Do you Love Cricket? || Acharya Prashant

Full Video: Your interests are not yours || Acharya Prashant, at BITS Goa (2024)

Transcript

00:00You are born in India. Hardly anyone does not play cricket.

00:03What if you go to Brazil or Argentina?

00:05So is cricket a choice?

00:08Or is it rather an imposition of the circumstances?

00:13I'm asking you.

00:14You say you love cricket. Do you really love cricket?

00:17Love involves a very very conscious choice.

00:20If cricket has come to you only because you are born in a particular country,

00:24how is cricket a choice?

00:26Now cricket is some kind of helplessness, choicelessness.

00:32In general, you say I need to have the freedom to choose.

00:35The fact might be totally different.

00:38The fact might be that your choices do not indicate your freedom.

00:43Rather, they indicate your lack of freedom.

00:45Is it not more important to ask,

00:47why am I choosing this that I am choosing right now?

00:51Or must I ask, what do I choose next?