00:00 being born with some impurities that need to be corrected.
00:05 Lots of, only impurities are born.
00:09 Could another way of looking at this be that a baby when they are born, they are still
00:14 not corrupted by the impurities of the present world, they may have some from their past reincarnations.
00:20 Who brought impurities in the present world?
00:22 Did they rain from the skies?
00:26 You would say the elders, but the elders were babies one day.
00:30 Where did they get the impurities from?
00:32 First of all, spirituality is about realizing that all nonsense emanates from the DNA.
00:39 You are born with nonsense, that body identification is the fundamental problem and the root cause
00:45 of all violence.
00:47 It's the body that is violent because it is the body that is coming from the jungle.
00:50 We share this body with the chimpanzees, with the dinosaurs, with the lions, tigers.
00:56 Every single animal in the jungle is this body and therefore all the problems of the
01:02 jungle are contained in this body.
01:05 It's just that jungle does not have the weaponry, the ammunition to execute all the nonsense
01:13 that arises as some kind of impulse from this body.
01:19 So they only have impulses, but they cannot execute those impulses.
01:22 When we have impulses, we have missiles to execute them because we have intellect.
01:30 Animals only have animalistic prakriti, but they don't have missiles and guns and computers.
01:35 We are animals with missiles and guns and computers, so we are far more dangerous.
01:40 Isn't that a guilt-ridden way to think of life?
01:45 That's a fateful way.
01:47 If that gives us guilt, fine.
01:49 To me that gives us responsibility and to me that gives us a glimmer of hope.
01:54 I might be born an animal, but the potential to die free of the animal is possible.
02:01 In some sense then veganism is about gaining freedom from the animal.
02:04 It's not about protecting the animal.
02:07 When you say you are dependent on animal products, what are you doing?
02:12 You are dependent on somebody.
02:13 So veganism is about gaining freedom from the animal, the outer animal and the inner
02:18 animal.
02:19 Presently, because we are dependent on the inner animal, so we are dependent on the outer
02:26 animal as well.
02:27 When you are truly spiritual, then you are not dependent on the outer or the inner animal.
02:37 You are free of both and you can't be free of just one of them.
02:40 When there will be freedom, freedom will have both the sides.
02:48 So how do you, I personally believe in the antinatalist philosophy and I do not intend
02:56 to procreate myself, although I would consider perhaps adopting children at some point.
03:01 But how do you, what kind of a world do you see with majority of people being antinatals
03:09 and then do you see the human civilization coming to an end at some point in the future?
03:15 How what does the question…
03:16 Listen, what I will say, if not considered rightly, will appear either vile or hilarious.
03:29 There is no great virtue in the human civilization continuing, first thing.
03:35 If the child is born suffering, why do you want to bring more child to the world to make
03:42 them suffer?
03:44 What is the point in ensuring that the cycle continues?
03:50 What is the great need or the great virtue?
03:53 And what is the great catastrophe if it all, you know…
03:56 Second thing, not everybody is born to be self-realized.
04:08 The average kind of people will always outnumber the ones who understand.
04:13 So the human race will continue, don't worry.
04:18 There will be always enough people who will never understand what I am saying and therefore
04:22 they will keep on bearing 2 kids, 4 kids, 20 kids.
04:25 So don't worry, human race is not at the risk of annihilation.
04:28 I will never be totally understood and the race will continue.
04:33 So then eventually do you think the average minds will overpopulate as compared to the
04:40 reasonable or the self-realized ones?
04:41 Do you think that has not been happening till this date?
04:44 It has.
04:45 The ones who understand lose interest in procreation, therefore who is left to procreate?
04:52 All the ones who do not understand and that has been happening since the beginning of
04:56 time.
04:57 So it's not a new thing that will happen.
04:59 See if I might ask a question here.
05:02 You know James Lovelock said, if the earth improves as a result of human presence, we
05:09 will flourish.
05:10 If it does not, we will perish.
05:13 So he is imagining a system in which the earth improves as a result of human presence.
05:21 In that case, aren't human beings then an asset to the planet?
05:25 No, that's the improvement that we can bring to the earth.
