It is a… it is a crisis beyond imagination
you can control perhaps pollution
you can control perhaps pollution air pollution, water pollution, this pollution, that pollution.
But unless and until the pollution that has captivated the human heart of being too selfish
this pollution is self-created and nobody except yourself can remove it.
So I think we are as a family, falling apart
however justifiable reasons you may enforce and say, “Oh, I have to do this, I have to do that,
we cannot afford this", this is all nonsense
You don’t care.
You are not even kind enough to your parents, forget the world
So I don’t think we have hope if persons start justifying
their reasons to be away from their parents
In fact we are paying a big price when we neglect our parents and grandparents
You see, for example, Let me give you one small example as
as more and more youth members are moving away from the inner
parts of Amazon jungles, what is happening there?
The elder generation is not able to transfer the knowledge to the younger folks
This timber is good, this tree is good for that, this root is good for that, this flower is good for that,
this leaf is good for something’,
this knowledge is not being transferred.
So what happens then? After that generation is gone,
the thousands of encyclopedic knowledge will disappear, right?
Now what happens in a human society when grandparents are non-existent?
Parents are too busy children are depending on digital platforms and teachers.
Where will they get previous generational knowledge or wisdom?
Even if they don’t speak much, just being with elderly generation, elderly parents,
children feel comforted They share stories, “I used to do this, I used to do that.”
They learn new things from the old times.
When this generational gap
continues for another next one or two generations
then what will happen to this human society? Think over it
Think over it We are heading towards a catastrophe
That civil society as we call it will no longer exist in India. It is a crisis beyond imagination.
It is a… it is a crisis beyond imagination
you can control perhaps pollution
you can control perhaps pollution air pollution, water pollution, this pollution, that pollution.
But unless and until the pollution that has captivated the human heart of being too selfish
this pollution is self-created and nobody except yourself can remove it.
To me, the simplest solution is to follow your enlightened heart
When we meditate every morning, even for ten minutes and when your heart sees clarity,
follow that clarity.
When I was deeply involved in business in New York,
I mean very deeply, twenty-four hours were not enough
and I used to frequently visit India, almost three to four times a year
Each time I would stay at least a month
Very little time was there when I went back and then getting ready to come back again
to be in the company of my Master my Guru
So people used to wonder, “Kamlesh Bhai, how are you able to take out so much time and still run a business?”
I said,”The key is meditation”.
I’ll give you a small example. Whenever I would meditate in the morning
ten or fifteen things would get scanned through my mind on their own, without my effort.
“aaj, yae karna hai, these are the things that I have to do today”
and then what happens when I see the uselessness of certain projects,
when I see that, “I should not do this, I should not do this, I should avoid this, I should avoid this,
I should not meet this person”
more than fifty percent of things are out
you save so much time
So when we reflect in our heart,
clarity emerges and you are masterfully in a position to discard things
that I must not do this
so, discrimination becomes extremely accessible
what is right, what is wrong; what is profitable, what is not so profitable
what is good for me or the company what is not so good for me or the company
It just strikes your mind immediately when you are so calm and peaceful
and when you meditate over a period of time maybe, let us see, over three years, four years, thirty years
then this process of meditation no longer remains a process because you become that, you become…
mentally you are in a state of meditation all the time, you are carrying that meditative mind all the time
So, meditation is one of the ways I would say where you sensitize your conscience
A person with a conscience can do nothing wrong.
He might do it once or twice, the third time he will say, “No, enough
I am paying a bigger price when I do wrong things”.