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00:00Good afternoon sir, I am Tuhina Chatterjee and I am in first year.
00:07So I usually tend to overthink everyday things like everyday situations, like even if it's
00:13just my bus not reaching the destination and things like that.
00:17So how do I not let this fear take over myself?
00:22Think of better things, think of more important things.
00:26I fall into this loop of thoughts where I just think about it instead of actually doing
00:31it.
00:32Have something in life that overpowers all the random thoughts.
00:39I am talking to you, right?
00:41Yes sir.
00:43I happen to be a busy person.
00:47There are so many things that I can alternately think of at this moment.
00:54What makes me forget all those things?
00:59And frankly, to me, right now you are a stranger.
01:03All I know of is your name, to some extent your age, the institutions you are affiliated
01:10to.
01:11That's all that I know about you.
01:14Compared to this, there is so much else that I am involved in.
01:19And there is my mission, there is my work and this is a working day and so many people
01:23are dependent on me for what they are doing.
01:28Why am I not thinking of them at this moment?
01:33Because this is important, that's all.
01:41When you do not have that in your life, which is important, when you do not have a sense of
01:49the worthy, the result will be that a lot of little things will invade the mind.
02:00There is no way to keep those little things away.
02:05They are like germs.
02:10They constantly keep attacking you.
02:15You cannot keep them away.
02:16You can only have a strong inner immunity.
02:21Is there a way to keep germs away, virus or bacteria or other kinds of pathogens?
02:26Is it possible?
02:27No, they are everywhere.
02:30I keep my hand here, they are here.
02:34This air that I breathe in, they are in the air.
02:38How do I ensure I am 100% shielded against them?
02:42Not possible.
02:44However, there is one thing that is possible, which is my inner immunity.
02:51And that inner immunity is called importance.
02:56Know what is important and then random things will cease to matter.
03:04If you find yourself thinking about unimportant matters too much, it just means that there
03:10is a huge inner vacancy for something important and that vacancy has not been filled.
03:20The mind cannot tolerate a vacuum, a vacancy.
03:29The mind needs something to chew.
03:34You cannot just abruptly bring the mind to a thoughtless state.
03:38Not possible.
03:41So what to do?
03:45As students, as beginners, what to do?
03:52Determine what is important.
03:54Honestly, give it due credit.
03:59And I like to say, fall in love with it, make it your life.
04:05Then there will be no space to think of random things.
04:10And is that not beautiful?
04:13Life is pestering you with all the normal trivia.
04:19And yet you are not bothered.
04:20Why?
04:21Because there is a mighty inner thing you have embraced.
04:28And you simply don't have the time, the space to look towards anything else.
04:36Yes.
04:37Is it hot?
04:38Yes, it is.
04:39Is it cold?
04:40Might be.
04:41Are you hungry?
04:42Probably yes.
04:43Do you need a little more money?
04:44Of course I do.
04:45Care for better clothes?
04:46Why not?
04:47But sir, sorry.
04:49In spite of all these things that I might potentially care for, I am occupied.
05:15Nobody will ever have enough money.
05:19Nobody will ever be able to say I do not need more clothes or better clothes.
05:24Nobody will ever say all my desires are not satisfied.
05:29That's not going to happen.
05:33Nobody will ever say the situations are all perfect.
05:38No.
05:42Those things will continuously remain just like the pathogens we talked of.
05:47But along with them, taking precedence over them, an inner sense of importance can remain.
06:06And that has to be developed.
06:07It won't just come.
06:09As a young person, you need to figure out very clearly what is worth doing.
06:17what is important in life.
06:20Else, you are traveling to the college and you are looking out of the bus window.
06:30And you see something happening, something by chance, the usual trivia, and it will capture you.
06:39And you will find yourself thinking about it 30 minutes.
06:4330 minutes of life gone.
06:47On?
06:48On?
06:49Nothing.
06:50Nothing.
06:51And that's how most of us simply waste away our entire life.
06:57On?
06:58On?
06:59On?
07:00Nothing in particular.
07:03So what did you do your entire life?
07:06Nothing in particular.
07:08Though I was always occupied.
07:10I was always occupied.
07:13But what did you do?
07:15Nothing in particular.
07:17Okay.
07:18Let's say you get a one week break.
07:21Hmm?
