happened like this in the past, which is becoming more and more rare these days. If a man or a woman dies, within forty days, the husband or wife will also just die. Have you heard of this? Yes, yes. There was a time when the film people were singing Jannam, Jannam, all that. Now they're talking expiry date for relationships. No Jannam, Jannam songs anymore? No Jannam, Jannam songs. Because the idea was to bind two lives. How the bodies match, how the minds match, emotions match is not important. Two lives are entwined. So there is a kind of bonding. Many of them have never spoken to each other. There is a bonding which is unexplainable. The sense of bond that they felt was so deep because it was a scientific process of binding two lives in such a way that there is no question of compatibility, this, that, it doesn't matter. You marry a devil, still you're bound and you feel an ecstatic sense within you, simply because of the union within yourself, not because of what somebody else is doing. So now in a marriage, what somebody else is doing or what your husband or wife is doing, doesn't matter just the way you are is an explosive experience. This is how lot of women lived in the past because the process was very scientific and it was done properly. So they put this metal on the toes and also on the ring finger always because if there is metal uncertain strategic places in your body, you will not accidentally leave your body. So when you do spiritual sadhana, when we notice somebody is becoming very intense, first thing is I will give them a simple copper ring which they must wear. They must wear and they cannot remove without permission because if this simple metal is on the ring finger, when they get into certain states of exuberance, by accident they will not slip out of the body. So she got into such exuberant states. Naturally certain little bit of jewelry things were there. These things were never discussed till that point. The many things I refuse to discuss because devices will work well only when people do not know how it works. So we just put it on people, we never explained. But when this situation happened, I had to explain what happened. She sat there on a full Monday evening with everybody. There were people around and after five minutes it is in the shrine, she got up and went. My eyes are closed, I knew she got up.   And of all the people, my wife getting up and going, literally irritation in me. One… why she getting up of all the people. Then I ignored it and I sat down. After five minutes she came and sat down. In another seven, eight minutes she just went like that. When I looked she was gone with a big smile on her face. Then I looked, she has removed her nose ring, she has removed her bangles, she removed her toe rings. See she did not know intellectually but at that moment she felt this is what is stopping her. And she pulled out all those things, kept next to the wash basin and came back. And she sat down within seven, eight minutes. But this is not something that happened accidentally. She announced this almost nine months ahead of time. She had prepared my girl who was only seven years at that time that she is going to leave in this month. But it happened one month early for various reasons, that's a different aspect. But this is not new in this country. Any number of yogis just sit down, announce to everybody and leave their body. She was not somebody who was steeped in spiritual sadhana. She is just a very alive, she is either up or down, you know. She is either absolutely exuberant or down. She doesn't know the in-between. She is not somebody whom you would consider a yogi or established in sadhana, nothing like that. She is a very exuberant person and that's all it takes. That you are alive, that's all it takes.  That's the only qualification you need. And she started working towards it. She announced it nine months ahead, we tried to sabotage it in so many ways to slow it down. But it went the way it went. Yes, please. At the Isha Yoga Center in Coimbatore, near the Samadhi of your wife is a photograph which sends shivers down my spine. The feelings are of sheer ecstasy in my interpretation. How does one achieve that level of ecstasy in life? So every life that is here is capable of joy, is capable of blissfulness, is capable of ecstasy. The only problem is they are not able to sustain it. The problem is of sustainability. Everybody knows moments of all this. But to be there, to be there, you have not built the necessary foundations. See, if there is a wall, you can jump up and have a peep. Or you can go on a trampoline and have a little longer peep, but you'll come down. But if you build a ladder, which is not so romantic as jumping, but if you climb up, you are across the wall. Instead of calling it by different names like blissfulness, ecstasy, this, that, pleasantness, highest level of pleasantness, this is what every human being wants. If your body is pleasant, we say it is health. If it becomes very pleasant, we say it's pleasure. If your mind is pleasant, we say this is peace. If it becomes very pleasant, we say this is joy. If your emotions are pleasant, we say this is love. If it becomes very pleasant, we say it's compassion. If your very life energies are pleasant, we say this is bliss. If it is very pleasant, we say this is ecstasy. If your surroundings have become pleasant, we say you are a success. This is all every human being is seeking, isn't it? Nothing more.  