Need to Incorporate Spiritual Values into Academic Curriculum||Acharya Prashant, at IITKanpur (2020)

Acharya Prashant

‍♂️ Want to meet Acharya Prashant? Be a part of the Live Sessions: https://acharyaprashant.org/hi/enquir...  ⚡ Want Acharya Prashant’s regular updates? Join WhatsApp Channel: https://whatsapp.com/channel/0029Va6Z...   Want to read Acharya Prashant's Books? Get Free Delivery: https://acharyaprashant.org/en/books?...   Want to accelerate Acharya Prashant’s work? Contribute: https://acharyaprashant.org/en/contri...   Want to work with Acharya Prashant? Apply to the Foundation here: https://acharyaprashant.org/en/hiring...

Transcript

00:00 I appreciate your concern and your sadness.

00:07 You would want to see Vedanta and Upanishads and Swami Vivekananda in the syllabi and

00:24 that would be such a beautiful thing obviously.

00:31 If that could happen that would eradicate so much ignorance and pain from this world.

00:40 But mind you, "Satyamev Jayate" if that is not happening right now, it merely means

00:47 that it is waiting to happen.

00:49 How would it happen?

00:52 If it happens right now, if the masses embrace the teachers willingly, then the learning

01:04 would come at a small price.

01:14 The whole movement, the transition would be smooth.

01:23 But if the masses do not listen to the teachers and if the leaders of these masses are not

01:34 sensitive and wise enough to incorporate spiritual teachers in the academic curricula, then the

01:48 change would happen in a very explosively disruptive way.

01:57 Truth has to win.

01:58 Either you happily surrender to it and if you don't happily surrender to it, then the

02:05 victory of truth would come at the price of your existence.

02:16 Either you align yourself with the truth or you will find that you have been annihilated.

02:25 Either way truth has to win.

02:29 Are you getting it?

02:31 Right now it does not quite look probable that the world would willingly embrace Vedanta.

02:43 Then how would the world embrace Vedanta?

02:45 The world would be forced to embrace Vedanta.

02:51 Depression and all kinds of mental disorders and conflict within the human being and conflict

02:57 among human beings and conflict among sections and countries and widespread chaos and strife

03:12 would force humanity to listen to the teachers.

03:20 But it seems that we are so obstinate that we listen to the teachers only after all our

03:28 other options are exhausted and after we have totally decimated our world.

03:37 We want to keep the teachers as our very last option.

03:41 We want to try everything else before we turn to the teachers.

03:47 As if we are saying that anything else is acceptable, more acceptable than the teachers.

03:56 When nothing else works, only then will we go to the teacher and if that's the condition

04:02 mankind has set, then you must know the implications of that condition.

04:07 What you are saying is, I have 50 options and listening to the teacher is my absolutely

04:15 50th option.

04:19 So I will try out 1,2,3,4,5 right till number 49 and only after all 49 have failed and exhausted

04:27 will I unwillingly embrace number 50.

04:35 Which means all your 49 options will have to be proven false.

04:42 Which means 49 deep defeats to mankind.

04:46 Which means mankind will invest everything that it has in those 49 false options.

04:54 Which means that before mankind comes to the 50th option, it would have practically already

05:00 devastated itself.

05:03 But that's the route it seems we all want to take.

05:13 So yes, obviously had the teachers been physically alive, they would have been greatly pained

05:29 by this situation.

05:35 But nevertheless if truth is truth and if a teacher is actually representing the truth,

05:47 then there is no way you can ignore the teacher for long.

05:54 Maybe he won't be physically there anymore, maybe you will listen to him 200 years after

05:59 he is gone.

06:01 But listen you will.

06:08 That's an existential law.

06:09 You cannot disrupt it.

06:19 Certain things are unbreakable like this law.

Category

Transcript

Recommended