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00:00The process starts right from the moment of birth.
00:03So like a slave, like a slave, I am being told to slog for something I don't really care for.
00:11I don't love mechanical engineering.
00:13So stop.
00:14But I'm being told to get a 9c GPA.
00:16This is the situation of each one of us.
00:19That's why people look so lost.
00:21And when you are lost, anybody can elbow you towards any direction.
00:25And that's where the crowd comes handy.
00:30My question is regarding the mental pressure which students are facing nowadays in colleges
00:36due to which they take harsh steps such as suicides.
00:39Nowadays these things have become common even in top institutes like IITs.
00:43So if you say it's because of the high pressure environment in IITs and other places
00:47that kids are very very tragically choosing to end their lives,
00:52you are seeing only half the picture.
00:54Pressure alone is not the problem.
00:56Others' expectations have been soaked in.
00:59So they look like our own expectations.
01:01So there is pressure then both from the outside and the inside.
01:04And they are telling you get this done.
01:06CGPA 9, best placement, this, that.
01:11The very system is designed to rob you from having any innate heartful purpose of your own.
01:21And how is that done?
01:23We are talking about tragic student suicides here.
01:27We are talking about the loss of precious young lives.
01:30Please see where that is coming from.
01:31So my question is regarding the mental pressure which students are facing nowadays in colleges and other educational institutions.
01:50due to which they take harsh steps such as suicides and etc you all know about.
01:55And nowadays these things have become common even in top institutes like IITs.
02:00Like this year in IIT Kharagpur itself there have been five cases of suicides.
02:05So like what are your thoughts on this and how can we, we will not go in that bubble where we are so pressurized and so we take that step.
02:15See if there is a purposeless life without pressure, one just hangs on and rolls on, right?
02:29We are considering a two by two matrix, purpose and pressure, purpose and pressure.
02:37Now, no purpose and no pressure, you are a rolling stone, cool.
02:45At most life will be wasted, but you will live on, you will just live on, like any insentient thing, right?
02:56Or like a tree or like an animal, no purpose but at the same time, no pressure of any kind to achieve, to demonstrate, to change, nothing.
03:11I am a particular way and the way I am is very insufficient, very sub-optimal, but at the same time, I don't experience any pressure external or internal to change or improve or accomplish or whatever.
03:37So, I can just continue merrily living, right?
03:43The only small disadvantage would be a wasted life.
03:51That would be the only outcome.
04:00And the opposite of that is no purpose and high pressure.
04:07We can examine the other two quadrants also, but that's not very useful.
04:13So, we will straight away go to the opposite one, right?
04:20No purpose but high pressure.
04:29This is where suicides happen.
04:36Contrast this with great purpose and high pressure.
04:45This person will have a zeal to live.
04:49Yes, there would be great pressure.
04:53But he'll say, I'll live on because there is love, because I understand my purpose.
05:03And often with the purpose, pressure does come and he'll welcome that pressure.
05:11Whenever you accept a great purpose, it's a thing of love.
05:20And it's an extraordinary thing that society often does not approve of, let alone support.
05:29So, there would be pressure.
05:32The very nature of a great purpose is that it brings pressure along with it.
05:39But such pressure now is life saving, even life giving.
05:49Because you know there is something tremendous to achieve and you love.
05:54And you love.
05:56You love what you want to achieve.
06:00Your purpose is arising from your own clarity.
06:05It's a very intimate thing.
06:06It's a very personal thing.
06:08There is this little thing that I really love.
06:12It could be a kid.
06:13It could be an institution.
06:14It could be anything.
06:16It's related to my heart.
06:19It's my venture.
06:20It's my baby.
06:22Whatever it is.
06:25I'm an entrepreneur.
06:26I'm a mother.
06:28Same thing.
06:29Right?
06:30I have a purpose and the purpose is, raise this because it's worth it.
06:38And raising it is tremendously difficult.
06:41India, funding problems, infrastructural problems, regulatory problems.
06:48Imperfect markets, monopolies, fragmented chains, logistics, all kinds of problems.
07:03But I have love.
07:05And now, this pressure is life giving.
07:10Even if now, I want to die, I'll postpone death.
07:17In fact, I'll want to keep myself healthy.
07:21Not just for my sake, but for the sake of this my baby.
07:24Do you see this?
07:25High pressure is not a problem if there is a purpose deep enough.
07:41So, if you say it's because of the high pressure environment in IITs and other places that kids are very, very tragically choosing to endure their lives, you are seeing only half the picture.
07:54It's not just about high pressure.
07:55It's not just about high pressure.
07:57Somebody who clears the J or some other entrance examination is kind of used to high pressure.
08:04else, he wouldn't have made it to the campus.
08:09Pressure alone is not the problem.
08:13Pressure alone is not the problem, no.
08:18But it's a very deadly situation.
08:25When an extreme pressure meets extreme purposelessness, then one is being forced to achieve and there is no love.
08:41One doesn't want to achieve but there is a lot of pressure from the environment.
08:45And it's not merely from the environment because one has internalized the pressure now.
08:51So, the pressure arises from within as well.
