00:00My dilemma is between passion and pressure.
00:02So it's like the passion that I naturally have
00:04and the pressure that the society tells me to do something mediocre instead.
00:08It's like they'll pressure me into doing something that is safe, that is very practical.
00:13It's a false dilemma. You know what a false dilemma is?
00:16A false dilemma is when you are given two options and told that no third one exists.
00:25But you say, no, before I move towards my love, which you're calling as passion,
00:31I also need to be convinced that there is enough financial security there.
00:38But then those paths are all very, very crowded lanes.
00:43As a young person sitting out in life with the zeal, the zest, the energy, the freshness,
00:50why should you choose those crowded, stuffy lanes? Why?
00:56And that too at the cost of your love.
00:58You can live freely.
01:00You can love and there can be joy.
01:03And you can fly.
01:05Don't deprive yourself of that opportunity, your real potential.
01:14Sir, I'll be asking my next question.
01:16So my question actually revolves around passion.
01:19So for a very long time, I have been interested in electronics engineering,
01:23specifically in the science technology, the space technology fact.
01:26So it is a very niche and very specific field, space technology.
01:30And thinking practically in India, there are like a very less vacancies in ISRO,
01:35very less startups in space technology.
01:38And you know, the whole life I have been doing passion projects,
01:41learning about space, this and that.
01:43And everything was directed directly towards my passion.
01:46I never thought to either divert anywhere from the whole thing.
01:50My motivation was like this high every time.
01:52But the moment I came in my 11th standard, most of them started telling me that
01:56you're really interested in space.
01:58Why aren't you going for CS?
02:00Why aren't you going for electronics?
02:01Like they'll pressure me into doing something that is safe.
02:04That is very practical.
02:06And I just want to follow my passion to the end without actually thinking anything.
02:11But that would get my motivation well off down.
02:14And I'll be like rethinking about do I really want to go through this whole thing?
02:18Because it's very risky.
02:19It's not very sure that I'll get financial stability.
02:22I'll get this and that.
02:23So, sir, I came across this quote from your book.
02:36Sir, first of all, my dilemma is between passion and pressure.
02:40So, it's like the passion that I naturally have.
02:42And the pressure that the society tells me to do something mediocre instead.
02:46You know, just go for CS.
02:47There's a job there.
02:48So, after reading the quote, true fulfillment comes not from passion or pressure,
02:53but from a deep understanding of what must be done, driven by love, not desire.
02:57This whole line was never in my equation.
02:59Can you help figuring out what someone do by explaining what you meant by driven by love,
03:05not desire?
03:06See, this is a false dilemma.
03:09It's a false dilemma.
03:10You know what a false dilemma is?
03:12A false dilemma is when you are given two options and told that no third one exists.
03:25A false dilemma is when you are given option A and option B and told to choose between the two
03:34and convinced that no third option C exists.
03:40That's called a false dilemma.
03:42And related to this is also what is called the Hobson's choice.
03:48Hobson's choice is among these two, one would be made to look so compelling, so inviting,
03:55so obvious that you would never go for the second one.
04:00So, there is A and B and between A and B, A is decorated so much, embellished so much,
04:06that A looks the finally only option remaining.
04:13You are told only A and B exists, C is anywhere discounted, no C option exists.
04:17And between A and B, B is just so scary that you will have to go for A.
04:22That's how you are made to go for really life-sucking options.
04:35If you go for space, you'll starve.
04:39If you go for space engineering or research in space or you go into cosmology, astronomy,
04:54you will be starved.
04:56There's no career there.
04:58You'll be finished off.
05:01That's option B.
05:04Option A, everybody is doing CS, everybody is doing EC.
05:09Everybody is doing IT or AIA.
05:12Go for it, go for it.
05:14So, first of all, no option C is allowed to stand.
05:20And between A and B, B is demonized so much,
05:24that you finally surrender and kneel towards A.
05:33That's how the whole power dynamic operates.
05:39You really think space scientists starve?
05:47You really think that way?
05:50First thing.
05:50Second thing.
05:53You said you loved space.
05:55You used the word passion.
05:56So, go for it.
06:03Why are you caring for money?
06:06The rule of existence is do anything in the best way possible.
06:12And you won't have to worry about your sustenance.
06:19Money will follow.
06:21Though, it will not follow in the predictable ways.
06:25Or, at the desired or appointed time.
06:32It will come on its own.
06:34Yes, it might not make you a millionaire, billionaire, something.
06:38But you will have enough and more than enough to live happily.
06:45But you say, no.
06:50Before I move towards my love, which you are calling as passion.
06:54Before I move towards my love,
06:57I also need to be convinced that there is enough financial security there.
07:03Yes, you can be convinced of the paths that guarantee financial security.
07:10But then those paths are all very, very crowded lanes.
07:18As a young person, sitting out in life.
07:23With the zeal, the zest, the energy, the freshness.
07:27That youth must have.
07:28Why should you choose those crowded, stuffy lanes?
07:35Why?
07:37And that too at the cost of your love.
07:40Just because you have been terrorized.
07:46That you will starve.
07:51If I really have a passion to live for.
07:55What will I need too much money for?
08:00Tell me, please.
08:02What will you do with that kind of money?
08:05Your days, your nights.
08:06They will be occupied by your passion, right?
08:10You really think Einstein had the time to splurge?
08:14The problem will be time.
08:17Even if you have a lot of money, what will you do with that?
08:19Because the greatest joy that you get comes from your work.
08:23It doesn't come from shopping.
08:27Or tourism.
08:29Or flaunting.
