around and child is left to a mate or a babysitter what kind of samskaras you are going to inculcate in these children so you can say genetically you have given a gift to your children but at the mental level at the emotional level at a spiritual level and these are all more and more vital and they remain kind of a mild nutrition they are not having a proper diet at that at those levels imagine if you are having a malnutrition at a physical level it will be visible imagine at an educational level imagine at the maturity level emotional level and imagine what happens when you are spiritually bankrupt that's what is happening today we are let me explain to you a bit differently we borrow our genetic pattern from our parents if you are going to grow 5 foot 9 you will grow 5 foot 9. at the most you go to gym and exercise and you know you might grow to be 5 foot 10 but you can never be six and a half so we have limitation


never be six and a half so we have limitation at a physical level now let's go at a mental level what happens at a mental level a son of a farmer or a son of a rickshaw or a truck driver he can study he can become even a phd right so there is more flexibility of enriching yourself at a mental level but not all can be einsteins there too there is some level of limitation but it's not so difficult hmm at a spiritual level there are infinite possibilities there is no limit to what all you can achieve at a spiritual level but now you see where our efforts are going more and more towards you know and six foot nothing wrong with it just as there is nothing wrong in be in [Music] it is good for your health i need to strengthen my mind i need to also parallelly strengthen my spiritual or moral muscles that's where i think youth is lacking today they they feel that salvation that something is lacking within me and


that salvation that something is lacking within me and they are not able to pinpoint what is that right you see once you can fulfill your inner hunger automatically you'll find peace and you'll be calm and success will await at every stage because we are driven by our inner poise if you are not poised however brilliant idea you may have the implementation will fail because not boys you are restless [Music] with a restless girlfriend if you have you'll feel so disturbed let me get away from her she's always restless and so imagine if i don't have peace in my heart i will be only radiating restlessness all around me so first thing is to i must bring about this calmer peaceful state it's not that you are becoming uh introvert and least interested in the outside world no in fact the peaceful person voiced person they can achieve a lot more but that itself with the power right um yes i have so many questions for you but since you mentioned you know having the wrong partner i'll


since you mentioned you know having the wrong partner i'll try to take a question from this kind of a bit of a psychology question so i was reading this very interesting article on the nature of relationships and there's this thing called the bad boy complex where basically they say that a lot of women are more attracted to possibly men who signal bad boy traits you know who have something wrong about them but that's what attracts you and the same can go for men going after the wrong kind of female partners so what happens in someone's head like why are you more drawn to the challenge rather than someone who is you know right for you in many ways i'm not saying that this is a general statement but this tends to happen a lot it's a general thing exceptions are there but as you say it's a very general thing and it always leads to disasters you already know and and we as human we like to challenge right a person who refuses you you go after that person so often right but a person who


after that person so often right but a person who is easily available so there must be something wrong with this person right so part of it is also ego that book or crook i have to win this person right and then when you build a relationship with such an ego how long will this ego last fulfillment of ego will last immediately with the success of having a relationship with with the person you are attracted towards you'll be happy but it will not last longer because opposite may attract but eventually this opposites will crumble because i cannot live with a person who is having opposite views all my life yeah in in the physical world in the science they say north pole south pole opposite poles attract anode and cathode positive and negative charge it's true in the physical realm in the emotional realm opposites will attract also but it's only temporary only to be repaired again so we have to be patient with the kind of partner we're going to have and make sure there is some sort of a


have and make sure there is some sort of a resonance there is some sort of vibratory level that matches yours right so i think uh vibrational compatibility is very important but what about the individual's own spirituality because of marriage so does something change in your own spiritual growth after you go through the process of marriage what what happens to your personality what happens after you have a child oh it's even better you see when a spiritual person is there i mean let us say i consider you as a spiritual boy and your vibratory level is definitely going to affect your wife she will also sit with you and offer prayers and when two individuals who are prayerful reverential they'll they love each other imagine the kind of progeny they can end up having a balanced society is the only result out of it to me when you meditate especially with your partner in and day out you practicing meditation together it changes everything it makes you more peaceful i mean you you have heard


makes you more peaceful i mean you you have heard the word what is pleasure right it is restricted to a physical level you have heard the word joy it's here mental emotional very rarely people have experienced bliss we have these three phases like a physical level when we enjoy something we call them pleasures right pleasure of having a great meal for example when we move on to emotional level we say wow what a joyful relationship right very rarely we talk about bliss which is at a spiritual level and i would like that we thrive in a society in a family from that level as well so imagine you and your wife are meditating together and in that state of meditation where you come to most intimate relationship where you are invoking god also people often when they make love they turn the photographs of gods and goddesses in a reverse way and said no no god please don't look at us it is as if it is very sinful it is not sinful you are inviting a very


it is not sinful you are inviting a very precious soul and we call soul as atman right and atman is part of paramatma you are inviting something very vital how can it be a shameful thing it is not so one has to understand that it is a reverential process and when both individuals are in that state your your your chemistry works at a different level altogether let me explain to you something from epigenetics i don't know if you follow epigenetics epigenetics is all about influence of environment on your genetic expression okay they've done trials experiments in brooklyn new york city mothers-to-be who are going through a certain phase they have a different lifestyle people living in a ghetto where there's so much of crime you don't know when from which side the gun will blast and even husband who knows he might be sleeping with a gun under a pillow so he need not even argue so mothers to be who are under constant stress that cortisol level is always so


under constant stress that cortisol level is always so high and when your response is always sympathetic where you either fight or you take a flight either you punch or you run away right fight or flight mode because of the sympathetic responses now when that happens your blood circulation is more in your limbs because you have to fight blood is needed there then what happens the blood is taken away from the visceral organ from the vital organs now the same hormone same neurotransmitters are crossing the placenta barrier in mother's womb going to the fetus that is growing that will also start you know having limbs longer limbs then also the blood is transferred to transferred away from the vital organs for example your gi tract castro intestinal tract your lungs etc so they end up having a weaker digestion bigger lung capacity okay furthermore the frontal part frontal cortex they call which is all about thinking reasoning blood supply in this area is reduced but the blood supply in this and


area is reduced but the blood supply in this and what the amphibian brain reactive brain increases so the blood supply here will be more so the brain development here at the physical level will be more here and less here so cognitive abilities also drop so stressful environment can be combative if husband is cooperative bring about harmony and similarly wipes should not be indulging in such actions that they can create stress that's why in in our ancient indian traditions you know when they learn that daughter-in-law is pregnant within a month they what do they do they have a ritual they do the worship etc and very respectfully prayerfully they send her away to her parents place why because that's a familiar place where her familiar food other you know they she will enjoy life there she'll be without stress in an agrarian society when husband is working when mother-in-law is working a a lady who is pregnant will feel shy how come i am not working i have to also work that stress will always be


i have to also work that stress will always be there so they send her away see so our traditions are very rich actually and with a scientific reason they give a reverential puja and then send her off with lot of respect to her parents place you see so the and she would spend time in bhajan kirtan they will be spending time with lot of uh you know good story telling by parents so the fetus that is growing inside will imbibe all those things you see the hearing capacity of a fetus is very great even through the placenta barrier they understand the sound not eye vision eye vision develops even after three four months perhaps you know after it is born they cannot even recognize the colors when they are newly born [Music] so coming back to this idea of reverential feelings in your heart and not taking this sexual aspect of relationship to be as a damnation or as a sin at the same time one doesn't have to become so compulsive excessive so that the the holy aspect


so compulsive excessive so that the the holy aspect of it is also neglected so we have to bring some sort of a integration or some sort of a balance between spiritual life and our abortive life material life they have to be balanced now my master under whom i got training he used to say that bird cannot fly with one wing needs two wings our human existence also should not become like you know that i decide to become sannyasi and what happens to my parents when i take sannyas at a very early age my parents will suffer so you know it's an irresponsible act even i don't admire lord buddha having a child and then say i'm i'm having a detachment and i'm running into the forest he left his wife and a newly born child in the palace and just left just like that as if he has no responsibility it is irresponsible act to me spirituality and materiality must go together it should not be at the cost of the other has to be together


at the cost of the other has to be together and even though i may have it together imagine for a moment bird with two wings what is it that guides these two wings it's a tail and that's how in the airplane they invented the tail part you see it gives the direction to the plane the ladder and what is this tail in us that gives the direction to go in both direction this way or that way you know that is our heart heart is the tail guiding principle that always tells us oh you follow your heart it's always good imagine then we'll imagine for a moment the wrong decisions you have made in your life you don't have to tell me but when you analyze those decisions what went through your mind before you made those wrong decisions you will come to one single conclusion you did not listen to your heart analyze any of your decision yeah i mean you're definitely right uh so so we need to listen to the heart now imagine if your heart is corrupt even


