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00:00The problem is not with the wedding.
00:03The problem is that it is not their own wedding.
00:07I want to be the exploiter.
00:09I want to be the experiencer, the consumer of all goodies.
00:13The man is not sufficient.
00:14The woman is not sufficient.
00:16The two are absolutely insufficient for each other.
00:20Otherwise, the man and the woman should be sufficient.
00:22The two of us got together.
00:23It's a very private, very personal, very intimate thing.
00:26Why should an entire town be colonized?
00:28The deeper the lovelessness, the more lavish the wedding is.
00:33It is not just about me and that woman.
00:36It is also about all those who will just keep peeping from behind the barricades.
00:42What's going on?
00:43I am a mirror to myself.
00:46I don't require others to describe me.
00:49Yes, you are welcome to give me feedbacks.
00:52But you are not welcome to give me identities.
00:58When people protest, it is because it is not their wedding that is being celebrated there.
01:09The problem is not with the wedding.
01:13The problem is that it is not their own wedding.
01:18That's the problem.
01:18We all belong to the same class, the same crop.
01:24And that's the fundamental problem.
01:28The question that we don't want to address.
01:31We want to believe in the same kind of system.
01:35But being losers in that system.
01:39In that system.
01:41Not existentially.
01:44We crib against the system.
01:51Are you getting it?
01:54And that is not of much avail.
01:57You see.
01:59Now you can have an Italian revolution.
02:01Fine.
02:05That's fine.
02:06You can upend the system.
02:10You can dethrone the masters.
02:15And one of the so called losers will become the new master.
02:20And again there will be inequality.
02:24Because that's what the animalistic system within us demands.
02:32Unless there is inequality, how will there be the hunter and the hunted?
02:36Tell me.
02:36Tell me.
02:37If there is equality between the lion and the deer.
02:42The lion will starve.
02:43And you want to be lion.
02:45You are trained to be lion.
02:46That's the social, familial, national, personal dream.
02:53I want to be a lion.
02:55I want to be the exploiter.
02:57I want to be the experiencer, the consumer of all goodies.
03:07Which in itself means inequality.
03:09Somebody once said that when I take off from Mumbai, one of the pleasures is looking down
03:34at the slums.
03:36It's not sufficient that I am flying.
03:41What makes flying a little more special is the misfortune of those lying sprawled below me like insects.
03:50Inequality is such a great motivator and a pleasure giver.
04:02You would find it funny and odd.
04:04You would expect a fellow would take pleasure in looking at something pretty and picturesque out of his window.
04:16No.
04:16He said no.
04:17Whenever I fly to Mumbai or take off from there, I look out and Dharavi.
04:29It's right next to the airport.
04:38And that is also the pleasure the ones organizing the wedding wanted to have.
04:45The man is not sufficient.
04:48The woman is not sufficient.
04:51The two are absolutely insufficient for each other.
04:59So, what forms the bulk of the pleasure is the unequal, unequal money.
05:10Otherwise, the man and the woman should be sufficient.
05:13The two of us got together.
05:15It's a very private, very personal, very intimate thing.
05:17Why should an entire town be colonized?
05:26Because that is 90% of the total pleasure, sir.
05:31It is not about flying.
05:32It's also about gloating at the misfortune of those down there.
05:37It is not just about me and that woman.
05:47It is also about all those who will just keep peeping from behind the barricades.
05:56What's going on?
05:57We had one such wedding in India also a few months back.
06:04Many such weddings actually.
06:07They keep happening.
06:16Do you get this?
06:17The entire philosophy of life is badly flawed.
06:24It is about getting ahead of others.
06:28It is about looking at oneself
06:30in context of others rather through the eyes of others.
06:39You see, when do you call a fellow rich?
06:42When do you call a fellow rich?
06:43Please tell me.
06:44When he is better off compared to the others around you.
06:54Compared to the others.
06:55Right.
06:56You go to a place like Vietnam for example.
06:59And the similar thing used to be in Japan.
07:03You hand over Indian currency to them.
07:06And you get a large number of units of their currency.
07:11Does that make you rich?
07:13No.
07:13Why?
07:14Because others
07:16will be having even greater number of units of their currency.
07:20Richness is not about what you have.
07:23Richness is about what you have with respect to the others.
07:30That's the whole philosophy.
07:32Your entire definition of the self comes from the world.
07:36From society and other miscellaneous places.
07:39Religion, family, tradition.
07:42They give you your definition.
07:45And hence you have to proceed with respect to them.
07:52All your life.
07:54Had your identity been independent of the world.
07:59Then you wouldn't have needed to get ahead of the world.
08:01Or to prove a thing or two to the world.
08:05All the time.
08:05No.
08:07But anything that you are.
08:10Anything that you are.
08:11It has been implanted into you.
08:14That you are with respect to the world.
08:17The other.
08:20The world determines who you are.
