Both are needed.
When I finished college, a gentleman met me and he said, 'Being honest is not enough, you should look honest too. If you are drinking milk in a bar, it won't be considered as milk. You should look honest too, therein lies the skill'.
See, everybody worked hard to create voter awareness in India. Unprecedented voter campaigning happened, and it has yielded the results.
Volunteer for a better India (VBI) went door to door asking people to come out and vote. What then happened? A strong and stable government has happened. So let's hope that this strong and stable government lifts the country off scams and slums.
Don't worry. It's okay if people turn against you.
See how our Prime Minister Narender Modi is. He was bashed so much. I don't think anyone in the country had been bashed so much. People called him all sorts of names, but he came out of that.
We have many such examples. Even if you do only good to people, and have done nothing wrong, there are people who will only see bad intention behind it.
It is so surprising that people who want to find fault, they can find fault in anybody, anywhere. But such people are very few, so don't worry, let them be.
Even for The Art of Living, some people say that we have grabbed land. I have heard this. They don't tell us which land we have grabbed. Let them come and show us.
Someone says the Art of Living has 50 acres of land in Maldives. We don't even have a small place in Maldives. They should come and show us the 50 acres, we can take it at least.
They say Art of Living has grabbed government land. It's the other way round. We had to give our own land, for which we had already paid money. But there are people who say such things, what can we do? Just ignore them.
I want to see a slum free India. All slums should be removed. I want to see a corruption free, violence free, misconduct free India, hatred free India; where the youth are calm, farmers are happy, and businessmen trade outside the country too.
India was once like that. Those days cell phones and such things were not there. India's fame was known all around.
Columbus set out to look for India and he discovered America instead. See how India’s fame had reached all around the world.
When British left India they carried with themselves 900 ships full of gold. That was India, which was so prosperous that its prosperity never diminished. See where we are today. That time we were spiritual and religious too.
Lord Macaulay, when he went to London, he wrote to Queen Elizabeth, saying, 'I have traveled the length and breadth of India, and I have not see one person who is a beggar, who is a thief. Such wealth I have seen in this country, such high moral values, people of such caliber, that I do not think we would ever conquer this country, unless we break the very backbone of this nation, which is her spiritual and cultural heritage'.
Somebody asked me, 'Shiva also drinks alcohol'.
I said, 'First Shiva drank poison (halahal). Can you drink poison? Then we will talk'. Don’t think on these lines. Those days that was the only seat.
In Gita it is written that sit on a deer skin. That means, be natural like a deer.
There are already so few animals. If you kill them to sit in meditation then that it is not correct. They ask to keep leather away because there can be obstruction in flow of energy.
Go for the DSN course. And also do the happiness survey. This is the best thing.
How many people have done the happiness survey? All those who have not done it, take the happiness forms, make a group of 2-3 people and go door to door. Some people will close their doors on your face. Never mind, move on to the next house with a smile.
When people criticise you and still you smile, all the fear will be gone. Your personality will blossom. So definitely do the happiness survey.