heart now imagine if your heart is corrupt even the most corrupt heart will give you the right decision but one has to know how to listen to the heart and that's why i think if a person just becomes quiet calm for a few minutes and focus on the heart to guide them and that is meditation meditation is nothing but tapping into the guidance which is already there inside you the gurus are not outside they can somehow inspire you but this inspiration is only to look within yourself right right how many times you have rejected your parents opinions many times right but have you rejected your own inner voice very rarely but what if there is an eclipse of your parents suggestion and your own inner conscience when they meet together and form an eclipse that's the best best scenario so it's not enough that your parents meditate i have also to meditate and mix i have to vibrate at the same level see yeah yes um there's there's something very interesting you said about how the material world can be


interesting you said about how the material world can be balanced with the spiritual world and because you reference science so much i'd love to ask you the scientific perspective about what goes on in your mind your heart your soul uh that guides you along the path of your career and along the path of your life when you inculcate spirituality it's very simple and very very simple for me to tell you when we have to make decision be it marriage be it my carrier or beat what i'm going to eat next simple things like that always refer to the hearts and we don't have to have this exercise of closing your eyes and meditating and say oh let me think figure out what i'm going to eat next that is wrong that is going on another direction see when the heart should be so sensitive enough through practice that it warns you each time what is the basic nature of your heart it first of all it works like a radar picks up the wrong things what is wrong in the process simple example would be


what is wrong in the process simple example would be let us see you're able to hear me well right and when we are face to face in person and you say accomplished by i'm not able to see you or you are speaking but i'm not able to hear you what will your heart say and where it's time to go to a doctor something is wrong with your with my eyes or with my ears so when something becomes unnatural heart warns us but when things are going in a natural way you are seeing where you're hearing well it doesn't give any warnings or it does not congratulate you wow you're looking good you are able to hear well it doesn't say anything of that sort so nature of the heart is to give us warnings when things are going properly it doesn't give any warning at the most in certain situations it will give contentment but people have lost the track of identifying what is contentment and what is satisfaction they want immediate results they want immediate rewards but contentment is


results they want immediate rewards but contentment is something that comes as time passes you have to wait for it it has to mature spirituality is not something very esoteric to me spirituality is very practical if i have to lie and say i have achieved so much and i am a doctor of so and so and so what will happen to my heart at that time when i'm bombasting with lot of ego my heart will no doubt become heavier if someone asks you suppose you met a beautiful girl on the way at the airport she asks your name and say oh my name is so and so instead of saying ranbir how will you feel at that moment your heart will say oh no runway don't screw it up don't lie like this your heart will become heavier whenever you have lied your heart becomes heavier but this conscience and all these physiological parameters they're all connected see and people say there's nothing like spirituality all right don't call it spirituality they don't have to name it or


it spirituality they don't have to name it or you know but every person even cat even your little dog understands when they do the wrong thing when despite your carpet and you see how they huggle down with their mouth down they also know that they have done something wrong so conscience is there even in little animals how can a man or a woman be without conscience we all have that see that's the voice of your heart problem comes when you don't want to listen to your heart it is speaking louder and louder each time but you say shut up shut up shut up this is a wonderful girl i have to take her to bed tonight if possible you are rushing into it and that's where we fail see your immediate urge to satisfy yourself at any cost and this to me i think it's terrible thing comparison is where you sacrifice your life for somebody else right and such act of satisfying yourself at the cost of other to me it's rape so to me i


of other to me it's rape so to me i as i was saying with you that spirituality is not something esoteric it's very practical it can be applied in a day-to-day life simply by listening to your heart see many a time you know guys like young at young age they come and say come blessed we are in love for a long time but i'm also loving the other person so it's a complex situation whom to marry so i told to me the answer is very simple when love is on both sides right it is a girl for me there is another girl for me i love her i love her too it happens it can happen to many people but in this scenario now you figure it out who loves you more you love somebody more or she loves you more if in both situation you find the situation where a girl says that and you feel in your heart that somebody else is loving me more and she's willing to sacrifice anything and everything while a girl


willing to sacrifice anything and everything while a girl who puts a condition in front of you she loves you but puts a condition i will not live with your parents after marriage that's a warning signal stay away though both of you are in love but there's a condition on the other side where the other person is ready to sacrifice anything and everything so that is your choice i will retain that message for this upcoming phase of my life for sure good luck to you on that you know you said something very interesting about sacrifice uh i've had a very for lack of a better word to mulch use past a tormenting past where i've had substance abuse in my life i've been into drugs i've been deeply into alcohol and gradually come out of that in my life where you know i've really embraced the process of meditation and everything around it a lot more deeply at the age of 27 and i've also discovered this beautiful word that's always stayed with me especially in this phase the


always stayed with me especially in this phase the word is called sadhna and sadhana basically means a discipline and there are gifts at the end of discipline but that's not why you should do the sadness because eventually the result of discipline and sadhana is an easier life is a more peaceful and uh contentment filled life but i'd love for you to share some you know knowledge of wisdom about the concept of sadhana and how it applies to modern day humans especially young people are not willing to sacrifice to get to the next stage of life and i feel like people should read more about sana know more about sadhana just for their own self evolution so i'd love to know your opinion on it once one of my masters he was sharing a story of one young boy he says i'm going to do so much of and achieve the highest in shortest possible time so guru advised him you must perform sadhana you must embrace sadhana so 10 years later they meet and


embrace sadhana so 10 years later they meet and that so-called disciple was so happy and say i'm so happy you advised me to embrace sadhana oh great great great the guru what sort of sadhana you are practicing because sadhna please come here he married a lady named sadhana anyway this is a stupid joke but sadhna is a word it conveys so many things that something that you do to achieve what you want to achieve now you in the beginning itself you had asked me a question about god what do you understand by god suppose a person says i want to realize god it's too subtle an idea it's it's very fancy to talk about god but when it comes to i want to realize god it's like you're looking at 360 degrees without knowing where i am going what god is sadhana is a process you want to achieve something right what do you want to achieve so immediate goals should be clear in our mind and the highest goal need


be clear in our mind and the highest goal need not be crystallized in your mind but some direction has to be there in your mind that i want to go in this direction right so now having understood this much if your goal is okay now at the moment i am so much troubled i'd like to get rid of this stress so the goal becomes distressing yourself and you want to bring about some level of peace in your heart okay having achieved peace you'll come up with something else oh i want to go little bit higher you have understood that much it is like you know when you are driving around the mountain during the winter days early morning and there's so much of you know this fall all around you hardly see anything 10 feet away from you but nevertheless you continue your journey right and you go 10 feet and then you'll see another 10 feet and you'll see another 10 feet and that's how the journey continues until you hit the peak but if you say i'm not


you hit the peak but if you say i'm not going to continue beyond this 10 feet because i don't see anything beyond 10 faith then you are a failure you have failed spirituality is also like that nothing will be clear to us on the journey on the first day but as we move along it reveals to us little by little why as i was saying earlier what is god to me it to me it's not more it's not so important what is god for me what is important is how i can become godly more compassionate more loving so my aspect of understanding of god is resonating with that entity we call love how to arrive at it so there's a whole exercise of spirituality if you look at it from one perspective it is all about love it is not the love people talk about in common parlor it is something very different and they were saying pleasure joy bliss they are different love is also different for example love between the couple versus love between a mother and a son


couple versus love between a mother and a son or mother and a daughter right it is different uh affection that we have between friends all these are given various names but when it comes to god very few people understand that and i don't blame or criticize them because there's no way to feel that until we achieve that level all the practices that we talk about spiritual practices it is only to come to that level of understanding and not just understanding but becoming that see to me becoming is more important that you have become in the process love itself you see uh swami vivekananda he once said purpose of all spiritual practices is only one and that is to expand your available consciousness this available consciousness that we all have it is like a thin film of water sandwiched between two giant oceans can you imagine a thin film of water imagine it being sandwiched between pacific and atlantic oceans that's how our available consciousness is and he says i must be able to soar


is and he says i must be able to soar higher into the sky of super consciousness and i must be able to dive deeper into the oceans of subconsciousness through the spiritual practice i am indulging with so the aspect of sadhana is evolutionary would you be happy uh if i tell you ranvi that you had a beautiful experience of samadhi and day after day you have the same experience would you be happy no i don't think so have you seen that movie uh what was the movie where this guy has the same experience day after day day after day huh oh right that right groundhog day oh my god i mean imagine his uh frustration and everything repeats the same every single day and spiritually during your sadhana if you go on track i mean experiencing the same thing again and again i mean there is nothing more frustrating than that but i do find people they say oh i was with this sachin such a guru and i was in months or over and i was in


