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00:00The climate denialism is actually peaking right now.
00:03Sossil fuels are the biggest contributors to greenhouse gases and global warming.
00:07They are linked with both immature voters and the leaders themselves.
00:12Save the innocent ones.
00:14The climate catastrophe is pretty much unstoppable now.
00:18Rascals get what they deserve.
00:20I don't really mind.
00:21But why should a three-year-old suffer?
00:24Why should an innocent bird suffer?
00:28No, that cannot happen.
00:29You are saying I want to elect the same leaders that I do.
00:32I want to buy the same products that I do.
00:34I want to carry the same values that I do.
00:37But I don't want to experience pollution.
00:39That's not going to happen.
00:40If you are the doer, you will also have to be the sufferer.
00:45So how do you fight it?
00:49And if you want to stop this crowd, it's not that they feel grateful.
00:53They turn revengeful.
00:55They turn spiteful.
00:56It's a murderous crowd.
00:58Kabeera teri jhopadi gal katiyan ke paas.
01:02Think of the babies being currently born.
01:05This is what is called as climate injustice.
01:09And mankind has already made a decision.
01:12We are okay with destruction of this planet.
01:21Namaste sir.
01:23There is the climate denialism is actually peaking right now.
01:27And despite knowing that fossil fuels are the biggest contributors to greenhouse gases and global warming and carbon emissions.
01:35I linked it with the rise in right wing authoritarian governments across the world and how they are linked with
01:43both immature voters and the leaders themselves who want to ensure that their subjects are enslaved and not empowered internally.
01:55And there has been a link between right wing politics and climate denialism.
02:01There is some link between the two.
02:04And it seems right now that our collective ego as human beings is dominating the state of the environment right
02:14now.
02:14And we are doing anything but looking at ourselves to change the situation.
02:22That's the last thing that we want to do.
02:24That is something that doesn't even occur to anyone.
02:27In fact, if you mention this to anyone that, you know, looking at yourself is actually, you know, the solution,
02:34not the beginning of the solution to the climate crisis.
02:38People are baffled.
02:39They don't understand what you're talking about.
02:41And then they start talking about the economic system and, you know, how complicated everything is.
02:47They want steps, actions in the outside world that are still somehow unable to shake the system as it is.
02:57I see that as one of the defenses of self-knowledge that we get.
03:04How do you see this actually ending for us?
03:08I don't think that it's, of course, I mean, you are doing this very difficult work of making people look
03:14at themselves.
03:15How do you see it ending for us, like in the context of the climate crisis?
03:22Yeah, I see it ending for us.
03:32I don't buy this cult of optimism or positivity.
03:39I definitely do see this ending for us.
03:49As long as this body is in this shape, and this mouth utters I, I will do what this limited
04:02body with its limited resources can do.
04:06But that doesn't mean I'll delude, console myself with wishful thinking.
04:13I see, I see this ending.
04:17In fact, forget about course correction.
04:23We are not just moving in the wrong direction, taking the wrong course, but actually accelerating in the wrong direction.
04:34So it's not just ending for us, it's ending sooner than later.
04:40And do you think the climate denialism is something that we are doing because we know somewhere that this is
04:49coming to an end, we are doing it as a self-soothing thing?
04:52See, there would be a cataclysmic kind of natural disaster.
05:08We are not talking of a few million deaths here.
05:12We are talking of millions of species getting wiped out and our own species being reduced to like 1%, 2%,
05:225% of its current strength.
05:25This entire architecture, this so-called civilization will collapse.
05:35And something within us probably wants that and that's where the denialism is coming from.
05:44Something within the collective consciousness of humanity is suffering so much that it wants all this to end.
05:54Therefore, it is rushing towards its own annihilation.
05:58And then after that, maybe there will be a new beginning.
06:03The wise ones have therefore called time as cyclical.
06:12This is nothing short of pralaya.
06:15I don't have much sympathy etc. for all these rascals who I know are going to be obliterated.
06:26That's the mass, the big bulk of humanity that's going to be wiped out in the most violent way possible.
06:38And I don't have much sympathy for them.
06:40But yes, I want to, whatever extent I can, save the innocent ones.
06:50Save the innocent human beings, the newborns, the kids, the poor folk who have contributed nothing to carbon emissions.
07:06And equally importantly, I want to save all the animal species and the flora and the fauna that is going
07:20to be gone for nothing that they have done.
07:27They are, they are the ones that deserve to be protected.
07:34But unfortunately, they'll be the ones first to go.
07:43If the rascals get what they deserve, I don't really mind.
