- 9 minutes ago
Category
📚
LearningTranscript
00:00Imagine a young person who has spent their whole life being a high achiever rewarded for that like achieving our
00:05grade achieving our good trophy achieving our specialized tag so do you think this is the right way or we
00:13need to get some enlightenment you could be a high achiever you could win that race but what prompted you
00:18to run in the first place love or fear or greed pressure what was it what was it what will
00:26you get by achieving if the goal
00:30achieved is in the first place not your own is the goal yours is the desire yours would you still
00:39run after them some of you would also be good at certain sports and extracurricular activities how are you not
00:46strong and you are living in the information age i made my first email account in my third year and
00:52then you say you are not strong if you were not taught not not trained no not
01:05not
01:05hey
01:05hey
01:05hey
01:06hey
01:07hey
01:08hey
01:08hey
01:08hey
01:09hey
01:10hey
01:10how are you
01:10how are you
01:11for
01:12how are you
01:17On this page, you can see my view build.
01:20I have seen some papers.
01:23You can read it.
01:24No, no.
01:26Thank you so much.
01:30Thank you, thank you.
01:33No, no, no, sir.
02:04So, my question is based on a scenario.
02:07Imagine a young person who has spent their whole life being a high achiever.
02:10Since childhood, they have been rewarded with praise and love only when they met a certain benchmark.
02:15How can you speak without looking?
02:16Sure.
02:18So, like from childhood, we have been taught like, if we achieve something in life, we'll
02:24get rewarded for that, like achieving a grade, achieving a good trophy, achieving a specialized
02:30tag, and we'll get rewarded for that.
02:32And we just fall in that rat race of achieving a particular thing.
02:36So, do you think this is the right way or we need to get some enlightenment?
02:40A psychological strength is need to be recognized in ourselves.
02:47You tell me, how does it feel to run after something?
02:58Just because you are being hounded from behind?
03:07Please tell me.
03:10How does it feel?
03:12And you could be a high achiever.
03:13You could win that race.
03:16But what prompted you to run in the first place?
03:20Love or fear or greed?
03:24Plain ignorance?
03:25Pressure?
03:26What was it?
03:29What was it?
03:32I have nothing against achieving big.
03:37Please go ahead and achieve as much as you want to.
03:40But the thing is that achievement is not sentient.
03:45Achievement is simply the name of an event.
03:50We are here to talk of the achiever.
03:55What will you get by achieving if the goal achieved is in the first place, not your own?
04:06I somehow manage to enchant you.
04:12Hypnotize you.
04:16And tell you to fetch one of those flowers there.
04:21And do that before any of these three reach there.
04:28And you are a high achiever.
04:31You dart.
04:32You pick up a flower.
04:35Bring it here.
04:37And you are awarded a medal.
04:40What does that give you?
04:42You were never in love with that flower in the first place.
04:48This entire episode was a display of slavery.
04:52You are obeying somebody's command.
04:56Why did you go to that flower in the first place?
04:58Yes, you succeeded.
05:00But how can it be called your success when it is not even your goal?
05:05Is the goal yours?
05:09Is the desire yours?
05:13If you were not taught.
05:16Not not taught.
05:17Not trained.
05:18No, not trained.
05:18Not conditioned.
05:20Not conditioned.
05:21To run after certain things.
05:26Would you still run after them?
05:31If you get a second chance.
05:33With nobody to tell you what to do in this big world full of opportunities.
05:39Would you still make the same choices?
05:43How many of your choices are fresh and original and truly yours?
05:50And if your choices are not yours.
05:52What do you get?
05:58Even if you succeed in reaching and picking, plucking that flower, whatever.
06:04What did you get?
06:07The machine is told to do a few things.
06:09The machine does that.
06:11What does the machine get from that?
06:18Isn't it better to try and maybe even outwardly fail in something that is actually your own.
06:38than to be a big achiever in the language and ecosystem of the crowd.
06:48What would you rather be?
06:51Please tell me.
06:55What's the starting point?
06:58That or this?
07:00Where does the story start?
07:03With those objects or this subject?
07:08Then why in your discourse is it always about the object and never about the subject?
07:20Why does achievement exclude the achiever so much?
07:28Why is the achiever hesitant, rather scared when it comes to looking at himself or herself?
07:44Achievement is wonderful.
07:46Achievement is wonderful.
07:49But achieved what and achieved by whom?
07:56How is it possible that so many distinct persons, diverse personalities, high caliber, high talent, rich in IQ and yet
08:11there is almost zero diversity in terms of goals?
08:16Please tell me.
