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Entities: Adi YogiIndiaJan Dhan YojanaPrime Minister Narendra ModiRam TempleSguru G
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Thank you very much for joining me on this broadcast. Uh Sguru G, it's always a pleasure to speak with you.
Uh I I just want to ask you, you've seen our prime minister who's turning 75 today. Normally a milestone.
Every birthday is
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a milestone, but 75 is rather special. What do you think sets him apart as a leader?
uh you know the qualities that you have an insight into. Well uh rarely do you see a man
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who acts with such relentless uh relentless commitment and devotion towards what he is doing which is uh in many ways his fundamental strength that uh we always try to inculcate in
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everybody. It's fantastic that the head of the nation, the prime minister of our country who is uh has inspired a billion people into various levels of activity and the amount of uh steps that we have
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taken as a nation in the last few years in under his leadership has been phenomenal. Nothing short of phenomenal really.
Well, people can say, "Oh, it is also the times that he took the reigns of the country at the right time and things happened." Well, times are always
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there. Always the times are there.
But, uh, still even in good times, many people don't do good things. So, as a nation, we've moved big time.
You know, some of the most significant things are
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well 240 million people have moved above the poverty lane. That's not a small thing cuz uh right from my very childhood particularly after my you know into my youth I've engaged with rural
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populations and it's always a heartache to see how they live with how much scarcity and how much struggles for small things and uh today you can clearly see there's a distinct difference at least in this part of the country maybe still there are parts of
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the nation which need much more attention and action But that's a phenomenal thing and above all you know assertaining the integrity or the sovereignity of the nation the 370 what we did that was most important
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that's an unfinished job from 1948 and uh most people thought it would never happen but it's happened I hope a few more issues we have with a clear distinct boundary to demarcate what is
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barat and what is Not I think those things must be settled. I hope in his time he gets to settle these things and uh one phenomenal thing that happened was the banking the jan yojana where uh you know everybody has a bank account of
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course there are jokes going around they don't have money what to do with a bank account but that means that you don't understand what an empowering thing a bank account is and how various government schemes and other things reach the person that it's intended for
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not an agent on the way. I must tell you this once uh many a few years ago I was speaking in Tamil Nadu in one of the towns and a minister was there two three ministers were there with me and I said it seems out of 100 rupees only 10
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rupees reach the people 90 rupees gets filtered the minister is touching me and saying no sguru it's not 10 rupees only four rupees I said you must be in the no only four rupees reach the people but today I'm not saying it's everything has
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changed but phenomenal changes happen in that direction and uh among the diaspora and generally across the world as I travel everywhere the regard and respect with which people are looking at India
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as what it is today and as a possibility well we I don't want to quote GDP numbers and all that stuff that's not the point the point is it's on An upsurge is moving in a momentum and the deafness with which the geopolitics is
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being handled is absolutely superb. Never we have handled anything like this in the world.
Maybe it is also again the times. Maybe we are a different nation today.
We can do these things. Previous prime ministers maybe they could not do because they didn't have the power to do it.
We can say all that. See we can say
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why Navika passed her examinations first? Because this happened that happened.
No, no, but she came first. That's all it is.
So this is how it is. And on this day when somebody reaches 75 years of age with such a sense of
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achievement and the man doesn't stop. Even today he's working and a whole lot of activity happening.
Well, that is the most important thing. a human being reaching 75 years of age and with such a fantastic sense of achievement and such
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love and appreciation all over the world for him which is truly fantastic. I I think it's uh it's a momentous day today really 17th of September 2025 and above all in 2017 he unveiled the first ad
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yogi here I'm standing here it was unveiled by the prime minister he came here personally and did this on that day he was somewhere in the UP Nepal border he had to address something there then he was in Madhya Pradesh I think then he
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came to a place in uh Karnataka for some address and evening he was here and spent more than 3 hours here unveiling the ad yogi and since then this momentum has picked up across the world wherever you go in the world you will see image
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of ad yogi we have not even promoted we have not even really pushed it which we plan to do sometime soon because adi yogi means not a god he's the first yogi the one who brought technologies of well-being to human being a way of
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addressing human wellbeing in a scientific manner not simply looking up and asking for something I think our prime minister is an epidome of that that he doesn't look up or down he when he wants to take decisions with clarity he looks inward and acts and which has
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done tremendous things to him and to the people of of this country and I feel in the next 3 to four years he will be a very significant person in the world already he is but much more because certain things will happen and he will
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be instrumental in making that happen. I think it's a great day that today he's reached 75.
He's healthy and he's active. I hope he stays that way.
Healthy, active, well, strong. Saying that obviously you know everything about planetary movements.
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You know about the cosmic energy, you know about the spiritual energy. Uh you've done a curtain razor.
Can you tell us where is he headed? Sguru G because the whole nation would want to know where do you think um he's
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headed really see it's an insult to Narendra Modi if we make predictions for him because he's a man who works to a plan as I do I don't go by predictions we make a plan and see how to execute it as a plan he
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has clearly told you that 2047 will be vikit bat that's where we are headed and he will be an important force in that uh progression of the nation moving in that way. There are many many many issues in the country but I think uh India is
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capable of India's spirit and inspiration is capable of overriding all that and in that is super instrumental that he is there for this and uh where is he headed? Uh
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success of the nation is his success. So if all of us stand up and see the nation succeeds that's his success too.