This is all a human being is seeking. Outside pleasantness, you need people's cooperation. Yes? It is a craft. You have to arrange. You have to compromise. You have to deal with situations properly. Creating outside pleasantness is a certain talent, a certain capability. Not everybody is able to do the same thing on the outside. But when it comes to interiority, all of us are equally capable. Nobody has come better endowed than the other. Every human being is capable of the same thing in the inward dimension. So somebody is sitting in a state of ecstasy. How to get there? Is it possible for me? Don't even ask the question, is it possible? If it is possible for me, it is for sure possible for you. But what I do on the outside, is it possible for you? Maybe, may not be. But what I do on the inside, is it possible for me? Definitely, definitely possible. Inner experience, nobody can be denied. External capabilities are different. So what needs to be done? Whatever you've been through the Inner Engineering is the fundamental. You… if you get this one thing right, you will naturally grow into that. The problem is, every day you keep undoing it.  So every day in the morning you do this. Now we are giving the Isha Kriya CD also all over Mumbai. But every day in the morning you give yourself a three-minute crash course in Inner Engineering. You will see, in three months time, you will be feeling very pleasant. In six months time, if you simply look at a tree, you will burst into ecstasy. If you look at a cloud, you will burst into ecstasy. If you close your eyes, you will get there. No matter what, you just need an excuse. You will become like that, for sure. Because these are the fundamentals. That is… that's why I am saying is engineering. Because if you want to engineer something, you have to do it right. Otherwise it will not work. You can't somehow… see you want to build this building. You can't somehow place something and hope it will stand. It will not stand. You have to place it in a certain way. Then only the building stands up, isn't it? Similarly, you have to hold yourself in a certain way. Then only this experience holds up. Otherwise moments up and then down. Also, I feel with your permission. I think if you depend on others to make you happy, I think there is a possibility you may not be happy.  Why are you underestimating our husband? Good evening, all of you. Guruji, I would like to know, you know, man is always craving for more and more and not happy at all with whatever he gets. Of course, you just explained now how happiness is an internal state of being. What would you tell to normal people as to how to get peace and happiness in their lives? The problem is not that human beings are craving for more. They are craving too little. Right now instead of when human consciousness is able to grasp the whole cosmos, instead of craving for that, they are craving for an apartment in Mumbai.  So their suffering is not because they are craving for more. They are craving for too little. They can juice even in their craving. That is their problem. Please crave for everything. You will be wonderful. There will be no misery.  That's your problem. When such a big possibility is there, going for this is very… it's criminal, I would say. So it is because of this crime they are suffering. They are being punished for this crime, not for craving too much. They are not craving enough. When creation and creator is possible, they just want this little piece of property. That's all they are thinking of. They can't think beyond that. So they suffer. For limiting themselves, not because of craving for too much. Can I do a chant? Yes, please. Immediately the question is what is the prayer? It's not a prayer. There is… you need to understand there are no prayers in this culture. There are only invocations. Prayers are a recent happening. Prayer means you are trying to talk to somebody. Invocation means you are trying to bring out what is the greatest thing within you. Now, what this chant to put it in a simplest form is everything. The earth that I walk upon, the air that I breathe, the water that I drink, the food that I eat, the very space in which we exist, the hand of the creator is active. The only most beautiful thing that you can do is to be absolutely involved with this, but still not distort the hand of the creation. You do not distort the hand of the creator. That is something that you do is an aberration to what the creator intends. The intelligence behind creation, what it is intending to be in tune with that, not to do some rubbish of your own thing. So this is a journey from being a piece of creation to being the creator. Every human being is capable of this. It's my wish and my blessing. This should become the reality in your life. Thank you very much for being here.


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Hi everyone, it's MJ and welcome to the introductory video for the course on regression. Now regression is one of the big, big areas in statistics. It allows us to create these things known as models, which are phenomenal when it comes to answering questions and a whole bunch of things from insurance, financial markets, scientific research, a lot of things use the concept of a model. What we're doing in this course though is we're just looking at something known as linear regression. So it's very much baby steps and it can come across as a little bit too easy. But what we're going to be doing in this course is we're going to be introducing a lot more of the jargon or a lot more of the areas when it comes to models. This is stuff such as correlation. We're going to be looking at something called residuals and we even touch on a very, very interesting area known as transformation. So we touch on these things. We don't really go into a lot of detail and the linear model is very simple. But what it does is it creates the foundation for those of you who want to take stats further and create more complicated models. It really gives you a solid understanding of where everything comes from. So it is quite an easy course. It is quite an easy section. But don't underestimate it because sometimes the theory can be a little bit tricky, especially when we start adding on multiple regression and all those things, which you will come across in later stats courses. Anyway, if you've got any questions, feel free to ask me in the comment section below, but I look forward to introducing such a powerful component of statistics to you. Enjoy. Cheers.


