00:00You've been putting a lot of emphasis on reading of Upanishads.
00:02My question is that why should my moral compass or somebody else's moral compass be set by something that was
00:07composed centuries, if not millennia ago?
00:10Something was written 2000 years back and the Upanishads were written more than 2000 years back.
00:15Something was written so many years back and times have moved on.
00:18Don't you still take birth? Don't you still suffer? Don't you still get attracted to women?
00:22Don't you still covet money? Don't you still die? Aren't you still afraid of death?
00:25What has changed? Internally, are you not still afraid? Are you still not greedy?
00:28That's the problem of the self that the scriptures seek to address.
00:33They do not want to address things that change with time.
00:35For example, culture. How to address someone? How to greet someone? How to pray to gods?
00:39That's not the subject matter of Vedanta or Upanishads.
00:42Don't we want to use the resources that have been bequeathed to us by other people?
00:46You have no problem going back to Newton or to Kepler or to more recently to Heisenberg or to Einstein.
00:54You have no problems with that.
00:55But you have great problems in going back to Kanava or Kapil or Yagyavalki or Ashtavakra.
01:01How fair is that?
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