that if you are writing the first book
ever how many copies would you be able
to sell well it all happened that there
is a book that sold millions of copies
within no time within a couple of days
of its release we’ll just have the yeah
so millions of copy copies if getting
sold within a couple of days of its
release definitely it must be something
very unique and what happened here was
there was just a small spelling mistake
in a particular word that actually did
that the writer was not at all gifted in
fact at all so what we see here this is
a joke actually that I read a couple of
days before and I wanted to put this in
perspective and simply because it shows
us that if you are addressing to a
bigger problem I’m not a male chauvinist
though but if you’re addressing to a
bigger problem and then there certainly
would be millions of takers worldwide
well Homo sapiens is the name given to
the human beings and Homo sapiens means
man as a thinking animal now what this
thought process has done to the
humankind is that it has conceptualized
ideas every now and then right since the
days of the human evolution when it all
started right from fire to farming and
now from mobile to the computers to the
internet it is all it is all happening
and changing lives like like it has
never had before and it is evolving
still it is evolving and what happened
in fact in the older days that the fire
took thousands of years in fact the
human took thousands of years with the
fire to realize that the fire which was
already there and they were already
understanding the controlled usage of
the fire which was all about keeping the
wild animals away and
also about the keeping themself warm
that the same fire could also be used in
terms of cooking food but now it is very
fast it is not the same illusion over
hundreds of years of age what is
happening is we have moved on from from
from those things to constant evolution
and the we are really talking about the
word virtual reality the augmented
reality and now we are talking about the
Internet of Things and literally it is a
it is a power given in every single
person’s pocket with the internet in his
mobile that he can actually cross the
boundaries the way he wants and the
moment he wants and right from 2g to 3G
to 4G I really believe that if ever
human will will be getting the 11 point
some G of velocity escape velocity will
be only because of his mobile phone and
definitely if it happens it just might
be an idea to were tricking now this is
a picture which is a classic situation
in in a country like India where there
is a lot of water problem and also in
many countries which is having a similar
similar problem as India now this woman
every day might have to walk from
between two to ten miles making six to
seven trips per day in bringing one
commodity called water to survive
however it takes in fact a lot of
resources and lot of money to make this
water available in all the villages in
all those places which are distant from
this this this water thing it also
results in a many you know many many
challenges to this woman one of them is
obvious which is held and the second one
is also that they could not contribute
to their economy otherwise why because
if if the time consumed here is like six
to seven hours which is what maximum it
could go to suddenly that is not
happening and also they are not being
able to give this quality time to their
children and in terms of the development
the problem is more with the younger
women younger girls rather who are
unable to get educated because this
exactly is the time in fact that they
should have been been spending in the
school well I showed two of the figures
were there in fact the fire and the
internet that I talked about but there
was a wheel in the middle so somebody
from somewhere came or you know or a low
where to rescue these women
and this has been one of the greatest
greatest discoveries which is a chance
discovery that happened and this is
called as water bucket now this water
wheel what it does is allowing them in
fact we just take one trip
why because earlier they were taking
some four to five to six trips and each
time they were doing it it was 10 to 15
liters of water that we would be
carrying not right now what they could
do is to carry 50 litres of water and
70% of the woman living in those kind of
places where it’s not a rough terrain
they would actually you know make use of
it and which is buying them lot of time
which is saving lot of part of their
health in prep which was being lost now
what happens here is we understand that
if we put the right things in
perspective and what might happen is
that even the simplest of the things
that have been known since ages long
would be weight to use like this and it
could change millions of life within no
time now what happens here is how these
Eureka moments happen how these chance
discoveries happen we need to understand
that fairly well now we don’t live in
one word we live in two words definitely
one is the word that we live in which we
identify living in and we we measured
that time in space thing and there is a
tangible thing that happens in the
reaction of that thing happens each time
we respond to that word what is outside
and there is an equally bigger word
inside within us which we actually not
we actually fail to identify those and
it is equally bigger it is equally dense
and I’m dimensions of those things could
not be explored in one go every penny
comes to the rescue for a lot of people
for this chance discovery so we’re from
these Eureka moment comes is one of them
is this when it is all about your
perspective when you are mostly being
able to look boldly inside you and you
