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00:00Iran has retaliated and they are attacking Israel.
00:09And US bases, military bases.
00:11What are nations getting out of this?
00:13And is this a fight for resources or security or power?
00:18It's not US-Penezuela or US-Iran or Pakistan-Afghanistan,
00:24Russia-Ukraine. No, no, no.
00:26We are looking at the wrong labels.
00:28Resources are an alibi.
00:30No, they are not fighting for resources.
00:33They are fighting for...
00:35The fact is, with what is happening to Iran,
00:38every country of the world will say it wants an ICBM capable of reaching the US.
00:45So it will appear as if they are fighting for oil.
00:47But they are not really fighting for oil.
00:50Every single country of the world is thinking that way.
00:53I don't have a missile that can hit my city,
00:55therefore I will come and destroy all your cities.
00:59Alright, you can stop somebody from building a missile and a bomb.
01:04How do you stop them from purchasing one?
01:06Think of North Korea. How did they get the bomb?
01:08Did they really have homegrown technology?
01:11Somebody supplied it to them.
01:12The answer is so simple.
01:14The world needs...
01:21Namaste Acharya Ji.
01:23I live in the US and I've been listening to you for a very long time.
01:27You've answered a lot of questions, my questions in the past.
01:33It's massively improved my life.
01:35My question today was about a global conflict that's going on currently.
01:41A few days ago, the US attacked Iran and they killed one of their top political and religious authorities, Ayatollah
01:52Ali.
01:53And this guy was a prominent leader in Iran.
01:57So now, Iran has retaliated and they're attacking Israel and US bases, military bases in the Gulf regions.
02:06All of this has come at a time when there's also so much tension right now between Afghanistan and Pakistan.
02:16Pakistan attacked Afghanistan last month.
02:20There's already tension between Ukraine and Russia.
02:26So my question was about what are nations getting out of this?
02:33And is this a fight for resources or territory or security or power?
02:41It's not about any of these.
02:44There is nothing called a nation as a conscious entity.
02:50A nation is a principle.
02:52A nation is a principle.
02:55It could be a conscious principle.
02:56It could be an unconscious principle.
03:00Nations were supposed to be very conscious principles that bring conscious people together.
03:15Nations were not meant to be divisive principles.
03:24Remember, the principle is generated by the ego.
03:32The principle has no agency on its own.
03:40If the ego wants to remain in dark, it will generate a principle that helps it remain in the dark.
03:49If let's say these people sitting here, let's say there are 100 people sitting here.
03:53If these 100 people decide they want to live in the dark because that's what pleases the ego.
03:59They will come up with some concept of a nation that is aggressive, divisive, belligerent and exclusive.
04:12On the other hand, if these 100 people are conscious, then they will come up with a conscious concept of
04:19a nation.
04:22And that kind of nation can be auspicious for the entire world.
04:29So nations don't fight.
04:31Egos do.
04:35It's not US, Venezuela or US, Iran or Pakistan, Afghanistan or Israel and Palestine or that one, Russia, Ukraine.
04:50No, no, no, no.
04:52We are looking at the wrong labels.
04:56Egos are fighting.
04:59And there is a danger in thinking that Russia and Ukraine are fighting.
05:06The real belligerent is absolved of his guilt.
05:12It appears some abstraction called the nation is at war.
05:18Not the nation at war, as simple as that.
05:20Human beings, humans are fighting for very primitive reasons.
05:30There is nothing sophisticated about all this.
05:35The reasons belong to the cave and the stone and the jungle.
05:42The reasons have not evolved.
05:47Civilizations have evolved.
05:49The ego has not evolved.
05:50Right?
05:53Does the ego evolve?
06:01Science does.
06:03Technologies do.
06:04Civilizations do.
06:06Systems do.
06:07But the ego does not evolve.
06:10At least not in a period as limited as, let's say, 2000 or 5000 years.
06:19That's too small a period for even the biological ego to evolve.
06:24So, we fight for the same reasons as the early man did.
06:30You said resources.
06:31No, no.
06:32Resources are an alibi.
06:34No, they are not fighting for resources.
06:36They are fighting for identity.
06:40Identity.
06:43How is it a fight for identity?
06:45The ego says, you have to understand this.
06:48The ego says, I am incomplete.
06:50I am incomplete.
06:53So, what do I need for my completion?
06:56Loads of objects.
06:59Loads of energy.
07:00Because energy will help me get more objects.
07:04Therefore, I have to fight for oil.
07:08Be it Iraq or Iran or Kuwait or Venezuela.
