00:00There are so many farmer suicides in India.
00:03There are multiple reasons obviously.
00:04One of the reasons is the poor farmer spends a lot on weddings and other kinds of traditional and religious observations.
00:18Be it a wedding or a funeral or anything else.
00:21And when he spends so much, he has to borrow from the local money lender at exorbitant rates.
00:27That compounds very quickly.
00:30And on top of that, if there is a bad summer or a failed monsoon, the farmer is often pushed to suicide along with other contributing factors obviously.
00:47You understand how badly we attach value to things?
00:53You understand how poor we are at evaluation?
00:57Something might be tremendously valuable, really valuable, but you will not be prepared to spend even rupees hundred for it.
01:05He will say, no, no, I don't want to take it.
01:07And something might just be gas, a hot air balloon, empty vacuum.
01:13And you will say, I'll put my entire life into obtaining this.
01:19That's what lack of wisdom or spiritual foundation does.
01:22That's what lack of wisdom or spiritual foundation does.
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