07:22A Diwali break, let's say.
07:2510 days break.
07:27And somebody asks you, what did you do actually?
07:30Is that not an honest answer?
07:35Nothing in particular.
07:38And that's what happens when you have nothing really important to do.
07:42You do nothing.
07:44At least nothing in particular.
07:49And it's unimaginable the lengths of time that you can simply squander doing nothing in particular.
08:00Two months summer holidays spent doing nothing in particular.
08:07Well, nothing in particular.
08:11My driver, I make it a point, he drives slowly so that sitting on the rear seat, I do not get disturbed.
08:25Why?
08:26Because commutes take long.
08:29One hour, two hours.
08:31And I want to read.
08:35That's a dedicated time I get to complete my reading list.
08:43Else, it's very possible to simply say I was traveling, so I was doing nothing in particular.
08:51And it's not that you are doing nothing at all when you are traveling.
08:55You are doing something.
08:56What are you doing?
08:58Staring out of the window.
09:00Looking at something random.
09:03In between, you just scroll through the feed, Facebook or something.
09:10Type something random on Instagram.
09:16Ogle at some nice faces passing by.
09:21You don't know their name.
09:24The fellow will be in visual range for 2.2 seconds.
09:29And yet the fellow becomes so important.
09:32Two seconds you stare and then for two minutes you think.
09:42You know, by the time the next pretty face comes, you have already forgotten the previous one.
09:55And the world can be an unending succession of pretty faces.
10:02Two hours will fly away.
10:09You did your entire journey doing nothing in particular.
10:18The name of the journey is life.
10:23Now death has arrived.
10:28And death asks, so tell me, how was it?
10:37What did you do?
10:40Nothing in particular.
10:48Though I was always busy.
10:51Always busy.
10:55You'll never find anyone saying, I have so much time.
11:01Kindly assign me some task.
11:04I will found somebody begging for work.
11:09Everybody is running behind on schedule, right?
11:14If you happen to have a to-do list at all, of any kind.
11:21You're always behind the list.
11:24Are you not?
11:26So everybody is occupied doing nothing in particular.
11:33Have one thing worth living for.
11:37You will forget when you board the bus.
11:42You will forget when the destination has arrived.
11:45Somebody will have to prod you to get down.
11:55You will be so immersed.
11:58That's a beautiful word, no?
12:00Immersion.
12:01How do you like it?
12:02Immersion.
12:03How about that?
12:06Does the world appeal to you?
12:08Immersion.
12:09Have you experienced that?
12:13Sometimes.
12:14Immersion.
12:15Huh?
12:17That alone is the way to live.
12:21If you're not immersed, you're scattered.
12:24How does it feel to be scattered?
12:25Have you experienced that?
12:26A state of being scattered inwardly?
12:27Have you?
12:28Have you?
12:29Have you?
12:30Isn't immersion beautiful?
12:31Have you seen how time stops when you're immersed?
12:33Hmm?
12:34And if you can have immersion in your everyday life, that alone is the best meditation.
12:48Are you getting it?
12:49Are you getting it?
13:03Are you getting it?
13:06And if you can have that immersion, that is an antidote to all kinds of mental troubles.
13:16Otherwise, there is the menace of depression, anxiety and all kinds of mental things, especially among the young.
13:34The one who has something to live for, will never be mentally sick.
13:46And mental illness is a pointer that life is devoid of essence.
14:01I have no time to be anxious.
14:03How about that?
14:07Are you suffering from anxiety?
14:10What's the answer?
14:11I have no time to be anxious.
14:14Even anxiety requires time.
14:17I don't have time.
14:18How can I be anxious?
14:19Are you afraid?
14:21I have no space for fear.
14:24When fear comes, I say, sorry, no vacancy.
14:28Not that you aren't great.
14:31Obviously, you are great and powerful.
14:33The entire world kneels to you.
14:36You're wonderful.
14:37But as far as I'm concerned, no vacancy.
14:41Give all your inner space to something that is beautiful for you.
14:52Let there be no vacancy.
14:53Let there be no vacancy.
14:54Hmm?
14:55Get a headband.
14:56No vacancy.
14:57Or have a t-shirt.
14:58Straight on your heart here.
14:59No vacancy.
15:00No vacancy.
15:01Or have a t-shirt.
15:07Straight on your heart here.
