How to Handle Rude People? || Acharya Prashant

Full video: When they disrespect you || Acharya Prashant, with IIT-Hyderabad (2022)

Transcript

00:00I feel sometimes even though I am polite, some people are disrespectful. So how do I handle this?

00:05The behavior of such persons is not worthy of being given too much importance.

00:11The emphasis must be on whether I am respecting the respectable thing within me.

00:19He may respect me, disrespect me, all that is secondary.

00:23You might be a wonderful person and you are walking and a monkey comes

00:27and takes away the stuff in your hand. Will you feel hurt?

00:31The monkey has done what monkeys do, right? So fine. The monkey is helpless.

00:36All human beings are actually two units within.

00:39There is something very respectable within us and there is something entirely despicable within us.

00:45Am I respecting the respectable? If I respect the respectable thing within me,

00:50then what is the need to really bother whether the world is respecting me?