07:50But why should a three-year-old suffer?
07:56Why should an innocent bird suffer?
08:04And I look at birds.
08:10There was this pigeon I met yesterday.
08:16Was sitting near that huge tree.
08:23And I thought, does it even know what lies in store?
08:29Maybe the pigeon will somehow relatively, relatively peacefully survive its lifetime because they don't live for long.
08:45But does it know what its kids are going to go through?
08:51It doesn't know.
08:52And that poor thing has done nothing.
08:56You look into its eyes and they are the same old primitive eyes.
09:03And we'll wipe them out.
09:09Some fat man with a fat bank balance and an even fatter greed is calling the shots.
09:21And the politicians and the priests are all hand in glove.
09:29Think of the babies being currently born.
09:34The poor things don't even know what kind of universe they are to inhabit.
09:42These are the only ones that deserve consideration.
09:45These are the ones I am working for.
09:51Let the others meet their fate.
09:57Good riddance.
09:58Just that Prakriti does not recognize individuals.
10:06It works at an aggregate level.
10:12When destruction comes, it will not differentiate between the saint and the sinner.
10:27So everybody would be gone.
10:29The innocent ones would be punished as harshly as the culprits.
10:37And the culprits will have all kinds of armors and bunkers.
10:41The innocent ones, because they are innocent, will have nothing to defend themselves with.
10:48This is what is called as climate injustice.
10:56The responsible ones will pay the minimum price.
11:06And the innocent ones will bear the maximum brunt.
11:15That's the thing about the climate crisis.
11:18The injustice it carries.
11:24That's the only thing one can fight against.
11:26The injustice.
11:28The climate catastrophe is pretty much unstoppable now.
11:36And mankind has already made a decision.
11:39We are okay with destruction of this planet.
11:45That decision has been made.
11:46Nobody would confess it in black and white.
11:49Nobody would put it on record.
11:51But that's a collective decision this suicidal humanity has already made.
11:58Probably one good way of saving the innocent ones is to counsel them against being born.
12:13So is this a consequence of us living without religion for a very long time?
12:21Or stopping, asking us the…
12:25See, there were many, many red lines that were crossed.
12:34Right?
12:36If even one such line were respected and not crossed, we wouldn't have come to this point.
12:49Since we are talking of India, the red line that we crossed was the sanctity that must be given to
13:05one's highest philosophy.
13:12The day some mischievous mind turned Vedanta into theology, turned Vedanta into a dualistic belief system.
13:28That was the day we lost it.
13:34Every nonsense that you see today in this land can be traced back to that one moment when that line
13:43was preached.
13:50And similarly, you can figure out many other red lines at other places and all of them have been violated.
14:00Had we known that the inner and the outer are one that duality is an illusion, we wouldn't have done
14:07what we are doing.
14:08And we wouldn't have tried the kind of pseudo-corrective methods that we are attempting.
14:14It is dualistic theology that is at the root of climate destruction.
14:22God made the earth so the earth can be destroyed only by God.
14:26And if it is actually being destroyed, it is God's will.
14:34And the person and the planet are separate. That's the dualistic belief.
14:41So what is happening in the planet can be corrected without any correction in the person itself.
14:50That's the dualistic belief.
14:53Once Vedanta was also turned dualistic, the countdown had begun.
14:59And this job of, I mean, reinterpreting, not reinterpreting, but bringing forth the real meaning of the philosophy, the non
15:10-dualistic philosophy.
15:13The bad interpretations are making the job so much harder because they have co-opted the language without any of
15:21its spirit.
15:25And it's very, very, very, very, I mean, my limited interaction with people about the philosophy and about how the
15:35inner workings of our mind are.
15:37I have found that people know the words, but they don't actually know what it means because they've never practiced
15:44it or brought it into life, like in their own lives.
15:47I am actually in awe of those cunning ones who managed to distort Vedanta with such supreme precision and in
16:06a way that is difficult to counter in any meaningful sense.
16:20They have taken away everything, the verses, the symbols, the meanings and given them absolutely debauched interpretations.
16:36We were with the Kathupanishad yesterday and talking of Aum.
16:42And the verse said that the highest thing that the Shruti talks of is Aum.
16:54That for which all the seekers toil is Aum.
17:03And you go to any person following an Indic religion, not just a Hindu, Buddhists, Jains, Sikhs, they all have
17:20Aum in their religious dictionary.
17:25But you ask them what is Aum, they will not know because somebody, some really cunning person took Aum and
17:34turned it into something very small, something very ritualistic.
