00:00The one to be reinvented is the Ego and the Ego is its own object.
00:05What is the Ego?
00:06Something that exists only in relationship with its object, mental objects, memories,
00:11physical objects, relationships, real change happens, depends just on the intention.
00:17Pranam Acharya ji, Equanimity, Equality, Morality and we are trying to resolve that equation
00:25that Sri Krishna has given.
00:27And in the process, we have understood that anything that is Ego centred cannot be equanimous
00:36because it will add meanings to all the things that it experiences in the world.
00:42And we have told immortality is possible only if you are centred with Egolessness.
00:48Now, as the discussion goes forward, what I have understood is, one who is starting
00:54his journey from Ego centredness will start using the world to frame all the meaning
01:04to all the experiences that he has.
01:05Now he is supposed to do a journey to go to Egolessness.
01:08That is when this equanimity, immorality is possible.
01:11Now this journey is to be a journey in which he goes to higher experiences, experiences
01:21that will help him drop himself.
01:23I am not sure if I am interpreting it rightly, because when we were discussing with Sanjit
01:29ji, we were telling from point A to B, you have come from B to C, you need to try new
01:36things in such a way that it helps you to move forward in the Egolessness.
01:41So does this mean a person who is at one level of experiencing, if he has to move forward,
01:52he should choose the experiences that will help him to drop himself?
01:55Now this quality, how will he identify?
01:59Will he be able to, I mean, what are the few parameters that he should look at while choosing
02:04next level of experiences?
02:07All that he can see is whether the next choice that he is being naturally drawn to is just
02:16an extension of the previous ones.
02:20The way has to be of the classical old rejection, neti neti.
02:33If look at the basket of the new, so-called new options and see which of these new options
02:41are nothing but recycling of the previous ones, reject them.
02:49You can never identify the new.
02:51Is that not obvious?
02:54The new is never available to be identified.
02:59Only the old can be identified.
03:01So identify the old and with gratitude send it away.
03:18So only when he keeps sending the old, he can reinvent himself.
03:23That is reinvention.
03:24That is reinvention because the one to be reinvented is the ego, right?
03:31And the ego is its own object.
03:36The ego has no existence of its own.
03:40What is the ego?
03:41Something that exists only in relationship with its object, right?
03:45So if you can do away with the old object, you have done away with the old ego.
03:59It's not so straightforward.
04:01It's not as if the ego is identified with the shirt.
04:04So if I remove my shirt, the ego will be gone.
04:07It's not that straightforward but I'm pointing at something.
04:21Changing the objects that you have been habitually associated with is a necessary but not sufficient
04:28condition.
04:33It is quite possible that you change all the stuff around you but the stuff inside
04:38you still remains the same.
04:39That is possible.
04:42But if you refuse to change even the stuff around you, then it is almost guaranteed that
04:46the stuff inside will never change.
04:54The ego takes security in its objects, mental objects, memories, physical objects, relationships.
05:05It wants them to be repeated again and again.
05:14So one who is changing, validating whether it's actually changing him, right?
05:21Obviously, because the ego is no mug.
05:29It's quite cunning.
05:32It can very coolly play this game of changing all the exteriors and yet not changing the
05:37interiors.
05:41And it's a very spiritual game that the householders, the worldly people do not play this game so
05:49much.
05:50Spiritual people play this game a lot.
05:53So they will change their clothes, wear clothes of a certain color, they will start living
05:58a certain way and it will appear as if everything has changed.
06:01Even their language will change.
06:05They will shave their head and do all these things but inside not much changes.
06:13So we are aware of that trap.
06:15We know that there is a threat of that kind.
06:19But still what we are saying is that try changing.
06:23Ultimately, whether or not real change happens depends just on the intention.
06:32The intention is the final thing and we must also concede that if the intention is right,
06:48inner change can happen even without outer change, though the probability is quite thin.
07:00We know of people who have continued to live in the same place in the same way and yet
07:06have internally grown into a very blossoming kind of state.
07:18All that is possible but there are no formulas.
07:27And also just wanted to get clarity a bit more on when does one decide this change should
07:33be made?
07:36What will make one person to make that decision?
07:38See you do not get into experiences for the sake of nothing.
07:46One gets into anything because that thing provides meaning.
07:53Because that thing is supposed to lead to improvement.
07:57So you have to keep seeing that you are the final measure of the worth of anything in
08:07the world.
08:08Please note it down.
08:10You are the final measure of the worth of anything in the world.
08:19Everything exists to you and for your sake.
08:24So the moment you find that the thing is not adding value to you anymore, it's time to
08:33move on.
08:38Because that thing might be magnificent in itself but the measure of that thing is the
08:44value that it provides to you.
08:48When you move on, it is not as if you are insulting that thing.
08:52You are just saying that it's my time to move on.
08:57The thing might still be very magnificent for several others but it's your time to move
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