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.

00:04So how do I handle this?

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

00:13The emphasis must be on whether I am respecting the respectable thing within me.

00:20He may respect me, disrespect me, all that is secondary.

00:25You might be a wonderful person and you are walking

00:29and a monkey comes and takes away the stuff in your hand.

00:33Will you feel hurt?

00:34The monkey has done what monkeys do, right?

00:38All human beings are actually two units within.

00:41There is something very respectable within us

00:43and there is something entirely despicable within us.

00:46Am I respecting the respectable?

00:49If I respect the respectable thing within me,

00:53then what is the need to really bother whether the world is respecting me?