00:00This is why so many epic tales, heroic tales of war and victory end with the death of the
00:06protagonist, the hero. The war is won, but the hero is gone. Oh, captain, my captain,
00:11the war you fought is won. And the poet says, but my captain does not listen. Here he lies
00:15cold and dead. The crowds on the shore are rejoicing, but the captain is dead. The captain
00:20had to be dead because the war is real. When the war is real, it will consume you. You must not
00:25be left alive at the end of the war. Otherwise, it's a disrespect to the war. You didn't offer
00:29it everything. The right war is the one that does not leave you with anything, probably
00:35not even with your life. That is why Kabir says that his warrior gets his head chopped off
00:40before he sets out to war. He has to begin rightly. So he says, there can be no greed. I am going
00:47there to give myself away. I'm not going there to get something. Chopping one's head off means
00:52chopping off the intention to get or accumulate.
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