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00:00I might be a very violent man and my goal is to blast a building off.

00:20To learn how to do it, I have to live through stern discipline.

00:30I'll have to build my body.

00:34I'll have to learn several skills.

00:39I may have to have the discipline to learn a new language if the building is in a foreign

00:44country.

00:48I'll need to learn the skill of dodging officials and police.

00:52I'll need training in firearms and all of that will require discipline and all that

00:57discipline may ultimately train me to be successful, to achieve my goal.

01:05But what is the goal?

01:07The goal is violence.

01:10When you will look at me just before I'm going to set out for my mission, you will say, wow,

01:21what dedication this man has shown, what great discipline he has submitted himself to.

01:32My body will look good, like the body of a yogi.

01:41My mind will be focused on its goal, there would be no other thoughts.

01:46So there would be a certain calmness on my face.

01:50I would be assured, self-assured that I'm going to achieve my target, the building is

01:55going to disappear tomorrow, hence I would be gently smiling.

02:01And if you look at me, you might say, wow, what a spiritually advanced soul, look at

02:08his body, no trace of fat, look at the face radiating with bliss, look at the composure,

02:18what great certainty coming from God himself.

02:23But what is the goal?

02:25The goal is violence.

02:32Discipline and struggle are no virtues by themselves.

02:39No discipline has any virtue if that discipline is serving a self-created goal.

02:49The most marauding armies were sometimes also the most disciplined armies.

02:59The most greedy of men are also sometimes the most disciplined of men because greed

03:05requires that kind of discipline.

03:12You might have dedicated yourself to any discipline.

03:17You may have modeled your body and mind according to the rigors of that discipline.

03:23But mind you, it is you who are doing it with all that you stand for.

03:31This discipline will never take you beyond yourself.

03:37Then there is another discipline, which is the right kind of discipline.

03:45You know the word discipline is very closely related to discipleship, discipline, discipleship

03:54and discipleship means to follow, to be a student.

04:03Whom does one follow?

04:07To whom does one let himself be a disciple?

04:11To that which is bigger than oneself, right?

04:15You just don't follow anybody or do you?

04:17If you follow someone smaller than yourself, then you are essentially following but yourself.

04:23Hence real discipline is about submitting yourself to that which is far, far bigger

04:29than you, that which really qualifies to be your guru, your teacher.

04:35That which you call by no names and also by an infinite variety of names.

04:42Real discipleship is surrender and in that you do not follow any particular pattern of living.

04:54You must have heard the name of Kabir and he beautifully said,

05:04माला फेरू, न जप करू, मुझ से कहू न राम, सुमिरन मेरा हरी करें, मैं पाहू विस्राम।

05:16He says, I have left behind all kinds of spiritual activities and disciplines.

05:23Neither do I recite the holy name, nor do I entertain myself with the beads.

05:37I have left all of that behind.

05:39I don't even try to have the discipline of remembering God or truth.

05:46Now God remembers me.

05:49I do not remember God.

05:52This is real discipleship.

05:54I have let go of everything that came from my sense of accomplishment and fear.

06:04Now I let myself be guided by existence itself.

06:13Now I am a real disciple.

06:20Now I listen as one listens to the teacher.

06:25Now I see as one looks at the teacher with reverence, with love, with submission, with

06:37trust and in looking I learn and in listening I learn and that learning is continuous.

06:52Every sound tells me something.

06:55Every experience teaches me something beyond the experience.

07:03That is real discipleship.

07:06That is discipline and that discipline is not a part of life.

07:11That discipline is life itself.

07:12Then you do not say I am disciplined.

07:17Then you just say I live and that living itself is discipleship.

07:22If you are disciplined, then you are imposing a discipline upon yourself and that is cruelty.

07:29Every child knows that to be put under discipline is something not likable.

07:38Did you like discipline when you were subjected to it as a kid?

07:44It is that kid that you have to return to, the kid who does not like external discipline.

07:49When you do not remain subjugated under external discipline, then something from the heart

08:00rises and that is a great discipline.

08:02To the world it may look like randomness and anarchy.

08:08To the world it may look like chaos, but even if it is a chaos, it is a holy chaos.

08:16Even if it is random, that randomness has a great divinity in it.

08:20It has an order that is beyond the comprehension of the human mind.

08:27It is not disorderly.

08:28Human eyes will call it disorderly.

08:30It is not disorderly.

08:33It is a great order that you do not need to even comprehend.

08:38You can just let it be.

08:40You can just let it play itself out.

08:45It is such a great order.

08:47But we like to know what is happening to us, right?

08:50We live in consciousness, we like to live in control, we want to be masters of our fate.

08:56So we want to know in advance, please tell me what is happening to me.

09:01Those who want to be assured of what is happening to them will only get that which they can

09:10know of and that is so very little, so major, so insufficient to quench your thirst.

09:21Those who are prepared to trust and let go, those who are prepared to not to count what

09:29they are getting, get that which cannot be counted.

09:35If you keep counting what you are getting, you will only get that which is within counting.

09:46If you keep counting the numbers, all you will get is that which is numerical.

09:52I'm asking you, is love numerical?

09:55Is joy quantifiable?

09:59But we like to count.

10:00We like to be assured.

10:03Delight in discipleship lies in not knowing the target and also not knowing whether you

10:10are reaching the target.

10:14You delight then lies not in accomplishment, but in discipleship itself.

10:22I love you so much that it is a pleasure beyond pleasures just to follow you.

10:29I love you so much that I don't care where your advice is taking me.

10:34I love you so much that even if your advice is bringing me to my ruin, what a lovely ruin

10:44it is.

10:45Can I be ruined twice?

10:46Can you give me another death please?

10:55This is real discipleship.

10:59This is not the discipline of waking up at 5 am and rushing off with your yoga mat, please.

11:06And kindly do not call that as discipline.

11:08That is the discipline of the tank and the submarine.

11:11There too you have to stick to strict timelines like in a Japanese factory.

Discipline and dedication - are they really virtues? || Acharya Prashant (2017)

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