08:18How is it possible?
08:21How is it possible that almost the entire campus seems to be running after three, four or five
08:30frozen kinds of targets?
08:35And the campus must be having students in thousands.
08:38Entire batch.
08:39I suppose the BTEC batch itself is close to thousand these days, right?
08:43More than that.
08:44Two thousand?
08:45Yeah.
08:47How is it possible that these thousand or two thousand people are all set upon the same thing?
08:55Don't you sense a discrepancy there?
08:59Don't you smell something fishy there?
09:03It simply implies that goal is not your own.
09:08You are wasting yourself by rushing after that.
09:24You won't have too many chances.
09:27You must be twenty at least, right?
09:35Two times?
09:36Three times?
09:41The time you have already spent and that's all you have.
09:44That's all you have.
09:48And you want to expend this most precious and absolutely limited asset just wandering blindly.
10:05The arrow of time moves only in one direction.
10:11Why can't it be the direction of clarity, the direction of love?
10:24You will not realize how soon you find you are aging.
10:36You might be here in the blink of an eye on your 25th reunion.
10:43That happens.
10:44And you will say, it was just yesterday we passed out.
10:49It was just yesterday we are occupying these chairs.
10:53And it's your 25th reunion here.
10:59I had mine last to last year.
11:03And that's what everybody was saying.
11:09What's interesting is half of the batch now feels it's too late.
11:21Too late to reverse, to retract, to redeem.
11:32Now the philosophy is, first twenty years after passing out, you chase the objectives that society gave you.
11:45Now for next twenty years, let's discover what we want and chase it.
11:53So it's admitted that the first twenty years since graduation have been de facto wasted.
12:07You want that to happen?
12:11You want to be a corporate good boy?
12:15Nice necktie, decent appraisals, happy seniors, delighted bosses.
12:24That's what you aim at?
12:25Yeah?
12:28Yeah?
12:28Yeah, that's what most of us.
12:34Isn't it very interesting?
12:40Here, sitting here, this fellow nearing fifty, is wearing the kind of outfit this fellow in his twenties should be
12:48wearing.
12:50And what is the fellow in his twenties wearing?
12:53Black and white.
12:59That's what they do.
13:00They strip you of your colours.
13:04Huh?
13:11Let there be clouds and rainbows and flowers and butterflies.
13:18Youth is not meant to be spent in black, white and grey.
13:28So my follow-up question is that, how can someone find a psychological strength to walk away from a successful
13:36lie that feels like a lie?
13:38No, you don't need to find any kind of strength.
13:42By saying that you need to find strength, you are condemning yourself to be weak.
13:57You are delivering the verdict and you are stamping it.
14:01You are saying, I am weak.
14:06Therefore, I need to find strength.
14:10Why else would somebody say he needs to find strength?
14:14First of all, you have to be weak, right?
14:17Only then would you say, I need to find strength.
14:20Why do you want to inflict that statement on yourself?
14:23You are not weak.
14:25You don't need any strength.
14:28You need insight.
14:31You need clarity.
14:32You need honesty.
14:34You need to figure out why in spite of being so strong, exceptionally strong,
14:42you still choose to act meek and weak.
14:47That's what you need to figure out.
14:49You don't need to go somewhere, earn strength or learn strength.
14:57That's not needed.
14:57You are already strong.
14:59But some ignorance, some untested kind of desire or interest,
15:11is making you act, pretend as if you are weak.
15:18The strong one is pretending to be weak.
15:23If you are not strong, please tell me who is.
15:27You are young.
15:28You are healthy.
15:29You are decently good looking.
15:31You are well educated.
15:36What else does it mean to be strong?
15:38If you are not strong, please tell me who in India is strong?
15:44You are presentable.
15:50What else do you need to call yourself strong?
15:53It's all there.
15:56But it's a choice you are making.
15:58It's a value decision.
16:00No, no.
16:00I am weak.
16:01Therefore, I need to surrender to my masters.
16:05Now, here is where that self-interest can be detected.
16:12I am weak.
16:13That's the flow of logic.
16:15I am weak.
16:16I will kneel to my masters and the masters will provide me certain benefits and securities.
16:23And that's why I need to continue pretending that I am weak.
16:29The moment I declare I am strong, the moment I accept my own strength,
16:41I will not admit a master.
16:47How will you justify being mastered if you are already strong?
16:54And when there will be no master, there will be no benefits, no securities that you will be earning from
17:04that master.
17:04And that is what is preventing you from admitting your strength.
17:13Just the greed of certain conveniences, certain traditional kinds of securities.
