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00:00Why no other species would destroy the planet, but we do.
00:08When we talk about climate change, most of the emissions come from the big corporates.
00:12And then we talk about and how the individual contribution matters in the climate change.
00:17Get the linkages please.
00:18They emit because they produce, right?
00:23And they produce because they sell.
00:26And they sell because you purchase.
00:28It does not stop here.
00:29You purchase the product later, the propaganda first.
00:33And that is propaganda masked as philosophy, pop culture.
00:37And if there is propaganda, you must always ask.
00:41Does the sustainability come from inside, like on spiritual level or on subconscious or consciousness?
00:47Please understand, why is the question of sustainability relevant only to our species out of the billions of species on this planet?
00:56It is such a stupid question actually, no?
00:58How can we live sustainably?
01:01This question does not even apply to the fish or to the deer or to the lion.
01:06Why?
01:07Because we have one thing that other species do not have.
01:10We have not diagnosed why we keep feeling uneasy, restless, incomplete, dissatisfied.
01:17And the sad part is, none of that really succeeds in fulfilling you.
01:30Hello sir, my name is Imanshu, doing sustainability management MBA here.
01:35And my question is, does the sustainability comes from inside, like on spiritual level or on subconscious or consciousness?
01:43See, there is no other point to begin with.
01:48There is just no other point to begin with.
01:52Please understand, why is the question of sustainability relevant only to our species out of the billions of species on this planet?
02:02It is such a stupid question actually, no?
02:06How can we live sustainably?
02:07How can we live sustainably?
02:08This question does not even apply to the fish or to the deer or to the lion or to the species that even got extinct or would probably appear in the future.
02:19Because it is a mindless thing, every species is supposed to, is designed to live, it cannot be an additional thing to think of.
02:35But in the case of our species, it is, it is.
02:41Why?
02:42Because we have one thing that other species do not have.
02:46A deep urge within to consume, where does that come from?
02:57A deep inner restlessness.
03:01That restlessness is a fact because we experience it.
03:05We are not satisfied with our present conditions.
03:12We remain uneasy.
03:17But because we do not know where that restlessness comes from.
03:22So we look for consumptive solutions.
03:26We feel I am not okay.
03:30So let me go out and visit the mall or plan a vacation abroad.
03:35And that will set me okay.
03:40Now other species are not confronted with this problem.
03:44They are already okay.
03:46Give them some food.
03:48Give them their basic physical requirements.
03:51And they are okay.
03:53Human beings cannot be okay the way animals are.
03:57And that's what makes this whole thing a spiritual problem.
04:03We cannot be okay the way animals are.
04:07We are not okay.
04:09But because we have not diagnosed our disease, our internal situation properly.
04:14Therefore, we come up with false solutions to our internal problem.
04:23Right?
04:24Anything if it goes undiagnosed, obviously the treatment would be in a wrong direction.
04:30We have not diagnosed why we keep feeling uneasy, restless, incomplete, dissatisfied.
04:41We do not diagnose that.
04:45So we go for a very obvious and cheap remedy, retail therapy, go and buy.
04:58Or go and have a relationship or go and have babies, right?
05:05Or go roam the planet.
05:09These are the solutions we come up with.
05:13And these solutions are what you can call as the sustainability crisis, which includes
05:21obviously the climate crisis.
05:26So we have a problem because we do not know the real problem.
05:34Are you seeing how it all starts within?
05:38Why no other species would destroy the planet?
05:43But we do?
05:45Because we have a hollow inside us and that hollow demands to be filled.
05:51So we want more and more manufactured products or natural products or this or that, more meat,
05:58more this, more luxury, more money.
06:05And the sad part is none of that really succeeds in fulfilling you.
06:12But you still want to consume endlessly and that endless consumption arising from a spiritual
06:20point is what is the sustainability crisis today.
06:25Therefore, if you are genuinely interested in the sustainability question, you will have
06:33to look towards education of the self.
06:38You will have to look towards that invisible entity called the ego, the self.
