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00:01There was this thing that I came across which was really thought provoking for me.
00:10They spoke about, Sri Aurobindo spoke about, he spoke about three levels or three kinds of partnerships if you can call them.
00:20He said there is one at the vital level, vital partnership, there is psychic partnership and then there is spiritual partnership.
00:27So my question is, how do I find the spiritual partner and how do I know or recognize?
00:34Just the same way you find the right Guru. Go back to that question.
00:38Okay. The authenticity in my core.
00:42You must know what you are seeking from the person. If you get it from that person, you are with the right person.
00:50What are you looking for? What are you seeking?
00:54If you are just looking for decent looks and somebody to accompany you to the movies, then anybody would do.
01:06But if you are looking really to not to make a waste of your life and if you are looking to someone who just refreshes you, gives you freedom from all the stillness we carry within from all these centuries, then you will find the right person.
01:33What are you looking for? So, the right partner is not determined by the attributes of the partner.
01:43The right partner is determined and achieved by the intensity of your hunger, your inquiry.
01:52Just as I said, you go and ask the right questions from the Guru and if the Guru comes a cropper, you leave.
02:01Similarly, even with your partner, you need to ask certain questions.
02:05Maybe not in the same way you formally inquire from a Guru.
02:11But the essence of the question has to be the same because the essence of the suffering is the same.
02:18Are you a different person in front of the teacher and a different one in front of the partner? No, that is not the same.
02:24So, the suffering consciousness is the same. Even when you are with your, irrespective of who you are with actually.
02:33Mother, father, your dog, your cat. The purpose has to be one. The purpose is, I have to be better.
02:42Not in the sense of earning more money. I have to be better inwardly. I have to come out of this inner haze.
02:51Does my dog help me with that? You have to be austere and rigorous to that extent.
02:59I know many people would hear this and laugh. Does even a dog need to be measured on a spiritual yardstick? Yes, of course.
03:10Why must you keep a pet if the pet is going to make your life hell?
03:17Every single thing that you do, you must ask, is it going to liberate me from my bondages and my ignorance?
03:25Why must I wear a ring? Why must I wear an earring? Why must I comb my hair this way? Why must I take a walk to the shop?
03:37Why must I breathe? Why must I wake up every morning? Why must I do that?
03:44The purpose has to be liberation and one has to be absolutely one-minded on that. No wavering, no second thoughts.
03:54I know why I exist because I know how I exist. Once you know how you exist, you know why you exist.
04:05How do you exist? You exist in agony and therefore, why do you exist? You exist for liberation.
04:13Are you with me? So, it's not a complicated question at all.
04:24Men, women all have this question and it has been romanticized endlessly and it has been turned into something mysterious.
04:34As they say these days, mystical. You know, how can you know whether the heavens have really chosen that particular face for you?
04:43The heavens have chosen nothing. Your angst has to choose its doctor.
04:49But that's so unromantic. Am I supposed to choose a doctor? I mean, come on. I'm looking to visit a dyspothic, not a hospital.
04:58Shattering.
04:59I want to go to Switzerland and you are sending me to Apollo hospitals. I mean, why do you talk of the partner as a doctor?
05:08But the partner has to be a doctor because you are a patient. You are sick and you don't want to acknowledge that because you are pretty.
05:19I am so handsome. I am so tall. How can I call myself? A patient. You are a patient. Better have some humility and acknowledge that.
05:32And then you will know the one to partner. Otherwise, you will be in all kinds of wrong relationships.
05:40And they come in the garb of the promise initially, but then it all comes off. You know, I mean, that's a littleтАж
05:52Promises anybody can make. The thing is, if I really want something, I test the promise. No? Are those promises ever validated?
06:01Do we pass them through scrutiny? No, we don't. Why? Well, I had not bothered. Not bothered.
06:07I may write there that I am very concerned about me not getting infected. But am I even bothering to ask that person,
06:20Sir, are you vaccinated? Sir, are you vaccinated? I don't even bother to ask that person whether he is vaccinated.
06:28And I keep telling myself, you know, I care so much about my health and public health in general.
