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00:00How do you know somebody is happy?
00:02What is happiness?
00:04We don't know happiness.
00:06We only know symptoms of happiness.
00:08And symptoms are easy to copy.
00:10Arms in arms.
00:12Or hands over shoulders.
00:14Her shoulders especially.
00:16What do you say immediately?
00:18Happy.
00:22Happiness is not something you have to hunt for.
00:24You do not need to be happy.
00:26You are already joyful.
00:28If you do not subject yourself.
00:30To your own nonsense.
00:32Life.
00:34By design.
00:36Is not meant to torture you.
00:38If life becomes cumbersome.
00:40Then surely it is.
00:42It is from my own decisions.
00:44It is my own doing.
00:48Namaskar Achai ji.
00:50I am from Pune Maharashtra.
00:52It is often said that.
00:54Lack of self knowledge leads to suffering.
00:56Yet we see that.
00:58Some people are happy.
01:00And some of them are deeply troubled.
01:02Seeing this seemingly happy individuals.
01:04People content with worldly choice.
01:06But.
01:08And they distance themselves from Bhagavad Gita.
01:10Why does this happen?
01:12Nobody is happy.
01:18We have fooled ourselves no end.
01:22We don't know happiness.
01:23We only know symptoms of happiness.
01:25And symptoms are easy to copy.
01:30Nobody is happy.
01:31All they exhibit is symptoms of happiness.
01:35And we have.
01:36In some kind of a very shady deal.
01:38Among ourselves.
01:39Decided mutually.
01:41With universal consent.
01:43That these will be the.
01:46Accepted symptoms of happiness.
01:49Let's list down five of them.
01:51One.
01:53Smiling.
01:55And the hyperlative form of that is a guffaw.
01:58Oh.
01:59So.
02:00So happy.
02:01Extremely happy.
02:02Second.
02:03Money.
02:04Clothes.
02:06Shining face.
02:08Partner.
02:09Partner.
02:10Yeah.
02:11Partner.
02:12Fine.
02:13Yeah.
02:14And.
02:15Respect.
02:16Prestige.
02:17Gratitude.
02:18Yeah.
02:19Huh?
02:20Gratitude.
02:21Gratitude.
02:22That's not a very common thing among happy people.
02:27Right.
02:28Right.
02:29Right.
02:30You see a young man, a young woman.
02:33Arms in arms.
02:34Huh?
02:35Or hands over shoulders.
02:36Her shoulders.
02:37Especially.
02:38Yeah.
02:39Right.
02:40Right.
02:41You see a young man, a young woman.
02:42Arms in arms.
02:43Huh?
02:44Or hands over shoulders.
02:45Her shoulders.
02:46Especially.
02:47What do you say immediately?
02:48Happy.
02:49Happy.
02:50We can conduct an experiment right now.
02:52Let's display a few pictures over here.
02:54And let's ask you.
02:56Which of these indicate happiness?
02:59The answer would be almost unanimous.
03:02Now how do you know they are happy?
03:04Those are pictures.
03:05Do you see that's our happiness?
03:08Pictures.
03:09Will it happen or not?
03:13Do we have somebody from psychology here?
03:17Or any of the behavioral sciences?
03:22Okay.
03:23Yeah.
03:24Try this out.
03:25Huh?
03:26Five picks.
03:27Tell me which of these indicate happiness?
03:32And you'll have near consensus in the responses.
03:36What does that tell?
03:37Happiness is an image.
03:39Image.
03:40Five images.
03:41And you know which of these point towards happiness.
03:42You already know.
03:43Similarly, five faces of men and women.
03:44Which of these are evil people?
03:45Nobody would say.
03:46I cannot say, sir.
03:47It's a stupid question to ask, sir.
03:48What are you asking?
03:49How do I know which of them is evil?
03:50We will, you will find somebody within who will say, you know that one.
03:51Number three.
03:52He looks like Acharya Prashant.
03:53He looks like Acharya Prashant.
03:55Evil.
03:56How do I change that?
03:57How do I change that?
03:58So many people come up with that.
03:59No, I haven't heard him.
04:00I haven't read him.
04:01Par shakal se gunda lagta hai.
04:03How do I change my face?
04:07I don't understand.
04:08How do I change your face?
04:10Yes.
04:11Well, I understand that.
04:12Anyway.
04:13It's a stupid question to answer.
04:14It's a stupid question to answer, sir.
04:15What are you asking?
04:16How do I know which of them is evil?
