00:00Influencers and activists, generally they are quite narcissistic, but they act like it's about the cause.
00:05So my question is, still they're doing something.
00:08Can someone like this still do any good for the world?
00:11Man's default state is of narcissism.
00:15Rear is the one who is not a narcissist.
00:18Now what I'm saying is unpalatable, because it will make you question your idols, your role models.
00:27It's an interesting word, no?
00:29Influencer.
00:30Pretend that you are generous and are coming to give.
00:33You'll open the doors.
00:34Followers are meant to be traded like sheep.
00:37People are meant to be sold.
00:41To me, it is a surprise that people are surprised when they see evil.
00:45That's what you use your influence for, no?
00:48Even a fish has to be offered some bait.
00:51So let's call that social service.
00:54Suddenly some top leaders have become admirers of the Gita.
00:59Acharya ji, we want to learn Gita from you.
01:02So I said, you come over and learn Gita from me.
01:04He said, no, but the camera will be there, right?
01:06Maybe he wants to record it for future revision.
01:09Now you will upload that, right?
01:11I will ask you questions, you reply to me.
01:13I'm damn sure he would have received very feeble returns on his investment
01:19If you cannot put your idols and your deities in the dock,
01:24you'll never be liberated.
01:30Namaste Acharya ji.
01:31My name is Akshit and my question is about influencers and activists.
01:39I generally find on social media.
01:41So generally they are quite narcissistic and it's not about the cause.
01:45It's about making them appear like good and better than others.
01:52So my question is, can someone like this still do something good for the world?
01:59And I also find myself...
02:01Please, please clarify.
02:03What is it about influencers that intrigues you?
02:08I mean, they are narcissists in the way, it's not about the cause.
02:12And so still, so it's not about the cause and but they act like it's about the cause.
02:21So my question is still they're doing something like the action is happening.
02:26So can someone like this still do any good for the world?
02:32I don't know how you would want to define it and name it.
02:39Somebody is delivering you medicine diluted to the extent of 90%
02:57because his objective does not lie in delivering you the medicine.
03:04His objective lies in having the maximum possible for himself.
03:11I do not know whether you would call it service or exploitation.
03:20Not that he is not delivering you anything.
03:22Well, he is delivering you something.
03:26But delivering this something is a compulsion so that he can appropriate almost everything.
03:38If he does not leave even 10% for you, it will become impossible for him to gobble the 90%.
03:47Depends on you how you want to name it.
03:52Service, appropriation, exploitation, fraud, nishkama karma depends on you.
04:07See how can somebody exploit you without offering you something at least
04:23Even a fish has to be offered some bait before it is killed.
04:29So let's call that social service.
04:34Bait too costs money.
04:39The fellow is spending money for the sake of the fish.
04:42As a rule, somebody who is still insecure about his own life can hardly be of any good to others.
04:58Somebody who still is afraid about his own security has no capacity to love.
05:13If you are insecure about yourself, how are you going to love others?
05:19You can only exploit others.
05:22Your primary concern will be your own welfare because your own internal affairs are not yet settled.
05:33So you look at others with an eye to using them.
05:44It's an interesting word, no?
05:54Influencer.
05:55You become an influencer and then you become a carrier of deodorant ads.
06:07And stretchable shirts.
06:15That's what you use your influence for, no?
06:27Why does one want to become a celebrity?
06:31So that he can be used to sell things to people.
06:39What else is your celebrity ship for?
06:42Tell me please.
06:45You aspire to be an Instagram sensation.
06:50You become one.
06:53What do you do then?
06:56What do you do?
06:58You start selling deodorants.
07:04Your foundation happens to have a large number at the followers figure on all social media.
07:23Facebook, Instagram and the like.
07:26So not a day is there when we do not receive five emails requesting some slot on any of our social media.
07:46And the fellows are such idiots.
07:56They overestimate your foundation so much.
07:59One of them was prepared.
08:04Would you believe it?
08:07To pay $80,000 US dollars for a single post on our social media.
08:20I'm damn sure he would have received very feeble returns on his investment.
08:30But somehow people are foolish enough to think that your foundation is influential.
08:37And that the foundation will use its influence to make its followers buy deodorants.
08:53And not all of that has to be out in the open.
09:03You can sell in a very subtle way.
09:06You know Acharyaji can come here and there can be some particular brand displayed here.
09:14Often I have to wear horrible outfits, particularly shirts.
09:25Just because the one that I like has the name or the logo of the manufacturer prominently displayed here on the chest.
09:34Now even if the shirt fits well and is very comfortable.
09:40I cannot wear it because I'm not supposed to bring ads to you.
09:47But that would be so easy.
09:52You all won't even realize it that you have been unconsciously being indoctrinated into buying a particular brand.
10:05One particular logo here.
10:08That's very common.
10:11You won't even blame me.
10:14You will say he is wearing a shirt.
10:17Can't even wear shirts now.
10:20That's what you become an influencer for.
10:23And these are small things.
10:26Selling merchandise.
10:29At least two major political parties in India.
10:342024.
10:37They are behind your foundation.
10:40Behind your foundation not in the sense of backing your foundation.
10:43In the sense of chasing your foundation.
10:46Please please somehow endorse us.
10:51Suddenly some top leaders have become admirers of the Gita.
11:08Acharyaji we want to learn Gita from you.
11:15So I said you come over and learn Gita from me.
11:18He said no but the camera will be there right?
11:21I said what will you do with the camera?
11:24You want to learn the Gita? Come and learn the Gita.
11:27I'm all yours.
11:30He said no let there be a camera.
11:33I said fine there will be a camera.
11:36Maybe he wants to record it for future revision.
11:39I said yes there will be a camera.
11:42So he said right now you will upload that right?
11:46You want to learn the Gita?
11:49Why do you demonstrate it to the public?
11:52That's what you become an influencer for.
11:55Your foundation can easily get a lot of political backing.
12:00People are meant to be sold.
12:16Followers are meant to be traded like sheep.
12:23I have 50 million followers.
12:28What do I do with them? I trade them.
12:31Just that when I meet them I say I love you all.
12:40Then what do I do?
12:43I go and sell them behind their back.
12:46Narcissism is not something to be surprised by.
13:01Man's default state is of narcissism.
13:06Sir what else can the ego possibly be?
13:11Who is a narcissist?
13:14Who just keeps thinking of himself.
13:17And if you are afraid what else will you do?
13:21You will keep thinking of your own security.
13:24The ego by definition is a narcissist.
13:38Rare is the one who is not a narcissist.
13:44Just that some are openly narcissistic.
13:47The others pretend to be social creatures.
13:55Social servants.
14:00Amiable, altruistic.
14:07The ego cannot be altruistic. Impossible.
14:11If a fellow looks very generous without being self-aware
14:19then that generosity is a facade behind which there would be loot and plunder.
14:31It's a good way, no?
14:38To enter somebody's home before ransacking it.
14:43Pretend that you are generous and are coming to give.
14:46He will open the doors.
15:02To me it is a surprise that people are surprised when they see evil.
15:12I want you to be surprised so frequently that you cease being surprised.
15:24Because you don't know that you are evil so you don't know that others are evil.
15:33Three quarters of all animals you wiped out from the face of this planet
15:40in just the last five decades.
15:43And you still think humanity has even a shred of goodness about it?
15:50Come on.
15:58Now what I am saying is unpalatable.
16:02Because it will make you question your idols, your role models, the deities you worship.
16:16If you cannot put your idols and your deities in the dock, you will never be liberated.
16:26Thank you, sir.
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