00:00Life and death depend on this discourse. That's what makes the Gita special. That's what is happening on the battlefield. Beautiful, breathtaking, real.
00:15The way the question, the topic had started, I could not control myself. Last few days, I'm going through certain things.
00:38I know that I've been living my life completely in the four walls of the house.
00:46And I did not realize for a very long time the impact that was causing to me.
00:54It's only after seeing your videos and all and reflecting on my life, the way I'm living and seeing the consequences of it.
01:05I'm able to see how badly my life is right now. And I just feel that I have actually left most of the household tasks.
01:15And I am trying to create more time for me to get into new things. But I'm not able to do it. I want to learn so many things and I'm not able to do it.
01:32I just see myself more of a failure.
01:42Sandhya ji.
01:44That's where I am actually, I am trying many things that are coming in my way to explore. Exploration is there, but I'm not
02:00able to go deeper into anything. I just feel I've wasted a lot of time on my payroll to improve myself.
02:08Even these tiers are an improvement.
02:12Even these tiers are an improvement.
02:15See you should not underestimate your odds.
02:18My doing is very little, that's what I can see.
02:24I understand.
02:25When you say doing, what you mean is tangible progress, right?
02:31You are talking of the ground that you are covering against your challenges.
02:37Right?
02:40But why do you underestimate the challenge you are facing?
02:44You know what you are up against?
02:47You are up against centuries of history.
02:54And you are up against millions of years of evolution of the human body, specifically
03:01the female body.
03:04That's what you are challenging.
03:10Forget about progress.
03:14I say even stalemate is victory.
03:19Even if you continue to lose, you are still victorious provided you have not quit.
03:36The mammoth enemy you are facing.
03:42How did you imagine that you will get quick success?
03:49But when you consider the immensity of the beast you are challenging, then you feel proud of
04:03even your little successes against that beast.
04:08That beast is huge, very huge Santayaji.
04:14Had it not been so huge, how would it have devoured the entire population of this planet?
04:29If you are doing something that's so rare, what you are attempting is unique.
04:39One in a thousand, no.
04:42One in a million even attempts it.
04:47So have that self-esteem and do not look for quick gains.
04:57They won't come your way.
05:00Feel proud that you are struggling.
05:07There is dignity in the right struggle.
05:12Are you getting it?
05:19And that's what we regularly talk of as Nishkam Karma.
05:27The dignity in the right struggle with great disdain towards results.
05:46Sometimes indifference does not suffice.
05:49You need to be disdainful of the results.
05:51I will tell you why.
05:54Because the results will be almost always against you.
06:03The result will be making ugly faces at you.
06:12The results will be trying to break your faith.
06:18Then mere indifference will not suffice.
06:21You need to be contemptuous towards the results.
06:25To hell with the results.
06:27To hell with all my failures.
06:30It is sufficient that I still exist as I must.
06:37It is sufficient that I am not quitting.
06:42Come on, I am ready for the next failure.
06:44Come on.
06:49Come on.
06:53Learn the dignity in defeat.
06:59The world sells you cheap battles.
07:01Therefore, the world glorifies winners.
07:08In the right battle, winning is a utopian luxury.
07:20Just standing firm is enough.
07:27Right?
07:28So don't measure your success or failure on worldly yardsticks.
07:39If you use the benchmarks of the world, they will say only the big successes are worth anything.
07:47And those who are not succeeding are fools.
07:53Right?
07:55Remember your odds.
07:58Remember that you are unique.
08:00Remember that you are among the privileged few who respond to the call of truth.
08:12Remember that the speeds of someone running down a slope and someone climbing the Mount Everest
08:25cannot be compared.
08:29The world venerates speedy achievers.
08:35And in the world, it is possible to gather a lot of speed.
08:38Why?
08:39Because the world is anyway run down a slippery slope.
08:44So it is very easy to gather speed.
08:48And there you have all these speedy achievers out running each other.
08:56What you are doing is a climb up the Everest.
09:04Your progress will be slow.
09:09And your victory does not lie merely in hitting the peak.
09:16Your victory lies in the attempt itself.
09:22Are you getting it?
09:25The very fact that you have attempted and that you continue to attempt is enough.
09:31Nothing more is needed.