07:12When you look at this fight for energy.
07:15What is energy related to?
07:18The ego's quest for objects because the ego takes itself as fundamentally incomplete.
07:23The subject says, I am incomplete.
07:24I need more and more objects to fill myself up.
07:29So, it will appear as if they are fighting for oil.
07:31But they are not really fighting for oil.
07:35They are fighting for identity.
07:39Do you get this?
07:46Otherwise, when it comes to energy, actually the US is bigger than Saudi Arabia.
07:52They need not attack anybody for energy.
08:06Iran is unlikely to have any weapon that ever reaches the US.
08:18And probably some kind of deal was in the making.
08:23Where it was being said.
08:26With the mediation of Oman.
08:29That Iran would maybe produce fissile material but not stockpile it.
08:34And if it can't stockpile it, it can never be weaponized.
08:44I am getting it.
08:47What's at stake?
08:49Consumption.
08:53I need as much money as possible.
08:57So that I can consume as many objects as possible.
09:01Let me have more and more energy, energy and energy.
09:05And Iran does have energy.
09:09Therefore, a favorable government is needed in Iran.
09:13So that even Iran's energy can be appropriated.
09:23Otherwise, why does one need energy?
09:25Please tell me.
09:27In any case, the per capita consumption of energy in the US is among the highest in the world.
09:40Why do you need more energy?
09:41And even if you need more energy, you already have energy reserves in your own country.
09:48But that won't suffice.
09:50Even the energy reserves of the entire planet won't suffice.
09:55Because the incompletion called the ego can never be truly addressed.
10:01You feed the entire universe into it.
10:04It would still remain hollow.
10:11And that's why diplomacy etc. won't work.
10:15You don't need diplomacy.
10:18You need wisdom.
10:22That's why deals won't solve the problem.
10:25That's why these foreign ministers and bureaucrats and mediators and ambassadors and embassies.
10:38They are mere entertainment.
10:40They cannot stop wars.
10:49What you need is wisdom.
10:50What we need is the ego looking at itself.
10:54But we love to entertain ourselves.
10:56Right?
10:58So, we say, no you see, the problem is geopolitical.
11:03No sir, the problem is here, internal, in the heart of man.
11:12You want to give it fancy labels.
11:15That doesn't help.
11:16You have been doing it since so long.
11:19All that remains is a full blown nuclear war.
11:23And after that nobody will remain to deceive himself.
11:29The ego's proposition is keep deceiving yourself.
11:34Till you are blown up in a nuclear catastrophe.
11:41That will ensure that you never have to face the truth.
11:45As long as you are alive, you kept lying to yourself.
11:48And you lied to yourself to such an extent.
11:52That ultimately there was a nuclear blow up.
11:57And you got annihilated.
12:01And hence, you survived the dreadful prospect of facing the mirror.
12:08I lied to myself or my life.
12:11And then, I just got blown up.
12:18Look at myself.
12:18That's nice.
12:19Because even in my death, I didn't have to look at myself.
12:30These world leaders, you are glorifying them with fancy names and titles.
12:37They are kids.
12:38They are kids.
12:41They are not even proper representatives.
12:45When it comes to level of consciousness.
12:49Most of them are below the average level of their own electorate.
12:57I do not believe the average American is as dumb.
13:07Or the average citizen of any other country.
13:13It's not as if the leaders represent even the average.
13:19They represent the worst of a people's tendencies.
13:35Ego.
13:36Ego.
13:37The fundamental error.
13:39The fundamental error.
13:41The fundamental lack of understanding of who the human being is.
13:52The internal war being played out.
13:56On a massive external scale.
14:00That's all.
14:01There is nothing more to this.
14:10I am somebody.
14:12I belong to a particular nation.
14:13And I have a particular ideology.
14:15And I have a particular religion.
14:17I am in.
14:18I am American.
14:19You are Iranian.
14:20I am Christian.
14:21You are Muslim.
14:25Or I am a Jew or something.
14:27Or I am a Hindu.
14:28Something.
14:31How do I sustain myself if there is no other?
14:36So, others are needed.
14:38The ego can operate only in duality.
14:41Remove duality, the ego is gone.
14:43And that's why separations and boundary lines are needed.
14:49Nothing can exist for the ego if there are no boundaries.
14:55A boundary means duality.
14:57Something on this side and the opposite of that on this side.
15:01And both this side and that side.
15:03Then celebrate.
15:07The egos on both sides.
15:10Reveal in the separation.
15:12Whereas the separation itself is unnatural.
