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00:00Why should someone study the topics which are not related to the academic?
00:04Why should someone study the philosophy?
00:06Why should one study philosophy?
00:08This in itself is a philosophical question.
00:10Don't you want to know the truth?
00:12How many of you are happy with lies?
00:15If I ask you, why do you desire for such a thing?
00:17You won't be able to tell.
00:18Because you don't know your inner mechanics.
00:20You must also know why you feel disappointed when somebody doesn't praise you.
00:24If you are uneducated within,
00:26if you don't know what darkness pervades your insights,
00:29then you just finish off the earth itself as we are doing today.
00:33The horrible specter of climate change and nuclear conflict.
00:39And this darkness is commanding that technology, that power, that everything.
00:44If it is natural to have individualistic freedom, why is it so difficult?
00:50You said it is not that easy to understand.
00:53Is it really not that easy to understand?
00:55If you are not free within, can you really be of use to anybody?
01:01Understanding leads to spontaneous implementation.
01:05The problem is that when it comes to understanding, fear takes over.
01:08Listening stops.
01:10All kinds of rubbish arguments spring up to defend falseness.
01:15That's where you lose it.
01:17We can escape this conditioning just by doing.
01:20Real doing will just happen like an explosion.
01:22You won't be able to stop it.
01:24Your understanding will become the master.
01:25It will command your life.
01:27Your actions will become super smooth.
01:30Thank you, sir.
01:37Can we have our next panel member?
01:45This format is good.
01:47I like this rotating format.
01:49So many people get to be here and I too get to interact with many people.
01:54Yes.
01:55Hi, sir.
01:56Hi, sir.
02:00I would like to relate my question, which I have experienced from like my childhood.
02:05That our teacher, our parents wants our prime focus on the academics.
02:10Like we are taught that like scoring good in the subjects like maths, physics and other subjects
02:16is like a path to the success.
02:19And reading the non-academic books is just a way to kill the time.
02:22Sir, my question is not to choose one over the other, but to understand the philosophical relation
02:29between these two.
02:31Like why should someone study the topics which are not related to the like academic?
02:37Why should someone study the philosophy?
02:39Like to follow up with my question, I would like to highlight a quote, which I came across
02:46by reading your book.
02:47It's like the defining characteristic of the real education is that it liberates you from
02:55within.
02:56So what the real education means?
02:59What do you mean by liberating you from within?
03:04Why should one study philosophy?
03:08Yeah.
03:10This in itself is a philosophical question.
03:13Yes.
03:14This is why you should study philosophy, because you already have this question.
03:22Philosophy is your affection for the truth.
03:26You're leaning towards the truth.
03:28That's the etymology.
03:33Your regard or your love for the truth.
03:35That is called philosophy.
03:38That's where the word philosophy comes from.
03:43Don't you want to know the truth?
03:46How many of you are happy with lies?
03:50How many of you are happy with lies?
03:53By the way, the cover page there reads,
03:54for those tired of sweet lies.
03:56How many of you are happy with lies?
04:02Nobody, right?
04:03Right.
04:04So it is this love for truth that we all innately have.
04:10That's called philosophy.
04:12Philosophy is not about frameworks and systems and thick books.
04:19Philosophy is this basic question.
04:23Why should I carry such friends?
04:26You want to know the truth, right?
04:29Is this fellow even a friend?
04:31This is a philosophical question.
04:34In the broadest sense.
04:40What should I do after my B.Tech?
04:46Again, broadly speaking, this question belongs to philosophy.
04:52Philosophy is not just about Marx and Kant and Schopenhauer.
04:59No.
05:06Getting it?
05:07And that's the reason your parents very wisely advised you to read stuff beyond your school or college curricula.
05:20I wish we had more parents advising the same thing to their kids.
05:25Because education as we have it today tells you of a lot of all these things and does a very good job at telling you of all these things.
05:42The bridge, the ocean, the space, the car, the computer.
05:46But there is no subject, no course called I or self or is there one?
06:05It wasn't offered to me at least.
06:06Is your institution offering one?
06:14It should.
06:15All institutions, not just colleges, even schools, should have a course, self 101.
06:24Because you are reading, you are reading science.
06:28You are not science.
06:30You are doing technology.
06:31You are not technology.
06:32Shouldn't you know about yourself first?
06:33You are taught history.
06:37Are you historical?