06:35So, all these are games we play with ourselves. We tell ourselves one thing, whereas we live a totally different thing.
06:42It's not others that deceive us. We keep deceiving ourselves endlessly.
06:48And the funny thing is, when we discover that others too have deceived us, we cry ourselves dry.
07:02How can you complain now? The very name of the game was deception. He was deceiving you, you were deceiving him or her.
07:17He was deceiving himself and you were deceiving yourself. All kinds of permutations, combinations and deception were happening all the time.
07:26Now that something has come up, you are crying. Explain.
07:33So, once you have gone through, you know, the path of obviously stumbling down and then discovering who you are.
07:53Even after that, there are, I mean, it is happening. So, they will pop up right in the garb of looking right.
08:03Looking in the sense, not looking right. I mean, we are obviously not that shallow anymore.
08:07So, looking in the sense, oh, all like they are deeper than that and all that. So, how do you spot a lie?
08:14How do you spot a lie? Does an infected person look different from a normal person? No, no, no.
08:20So, what do you do? You test, test, test. Always carry RT-PCR kits with you. Keep testing. By the looks, you will never know whether the fellow is infected or not.
08:34You must test. And how will you test? Through your own angst, through your own inquiry.
08:40So, is there no depth left in the men anymore? I mean, what? What is the game? Predominantly.
08:52If there is no depth left in the men, and women are usually unable to see that, is there any depth left in women either?
09:07Had there been, I mean, generalizing, you are generalizing, I am generalizing, but let's play this game.
09:12If there is no depth in the man, and the woman still falls prey to the man, what kind of depth does the woman have?
09:25Correct. That's the utility of depth. You don't fall prey to shallowness. Without the real thing, nothing in life,
09:41falls in the right place. At times, we might be deluded into thinking that things are going well with us. They cannot. They cannot.
09:58Even if it is happening, it is going to be very short-lived, and the end is going to be tragic.
10:06You can happily run your car on a flat tire for two kilometers. And then, you can have a powerful steering. We have power steering these days.
10:30And the engine is very powerful, 200 horsepower. And you are an insensitive driver. So, you don't quite notice the vibrations in the vehicle.
10:42For two kilometers, you can happily run the vehicle even at 60 or 80 miles an hour with a flat tire. That's all.
10:54That's all. And then, when somebody calls you up or gestures from outside, hey, hey, hey, you are such a fool. He is unnecessarily raising a scene.
11:12All these are conspiracy theorists. I am so happily riding my vehicle and the fellow is warning me from there and playing it up. They don't like my happiness.
11:31That's what so many people verbally or non-verbally say to me. They may not say that, but it's writ large on their faces. We are so happy. Probably you don't like our happiness.
11:46I want you to be really happy. I know the thing that you call as happiness. I know how deceptive it is and what kind of pain it would leave you with.
12:03Therefore, I am warning you against false happiness. I am not an enemy of happiness. I don't like this movement into deeper and deeper pain in the name of happiness.
12:24Personal problem, social problem, global problem.
12:49There is just one problem. Unless we address that, we can have a thousand names to a thousand problems. And it's very easy to address that and very difficult to address that.
13:12Because that problem is not outside of us. That problem is within us. That problem lies in our very build.
13:22So, it's easy because the problem is near. It's difficult because the problem is within.
13:27You know, in this book that I read, David Epstein, it did quite well actually. It's called Generalists. Why Generalists triumph?
13:55In a specialized world. So, there are so many things, many times one is endowed with like personally for me, I'm drawn to a lot of stuff. So basically, do I do it all? Is it possible to do it all?
14:18I'm drawn towards all the stuff. In the pharmacist's place.
14:33Okay, I got it. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Which medicine do you? Which sickness do you? Which medicine you use to treat your sickness basically?
14:50Yeah, first thing is acknowledgement of the sickness. That decides the medicine and that then rejects all the needless medication.
15:09Needless medication is very close to more sickness. No?
15:20Hmm. All that in ignorance of the real disease.