i was in months or over and i was in kailash and i was he touched me and then said wow i have elevated you elevation is not once it is incremental purity is not once it is incremental purity suppose god gives you a gift and said ranbir i have totally purified your consciousness i don't think you will recognize yourself you'll go gaga in a sad way because you cannot tolerate 100 purity it has this improvement of purity has to be incremental gradual to the extent we can tolerate it right so when we move from one chakra in in yoga we often talk about chakras system which is energy system and we take a journey especially with heartfulness way with the heart the reason is the three chakras which are below that which are common with animals here begins humanity we have to expand that compassion love empathy this part of this heart and then we move on to another chakra the next level to the next level and it continues and when you


to the next level and it continues and when you are at one particular chakra you have some level of consciousness and with guru's help who guides us in meditation with transmission and transmission is very unique it takes us deeper into our levels of samadhi's you know the samadhi that you enjoy while you are at heart chakra is different from the samadhi you you know so many chakras are there so it's evolutionary sadhana can be very joyful only when there's a change in consciousness all the time now for an experiment sake i mean to the audience who are listening try this out you meditate on the heart thinking of presence of the divine principle that my heart is an embodiment of the source of all that is divine make that thought and sit for meditation now another form of meditation the same thing they do that same divine principle the source of all that is divine is present in my heart but you invoke this prana transmission which is available through heartfulness way


this prana transmission which is available through heartfulness way you compare the experiences you know in you see i mean i have a pharmacy background runway whenever we have to research a new drug it is compared with a placebo or compared or with an existing let us say if you are researching a painkiller you are comparing with existing painkiller does my new molecule have lesser side effect than existing molecule or is it better in quickly relieving my pain than the previous one then this new entity will have a good market value right what is happening today with pfizer kovid vaccine right or bharat or serum technologies or modern or you know so astrazeneca so many are there so we say how effective it is and see if it has least amount of side effects so any spiritual seeker trying to fulfill personal spiritual goal has to be very vigilant he has to have a scientific approach that if i meditate just like that and if i meditate with this transmission in the heartfulness way is it


with this transmission in the heartfulness way is it better does it give me a better experience then that is for you so i urge that you must try it before you make a judgment say and we have this app called hearts app you know it's like you know what is that cab thing we have uber cab right you are over over cab and you make a request that i would like to be picked up and i have to go to this place so someone who is near around will say and they pick you up right similarly let us say you are in india and you want to meditate and suddenly you woke up at 2 in the morning and say i would like to meditate with the help of a trainer now who are you going to contact at 2am in india so this app will search a trainer and login to you maybe from new york or maybe someone from paris and say okay runway i'm available and they'll sit with you and transmit to you which you can feel it as i was


to you which you can feel it as i was saying it's a matter of experience again uh it's not wikipooky thing it's it's something people only understand after experiencing things like this so it's easily available and any i mean anytime all these practitioners plus the trainers are available and those who would like to meditate on sunday i transmit from here from our ashram i transmit this pranamati at 9 00 am every morning from ashram and they can all join even if they are first time meditator they can join at 8 45 there is a link heartfulness meditation on sundays and they can take benefit of it uh i'd love for you to share some uh knowledge about the concept of chakras like if you had to teach a four year old about chakras how would you introduce that concept like in the simplest form like what are chakras how many are there which what do they stand for what is it simply put chakras are like circuit breakers you know we


chakras are like circuit breakers you know we have multiple suppose electric current is passing through a wire you have attached in the first place some equipment another equipment third equipment fourth equipment fifth equipment and if they are taking if the resistance in each is different right so from 110 to 220 various levels of currency will be passing so you have to filter it right but if the same current is passing without this resistances and reaches out it can blow the circuit and burn it okay what happens in the moment of conception does the soul enter this incrementally dividing cells ultimately becoming a body at the moment of this conception no soul does not enter at that time soul awaits outside hovers around mother's womb allows things to happen inside it is when the brahmarandra chakra is formed it enters through that brahmarandra because that has a certain level of resistance it enters and slowly comes down as the other chakras i have already formed inside right if it's traced away comes


already formed inside right if it's traced away comes down then there is a breaker of circuit similarly the the escaping or outgoing soul it follows the reverse path from muladhara chakra to swadesthan to navi to heart chakra and it goes on and to the top side they all have specific function they all have a specific environment that when my consciousness is settled on the second chakra that we call atma chakra i will have some level of peace but when i am on the tenth chakra my peace of course i have but the frequency of that calmness and peace will be different since again a matter of experience simply put i would say these chakras are kind of a circuit breakers and also it all it's all about various degree of consciousness they reflect right daji i have to ask you one of the hottest questions sent in by the twitterverse which is a question about someone who you've mentored in some ways rohit sharma so a lot of people have questions about him as a


a lot of people have questions about him as a cricket fan i'm a huge admirer of him i've been an admirer since he broke out onto the scene and we've all seen what he can do but you know what's what's really special about that soul in that man's body i'd love to know that because i know that you know him at that level and also at this stage of life you know where he's accomplished so much he's considered one of india's all-time greatest batsmen what's next for him on a personal like what does he wish for next well his success i would tell you lies in his ability to pause if you watch him and he has learned this art of pausing pausing to me it's like a mini state of meditation you go within you are gathering your inner composer before you strike see if you watch him he's very poised while he's batting each ball he's not worried about this or that he's simply poison waiting waiting with the poise that is


simply poison waiting waiting with the poise that is his success his ability to poise out at any given moment is that similarly this poise aspect of poise or pausing that is you are conversing with someone you love and you are also responding similarly in a bubbling with the hot temper or whatever how will that go versus other person may be boiling up and irritated and talking like that but you as unveiled you're weighing out with the poise and you choose not to respond at that moment and say okay ability to pause and also postponing certain things you're buying time and by the time the person who has been irritated will also calm down say and then that person also would forget why should i bother when we also when you're buying time you might know your own mistake for which the other person is irritated maybe that person is right it gives you a moment to reflect so pausing poise is it's a great quality in sports in studies in business world corporate


quality in sports in studies in business world corporate world i mean everywhere it can be utilized so i would request all of our friends to learn the art of pausing longer the pause better it is and if you can add to this pause a flavor of godliness it's a win-win situation see so uh thank you firstly you've answered so many of my personal questions so many personal traumas have been healed in many ways i would like to do the same for our twitter verse on this podcast we now have a section where we take on questions from all the twitter followers of the beer biceps team uh so these are just like short quick questions you can even answer them in short if you wish um so space walker gmathur93 asks us uh how do you know if you're meditating in the correct manner i meditate for 35 to 45 minutes at a stretch on a daily basis i do feel calm but what's next is there any kind of kriya yoga or vipassana meditation that i should be


yoga or vipassana meditation that i should be practicing next well i wish you log into heartsup and get the dose of this prana with your transmission and see how it changes your experiences i am sure you will not regret those experience [Music] destroyed hardship got it uh do you have anything to say about his uh time that he's been meditating for a lot of people have this question about if they start meditation as a practice how long they should sit for initially well you start with whatever you can start with five minutes ten minutes you can begin with you can go up to one hour but you should not meditate more than one hour at a stretch okay take a break for five ten minutes walk around and if you like to meditate again start again but never more than one hour at a stretch gaurav padam asks while there are many parts of spirituality how do i know if i am on the right right path towards spirituality well it's it's a fundamental question that we all go


it's it's a fundamental question that we all go through whether i'm on a right track or not you will know it only when you're ever changing consciousness is it it's a sign of but it's a witnessing sign that my consciousness is changing my experiences are changing i'm becoming better and better person my negative qualities are going and i'm becoming more influenced with such qualities like love and compassion and more and more people will come and say wow there's something different with this person then you say well thank god i'm becoming better with this practice uh swati sahaval asks i want to know how to be detached from the material while living within a materialistic world well i wish you do everything with passion you see because without passion even spirituality will fail so i may be working and say give me a man of passion and see what i can do so passion is not wrong see attachment is not wrong many people say i don't want to earn money what is wrong with earning money if you


earn money what is wrong with earning money if you don't make money then the other negative elements in the society will end up making money and you are supporting that with proliferation of negative elements so i would wish that you should make money nothing wrong with it but spiritualize your material efforts meaning anytime you do anything bring god into the equation bring divinity into the equation meaning bring love into whatever you are doing and is love possible without passion that's beautiful it's a powerful answer rahul gupta asks very simple question what is samadhi oh samadhi in short if you are looking for a literary answer some it's a word in sanskrit meaning some plus are the sum equivalent to are rd means original state what original state that was prevailing before the creation so absolute balance that prevailed before the creation if you can experience that absolute balance where you are not shaken you are not disturbed not just during meditation but that becomes your life that is samadhi to me and it can change it can