06:39You know of what happened in the past, but you don't know who you are.
06:44How wise is that?
06:47Right?
06:49You are taught how airplanes work, but you don't know how you work.
06:53Do you know how your mind works?
06:54You don't know that, right?
06:57If I ask you, why do you desire for such a thing?
06:59You won't be able to tell.
07:00Because you don't know your inner mechanics.
07:03And that's what the formal education system lacks in, education of the self.
07:12And because the formal education system does not provide that, hence, that has to be done
07:19at home, in an informal way, or the student has to be curious enough to take it up on her
07:27own, I did that, use the internet, now you have AI, use AI, be self-educated, you require
07:44both these things, knowledge of how the world functions, how politics functions, how economics
07:50functions, what's there in your constitution, yes, you must know that, you must know why, for example,
08:02the lizard doesn't drop off from the wall, you must know that, yes, but you must also know,
08:11why you feel like showing off, why you feel disappointed when somebody doesn't praise you.
08:19You must also know these things.
08:21These are very important questions.
08:22Are they not?
08:23Are you not important?
08:24If you are important, then education of the self is important.
08:28Getting it?
08:29And if you don't have education of the self, then you will be a very educated person when
08:39it comes to all this, but very, very illiterate within.
08:45And what happens when an illiterate one gets to wield a lot of technology and a lot of power,
08:57what happens?
09:00If you are uneducated within, if you don't know what darkness pervades your insides, but
09:07you have a lot of power, economic power, technological power, military power, all those things you
09:18have, then you just finish off the earth itself as we are doing today.
09:28The horrible specter of climate change and nuclear conflict.
09:35We have great technology out there and great darkness in here and this darkness is commanding
09:43that technology, that power, that everything.
09:50You are talking about the education about the self.
10:03So my question is basically if it is natural to have individualistic freedom, which I believe
10:10it is natural to want individualistic freedom than Occam's razor.
10:15Why is it so difficult to get there?
10:18Why is it the path of least resistance?
10:20And how do we, I don't think it's right to accuse anybody of not understanding this because
10:26it's difficult.
10:27It takes time.
10:28And there is complete oversaturation, not only in media, but well, like, yes, this counts
10:33as a self-help book.
10:35It's gonna help you, but it also confuses people because media is oversaturated, not even media,
10:41even our mentors, our educators, even institution, it's just a confusing mess.
10:47How do you see through this oversaturation?
10:52That was a long question.
10:53Yes.
10:54Yeah.
10:55I'm just wondering where to pick the threat from.
11:00See, first of all, a few things.
11:05This is not individualistic freedom.
11:09Because the moment you call it individualistic freedom, you are framing it as individualistic
11:16freedom as opposed to social responsibility.
11:23That's not a description.
11:24That's an acquisition.
11:26This is not individualistic freedom.
11:30And this is not freedom that liberates you of responsibility.
11:37In fact, freedom for the first time puts the right responsibility upon you.
11:47If you are not free within, how can you be of use to anybody?
11:52Please tell me.
11:55If you are not free within, can you really be of use to anybody?
12:00So, it's not that kind of paradigm.
12:06Individually free, but socially irresponsible.
12:08No, that's not what we are saying.
12:11Secondly, you said, it is not that easy to understand.
12:19Is it really not that easy to understand?
12:21I mean, as I have been speaking, have I been going overhead?
12:34Have I been incomprehensible?
12:37Implementation you just don't need to worry about.
12:43Right now, you are imagining the obstacles in the way of implementation.
12:48Don't do that.
12:50Implementation happens on its own.
12:56What you have to be courageous about is understanding, not implementing.
13:04This is a cliché.
13:06We say, yes, I understand.
13:08But when it comes to implementing it, then I falter.
13:15If you can't implement it, please admit that you have not even understood it.
13:22Understanding leads to spontaneous implementation.
13:27You don't then have to say understood, but how to implement.
13:34Understanding is something as clear as seeing a fly in coconut water.
13:42Now, will you say, I have seen it, but how do I implement it?
13:48I'll still drink it.
13:52Once you have seen it with clarity, the right action will follow on its own.
13:59You don't have to worry about implementation.
14:03But often, we impede, block seeing itself with imagined fears of implementation.
14:14This is your time to understand.
14:16Just understand.
14:19But you will block the incipient understanding by saying, even if I understand, I won't be
14:25able to implement because I'm afraid.