08:55Others expectations have been soaked in.
08:58So, they look like our own expectations.
09:01So, there is pressure then both from the outside and the inside and they are telling you get this done.
09:10CGPA 9, best placement, this, that, everything.
09:18You have to be shining in co-curriculars.
09:24And someone is asking, where's your girlfriend?
09:27Nothing.
09:28Even before placements, there is a matter of internship.
09:33Even before internship, there are courses to choose.
09:39In many of the top-ranked institutions, if you don't have a CGPA high enough, you can't even get the course of your choice.
09:52There is some kind of auction happening there.
09:55So, there is tremendous pressure from outside and within.
10:04So much pressure and no purpose.
10:08Nothing that you can love and therefore nothing you can live for.
10:13You get this.
10:18And why is there so much purposelessness?
10:22Does purposelessness start when you enter the campus? No.
10:28The very system is designed to rob you from having any innate heartful purpose of your own.
10:42And how is that done?
10:44By supplying you with external artificial fake purposes right since your birth.
10:53You are always told what to do.
10:56You are supplied purposes from outside.
11:00Do this for that, do this for that, do this for that.
11:04There is no love in all this.
11:06There is no authenticity in all this.
11:08And so, you become so used to having an appointed purpose, a supplied purpose, an implanted purpose.
11:23That the heart goes numb.
11:25Even if you try to, you fail in discovering something of your own.
11:30On your campus, have you heard students squipping,
11:35Par mujhe patai niyeh mujhe karna gaya hai.
11:38Have you heard?
11:40Haven't heard?
11:42Doesn't happen?
11:44I would be surprised if it does not happen with even a single person.
11:54This is the situation of each one of us.
11:58I don't know what to do.
12:00And that is because the faculty within that can see and choose and decide has become paralyzed.
12:10If you don't use a muscle for so long, for decades, what happens to that muscle?
12:17Gone.
12:18Atrophy.
12:19Yes.
12:20We are beings, beings of clarity and love.
12:31Every single step should be taken from there.
12:34From your clarity and your love and these two are one.
12:39Instead, our steps are dictated by random forces.
12:45Random forces that have authority over us.
12:48Familial authority.
12:50Institutional authority.
12:53Religious authority.
12:55They are the ones constantly dictating purpose.
13:00Constantly.
13:01The priests are telling you, you are born to do good deeds and attain heaven.
13:11No, I have not been left free to ask myself, who am I and what am I here for?
13:20Some random priest comes and tells you, you know, you are born so that you can become a man in your next birth.
13:27And then you can attain salvation.
13:30And you are supposed to accept that, not only accept it, actually imbibe it.
13:38Soak it in so deeply that you feel as if it's your own conclusion.
13:47And the family.
13:49You see, now you are 13 and it's your boards.
13:55And this year your purpose must be to strike 99.
14:02The muscle is not being allowed to function.
14:08So the muscle will get paralyzed, atrophied.
14:12It will shrink.
14:13It will lose power.
14:14Now even when there is a need, a genuine one to use it, you will find it failing.
14:25That's what happens with us.
14:27That's where our purposelessness comes from.
14:29That's why people look so lost.
14:31And when you are lost, anybody can elbow you towards any direction.
14:41You stand like this here.
14:43Somebody comes and just pushes.
14:45And you start moving in that direction.
14:48And that's where the crowd comes handy.
14:52I don't know what to do.
14:54So the crowd becomes very useful.
14:56Let me follow the crowd.
14:59We are talking about tragic student suicides here.
15:04We are talking about the loss of precious young lives.
15:08Please see where that is coming from.
15:10The process starts right from the moment of birth.
15:15Are you getting it?
15:21The fourth quadrant.
15:26Great purpose.
15:27No pressure.
15:28That is actually infeasible.
15:30If there is a great purpose, the purpose creates pressure of its own and such pressure
15:37is auspicious.
15:38Such pressure is auspicious.
15:40Yes, you have intellect but that won't suffice.
15:50No.
15:51Intellect is just like this arm.
15:54It's a physical thing.
15:56Cells in the brain.
15:59The arm by itself is not sentient.
16:04Intellect is not consciousness.
16:07Intellect doesn't suffer.
16:09Consciousness does.
16:11Consciousness does.
16:12Consciousness requires a diet of, I repeat, love and clarity.
16:26What impairs, paralyzes consciousness is exploitation.
16:35The kind of pressure, the kind of routine we inflict on the little one.
16:45You are a kid and you are constantly being dictated what to do.
16:51And you are helpless because you are dependent.
16:55And then it becomes your second nature.
16:58To just look to others for guidance.
17:02As if the others know.
17:05As if anybody in the crowd knows where to go.
17:08Right?
17:09And if you don't look at others for guidance, you are punished in ways subtle and gross.
17:21Too smart for herself.
17:24This chap is playing too rebellious.
17:29Something ought to be done.
17:31Let's show him his place.
17:34Are you getting it?
17:39The fellow says, why must I live?
17:42If living means toiling for some faceless master.
17:50What an indignity.
17:53I am being told to work hard, but not for myself.