15:25I look at the coverage of all these global wars.
15:31And I could have laughed at it.
15:34Actually, it's amusing.
15:37But the thing is, lives are being lost.
15:43And that tragic aspect prevents me from laughing at it.
15:49But it's also childish.
15:56Getting it.
15:58Don't be taken in by the grand narratives.
16:03Then China did this.
16:04Then Germany did that.
16:06Then the great empire did this.
16:09What do you mean by the great empire?
16:10Show me the great empire.
16:11Where is the great empire?
16:12You are talking of a person.
16:14Human being.
16:15Why don't you put it straight?
16:17You are talking of the human ego here.
16:22Why are you hiding behind abstractions?
16:28Geopolitics.
16:29Diplomacy.
16:30Don't pin your hopes on these.
16:34These will not succeed.
16:47You say you want to disarm.
16:51Iran.
16:53The fact is.
16:55With what is happening to Iran.
16:57Iran.
16:58Every country of the world will say it wants an ICBM capable of reaching the US.
17:06Because that's the only way to prevent the US from killing its president.
17:13Every single country of the world is thinking that way.
17:16Why?
17:22Because what's being displayed is the rule of might.
17:31You don't have a missile that can hit my city.
17:33Therefore I'll come and destroy all your cities.
17:43Your guilt is that you don't have a nuclear tipped ICBM.
17:50That's your offense.
17:54So you can imagine.
17:56That's the thinking going on.
18:01In the strategic think tanks.
18:04In most capitals of the world today.
18:07How do we also procure a nuclear tipped ICBM?
18:12Because otherwise we are also unsafe.
18:17That's how the ego on the other side would think now.
18:23You are trying to disarm Iran?
18:26No.
18:27All countries will now want to arm themselves to the teeth.
18:35You are trying to disarm Iran?
18:45No.
18:46The real disarmament is.
18:50Disarm the ego.
18:52Defang the ego.
18:55Detoxify the ego.
18:57Apart from that there is nothing called disarmament.
19:10All right.
19:11You can stop somebody from.
19:13Building.
19:14A missile and a bomb.
19:16You can stop them from building a missile and a bomb.
19:19How do you stop them from purchasing one?
19:25How do you stop them from hiring one?
19:28Let's say.
19:31Pakistan used to call its nuclear bomb as the Islamic bomb.
19:38At some point.
19:40The intent was.
19:41You know.
19:42We don't have money.
19:44We are failing.
19:46But then there is something that we have and no other Islamic country has.
19:51What is that?
19:54So you give me money.
19:56I will give you security.
20:00And that was the reason it was called the Islamic bomb.
20:03You have money.
20:04The Islamic world has petrodollars.
20:06Energy.
20:08Money.
20:09Job opportunities.
20:10You give me all this.
20:13And in return I will put you under the nuclear umbrella.
20:20That didn't quite materialize.
20:22That's fine.
20:23But that was the thinking at some point in the 90s and the early years of this century.
20:30The Pakistani nuclear umbrella.
20:33For the entire Islamic world.
20:37So you can stop a country from manufacturing a bomb.
20:41You cannot stop a country from trading it or leasing it or something.
20:49The ego will try to find a way to get around the obstacle.
20:54Right?
21:00So all these coercive methods are not going to succeed.
21:06We are pushing ourselves closer to the apocalypse.
21:16Think of North Korea.
21:18How did they get the bomb?
21:23Did they really have home grown technology?
21:27Somebody supplied it to them.
21:31And the thing is that the US won't attack them so readily.
21:38They have the bomb and the missile.
21:41Both.
21:45And that serves an example for the entire world.
21:55The ego trades in power.
22:03And no amount of power will ever secure it.
22:09Therefore it will be a blind quest for supremacy through power.
22:17Leading to inevitable conflict.
22:20The only way out is challenging the ego itself.
22:26But this would sound absurd, utopian, impractical to most people.
22:32Maybe this is utopian or impractical.
22:35A nuclear armageddon is very practical.
22:42You are prepared to embrace that dystopia.
22:47Right?
22:49The nuclear war.
22:50You are prepared to embrace that.
22:51But when I talk of addressing the ego.
22:54You call that as utopian fantasy.
23:00And if this won't work, tell me what else would?
23:04Do you have an alternative?
23:10The answer is so simple.
23:12The world needs education.
23:17These chaps are not educated enough.
23:20Not just the leaders.
23:21I am talking of the masses.
23:33Inner education.
23:34Education of the self.
23:45Sorry to interrupt, Acharya Ji.
