00:00There was this Hindi movie that
00:01Galti se mishtek ho gaya
00:02No, no
00:03Not galti se mishtek ho gaya
00:05That's the whole story of your life
00:08We are very skilled at concealing the little mistakes
00:11It's probably a blessing when we commit blunders
00:15Blunders that can no longer be hidden
00:18Or justified or rationalized
00:19That's why in the history of spirituality
00:22There have been turning points
00:24When man has killed his saints, his teachers, his prophets
00:29Because you are anyway always hurting
00:33Your sages, your saints, your thinkers, your philosophers
00:36You're always hurting them
00:37But that can be kind of swept under the carpet
00:40But when you actively kill a Socrates
00:43That's when you cannot escape the situation
00:46That's when you are forced to confront your brutality
00:49So that's a great opportunity
00:51There could have been no Christianity without the crucifixion
00:54So blunders and gross exhibitions of evil
00:58Are in some sense a good opportunity
01:00In fact, probably there could have been no Plato
01:02Had Socrates not been poisoned
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