samadhi to me and it can change it can change until you achieve the highest so as i was saying you cannot have absolute purity all of a sudden likewise you cannot have absolute samadhi all of a sudden it comes in incremental doses as we practice more and more amazing um how to okay keshav jindal asks how to decide whether an act is forgivable or not and are all acts forgivable how to forgive myself as well as others it's a difficult thing to forgive we have to see the situations at every moment what caused it and if i cannot forgive also i have to understand how long i want to harbor this toxicity in my heart by not forgiving who is getting hurt is it the other person or myself other person may have forgotten you all together but you are holding it in your heart so they say it is easy to forgive but not forget so if it remains in your mind as a memory there is nothing wrong with it because when someone


memory there is nothing wrong with it because when someone really does hurt you or let us see i i have fi i get affected by a fire [Music] it teaches me not to touch the fire if you are affected by some bad experience by someone i should not forget it but i should not hold it as an emotional baggage and hold that person ever in a negative way because it only toxifies me it only creates toxins in my system with hurtfulness where we have methodology how to get rid of all these past baggage in a very simple way so once again i urge you guys you know try this out and see how easily it can remove all this toxicity amazing um the next question is from ayush bajaj another very interesting question how do we know the difference between an intuitive voice and a negative voice inside our own heads it is always present and it is what we call discriminative faculty of a human being as we evolve more and more you know there are individuals who understand that


more you know there are individuals who understand that if i do such and such a thing it is not going to bring about good results they know ahead of time there are certain individuals who would while going through that particular process you know they will understand whether i'm doing right or wrong and if they become aware of it that i am doing it wrong they have the ability to stop it some people they say i already started it why what is the point of stopping it and some individuals to me they even after they have gone through it doing a wrong thing they still don't get it so this is again a difference in how evolve your consciousness is all so to improve our consciousness once again i cannot emphasize more and more more and more the importance of meditation it it helps us first of all how to discriminate what is right what is wrong what is beneficiary what is not beneficiary what is causing what is the effect what is profitable what is a lost situation so person who


profitable what is a lost situation so person who meditates his heart is always so inwardly tuned see you will identify what is right what is wrong and next thing is the courage to follow what is right and stay away from what is wrong so that's a next step some people have it some people don't have it [Music] and i think the last question again from ayush bajaj uh does everything happen for a greater purpose i'm also very interested in knowing this i don't think the universe has any purpose i have to create my own purpose of my existence because i am not moved by somebody telling me this is your purpose and listen until that can also become my purpose so even though the universe may guide me into a certain purpose it has to become my purpose you know often people say is my destiny fixed i would say yes and no you know suppose if i tell you and will stand up and you know let me stand up lift your leg you lifted one leg i also asked


your leg you lifted one leg i also asked lift your second leg in the first scenario you had a choice which led to lift in the second scenario you had no choice destiny is like that we have created our destiny in the past for example if you are an engineer why are you an engineer because you studied in the past to become an engineer right what i do now will create my destiny in the future so i am the maker of my destiny at the same time i do get influenced by others actions as well so we are complex we are always in a complex situation something that is done by myself something that is done by my parents something that is done by the government for example i have a very typical situation i face often girl is in love with someone parents say something else now and the destiny is something else which one is right for a person we don't know we don't know because even if you know this person is right you don't know whether you'll have a happy


right you don't know whether you'll have a happy path or not you have seen in ramayana lord rama and mother sita their future was predicted by no lesser person than sage vashishtha perfect prediction but everything that can gone that can go wrong went wrong because of the interference of kaikai mother who changed the destiny of these two individuals and in the process the father died of heart of heart attack so you don't know how our future our destinies are manipulated something is in my control hold that control and regulate it through a sound decision your mind you can always make a rightful decision with a poised mind so arrive at that and i pray that you all achieve that thank you for answering the twitter versus questions before i let you go uh i have to be a little selfish again one last time and i feel like whenever i get to talk to someone at your spiritual level at your level of wisdom there's always something i am supposed to take away on a personal level as


am supposed to take away on a personal level as the host so i'm happy to accept whatever advice you have for me if you have any uh i think you got to know me a little bit over the course of this conversation so whatever you have for me i would love to know well i'd like to initiate you to this path and see where it can take you we can achieve great heights together your vibratory level the way you would end up speaking later will affect the others because this energy will go along with your voice and whatever whatsoever you touch will be affected in a positive way and that's what i'm looking for infecting people with love and spirituality that's all i want nothing in return as i said no i of course i know that like i'm just ah i i can't tell you how much peace and love i experienced just simply speaking with you and uh i mean i'm honestly a little speechless now so i'd actually end the podcast here and just thank you i bow


end the podcast here and just thank you i bow down to you uh and i from the bottom of my heart thank you for just sharing all the wisdom thank you thank you be well my friend yes thank you [Music] you


every human being has that one story that they call their superhero origin story spider-man was bit by a spider batman had traumatic childhood experiences everyone has a superhero inside them [Music] all the superheroes have one origin story where it all began in my case there's a bunch but when it comes to the pure logic of things what the character traits boil down to character traits always boil down to two factors which are your discipline and your motivation so what's the origin of that in my own life people say i get too private with these solo podcasts i over share sometimes but i feel like people out there the watchers the listeners gain from these really really private stories this particular story is about the most important person in my life my mom i've had a lot of important people around me but she's the person who gave me those really early character traits in my life so here's a slightly painful story related to her but it's a story that keeps me going even now at age 27 on


that keeps me going even now at age 27 on the worst of days it keeps me humble in the best of days as well i was always a smart kid but i was one of those kids that hated the education system so i never studied and the general feedback my mom would get at parent teacher meetings was that this kid is smart he's got a lot of potential but he's wasting his potential and i kind of enjoyed that kind of enjoyed being a bad boy in school in the sixth grade in our terminal exam i finished near the bottom of my class now some contacts on my mum she's the michael jordan of mums very competitive very relentless when it comes to her kids and also keep in mind she was a working professional she's one of india's top gynecologists very driven about her career in the early part of my childhood she actually sacrificed many aspects of her career to look after my sister and myself my sister turned into the schooltopper and i was


my sister turned into the schooltopper and i was known as the kangcha alabadia's brother in school the kid who finished near the bottom of the class in about my fifth or sixth grade my mom started working a little bit again and in the sixth grade terminal exams when i finished at the bottom of the class she was called into school and she was spoken to about me the same narrative this kid has high potential but he's wasting his potential her michael jordan kicked in she also kind of felt like she's not being fair to me as a mom best mother in the world i never had any complaints but i think some in her heart she felt like she wasn't doing enough for me because she was giving more energy to her career i was a perceptive kid i kind of understood these things but i didn't want to study i enjoyed being the bad boy i enjoyed having that reputation i remember the day after this parent-teacher meeting i woke up and right next to my


meeting i woke up and right next to my textbook on my study table were these really colorful notes with this cute font and some of those words were colored some of the sentences were colored they were highlighted it had been created on microsoft word there were photos lots of colors things were written in a fun way everything was written in a simple question answer format there were questions there was answers under it the answers were in points next to those answers there was ways to remember the answers anagrams right that's what it's called basically my whole study process had been made easier i looked at that and i thought okay cool whatever i went to school i came back and my mom said randy today these are your new textbooks she made me study them i didn't really pay much attention and this happened for like a month every single day it would be a new subject every single chapter that i studied at school would be converted into this kind of a note system also keep in mind i was a spoiled kid a


also keep in mind i was a spoiled kid a month into this process i really hadn't started studying my mom had actually sat me down and told me that you you've got to change this up please study she had tried everything with me but i wasn't listening but this one night i woke up from my sleep i think it was about 4 4 30 am and i made my way to the washroom but i saw that one of the lights in my corridor was on this was the light of my dining room so i walked up kind of half asleep i looked into the dining room and i saw my mum typing out these notes at 4 30 am and she was crying while she was typing out these notes and that image got stuck in my head since that day i think i was about 11 years old right i didn't understand why she was crying i wasn't mature enough to ask her when she was crying i just went back and i went to sleep with a little


went back and i went to sleep with a little emptiness knowing that i'm doing something wrong but i didn't know what so when i woke up the next morning i asked her why are you crying mom and she told me that she had six surgeries lined up on that particular day and it was a new form of surgery which she had just learned and she felt like she was nervous for the surgeries but at the same time she didn't want to not focus on the notes she was preparing for me for the first time in a month's time i figured that those notes which just landed upon my table were written by my mom while she was staying awake through the night she was getting two or three hours of sleep every single night just to ensure that her younger child studies that a younger child doesn't feel neglected because of her career and that she's able to michael jordan the out of a younger child i remember that whole day at school i kind of sunk into a