09:34Just be honest and loving in your attempts.
09:39Give it everything that you have and forget the results.
09:43We said, be disdainful of the results.
09:49Even if there is a success, do not value it too much.
09:55If you value your occasional success too much, you will be punished to value the lots of failures
10:09that will inevitably come your way.
10:15So occasionally, when you succeed, take it in your stride.
10:22Right?
10:23Success?
10:24Failure?
10:25I don't know.
10:28I am doing.
10:29I am trying.
10:30I exist.
10:31I truthfully exist.
10:32My existence is enough.
10:34When somebody tells you, you won't succeed, let that bring a smile to you.
10:42Because what he is telling is the fact.
10:47What success are we talking of?
10:50There can only be a thorough and lively battle.
10:56An enthralling battle.
11:00That's what is worth it.
11:03Victory?
11:04It's not really given to a mortal.
11:14It's not about victory or something like that in Acharya Ji.
11:18I am just going blank most of the time.
11:21I just feel like I don't want to do.
11:25And sometimes I just feel my son is better than me.
11:30That's what, see, better.
11:33You are comparing yourself to the world.
11:39You are climbing up the Everest.
11:47Right?
11:48With the speedometer of a Mercedes.
11:55And when you do not see the needle making any movement, you feel discouraged.
12:07You are using the wrong standards.
12:13Yes, of course your son is better than you because right now all he has is his biological
12:21agenda to pursue and he will do far better than you on that turf.
12:34In fact, a one-year-old will outperform you in all ways.
12:42Because think of the standards that a one-year-old has to match.
12:49The one-year-old cannot fail because the standards are so low and so obvious.
12:58Even an animal cannot fail.
13:01Can a dog fail to wag its tail?
13:06See, success, applaud and feel miserable.
13:12The dog succeeded and Sandhya failed.
13:18The dog wagged its tail and Sandhya couldn't wag her tail.
13:25The thing is that you do not realize that you don't have a tail.
13:30Your standards are different.
13:35You will never be able to beat the dogs when it comes to wagging the tail.
13:47That's what this world is all about.
13:49All the dogs are busy, competing.
14:05And here you are.
14:11This consulate.
14:12Oh my god.
14:15Look at that one.
14:18Wagging frequency of 200 hertz.
14:28Just as you said, you know, even my son is better than me.
14:30Tomorrow you will say even my dog is better than me.
14:32Somehow I don't know why I am able to see myself only totally unworthy.
14:39Obviously you are totally unworthy.
14:42When an elephant will try to fly, it will feel very unworthy.
14:47You are doing something that is in a different dimension compared to the normal worldly beings.
15:01Therefore the standards of your success have to be very different.
15:07You cannot look at the normal people, compare yourself and feel dejected.
15:14This is Maya.
15:17And if you continue to feel dejected very frequently, a point will come when you will just break.
15:25You will say, I surrender.
15:36You have a thick skin.
15:44In the right petal, you cannot be a very sensitive one.
15:54You need to have the skin of a rhinoceros and a horn to boot if possible.
16:10Somebody troubles you too much, just be a bit nosy and give it in to him.
16:21I get defeated 50 times a day, Sandhya Ji.
16:28Do I let that impact my self worth?
16:36What do you look at me as some kind of superman or champion or what?
16:57I am a serial loser.
17:04The sequence of my defeats is endless.
17:12And still I manage to come and speak to you about wars and fights.
17:27I am saying this because it's possible that you are comparing yourself even to me and thinking, you know,
17:34he sits there and he talks of all the right things and he is continuously succeeding and he is a big champion.
17:40And only I am such an abject failure.
17:43No, you are not.
17:45If you want company in your defeats, let's make a losers club.
17:55Appoint me the president.
17:59I will not settle for anything less than that.
18:04That's my ego, you know.
18:07Even in the losers club, I must be the president.
18:18Feeling better?
18:19Now go get defeated once more.
18:25過 Curtain in here.
18:26Try to play outside.
18:27See you later.
18:28Take tranquillo.
18:29Hopefully.
18:30You don't care.
18:32Go.
18:33Yaw.
18:34Bye.
18:35Bye.
18:36Bye.
18:37Bye.
18:39Bye.
18:41Bye.
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