Ladies and gentlemen I would like to announce the bread boy diet and just like the nutrition genius guys it's a joke and you know for the past two years my diet has looked roughly the same a large portion of starch today we're having bread in the past we've had rice pasta potatoes potato chips that large portion of starch has been a constant we have a small amount of red meat and you know by conventional wisdom not a small amount half a pound to a pound of red meat per day leaner and then I'll have like something here and there on the side whether it's for taste I like to enjoy it most importantly the water keeper present the probiotic that's allowing me to comfortably eat all of these carbohydrates whereas someone with a normally healthy gut microbiome probably wouldn't need as much of a probiotic although I will say every similar indigenous group had some sort of fermented drink or fermented food but the point is they consumed bacteria on a daily basis to keep their digestive systems healthy and we have some mastocon powdered up as well so I'm not really gonna sit down and eat and do all that stuff today we're just gonna kind of do a quick synopsis of why I'm eating certain things and just give you guys an overview something that is new is this is an artichoke dip so you guys that saw my white bean dip recipe like two weeks ago I just replaced the white beans with artichokes same exact recipe it's okay I'm not you know it's not that great if I got artichokes and oil it probably would have tasted better or made them fresh myself but it would be a lot of work it's still pretty enjoyable I encourage you guys to try it out with artichokes too just a nice change of pace so I have one baguette here half of it I slice up to dip in the artichoke dip or as the past two weeks the white bean dip and roast beef sandwich with beef from Frankie's free-range meat so the purpose of the artichoke dip is added fiber gut motility flavor just really something I enjoy eating it's kind of you know a lot very well-seasoned a lot of garlic a lot of onion there the bread is the main starch source and when your liver is detoxing it needs something to put those toxins into starch is the best source for that fiber is excellent as well sugar is okay too bread is an excellent choice the artichokes are an excellent choice those are serving that purpose pure carbohydrates you know they're getting digested by the bacteria in the water key for the only real concern on that end is are we depleting certain B vitamins because it's not a whole grain that gets into a little more but the roast beef I mean my channel used to be carnivore you guys very well know all the B vitamins cholesterol protein amino acids important nutrients that are in red meat and I would say out of everything I've done you know in my life really more recently in diet to be healthy has just been to have that consistent quality animal protein every single day for cellular health above anything else guys if you're eating half a pound to a pound of quality animal protein per day beef or game eat you're gonna be really healthy in general the other stuff can kind of cause issues depending on what you're doing but that one constant has definitely helped me a lot the probiotic this is water key for this is a pineapple flavor we have on Frankie syringe foods guys a lot of you familiar with yogurt dairy key for other probiotics those are excellent as well except I'm not a fan of dairy due to the calcium content and this is something I've been able to have consistently with every single meal and feel good on sometimes I'll have the water key for grains too but this water key for combined with the masticum are the two answers to people saying oh well I can't eat carbohydrates I can't do this I can't do that if you can't tolerate carbohydrates the water key for and the masticum as well as radiation protective clothing will help you whether you get it from me why fashioning.com this is the full coverage long-sleeved t-shirt and long-sleeved pants you're sleeping in a bed canopy the radiation from our environment will damage your organ systems and digestive system to the point where you're not gonna be able to tolerate normal foods you know it's taking me a while to kind of discover all of these nuances and all these things and hopefully eventually in a few years I have my second book done and I have more of an infrastructure with my businesses to provide you guys with all the high-quality food products better even better idea is I'll be on a beach with some Columbia girls that would that would be even better I'd be much happier doing that as much as let's not complain too much today so someone actually emailed me with some very pressurized water key for accident but I've said it before guys it has to be kept in the fridge for you know 12 24 hours before you open it to reduce the the pressure the bacteria will deactivate and then the masticum you guys just grind up in a spice grinder but everything you eat you know if it's fresh if it's properly prepared if you're sourcing it well should be absolutely delicious you know I get this organic baguette from French bakery in the city we make the roast beef ourselves very rare it's delicious amazing and the artichoke dip caramelized onions caramelized garlic it's very very enjoyable yeah maybe a few meals this week I was lazy and hungry and I just had white beans and steak you know that that's what I was doing for a few days this week but when I put in the effort I enjoy this a lot I feel good eating this and you know if I can get a lot of sun this year next year I think I should be feeling much much better I'm already feeling way better I haven't been you know having to take naps throughout the day things have been improving slowly but surely and I think it's just gonna take a little more time because we've been doing this protocol for almost two years now year and a half two years now and maybe