08:22So, now if you always have one eye or sometimes both the eyes on the world.
08:30How is that a surprise?
08:36How is that a surprise?
08:39Okay, you are a rich man because you have loads of money here.
08:41Let's say the entire stockpile is accumulated here, right?
08:45This does not make me rich.
08:47Please understand, what makes me rich is the fact that you honor this currency.
08:52So, you make me rich, not my money.
08:56Suppose I have all my cash deposited here.
09:01But all of you here refuse to acknowledge this currency.
09:06Am I rich anymore?
09:07So, my money does not make me rich.
09:10You make me rich.
09:13You make me rich.
09:15I am nobody on my own.
09:19Hence, I will have to prove things to the world all the time.
09:24And be afraid all the time of the world.
09:27And be aggressive.
09:29And cunning.
09:39Such a lovely thing.
09:42The beggar makes the rich man rich.
09:48I am the rich man.
09:50And I have cornered away most of the wealth.
09:52As is happening in the world today.
09:54We very well know how much wealth lies holded with the top one percentile of the world.
10:00The wealthiest persons.
10:01We know that, right?
10:03So, I am the rich man and let's say all of you here are beggars.
10:06The beggars have made me rich.
10:08Not just in the sense that I have taken away your money.
10:11But in the sense that I am rich only as long as you honor this money.
10:15Suppose you get together and say that this currency will no longer be honored.
10:21You remember the demonetization in India?
10:23Something like that.
10:25All of you get together and say we are no longer acknowledging this currency.
10:29Am I rich anymore?
10:31So, the beggars make the rich man rich.
10:33And then the rich man has to be both afraid of and violent towards the beggars.
10:43Because even if they are beggars, they can still strip away his richness.
10:51What an irony!
10:52The beggars decide whether the rich man will remain rich.
10:56There is no internal richness.
11:13There is nothing here.
11:16Baby, get ahead.
11:20Be a go-getter.
11:20Be a high achiever.
11:22Be a high achiever.
11:27And whatever these phrases mean, they always mean something in context of the world.
11:33These popular idioms, these toxic ones.
11:45What they carry within them is a lot of slavery and dependence.
11:50You can never be beyond the framework.
12:06So, you are always afraid.
12:08Even if you are rich, you are rich within the framework.
12:11So, you are always afraid.
12:18Because the framework is not yours.
12:22Real richness, real love is never a thing within the framework.
12:41The framework is a very whimsical thing.
12:45The rich man can be turned a pauper overnight.
12:57And the man on the footpath can become a billionaire overnight.
13:01So, the billionaire is always afraid of the beggar.
13:05Had the richness been a thing of the inside, then the rich man wouldn't have been afraid.
13:18Since richness, real richness lies within, hence it cannot be taken away, then there is no fear.
13:24But the rich man very well knows that the beggar is still a competitor.
13:32No?
13:34Till the last breath, the competition remains.
13:39One second it will take to turn the scales.
13:45And hence, the competition has to be mercilessly subdued every day.
13:56Every day.
13:56Because the game is never over.
14:03Yes, you got ahead.
14:04But the others are still in hot pursuit.
14:10So, you have to keep killing them all the time.
14:18As you kill in a game, right?
14:20Let's say in football or hockey.
14:22Even if you are leading by a few goals, you still keep the pressure on, right?
14:30You don't say now I have won.
14:32Because you have never really won till the last whistle.
14:38In some sense, you are always afraid.
14:40The game can still be lost.
14:42So, the opposition has to be continuously dominated.
14:51Even if you are the richest man in the world, the opposition,
14:55consisting of the rest of the world, has to be continuously dominated.
15:01What kind of richness is this?
15:05So fearful.
15:12And you would see the relationship between this and the climate catastrophe.
15:20Not just because you had several dozen private jets flowing in for the wedding.
15:30No, not that alone.
15:31This barbaric need to get ahead.
15:41Doesn't it lie at the core of the climate crisis?
15:45Please tell me.
15:46You can almost visualize everybody trying to get ahead on his car.
16:00Burning away energy and emitting carbon.
16:03That's what the climate crisis is.
16:15I need to be ahead of you.
16:20That's carbon emission.
16:26You look at the carbon footprint of those who are deemed successful.
16:31And those who are deemed unsuccessful.
16:34And you will find a ratio of 10 is to 1, 100 is to 1, 10,000 is to 1.
16:46Success is about beating the other down.
16:50Even if the way we live, this violence is not always visible.
16:57But please see that it is always there.
16:59Even if it is not visible or apparent.
17:02It is always there.
17:03Can there be an inner richness?
17:25Can there be an inner richness?
17:27Can you be inwardly rich without being inwardly free of the world?
17:40I am asking you.
17:41And what can all your external riches give you if you are inwardly still dominated by frameworks that somebody put into your head?
18:00You are rich but within the framework.
18:03And the framework came from somebody else.
18:05So, you are still a slave.
