00:00Any organization, public, private, Indian, international, Indians are very, very good at
00:06because that's almost there in the foundation of our culture.
00:12Pray and your wishes and dreams and desires shall be granted.
00:17What do we pray for?
00:18Fulfillment of desires, right?
00:20So look at the message you are giving to the kid.
00:23If there is something that you want, don't be rebellious, don't be disruptive.
00:27Simply bow down to those in power.
00:30Praise them.
00:31Keep them happy.
00:32If you praise them, if you keep them happy, they'll grant you what you want.
00:36And that gets so deep into us, feels like almost into our DNA that has gotten here, inside.
00:43We don't, maybe we're not people who can really weather the storms.
00:48We're not people who can craft their own identity.
00:51We prefer to go with the flow.
00:53How does it matter who is the king?
00:56My job is to just...
00:57And this has done us tremendous harm.
01:01Tremendous harm.
01:02And that is even more lamentable when you consider that our fundamental darshan philosophy was extremely uncompromising.
01:14I will not accept anything.
01:17All that I have is a neti neti for whatever the world is.
01:21My job is to negate.
01:23My job is not to accept.
01:25That's Vedanta darshan.
01:26And from there, we became this.
01:29And from there, we became this.
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