04:18We will, you will find somebody within who will say, you know that one.
04:19Number three.
04:20He looks like Acharya Prashant.
04:22How do I change that?
04:23So many people come up with that.
04:24No, I haven't heard him.
04:25I haven't read him.
04:26It's a weird way.
04:27How do I change my face?
04:32But we already know we already know see this this this is just a particular particular
04:50piece of three dimensional geometry right right it does not say good
04:56bad while virtuous it says nothing then there is some kind of personal decoder here that
05:06translates this geometry into a particular judgment we do not realize that the judgment
05:13is not coming from the face it is coming from our own compiler the decoder within we don't
05:19realize that anyway that's that's a little so happiness happiness what is
05:26happiness behaving in a particular way feeling a particular way what is happiness feeling
05:38a particular way now feeling is totally chemical don't we know that and if happiness happens
05:46to be such a big thing then you can have that chemical put into your body very artificially
05:52and you will be happy we now very well know the names of at least five such chemicals that
05:59can arouse you in happy and and differently happy ways a shot of dopamine it will work in
06:09one particular way and you will win a estrogen another way oxytocin another way and even these happinesses
06:27will not be all alike different kinds of happinesses and all temporary nature so how how do we accord so
06:36much value to this feeling particular feeling and feelings can amount to pleasure not happiness
06:50happiness that is neither temporal nor chemical has been classically called as joy and it is not
06:56something to be obtained it is not something to be obtained it is nature it is who you are provided you refuse to abide by what you are not happiness is not something you have to hunt for otherwise happiness remains eternally elusive
07:23i heard this uh sorry read this book the pursuit of happiness yeah it's a futile pursuit of happiness
07:32unending pursuit of happiness
07:34getting it sensation and that sensation of arousal hormonal chemical arousal
07:49that we call as happiness that we call as happiness that is needed only because our life is otherwise depressing
07:56you do not need to be happy you are already joyful if you do not subject yourself to to your your own nonsense happiness is not a particular state a particular moment a particular event or episode
08:17happiness is a constant thing it is your very breath just as the heart beats similarly the nature of consciousness is to always be joyful you are joyful already but but we burden ourselves with all kinds of needless things and that becomes the sadness the grief of life
08:44happiness
08:47life becomes a trauma and when life becomes that kind of a thing then you require sensational pleasures that we mistakenly call as happiness
08:59again turning into a little personal that's another grouse people have against me why doesn't this man laugh because i don't need to see i'm already alright
09:11i'm not depressed why do i need to laugh you're so depressed you need to laugh you'll die if you don't laugh but i'm already alright
09:22i'm vibrant within
09:26i'm not tense i'm not worried i'm okay i'm immersed i'm i'm with you i'm enjoying being with you
09:37this association itself is so enjoyable why do i need to burst out into a guffaw
09:44and if need be when that happens that happens on its own i don't have to turn that into a routine or an obligation
09:54happiness is the it's the most needless thing to be pursued because it is always and already there why are you searching for something that is your very nature
10:17and if the mind is heavy if life is no more fun then you need to ask what have i done
10:28life by design is not meant to torture you you have all that you need to live joyfully
10:40if life becomes cumbersome then surely it is it is from my own decisions it is my own doing i don't need to laugh i need to fight i need to undo what i have done i need to see clearly where i am conditioned and enslaved
11:02and when i see that then i push away my grief my grief is not something that has accidentally come upon me
11:13my grief is something i am deliberately sticking to my grief is something i am clutching this way this this strongly with my own fists
11:24i have to release my grip i have to release my grip i have to release my grip and that will release me of grief
11:37freedom from grief itself is joy if i remain grieving and with the grief along with the grief shares happiness how smart is that
11:51internally i am weeping and bleeding and externally i go to to sit in a comic show how will that help but we do that too no i am extremely tense
12:06oh i am feeling so down i need to shop i need to i need to speak to you for at least 30 minutes why i am not alright
12:19make me laugh make me laugh or turn me on whatever how will that help you that which is inside will remain you are just whitewashing it
12:36you are sugarcoating it you are denying what is there that's that's what this flimsy happiness is all about the grief is there
12:48and you want to deny it using the concept of happiness why not get rid of grief itself
12:55instead of trying out happiness as a as a shady solution why not ask what is causing the problem itself
13:09what will help freedom from the problem or a shady solution freedom from the problem that freedom is what we need not happiness