whole day at school i kind of sunk into a lot of heaviness i think in your pre-teens you're at that phase where your brain has developed enough to perceive things but you're still rapidly learning about the realities of the world i think you're learning about sadness for the first time you're learning about the dark nature of life for the first time you've just started secondary school and things are changing in your body and your mind and the world this was one of those dark things for my childhood i realized the concept of sacrifice because of my mum and i know this sounds extremely filmy but this is my story i started respecting those notes a lot after that and i actually started studying for the first time in my life my academic performance picked up those final exams of my sixth grade actually did well and my mom did this for me till the ninth grade until the time i got tuition teachers and i kind of understood how to study my mom taught me how to study even


to study my mom taught me how to study even if it was difficult for her trust me she was going through a lot of issues herself she had restarted her career she was going through a thousand different things and above all else this is something i understood only at the age of 25. she was an entrepreneur at that stage as an entrepreneur you're supposed to give your business your teams your career everything that you've got and she had two kids to handle along with her entrepreneurship coming back to that night when i was an 11 year old and the heaviness i felt the next day i remember being on the bus back home and i remember thinking that okay my mom's putting in this kind of an effort for me one i've got to get serious about studies and two i'm gonna repay each of those pages to her [Music] that's my superhero origin story that's why i get motivation from that's why i get disciplined from even in the most tired situations even in the most


in the most tired situations even in the most grueling situations of my career a part of me goes back to that moment that's the underlying motivation for everything that i'm doing in my career so much so that one of my favorite basketball stars james harden he broke a certain nba record that very few people have broken something related to scoring points i think he was the first person in history to do that and here's what i love about instagram on instagram the next day he uploaded a photo of him hugging his mom saying 20 000 points ain't enough for you ma but i got more where that came from and that's exactly what i feel there's a lot that we've accomplished collectively as a team whether it's the formation of monk entertainment whether it's all these things we're doing now whether it's all these youtube channels i don't feel it's enough for my mom she feels it's more than enough she says that i work too hard sometimes that i need to slow it


work too hard sometimes that i need to slow it down but i don't feel it because that 11 12 year old is not done repaying those pages i haven't been the best son especially when i was growing up i had a lot of aggression inside me and when you grow up as an angry person you tend to remove the anger on the people who closest to you it's just human nature we are most real selves with our loved ones everyone goes through that late teenage phase where you kind of blame your mum or your dad for things that are going wrong in your life you kind of remove all that pent-up anger from college sometimes on your parents because you can't remove it on your friends you can't remove it on someone you're trying to impress you can't remove it on your professors you remove it on your parents i've done that i've gone through those phases i've almost reached a phase in my life now where i feel like my role has reversed with my mum now i'm the


role has reversed with my mum now i'm the parent feels cool i still love her to bits and she is my motivation but i remember this phase when i was a teenager and we were going through one of our good phases i'd asked her the two things that she'd expect of me in life and keep in mind even then those pages of those notes were alive in my head probably every time i speak to her in person if i have a conversation with her those pages of those notes are in my head at all points i'm like i have to repay this woman i've told her this she says you don't have to repay me i'm your mother but i don't look at it that way maybe it's a story i've made for myself to motivate myself while she didn't ask me to repay her what she asked of me is that she wanted me to do two things for her one don't mistreat a girl be kind especially if you're in a relationship with someone be loyal be


you're in a relationship with someone be loyal be trustworthy be chivalrous she'd ask me to be a good person especially to women but the second thing she asked of me is something that's very close to my heart especially at this phase of my life and this is addressed to every single woman out there my mom was a female entrepreneur who had to balance motherhood with business with entrepreneurship they say motherhood is the toughest job in the world i know entrepreneurship is the toughest profession in the world i can't imagine what she's done over the last 10 to 15 years her request to me was to help the female workforce of india a part of the world's workforce which isn't given its due but is also very capable at the same time which is why viraj and myself have made a conscious effort to hire a lot of women at monkey we make an effort to constantly empower capable women to the position of being an entrepreneur having their own businesses charmi from my team was


having their own businesses charmi from my team was my design head at beer biceps is now launching big brain company i'm always on the lookout for female entrepreneurs and i think the core of that is the conversations i had with my mum so here's what i have for you firstly i'm very proud of this because this is the first startup that i've invested in in a very big way i've tied up with a dear friend of mine who's family to me her name is shalini vader her organization ready set jet has already made a massive impact in the american cosmetics scene it's entered india i'm partnering up with charlie to grow ready set jet in india ready setjet is an organization that's made for women by women now here's why this ready subject collaboration is so close to my heart ready setjet has launched its own crowdfunding campaign crowdfunding is a process by which you can invest your own money in a startup and become a part owner you get to join the redesigjet


a part owner you get to join the redesigjet community as a part owner of this brand and we're only looking for female investors at this point that's the big announcement i'm going to link the crowdfunding link down below we're looking for female investors from across the world but especially from india the lowest investment is hundred dollars which is about seven thousand rupees the highest investment is fifty thousand dollars it's completely up to you in terms of how much you want to invest and depending on how much you invest that's the share of the equity that you will get in the organization ready set jet has launched its makeup and cosmetics products but also very soon we're launching the ready set jet academy that will train female entrepreneurs female professionals female social media hopefuls in their art form in their craft in their missions i'll be creating some courses myself and also gonna have a lot of in-person interactions once this whole pandemic situation has eased out a little bit when i made that promise


eased out a little bit when i made that promise to my mum this was a huge aspect of that promise create jobs for women empower women but take actions towards it that story happened at age 11 and 16 years on i've taken my first big step in that direction but now we have a community of podcast listeners a lot of whom are women this is my way of giving back to you guys there's a lot more coming with ready set jet if you want to test out the products i'm gonna link the amazon link down below make sure you check it out and also i want to sign off by saying that this is just the beginning you have no idea about the things we're planning for women's entrepreneurship in this country for women's content in the beer biceps world in the big brain company world women's products with all the secret tech products that we're building and generally all the inspiration and motivation we're going to be putting out there on a very selfish and personal level you


out there on a very selfish and personal level you guys are helping me achieve my own purpose in life my own goal of reaping my mum that's what i request of you [Music] i hope that this story gave you some insight into my mind but i also hope that you question your own origin stories the reason i've put this out is not just to tell you guys about the rsj collaboration with beer biceps the reason i've put this out is so that you get a little bit of an insight into my mind because i feel like i've done a few things right in my own life i only did those things correct because i knew what the origin was at the core of all this is a little amount of self-awareness which happens because of meditation and deep introspection meditate introspect back it with action whatever your story is go back to that painful moment go back to that important moment and try making that version of yourself happier there's two kinds of entrepreneurs there's two


there's two kinds of entrepreneurs there's two kinds of legendary stories the first are the ones who build in complete silence and only show you the end result and the second are the ones that build completely publicly i'm definitely in the second bracket looking forward to your support guys especially you ladies thank you [Music] foreign


even your hobbies must add up into creating a better character that's what I genuinely feel in life you should invest your time things that you have fun watching or doing as well as things that add leo's to your personality I'm gonna be talking about stories in today's podcast three of my basketball idols that's what I do outside of YouTube being in business i watch and follow a lot of basketball I also watch and follow a lot of cricket but basketball really has my heart for a few reasons I've learned a lot about human minds from that sport I've learned a lot about the human mentality from that sport I've gotten a lot of motivation and discipline in my life through that sport a lot of people cry about how motivation is temporary and discipline is something you should actually be chasing I personally believe discipline is important you get inspired to be disciplined through some of your idols through the stories you listen to and even motivation I feel it's important even if it's


even motivation I feel it's important even if it's temporary I'm a motivational speaker I believe I'm one of the most motivated people on the planet and there are moments where even I need that external motivation from some of my idols I'm gonna share some of my learnings from that sport what I've gained from it so that you can gain through this short podcast that'll cover a lot of the aspects of the sport beginning with my favorite aspect of sports stories stories of triumph stories of victory we're gonna talk about three legendary basketball players the first player is my biggest Idol at this point in my life I've spoken about him a lot on the podcast his name is LeBron James a lot of people consider him to be the greatest basketball player of all time and I'll tell you why so in basketball up till the time he came he got into the league in 2003 and right before that that whole phase pre 2003 probably since the time basketball began was very much


probably since the time basketball began was very much a hero ball based sport that meant that any M that won the championship would usually win because of one star player one player would be significantly better than the other players and that player would usually take the game into his own hands and score all the points in order to make his team when he would be a scorer he would be that guy who throws the ball into the basket now in basketball there's points that's every time you throw a ball into the basket you get two or three points there's assists the person who passes it to the scorer gets an assist and that's also a very crucial part of the game and there's something called rebounds that means if someone's tried to attempt scoring and the ball doesn't go inside the net but it bounces off the rim and it falls back into one of the players his hands that player gets a rebound he's rebounded it off the backboard and he's given it to by other players in his team