14:28Now implementation, yes, won't happen.
14:31But not because implementation was difficult, but because you didn't understand.
14:36Yes, implementation will definitely not happen.
14:40Nothing will be implemented.
14:42But the reason is misplaced.
14:44You are attributing the lack of implementation to the difficulty of implementation.
14:51No, there is no difficulty there.
14:55The problem is that when it comes to understanding, fear takes over.
15:00Listening stops.
15:02All kinds of rubbish arguments spring up to defend falseness.
15:11That's where you lose it.
15:14Just without care, without concern, without worrying, imagining the future.
15:25Acknowledge facts as they are.
15:27Acknowledge facts as they are.
15:29But that's not the way our machinery operates.
15:31What do we do?
15:32We say, yes, this is there to be acknowledged.
15:39But in advance, I want to first guess what will happen in future if I acknowledge.
15:47So before acknowledging it, you bypass the table, the fact is there on the table to be acknowledged.
15:56But before acknowledging it, you will leapfrog to the future and want to be assured that
16:04if you acknowledge it, you won't be harmed in the future.
16:08And when you go to the future, there is just imagination.
16:12And the imagination will tell you, you will be greatly harmed if you acknowledge this fact.
16:17So you come back and say, no, I'll not acknowledge it because I just referred to the future.
16:22And the future told me, if you acknowledge this, then there will be harm.
16:25So I'm not going to acknowledge this.
16:27And if you don't acknowledge this, then obviously the future will be harmed because this is the
16:31fact.
16:32No one can live without them.
16:36And when the future will be harmed, you will say, see, my assumption has been verified.
16:44I knew it going to be difficult and it proved to be difficult.
16:48Yes, it did prove it difficult, but for an altogether opposite reason.
16:56Getting it.
16:57This is something you can be totally convinced of only when you start taking baby steps.
17:06You are daring into the unknown and you will see that no big harm comes your way.
17:12Yes, there will be small inconveniences, but you are strong enough to handle them.
17:17Don't worry.
17:20You are.
17:21You are.
17:22Yes, it is possible to understand.
17:31It is possible to implement.
17:32And that is what I'm saying.
17:33It is possible.
17:34But often the issue arises when you are starting to starting to understand because you are understanding
17:41right now.
17:42Is there a difficulty?
17:43Now I don't because I understand it, but when I was understanding it, it was difficult.
17:48Even as we move through this conversation, is there a difficulty in acknowledging what is
17:53obviously the fact?
17:54There is no difficulty.
17:56And that's all that you need to do.
17:58Just submit to what is real.
18:03And there is no difficulty there because it is real.
18:07Nothing more is asked of you.
18:11As you move through life, just keep surrendering to what is real.
18:17And don't worry about the rest.
18:19So, we can escape this conditioning just by doing.
18:24You don't have to do anything.
18:26Real doing happens a lot on its own.
18:30Real doing is such a powerful thing, you will be helpless before it.
18:35Real doing will just happen like an explosion.
18:37You won't be able to stop it.
18:42The problem is not the doing, the problem is understanding.
18:47Understand and then you will be helpless in front of your own understanding.
18:50Your understanding will become the master.
18:52It will command your life.
18:55Your actions will become super smooth.
19:00My name is Tarun.
19:02I am 23 years old and I was lucky enough to get introduced to Acharyaji during Covid itself
19:08when I was 18 or 19 years old.
19:12And one notable change that I hold dear to my heart that came after listening to Acharyaji
19:20closely was that ever since childhood I have always been a shy and introverted kid.
19:28And it was an inhibition that stayed with me throughout.
19:32And I thought I would never be able to get over it since I had already grown up quite a
19:37bit and you know it had become a habit.
19:42As a consequence of being close with Acharyaji's teachings, I learned to challenge my fears
19:49and inhibitions.
19:51And in college, I was able to get to a point where I was leading 80 to 100 member student
20:01team with decent success.
20:03That is when I realized that just watching Acharyaji on YouTube is not sufficient.
20:09There needs to be a constant closeness to his teachings, to the scriptures and that is
20:14where the Gita community comes in.
20:17For the past 9 months, I have been dedicated to being an active member of the community and
20:25be close to Acharyaji's teachings and now I find myself capable of again tackling my fears,
20:38my inhibitions and so on.
20:41So, that's all, thank you.
20:55Thank you for listening.
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