15:28I was talking more work-wise in the sense, there's music, there are a lot of things. So, evenтАж
15:37It doesn't matter. All these are objects in our sensory world. We need to know who we are and therefore what is it that suits us.
15:49Skill-wise, at points in my life, I have been good at certain sports, I have been good at mathematics, I have been good at engineering, I have been good at management, I have been good at acting.
16:10What is it that I need to do? It's just not that I feel talented in some space, so I take that space up.
16:30Talent is such a foolish thing.
16:33Talent is such a foolish thing.
16:34Talent is such a foolish thing.
16:35Talent is such a foolish thing.
16:36Talent is such a foolish thing.
16:37Talent is such a foolish thing.
16:38Talent is such a foolish thing.
16:39Talent is such a foolish thing.
16:40Talent is such a foolish thing.
16:41Talent is such a foolish thing.
16:42Talent is such a foolish thing.
16:43Talent is such a foolish thing.
16:44Talent is such a foolish thing.
16:45Talent is such a foolish thing.
16:46Talent is such a foolish thing.
16:47Talent is such a foolish thing.
16:48Talent is such a foolish thing.
16:49Talent is such a foolish thing.
16:50Talent is such a foolish thing.
16:51Talent is such a foolish thing.
16:52Talent is such a foolish thing.
16:53Talent is such a foolish thing.
16:54Talent is such a foolish thing.
16:55Talent is such a foolish thing.
16:56Talent is such a foolish thing.
16:57Even today, if there is one thing that attracts me beyond Vedanta, it's physics.
17:16I haven't taught physics and data analytics, but is that where my real need lies?
17:35Is that where the sickness of the world lies?
17:40What does the world need?
17:42If I become a physicist, that's not going to heal the world.
17:47We already have enough physicists.
18:06What I learned with this question are the words of passion, calling, and all such things.
18:20But I feel so passionate about, about what?
18:25Let's say, give me something.
18:28Singing.
18:30Singing.
18:34Now there's hardly anybody who does not feel passionate about singing.
18:39But, hello.
18:41I'm not against singing.
18:46Anybody in India who is not passionate about cricket?
18:5374.6% of India wants to get into the national cricket team.
18:58Either cricket or acting or singing.
19:00Those who cannot make it to the Vankhede Stadium want to make it to the studios.
19:11Either the stadium or the studio.
19:15So that pretty much covers the entire population of the country.
19:21Hello.
19:23Two hoots to passion.
19:24You see what you must do.
19:29Not what you are inclined to do.
19:34Being born in India, obviously you would be inclined to take the ball or the bat in hand.
19:40I too was inclined.
19:42That's not what I'm going to do.
19:48Or perhaps use your singing in a way that it is conducive to serve the purpose.
19:53Now, now, that makes sense.
19:56What sort of songs are you singing?
19:58But again, you have to determine,
20:01if your songs are just a means towards some higher end,
20:08then are songs the best means towards that end?
20:15If the end is the important thing,
20:19then are the songs the best means?
20:22If they are, continue with singing.
20:25If they are not,
20:27pick that up,
20:29which would be most efficient in taking you towards your goal.
20:33Meera sang bhajan, sir, of Krishnaji, too.
20:44Meera succeeded with songs in reaching Krishna.
20:49Not everybody succeeded with songs in reaching Krishna.
20:52You have to ask yourself,
20:57is Krishna important or the songs?
21:04The answer would be Krishna, if you are honest.
21:07If Krishna is important,
21:08are songs the best way?
21:10If the answer is yes,
21:13continue with singing.
21:14If the answer is no,
21:16don't deceive yourself.
21:19Pick some other way.
21:21If you persist with singing,
21:25irrespective of knowing that this is not taking you to Krishna,
21:29then singing is more important for you than Krishna.
21:33And that's bad.
21:37Good point.
21:39I like it.
21:40Lovely.
21:42Were Meera asked to pick between her bhajans and Krishna,
21:47what would she choose?
21:48Krishna.
21:49Bhajans were good for her only because
21:54they were 100% aligned with her love for Krishna.
22:03Bhajans are secondary.
22:05Krishna is primary.
22:06Bhajans are secondary.
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