That's our success too. Absolutely.
You've seen so many world leaders Sguru G. What is his signature
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style of leadership and how would you describe that in maybe one or two qualities? Yes, I have met many world leaders various types but uh this is not my nationalistic pride which makes me say this.
I must
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say there is today there isn't another leader of his nature of his breadth of mind and clarity and I've had very long conversations with him at one time many times rather and uh he's that kind of
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man who who can understand anything that you speak about whether whatever kind of it stuff it is whether it's technology or spiritual process or social realities is anything that you speak. He's he's that
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kind of person who understands whatever because one great quality about him. He he's a great listener.
He listens to every word that you speak and that makes a whole difference. This is one big problem with most leaders on the planet.
They don't listen to anybody. They think
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they've gotten there and they know it. Like somebody said, "I'm the president, so I must be the smartest guy on the planet." So uh that kind of approach is not there.
There is a very uh what to say a profound sense of humility and a
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very his humanity is very active with all this ruthless political process that he has to go through every 3 months, four months. We put him through election rallies.
In spite of all that, his
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humanity is so active and alive, which is a not an easy thing to do with the kind of stuff that goes around in the political circles and uh and in how many ways uh you know he's he's gone through every kind of trial and tribulation that
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a man can go through and he's come out of this very well on top of that and 75 years of age. It is a celebration for the nation.
doesn't matter. We may agree with many people may agree with him, disagree with him.
Uh
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nobody need to agree with somebody 100%. But that does not mean you should not celebrate a man's achievement and his commitment and the competence with which his commit commitment is being executed in the country and in the world is
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something that nobody can deny and I don't think any human being should ignore such things because ignoring such achievements and such qualities is definitely doom and failure for whoever ignores that because you have to embibe that wherever you see it Especially if
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it's in your uh for lack of words I'm saying if it's in your enemy good qualities you must embibbe that because that's his strength you must acquire those qualities and you also be should become strong I think uh his his
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commitment his devotion his determination clarity of mind and his humility and his basic humanity towards everything where uh if you if you as much as articulate something very touching, something very
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painful in the country. A prime minister tears up.
That is too much for me. That is too fantastic.
Humility and humanity. How well put by you Sguru G.
But Sguru G, I also want to
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ask you because uh there are uh people who think uh Prime Minister Modi has polarized the country. That's what the opposition really thinks of him.
Totally polarized the country. But then there are others who think that he's
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responsible for a cultural as well as a civilizational uh renaissance in this country. How do you see it?
Uh given the fact that uh clearly some amount of our lost glory from our culture uh has come
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back to this nation. Definitely it has.
You see people talking about polarization is like if you build a Ram temple which was long overdue. It's just a shame that it takes 500 years to build that temple.
If that
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happens people say it's polarization. Why is anybody polarized?
If what matters to one community if they build that according to Supreme Court orders why should anybody be polarized? Well there is no polarization.
If you
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want to look at that by fact before 2014 every year how many communal riots were happening how many people were getting killed how many bomblas happened across the country and how many have happened
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till now across the country most of the stuff that's happened in the last 12 14 years is mostly along the border not really inside the country you must understand the one bomb that explodes makes a lot of news. But 10 bombs that
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were diffused or thwarted, that doesn't make news. But that takes 100 times more work to thwart those bombs.
And the forces are working, the agencies are working and making sure the people are safe like never before. And the amount
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of infrastructure that we have built, people are moving. Integration of a nation is not just by giving speeches to them.
If you connect them by road, by telecommunication and various things that's the integration of nation that's happened like never before. Right now uh
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even if you go to a vegetable vendor who transaction is around 200 300 rupees a day you can go show your card or your phone you pay through UPI. When was this ever possible?
Do people even understand
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what that means to the nation? How nation can propel itself?
Everybody who is willing to strive and do some make something out of themselves for everybody there is a chance like never before. And it's not that all problems are solved.
Let us not think everything
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is solved. No, but no nation has solved all its problems.
The thing is we reduce the problems and new problems sprout up. But the thing is people are living better.
That's the most important thing. You can see in the villages I've been
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talking about this for over 3540 years. The worst thing that's happening in the country is there is a silent decimation of the population.
That is because right from their birth they have not eaten properly. Their very skeletal system has not grown full.
Most of the village
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people used to be like that. But today you come down and see the villages the youth are much better than their parents.
They're built better. Their skeletal system has grown better.
This is the nation. This is the nation building.
If you don't build the people,
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how do you build a nation? So, education and other things lot more things to happen.
I have a list of complaints too. But this is not the day and time.
I will give those complaints to me. How many things have not been done?
But it's very
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important on a day like this and an auspicious day like this, we appreciate what is done. If we don't appreciate what what is done, there is no momentum to complete the things that are yet to be done.
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Absolutely well said. As always, uh master of uh spirituality, master of articulation and uh just master of uh you know analyzing people.
It is not my don't praise me. Say something about the prime
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minister. It's always a pleasure.
It's always a pleasure to understand things from your point of view and the insights that you share with us. As always, thank you very much for joining me right here on the NewsHour and thank you especially from
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all our viewers uh standing uh you know just with the Adi Yogi uh behind you and and giving uh you know this kind of a uh a vision uh to to our viewers on this special broadcast uh
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2017 he unveiled this on the Mashivatri night and we're ever grateful for him to him for that. Thank you very much.