00:00I'm visually impaired and my friend here is also physically challenged.
00:04That you are dependent on other people for a lot of things.
00:09What's the way to, you know, stay standing with dignity?
00:14Look at Stephen Hawkins.
00:16The kind of influence and power and recognition and everything that he enjoyed all his life.
00:22The animal universe does not have systems of the kind we have.
00:30If you are sharp of consciousness, you can pay people.
00:34You're not dependent on them.
00:36They are replaceable.
00:37You are not dependent on them.
00:39In fact, they depend on you for their livelihood.
00:43And if you are dependent on them, that dependency is in the same league as the dependency people have.
00:50On their drivers or maids or peons.
00:54Then you won't say the fellow is carrying you.
00:58You will simply say the fellow is a service provider.
01:02We are a special species.
01:05We are not people of the body.
01:08We are people of consciousness.
01:10How does Indian philosophy put it?
01:13Naham Dehasmi.
01:14I am not the body.
01:16Bodho Aham.
01:17I am realization.
01:19I am consciousness itself.
01:21Therefore, age of the body, limits of the body, disease of the body, all these apply to me only superficially.
01:32We are people of the body.
01:32We are people of the body.
01:36We are people of the body.
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