another year and a half two years will be somewhat back to normal because they do say it takes your liver like something like five years to recover but that's probably five years after you've detoxed so we'll see well thank you guys for joining me today hopefully this gives you guys some ideas to what you should be eating and if you have been carnivore if you have been keto maybe after seeing me do these days eating so many times it encourages you to get back to somewhat of a normal diet and hopefully you can improve your health to the point where you can really eat whatever you want and have those restaurant nights or cheat meals or whatever and still feel good but you guys can go to frank-to-final.com to support me through all of my businesses we have the roast beef on Frankie's range meat we just launched the eggs of this week I think I'll do an egg recipe on Saturday something a little creative that my mom's been bugging me to make for a while we have the water key for on Frankie's range foods we 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Hell yeah, what's up guys, this is Chris Pike. My friend's call me Big C. I'm back again guys. Today I got some more featured on freedom online. That's right guys, today we're gonna be going back to old school style featured on freedom. We're gonna be featuring gaming channels, video channels, in real life channels. Basically any type of channel is eligible to be featured on freedom. All you gotta do is click a link to your channel or the video you want us to look at. Put it in the description below. I will approve it and it will be in the pool of selection or whatever you wanna call it, the selection pool. Guys, last couple of weeks we've been doing tons of GFX, VFX stuff, intros, YouTube banners, I don't know, templates, logos, thumbnails, all that stuff guys, but we're gonna slow down on that because we kinda hit our saturation point and we're going back old school. Today we've got three channels we're featuring. Let's get in on this. Our first featured channel is, all right guys, our first channel is Blonk. Okay, I don't, maybe that wasn't the way to say it. It's BlVCK, don't know, wouldn't like to buy a vowel. That being said guys, it's some NBA 2K15 cash nasty challenge. It's a challenge and I don't know, I guess you gotta do some dunking. Anyways, the video is called The Rage Is Real and I've edited out a little bit so only the parts that are kind of ragey are in there. Check out the video, check out his channel.  That's where his channel is guys, he's channel number one. All right, let's go cue the clip. All right guys, so I'm doing the 2K challenge, cash nasty's raging dunk challenge. We can't have any centers. I have no gold players.  Oh my God! Playing that on-ball defense. That's it. Come on! No way!  All right guys, the second channel is, all right guys, the second channel is all around Gamers X. That is a mouthful. But whatever guys, he's got a cool video. It's called Every Sniper Ever. He's obviously trolling a little bit. He's having a little bit of fun but he also kind of characterizes every single sniper video I've ever seen ever. Guys, I'm gonna cue the clip and then I'm gonna give you a few more of my final comments on this guy before we run into number three. All right, cue the clip up! The quickscoper. What actually happened? Yes! No, no, oh my God! Wait, no, oh! No! Nuh, nuh, nuh, nuh. All right guys, I'm ready to snipe. Oh, look at that guy. Oh, that guy's really close. Let's switch to my submachine. Gonna never swap. Yeah guys, I really like his, what really happened, which is the second part and then the part that they show you or they edit out. Guys, I'm not saying all snipers do that but you know, it's one thing to show your best stuff and only your best stuff. I get it, people do that. But, I got a real good kick out of that. What actually happened, even though his spelling's a little bit trolley but whatever, good stuff. All right guys, let's get into the third and final partner. Here we go! All right guys, the third and final partner is Thin Cut Gaming. I really enjoyed his channel because he's got a very unique strategy. He plays, primarily plays obscure Japanese games and that's pretty much all he plays. Games that you don't really find in North America all that much. A lot of this stuff is available only in Japan. Not sure how he gets the games, but he gets them. But yeah, he plays some pretty obscure games. The game that we're watching here is going to be God Eaters 2. The demo has only been released. The real full game has not been given out yet, but he's got early access guys and it looks pretty good. Cue the clip and we'll go in for some final thoughts. I hope I'm a male. Yes, I'm a male. Yes, that's the voice. Bam! Oh, but here's the thing. These origamis literally eat anything. Metal, concrete, dirt, anything. Wood. Is that a city? That's a goddamn city. Here, oh, here we go. This is a more advanced way.  And now they just injected you with some origami blood. Now, the main style, the big eyes and the thoughtful commentary. He really knows his niche and he goes for it. A lot of you people that want to start out on YouTube, it never hurts to start narrow, pick your niche, go hard on that niche and then eventually, once that's rolling, expand out. Maybe like he's going to do. I don't know, haven't talked to him yet. Anyways guys, those are our three partners for today. As I said at the beginning of the video, please, for the love of God, submit your links, submit your comments guys, that's where we're going to select them. Also, these videos are going to be featured on Freedom Online as well.  We are trying to get you as many views as many subscribers as possible. So please remember to check out these channels, go to them, subscribe, submit your stuff, submit your links, let's do this guys. This is Big C, rolling up. I'll be back later with some more featured on Freedom. Check it out.


