00:00He said, it's better to walk alone than to walk with a fool.
00:07If you want, consciously you can evolve in this evening.
00:11There is no limit as to how a human being can become.
00:17This is something that every human being must do.
00:21Then coming together will be hugely rewarding.
00:34When Gautama, the Buddha was asked, is it better to walk alone or in company, he said, it's
00:49better to walk alone than to walk with a fool.
00:58Well, that's him, not me.
01:02He was quite sure that only a fool will walk with you .
01:08So he said, it's better to walk alone than to walk with a fool.
01:15Certain lore in this country says, when you want to do a short and quick journey, walk
01:26alone.
01:29When you want to do a long journey, walk in company.
01:34But the important thing is, who is walking with you?
01:39Not always being together is a good thing.
01:43Many times being together can be a nuisance.
01:53So, first and foremost, unless you are a twin, even then, we come alone and we go alone.
02:04So, if one does not know how to be by himself or herself, then being together can be a lot
02:15of nuisance.
02:21Human beings means every other creature is what it is simply because of what it does.
02:38But a human being can simply be, which is a unique quality of the human being, that we
02:46can simply be.
02:47That we are not compulsive action, that's what it means.
02:52Our action is conscious and judicious.
02:56But generally, when people get together, generally, people are in compulsive action.
03:05It can be an association, where there could be a purposeful action.
03:11Or it can be a gang, where there can be more purposeful action.
03:16Or it can be a crowd, which can be a compulsive action.
03:23So essentially, to be human means, we have reached that point of evolution within ourselves,
03:31that if we wish, we can simply sit here, just be.
03:37We can consider as to what action to take and what not to take.
03:44This is definitely individual.
03:48When individuals come together, we say, it's we in plural, but still it is individuals who
03:58have to come together.
04:01To be an individual means you are not further divisible.
04:07That means you are just one.
04:13People find different ways to divide themselves within themselves.
04:19In India, with eighteen thousand years of cultural history, we have invented various words to divide
04:27ourselves.
04:30It's very common for people to talk in terms of Atma, Paramatma, Ankara, this one and that
04:36one.
04:37But every… every culture has this in their own way.
04:42When things are going right, when good things are being done, if you ask people, they say,
04:49yes, I did it.
04:51When things don't go right, when things go wrong, then they will try to find somebody.
04:58If they don't find anybody, he is always there .
05:10When they are very wonderful, of course, they take pride in being how wonderful they are.
05:17When they turn nasty, they say, it was my ego.
05:22Mr. Ego is always a false guy.
05:26So individual means, if I am wonderful, it's me, if I am nasty, it's me, all of you.
05:35Are you twenty-four hours wonderful?
05:38Hello?
05:41Are you twenty-four hours wonderful?
05:44No, no, sometimes wonderful, sometimes nasty, sometimes beautiful, sometimes ugly.
05:50It's okay.
05:55If we understand it is me who is capable of being absolutely wonderful and it is me who
06:02is capable of being absolutely nasty on another moment, then gradually the number of moments
06:09of nastiness will keep on receding.
06:13If I see what is wonderful is me, what is nasty is…
06:20In India we have many words, it's my karma, what can I do?
06:26Now you must fix this.
06:29Being an individual is very important, that means you are not further divisible.
06:35If I am wonderful, it's me, if I am nasty, it's me.
06:38If I succeed, it's me, if I fail, it's me.
06:42You have to fix this.
06:44I am just asking you a simple question.
06:47Within this, how many people?
06:51Hello?
06:52How many people within you?
06:54One, two?
06:57Only one.
06:58If you are one, you are normal human being.
07:01If you are more than one, you are either schizophrenic or you are possessed.
07:08You either need a psychiatrist or a exorcist.
07:13But you will see whenever things don't go right, another guy will pop up from somewhere.
07:20So, becoming an individual means you killed all those pop-ups and just said, this is me.
07:30This what is me has many dimensions.
07:35If I don't see this is an individual, I cannot divide this further, then transformation will
07:42not happen.
07:44If transformation does not happen, if people come together in that state, there will be
07:52more mess than solutions.
07:58All creatures hang out together.
08:02Whether it is various wild creatures, most of them hang out together.
08:09Even monkeys who are just one step behind us, they are also in bunches.
08:14It is only human being who can sit alone and transform himself or herself, because this
08:25is the prerogative of being human that we can simply be.
08:29This is why you are called human being, you are capable of being.
08:32You are not in a compulsive state of activity.
08:36If you want, consciously you can evolve.
08:39In this evening you can evolve, if you are willing.
08:42It doesn't take a million years, because our evolution is not biological anymore, our evolution
08:49is conscious.
08:50For every other creature, it is fixed.
08:53Nature has fixed two lines within which every other creature lives and goes.
08:59But once you have come as a human being, there is only bottom line, there is no top line.
09:05There is no limit as to how a human being can become.
09:10So before we associate ourselves with people, it'll be good every day in the morning or a certain
09:18period of your life, if one withdraws to spend a little time with oneself and see how, in what
09:29ways can this be little better than the way it was yesterday, this life?
09:36How it can be a little better life than what it was yesterday?
09:40Because most people are coming together for their needs.
09:46To fulfill needs, people come together.
09:50Some people come together to fulfill a purpose or a cause.
09:56Some people come together to eat, drink and be together because they cannot be alone.
10:03This is something that every human being must do.
10:07A certain period of time, you do one thing, just twenty-four hours, take a break from everything,
10:13not today, right now you're among people.
10:15So, you take a break sometime, just twenty-four hours and don't read, don't watch television,
10:24don't use the phone.
10:26Simply sit in your room, alert, not sleeping.
10:32And if you watch the nature of your mind, you yourself will certify this is a madman.
10:42Because for most people, their mind cannot stay on any one thing, unless they're in activity,
10:49simply they cannot be here.
10:52In compulsive state of psychological activity is on.
10:56When you are like this, you cannot be.
11:01That means you cannot be a human being.
11:06Being has to happen.
11:09Only then togetherness will be very rich.
11:13If you know how to be by yourself, then coming together will be hugely rewarding and of tremendous
11:21value.
11:21That means we came together consciously.
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