05:29 The improvement is that human beings have taken the status of earth down from 0 to -200.
05:38 So what do you do when you want to improve from a point of -200?
05:41 You bring yourself up to 0.
05:44 So let us reduce to 0.
05:47 The improvement that we can bring to earth cannot be positive or affirmative.
05:53 It can only be reductive.
06:00 There were these twin towers in Noida, right?
06:04 And they were wrongly made or something.
06:06 I do not know the nuances of the case.
06:08 How did you improve the situation in that locality?
06:13 By bringing them down.
06:14 That's the improvement we can bring about.
06:16 Dismiss, demolish, finish it off.
06:21 Sounds so very nihilistic.
06:23 No?
06:24 It does.
06:25 It does.
06:26 It does.
06:27 So then, please remember, it is only when you clear away the nonsense that there is
06:36 some room, some space created for something beautiful or clean.
06:43 You know what the situation of this studio was just yesterday night?
06:49 You would not want to look at that picture.
06:52 It was all cluttered and chaotic and in the worst shape possible.
06:57 Then it was brought into this form because you were arriving.
07:02 What did we do in the first place?
07:06 We cleared away the nonsense.
07:10 That's what this earth today needs.
07:12 It has too much nonsense.
07:14 First of all that needs to be annihilated.
07:16 We need Shiva for Prahlad.
07:19 That's the fundamental requirement and after that we can have a great beginning.
07:23 So do not think that zero means zero.
07:26 Zero means beauty.
07:27 The entire philosophy of Buddha is Shunyavada.
07:31 Let it all be reduced to zero and then you will see something magnificently beautiful.
07:37 What that thing would be, we do not know and we cannot even predict.
07:41 But what we know is that what we have currently is extremely nonsensical.
07:47 So let's do what we must and clear this away.
07:51 What is your advice for a self-realized individual to reconcile with this clutter and still be
07:57 able to live a relatively happy and content life?
08:01 To begin with, create a little clean space from where you can operate.
08:07 That little clean space then becomes your war room and then you operate from there and
08:12 you want to somehow expand that space of cleanliness.
08:21 And so that is the purpose.
08:22 No, just do what you can.
08:25 What else?
08:27 What else?
08:28 What else?
08:30 Thank you.
08:32 This is Arjuna.
08:34 It is being called to battle.
08:37 We do not know whether anything would come out of it.
08:40 But this is the minimum and the maximum we can do.
08:43 So we do that.
08:47 If you start thinking of the results, it hardly energizes you.
08:53 If you want to lose, then start thinking of the results.
08:57 Because common sense and normal extrapolation tells you that the battle is just too impossible
09:07 to win.
09:10 But the battle is just too essential to be ignored.
09:18 So you fight it.
09:20 Impossible to win and impossible to ignore.
09:25 What do you do?
09:26 Fight it without caring for the results.
09:28 What else can you do?
09:40 So greetings everyone.
09:41 My name is Tushar and I am from Bangalore.
09:44 I have been associated with Acharyaji for around one and half years.
09:49 I am in Gita Ji session of Hindi and Vedanta Samhita, Asthavakra Gita, everything.
09:56 And I have seen a drastic change in my life from being a very confused guy to now having
10:04 at least some idea about what to do in life has been a really great change from my side.
10:10 And I am at least peace with myself and my thoughts and have clarity about my decisions
10:16 and my work.
10:17 So yeah, I mean, and one of the important questions that one ma'am asked and Acharya
10:22 Ji answered it very greatly, that it's not important to be in a relationship and it's
10:30 not important that to pursue all the small pleasures that we all have been taught from
10:35 our childhood, from our movies, from our teachings or whatever the society has told.
10:43 We have the right to pursue the greater pleasures.
10:46 We have to write for a greater life, a brilliant life.
10:52 We don't have to go for what society has said.
10:57 So these are all things and you don't need to be in a relationship or a marriage or sex.
11:01 If it happens, it happens.
11:03 It's not that important in your life.
11:05 It's just a small part and that has to be its own place, not to be a center of your
11:10 life.
11:11 The center of your life should be your liberation.
11:13 Liberation as in knowing your boundaries is your liberation.
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