00:00 Adarsh Tiwari, second year undergraduate mathematics student.
00:19 So you advise us to have a purposeless, aimless life.
00:31 But if we will not aim for anything, then how will I crack my exams?
00:41 In your young days, you too prepared for exams like MBA, IITJ, civil services, etc.
00:51 But now you say that having aims is no good.
00:58 Aren't you contradicting yourself?
01:04 Adarsh, living an aimless, purposeless life is the ultimate thing.
01:22 That's the goal.
01:25 That's the goal.
01:27 However, given we are, we cannot realize that goal instantaneously.
01:40 If that could be done, if instantaneous liberation were possible this moment, wonderful.
01:49 Have it.
01:53 Go right away for it.
01:57 So purposelessness is the ultimate state beyond all states that one aspires for.
02:11 But here is the contradiction.
02:16 What is the state one aspires for?
02:22 A state in which there is no purpose, no aim and therefore no aspiration.
02:32 So what's your aspiration?
02:34 To come to a point of freedom from aspirations.
02:41 What's the desire then you must have?
02:47 To reach a point where you have exceeded all desires.
02:55 What is the aim that you must carry?
03:00 To set aims in a way that you come to a point of aimlessness.
03:13 There is a difference between ends and means.
03:22 Purposelessness is the end.
03:29 Purposefulness is the means.
03:38 Thoughtlessness is the end.
03:43 Desirelessness is the means.
03:50 Desirelessness is the end.
03:54 Right desire is the means.
04:04 Actionlessness is the end.
04:07 Right action is the means.
04:12 Silence is the end.
04:16 Right word is the means.
04:21 If you do not have the right word, what will take you to silence?
04:27 Or if you are so tremendously gifted that you can at the drop of a hat come to absolute
04:36 silence all by yourself, then nothing like it.
04:40 Unfortunately that is not possible for most people.
04:45 Even to come to silence, most people require the aid of the right word.
04:53 That right word is also called as the holy word.
04:58 To come to desirelessness, most people will first of all require to cultivate the right
05:04 desires.
05:06 To come to a point in life where there is no goal left, most people will firstly require
05:13 to set right goals for themselves.
05:17 And that's the difference between right goal and wrong goal.
05:20 Right desire and wrong desire.
05:22 Right word and wrong word.
05:24 That is the only way you can differentiate between right and wrong.
05:29 The right is that which will take you beyond itself.
05:36 The right will enable you to exceed it, transcend it.
05:40 The wrong will keep you confined to itself.
05:48 That which you enter, never to emerge out is wrong for you.
06:02 The wrong is like walking into a jail.
06:11 The right is like walking over a bridge.
06:16 Get the difference?
06:18 You walk into a jail only to remain confined.
06:29 And you step over a bridge and very soon you find that you have crossed over.
06:39 The right is that which enables you to cross over.
06:44 The wrong welcomes you and then you're trapped.
06:58 Shut firmly in.
07:01 The gates are closed.
07:07 No freedom, no escape.
07:14 So you're asking, but you must have targeted clearing those exams that you did.
07:26 Yes, of course, I targeted.
07:30 But now you'd know the difference between target and target.
07:36 You must know what you're targeting.
07:40 You must know what is it within you that wants to achieve something.
07:48 Rule of thumb, that which you want to achieve for yourself would be like a jail.
08:00 That in which there is a larger purpose, a bigger vision involved would be like a bridge.
08:13 Before you take the next step, ask yourself, what is it in front of me, a trap or a bridge?
08:29 Getting it?
08:35 So there are quite a few exams that I might have cleared.
08:46 But if you see, unfortunately, those institutions generally require you to take up specific
09:05 professions or work of a definite kind, or work within a narrow spectrum.
09:21 I think I can be satisfied that my work does not fall within the spectrum dictated by the
09:39 institutions I have been through.
09:43 I'm not allowed anything to act as a jail for me.
09:50 I walked in and I walked out.
09:56 I'm thankful to those institutions.
09:59 I learned quite a few important lessons.
10:05 At the same time, I have not allowed any institution to hold me captive.
10:10 I'm not doing what a typical IITian does.
10:13 I'm not doing what a typical IIM pass out does.
10:23 Yes, I did prepare for the sales examination.
10:33 I did clear the examination.
10:36 But when I found that things aren't going to suit me as they are, I resigned.
10:46 Are you getting it?
10:55 So probably I use them as bridges.
11:05 Otherwise it is quite possible to get used by the institutions you come from, to be enslaved
11:23 by the targets that you set.
11:28 Someone says, "This is the target that I set.
11:35 Now I've achieved it.
11:36 How do I exceed it now?
11:38 There is so much investment I have put in.
11:40 How do I go beyond it now?
11:45 Did I come to this point only to go beyond this point?"
11:51 It appears absurd.
11:53 So people then are held hostage by the targets that they achieve.
12:05 It reminds me of the Zen saying, it says, "Once you have reached the top of the hill,
12:12 keep climbing."
12:13 There is another one that probably says that the climb begins after you have reached the
12:19 top of the hill.
12:22 Do not allow the summit to declare a full stop to your evolution.
12:38 It doesn't matter how high the hill is.
12:43 It will have a summit and the summit is the limit of the hill.
12:48 It cannot offer you any height beyond its summit.
12:52 Once you reach the summit, begin the next climb.
13:02 Begin the real climb.
13:08 No point settling down on the hilltop.
13:20 Maybe you can rest for a while.
13:24 There is some Maggie Point there.
13:28 Fine.
13:31 Chill.
13:34 Have some juice.
13:44 Collect your breath and then move on.
13:45 Move on.
13:46 Chariveti.
13:47 Chariveti.
13:48 What I am.
13:49 Thank you so much.
13:50 You gave me so much.
13:51 I shall be tremendously grateful.
13:54 But you are not what I am born for.
13:59 There is something far higher than institutional sanction or institutional certification that
14:09 I am looking for.
14:14 Mine is a very long road.
14:20 Several institutions are there along the way.
14:33 And they are all beautiful and grand institutions.
14:40 Let me be there for a while.
14:44 Let me humbly accept what they can offer me.
14:51 And then, Chariveti.
14:59 Keep moving.
15:08 Keep moving.
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