00:00Good evening sir. Sir, as in the satsang you mentioned that stepping back from the world
00:10and resting in your own sacred shrine. When I heard this, I felt very scary as I felt
00:18that within ourselves is nothing. So, if there is nothing, then what we will live for?
00:28You can just live. You can just live without living for something. What else is the central
00:41message of the Gita? Nishkamta. What does kamna mean? What does kamna mean? Desires.
00:52What does that mean? Yes, what does that mean? Living for something. So, can you not just
01:02live instead of living for? Alright, I bring you to a beautiful sunset on the beach. Right?
01:22Right? Okay. And just then somebody tells you that your younger brother who accompanied
01:31you has gone missing. He accompanied you to the beach. But he is one bundle of mischief
01:43and now he has run away. And nobody can locate him. Where is he? And there the beautiful
01:50sun is about to set and the waves are gorgeous. Right? What are you doing now that the boy
02:04is missing? What are you doing now? So, what are you doing now? Right. Now that the boy
02:22is missing, you are looking for the boy. You are looking for the boy. Correct? And the
02:34fellow standing next to you is just looking. He is just looking and everything is just
02:42so damn beautiful. Who is in a better state? You or your neighbor? And other fellow. Because
02:55the sunset now is totally lost on you. You cannot look at the sunset because you are
03:01looking for something. All the glory of life becomes unavailable to you because you are
03:10looking for something in particular. So, living and living for are different things. Looking
03:18and looking for are different things. Listening and listening for are different things. Reading
03:25and reading for are different things. Observing and observing for are different things. So,
03:39many people fail in their observation. I advise them to observe themselves. Self-observation
03:44is the key I say. But they fail. Why? Because they are observing for something. Their observation
03:51is not nishkam. It has a motive. Whereas, observation can succeed only if it is motiveless,
03:56purposeless. You are not looking for something. You are just looking. Just looking. What am I
04:06doing? Just living. Now that does not mean that you are a bum with nothing to do in life. That
04:16simply means that whatever you are doing is not with the purpose of some petty attainment.
04:27I am doing, not doing for. Complete me please. I am doing, not doing for. So,
04:35there is a great difference. Looking and looking for. Doing and doing for. Yes, I am doing this.
04:41I am fighting. Not fighting for. So, Arjun fight. Does he say Arjun fight for victory?
04:55No. Fight. So, look, fight, do, listen. Not fight for. Equally.
05:02Equally. Relate. Not relate for. Love. Not love for. When you love for,
05:12then that's exploitation. When you just love, oh that's cool, smooth.
05:20So, if someone comes to you and says, I love you for whatever. Your eyes or your intelligence.
05:29That's a problem. Take that as some kind of a red signal.
05:41There is a problem there.
05:42Great things must be for their own sake. Not for something that you will get from those things.
06:01And life is a great thing. Is it not? Life is the mother of all great things.
06:07So, life must be for its own sake. Not for something else.
06:13The Kurukshetra fight is a great thing in itself. So, fight.
06:19Not fight for the sake of the riches or the gold or the throne or glory. Nothing.
06:27Just fight. The fight itself is wonderful. Do not fight for something. If you fight for something,
06:34your heart will break. It is not the nature of life to give you what you want.
06:43So, do not needlessly expose yourself to very pitiable vulnerability.
06:54When you start demanding stuff from life, you become pitiable and vulnerable.
07:01Now you stand in front of life like a beggar. No need.
07:04Love with an open heart. Not so that you can get something.
07:21Work. Work like a machine. Not so that you can get something.
07:30If you work for something, again you will get a heartbreak.
07:36Because, Maa Phaleshu Kadachanam, you will never have any handle on what life will serve to you.
07:49Do not look for stuff. Just look.
07:59Sir, but this state we are in, we are making better choices.
08:11So, it feels a very distinct thing to not think to live for or love for something.
08:21Yeah, doesn't it feel like love? To be with the thing for the thing's sake.
08:29Not for something that you will get from the thing.
08:37Or does love sound too alien?
08:50It's just so beautiful. What else?
08:55What do you get by getting up early and watching that red ball rise?
09:06How many dollars or what? A certificate?
09:13A certificate? Right from the sun? Nothing. It's just beautiful in itself.
09:29In itself. I don't care for what happens the next day.
09:35The night itself is so beautiful. Who bothers for the morning?
09:46Let me be dissolved in the night.
09:54Arjun, be dissolved in the fight.
09:56Fight. Die.
10:11Before you bring death to others, Arjun, die.
10:18Die and then fight.
10:20Reminds you of somebody? Ah, that's what. Die and then fight.
10:30So that your fight is not for something.
10:49That does not forbid you from having goals.
11:00That merely tells that no goal should have a meaning bigger than the action itself.
11:11By all means have goals.
11:13But the goal should not be more important than the game itself.
11:27If there is any meaning, the meaning is in the game.
11:32The goal might be achieved in the process of the game. Fine.
11:37But the meaning does not lie in the goal. The meaning lies in the game.
11:44Play with abandon.
11:46But the meaning does not lie in the goal. The meaning lies in the game.
11:54Play with abandon.
12:02Right. You will forget to count the number of goals.
12:11Somebody will have to draw your attention towards the scoreboard.
12:16I got so much into the game, I lost count of goals.
12:35This is not some impractical utopian
12:51fiction.
12:57This is what the greats have lived by. This is the very substance of greatness.
13:04All right.
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