find out a different perspective to the
similar things do the simple things
which is also available to all of the
people but you crave out something
different and that allows you to
identify the gaps the gaps which only
you see or maybe some people see but you
see a different dimension to that to
that gap a gap which might not even
exist but you see because of that inner
connect
yourself and there also a serendipity
when we when we are connecting ourselves
with the ecosystem that we belong to and
that also can tell us something about it
and here it’s like a beef anywhere
perspective was more important in
serendipity the observation is more
important when we observe things what
happens we get a different view
different angle to the same thing so we
see it from inside to outside and the
sari in the in da B if if any part and
from here we we see from outside for
inside and then the dimensions would
definitely be very very different and
that could lead to the chance discovery
of this thing and one of them could
definitely be your Eureka moment and
this is why we need to be connecting the
outer world with the inner one more
often what happened here is even if
though we get the observation right we
have the perspectives drawn correct why
is it not that we get the really the
answer to the questions which can solve
a problem or fill the gap Albert
Einstein once he said that if he is
given one hour to solve a problem and
the solution to the problem actually
concerns his life and his life could be
absolutely dependent on that solution to
the problem he said that if he gets that
one hour he would be spending 55 minutes
of that one hour and phrasing the right
question and only because he is able to
phrase the right question he will be
finding the solution in the last five
minutes and it is all about questioning
correctly the right questions definitely
put in the right perspective but
identify the right solutions definitely
now what happens here is we need to be
understanding the context of something
and the context could be in a very small
part of the problem the whole problem
definitely could not be addressed to but
a part of the problem which is needed to
be addressed and only we when we address
to that then that that peculiar part of
the problem we might get the right
question into the context and if we have
the right context we can drill in
desired and the derived contained into
it to get a right to accept out of it
so why an idea will become a reality is
is the context getting converted in
when saved and when the right contents
are getting filled in well how to do
this when you talk about bringing the
idea into reality there is a long
process and I would like speaking
something on that process as I’ve been
doing with my students of course it’s to
collect ideas now what happens if I have
to talk about computer if I have to
solve a problem concerning a computer
what I do is a I leave myself in a
cocoon which only thinks about computers
it is definitely not right so I need to
be collecting ideas from everywhere from
all walks of life and I don’t know since
my mind is conceptualizing it it may not
be happening because of things and that
thing is definitely something that need
to be put in perspective and what
happens you need to collect all the
ideas if I am talking about computers
but I am getting something about mangoes
I need to be like definitely collecting
that too now this collection is very
important ideas are born in isolation
and ideas also die in isolation most of
times so what we need to do is to
scribble every single thing that comes
in connection with those ideas that I am
collecting or even if it is definitely
distant apart from the collection point
of view we need to scribble it down why
because if ideas are savored it is only
going to be done if you write it out we
need to be observing whatever we have
written and since my mind has
conceptualized something on that
scribble piece of paper I need to be
drawing the connect between these these
these these things Albert Einstein I
mean all those people in fact I named
him and how many discoveries gives his
his gun how many things he has come up
with and most of the people in fact they
have agreed upon one fact that they were
discovering something else and something
else come out came out in fact before
the main discovery was done or addressed
to so when we observe something it is it
is not what we look at we may see it see
at things we may look at things we may
define a problem in our own ways the
observation would be needing somebody
else’s eyes to be addressed some
I so I have to like put myself in
somebody of his shoes and look at the
same problem to get that observation
correct and broad we need to pursue if
you’re not sure about whether your ideas
are pumping enough blood in your heart
to get those oxidants in mind you need
to be understanding that whether you are
following your passion or not so this is
one point we need to disconnect with
something otherwise you’ll be wasting
time but if you are passionate about
what you are talking about what we are
writing about what we are dealing with
then definitely could be delayed but not
denied unless you pursue it out sometime
well a very important if you pursue your
ideas further and it is not dying its
own natural death you need to be
understanding that you need to share
your ideas when I talk about sharing the
ideas people always identify the people
who are what like-minded to be sharing
the ideas with no this is a absolutely
wrong phenomenon you need to be sharing
your ideas with diverse group of people
and the diversity adds more colors to
your ideas we are always shy
we are always against shared in our own
senses that if I discuss this thing with