Rusty Kamori, and this is Beyond the Lines on Think Tech, Hawaii. I was the head coach of the Punahou School boys varsity tennis team for 22 years, and we were fortunate to win 22 consecutive state championships. This show is based on my books Beyond the Lines and Beyond the Game, and it's about inspiration, welcoming adversity, and building a superior culture of excellence. My special guest today is a highly respected leader and CEO of Kai Hawaii. He is Ryan Tanaka, and today we are going beyond leadership. Hey, Ryan, welcome back to Beyond the Lines. Thank you, Coach Rusty. Ryan, while you attended Punahou School, when was the first time you first saw me there? When you were, you looked the same and you were in all white at the NS courts, and I was playing JV. I was a JV player. I was in my junior year of high school. And I remember that you were always there extra, practicing extra many, many hours, and that really shows about, you know, your character and the person that you are today. And Ryan, you have a beautiful family, your kids, Kai and Emmy, your wife, Casey, who was my longtime tennis student, and when you guys got married, I was so happy. Out of Casey's many great qualities, what's the biggest thing you admire about your wife? Oh, she's just one is very difficult, but she is extremely kind and kindhearted, and there's really no agenda ever with Casey. And as you know, Coach Rusty, so much of what we do is driven by our intention. And so with Casey, I'm always able to just do a gut check and make sure that I'm always doing everything for the right reasons. So she's a nurse. She takes care of people for a living. And she certainly takes care of me and our entire family. Now, Ryan, when I had you previously on the show, you were the CFO and principal of Kai Hawaii. Now you're CEO. Tell me about Kai Hawaii and about some of your goals that you want to achieve to keep Kai Hawaii moving forward. Well, thank you. And let me start by acknowledging Ken Hayashida who founded Kai Hawaii in 1998. So it's been actually, I'm sorry, 1995. It's been 28 years. And because of him, he's built this wonderful company that's now one of the leading structural engineering firms here in the state of Hawaii. And I appreciate that he selected me to succeed him. And I hope I make him proud. Well, I absolutely love Ken. And Ken is really smart. And he's extra smart to have you succeeding him. Now, what do you want to do as CEO to really keep Kai moving forward? Yeah, so last year I met with all of our staff here at Kai Hawaii. There's about 50. And I met with them for several, either hours, several hours for some of them. And found out from them, what do they want to see over the next three to five years? A lot of what we do is in the development process, really trying to add value to our clients. So we're client driven. We take care of our staff. We have a set of core values that we strongly believe in. And what we want to do is just further that. So we want to invest in our people. We want to make sure that we extend our client relationship, transform how we work, and also be a leader in sustainability and resiliency in our community. So our staff really drive our future. And it's because we're project managers at the heart of what we do. So we want to be on time on budget, have extraordinary service and a really strong product. And then always find new ways to innovate for our clients. Well, Kai Hawaii is definitely a highly respected company for sure.  Tell me what underground services incorporated is. So underground services deals with services that are below ground. So, you know, if you don't, if you don't, it's out of sight, it's out of mind. But so much of what we rely on is our underground infrastructure. There's collection systems for stormwater and sewers. And what we do for underground services or USI is we will clean and inspect. And we do that for stormwater for sewers. We do flow monitoring. So we'll gather raw data that we provide to engineers who interpret that, provide them to lawmakers. And that's how they base their decisions on capital projects. So we're really integrated into the fabric of our infrastructure, which is aging. And it's an essential service that USI provides. We also have a phenomenal team. So there's dedicated people who have been there for now 10 years and longer. And they continue to lead the company and to help take care of all of our clients. Ryan, you know, all of us, we see things above ground. We really don't see what happens underground.  I mean, that's something like you just mentioned, is needs to be updated throughout Hawaii, right? Yeah, the area has their own collection system and they're owned by city, state, federal, sometimes private. But each system, because they're aging and they're below ground, it's really hard to access them. So our team is specialized in confined space. They're Nazco certified. And they're also CDL licensed. So they are able to drive these very large trucks that come in and address all these different issues. Right. And Ryan, you're also the owner of Island Business Management. Tell us about Island Business Management. My background is in investment banking and finance. So I started in Tokyo. I was working for Tokyo Star Bank and Deutsche Bank. I then moved back to Hawaii in 2007 and founded Island Business Management. It is a financial consulting company and it helped clients to buy, manage, and sell real estate and businesses. So during my time in Tokyo, that's what I did. I learned financial modeling and how to appraise commercial real estate, how to appraise businesses, not just from a third-party perspective, but really from an acquisition standpoint. So acquisition valuation sometimes is different because you have synergies that you offer as the buyer. And that's what Island Business Management does for select clients. And that's amazing. And Ryan, another thing that's truly amazing is you bought Giovanni Pastrami Restaurant in Waikiki 45 days before the pandemic. Why is Giovanni Pastrami such a popular restaurant? We talk about motive being such an important driving factor. And the reason I bought Giovanni Pastrami was really to take care of the people who are there. And that's what makes it so special. There's just phenomenal people. When you go down there, you're going to have a great time. There's not just great food. For example, we