18:08Maybe a rich slave.
18:10And rich only within the framework.
18:15I am not saying the poor ones are any better.
18:26They are poor slaves.
18:30So, you have rich slaves, you have poor slaves.
18:35But where is freedom?
18:36The more the internal hollowness, the internal insecurity, the more the need to ostentate,
19:01the more the urge to demonstrate that you have actually raised a head.
19:16The deeper the lovelessness, the more lavish the wedding is.
19:31Think of the various ways in which everybody uses money to compensate for the real thing.
19:54The father won't give daughter the right kind of education.
19:57He withheld funds.
20:04So, he sends her off with a load of dowry.
20:12Love was missing, so dowry is present.
20:16Had you really loved her, you would have spent that money in her education.
20:20But when it came to education, you said, no, no, no, you go to some random college in the village
20:28or in the town, just somehow get a degree and get married off.
20:36And when it came to the wedding,
20:40an entire truckload of things were dispatched with her.
20:44And see how money is being used to compensate for lovelessness.
20:58I read somewhere that one of the signs, it was a very general kind of article, how do you know your partner is cheating on you?
21:22The kind of random spicy pieces that mediocre news websites publish.
21:35So, one of the telltale signs, they said, and the article was targeted at women.
21:47If your husband suddenly starts bringing you expensive gifts,
21:51that's a sign he might be now involved somewhere else.
22:01All of a sudden, he has started bringing you
22:04jewelry for no reason or something or whatever, or lingerie, whatever.
22:10For no reason, inexpensive stuff.
22:13This is a sign that he is now cheating.
22:21It's funny, it's a cosmic joke, the extent to which man goes,
22:44it's a sign that he is trying to use, just to defend the inner hollow, just to protect the inner slavery.
23:01Somebody becomes the world's richest man, somebody becomes the world's most powerful man.
23:08Hitler, you know, he was trying to be an artist, he went to Vienna.
23:14And then he became the world's most powerful dictator, ahead of Stalin actually.
23:23He was rejected both times from there.
23:29He used to sketch and I suppose paint or something, figure out.
23:35Where the young man,
23:36he wanted to enroll in some arts course and the university rejected him, not once but twice.
23:52And then he said, I'll make up for it.
23:56This entire world is unjust, not just this university.
24:00And because the world is unjust, I'll dismantle everything.
24:15He could have been some kind of a semi-decent artist, you know, sign boards or something,
24:21flower pots. That was his calling.
24:35Or the rear of trucks in India.
24:43That was the only little thing that the fellow wanted, let me do this.
24:46And then see the extent to which he went to compensate.
24:59He came, everybody.
25:15Somebody will become
25:17the richest, the most powerful, something, something, something.
25:23Somebody ran a confectionery shop, it didn't do well.
25:26So, he said, okay, I'll show you what I can do.
25:36So, he became the biggest bully in the district.
25:42All that he wanted was that, you know, some sweets that he makes.
25:47People buy them and give him some money, some appreciation.
25:52But nobody came to his sweet stalls.
25:59So, he became the
26:02muscle man of the area.
26:04The problem is, you'd still not be contented.
26:23You'd still be as miserable within, as hollow as you always were.
26:29You can burn as much money as you want.
26:36You can splurge and demonstrate to the entire universe.
26:41It won't help.
26:42The eyes would still keep begging.
26:57See, I demonstrated so much.
26:59Can you give me a little?
27:00Yeah, nod of acceptance, please.
27:06One nod of acceptance.
27:08The rich man is begging to the beggars.
27:10See, I displayed so much wealth.
27:14Please get impressed.
27:16Won't you?
27:17Please?
27:22Micro, nano, some teeny-weeny approval from anybody.
27:30Go for the real thing.
27:45Inequality, that is not the fundamental problem.
27:49The fundamental problem is the framework itself.
27:59A framework in which you cannot be successful without being ahead of the world.
28:08That's the framework.
28:11The framework says, your success will always be with respect to others.
28:16Which means, if you are ahead of others, then you are successful.
28:19So, your success in that sense is defined by your location with respect to others.
28:24The framework is the problem.
28:27Real success is when you drop the framework, you kick it away, you transcend it.
28:34That's real success.
28:35My success is my alone.
28:53Independent of the world.
28:55It doesn't depend on the worldly currency.
29:03It doesn't depend on worldly sanction.
29:07It doesn't depend on worldly approval or remembrance.
29:12My success is a totally independent thing.
29:22Mine alone.
29:23My self-worth, my self-respect do not come from others.
29:39I do not have a reflected consciousness.
29:51I do not have a reflected consciousness.
29:56I do not look at myself in the eyes of others.
30:06I am a mirror to myself.
30:08I do not require others to describe me.
30:23Yes, you are welcome to give me feedbacks.
30:26But you are not welcome to give me identities.
30:43Yes, you are welcome to give me feedbacks.
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