00:00 You are asking how far has Prakriti been successful in achieving its purpose?
00:09 Prakriti is where Prakriti is.
00:11 Neither successful nor unsuccessful.
00:17 The thing that you want is at the center of this room.
00:30 Five billion years ago, you were crawling on the periphery, going round and round at
00:42 a snail's pace.
00:50 Five million years ago, you started walking around the room.
00:55 Your pace had remarkably increased.
00:58 The thing that you wanted, however, still remains at the center of the room and you
01:04 are navigating the periphery.
01:15 Five lakh years ago, you started running on the circumference.
01:22 Another achievement.
01:23 Prakriti is going on achieving something.
01:34 Five thousand years ago, you were traversing the periphery on a horse, a very swift horse.
01:49 Your pace has multiplied so much.
02:03 Fifty years ago, you were sprinting the periphery on a fast car.
02:28 Imagine your speed.
02:31 The horse has faded away.
02:35 And today, you are circumnavigating the center on a jet plane.
03:01 Unbelievable increase in speed.
03:07 Great achievement.
03:08 However, you still continue to be on the periphery when the thing that you want is at the center.
03:18 That's what Prakriti has been doing.
03:20 In one sense, great achievement.
03:23 In another sense, utterly laughable.
03:29 You are increasing your speed when that which you want needs no speed to come to.
03:40 You are covering the circumference when that which you want is at the center.
03:46 You are reducing the time that it takes to complete one loop, whereas that which you
03:51 want is in timelessness.
03:57 You are improving on your pet variables, whereas that which you want is outside the scope of
04:03 your variables.
04:06 You are improving, but only within your own domain.
04:10 Your domain is time, so you are increasing speed.
04:17 Your domain is space, so you are covering space far more brilliantly than you ever did.
04:25 But none of your achievements have brought you any closer to that which you want.
04:30 You stay as far away as you ever were.
04:36 Who is closer to the destination?
04:41 The crawling insect of 5 billion years ago?
04:47 Or this super fast jet?
04:51 Who is closer?
04:52 None of them are closer.
04:57 Both remain equally distant.
04:59 Now you decide whether there is achievement or not.
05:03 Acharya ji, isn't that the movement of the prakriti itself is creating that periphery?
05:12 Yes, of course.
05:13 Obviously.
05:14 So speed in this case doesn't actually…
05:20 All the movement is just to really avoid the center.
05:30 It's a very complicated thing.
05:36 You desperately avoid that which you want with all your life.
05:43 Prakriti is in love with the truth, but she wants the truth remaining prakriti.
05:52 And why does she want to remain prakriti?
05:57 Because she loves the truth.
05:59 She feels that just as she loves the truth because the truth is the truth, similarly
06:06 the truth will love her because she is prakriti.
06:09 So she is afraid that if she stops being prakriti, she will no more be lovable to the truth.
06:17 So she will remain prakriti because she thinks that truth loves prakriti.
06:21 And remaining prakriti, she can never get the truth.
06:27 Also she is a bit selfish.
06:30 She says I can enjoy the truth only as long as I am prakriti because who loves the truth?
06:36 Prakriti.
06:38 Who feels an attraction towards the truth?
06:40 Prakriti.
06:41 If I stop being prakriti, then who will enjoy the truth?
06:44 So even if I get the truth at the cost of being myself, of what use will be truth to
06:49 me?
06:52 So she cannot go away from the truth.
06:54 At the same time, she cannot go directly to the truth.
06:57 What is she left doing?
07:02 Always present but never one, always around but never united.
07:09 That's by the way the life story of every single organism.
07:15 Always around, never united.
07:18 Pāni mimi nibbās.
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