00:00 We have had human rights, we have had equal rights to women, we have had equal rights
00:13 to bisexuals, transgenders.
00:18 Next you will see, we will have a situation where animals too will be accorded the right
00:28 to life.
00:31 That is going to be a historical imperative.
00:35 Now we have to decide whether we want to be on the right side of history or not.
00:41 Otherwise it's alright.
00:43 If we don't agree to something willingly, the tide of time will sweep us away.
00:50 Even today there are people, for example, who would not quite agree to women being equal
00:58 to men, but then you could call them dinosaurs as far as the progress of consciousness is
01:08 concerned.
01:10 You would say, oh, they are very primitive people.
01:12 Correct?
01:13 Similarly, 50 years from now, if you are someone who will deny animals their basic right to
01:21 life, you will find yourself being termed primitive by history.
01:29 As young people, I suppose, we should know what the demand of time is, in the language
01:39 of spirituality that is called Kaladharma.
01:47 We better apply ourselves to that and then these things will be very apparent.
01:53 The two things that you mentioned, environmental activism and veganism, they are very closely
01:58 related.
02:01 If we are someone who cares for the environment, we cannot miss the fact that a huge bulk of
02:12 carbon emission comes from animal agriculture.
02:20 Because we cannot quit the flesh on our plate and because we cannot quit our dairy, that
02:28 is leading to immense environmental and ecological damage.
02:34 So being scientifically minded, being in possession of the facts, these things should matter to
02:41 us irrespective of the institution we come from.
02:44 It is not the job of the institutions to enforce such things.
02:49 Institutions should actually be in a liberal sense enforcing nothing.
02:53 We as individuals should be looking at these matters, we as young people should be looking
02:57 at these matters and deciding on our own.
02:59 Thank you.
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