13:19good evening sir my name is Tushar i have been with Gita Samagam from last two years very thankful for you so you said continuously observe yourself when i observe myself i find greed anger all these kind of stuff and then i hate myself that i am like that then and how to then tackle these all things i know these are the enemies you don't have to tackle if you decide to tackle observation itself becomes purposeful and purpose is desire and all desire comes from the
13:49comes from the center of conditioning so now you are not observing now you are playing to your conditioning how do you know something
13:56how do you know something deserves to be tackled explain tackling give me an absolute definition of tackling by absolute i mean something that's not subjective
14:04because everything that is subjective because everything that is subjective arises from the ego give me an absolute definition of tackling
14:11give me an absolute definition of tackling see these are these are very if i may say loose words that we casually get away with we should not allow the inner mischief maker to so easily get away with loose gibberish what do you mean by tackle
14:31i need to put down something what do you what do you mean by that these are metaphors they are so cunning aren't they they hide so much
14:47you don't need to tackle anything you don't need to have preset conclusions about what is right and what is wrong
14:54if let's say you observe greed how do you know greed is bad badness is a concept what is bad badness is a concept badness is a man-made concept
15:07what is bad in one culture is great in another is it not so how do you know badness is something absolute and we are looking for the absolute because only that would give us peace
15:28things things that are temporal spatial cultural let's not respect them too much
15:39we are looking for something that is that is beyond the mind of man we are looking for something that we have ourselves not constructed
15:49because we know who we are and therefore we know the quality of our construction we don't want to depend too much on it
15:56are you getting it observation has to be purposeless don't ask what will happen if i see greed or envy or whatever inside me anger or lust inside me
16:13if you have seen them you have seen them fine they are there you don't need to be judgmental you don't need to be your own inner police
16:26seen so seen what's the big scandal there is that fat python sitting inside the lazy one doesn't want to do anything just wants to eat
16:40doesn't that one sit inside all of us if you are assured you could get all the results that you want without working would you ever work
16:48that's the python i'm talking of so you see it's it's there the entire fat coil it's there fine
17:02i don't have the obligation to deal with it or tackle no you don't have that responsibility so abhav is not tackling so abhav is knowing
17:17knowing you have to know and from that knowing what follows follows i don't bother my job my responsibility my sabhav my dharma is to just know
17:33knowing the upanishads say i am they don't even say i must know they say i am knowing bodho aham i am knowing
17:47i don't realize i am realization itself that's swabhav i am not my opinions thoughts feelings my body my word my age my anything i am pure realization nothing less nothing more
18:03there is no action contained in this it's not my job to act it's not my job to impede action either
18:23if action has to happen it will happen i'll submit myself to the action and from this realization vigorous action results
18:33vigorous the ego when it acts it acts only for its petty purposes and for petty purposes only petty action can happen no how big are your desires
18:41look at the size of the universe what do you desire a grain of sand
18:45and petty desires so when the action emanates from the center of ego it is always petty but when action comes
18:55from nothing but realization then it's unstoppable the body can fall the person can die but that action cannot be stopped
19:03i think i think it came from the conditioning where we trained from our childhood yes if you win that thing
19:13you don't need to tackle
19:15thank you so much thank you so so much sir
19:17so thanks a lot for coming actually so just one sentence i wanted to say first before asking the question is that
19:23you are doing the service to the vedant what fine man has done to physics
19:27physics so it's like the your lectures on the vedantic philosophy so i have actually one question but i will subdivide
19:35it into three parts based on the today's sessions so when you started the very first like how do you know that
19:43you think you i you am so is it similar to what the french philosopher Descartes had said like
19:51no no no he was giving supremacy to thought this is not that this is not that he said you are by virtue
19:59of your thinking no no being comes first thinking is a much later thing yes right next you said like
20:07if the if the right desire is there then there is no need to think about the fulfillment yes it is very
20:15similar to one uh geeta shlok yeah right that is correct and the last one actually uh regarding ai
20:23so like everyone is uh fearing that it will bring about i mean the super um intelligence it will bring
20:31about maybe the destruction but since this uh spiritual process this enlightenment it is actually
20:37nothing but a sequence of chemical reactions in the proper order
20:41uh no no no no no no because you said like thought it's a detailed thing come tomorrow to isc
20:51okay okay so like is it possible that sometime in the future there will be a super enlightenment
20:57instead of super intelligence there is nothing like that not even enlightenment is there you are
21:03talking of super enlightenment fine thank you thank you so much thank you so much
21:11thank you
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