15:09No vacancy.
15:10Occupied.
15:11Engaged.
15:13Occupied.
15:20Engaged.
15:25The knowers
15:27in the spiritual domain
15:31they have said
15:34we are wedded already.
15:39And not only in the spiritual domain
15:41obviously you know of Bhagat Singh.
15:43Hmm?
15:47So he was just 22 or 23
15:49when he laid down his life.
15:55His mother had approached him once.
15:59You'll have to marry.
16:02You'll have to marry.
16:05He said but I already am.
16:09And she was shocked.
16:10How can my son do that?
16:12What's her name?
16:14And what did he say?
16:16What did he say?
16:18Azadi.
16:20So no vacancy.
16:22The girls are all beautiful.
16:24But sorry.
16:26No vacancy.
16:27No vacancy.
16:29No vacancy.
16:30What is your husband?
16:32What is our husband?
16:34Azadi.
16:40Already married.
16:41No vacancy.
16:43And that's why you remember him today.
16:46And that's why all others
16:49have become the dust of time.
16:53And Bhagat Singh is immortal.
16:55Even though he left his body at 23
16:58yet he is immortal.
17:01And there were those who lived long lives
17:03for 90, 100 years.
17:05And yet as we say
17:08are just the dust of time.
17:10Who cares for them?
17:15That's the difference.
17:23Have an early wedding.
17:25As early as possible.
17:26Not the kind of wedding
17:33that requires
17:35social,
17:36religious
17:36and legal
17:38sanction and ceremonies.
17:42An
17:42internal wedding.
17:45Let nobody
17:46know of it.
17:47Freedom.
17:54Azadi.
17:58What do you think?
17:58Bhagat Singh had time
17:59to think of
18:00miscellaneous things?
18:07How occupied he was.
18:09You know of it.
18:10Even
18:10on the eve of
18:15his hanging
18:17he was still
18:20reading
18:20the Bhagavad Gita.
18:26A copy of that
18:28in fact
18:28that particular copy
18:29is still preserved.
18:35Or was he thinking
18:36tomorrow I'll die
18:37what will happen then?
18:39Was he thinking?
18:39No.
18:40He said
18:41but I still have a few
18:42I still have a few hours.
18:46let me spend
18:47these hours
18:47with the beloved.
18:49I have something
18:50very important
18:51to do.
18:55Was he doing
18:56nothing in particular?
18:59Was he doing
19:00nothing in particular
19:01even
19:02in his last hours?
19:04No.
19:05He said
19:05let me spend
19:06this time in reading.
19:07and he was
19:08a voracious
19:09reader.
19:11At your age
19:13he was so well read.
19:20Never had any time
19:22to waste.
19:22I don't know
19:30this one is
19:31from Bhagat Singh
19:32or
19:33one of the other
19:35great revolutionaries
19:36but they actually
19:39marked the
19:40last page
19:42they read
19:43in their favorite book
19:44and somebody
19:46out of curiosity
19:47asked them
19:48it said
19:48tomorrow you are
19:49going to be hanged
19:50you will be no more
19:51why are you
19:52marking this page?
19:57And very
19:57mystically he said
19:58because I have to
20:00continue from there.
20:06No time
20:07for self pity
20:09inner misery
20:12sad thoughts
20:16no time
20:17I am busy
20:20with the right thing
20:22even in my last
20:24moment
20:24huh?
20:35How about
20:36such a life?
20:39Does it not
20:39excite you?
20:42it does
20:44not
20:44it seems
20:45or does it?
20:49It does
20:50be extremely
20:55occupied
20:56don't be
21:04like these
21:05wenton
21:07flies
21:08or insects
21:08seen how
21:10a mosquito
21:11behaves
21:11sitting here
21:12sitting there
21:13or a fly
21:14hopping from
21:15here to
21:16there
21:16doing
21:17don't be
21:20like that
21:21please
21:21yes sir
21:34sit
21:36thank you sir
21:37please
21:38and
21:39see you
21:42I'm
21:43doing
21:43I'm
21:44going to
21:45do
21:47I'm
21:48you
21:50I'm
21:51going to
21:52see you
21:52later
21:53I'm
21:53going to
21:54do
21:55I'm
21:55going to
21:56the
21:56I'm
21:56going to
21:57do
21:58the
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