17:44Kept the shell and drained out the essence of Aum.
17:54You go to any of these pseudo-religious persons and they will say Aum. It's a sacred word. It has
18:02sacred vibrations.
18:04And they will tell you thousands. And they will tell you thousands of stories related to Aum.
18:09But they have been forbidden from going to Katha or Mandukya or Prashna Upanishad and seeing what Aum really is
18:20all about.
18:26And the distortionists have done their job brilliantly. So brilliantly that their distortions have become the mainstream religion.
18:44And today when I bring out the real meaning of the Gita or the Upanishads, they say, I am deviating
18:52from the mainstream interpretation.
18:54Said your mainstream interpretation is itself a distortion.
18:58I am restoring the original meaning to Gita and Upanishads.
19:05Because what you have, your so-called mainstream is a violation. Your so-called mainstream is actually blasphemous.
19:14Because you are doing the unthinkable.
19:19You are violating the sacred scripture itself by superimposing a meaning totally opposite to what it intended to convey.
19:30Yagya, the word that we took up today. You ask them what is Yagya and they will have their fancy
19:37notions.
19:37And if you tell them no, Yagya is something else, they may get agitated, even aggressive.
19:46So, not complaining, just being realistic.
19:51I don't want to entertain myself with hope.
19:56I would rather devote my limited time trying to save those who deserve to be saved.
20:08And those who deserve to be saved, they self-select.
20:12This is what the community is about.
20:16The little island, the little oasis.
20:18And people self-select.
20:21Those who don't deserve to be saved, they drop out.
20:24And that's how the right system should operate.
20:31That doesn't mean that those who will stay put will be saved in some physical or metaphysical sense.
20:38It's just that maybe we'll be able to make an attempt at least.
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21:42Namaste Acharya Ji.
21:43Namaste Acharya Ji.
21:44I hope I'm audible.
21:46Yes.
21:48Sir, first of all, thank you so much for this lovely sessions, lovely lectures that you bring to us.
21:58It's been great.
21:59I've been listening to you.
22:00I've been a part of this Gita community for the past two years and three months.
22:05And it's been awesome.
22:06And I've also discovered that there is a lot to be done.
22:10And I'm not doing enough.
22:12My question is regarding the AQI problem in Delhi, which keeps getting worse.
22:18And the government is also bringing forth certain measures like 50% of the offices should only function with 50
22:28% of its employees in the office.
22:30The rest, the employees should work from home.
22:32They are also trying to bring up the odd even formula back again.
22:36But is there any immediate relief for the citizens of Delhi and other cities where the air pollution is a
22:44problem?
22:45Or do we have to wait till each and every individual becomes the part of the Gita community and understands
22:52or begins the journey of understanding the self?
22:56Is there any immediate situation or we just…
22:58No, there should be no immediate solution.
23:01There should be no immediate solution.
23:03Okay.
23:04There should be no, because if somehow you do manage to get some kind of manufactured relief, right?
23:18It would only consolidate your resolve to remain who you are.
23:24So real relief is anyway not possible being who you are.
23:28And if with some slight of hand, you do get relief, it would be even more disastrous.
23:39Right.
23:40See, this is not pollution.
23:41This is feedback.
23:44This is feedback.
23:46What you are saying is, I want to block the feedback.
23:51Yeah.
23:54You don't want to change the center of the machine itself.
24:01It's just that there exists a feedback loop and you want to interrupt the loop.
24:12You are saying, I want to remain the typical North Indian and not experience pollution.
24:23No, that cannot happen.
24:24You are saying, I want to elect the same leaders that I do.
24:28I want to buy the same products that I do.
24:31I want to carry the same values that I do.
24:34But I don't want to experience pollution.
24:37That's not going to happen.
24:41That's not going to happen.
24:43If you are the doer, you will also have to be the sufferer.
24:48The karta will necessarily have to be the bhokta.
24:54Yeah.
24:56Are you getting it?
24:57So, what must those not responsible for it do?
25:03They will have to maybe create mini-Indias elsewhere.
25:09Yeah.
25:10Because India is not just a piece of land.
25:15Right?
25:15India, in the truest sense, is a high set of values.
25:23Yes.
25:24Right?
25:25So, if the entire North Indian population has decided to remain who they are.
25:31Right?
25:32You carry the real India to another geography.
25:37That is the only way.
25:38You cannot say, let there be this, let there be that.
25:42We can try this artificial method or we can fake the pollution readings themselves and declare
25:49ourselves pollution free and do this, do that.
