00:00When do you call a fellow rich?
00:02When he is better off compared to the others around him.
00:05Compared to the others, right.
00:07You go to a place like Vietnam, you hand over Indian currency to them
00:11and you get a large number of units of their currency.
00:16Does that make you rich?
00:19No. Why?
00:20Because others will be having even greater number of units of their currency.
00:25Richness is not about what you have.
00:29Richness is about what you have with respect to the others.
00:35That's the whole philosophy.
00:37Somebody once said that when I take off from Mumbai,
00:44one of the pleasures is looking down at the slums.
00:49It's not sufficient that I am flying.
00:52What makes flying a little more special
00:54is the misfortune of those lying sprawled below me like insects.
01:02Inequality is such a great motivator and a pleasure giver.
01:08Your entire definition of the self comes from the world,
01:11from society and other miscellaneous places.
01:14Religion, family, tradition.
01:17They give you your definition.
01:19And hence you have to proceed with respect to them
01:24all your life.
01:28Had your identity been independent of the world,
01:31then you wouldn't have needed to get ahead of the world
01:34or to prove a thing or two to the world.
01:37Real richness, real love
01:39is never a thing within the framework.
01:42.
01:42.
02:04.
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