have a round table pizza license. So we make our dough fresh, our ingredients are all fresh, and everything's made to order. So it melts in your mouth. So the food is delicious. It's a New York style deli. We have sandwiches, pasta, salads. We have a nice breakfast menu. And going forward, we're going to be opened from 7am to midnight. Right now, we're still at 8am to 10pm daily. And we'll be back to pre-COVID hours here shortly. But what makes it so special is just the overall experience. There's great people. We have a fun environment and delicious food. Well, I absolutely love it. There's many things on your menu that I need, not want, but I need. And Ryan, tell me about the Giovanni Pastrami Restaurant Group. You're the CEO of the Giovanni Pastrami Restaurant Group. What does that entail? So last year, the founder of Giovanni Pastrami, he turned 80 years old. And because he had sold, like you said, Giovanni Pastrami 45 days before COVID, we became very close. And because of our relationship, he actually asked if I would be the buyer of his remaining Hawaii restaurants, CJs, and round table pizza at the Hilton Hawaiian Village. And those are just great locations with a great team. And they're consistent. They're always dedicated to the highest level of service. They keep very high standards. So that has completed the Giovanni Pastrami Restaurant Group, which we closed December 1st of last year. Wow, that's exciting. I mean, Ryan, it's amazing. You sure there's not six Ryan Tanaka's? Is there just one Ryan Tanaka? There's only one. Now, Ryan, I want to ask you about my books. You told me that you read both of my books five times each. And I think you might be just as much of an expert with my books as I am. Now, what are some things that stood out to you in the books? Yeah, so right now across our six companies, we have 200 employees. And I gifted your two books to most of them by now. And that's why I've read them so many times is I want to make sure that what I read and talk about with them, I'm also applying and incorporating it to my own life. So one of the, for example, one of the principles that I just talked to them about last week actually was coaching versus teaching and your three cons. So the first con bring to contribute. And I encourage our staff and our managers to catch each other doing great things that are selfless and that people may not notice. But if you see them to point it out, take the time to pull them aside and just say, thank you for doing that. That was outstanding. I did notice it. And then share it with us so we can incorporate that into how we evaluate our leadership team going forward. The second con is consistency. So it's not just the consistency and high performance, which is obviously what drives what we do, but also the consistency and follow through. So it's important that sometimes, you know, some of our staff, they get very busy at times and communication becomes extremely difficult. So that follow through is so important, keeping that as a driving, a driving factor in how we work. And then last, if you're good at what you contribute and strong in your consistency, that builds your confidence. That's the third con is confidence. So that way our staff, whatever they're doing, especially if they're client or customer facing, they're confident in what they do. So your principles, trust your success principles, helps to drive our culture and to improve our culture of excellence. Ryan, I love that you brought up coaching versus teaching and the three cons there. And yeah, I mean, you know it inside and out. And it makes such a huge impact with any team, whether it be in sports or business. And I love how you're implementing those concepts with your companies. And Ryan, you've helped me with numerous book donations to help our community, our schools, organizations, sports teams. I mean, why have you helped me so much to really do these book donations? Well, Coach, you're one of a kind. You're somebody who's had this perfect record, 22 consecutive national championships, state championships that has created a national record. And that has led to you writing beyond the game to teach other organizations how to build that same culture of excellence, that same championship culture. So first of all, thank you for writing the books. And thank you for being willing to then share that knowledge with others so selflessly. And again, intention, guys, everything when people get to know you and get to know your intention, you just want to help inspire others and make them better. And your book has saved lives. They have improved mental fitness for people, and they have helped entire organizations like they have for ours. So that's why I continue to gift your book to different organizations because of what it's done for myself, my family, and for our companies. Ryan, when you and I physically go there to donate the books, and we can see the excitement, how really, I mean, it's a big positive impact that it's making on these various organizations and teams. And I mean, isn't it so fulfilling when we're able to do that and really see all that? It is fulfilling, especially when you see, like, if it's a team and you see the players buying to it, because that's going to help the coach to coach more effectively, right? That's going to allow our coaches to then retain those players and to also recruit more effectively. And that's an underlying driver of not just sports teams, but also companies where we have an employee shortage. If you can find ways to really inspire your team and find ways to have them connect not just with your principles, but with each other, based on your principles, it's going to bring out their best. And then when they're having discussions with each other behind closed doors, they're just discussing the best things and ways that they can live the best versions of themselves and take care of our clients to the best of their abilities. And Ryan, our most recent book donation was last week to our University of Hawaii men's basketball team. And we had Bratahood Grines at your Giovanni Pastrami restaurant with the men's basketball team last week. And you are the founder, the originator of Bratahood and Cystahood Grines. Can you tell us about what Bratahood and Cystahood Grines is? So it started as a nutrition program with Coach Tim E'Chang. It has evolved after 14 months into