25:52That would sound humanitarian.
25:55Yeah.
25:56And maybe given a chance, I too would approve of that.
26:00But existence does not approve of that.
26:03Prakriti does not approve of that.
26:05Yes.
26:06Hmm?
26:12The right relief for those who are right within and still suffering because of being contained
26:17in that area.
26:18I want relief to come to them.
26:19But that relief would be in the form of creating a mini-India elsewhere.
26:27Right.
26:28And that is also happening with or without them being spiritually enlightened.
26:34Just this one problem of pollution and rising this religious jingoism is also turning people
26:42off from this country and they are moving somewhere else.
26:45Taxes, the taxes and all those things are also there.
26:48But I think this forms the main reason.
26:51I want to call all that very unfortunate.
26:56But how does one fight against the laws of Prakriti?
27:01You think of the next 30-40 years.
27:05Hmm?
27:07There would be massive displacement in our country.
27:12Yes.
27:12And it pains me to think of that.
27:15But we are going to be probably the worst hit nation when it comes to climate change.
27:21And even within India, the parts that are the poorest will suffer the most.
27:29So there would be massive displacement.
27:31Massive.
27:32Additionally, the prosperity that we see in India that is coming mostly because or at least
27:42a lot of that is coming because labour here is cheaper.
27:45Labour of all kinds.
27:47Yes.
27:47Even intellectual labour.
27:49Even intellectual labour is cheaper.
27:52Now AI would take away that advantage.
27:56So there would be the brunt of the climate crisis.
28:00The dollar advantage that we got because of being cheaper.
28:04That would be gone.
28:06And the mindset is not changing.
28:08In fact, it's deteriorating.
28:10Yes.
28:11So the pollution levels would be even higher.
28:15Yes.
28:16So what else remains?
28:18It is very saddening, very saddening.
28:20But probably new India's will need to be created elsewhere.
28:24Yes.
28:26Yes.
28:27They are also thinking about if a hill is not above 100 meters in the Aravali ranges.
28:36I know.
28:37I know.
28:37I know.
28:38I know.
28:39See, people will not understand, probably even till their last breath, they are self-destructing,
28:52they are suicidal
28:54but what do we do
28:56you cannot
28:59forcibly stop
29:01a huge mass against
29:02its wish
29:03yes
29:05these are
29:08crores of people
29:09this is a colossal mass
29:12of collective ignorance
29:14yes
29:15in a democratic set up
29:17yes
29:18so how do you fight it
29:21what is probably
29:25the thing that can be done is that
29:26the innocent ones can be saved
29:29and the innocent ones can be saved
29:30only by pulling them away
29:33from this suicidal crowd
29:36bring them out
29:37bring the innocent ones out
29:38don't let them suffer
29:40but how do you stop this crowd
29:42and if you want to stop this crowd
29:43it's not that they feel grateful
29:46they turn revengeful
29:48they turn spiteful
29:51yes
29:52it's a murderous crowd
29:55yeah
30:01alright sir
30:02thank you so much
30:03and your sessions have been truly
30:04helpful to me
30:06and this was my first question
30:08you remember
30:10Saint Kabir
30:13Kabira teri jhopadi
30:15gal katiyan ke paas
30:18you go to the place
30:20exact place
30:20where he used to live
30:22in Varanasi
30:23and there was actually
30:25a butcher's colony
30:26not too far away
30:27right
30:28and he must have been
30:29hearing
30:30the cries of
30:32those little animals
30:33day in day out
30:34yeah
30:37so in
30:38in pain
30:39one day
30:40he utters this
30:41he says
30:42Kabira teri jhopadi
30:43gal katiyan ke paas
30:44right
30:45right
30:46and then he tells himself
30:49chaisi karani
30:50vaisi bharani
30:51tu kyun bhaiya udas
30:54even
30:55even
30:56Sant Shiromani
30:57even the greatest
30:58of saints
31:00could not stop
31:01these evil doers
31:02and then he
31:04had to
31:07console himself
31:08by saying
31:09you know
31:09they are the evil doers
31:11and they will suffer
31:11jaisi karani vaisi bharani
31:13I cannot stop it
31:15though it pains me
31:16deeply
31:17but I cannot stop it
31:29the best we can do
31:31is add people
31:32to the gita community
31:33go to book stalls
31:34and try to do all that
31:36I think
31:36that's
31:37try to save
31:38at least the innocent ones
31:39yeah
31:40try to
31:41rescue those
31:42who
31:43can still be rescued
31:45yes
31:46yeah
31:47yeah
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