he's given it to by other players in his team now up to LeBron James came into the league the league was based on hero ball here comes a guy who changes the game he's definitely capable of playing hero ball he's extremely gifted he's an absolute beast of a man he was huge he was strong and he was fast but at top it all he valued the team game much more than the individual game he was very capable of becoming an individual game legend but he decided that I'm gonna be the guy who elevates my entire team he focused on his assists if he came into the league the hero of the team would only focus on the points he was someone focused on the assists but he was so good that sometimes the team required him to focus on the point scoring as well he's currently third or fourth all-time in terms of scoring but he's also high up on the list in terms of assists he's a guy who elevates his entire team and when need be


who elevates his entire team and when need be when his team requires him to he goes and scores the points as well that's why he's an idol of mine today I personally feel that teamwork team building the elevation of the people around me is my big goal in life and I study LeBron James his leadership mentalities his personal mentality his family life his habits his fitness routine inside out that's what the sport of basketball has given me it's given me one of my biggest idols of all time he's that one guy who if I ever bring on the podcast I probably start crying before the podcast happens all cry mediately after it happens I'm very emotional about LeBron James because if you study his story you'll find out that he came up from complete poverty his father had abandoned his mom when his mom was pregnant with him his mom was 16 years old when she gave him both and brought him up as a single mother they basically had a really tough life he


mother they basically had a really tough life he was spotted by a basketball scout playing on the streets they saw talent in him and then groomed him to become a really good basketball player but because of the person he was he decided I will be the guy who will assist my teammates much more but because I'm capable and also scorer I'll make my team win lots of leadership lessons that you can learn from this man before we move on to the next player I want to highlight one more aspect of LeBron James outside of basketball he's mentored by Warren Buffet and Warren Buffet has said that the way this guy's investing right now he's gonna become richer than me when he's my age and Warren Buffet is one of the richest men in the world today LeBron James is an intelligent teamwork based human being I'll tell you one who gorgeous thing about basketball it exposes your character the court is so small there's only five guys you're playing with


so small there's only five guys you're playing with so based on the way a player plays the game you get to know a lot about them as a human being LeBron James helps his teammates on the basketball court he's the kind of man who helps his teammates off the basketball court as well his entourage the people around him his business team are the same people who will his bros when he was 17 18 years old and he hadn't entered the league get he's elevated them to become CEOs of companies elevated them to become founders of media companies that's the kind of man years he's fueled them he's given them the contacts he's given them the finances so that they can be well established I think he's been questioned about this at some point and he said that hey you know what I love my brothers but it's also a way of financially securing me if you make a whole team play well it's very likely that your team will win the championship he knows


that your team will win the championship he knows himself very well he's self-aware news's that self-awareness better his game and elevators teammates and on a side note he's 35 years old today and he's still considered in the MVP conversations of the league that means he's the best player in the league or at least one of the top two or top three best players in the league at the age of 35 most basketball O's start declining by the time they're 30 to 33 years old at 35 this guy is rock solid because he's taken care of himself he's an extremely disciplined man he's disciplined when it comes to his own body and he's disciplined when it comes to the game because keep in mind basketball is one of those games that changes every 10 years he's kept up with the changes he didn't have a three-point shot that was really good a three-point shot is when you shoot outside the arc in basketball courts you know you've seen that big arc so when you stand


know you've seen that big arc so when you stand outside it and you shoot a basket you got three points he wasn't a good shooter he developed an inside two-point shot first and when he figured hold on there's a lot of other players in this league who are getting better the three-point shot he built an insanely good three-point shot that's the kind of man he is and I think he did this when he was about 30 years old because if he wanted to win the championship he had to beat a certain man called Steph Curry that's the second guy I want to talk about basketball changes every 10 years because of the players who playing the game Steph Curry came into the league in 2009 before he came in it was much more about the two-point shot working your way inside the court working your way towards the basket and scoring from near the basket you had to be strong athletic extremely fast to be able to do that the people who could shoot balls from relief evalute but they


who could shoot balls from relief evalute but they wouldn't get that many chances to prove that their shot is really good now here's a guy who comes in as a point guard there's five positions on the basketball court the tallest biggest guy stands on the inside he's called a center then the two shortest guys are the two guards the point guard who's kind of more in charge of assisting the way LeBron helped his teammates the point guard is kind of the coach on the core and he distributes the ball to his teammates there's the shooting guard whose main responsibility is scoring and then there's a small forward like LeBron James someone who does everything based on their own skill set if they good at assisting they do a bit of that if they good at scoring they do a bit of that if they good at defending they mainly focus on that but let's talk about the point guards this is called the era of point guards in the league because right from 2005 a lot of


in the league because right from 2005 a lot of great point guards started entering the league shorter guys were very skilled who were very athletic who were really strong for the height who were really fast they would work their way inside the court go near the basket score maybe dunk here's a guy who's not strong who's not very fast he's agile he can change his direction really quick but he's not the most athletic guy his biggest weapon was his three-point shot he was an extremely accurate three-point shooter people look at Steph Curry today and they think it comes to him naturally he spoken very often about how when he was in high school when he was in college no one valued him because all the other point guards his age were very athletic very strong and he was the skinny guy all he can do is shoot what's he gonna do in the league he enters the league in 2009 and a lot of people don't respect him because his game really wasn't up to the mark


because his game really wasn't up to the mark but he figured that hold on three-point shooters don't get that much opportunity to show their skills then that's okay I'm still gonna take that chance and I'm gonna attempt to shoot more three-pointers he was very good at three-point shooting he made it even better after he entered the league and because he got so good at three-point shooting he made his team win a lot of the games obviously with time he became stronger faster more athletic but he focused on his own strengths his strength was only the three-point shot a shot from far away that's all he did he made his team win based on his three-point shot his team became so strong with him and his teammate klay Thompson was also an insanely good 3-point shooter these two guys are considered the two best shooters of all time today the rest of the league realized oh man if we want to beat these guys even we have to build a really good three-point God


even we have to build a really good three-point God LeBron James built his own good three-point shot after Steph Curry and klay Thompson entered the league Steph Curry changed the mindset of the entire game everyone started taking more three-point attempts therefore you know what happened even the tallest guys the center who would stand in the middle of the court he moved to the outside centers are sorry taking three-point shots today because of Steph Curry it just goes to show that when you're extremely self aware of your strengths and if you have a vision for where you want to take a whole industry where you want to take a whole future you've got to work on your strengths and then trust yourself that I'll be able to do that Steph Curry has been a huge inspiration of mine he was coming up around the time I was thinking of launching beer biceps that's when his team was winning championships his story inspired me because I thought you know what here's a guy who everyone's


thought you know what here's a guy who everyone's doubting he only has one thing he can do well all I could do well was talk I started a fitness channel I didn't have the fittest body was a very kind of everyday fit kind of guy boy next oh what's he gonna do right but I'm a good talker and that's what gave me my career you gotta trust your strengths if you have a vision if you know why you want to take things you gotta trust that vision keep going who knows you might be the next Steph Curry the league has entered a zone today where it's taking more three-point shots than ever before that's opened up the court earlier the game used to be about cutting in going to the rim shooting from near the basket now the game's become extremely spread out shooting is much more valued this guy changed the entire game based on his own strengths seen in the whole league play according to his rules and someone else before LeBron and curry who


rules and someone else before LeBron and curry who had made the league play according to his rules was Michael Jordan I've spoken about the last dance his Netflix documentary that's out right now and oh my god that documentary has been giving me so much fire lately it's about his mentality his story what it took yes he was athletic yes he was gifted but here comes the theory of the first strong versus the second rung of gifted the first rung of gifted would be people like Lionel Messi and football such in Tendulkar in cricket probably someone like Magic Johnson in basketball LeBron James also falls in that first rung where you're just born with the physicality and the talent needed to succeed a lot of people were born with that raw talent God gifted talent in sports usually don't make it to the top some of them do some of them who understand okay wait I've been given these abilities now I need to work hard and ensure that I achieve a good career they become good


that I achieve a good career they become good but the icons are always the people from that second rung who may not be the most gifted yes they have a skill set they have a few strengths but they may not be the most gifted basketball players or gifted businessman kind of like me I'm not gifted I know I'm good at a few things but there's a lot of people who better than me you know you bridge that gap you bridge that gap through relentless hard work that's why we watch sports that's why we watch people like Michael Jordan do that thing self belief accompanied with insanely intense hard work yes we live in a time where hustle culture has promoted a lot and a lot of people criticize hustle culture they say that you know you shouldn't work so hard you should care about your mental health you will burn out hold up I understand that not everyone is capable of running at lightning speed the way Michael Jordan did but it is important to put that message out