17:58Because the goal, foisted on me is, not my own.
18:05So like a slave, like a slave, I am being told to slog.
18:12For something, I don't really care for.
18:15I don't love mechanical engineering.
18:17Full stop.
18:18But I am being told to get a 9 CGPA.
18:23You understand this?
18:30And a B-Tech or whatever, or M-Tech, all these things are limited in years.
18:37The bigger tragedy is when we allow this phenomena to become life.
18:45Not knowing why one goes to the office.
18:48And one works for like 4 decades or something.
18:51Yep.
18:52Sometimes more than that.
18:54One doesn't know why one is going to the office.
18:56One waits for the salary day.
18:57One justifies it by saying, there are mouse to feed.
19:06And a table to keep food on.
19:09I have a family.
19:11I have a family.
19:12And one doesn't know why one has a family.
19:15One doesn't know where the kids came from.
19:18But it's all there and you are supposed to take care of it.
19:23And then somebody said, you know, there are people who die by way of suicide.
19:30And then there are others who similarly do die at 25, but are buried only when they are 75 or 85.
19:43They keep walking.
19:49It does appear they are still alive, but they are gone, finished.
19:53Purposeless, meaningless lives.
19:57Why even call them alive?
20:04Go to the office, come back, watch some TV, scroll Insta, shout at the kids, the bed, sex, random boredom, snore away, the alarm rings, get up again.
20:26Get up again.
20:28The same pathetic, dirty, boring routine.
20:33But you say you are a responsible father or a mother.
20:40And life rolls on.
20:46Is this what you are setting yourself up for?
20:53Very, very scary silence.
21:01There has to be a resounding no.
21:02Not necessarily in this hall.
21:03But to all those who attempt imposing themselves,
21:08on your life.
21:09You are educated.
21:11You are smart.
21:12You are young.
21:13You are young.
21:14You are young.
21:15There has to be a resounding no, not necessarily in this hall, but to all those who attempt
21:28imposing themselves on your life.
21:35You are educated, you are smart, you are young.
21:45No, must be the first word in your dictionary, life dictionary, no.
21:57The default is no.
21:59Now convince me to extract a yes.
22:07The default would always be no.
22:10But I would say, wouldn't it be a difficult road to take, saying no to...
22:21Difficulty and ease are all relative terms, very relative, very relative.
22:28Please pick this book, no continue sitting, pick this book, please.
22:35Please pick this book, continue sitting, pick this book.
22:39Please.
22:40I can't.
22:41Difficult.
22:42Efforts needs to be done.
22:43No, no, you don't need to make efforts.
22:45You need to leave your position, leave your position and pick it up.
22:51So easy, so easy, so easy.
22:55Difficulty is only when you want to preserve your position.
22:59That is the ego.
23:02Your position is your ego.
23:05Your location, your situation, your coordinates.
23:08I don't want to leave who I am, where I am and then I want to attempt something beautiful,
23:15something necessary.
23:16It won't get done.
23:17It won't happen and you will call it difficult, that's why it didn't happen.
23:21It wasn't difficult.
23:23You didn't have enough love.
23:25When you have love, you are ready to leave your position.
23:31And that love can come only from clarity.
23:33We are not talking of desire here.
23:36We are talking of clarity here.
23:46It's not difficult.
23:49Not for you smart chaps.
23:51I'm throwing stuff at you and it's disappearing into some black hole.
23:59I'm so impatient for something to bounce back to me.
24:15We are young, are we not?
24:16Yes.
24:17Yes.
24:18Yes.
24:19Yes.
24:20Yes.
24:21Yes.
24:22Yes.
24:23Yes.
24:24Yes.
24:25Yes.
24:26So what does youth mean to you?
24:31If you can't rebel, if a no sounds so difficult, what does youth mean to you?
24:41Sex?
24:42Fire? Where is that?
25:00Hi, this is Ashutosh Singh from Kanpur.
25:03I am an IT professional working from almost 10 years now.
25:07I am listening to Achyariji from last almost one and a half years already.
25:12I started listening to him from YouTube channel and the videos what he makes and the knowledge which he actually shares is truly mind-blowing.
25:23I mean, that's something which you really start realizing about your own life.
25:29There's a lot which we do in IT world.
25:31I would literally want to say that IT people are literally intelligent enough to learn machines,
25:37but there's a really good machine that's our own body and then our conscious mind.
25:43We should literally spend time to learn ourselves better.
25:47And I think I'm into Bhagavad Gita just because I'm more into learning my own self.
25:53If you literally feel that you're into pain and you don't even realize it and you're still into rat race for the entire life,
26:02come on, we all need to really die.
26:04We all are born to die.
26:05Why not do something better, learn ourselves, learn our lives, realize what the purpose of life and then die.
26:12This is something better, right?
26:14I have realized it.
26:15And the favorite word in English I would say is choice.
26:20Yeah, so we all have choice.
26:22I had choice.
26:24I have made a choice, which is literally mind-blowing in my life.
26:28And that's the same choice which you all also have.
26:32Come on, let's pick it up and change our own life.
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