the doctor he might be like absolutely
not understanding I have a doctor and he
understands everything
so we need to understand that we need to
be sharing this thing diverse ly with
diverse people of diverse backgrounds
and diverse understandings you get a
different point of view something that I
might be missing because of my inner
connect not being that deep we need to
plan now what happens to the plan the
wrong thing is that we always optimize a
plan right in the middle of right in the
start off in the helm of something when
we optimize a plan and we have so much
concretely driven to that plan and we we
never see that while we were moving out
on the plan there was a there was a
parallel angle that was getting created
alongside and since we outlook that
thing absolutely look out on those those
things outside the periphery what
happens here is we mean we never
understand that there was a plan B that
I should have initiated right from B
from the beginning sometimes it is right
from the beginning
sometimes it just emerges out of nowhere
you wanted to do thing you travel so far
and there is a different different line
of action that your mind will be telling
you to do and you should be tracking on
that plan
at that point of time you need to
develop ideas when you when you are
going ahead with the plan you need to
nurture it out you need to develop it
out now development is easier said than
done
how would you develop is is something
that by this time your mind except will
tell you and why because you are into it
and once you are into something
definitely a mother need not be told how
her child need to be weary
so this is by utilizing all the
resources which she has she does that I
need me to be doing with this particular
idea of yours which is just about to get
shape and once you realize that it has
taken shape you need to release there is
a problem with almost 70% of the ideas
that could not get culminated into a
into a sustainable idea just because the
release time is dysfunction and you
don’t know when to release the idea so
whom to release with what is the
platform on which you should release
your idea is also an important thing
that you need to be in this manner well
your environs a’right now some of the
people are from outside and mostly there
come within varanasi itself we are the
oldest living city
so when Mark Twain the great Mark Twain
when he visited the city he said that
this is a city which is older than
history older than culture older than
religion and twice as old as all of them
put together now what he mentioned was
the age of the city which subsequently
is around 4,000 plus years here I’ve
written the oldest living City what
brings life what has brought life
because if a city is 4,000 years old
definitely there has been an evolution
par excellence
what was this evolution and the and the
trajectories of those people ushion seen
is something which we need to understand
with her with her with her with a new
gift that the city is God the city was
always a living City because of three
major things because it is a spiritual
city it is a city of music and it is a
city of diverse thing one of it is yoga
and some people date the originator of
yoga Maharshi Patanjali with this city
so what some people some NGOs and the
lady the district administration one of
which is here in fact I think Permian is
here he was also in that team
decided to collate all these ideas
together and to and to create an
extravagance out of it and what blessing
the City of God and the rest of the
world to see how the city created this
idea of coming at alfresco and
absolutely free of cost greatest so they
started with something called as super
high Banaras which started some 500 plus
days bad and it has it has brought these
three things that spirituality along
with so it can give you a spiritual
goose bump a feel in goes to what is
happening there and if you if you see
the second picture what is all about you
know all the other gifted musicians
being a part of that program and all
scores hundreds of people and sometimes
thousands of people including the
foreigners who actually become a part of
this when they when they learn how to
how to experiment with yoga and to
sustain it but the best part is not only
what this thing’s showcase the best part
is there were thousands of literally
thousands of artists artists with some
kind of you know thing to showcase
whether it is vocal or instrumental
lying in the city in absolute oblivion
what this simple idea brought that since
last 500 and some days in the city
during this showcasing of suburban eras
every day every day read and unquote
that that that actually I’m doing as a
Benassi as a person from the city every
day there is a new artist and as if
there is no tomorrow that it’s kept keep
on coming and that’s a that’s a great
gift to them because they are being
showcasing their their ideas to the
world and they had calendar the world
well so Audrey Hale pooja came with her
saw a gram way pooja paper move so they
say put jeté raja with one service
pooja bedi now this this is something
which comes from the old scriptures and
it and it simply says that even an
imbecile will be celebrated in his own
town the Lord gets worship in his own
land the King gets respected in his own
country but if you have an idea which
can be culminated into a knowledge form
you will be respected and honored by the
whole world and if ever we thought would
it would be be ever remembered by the
world in the coming times it is only
because you will be remembered but only
because your ideas are worth sharing
because your ideas are changing lights
thank you
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