did but it is important to put that message out for those few Michael Jordan's out there thousand people listened to this podcast there's probably gonna be n people who'll be able to work at the pace of Michael Jordan and I'm speaking all this [ __ ] for you ten people I am one of you ten people I'm just like you I'm not good at everything I'm in that second rung I am born with a few strengths I'm definitely not in the third and fourth rung I wish I was in the first rung but I know at the end of my career when this whole story is over I'm gonna be at the top of that first rung based on my hard work that's what I've got from Michael Jordan he wasn't selected on his high school basketball team but because he was so hungry for success he decided I'm gonna work so hard that I'm gonna prove everyone wrong I'm gonna prove my coach wrong he didn't choose me that's okay I'm gonna go and


choose me that's okay I'm gonna go and I'm gonna become the greatest basketball player of all time he entered college he wasn't as good as his teammates he worked hard to become even better than them he got drafted into the league third not first not second but third that's okay single-handedly he pulled his shitty ass team up his p- first it was pretty bad but single-handedly this guy won the Rookie of the Year so when a new player enters the league they are gauged a lot they called rookies and all the rookies are compared against each other this guy won it it took him seven years to win his first championship he reached the finals he reached the pre finals didn't happen kept hitting kept going for it kept working hard finally he won he retired from the game of basketball tried his hand at baseball came back lost in the following season his hunger came back he goes and he wins another three championships back to back at the end of


three championships back to back at the end of his career he won six championships his teammates call him crazy his teammates call him one of the most intense human beings to ever have on your own team he's one of those guys who you really appreciate on your own team but you kind of hate because he was intense with his teammates he wanted to bring the best out of them his sidekick Scottie Pippen helped him win all those championships he wasn't even in the second rung he's probably in the third or fourth rung lots of talent but definitely not a world-class basketball player over the years playing with Michael Jordan Michael Jordan brought the best out of him you heard interviews of Michael Jordan's trainer talk about Michael Jordan's work ethic and that's when you realize what it takes to actually become legendary he's considered the greatest basketball player of all time even more than LeBron James LeBron James's career still has another five years to go but Michael Jordan


still has another five years to go but Michael Jordan will teach you a lot about what it takes in terms of a mindset not all of us are born in that first rung most of us are born in that second third fourth rung and if you want to get promoted up do a Scottie Pippen even if you're not a Michael Jordan at least go up to that junk Oh of that second and first rung if you are a Michael Jordan ensure that when your story's over when Yoker your story's over you're considered the greatest of all time the way I described LeBron's game and Steph Curry's game I'm not gonna describe Michael Jordan's game much because he could do everything and he could do everything because he spent a lot of time learning researching each of the teams he was facing researching the best possible ways to become a better basketball player whether it was in terms of basketball in terms of his skill set or in terms of hard work in terms of your fitness in terms of


hard work in terms of your fitness in terms of your mentality he did everything possible because he was obsessed with winning that championship go watch the mother king last dance you want some motivation in your life you want know what it takes to be successful go watch the last dance go study Michael Jordan full of fire full of inspiration just like basketball this is why I watch that support I hope you guys enjoyed today's podcast I hope it leaves you with some amount of file and until next time guys try being a Jordan try being a LeBron try being a Steph Curry be a game changer be a great teammate and be that guy who ends up at the end at the top of your first rung see you guys later


oh what an episode of the Randy show this one is by far I think my most intellectual episode the most analytical episode possibly one of the deepest conversations I've ever had in my life but we recorded it for this podcast mr. Ronnie Screwvala he's one of the most respected entrepreneurs in India today he's created businesses in everything from the toothbrush industry to the cable TV industry to you TV of course that's the one he's known for the most but right now he's round about 57 or 58 years old and he's getting into the world of Education he's kind of getting his hands dirty in the world of entrepreneurship again he's launched something called upgrade which intends on overtime revolutionising the indian education system the way people learn he intends on spreading knowledge he intends on spreading inspiration and that's pretty much what we did in today's episode as well trust me if you're someone who knows who Ronnie Screwvala is you wouldn't have seen an interview like this one and


wouldn't have seen an interview like this one and if you're someone who doesn't know Ronnie Screwvala get ready to absolutely change up your world this man's mind is an ocean of knowledge years of experience and you know what his story also began with him rebelling against his parents just like most of us he had to fight in order to become an entrepreneur here to convince his parents that entrepreneurship is the way to go he someone who self-taught he's not done an MBA he's figured out this world himself by working on his communication skills his business knowledge and human psychology that's what this episode is about so if you want to do business in your life or if you just want to expand the boundaries of your mind Ronnie Screwvala on the runway show is gonna be that go-to episode for you I promise you you're gonna watch this one multiple times but also keep in mind all the time stamps are given down below and of course we started a new channel it's called the


of course we started a new channel it's called the Randy show clips so if you just want clips of this episode it's gonna be up on that channel soon but for now Ronnie Screwvala on the runway show [Music] what's good everybody welcome to Andy's show when I was drafting out the show there was like five people are listed out as dream guests and we've got one of them today so check talking to mr. Ronnie Screwvala and I would say dream with your eyes open for shall I I'm going to pick your brains during this conversation okay my first question to you is that whenever I'm in a meeting room that's full of a lot of big business men on mm-hmm accomplished we always talk about you is the big are the big are yeah the big are okay like why do you think that is why do I haven't a clue firstly I don't know why I'm wasting time talking to accomplished people learn from them just to get them on the run and


from them just to get them on the run and then the definition of accomplish is different for different people I think but and I have no idea why if anything else the big screw might be more appropriate than you are right why do you say that because that's that's a surname that's got me by and broken a lot of ice or a period of my life for a long period of time I've had fun with my surname have you have you had big screw-ups in your life tons of them you know in all aspects yeah okay so we're gonna touch upon all those aspects yeah but my first question to you so is how did you convince your parents that he wanted to be a businessman because I know that was an issue for you somewhere yeah back in the day yeah it's still an issue I got to go through the same room that's part of the reason you're one of my top five guests because I feel like I relate to you know you know I think there's a lot to it


know you know I think there's a lot to it and it's a very important question especially like in India but I think parents are worried and they normally concern and I think that's what everyone goes through and it went through in the 90s and you go through and twenty two thousand and twenty and so on and so forth and I think the more you can communicate with them it solves the problem because at the end of the day they feel you're in control of a situation yes there's a people who want to drag you in a particular direction of course my parents wanted me into my child around and see I was hell-bent on not doing it but I think the conversations that I had with them constantly during this process of them being worried I think helped and I think today if you were to introspect with people to talk just communicate because actually if they feel you're comfortable they're not gonna be less they're gonna be less than this one so it's your biggest piece of advice to


one so it's your biggest piece of advice to that kid who's in that position right now is it communicate with your parents and explain your business idea yeah and you know normally you feel a there's a generation gap will they really understand they don't need to understand but they just need to know they need to know and they'll see it in your eyes they'll see in your body language is heating your conference level they'll see into all your communication and it can't be sorted out in one time because the main point everyone feels is now I said it once I said it twice I said it's right I'm not having this conversation again it will take time but if you really want that parental support at that young age it's very important that you continue to cook and it'll thaw it's a thawing process right and because if you don't do that we think we can do it without that ecosystem and support but I think it's so much better when you have it I hundred percent so so I


when you have it I hundred percent so so I want to tune you out from being 22 until you back into being your current age mm-hmm I heard you say in an interview that's 60 is the new 40 right why do you say that well because you got a run much harder you got a stay fit you got to think young you need to be sounded by people who are thinking younger than you and just the speed at which things are moving that's pretty much it and so to me I'm being modeled when I'm being 40 because really I think what I'm working with almost everything that I'm doing here I'm working with people half my age and I'm enjoying it and I don't I still see myself in that age group of them I don't see myself as the elder in the room because if I see myself as the elder in the room I won't pick it up yeah so for most young entrepreneurs the motivation is either big money or big legacy this is like so a trend


money or big legacy this is like so a trend that I've seen and if you like you've kind of picked both those boxes in your life where's this motivation coming from to run something like upgrade at your age no I think the motivation has to come from yourself it's about yeah three years back of ways back I decided to roll my sleeves up and start all over again from the start up the very first co-founder the very first team that we all built together you know four of us coming together it's the excitement it's the excitement of the unknown is the excitement of doing something yeah and different people look at things differently I'm a doer mmm I like doing things I like and not just because I want to stay active and I think as you grow up and since you said it you know to my present age yeah there are a lot of things that I would not like to do and I think I have the comfort to be able to be a little bit more picky what