17:22That's all.
17:26There is a lot of benefit in pretending to be weak, feeble, diseased, incapable.
17:40When you don't want to attend a class, you send in a sick certificate, don't you?
17:49Does that happen in the campus?
17:53Look at the benefit.
17:54I am sick, therefore I cannot come to the class.
17:58I am weak, therefore I cannot run.
18:01Please carry me on your shoulders somebody.
18:07But that's a very sick kind of benefit.
18:09You want to avail that?
18:11Really?
18:13Declare your strength.
18:15Roar it aloud.
18:16Yes, you are strong.
18:18What more do you need?
18:22What disease are you carrying?
18:23Inwardly, outwardly?
18:24No disease at all.
18:25Nothing.
18:28This is an international quality campus.
18:31You have spent years here.
18:32And you have earned your spot in this place.
18:37How are you still not strong?
18:39Please tell me.
18:43Most of you come from privileged backgrounds.
18:46Most of you have had good schooling.
18:52Not just problem-solving aptitude.
18:55You are also good at languages.
18:56Most of you.
18:58Probably all of you.
19:03Some of you would also be good at certain sports and extracurricular activities.
19:09Some of you might have benefited from an exchange program and had overseas exposure as well.
19:17How are you not strong?
19:21And you are living in the information age.
19:25So, you know much more than we did when we were in our second or third year B-Tech.
19:36I made my first email account in my third year.
19:42And then you say you are not strong.
19:44What are the contributing factors of strength?
19:48Knowledge.
19:50Knowledge.
19:51Knowledge.
19:54Basic awareness.
19:57Physical integrity.
20:02All that you have.
20:09Do you see why it is still difficult?
20:17To courageously.
20:18To courageously.
20:19Just declare it.
20:22Because that declaration.
20:27Spontaneous and simple.
20:30As it might be.
20:32Would still be a kind of rebellion towards the world.
20:36That's what you are afraid of.
20:38That's what you are afraid of.
20:39And there is no rule that says that a strong one cannot be afraid.
20:45What a pity.
20:47Strong yet afraid.
20:48Why?
20:53It's a simple thing to say.
20:54Right?
20:55I am capable.
20:57I am capable.
21:00I am competent.
21:01I have it.
21:03I am looking forward to life.
21:05It's a simple thing to say.
21:08But you have prospective masters.
21:10And they will take it as rebellion.
21:14And you don't want to face the consequences.
21:16You don't want to be labeled a rebel.
21:20That's all.
21:27I will return to that.
21:29You have one life.
21:32And when it comes to the moment.
21:34Every moment comes only once.
21:38Lost.
21:39It cannot be retrieved.
21:42Why do you want to spend yourself.
21:47In the service of masters.
21:48That two anonymous faceless ones.
21:51You don't even know your masters.
21:53You are still keen to offer service.
21:57It's not some kind of allegation.
21:59That's the norm.
22:01Your batch.
22:02My batch.
22:03Any batch.
22:04Anywhere.
22:04IIT.
22:05IM.
22:05Wharton.
22:06Doesn't matter.
22:07That's how it is.
22:09It's not about this particular audience.
22:19Yeah.
22:24Hi.
22:25This is Ashutosh Singh.
22:26From Kanpur.
22:28I'm an IT professional.
22:29Working from almost 10 years now.
22:32I'm listening to Acharya Ji from last almost one and a half years already.
22:37I started listening to him from YouTube channel.
22:40And the videos what he makes and the knowledge which he actually shares is truly mind blowing.
22:48I mean that's something which you really start realizing about your own life.
22:53There's a lot which we do in IT world.
22:56I would literally want to say that IT people are literally intelligent enough to learn machines.
23:02But there's a really good machine that's our own body and then our conscious mind.
23:07We should literally spend time to learn ourselves better.
23:12And I think I'm into Bhagavad Gita just because I'm more into learning my own self.
23:17If you literally feel that you're into pain and you don't even realize it.
23:23And you're still into rat race for the entire life.
23:26Come on.
23:27We all need to really die.
23:28We all are born to die.
23:30Why not do something better?
23:32Learn ourselves.
23:33Learn our lives.
23:34Realize what the purpose of life.
23:36And then die.
23:37This is something better, right?
23:39I have realized it.
23:40And the favorite word in English I would say is choice.
23:45Yeah.
23:45So we all have choice.
23:47I had choice.
23:48I have made a choice which is literally mind blowing in my life.
23:52And that's the same choice which you all also have.
23:56Come on. Let's pick it up and change our own life.
Comments