00:00Just as when the night is about to end, it is the darkest hour of the night, similarly
00:10man's history is going to end now and this is the darkest hour of history.
00:19History continues only as long as you have chance events.
00:26For history to be told, you must have unpredictability, right?
00:36Can there be history if everything is predictable?
00:43If everything is predictable, then you can have at most a milometer, a dashboard.
00:48You cannot have history.
00:57Man's utmost control, man's absolute autocracy over existence is soon going to end history
01:11itself.
01:17After that, it would be man and man's desire and history is about to end and this is the
01:24darkest hour of history, it would be very difficult to fight anybody.
01:39The evil lurks everywhere, all around you, within you and everybody is evil.
01:55There are no quantum separations.
02:02When you look at the Kurukshetra, you see a definite differentiation, don't you?
02:09What is the definite differentiation?
02:10On one side, you have Duryodhana and on the other side, you have Arjuna.
02:16There is a very clear distinction and so Krishna knows whom to fight.
02:22Now Krishna has the luxury to afford sides.
02:28A battle is on and Krishna looks at the battle and Krishna knows.
02:33I can pick one of the two.
02:35I can afford that choice.
02:37Today you cannot afford that choice.
02:43There is only Duryodhana.
02:46He won the Mahabharata long back.
02:52There is Duryodhana 1 fighting Duryodhana 2.
02:55What does Krishna do?
02:56Whom does Krishna support?
02:57And if Krishna appears in Kurukshetra, Duryodhana 1 and Duryodhana 2 would tie up and chase
03:04away Krishna.
03:30Malaria is out.
03:31Love is out.
03:34Caste system is on its way out.
03:36Untouchability is out.
03:38Racism is out.
03:41Misogyny will be out.
03:44What are you going to fight next?
03:47All that could have been fought will be fought and defeated.
03:58These are old and petty evils.
04:07Somebody said why do you want to turn somebody into an enemy?
04:12Why do you want to alienate someone if you can turn him into your customer?
04:20And desire only needs customers.
04:23I want this and I am willing to pay the price.
04:27If in today's world, untouchability is disappearing, it is not because people are discovering that
04:36at the core all are one.
04:39It is not because people are discovering that body and body are just the same.
04:47If in today's age, untouchability is disappearing, it is because of desire.
04:55If you come across a woman who is hugely gorgeous, would you want to not touch her
05:02because she belongs to an untouchable caste?
05:04No, no, that's too mean.
05:10And you are a liberal.
05:17Would you allow your liberal instincts to forcinate?
05:24Would you be defeated?
05:28Please understand.
05:36You are the recruiter in some firm and you want someone who can be productive because
05:46desire is related to productivity.
05:49You want more and more to consume and you get a candidate who comes from an untouchable
06:00caste.
06:01Would you reject him?
06:02No.
06:03Why should you?
06:06You would welcome him and embrace him.
06:11You are not embracing him out of love.
06:15You are not embracing him because you have suddenly discovered fraternity.
06:28You are embracing him out of desire, greed, usefulness.
06:39So these social evils that you have mentioned here are petty little things that desire will
06:45throw out of the window.
06:48Are you getting it?
07:01The great evil would be man himself.
07:06Man the God.
07:22You see, look at the age in which untouchability flourished.
07:25That was also the age in which sexuality was repressed.
07:33Was it not?
07:37The moment you set sexuality off, the moment you say sexuality is alright, untouchability
07:51cannot survive for more than 10-20 years.
08:05Desire has defeated all social evils.
08:09It is not social reform movements that have defeated desire.
08:14When the train and the bus came about, when public transport came about in India, 100-150
08:26years back, that was a great step towards the eradication of untouchability.
08:37The shudra would be sitting besides the brahmin in the railway coach because both desired
08:49to reach their destination and there was no option but to use the railways.
08:55And the railways didn't have separate coaches for separate castes.
09:04Desire defeats all the petty evils.
09:08Desire is the great evil that defeats all the petty evils.
09:13For the sake of desire, you can shake hands with your worst enemy.
09:21Don't you see that happening every day in politics?
09:25In national politics, in geopolitics, everywhere.
09:34Do you know what ended the cold war?
09:38The desire of the little Soviet republics to have a more economically prosperous life.
09:45Desire defeated the USSR.
09:51It was not the USA that defeated the USSR, it was desire.
09:56Desire will defeat all the petty evils.
10:00The cold war was defeated.
10:02Not one side was defeated, the entire war was defeated.
10:17A Hindu and a Muslim are fighting.
10:19You don't need to teach them the essence of religion.
10:22Just dangle some money in front of both of them.
10:25They will forget fighting.
10:28They both will run towards the money.
10:31So you see, all the religious discord has been taken care of.
10:37And you don't need a great reformer or guru for that.
10:41All you need is some money.
10:46You don't have religious communal riots in metros anymore.
10:54Do you have them?
10:58The last big one that we had was in Bombay in 1992, close to three decades now.
11:12In smaller cities, in suburbs, rural areas, that's where you have communal problems.
11:24Why?
11:27Because money is the greatest anti-riot force.
11:37Why riot with someone if you can consume him?
11:45If a Hindu can use a Muslim to make more money, should he kill the Muslim?
11:51If the Muslim can use the Hindu for some personal pleasure, should he kill the Hindu?
11:58Not at all.
12:03The day India and Pakistan are linked through thick and heavy trade, they will find it very
12:11difficult to fight among themselves.
12:15Because now the interests of traders on both sides will be at stake.
12:21They cannot fight anymore.
12:23You see, desire has taken out war.
12:27The curse of war has been defeated by desire.
12:34That's such a great thing.
12:37But who will defeat desire now?
12:42Who will defeat desire?
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