23:48Because you just said this.
23:50It occurred to me when we hear about civilian deaths, large number of people dying, Gaza strikes, especially here where
23:58I live, closer to where I live, in the south.
24:03You were talking about detoxifying the ego.
24:06I actually see the exact opposite.
24:08People feel a sense of pride in what the US is doing.
24:12And they feel like everything is happening.
24:15Like we are powerful.
24:17This is happening outside of the US.
24:19They remain unaffected by the events that are happening.
24:25Again, same egoic blindness about itself.
24:31The ego loves to deal in objects.
24:35And won't look at itself.
24:38So, the average American would think that the disturbance is in the object states.
24:48US, Bahrain, Kuwait, Oman, Syria, stuff is happening there.
24:55The thing is that the same disturbance is happening within every American who has sanctioned the war.
25:08The objects cannot be disturbed without first the subject being equally disturbed.
25:16But it appears to be happening out there.
25:20So, one tends to feel relaxed and secure.
25:28But you are not secure.
25:31The fire you see there and the smoke was first lit in your own inner cave.
25:42It reached there from here.
25:45You can't remain secure.
25:50It will show up in various ways in your daily life.
25:56The others will die of the bomb.
25:59You will die of your own egoic deeds.
26:07Does one always need an external tormentor?
26:15Does one always need an external enemy?
26:21So, the people out there will die because the external enemy bombed them.
26:28And you will live assaulted and suffering.
26:31Because you are bombing yourself from the inside.
26:43See, duality doesn't exist.
26:46You cannot burn your neighbour's home and rest in peace.
26:53As simple as that.
27:04That makes sense because the rates of depression and anxiety.
27:08Obviously, obviously.
27:09And it is not commonsensical to link it with American misdeeds the world over.
27:16If you have an epidemic of mental disorders in the US, it doesn't seem intuitive to link it with what
27:25America has been doing all over the world over the last several decades.
27:29Right?
27:37And it is not as if I am putting America in the dog and exonerating the rest of the world.
27:42We are all one.
27:45In fact, the entire world nurtures the American dream.
27:53The entire world dreams to be like America.
28:01And in that I am not denying Americans contributions to education, to medicine, to technology.
28:17But when it comes to the ego, Americans are as blind as anybody else.
28:29And power has the tendency to turn the semi-blind into totally blind.
28:50Ego with power becomes its own worst enemy.
29:06My name is Saloni.
29:08I live in US and I keep asking Acharajji so many questions.
29:15Today, also, he answered my question that I had for a very long time.
29:20my key learnings from today's session was the ego lives in imagination that made so much sense to me
29:29because I do see that on a daily basis people most people well including me we don't want to
29:37relate to facts directly because facts are sometimes really hard-hitting and most of our
29:47suffering is not caused by reality it's caused by not facing facts directly so just to relate it to
29:55my personal experience I'm sure some of you heard about what I talked about in the in the question
30:02that I asked Achharaji he said something about everything that the US is doing to the outside
30:11world is also causing a fire within and I do see that amongst my friends and people I know here
30:18they have a lot of anxiety they try to distract themselves with board games video games there's
30:25a lot of manufactured distractions lots of entertainment here and people try to just
30:30forget about what's going on in the world they don't want to know about existential threats or
30:35climate collapse or billions of animals being slaughtered on a daily basis they would just
30:40rather avoid knowing everything about it they would just rather just you know be in their own little
30:49bubble and that made a lot a lot of sense when today Achharaji said ego lives in imagination
30:57the other thing he said was free free thinking is an egoic reaction so people think they're free
31:03thinkers but they're running on their tendencies and ego that is very appropriate for the current
31:10situation my other learning that kind of hit me hard was organized religion protects the ego subtly
31:19so we I can talk about this endlessly but I don't want to make this too long but all of
31:26this
31:27just made me think about how focusing on like organized religion always focuses on
31:33deeds instead of the doer and that is a major part of the problem we are facing today you try
31:41arguing on facts with people and they always bring up their faith or religion guys I just want to say
31:48like being in the Gita community has helped me understand what's going on in the world there is
31:57really no other solution we really need to expand the community bring more and more people in I think
32:04whatever I've tried I outside of the community people are so deeply desensitized in today's world
32:10that I do not think that anybody else other than Achharaji can really save the world and can really
32:17bring people back to reality I just cannot emphasize on this more and more we need to bring more and
32:24more
32:25people in the community and get people connected with Achharaji's teachings that's all I'll say for today
32:30thank you
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