06:45And you will have to confront it and ask it, what do you really want?
06:50Because there is so much that I have already given you but you never seem to be satisfied.
06:56And when I look at others who have given you a thousand times what I have done, I find even
07:01they are not satisfied.
07:03But in the process of pleasing the ego more and more, you destroy the planet.
07:08100 species or maybe more disappear every day due to man-made reasons.
07:22Other than that, you have been doing really good in mandating sustainability mandates for
07:35the companies to do and how you like have been already developed and been able to do such
07:45mandates.
07:46But India is in this phase.
07:49Can we do such things in India, implement such things in India?
07:54No, there is no mandate I can ever come up with for a sovereign free entity like a company
08:01or a country.
08:03I can only offer suggestions that I keep doing.
08:08And it is not difficult to come up with those suggestions because what is happening at the
08:14family level, then at the social level, then at the corporate level and then at the national
08:21level and then at the global level is all actually starting from the person himself.
08:30All aggregations are reflections of their constituent unit and that's who you are.
08:38If you can see how you act, you will be able to see how a corporation acts.
08:48Because a corporation in itself is not a living entity, there are people up there, the stakeholders, who run the corporation, who own it, who made it and who can dissolve it.
09:06The corporation exists for their sake.
09:11If you can see your own instincts, impulses, you will also see how the biggest corporation
09:18in the world is functioning in the world is functioning in much the same way.
09:28The instincts of a child if understood would help you understand the instincts of the top 500 corporations
09:41as well.
09:42If you can understand how a child functions, you will see also how the tech giants are functioning
09:48or the big oil companies are functioning.
09:50As we were talking about corporates, I want to know ki most of when we talk about climate change, most of the emissions come from the big corporates.
09:57And then we talk about the climate change starts on individual efforts.
10:19How do we categorize that and how the individual contribution matters in the climate change?
10:25You are very right that almost not sure of the figure because it keeps changing.
10:37But almost 40 to 50% of the emissions, they come from a handful of companies.
10:45Depends on where you want to draw the line, but I think some 25 or 50 corporations, they contribute
10:53to almost 40-50% of the global carbon emissions.
10:58And that makes it tempting for us to then say that the individual has very little role.
11:06It is the mammoth corporations that are at fault.
11:12But look at the linkages please.
11:17Can the corporations emit on their own if first of all the individual consumer is not ready to buy into their propaganda and then their product?
11:39They emit because they produce.
11:46And they produce because they sell.
11:51And they sell because you purchase.
11:58So they emit because they produce, they produce because they sell.
12:04And they sell because you purchase.
12:07It does not stop here.
12:09You purchase the product later, the propaganda first.
12:15And that is propaganda masked as philosophy.
12:24Pop culture.
12:26The culture we all are steeped in.
12:30The culture that gave birth to us and then brought us up.
12:35That's the culture.
12:37We think it's our culture.
12:39No.
12:40It's a propaganda.
12:41It's a consumerist propaganda.
12:44And if there is propaganda, you must always ask who benefits from it.
12:51And you will see who does.
12:56Because the corporations, the politicians, the religious authorities and their massive structures, they are the ones who benefit from this propaganda.
13:08And this propaganda says live your life in a way that maximizes your consumption and then you could be called as happy and successful.
13:18That's the philosophy that has been given to you.
13:30So, we could say that corporations are responsible for so much of the climate crisis.
13:39But you look at it closely and you figure out that the indoctrination that the common man has become a victim to, is at the heart of the problem.
13:58Are you getting it?
14:00How can you stop the corporations or how can you get the governments to make the right policies?
14:08When you are the customer and you are the voter.
14:13And as long as you remain ready to support their greed, ambition and stupidity, they will continue in their ways.
14:33If your choices as a customer change, won't the seller have to change his business plans?
14:50And why will the seller change his business plans?
14:54If the customer remains happily stupid or the voter remains happily stupid, think of it.
15:11In fact, if we do not see through their propaganda, we are inviting aggression upon us.
