Role Models || Acharya Prashant

Full video: Your hero is a scoundrel || Acharya Prashant, at IIT-Bombay (2022)

Transcript

00:00It's a great tragedy when the ones who are influential are neither intellectual nor spiritual.

00:06Your role models are very unworthy people.

00:09And they are role models exactly because you find them consuming a lot and you all aspire to consume that much.

00:16So they become your role models.

00:17You say, wow, somebody asked a famous soccer player and he says, I have 20 cars.

00:22All luxury ones.

00:23And that simply charms you so much, wins you over.

00:2620 cars.

00:285 Rolls Royce.

00:30Not one but multiple private planes.

00:32Super expensive yachts.

00:34Yachts to take care of yachts.

00:36That's what we all aspire for.

00:38We all have been taught wrongly.

00:40We have been trained wrongly.

00:42Life education, we have been deprived of.

00:45So all that you want through all that you do is consumption.

00:50What do you live for? Consumption.

00:52How do you know a fellow is doing well in life?

00:54He's able to consume a lot.

00:55When consumption is the ideal, climate change is the result.