So, if you're gone from here, somewhere else, long distance it’s very easy to love me. (Laughs) Yes, very easy to love me long distance, close up it's big trouble. You can sit there and love me, and have regard and respect for me so that your conscience will be settled. Because I want it settled quickly because this is not a very long life, it's a brief life. Handling all this rubbish, when will you get there? Settle it quickly, I have no issue. You can love me or hate me, both ways I have no issue but settle it somehow and focus on what you need to do. But if you've come from elsewhere to here, the same thing goes. You can have as much love and respect for anybody you want. I would say, have that for just about everybody in the world. I've been telling you, if you walk on the street, because I've seen people doing this, they'll be going like this (Gestures walking in arrogance), suddenly somebody say, "Hey, Sadhguru, Sadhguru" (Gestures Sadhguru Coming), (Gestures bowing down in utter devotion) (Laughter/Applause). I say, "Dammit! This is not going to work for you." This is not going to work for you, that if you see Sadhguru, you're like this (Gestures Bowing down in Namaskaram) otherwise you are like this (Gestures walking in arrogance), this is not going to work for. No spiritual path is going to work for you like this.
In some way, you must see the same quality in everybody; man, woman, child, donkey, I'm particularly picking the donkey, donkey, cow, dog, tree, rock; you must... if you really... we are going back to the first question, if you have really sat with him for sure, okay? Then, you must see that in everything. You must treat everything like it's Sadhguru. Then there is no problem. So, where you are, what practice you are doing, when it comes to practices, as I said, now your mother is gone, you are in your aunt's place, you must eat the food that she serves. You can love your mother as much as you want, nobody can stop it. But you must eat and nourish yourself only from the food what your aunt serves. Don't sit there thinking your mother will serve you once again, she will not, and she cannot! So, do not bring such conflicts because it's a brief life.
With all this complications of emotions, where will you go? The fact that you moved somewhere, obviously something did not work for you. Wherever else you've gone, please make it work, at least there. When you were here, you were thinking how to escape. Now you are somewhere else, you are wondering, "Maybe I should have been here." Don't do this. Once you leave a place, wherever the hell you go, make it work there at least. Just don't give up your striving, that's all that matters. When you give up your striving, I'm deeply disappointed with you. Yes! If you go away and your striving is intense, I don't care, it's okay with me. That's less trouble for me (Laughs). Hello? If you are deeply striving and you go away, good for me. If you give up your striving, this (Referring to himself) is wasted life for you, wasted effort for me. Don't do that.
