When we say Kashi, it was built as a yantra with 72,000 shrines and 108 main temples.

The idea is to connect the micro and the macro or the individual and the universal.

We must not only be proud of it, we must preserve it.

I bow down to the man for bowing down to those ladies and those hardworking men.

Today the Prime Minister dedicated the Kashi Vishwanath corridor to the people of the country

to believe us and devotees and in fact help realize a dream that had been dreamt by none other

than the father of our nation Mahatma Gandhi over a century ago who had wondered when visiting

the holy city of Kashi, of Banaras, of Varanasi, why is it that those that we worship cannot

be kept in a state that defeats them? Why can't we accord our deities the glory that we deserve?

Today Varanasi and Mahadev was restored in the glory that they deserve.

The politics aside, what is the significance? Why is this important for us as a country and a culture?

Joining us now on the news are agenda, Sadguru Jaggi Vasudev. Thank you very much.

Sadguru for having spoken to us to begin with, to begin with as a shift both yourself.

What are your thoughts today?

Well, I am not a devotee of Shiva.

Because he forcefully invaded my life and took me over. So I would say I am a slave,

but I project it like he is my partner, but actually a slave because every step and turn in my

life has been guided that way. And I say he is my sleeping partner because he does nothing.

I do all the work, but everything is his. This is my life.

So what is my thoughts about Kashi? It's very important that time has come in the world,

where the world has to move away from divisive dogmas and philosophies and ideologies.

This is what Kashi Vishwanath means. Vishwanath, as you know, it means a lot of the world.

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