be able to be a little bit more picky what are the things I don't want to do versus the things I want to do not in terms of work but just in terms of what I want to spend my time doing what do you not want to spend your time doing well I think when I'm look I don't want to spend time transporting myself from home to a workplace more than 10 minutes that was my first thing I don't spend too much time with people and interacting and building such a large organization where 60% of my time is gonna go with people interaction I mean much as I can have a conversation with you I'm quite a recluse okay isn't like running business all about working with people yes but I guess when you're at a certain stage in age you can get somebody else who's gonna do that while you work with a smaller group of people and those groups so people can work with logical and that's my fighter pilot theory I believe that first you got to


pilot theory I believe that first you got to be a pilot then you've got to be in the control room pairing four pilots out oh yeah sure so let me get the state so you're trying to build something very big to four or five leaders that you've picked no they're actually co-founders and across the leaders and that's the beauty of it I think in my second innings and what I'm starting off with everything is about finding the right kind of partners the right colleagues are like like-minded people and half my age in order to build massive businesses and in order to build massive business careers do you need to do an MBA in today's day and age well I'm the wrong guy or maybe the right guy to ask depending on who wants to ask that question so if you ask me personally it's a it's a personal choice my straight answer is no and do I have any regrets from it no but it's a personal choice it's about what you think you lacked at the


it's about what you think you lacked at the time in which you thought you wanted lack it I think the good part today is that people are looking at that it that of an MBA or doing something at least three to four years after they've started working on their own oran job that's good because it gives you a very clear perspective of what you're lacking but I would say if you're doing something like an MBA there's a 21st century MBA now I think the context of an MBA and doing it for a purpose of a degree has gone way long back and you need to be very clear why you're doing it you're definitely not doing it for a marriage certificate and you're definitely not doing it only to get yourself a good job so why are you doing it so so you end up working with a lot of people who are spread across different industries my question to you is what do you see MBAs in the modern they have that non MBAs don't sometimes I'd say structure


have that non MBAs don't sometimes I'd say structure okay I think it's 50 and I keep telling a lot of people here that right now for me I'm doing more unlearning that I'm doing learning and that's the best part of learning okay and I know it sounds and I want to dumb it down is that not because of social media no it's just about how the world thinks the consumer trends that are happening was the younger generation thinking what everyone is thinking plus what you're being taught versus what is the ground reality how do you implement that how do you deal with change constant change more often change all the time so I think yeah even if you're doing an MBA 50% after that you have to unlearn I'm 50% you can learn do they have any other advantages other than like structure no I think it gives you some fundamentals that's why I said is very something that very personal for people as to what they feel is lacking within themselves okay okay I think maybe when I


within themselves okay okay I think maybe when I started off with that my commercial acumen from I don't know where came about and I could understand the basics of Commerce and commercial and running a business and I could I could I could feel logic and Sensibility coming into what I want to do and I think I've been very curious or my whole life yeah so this constant curiosity gets you to learn a lot more and keep your eyes and ears open because you're a lifelong learner other than upgrade what are your learning mechanisms like do you talk to young people like myself I'm not constantly interacting with people so I think almost at least three to four times a month I'm interacting with various people or giving a talk and that's not it's it's a selfish reason for me because I'm giving a talk somebody's requested for it but that 300 400 people question-and-answer interactive session gives me a really good pulse I think in the various fields that I'm doing here from the social philanthropy


fields that I'm doing here from the social philanthropy work to upgrade to storytelling with movies in RSVP and to my sports endeavors actually for a recluse I'm getting so much of information at so much of touchpoints and so much of contact points that is a constant learning process guarded but do you also still read despite so much of an inflow of information in your life yeah yeah I I do read and I have to say I've started reading more in the last two years and I've read in the last twenty for multiple reasons I think a because I forced myself to have the discipline for that time but it's always books or things that are outside of the purview of what I'm doing because then it kind of it's part of a distraction it's part of understanding some of the other parts and a huge influence from both my wives arena and my daughter Tricia who are reading in I mean we've got a very large library at home and it's 99.99% hers because she consumes two books


99.99% hers because she consumes two books three books a week so if you're not reading about business I want to know what you're reading about its various things I'm reading a book right now called the fabulous okay it's just about world leaders and the time we live in and without there it's just very few people with very strong agendas who are actually shaping everyone's lives do you think we are trying to shake people's lives or those actual agendas are shaping people's lives so just you know from that to you know monk and Buddhism right now it's varied have we discovered spirituality in your life I have to a certain extent and that's a lot to do again with my wife and daughter the only tool real women that I have all the impact in my life because both of them done with Posner done times and times again having had the guts to do it yeah I feel like I figure yeah I have no the guts to do it yet and both of them actually in the


do it yet and both of them actually in the last six to seven years go to a philosophy school and they spent almost eight to ten to I'd say 15 hours a week in their philosophy school so it's not a school in philosophy it's because it's all about savor it's about participation it's about everything else so I get its Dolby sound as far as that goes Noren have you seen Sam Raimi's spider-man with Tobey Maguire's period yeah so you know I and that was like the first superhero movie I ever watched and I felt like I always want to become a superhero yeah but every superheros got to have is MJ Watson is made yeah so how much is your wife or MJ Watson in your career a lot actually a lot I think we've always worked together and yet been able to manage and keep that into a distance and I think what we're doing today in our philanthropic activity and spur this just binds us together in a very different it


just binds us together in a very different it gives you a very rounded purpose in life so when someone talks to you it's kind of a little bit imposing because I feel like you've got too much stuff under control like okay like you're - you're too sorted out so what would you like me to do I I want to know if you have low days like if you feel low on certain days about work and at the age you're at and after all the experience you've gained over the years do you still have self-doubt do you feel oh yeah see I think the two differences and it's a good point that you raise self-doubt I'm a little less on I have to say low I've realized that actually energy-sapping is where I'm getting very conscious of you know because I think all of us revitalize yourself every night with a positive energy and I mean everyone talks about work/life balance but if you look at it there's positive energy and if you can bring that positive energy to work


and if you can bring that positive energy to work you won't have a problem in work-life balance so to me it's not much about the law as much as when I feel low of energy and that's like a straight signal because I spend a lot of alone time between six and eight thirty nine in the morning that's my real good time to support you to myself well at least take a walk for an hour okay I'd read try and do 15 minutes of anapana which is meditation nice and three times a week I do yoga so all the nice serious stuff but actually very fun stuff because I'm taking a walk but it's innocent it just clears your mind in a very different manner Tony Robbins called this priming like where you get set for the your working hours yeah you need to take some time we just relax think about yourself yeah I think those are my three working hours the rest the time are all my interruption hours I want to ask you what energy-sapping and interruption


want to ask you what energy-sapping and interruption yeah you said that there are certain factors that take of your energy yeah and you're a very high energy person so sometimes you having a conversation people can SAP a lot of energy from you and that that's something you need to you need to feel very aware of that thought how did you realize is like at what age did you figure this early on yeah at an early stage you kind of become aware and then you figure out that how am I gonna wheel myself away from that and then you just either ducked that issue now see when you're working with a lot of people and you're young you don't have a choice sometimes many times you don't have a choice even today I think in many cases one doesn't have a choice so when you don't have a choice how do you deal with that is a different one but it's just walking away from something is not gonna be the solution this could be your co-workers your friends extended family yeah it could


be your co-workers your friends extended family yeah it could be anything it could be a situation sometimes it could mean whatever it is yeah but it's what specifically could you give me an example of someone at the workplace taking away your energy it's just a negative conversation it doesn't mean it needs to be rowdy conversation it's not a harsh conversation it's not like a fed-up conversation it's just that you can feel so many sucking energy from the person's energy literally literally literally I think that I felt at a very young station so to me milos would be about figuring out is somebody sucking energy from me or am i letting my energy get sucked and I'm not saying in a boudu manner or somebody's sucking it out for me in that sense but you can feel it how do you feel about this conversation I feel good about this car right now I think we're on positive energy modes right it's all about the positivity yeah I wanna I want to ask you so right now what's


I want to ask you so right now what's the best-case scenario for your life do you have like an angle are you building businesses towards that kind of end goal and I'll tell you why I'm asking this for me I really desperately wanna try changing the world in some way eventually and I know that money is one of those factors in life that definitely makes you more powerful so while I am earning money through businesses its with that end goal of wait I wanna be a change maker possibly without entering the world of politics so what's your endgame like why are you doing this yeah I think this change maker as a word is nice it's it's a nice definition and a gold post and a flag post but it's a process so it's not a change maker in that so I think today I feel fabulous about everything that I'm doing I feel really blessed about what I'm doing but it's choices that I've made okay it's and I think the fact that I can make that many choices