00:00From childhood, I have been very fond of Swami Vivekananda.
00:03He insisted on educating the masses.
00:05And also, similarly, I came across a quote from your book, Truth Without Apology.
00:09His education about making a living, having a life worth living.
00:14So, why is it that people who are privileged to get such an education,
00:18we often see them indulging into malpractices?
00:21That is because everything that you are being taught with respect to the world,
00:26actually just for you, right?
00:30But when a particular topic is introduced to you,
00:34the question, for whom, is never taken up.
00:39We are being educated in everything.
00:41Constitutions of the world, economics of the world, everything.
00:44And I do not know who I am, so what will I do with all that?
00:48So, the monkey is carrying nuclear-tipped missile
00:51and a huge billion-dollar bank balance
00:54and two PhDs from Ivy League universities.
00:58But he does not know who he is.
01:00Therefore, he uses everything to his own destruction.
01:03That is what climate change is.
01:05So, when Swami Vivekananda said, you need education,
01:07he was talking of both in the Upanishadic way.
01:12You need to know the world and you need to know yourself.
01:15And you cannot really know one without the other.
01:19Therefore, education of both kinds is deeply needed.