a leading NIL provider of the named image likeness provider of nutrition, career development and experiences for our University of Hawaii coaches and their teams to recruit and retain Hawaii's top athletes. That's what Bratahood Grines and Cystahood Grines has evolved to. The way that's happened is after Coach Tim E'Chang and I helped to kick this off for football, we then did the same thing for men's women's basketball, men's women's volleyball, men's women's golf and now women's soccer. Starting in January of next year, we're arguing discussions with Coach Richelle about launching it for baseball. What's been the greatest challenge is creating a sustainable movement that is allowing all these different corporate sponsors and restaurants to be a part of it. So now we're at over 20 restaurants. The most recent is McDonald's. So thank you, Victor Lim. But we're also expanding the corporate sponsorship aspect of what we do because of the career development. So a higher number of mentors, internships, full-time job providers, as well as just giveaways during these great events. So they're now receiving multiple gift cards, gas, certificates, Aloha shirts from Kahala, Kaloha jewelry, multiple hotels are often over in its days, Alaska Airlines, anywhere they fly in the world. It's just been amazing. When we celebrate for women's volleyball in August, there's a new grand prize that's going to be even even more special. So stay tuned for that. Well, Ryan, I was there with you in that initial meeting with Coach Timmy and man, I mean, how special was that for me to be there? I mean, you donated my books to Coach Timmy and his entire Hawaii football team there. And when he asked about or he shared about the issue about wanting nutrition or meals, I mean, you stepped up. I mean, you're the first to say you wanted to find a way to help them, Giovanni Pastrami. And then what are the next three restaurants that you asked that also joined in immediately? Yeah. So first, if there was no beyond the lines, there would be no brotherhood grinds, like we say. After Giovanni Pastrami, I was very willing to support Coach Timmy just because of who he is as a person, but the community needs to support him. We need him to be successful. UH football is our professional sports team, along with all of our other teams at University of Hawaii. And so it was because I'm the chairman, I was the chairman of the Hawaii Restaurant Association, thanks to Tom Jones at Kiyotaku, Mike Palmer, Ruby, Mike Palmer of Kuhio Al Food Hall, and Rick Nakashima of Ruby Tuesday. Those are the original four. And then after football for basketball, volleyball, golf, and soccer, then Jersey Mike's, so Tim Janazewski, Jason Higa from Zippy's, and Ken Takahashi from Kuhio, from a hundred burger company also stepped up. So just a number of restaurant tours in the beginning, and that just led to a number of new restaurants getting involved, published in Cultural Center, a hundred sales at Prince Waikiki. There's just so many new ones that are exciting, and they're all exciting, and just so appreciative to all the restaurants, all the restaurant owners. These are selfless individuals who are coming out of COVID, who just want to help to make Hawaii better also. And we share that same passion for you, which I love. And Ryan, this, this is just the second year of Brotherhood and Sisterhood Grimes. And I want you to share, being a business owner of restaurants, I mean, there's a, there's a lot of restaurants that did not survive COVID. And the restaurants that did survive COVID, they still might be struggling. And there, and some of those restaurants are the ones that's helping support our University of Hawaii teams, right? Yeah, a big thank you to all these restaurants. Many of them, like you said, have not survived. I've had to be on multiple different interviews talking about the restaurants that have closed. And we'd like to focus on the future, which is extremely positive for us. And we are faced with new headwinds as an industry for restaurants. And so we appreciate our local community stepping up and supporting our local restaurants. That has meant everything. That has allowed all of these restaurants to stay in business. Right now, 4,400 eating and drinking places per the last entry report. So that's how many, there's nearly 100,000 employees in our, in our workforce that work for restaurants. But that's how large of the impact restaurants make on our local industry, our local economy. And Ryan, what I also like seeing, you know, you mentioned NIL agreements, but even beyond that, you're, you're trying to help these student athletes beyond sports after their sports careers might finish to really help them with their business careers, right? So we've been meeting with the coaches this second year and saying, okay, it's beyond nutrition. What more can we do to support your organization, your team? And they'll list a number of priorities. And we met with players. So the Joaquin Ivalde-Bartin came down, nine of their players, Coach Robin and one of the coaches, Coach Nick, and they identified a number of different things. It's not just nutrition, that that is a top priority. But one of the other top priorities is career development. They just want support with being able to connect with the community off the court, off the field. So what we're doing is we're just rounding up all different people who are interested in helping if you are. Please email me at kaihawai.com. And, and we're just trying to find people who are willing this to offer time to our athletes. And it's not just a one-time lunch or a coffee. It's actually ongoing. We're trying to create these multi-year relationships that's going to allow them to succeed and, and, and develop throughout their college years, but also after graduation as a working professional to give that continued support going forward. Ryan, you're just, you're funny earlier about if, if there was no beyond the lines, there would be no brotherhood grinds. And wow, I mean, just to see how this has just blossomed. And like I said, it's just the second year, Ryan. And the potential is huge. And I think to really retain the athletes, but also to really attract, you know, the recruiting for new athletes, I think is going to be huge. And Ryan, this past Christmas, you did a adopt a family through Helping Hands Hawaii. What compelled