08:33Do you get this?
08:35You are a painter.
08:36You would want to paint.
08:40Without a break.
08:41If you are really in love.
08:43You are a scientist.
08:44You will want to be in your lab 24 hours.
08:46And that's what many scientists actually do.
08:49One of my friends.
08:56He's coming up with a new kind of medicine to target certain bacteria in the gut.
09:05And that's a very, very niche field of research.
09:10He actually sleeps in the lab.
09:12Not that he doesn't have money.
09:18He's been in the US for like 20 years now.
09:24Then his master is there.
09:26B.Tech from IT Delhi.
09:27Money he has a plenty.
09:29But then he doesn't want to spend the money.
09:34He doesn't even want to count the money.
09:39And it doesn't matter to him.
09:42If a lot of his money actually disappears.
09:45Because it is not for the sake of money that one pursues a passion.
09:50Money follows on its own like a shadow.
09:53You don't even want to look at a shadow.
09:55You are running towards your destination.
09:57You want to look at a shadow.
09:58How many of you do that?
10:01Please tell me.
10:03There's your destination.
10:04And the sun too is ahead of you.
10:06There.
10:08And the shadow is following you all the time.
10:10Behind you.
10:13Do you look towards your destination?
10:16Or do you look at your shadow?
10:17When you are looking at your destination.
10:22Money keeps following you.
10:25Behind.
10:26Sometimes to this side.
10:27Sometimes to that side.
10:28Sometimes ahead of you.
10:31Like your shadow.
10:34Sometimes a long shadow.
10:36Which may mean a lot of money.
10:38And if the sun is just here.
10:42Overhead.
10:43Then a very small shadow.
10:45Which may mean smaller money.
10:47And the length of the shadow too.
10:49Keeps varying.
10:51You don't care.
10:53Because it's not for the shadow.
10:55That you are running.
10:58Are you getting it?
11:01As young people.
11:02Please realize this.
11:06Money is important.
11:07So that it can enable you to work.
11:10Money is not the output of work.
11:12It is the enabler.
11:13Yes.
11:15One does need money in life.
11:17So that one can work without disruption.
11:20The real deal is work.
11:22Not money.
11:28Yes.
11:29You need to have money.
11:30So that you can quickly fly from one place to the other.
11:33So that you save time.
11:34And that time can be invested.
11:36In your darling work.
11:37You don't fly just for the sake of flying.
11:43Now I have money.
11:44So I fly.
11:45And I fly first class.
11:49Money is definitely important.
11:50Remember as an enabler.
11:52Not as an end product.
11:53But they scare you.
11:58They say you will not get money.
12:00You tell them.
12:01I am not after money at all.
12:05I am not after money at all.
12:07And that does not mean.
12:11That you reject money.
12:13You abhor money.
12:17You will have money.
12:20You will have money without wanting money.
12:22And that then would mean.
12:28A lot of freedom.
12:29Because.
12:31Such money.
12:32Even if lost.
12:34Will not disturb you too much.
12:37You are anyway not counting the dollars.
12:40Let them be there.
12:42If they are there fine.
12:43And if they are lost.
12:44It is again fine.
12:46It is fine.
12:47Then nobody can.
12:49Arm twist.
12:50Or blackmail you.
12:51You will have money.
12:52Saying we will come and.
12:54Take away.
12:56All your money.
12:58If you don't stop working.
13:01There would be a raid.
13:03And all your bank accounts would be frozen.
13:06And you can calmly say.
13:08Kindly freeze whatever you want to freeze.
13:11And get lost.
13:12Because I have to.
13:13Work.
13:20Is this sounding outlandish?
13:22It doesn't work this way?
13:25It doesn't work this way?
13:28You don't work this way.
13:30It does.
13:30And try this new way of living.
13:37Yes.
13:38What is life without real commitment?
13:41Real passion?
13:43Real love?
13:46What do you live for?
13:48Just wake up each day and say.
13:50Another day.
13:51Another day.
13:52And a day will come.
13:53When you will run out of days.
13:55What do you tell yourself every morning?
13:59What have you woken up for?
14:01Just via your formals.
14:03And report at work.
14:05So that at the end of the month.
14:07You can draw your salary check.
14:09What kind of life is that?
14:10Young people.
14:16Right?
14:18Strange.
14:19I have to talk.
14:21So forcefully about love to you.
14:28Suppose youth.
14:29Is when love blossoms.
14:30On its own.
14:33Does it not?
14:35No it does not.
14:36Love has to be learnt.
14:37You won't be harmed.
14:47Don't be afraid.
14:48Just don't be afraid.
14:50They will paint all these terrifying pictures.
14:53They will tell you.
14:55You look at that beggar.
14:57On that street there.
14:59That's you 20 years down the line.
15:01I tell you.
15:03Don't listen.
15:05Nothing of that sort.
15:07Oh you will be a wreck.
15:13You look at Pami there.
15:17Verma uncle's daughter.
15:20She tried all these fancy things that you are telling of.
15:24And that stupid author that came to your college.
15:28Spoke of.
15:28Passion and love and freshness and authenticity.
15:34And all these things.
15:35They don't count I tell you.
15:38Only fakeness matters.
15:42Only slavery wins.
15:43No, no, no, no, no, no.
15:46That's not.
15:48That's not how existence is.
15:50That's not how life is meant to be.
15:52You can live freely.
15:57You can love.
16:00And there can be joy.
16:03And you can fly.
16:05It's possible.
16:06Yes.
16:09Don't deprive yourself of that opportunity.
16:14Your real potential.
16:15Your real potential.
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