Gurudev you say that you are in everyone how it is possible to see you in people who hurt us?
okay I'm going to do a small exercise for you okay just close your eyes for 15 seconds
now your body has a face does your mind has a face?
hmm? answer me now keep your eyes closed does your mind has a face? no now think of
all the people in the world and discard their faces and see them just the mind or energy
and open your eyes
what did you see?
when you discard their face just see the face is on then the face is not there
then what do you see them? just as energy
nobody can hurt you unless you are open to it
you put those people who hurt you in at par with you or above you
then you feel more problematic
you should see those who are hurting you they are ignorant
there's no they are not sensitive they're insensitive they don't know
they don't know what they're doing
isn't that what Jesus said my father forgive them for they don't know what they're doing
that's it
you should protect yourself you should not get hurt by their words or by their action if they
do it like that that you should ignore them or you should take a right action
if you want to slap them give them one good thing but not with vengeance but with smile
with an intention to teach them a lesson you can give a slap
you know a teacher punishes a student in the classroom don't they punish
yeah did how many of you have gone through some punishment or other in your classrooms?
they are not angry at you they are not hateful about you they
punish you because they want you to learn better
hmm my Kannada teacher in my school used to do like that he used to take the wrist of
a person and thung bang on the desk and everybody would sit like that owww..
two days their hands will pain
if you don't do the homework in Kannada class that's what they'll do for me also he used to put
my hand and then he wanted to do that and he would look at me and not do it
and everybody all the girls and the boys in the class would say partiality partiality
they would shout partiality
they would say then he would look at my eyes and then somehow he would drop
would not give that hit
otherwise it would be very painful the knuckles hit the ball like this on the table
the kids remember that then they don't then they ok panchakshari class I have to do
homework but their intention is not to hurt you their intention is to see that
you learn a lesson so with that intention of a teacher if you give them a slap if someone is
misbehaving punish them
I am not saying just accept if this are misbehaving with you let them do it
turn to the other cheek no I am not the person of turning the other cheek
I would say pull both the ears
teach them a lesson be stern you don't have to take everything
on you but not with rage because rage kills you more every time you are
upset angry you're punishing yourself for someone else mistake be kind to yourself
don't punish yourself be kind to yourself
Gurudev what is the simplest definition of seva?
and which one is the highest or the greatest form of seva?
where does Anna daan or Gau daan stand in all this? see
seva is that which you do with an intention of nothing in return
otherwise it is not seva so you do something
so that you see because that is needed to be done so you do it
of course you will get merit out of it
but if you are doing it for merit it ceases to be a seva no doubt you will get merit
if you do some service you will be rewarded it but if you are doing it for rewards sake
then it doesn't look like it's a seva got it? so do whatever everything is good next
over 40 years ago Gurudev you started a startup on breath and meditation what
advice would you wish to give to the current generation of startups on the ups and downs of
starting one? you have forgotten it you have lessened two years it's 42 years already
you just do you know whenever you do something significant or anything big or great
obstacles do come many type of obstructions and don't stop because of some obstacles
because someone says something he'll you'll hear all sorts of criticisms
you know we were criticized so much oh you do this you do that blah blah blah
traditional people would not accept us non-traditional people also would not accept
there will be ping pong those who are not ready to think it is traditional
very traditional people saying this is not traditional something modern
so we were ping pong between the modern and the ancient we know we have both
and we just went ahead now everybody is coming together
the modern mindset are also with us and the ancient peoples mindset people also with us
so today everyone is coming along
so we simply keep moving ahead and every challenge startups should take it
not just on a dream level but you should see both practical and
imaginative which there should be balance between them too
practical and imagined both from balance and go