15:23Don't you see?
15:26You might be or I might be an okay fellow.
15:34Not knowing myself very deeply, not understanding the world or life or philosophy.
15:40But I am the happy-go-lucky kind of Joe.
15:42The average person.
15:44But because someone wants to sell his product.
15:49Or include me in some religious order.
15:55Or extract my vote.
15:59That person will come.
16:01And indoctrinate me using my ignorance.
16:05So, actually these systems leave me worse off.
16:12As a citizen or as a consumer.
16:20They succeed in doing what they are doing only because we are very gullible.
16:27Sitting ducks.
16:30Easy praise.
16:32And as long as we remain who we are, there is no way to just selectively change the corporations using moral means, ethical means or policy measures.
16:47That won't happen.
16:48That wishful thinking won't materialize.
16:55So, there is no way except mass awakening.
17:00I know it sounds tardy and idealistic.
17:04And time consuming and too long term-ish.
17:11But unfortunately, that is the only option we have.
17:17The awakened individual.
17:19And the awakened individual who does not stop at himself or herself.
17:25Having seen what he has, he then wants to radiate it all around.
17:32That is the only possible solution.
17:44Hello everyone.
17:45I am Animesh.
17:46I am working as a software developer in Mumbai.
17:48And I came here to attend Adipotsav this time.
17:52And I have been coming since 2019.
17:55It was the first time I discovered Acharyaji.
17:57That time I was just fresh graduate from college and I was exploring what should I do.
18:03I was totally confused about life.
18:05What it means.
18:07What should I do.
18:08What my future lies in.
18:10Then somehow Acharyaji came into my life through YouTube.
18:15I have watched all his videos of his series of 2013 and 2014 lectures on YouTube.
18:23And later I got to know about more from the website.
18:26And after I came in contact with the volunteers of Acharya Prashant Foundation.
18:36And then it was a continuous journey since then.
18:38I have been continuous in touch with the foundation.
18:40I have enrolled in the sessions, Gita sessions from the inception.
18:46When it started.
18:48Before that all the sessions keep happening in a different platform.
18:52Then there is.
18:53Now we have a very foundational and very well curated app.
18:58Where we get all the information in a well organized way.
19:03All the.
19:04Even we can ask questions to.
19:07AI.
19:08That recommend us the Acharyaji videos.
19:11And to get more in depth knowledge about.
19:14The knowledge of Gita sessions and all.
19:17There is a dedicated session that keep happening.
19:2017 and 18 times per month.
19:22And we get a very clear understanding of what actually.
19:27Life is about.
19:28We.
19:29We got.
19:30I got to understand myself much more better.
19:32I.
19:33I know.
19:34About my.
19:35What lies I tell myself.
19:36There are a lot of reception in every step that I take.
19:39I.
19:40Keep.
19:41Getting aware of my.
19:42Myself more.
19:43And I.
19:44I have seen this change in my life that.
19:47I.
19:48Have.
19:49Now different mindset.
19:50When.
19:51Some.
19:52Problem arises.
19:53And I.
19:54Deal with that.
19:55In completely different than I have.
19:57I have dealt with earlier.
19:59So.
20:00My life is changing.
20:01Still.
20:02And I am.
20:03Totally.
20:04In gratitude to Acharyaji.
20:05For providing this wonderful community.
20:07Where we can share our thoughts.
20:09Our ideas.
20:10And.
20:11Get engaged with the same similar minded person.
20:13Who.
20:14Who actually value.
20:15What is the truth.
20:20For those of us.
20:21That we never used to choose to learn.
20:22That we're alone.
20:23That's why we know.
20:24That's why we're not expressing it as a word.
20:25That's why we never saw it.
20:26Yeah.
20:28It was så.
20:29That's why we invented them.
20:30That.
20:31It was eaters.
20:33And very packed into each other.
20:34That's why we really thought that was awesome.
20:35That was a great encounter.
20:36A spiritual charity.
20:37Patriot.
20:38That golfer is just his place where they,
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