We Only Respect Money? || Acharya Prashant

Full video: Our youth are facing silent trauma. Who'll speak about it? || Acharya Prashant, IIT-Guwahati (2023)

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00:00Somebody who has been a total jerk all four years of BTEC

00:05somehow lands one of those coveted jobs

00:08and he becomes a respectable fellow, does he not?

00:11What does that tell you about your internal philosophy?

00:13It says, the measure of a man is his pocket

00:16and that is not your philosophy.

00:19I pity the fact that philosophy has been drilled into you by somebody else

00:24and you do not even know that.

00:25You have no measure to assist the worth of a person

00:31except by his material acquisitions

00:33and that's something you have been taught.

00:36The acquisitiveness that we see in human beings today

00:40is a result almost of a planned conspiracy.

00:44They are here, they are young and catch them young,

00:47indoctrinate them in having more and more material possessions.