you to adopt a family this past Christmas? You know, when I went and visited Helping Hands Hawaii, Susan Peruta, with my wife Casey, she gave us a tour and showed us things like this warehouse where the community can donate. And these stack shelves of electronics, food, clothing, all these household essentials, and they'll give homeless families a shopping cart and they offer them a shopping spree for, let's say 30 seconds. And that allows these families to have these wow experiences and it's so inspiring. So their adoptive family during Christmas program is just as inspiring. There's 100 companies involved. We're fortunate that we were able to get involved this past Christmas and throughout, you know, an invitation to all of our 200 employees and many of them stepped forward. They wrapped gifts. They, you know, we got the wish list from each other. Six to our family was a single mom unemployed with six children and very young children. And we met with them. So we found out what they needed, not just what they wanted, but really these are their lifestyle needs, clothes, shoes, backpacks, things that you would think, you know, for the moms because you're unemployed, a laptop, just things that they need to survive. When we visited their apartment, we saw that their refrigerator and range was broken and the landlord refused to fix it because they broke it. So, you know, we had to really look at, okay, how do we know solve all these problems and our employees stepped up also with cash contribution. So we raised $6,000 among our six companies.  And then we had people like coach Timmy Chang offer football and cash, coach Robin Amal offer pictures from her Olympics, tumbling the Olympics to leave her in the house to inspire the private to inspire their family. And then we had, you know, Marissa, my general manager, Giovanna Prum wrap everything and we delivered it with Cahi Graham, the former football black quarterback for St. Louis School and his family with coach Gary and their, and their, you know, their wife and, and other son. So we went down and made a huge impact for this family, leveling them up completely.  I love that, Ryan. I absolutely love it. And Ryan, I want to talk with you about leadership now. You are a very humble leader, but I want to also ask you what, what are some of the reasons why you are a successful leader? Well, I saw a long way to go. Thank you, coach Rossi. I believe it's more important to give them to receive. And that's really what I, what I focus on. We also create healthy organizations. So we believe in our core values at Kai Hawaii. It's, it's not just showing up for work. It's really showing up for work and, and believing in being a steward and innovation, collaboration and dedication to what we do to our clients. So much of, of what we do is driven by the needs of our clients. Our success are driven by helping them to be successful. And so that's why it is so important for us to be on time on budget to deliver beyond their expectations. So so much of what, of what I do is work with great people who are delivering that. Our teams at each company as managers and staff for phenomenal. I believe that we have some of the best staff in Hawaii. And because we're blessed with that, that allows us to be successful individually as well as collectively. Ryan, I know that you have high standards and you are building a superior culture of excellence with all of your companies. How do you, how do you get your team members to buy into your leadership philosophy? You know, it's that principle of right people on the bus in the right seat.  They're just they themselves live by the highest standards that they can. And because of that, it becomes contagious. They then, they train and mentor other people on their team to do the same thing. And so a lot of what I do is I just focus on supporting them, right? We meet weekly and ask them, how can I support them and their great efforts because they're really the ones who are doing a lot of the driving of our client experience, our customer experience. And my role, my main role is to support them to be successful at it. And Ryan, I know you very well. And I know that you have empathy for every team member of all of your companies. And you care greatly, I mean, super deeply about their well-being to try to help them individually and to really help the whole team collectively. What are your thoughts? Thank you, Coach Rossi. That's just because I, you know, I started with nothing. And my career has been one step at a time. I hope that the people who I worked with, if I maybe, you know, wasn't as, as, didn't treat that relationship as well as I could have. That looking back, we can continue to build those bridges again. And going forward, I just, just strengthening the friendships and the collaborations and partners that we have in place now. So it's a constant work in progress. But what matters the most to me is that I'm from Hawaii, I grew up here and so many people over the years have selflessly helped me to get to where I am today. And I take it upon myself to do the same thing for those around me. And that's why I spend so much of my time trying to just give back to the community and serve others. Ryan, I have to say that you are a proven leader. I've seen you take good companies and make them great. I've seen you take great companies and make them extraordinary. You are an extraordinary leader and person and a great role model for everyone in the world. And you know me, I'm trying to inspire the world through my books and keynote speaking and my shows. And I know that you're focused on trying to really inspire and help everyone in Hawaii, right? Yeah, that's the one thing that we have in common.  And I'm good at just focusing here in Hawaii. Trying to make Hawaii better. Ryan, well, teamwork, right? Teamwork. Ryan, I want to thank you for taking time to join me on the show today to really share these insights. I mean, it's absolutely fantastic. Thank you. Thank you. And thank you for watching Beyond the Lines on Think Tech Hawaii. For more information, please visit RustyKomori.com and my books are available on Amazon and Barnes and Noble. I hope that Ryan and I will inspire you to create your own superior culture of excellence and to find your greatness and help others find theirs. Aloha. and LinkedIn. Check out our website, thinktecawaii.com. Mahalo.